WUWT
In an interesting turn of events, the Washington Post has done a
front-page feature on Naomi Seibt, a German climate skeptic and YouTuber
that WaPo describes as “… 19-year-old German who, like Greta, is blond,
eloquent and European.”
Full article here.
Monday, 24 February 2020
Carbon Policies Are ‘Futile Gesture Politics’
GWPF
Dr Ruth Lea, who has wide-ranging experience of working in the civil service, the financial sector and policy institutions, says that while politicians celebrate their increasingly ambitious decarbonisation targets, most of the world is ignoring them:
“The UK now represents just 1% of global emissions, so any reduction we make will not even be noticed. And it will be offset many times over by increases in the developing world, which continues to burn cheap coal and gas as fast as it can.”
And Lea warns that politicians’ determination to be seen to ‘do something’ about climate change carries major political risks:
“The decarbonisation programme that we are embarking on will be extraordinarily expensive and will hit businesses and consumers harder every year. That can’t carry on for ever, and eventually a major political price will be paid.”
Economist says unilateral decarbonisation carries major economic and political risks
A prominent economist says that Britain’s climate and energy policies are ‘futile gesture politics’, and will fail to bring about any change to the climate.Dr Ruth Lea, who has wide-ranging experience of working in the civil service, the financial sector and policy institutions, says that while politicians celebrate their increasingly ambitious decarbonisation targets, most of the world is ignoring them:
“The UK now represents just 1% of global emissions, so any reduction we make will not even be noticed. And it will be offset many times over by increases in the developing world, which continues to burn cheap coal and gas as fast as it can.”
And Lea warns that politicians’ determination to be seen to ‘do something’ about climate change carries major political risks:
“The decarbonisation programme that we are embarking on will be extraordinarily expensive and will hit businesses and consumers harder every year. That can’t carry on for ever, and eventually a major political price will be paid.”
Net Zero Emissions to Cost Over £100,000 per Household
Guido Fawkes
Analysis by the Global Warming Policy Foundation has found the cost of reaching the Government’s “Net Zero” carbon emissions target will be astronomical for the UK economy. The cost of decarbonising the electricity system and domestic housing alone in the next three decades will cost over £2.5 trillion pounds. This soars to over £3 trillion when manufacturing, transport and agriculture are included – equivalent to £100,000 per household or £100 billion every single year."
Analysis by the Global Warming Policy Foundation has found the cost of reaching the Government’s “Net Zero” carbon emissions target will be astronomical for the UK economy. The cost of decarbonising the electricity system and domestic housing alone in the next three decades will cost over £2.5 trillion pounds. This soars to over £3 trillion when manufacturing, transport and agriculture are included – equivalent to £100,000 per household or £100 billion every single year."
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Canadian Government: Anti-Pipeline Eco-Extremists Sabotaging Railway Lines
WUWT
What a mess. Traditional tribal chiefs apparently unhappy at the decision of the democratically elected representatives of their people, having what amounts to a family argument. Antifa protestors and other violent far left, climate change and environmental extremists piling in, blocking railway lines, allegedly sabotaging trains, aggravating the situation by adding to the pain and potential carnage.
And presiding over this unstable situation, spineless Prime Minister Trudeau, who wants to embrace environmentalism AND raise revenue from developing Canada’s oil resources.
‘No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave them there’ – Justin Trudeau
What a mess. Traditional tribal chiefs apparently unhappy at the decision of the democratically elected representatives of their people, having what amounts to a family argument. Antifa protestors and other violent far left, climate change and environmental extremists piling in, blocking railway lines, allegedly sabotaging trains, aggravating the situation by adding to the pain and potential carnage.
And presiding over this unstable situation, spineless Prime Minister Trudeau, who wants to embrace environmentalism AND raise revenue from developing Canada’s oil resources.
‘No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave them there’ – Justin Trudeau
All The Fake News That Is Unfit To Print
Tony Heller
Autumn snow cover has increased to record levels Winter snow cover has increased for fifty years.
Spring snow cover has been above average for eight of the past 12 years.We are getting slammed with snow again this year, and have record ski season after record ski season.Ski season used to be four months, now it is eight months.California’s three snowiest winters were 2011, 2017 and 2019.We had 39 snow days in Boulder last year, second highest on record.There has been no change in the length of the snow season.The global warming lies go on endlessly from the press, as they look for new ways to censor anyone telling the truth.
