$500,000 Massachusetts sand dune built to protect homes washes away in three days flate - "Of course, modern meteorologists are blaming everybody's favorite boogie-force, climate change... However, the problem isn't a new one:
""It's an ongoing battle here," Saab said. "I've been doing this since 1971.""
Meme - End Wokeness @EndWokeness: "10 days apart.
The New York Times: The End of Snow
The New York Times: How can a warming climate increase snowfall?"
Facebook 'Fact Checkers' Punish and Censor Debate on Climate Science - "Steven Koonin is one of the country's top physicists. He worked for President Barack Obama, a Democrat, as Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. Science Feedback, one of Facebook's "independent fact-checkers," is barring reviews about his book, "Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t and Why It Matters," and classifying its content as false. "Mr. Koonin is no 'climate denier,' to use the concocted phrase used to shut down debate," The Wall Street Journal writes in a review of the book. "The word 'denier' is of course meant to associate skeptics of climate alarmism with Holocaust deniers. Mr. Koonin finds this label particularly abhorrent, since 'the Nazis killed more than two hundred of my relatives in Eastern Europe.' As for 'denying,' Mr. Koonin makes it clear, on the book’s first page, that 'it's true that the globe is warming, and that humans are exerting a warming influence upon it.'... At Townhall, we wrote about The Wall Street Journal’s recent review of "Unsettled" and highlighted Koonin’s argument that the science on climate change isn't settled. Because of this, Climate Feedback, an arm of Science Feedback, rated the story as "partly false" and argued we were repeating false information from Koonin's book and The Wall Street Journal piece. Facebook then slowed the reach of our post as a punishment for the rating, which suppressed and censored the story. If the post does happen to pop up in your feed, it will be accompanied by a "partly false" label and a link to Science Feedback's "fact-check." And anyone who dares to try and share the story themselves is prompted to reconsider and review Science Feedback's "additional reporting" on the topic before hitting "post."... Nowhere in the article did we endorse or give credence to the claims made in "Unsettled," we simply reported on what Koonin had written. We, like many others, found it newsworthy that Koonin, a former senior government official and nationally known scientist, has a different perspective on climate change, one outside the main narrative regularly held up in government and media. The "current scientific evidence" Science Feedback cites isn't as conclusive as they'd like everyone to believe. Rather it's cherrypicked data that only supports one side of the debate, Science Feedback's side. But the censorship of Koonin's book and any outlet that dares to discuss it is just one piece of the broader agenda being pushed by Science Feedback. The organization has repeatedly "fact-checked" Townhall pieces about climate change, labeling them false after ignoring context, falsely rebutting factual climate data, and effectively removing all debate about climate change from Facebook. They also suppress debate on other topics and regularly censor thoroughly-sourced stories about CDC guidance, masks, vaccines and more. According to Science Feedback's own fact-checking standards, they should be "following an unbiased approach to guarantee objectivity." Instead, the site—sanctioned by Facebook—is engaged in an extremely biased approach to climate and general science by accepting only one view on these issues. Ironically, this is an anti-science approach. True science is dedicated to debate and experimentation, not conforming to a set narrative from Facebook "fact-checkers.""
Charlie Kirk on X - "The left wants to blame "climate change" for this disaster. It's a lie. Maui's chief emergency management officer, Herman Andaya, had no expertise in disaster management. Instead, he was a lawyer whose only qualifications were previously working for Maui's mayor and watching "online FEMA trainings and workshops." Water official M. Kaleo Manuel refused to release water resources so that landowners could protect their homes. Manuel, whose college degree is in "Hawaiian Studies," has said that water should be "revered" rather than "used," and should only be shared after "true conversations about equity." Hawaiian Electric knew that its power lines posed a fire hazard, but spent almost nothing on wildfire prevention while spending enormously on "renewable" energy to comply with state mandates. 106 people (and counting) are dead and hundreds more are missing because the left put ideology, diversity, and mumbo-jumbo ahead of the competence needed to save people's lives."
