Hey Trump, listen up before you go all marxist squishy on the environment as you do with economics and the role of government.
H/T: The Rebel:
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, PhD is now “The Sensible Environmentalist,” cutting through the phony science of “global warming” with the facts. In his very first video in this new series, he explains why carbon dioxide is a hero, not a villain.
I didn’t need to prod Brian, he was all in from the git-go in taking this excellent Facebook drive-by dissertation on computer modelling vis-a-vis “climate change”, and upload it to YouTube. Thanks Brian!
Though shalt not enquire into matters we deem already solved….
h/t: Boleslaw Bierut
‘We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change’
Three professors co-teaching an online course called “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs recently told their students via email that man-made climate change is not open for debate, and those who think otherwise have no place in their course.
“The point of departure for this course is based on the scientific premise that human induced climate change is valid and occurring. We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change, nor will the ‘other side’ of the climate change debate be taught or discussed in this course,” states the email, a copy of which was provided to The College Fix by a student in the course.
Signed by the course’s professors Rebecca Laroche, Wendy Haggren and Eileen Skahill, it was sent after several students expressed concern for their success in the course after watching the first online lecture about the impacts of climate change.
“Opening up a debate that 98% of climate scientists unequivocally agree to be a non-debate would detract from the central concerns of environment and health addressed in this course,” the professors’ email continued.
“… If you believe this premise to be an issue for you, we respectfully ask that you do not take this course, as there are options within the Humanities program for face to face this semester and online next.”
The professors also note this ban on debate extends to discussion among students in the online forums. Moreover, students who choose to use outside sources for research during their time in the course may select only those that have been peer-reviewed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the email states.
A wind turbine in Germany burned for hours today because fire fighters did not have ladders long enough to tackle the 100 metre high blaze.
The flames struck this morning in the town of Isselburg in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Emergency services were called at 6am to the turbine near Wolf Lake and smoke was seen by motorists on the nearby A3 road.
Pure cronyism, as politician/business hacks make money off of public subsidies in a major boondoggle connected to glow-bull worming pseudo science.
The consumer/taxpayer will be the big loser here, they always are. (follow the money)
By 2030, wind generation will account for one fifth of Finland’s electricity production, predicts CEO Jari Suominen. He asserts that wind power will set the floor price against which other forms of electricity will be forced to compete.
A project billed as Finland’s biggest wind energy development was formally opened on Tuesday in Kalajoki. The Mustilankangas park includes 28 wind turbines in a 1500 hectare area. Its owner, TuuliWatti, estimates that it will generate enough electricity annually to power 140,000 flats or 20,000 detached houses.
TuuliWatti is co-owned by the nation’s largest retailer, S-Group, and St1, which operates a chain of petrol stations along with other energy interests. The park lies 30 km south of the site of the planned Fennovoima nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki – a project that the S-Group pulled out of four years ago.
TuuliWatti CEO Jari Suominen is bullish about the future of wind power in Finland. He predicts that by 2030 wind generation will rise from its current share of a few percent to 20 percent of the country’s electricity production, alongside hydroelectric and biomass. Suominen argues that wind power will set the base price against which other forms of electricity production will have to compete.
There is still however fierce opposition to erecting windmills in some parts of Finland and Suominen acknowledges that some municipalities have spurned his company’s proposals.
“We’re developing and building our projects where municipalities, local residents and landowners want wind power. Kalajoki is a good example of a place that wanted wind power and now has it.”
Suominen says that the 140 million euros invested in the facility is bringing cash into the municipality.
“The 100 landowners in the Mustilankangas areas will earn about 400,000 euros annually in leases and fees. The municipality is gaining 150,000 euros in annual tax revenues,” he says.
Along with complaints about the look and sound of the turbines, opponents argue that wind power is over-subsidised and would be unfeasible without public funding. Suominen, too, calls for reforms of the subsidy system.
“It is of course part of an old system that was a product of its time,” he tells Yle. “There was an inherent flaw in that the tariff was fixed and didn’t take into account the rapid technical developments. If this park was built around the turn of the millennium, we would have had to build 300 turbines rather than 28 [of the larger, new type],” he says.