Autumn snow cover has increased to record levels Winter snow cover has increased for fifty years.
Spring snow cover has been above average for eight of the past 12 years.We are getting slammed with snow again this year, and have record ski season after record ski season.Ski season used to be four months, now it is eight months.California’s three snowiest winters were 2011, 2017 and 2019.We had 39 snow days in Boulder last year, second highest on record.There has been no change in the length of the snow season.The global warming lies go on endlessly from the press, as they look for new ways to censor anyone telling the truth.
Extreme blasts of cold weather hitting Europe and the USA are NOT caused by a warming Arctic changing the way the jet stream moves
Daily Mail
Extreme blasts of freezing weather hitting
Europe and the USA in recent years aren't caused by a warming Arctic
changing the jet stream, as previously thought.
Research
by the University of Exeter disputes earlier studies suggesting a
warming Arctic was creating a 'wavier' jet stream and linked to climate change.
They found it's more likely the other way around with random fluctuations in the jet stream warming up the Arctic over decades."
Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Creator Of US BioWeapons Act Says Coronavirus Is Biological Warfare Weapon
ZeroHedge
Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He drafted the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention, known as the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, that was approved unanimously by both Houses of the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
In an exclusive interview given to Geopolitics and Empire, Dr. Boyle discusses the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China and the Biosafety Level 4 laboratory (BSL-4) from which he believes the infectious disease escaped. He believes the virus is potentially lethal and an offensive biological warfare weapon or dual-use biowarfare weapons agent genetically modified with gain of function properties, which is why the Chinese government originally tried to cover it up and is now taking drastic measures to contain it.
The Wuhan BSL-4 lab is also a specially designated World Health Organization (WHO) research lab and Dr. Boyle contends that the WHO knows full well what is occurring.
Dr. Boyle also touches upon GreatGameIndia‘s exclusive report Coronavirus Bioweapon – where we reported in detail how Chinese Biowarfare agents working at the Canadian lab in Winnipeg were involved in the smuggling of Coronavirus to Wuhan’s lab from where it is believed to have been leaked."
Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He drafted the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention, known as the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, that was approved unanimously by both Houses of the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
In an exclusive interview given to Geopolitics and Empire, Dr. Boyle discusses the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China and the Biosafety Level 4 laboratory (BSL-4) from which he believes the infectious disease escaped. He believes the virus is potentially lethal and an offensive biological warfare weapon or dual-use biowarfare weapons agent genetically modified with gain of function properties, which is why the Chinese government originally tried to cover it up and is now taking drastic measures to contain it.
The Wuhan BSL-4 lab is also a specially designated World Health Organization (WHO) research lab and Dr. Boyle contends that the WHO knows full well what is occurring.
Dr. Boyle also touches upon GreatGameIndia‘s exclusive report Coronavirus Bioweapon – where we reported in detail how Chinese Biowarfare agents working at the Canadian lab in Winnipeg were involved in the smuggling of Coronavirus to Wuhan’s lab from where it is believed to have been leaked."
Irrefutable: The coronavirus was engineered by scientists in a lab using well documented genetic engineering vectors that leave behind a “fingerprint”
Natural News
Every virology lab in the world that has run a genomic analysis of the coronavirus now knows that the coronavirus was engineered by human scientists. The proof is in the virus itself: The tools for genetic insertion are still present as remnants in the genetic code. Since these unique gene sequences don’t occur by random chance, they’re proof that this virus was engineered by scientists in a lab.
But the WHO and CDC are covering up this inconvenient fact in order to protect communist China and its biological weapons program, since no government wants the public to know the full truth about how frequently government-run labs experience outbreaks. Decades ago, for example, the U.S. Army ran an Ebola bioweapons lab in the United States, where a monkey infected one of the scientists there. The strain turned out to be infectious only in monkeys, not humans, so the world dodged a bullet, but the U.S. Army “nuked” the entire facility with chemical bombs, killing all the monkeys and wiping out any last remnant of the virus on U.S. soil."
Every virology lab in the world that has run a genomic analysis of the coronavirus now knows that the coronavirus was engineered by human scientists. The proof is in the virus itself: The tools for genetic insertion are still present as remnants in the genetic code. Since these unique gene sequences don’t occur by random chance, they’re proof that this virus was engineered by scientists in a lab.