"Climate change" is a good way to escape responsibility when you screw up
To Ease Global Warming, the Whitest of Paints - The New York Times - "In 2020, Dr. Ruan and his team unveiled their creation: a type of white paint that can act as a reflector, bouncing 95 percent of the sun’s rays away from the Earth’s surface, up through the atmosphere and into deep space. A few months later, they announced an even more potent formulation that increased sunlight reflection to 98 percent... He calculated that if materials such as Purdue’s ultra-white paint were to coat between 1 percent and 2 percent of the Earth’s surface, slightly more than half the size of the Sahara, the planet would no longer absorb more heat than it was emitting, and global temperatures would stop rising... commercial white paints generally reflect 80 percent to 90 percent of sunlight. This means they still absorb 10 percent to 20 percent of the heat, which in turn warms surfaces and the ambient air. The Purdue paint, by comparison, absorbs so much less solar heat and radiates so much more heat into deep space that it cools surfaces to below-ambient temperatures. Still, there are concerns. The standard version of Purdue’s ultrawhite paint uses barium sulfate, which has to be mined, driving up its carbon footprint, though Dr. Ruan noted that titanium dioxide, which is used in the vast majority of commercial paints, also has to be mined."
Eco protesters cannot claim a 'climate emergency' as justification for vandalism, the UK's most senior judge rules - "They were acquitted after a jury accepted their defence of lawful excuse. The case was subsequently referred to the Court of Appeal by the Attorney General to clarify two points of law. The Criminal Damage Act defines lawful excuse as the belief that the owner of the property damaged would have consented to it if they had been fully aware of the circumstances. The provision has seen limited previous use but has become increasingly relied upon in the context of climate change protests."
Melbourne news: West Gate climate protesters get more prison time after appealing sentences - "Two climate protesters who drove a truck onto the West Gate Bridge in peak hour traffic and forced a woman to give birth on the side of the road have had their prison sentences increased. Deanna "Violet" Coco, 33, and Bradley Homewood, 51, faced the County Court in Melbourne today where they appealed their 21-day prison sentences for causing traffic chaos... His barrister Felicity Fox said he did not stand to gain personally from the offending, as she called for him to be released on a community work order. Sexton rejected this and decided the two protesters, who each have a history of similar offending, needed to be deterred. He described the protest as "calculated to cause maximum disruption""
Climate protester facing deportation in April, lawyer says - "Haq grew up in Pakistan before coming to Canada on a student visa, which was revoked after he was arrested and charged with mischief for taking part in a number of climate change demonstrations that blocked traffic and frustrated drivers in Metro Vancouver. The young man, who ultimately pleaded guilty to five counts of mischief and one count of breaching an undertaking, was involved with the groups Extinction Rebellion, Stop Fracking Around and Save Old Growth, the latter of which he co-founded. Haq's wife, Canadian climate activist Sophie Papp, sponsored his permanent residency application last May, and an approval before April 22 would prevent the CBSA from deporting him, according to his lawyer... During Haq's sentencing, the court heard that while he had previously "shown disdain for the rule of law" and "publicly encouraged others to break the law," the activist has since softened his approach to addressing the threat of climate change, partly due to the steep consequences he has faced, including the loss of his visa. "He now recognizes that it is 'not wise to be engaged in civil disobedience,'" reads a pre-sentencing report excerpted in Judge Reginald Harris's decision. Haq contacted CTV News to say he was misquoted by the court, and that while he has no more plans to personally engage in civil disobedience, he does not see it as “unwise.”"
Richard Hanania on X - "Harvard cancels geoengineering experiment that could’ve potentially solved global warming. Critics say it would’ve reduced pressure to cut greenhouses gases. But we’re supposed to cut them in order to solve global warming! Almost like making humans suffer is the point."