Suominen would like to see the scheme overhauled in a way that would combine market-driven incentives and greater competition.
Dumb complied from even dumber….
If this is representative of the nation as a whole, we’re doomed.
h/t: Frank Gaffney (CSP)
I am so sorry I am only finding out about this now, a day late. I would have flown across the country to attend. Imagine the acrobatics Ghassan Hage had to perform in order to make this even remotely plausible, even with the audience so eager to be fooled that he undoubtedly had. On the other hand, if the dim-bulb “Islamophobia”-fearmonger Haroon Moghul (that’s right, “Dwayne”) could sell Time Magazine on the idea that “Islamophobia” is responsible for America’s crumbling infrastructure, academic audiences these days may be even stupider than I thought.
“Is ISLAMOPHOBIA accelerating global warming?,” MIT Global Studies and Languages, May 9, 2016 (thanks to Faisal Saeed AlMutar):
The Ecology and Justice Forum In Global Studies And Languages Presents:
Ghassan HageGhassan Hage is Future Generation Professor in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne
Introduced By Bettina Stoetzer, Global Studies And Languages
Mon. May 9
5:00 pm
2-105
This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as ‘generalised domestication.’
None of this means anything is going to change the environment, but it will in fact be changing you, for that’s the goal.
This is purely a wealth redistribution scheme of massive proportions. Shifting loads of your hard earned tax money to areas where elected and unelected ”the elites” deem appropriate. It also means in unleashing loads more of your hard earned tax money to welfare corporatists who have their snouts in the trough waiting to suck it down, in one money losing (greens) venture after the other.
The gross corruption of the Greens / Climate Change industry is one of the least talked about phenomenons because it serves too many interests, and none of these interests are anything remotely related to yours.
NOTE: The closest person we have in comparison with the brilliance of an Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, warns us from believing in the cult of Glo-bull pseudo science. Watch his video here.
Finland joined more than 165 other countries to sign a historic climate accord in New York on Friday. No other similar agreement has ever marshalled as much support in a single day – and experts are optimistic despite the deal’s tough targets.
There were many smiling faces in Paris last December when negotiators from around the globe came to terms over a binding agreement to curb climate change in the future. Friday was also a day of hope, as a record number of nations signed the Paris treaty in a single day. More than 165 countries have put their name to the historic document, Finland among them.
China and the United States, the world’s two biggest producers of greenhouse gases, also pledged to formally adopt the climate deal by the end of the year. Experts say they are optimistic that the multinational deal will hold water.
However, professor Ari Laaksonen from the Finnish Meteorological Institute emphasises that signatures are not enough, and that real changes to environmental policy must also be made and adhered to for global warming to be curbed.
The Paris accord outlines climate targets post-2020, with the ultimate goal of stabilising lobal climate by the end of the century. This calls for a dip of 1.5 degrees Celsius in the worldwide average temperature, a feat that skeptics have called unrealistic.
Ministers from both Brazil and Columbia in attendance in New York raised the importance of trees. In fact, Finland’s role in combating emissions may be central now that the country has joined the accord.
Forests bind carbon dioxide and form part of the backbone of the climate deal. And if there’s something Finland has in abundance, it’s forests — along with the know-how to utilise them.
NOTE II: Observe the crass move by mashed potato face John Kerry, in his use of his grand daughter as a prop for this scam and boondoggle.
NOTE: Plus the undeniable fact that computer models have been NOTORIOUSLY wrong, in fact, a good buddy of mine who majored in the science, holding a Phd, said to me, “there is no computer model to date that can be relied on, since none exist.”
It’s all a scam, from the git-go……
Big crony business get their work contracts, and marxist get their hands on other people’s money to redistribute it according to their pet projects. It mirrors whats happening in the open borders movement as well, big crony business gets to drive down wages while the ultra-internationalists can bang their drums in the cities streets with all the new arrivees while the entire society is reengineered.