But the WHO and CDC are covering up this inconvenient fact in order to protect communist China and its biological weapons program, since no government wants the public to know the full truth about how frequently government-run labs experience outbreaks. Decades ago, for example, the U.S. Army ran an Ebola bioweapons lab in the United States, where a monkey infected one of the scientists there. The strain turned out to be infectious only in monkeys, not humans, so the world dodged a bullet, but the U.S. Army “nuked” the entire facility with chemical bombs, killing all the monkeys and wiping out any last remnant of the virus on U.S. soil."
Coronavirus death toll surpasses 1,000.....
Daily Mail
A map showing just how the coronavirus could
have been spread from the epicenter Wuhan has been compiled by
researchers as the outbreak is revealed to have killed more 1,000 people
the world over, according to data form the Chinese government released
Monday evening.
A total of 103 people died in a single day in China's Hubei province on Monday - the highest toll recorded in any one 24-hour period since the outbreak began in December.
It
comes the same day as World Health Organization (WHO) experts and
scientists have finally arrived in China to help officials there contain
and study the outbreak which has now struck at least 42,729 people
worldwide.
A map created by
Southampton University researchers shows how 60,000 out of a total of
five million people who have traveled out of Wuhan since the beginning
of the outbreak and before the city was fully locked down have
crisscrossed the globe. "
Sunday, 9 February 2020
A Climate Blacklist That Works: “It Should Make Her Unhirable In Academia”
Forbes
But there is nothing funny about Skeptical Science. Today, Curry should be a senior statesperson in the atmospheric sciences community. Instead, she is out of academia. She attributes that, at least in part, to being placed on the Skeptical Science blacklist and its use, as expressed by Nuccitelli, to make her “unhirable.” .......But what has happened to Curry is just the tip of the iceberg.
A climate advocacy group called Skeptical Science, hosts a list of academics that it has labeled “climate misinformers.” The list includes 17 academics and is intended as a blacklist. We know of this intent because one of the principals of Skeptical Science, a blogger named Dana Nuccitelli, said so last Friday, writing of one academic on their list, “if you look at the statements we cataloged and debunked on her [Skeptical Science] page, it should make her unhirable in academia.”
That so-called “unhirable” academic is Professor Judy Curry,
formerly the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at
Georgia Tech, and a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union and
American Meteorological Society. By any conventional academic metric, Curry has compiled an impressive record over many decades. The idea that she would be unhirable would seem laughable. But there is nothing funny about Skeptical Science. Today, Curry should be a senior statesperson in the atmospheric sciences community. Instead, she is out of academia. She attributes that, at least in part, to being placed on the Skeptical Science blacklist and its use, as expressed by Nuccitelli, to make her “unhirable.” .......But what has happened to Curry is just the tip of the iceberg.
All-Time Record Cold Invades Eastern Russia, while Moscow just suffered its Cloudiest-Ever January
Electroverse
Temperature anomalies at least 10C below the seasonal average invaded the Chukotka and Kamchatka regions of eastern Russia last week.
In Nachiki, Kamchatka on Feb. 4, an all-time bone-chilling low of -43.4C (-46.1F) was registered which busted the previous record of -42.7C (-44.9F) held since 1973 (approaching solar minimum of cycle 19).
Temperature anomalies at least 10C below the seasonal average invaded the Chukotka and Kamchatka regions of eastern Russia last week.
In Nachiki, Kamchatka on Feb. 4, an all-time bone-chilling low of -43.4C (-46.1F) was registered which busted the previous record of -42.7C (-44.9F) held since 1973 (approaching solar minimum of cycle 19).