Harvard has halted its long-planned atmospheric geoengineering experiment | MIT Technology Review - "Proponents of solar geoengineering research argue we should investigate the concept because it may significantly reduce the dangers of climate change. Further research could help scientists better understand the potential benefits, risks and tradeoffs between various approaches. But critics argue that even studying the possibility of solar geoengineering eases the societal pressure to cut greenhouse gas emissions."
Climate change hysteria is not about stopping climate change
Paris is planning the "greenest" Olympics ever, meaning no AC for athlete housing - "It's not like it's the SUMMER OLYMPICS or anything... if you don't think that the no AC thing is a big deal, last year 5,000 people in France died from the heat, and predictions show this summer is going to be another scorcher, possibly breaking records... The Aussies aren't playing around. They're bringing their own AC units and a "heat specialist" who is in charge of keeping the athletes healthy. Greece and Ireland are bringing their own AC as well."
Hellish blackouts could yet have a silver lining - "it certainly engendered a community spirit... blackouts could be just the ticket to shake some of today’s youngsters out of that sublime sense of entitlement and self-righteousness. At a time when the sensitive ones need counselling after watching Rod Liddle on Question Time, the horror of losing the means to power up their phones might jolt them back to reality – and back to real-world problems, rather than obsessing about whether Baden-Powell should be cancelled and tapes of Fawlty Towers burned. Meanwhile, a blackout or two might demonstrate the naivety of the extreme net-zero agenda. It’s all very well asserting the evils of fossil fuels when you’re sitting in a junior common room sipping tea, or blocking the M25 on a frantic Friday. But things become trickier once the lights literally go out. Suddenly, you’re grateful for a bit of Norwegian crude."
The left will just double down and claim that the blackouts are because of too few renewables
Irish farmers pressured to cull up to 200,000 cows to meet climate goals - "Ireland’s cows — which belch out methane, the gas responsible for more than a quarter of global warming — are the country’s worst climate offender. That has prompted the government to float proposals to cull almost 200,000 dairy cows over the next three years... The drastic prospect was seen as a way to help achieve a tough 25 per cent cut in agricultural emissions by 2030"
Mass starvation is an even better way of lowering carbon footprint
‘Net zero is a lie’: farmers converge on Parliament House lawns to protest renewable energy - "'Net zero is a lie': farmers converge on Parliament House lawns to protest renewable energy 6 February 2024 | James Coleman Start the conversation anti-renewables protestors Reckless Renewables Rally attendees at Parliament House this morning. Photo: James Coleman. “Basically, we’re opposed to the renewable energy craziness, which consists of solar factories, wind factories and associated transmission and distribution networks. “They shouldn’t be going anywhere, but they’re going on good farming land, and there’s no actual no point to them because they do not help the wider energy problems, and they just drive up costs for everybody.”... Where she’s from, Walcha in the New England region of northern NSW, the state government has set aside a ‘Renewable Energy Zone’ (REZ) stretching from above Glen Innes to near Tamworth. Through wind, solar and battery projects, it’s hoped this will eventually contribute 8 GW of energy to the national grid. “It’s prime agricultural land,” Emma says. “Some people are true believers and they think it’s actually helping, but if they looked into it, nothing about it is ‘green’. We’re not going to take this lying down.” Howard and Jo Holgate have journeyed from Ganmain, a small farming community near Wagga Wagga, because “farming is under attack”. “What we’re facing here is quite minor compared to most of Europe, but prime agricultural land has been taken up with solar panels and wind turbines … and it just makes no sense … We need to realise net zero is a lie,” Howard says. The National Rational Energy Network (NREN) organised the Reckless Renewables Rally for the first sitting day of the year... the main objective is to call for a rethink of the Federal Government’s target for 82 per cent of Australia’s power to come from renewables by 2030. They want a Senate inquiry into renewables, a suspension of all renewable energy projects and a lifting of the ban on nuclear power... NREN chair Grant Piper comes from Mudgee in central NSW and has a background in engineering. He says the decrease in the amount of usable farmland due to renewables is only one reason for his opposition. “The bigger question is, ‘Why are we doing it when it’s counterproductive?’ I mean, if you look at the whole life cycle costs of turbines and solar panels – manufacturing them and installing them is all done with fossil fuel and then they’ve only got a short life before they have to be replaced and disposed of. We can’t just say ‘the sun is free, the wind is free’ – that’s not all there is to it.”... Almost all of the 1000 new projects will be located in regional communities, which feel inadequately consulted. “In the lead-up to most of these ‘projects’, this government has conducted short, insincere, and unacknowledged community consultation,” the rally’s organisers say."