NOTE: Anyone who’s a student of history knows that socialist movement all try to re-engineer society in an attempt to create “the new man”. The Marxists tried it and ended up with 100 million dead, as well as the National Socialists with their end prize being 15-20 million dead.
The climate alarmists want the public to think they are trying to avoid a burnt world, but what they really want is something altogether different. (AP)
Fraud: While the global warming alarmists have done a good job of spreading fright, they haven’t been so good at hiding their real motivation. Yet another one has slipped up and revealed the catalyst driving the climate scare.
We have been told now for almost three decades that man has to change his ways or his fossil-fuel emissions will scorch Earth with catastrophic warming. Scientists, politicians and activists have maintained the narrative that their concern is only about caring for our planet and its inhabitants. But this is simply not true. The narrative is a ruse. They are after something entirely different.
If they were honest, the climate alarmists would admit that they are not working feverishly to hold down global temperatures — they would acknowledge that they are instead consumed with the goal of holding down capitalism and establishing a global welfare state.
Have doubts? Then listen to the words of former United Nations climate official Ottmar Edenhofer:
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,” said Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015.
So what is the goal of environmental policy?
“We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy,” said Edenhofer.
For those who want to believe that maybe Edenhofer just misspoke and doesn’t really mean that, consider that a little more than five years ago he also said that “the next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated.”
Mad as they are, Edenhofer’s comments are nevertheless consistent with other alarmists who have spilled the movement’s dirty secret. Last year, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, made a similar statement.
Screw these people……
This is a crony capitalism/marxist redistribution scheme which will enrich the few while the rest are hampered with even more regulations and bureaucrats to oversee it all tagged with prosecutorial powers.
President Obama meets with corporate executives Oct. 19 at a White House roundtable on climate change. (Photo: Aude Guerrucci ABACA/Newscom)
Delegates from around the world will meet in Paris in December to negotiate an international climate treaty with the goal of reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
Some countries will push a “green” agenda to increase use of energy resources such as wind and solar, and decrease the use of more affordable, reliable, and efficient energy from coal, oil, and natural gas.
But there’s another clear agenda for most of the developing countries attending the Paris Protocol. And it involves a different kind of green.
Climate negotiations leading up to the Paris conference called for a Green Climate Fund that would collect $100 billion per year by 2020. The goal of this fund: to subsidize green energy and pay for other climate adaptation and mitigation programs in poorer nations—and to get buy-in (literally) from those poorer nations for the final Paris agreement.
More here. H/T: Warren Raymond
Complete rubbish…..
Under threat: The village of Fairbourne in west Wales is to be left to the mercy of the sea under council plans which campaigners from the area are opposed to
Residents of a Welsh coastal resort have been left trapped in their homes by council plans to abandon sea defences and allow their village to be swallowed up by the sea.
People living in picturesque Fairbourne in Cardigan Bay are digging in for a bitter legal battle against plans to ‘decommission’ their village and flood their streets with sea water.
They are fighting the plans they say are based ‘nonsensical’ predictions and demanding compensation over moves to move them.
Not being honest, they’ll use any kind of weather as ‘proof’ of glo-bull warming.
It’s not as if there haven’t been as warm or warmer temps in the past, just look at Bostom’s discovery
Temperatures this December have broken records in Finland and the ground is still snow-free in the south. Climate change scientists warn that warm winters like the one at present may become more and more familiar in the future. Finland’s wild animals will have to adapt quickly or face the consequences. More here.
The people perpetrating this bogus science should forced to apply suntan oil to the polar bear’s fuzzy tummy.
“Shakespeare made a reckless ruler pull down his kingdom on his head, [and we are adding] a hundred and twenty excess parts per million of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.”
But it is generally acknowledged that it’s horrifyingly ignorant to think that we can dial in a nice climate by turning the CO2 adjustment knob. Indeed, the current and projected CO2 levels are at the very low end of the range for the last 600 million years. Global temperature is also at the low end of that range. More recently, we are at the low end of the temperature decline since the Holocene Optimum 8,000 years ago. Backing up, the Eemian age 120,000 years ago was much warmer, and sea levels were 6 meters higher, and CO2 was around 280 ppm.