Greenland’s SMB Gained 7 Gigatons Yesterday
Electroverse
Despite decades of doom-and-gloom prophecies, Greenland’s Ice Sheet is currently GAINING monster amounts of “mass”— 7 gigatons yesterday alone (Feb. 06, 2020). In addition, Total Snow Mass for the Northern Hemisphere continues to track well-above average — another example of a real-world reality we were told should be an impossibility by now: IPCC 2001: “Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms …”
Despite decades of doom-and-gloom prophecies, Greenland’s Ice Sheet is currently GAINING monster amounts of “mass”— 7 gigatons yesterday alone (Feb. 06, 2020). In addition, Total Snow Mass for the Northern Hemisphere continues to track well-above average — another example of a real-world reality we were told should be an impossibility by now: IPCC 2001: “Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms …”
Germans On Course To Permanently Ruining Its Remaining Forests – To Protect The Climate
NoTricksZone
We have already reported about the very different views on trees in this blog. Perhaps this phenomenon has something to do with the fact that the words environmental protection and nature conservation are slowly but surely disappearing from our language and being displaced by climate protection. Everything has to subordinate itself to this, also environmental and nature protection. Sometimes this has has had disastrous consequences. .....Much less attention is paid to protests by residents of Grünheide in Brandenburg, who are mobilizing against the deforestation of an area the size of 420 football pitches, which are to make way for Tesla’s new megafactory. .....Just as little interest in Scotland. There it has now been discovered that almost 14 million trees have had to be felled since 2000 to build wind turbines (WTGs)."
We have already reported about the very different views on trees in this blog. Perhaps this phenomenon has something to do with the fact that the words environmental protection and nature conservation are slowly but surely disappearing from our language and being displaced by climate protection. Everything has to subordinate itself to this, also environmental and nature protection. Sometimes this has has had disastrous consequences. .....Much less attention is paid to protests by residents of Grünheide in Brandenburg, who are mobilizing against the deforestation of an area the size of 420 football pitches, which are to make way for Tesla’s new megafactory. .....Just as little interest in Scotland. There it has now been discovered that almost 14 million trees have had to be felled since 2000 to build wind turbines (WTGs)."
New Study: Greenland Was ‘4–5 °C Warmer Than Today’ ~9000 Years Ago…When The Arctic Was Nearly Sea-Ice Free
NoTricksZone
Scientists (Syring et al., 2020) find almost sea ice-free conditions pervaded a much warmer northern Greenland region during the Early Holocene. Arctic sea ice extent has “continuously” grown for ~4800 years, with modern conditions a bit lower than the peak of the last few centuries.
Fight climate extremists before they upend society
Ross Mcitrick
Start learning the deep details of the science and economics instead of letting extremists dictate what you’re allowed to think or say
Last year was the year the climate issue took a sharp turn towards extremism. Let’s hope 2020 is the year sanity makes a comeback.
There have long been three groups occupying the climate issue. To avoid pejoratives, I will call them A, B and C.
The A group are the doubters. .......they don’t support expensive climate-policy interventions.
The C group think the opposite; they fear a climate catastrophe, they foresee a crisis and they want urgent action, regardless of cost, to stop it. ........
The B group are in the middle. They believe, or say they believe, that GHG emissions are a problem and must be reduced........Thanks to 20 years of patronage and endorsement from the B crowd, group C is now in control and has dropped any pretense of commonality with B. They raised a generation convinced the apocalypse is nigh and they proved over the past year they can dictate terms of surrender to politicians everywhere ........
Climate and energy policy has fallen into the hands of a worldwide movement that openly declares its extremism. The would-be moderates on this issue have pretended for 20 years they could keep the status quo without having to fight for it. Those days are over.
Ross McKitrick is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute.
Start learning the deep details of the science and economics instead of letting extremists dictate what you’re allowed to think or say
Last year was the year the climate issue took a sharp turn towards extremism. Let’s hope 2020 is the year sanity makes a comeback.
There have long been three groups occupying the climate issue. To avoid pejoratives, I will call them A, B and C.
The A group are the doubters. .......they don’t support expensive climate-policy interventions.
The C group think the opposite; they fear a climate catastrophe, they foresee a crisis and they want urgent action, regardless of cost, to stop it. ........
The B group are in the middle. They believe, or say they believe, that GHG emissions are a problem and must be reduced........Thanks to 20 years of patronage and endorsement from the B crowd, group C is now in control and has dropped any pretense of commonality with B. They raised a generation convinced the apocalypse is nigh and they proved over the past year they can dictate terms of surrender to politicians everywhere ........
Climate and energy policy has fallen into the hands of a worldwide movement that openly declares its extremism. The would-be moderates on this issue have pretended for 20 years they could keep the status quo without having to fight for it. Those days are over.
Ross McKitrick is a professor of economics at the University of Guelph and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute.
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