Canada's electrical grid cannot handle the coming demands - "To solve the constraints on energy generation and to meet net-zero 2050 targets, the federal government projects that grid demand will be twice that of today by 2050. To meet that rising demand, the output of the grid, which we have accumulated since we have had electricity—roughly the past 140 years—will have to double in the next 26 years. It’s worth emphasizing this point: if Ottawa’s projections are right, we’ll need to essentially build out the equivalent of today’s electricity supply in less than one-fifth of the time in the face of modern environmental regulations, Indigenous and local consultations, and other bureaucratic processes that invariably slow down the construction of major infrastructure. Canada’s electricity has been so abundant that we have grown used to reaping the benefits, including those seen by exporting major amounts of electricity to the United States. From these largely silent exports, we garner billions of dollars annually and saw record profits in 2022. Without sufficient surplus to export, these previously reliable financial windfalls will dry up and the provincial ratepayers will face higher costs, while governments who were using these funds to underwrite lower taxes or expanded services may have to re-evaluate. Past yearly trends have shown reductions in total exports, despite continued profits. But the crunch is getting so bad that Quebec, long a source of seemingly limitless electricity, is facing shortages by 2027. U.S. states that have based their decarbonization on Quebec imports are increasingly fearful that agreements will fall through. The electricity grid is one of our most complex creations, providing power at any point along the gamut from vast industrial steel mills to the most minute individual demands. Large-scale changes can occur, although time is required to ensure that they do not destabilize the delicate balance. Ottawa’s pursuit of more electrification of the Canadian economy is exacerbating the forecasts of supply shortfalls. Although many of the new technologies that will accompany this electrified life will make our lives easier and better, policymakers must recognize that a cheap, abundant supply of electricity must be available. Without it, there is no way we will achieve our objectives. For example, right now there are conflicting policy signals from Ottawa. It has both mandated that all new vehicle sales be electric by 2035, while also encouraging the expansion of heat pump uptake in homes. Both initiatives face headwinds from the Clean Electricity Regulations, which seek to encourage decarbonization in provincial grids by 2035. Such rapid changes to the electricity grid bring extreme risk. Such risks are not good for reliable electricity supply, and costs from risks taken with the electricity system cannot be avoided if they go wrong. This sloppy policymaking endangers our future electricity supply-demand balance. Across the country, there is provincial buy-in (even in Alberta and Saskatchewan) for a 2050 net-zero target for electricity grids. Ottawa should take this win, drop the confrontational approach it has now, and seek to build on this progress. The Clean Electricity Regulations should be revoked because they contribute to this confrontation, are politically unnecessary, and do not recognize the unique provincial circumstances... Aligning with the anti-gatekeeper message, the federal government should activate the Canada Energy Regulator to break down silos in provincial grids by conducting work to pre-authorize new transmission corridors between provinces. The approval of transmission lines can easily take over a decade, while provincial silos in electricity grids promote unnecessarily expensive construction of new generation sources, causing higher consumer costs. Additionally, with much of our existing transmission capacity created for Canada-U.S. trade, much of our import/export trade does not occur between provinces but instead between provinces and states. Though this is partly due to the higher prices that will be paid in the U.S., with a lack of interprovincial transmission, there are hard, low, thresholds for internal Canadian electricity trade. For instance, if we look at the three largest electricity exporting provinces in 2022, about 74 percent of British Columbia’s total exports were to the U.S., 63 percent of Quebec’s exports were to the U.S., and 81 percent of Ontario’s total exports were to the U.S"
Opinion: The dirty, but not so little secrets of the federal carbon tax - "Secret No. 1: The carbon tax has never been revenue-neutral. Today, the federal government owes SMEs in eight provinces over $2.5 billion in promised rebates. And it owes Indigenous organizations $282 million. As long as it sits on this money its claims of revenue-neutrality will be false.