What is obvious is that the Earth will do exactly as it pleases, and we have no ability to predict that or, consequently, to control it. We can influence it, usually but not always for the worse. Furthermore, we have no idea if the current 15°C is the optimum climate. Higher temperatures over the last 200,000 years have been associated with improvements in human welfare. There has been no tipping point, not even at the P-T Extinction Event 250 million years ago, when the temperature briefly blipped past the previous 22°C lid (in effect for hundreds of millions of years) to at least 28°C. More interestingly, there has been no tipping point on the downside, when Snowball Earth increased the albedo so drastically.
note: A special not of thanks to Mark Steyn for coming up with that term.
That won’t stop the believers in “cartoon climatology”.
Arctic sea ice growth has been unprecedented this autumn, and extent is far above every other year since at least 2004. This graph from the Danish Meteorological Institute is the best sea ice extent source for doing comparisons – because it uses more meaningful 30% concentration ice rather than the 15% ice used in other commonly cited graphs.DMI specifically recommends that you use this graph for comparisons with other years.
More here. H/T: Andy Bostom
Neo-statist loser.
Glad to hear that it won’t be binding, US free to ditch it first chance a real conservative is elected. Lets hope he (Ted Cruz) does.
This day will go down in history! Heartfelt thanks to all negotiators – especially our EU team. Planet earth has new hope. #COP21
— Alexander Stubb (@alexstubb) December 12, 2015
Fake free market racketeers. You can bet that the overwhelming amount of these businesses will be infused with public money.
If there was a natural market based demand for “green technology” (outside of big government forcing legislation down people’s throats) then I wouldn’t be suspicious of the call for the expansion of that new market. But this is fake “cartoon climatology” with big crony business driving the push in order to get their hands on more public money that should be in the people’s hands, not in their pockets.
NOTE: This is all artificially generated, a boondoggle, and the consumer/taxpayer will get stuck with the bill in the end. All it’s going to take is a conservative Republican in office, rejecting glo-bull warming as a fraud, and the whole enterprise will come crashing down on its head. The Indians and Chinese don’t believe in it, and will applaud its demise. Mark my words.
The Paris Agreement could create tens of thousands of jobs in Finland, say Environment Minister Kimmo Tiilikainen and analysts of the burgeoning cleantech sector.
Environment Minister Kimmo Tiilikainen, who led the Finnish delegation at the COP21 Paris climate conference, has described this weekend’s Paris Agreement as “pivotal”. He told Yle on Monday that biggest significance of the deal for Finns will be that responsibility for combating climate change will now be shared more evenly among various countries.
“We can breathe a sigh of relief because the rest of the world is now joining in on this. This is not just the EU’s hobby that brings costs, but now rather the opening of opportunities,” the Centre Party politician said in a TV interview.
He pointed out that Finland boasts the kinds of cleantech companies that are now in demand.
The Paris Agreement could create tens of thousands of jobs in Finland, say experts such as Markku Ollikainen, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Helsinki.
Most of these are expected to be in the industrial sector and the first of those, a couple of thousand, are likely to be created in cleantech companies producing bio-fuels or other products based on bio-technologies.
Ollikainen predicts that Finland’s competitive position will improve. He foresees a turn-around in exports, saying that it is “rock solid” that the Paris Agreement will create demand for cleantech products.
EU climate agreements have already focused attention on cleaner technologies. China and other low-wage competitors will see costs rise as they push to catch up. Being already well advanced, Finnish companies are well placed to compete in a new kind of global market.
Industrial leaders are also confident that the deal will create demand and jobs.
They see Finland as having a head start in essential sustainable technologies.
“The markets that are opening up are practically limitless and the growth coefficients are amazing,” says Tiina Kähö, who leads the Carbon-neutral Industry section at the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra. “Now it’s important for corporations and the state to work together. Soon there will be a tough race on the world markets.”
