Monday, 9 May 2022

Anthropogenic climate change will be a non-issue if this volcano blows

 American Thinker

I don't think it's a coincidence that so many of the most hysterical climate-change greenies are based in urban regions.  A big city represents the heaviest human footprint there is, something that misleads people into believing that man can ride herd on nature.  In fact, we humans are always scrabbling along, hanging by our fingernails and hoping for the best.  Whether it's earthquakes, floods, droughts, hurricanes, or just inexorable greenery (e.g., kudzu, every jungle), when nature gets a head of steam, we're tossed about like ants after a careless human foot kicked their anthill.  And surely the most stunning and destructive example of nature's power is a volcano.  That's why volcanic activity in Antarctica is a bit unnerving.   ....Should this volcano erupt, all or part of the Antarctic ice sheet will instantly melt, and the oceans will rise by feet, not the centimeter or two that panics greenies.  In addition, the sun will be obscured for years.  When the Lake Toba eruption occurred, the Earth's temperature dropped — not by one or two degrees, but by 15!  At the time, the human population shrank almost to extinction."

Electric utopia takes a deadly U-turn

 American Thinker

Electric vehicles have been pushed hard as a solution to the worlds faux climate emergency, but in India they have turned into killing machines.  Many EV bikes and scooters have been bursting into flames across the country. The frequency of such incidents has increased considerably since spring 2022.

In my home state of Tamil Nadu, a man and his daughter were killed when their EV scooter caught fire. You might think it as a one-off incident, but that is not the case.   .......

In Paris, the use of 149 electric buses was suspended after two caught fire. Dramatic footage shows buses in a ball of fire, a sight that would make any municipality inclined to withdraw such vehicles from fleets.

Some underground parking lots in Germany are banning electric and hybrid cars for obvious reasons. Often, lithium-ion battery fires are difficult to extinguish because the addition of water produces hydrogen and lithium-hydroxide, increasing the intensity of the blaze.  ......So to the longstanding concerns about inhumane conditions of mining lithium and other minerals for EV production, we add the direct threat that EVs pose to users and the general public. We are killing people in reaction to the irrational hysteria of a climate cult."