Jouni Keronen, CEO of Finland’s Climate Leadership Council, says that Finland has a lot of cleantech know-how and technology, but that it must make more effective use of new inventions. “
Finnish firms “can take advantage of new markets by offering solutions early on,” says Keronen.
NOTE II: Notice that this moron of an environment minister, as well as the fake media broadcaster YLE, fail to mention that the Paris agreement is non-binding.
You just cannot count on this crop of republicans.
As I’ve often said, the Republican Party is so good at folding they should be the White House valets. Doesn’t matter what your issue is, they’ll fold. They fold on debt, on immigration, on regulation, on gay marriage, on Obamacare, on [Insert Your Issue Here]. Regardless of the merits of this or that issue, on the whole they’d rather pre-emptively surrender.
by Mark Steyn
Steyn on America
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Also absent was Cory Gardner, the Colorado Republican. Daines tossed a friendly pitch for his home-state audience, with amusing references to some pal of his re-charging his Tesla in Bozeman. And, when he was done schmoozing for Eyewitness News in Bozeman, he left the room. So, for the remaining 70 per cent of the hearing, what should have been six Democrats and seven Republicans was instead six Democrats and one Republican – the lonely chairman, Ted Cruz. That’s why the Dems got 85 per cent of the question time and lobbed puffballs at Rear Admiral Titley – until eventually Judith Curry and I chose to push back at the fatuous Markey.
Why did this happen? I’m a foreigner, and I certainly rarely feel more foreign than when I’m in the ghastly US Senate. But I’ve attended committees in the Canadian parliament and other parts of the Commonwealth and can’t recall any occasion when the majority party’s members have chosen to boycott the hearing.
Why did no Republicans show up? Rubio was off campaigning in California and ignoring all those senatorial duties his constituent Jeb! wants him to focus on. But Thune and the rest of those guys were all in the building, voting on various Senate flim-flam going on that day. So even though they were 90 seconds away they chose not to attend.
The not so subtle reason is that, like Bob Dole (currently threatening, if Cruz is the nominee, to “oversleep” on Election Day), their antipathy to Ted Cruz outweighs everything else. Dole feels that Cruz has been given the greatest honor any man can have – the keys to the Senate men’s room – and yet he won’t play by the rules of the club.
The slightly subtler reason is that these Republicans felt that the whole climate biz was a bit of a hot potato for them. Yet, putting aside my own presence, the three scientists in the room were among the most respectable figures in the field: John Christy is the great innovator who developed the world’s first satellite temperature record; Judith Curry, among the old boys’ club of climate science, is perhaps the most distinguished female climatologist on earth, although she would disdain such a categorization; and Will Happer is an eminent Princeton physics professor garlanded with almost all the major awards in his field.
All of them have paid a price for speaking out against Big Climate. So, in disdaining Cruz (and/or me), senators Thune, Rubio, Moran, Sullivan and Gardner were also disdaining some of the most distinguished climate realists on the planet. Those three scientists did not deserve that from a handful of political hacks. Indeed, by their absence, they were contributing to the overall message of climate conformism: If you disagree with the “97 per cent consensus”, at least have the good taste to crawl away and die somewhere far off out of sight.
More here. H/T: Doris Wise Montrose
So just ignore it, and get your politicians to just ignore it as well.
The only danger this cartoon climatology bullcrap poses, is if we do not force our politicians to reject it.
The energy industry is already saying Saturday’s Paris global warming agreement is “unenforceable, underfunded, and non-binding.”
“There is nothing historic about this deal,” said American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle in an email to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The Obama administration clearly doesn’t have the support of Congress or the American people—making the agreement nothing more than a paper tiger. Unfortunately, this won’t stop the president from pursuing a domestic climate agenda that will raise energy prices on American families, but will have no impact on the climate.”
The Obama administration states that the deal will encourage nearly 200 countries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, slowing global warming. Despite the doubt, President Obama is already celebrating the deal, as shown by the Tweet below.