Secret No. 2: The government has no mechanism to return past or current carbon tax money to SMEs.
Secret No. 3: Most SMEs would be excluded from rebates under the current design criteria.
Secret No. 4: Ottawa has slashed future SME rebates to help solve its political problems.
Secret No. 5: SMEs should be getting 40 per cent, not five per cent, of carbon tax revenue... Assuming SMEs can pass along something over half the tax they pay, CFIB estimates SMEs pay about 40 per cent of the carbon tax revenue. The main reason government can claim most Canadians are getting more back in rebates than they pay in carbon taxes is that others are getting back far less than they pay. Yet again, SMEs are viewed as the geese that lay golden eggs — with the carbon tax serving as an expensive, income-redistributing shell game. The good news is that these secrets are beginning to get out."
This doesn't stop left wingers continuing to pretend that it's carbon neutral, when it's not even carbon neutral to consumers due to the GST
Chris Selley: Canadian conservatives have more than just newfound confidence on their side - "Climate change is another policy on which the Conservatives needn’t squirm or apologize nowadays. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault have taken so many hatchets to heir own carbon-tax plan that there’s scarcely anything left for them to defend. I still chuckle when I see conservative politicians bemoan how people can’t afford anything anymore, and then in the next breath claim the carbon tax “doesn’t work.” They’re literally describing how the carbon tax is supposed to “work” — by pushing people not buy things they otherwise would in hopes of altering their behaviour. Of course the Liberals could never bring themselves to say this. They insist that their carbon-tax rebates mean hardly anyone is out of pocket by the end of the year at all — practically encouraging people not to change their behaviour, and simply confusing a lot of other people besides. (Why take my money just to give it back?) If the Liberals didn’t think exempting home-heating oil from the tax , but not cleaner-burning natural gas, for nakedly political reasons was the death knell for their plan, then they’re more delusional than we thought. NDP premiers, Liberal premiers, conservative premiers are all demanding the same relief for their citizens. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh mooted abandoning support for the consumer carbon-tax this week, but then walked it back — a bit odd, since New Democrats (not to mention Guilbeault) have always favoured command-and-control measures over dinging the consumer at the till, but it’s not clear anyone in the Jack Layton Building has any idea what they think they’re doing nowadays. Remember when all the pundits decided it was impossible for a Conservative leader to win without a serious, credible climate-change plan? Not so much, it looks like. As it stands Poilievre might waltz to a majority without even releasing a platform."
The Weekly Wrap: The Liberals abandon the centre - "a new report by the Canadian Climate Institute, an Ottawa-based climate policy think tank that does solid empirical work on climate policy. The paper, which aims to estimate the relative role of various policies in meeting Canada’s 2030 emissions reduction targets, finds that while the industrial carbon price is the single biggest driver of emissions reduction (between 23 and 39 percent), the consumer carbon tax (sometimes referred to as the “fuel charge”) is only responsible for about 8 or 9 percent of projected emissions reductions between now and 2030. Although the paper’s authors caution that it shouldn’t be interpreted as license to abandon the consumer carbon tax, it’s quite likely to cause many to reach that precise conclusion. That the consumer carbon tax is by far the most contentious element of Canada’s climate policy and possibly the sole (or at least main) obstacle to something approaching a political consensus, this new analysis raises a prudential question: is it worth it?"
Dacey Media on X - "RCMP in Alberta have been lined up against peaceful Carbon Tax protesters since early this morning. None of these officers are wearing name badges, none will identify themselves and none of them will speak with the protesters. How do you think this is going to end?"
They should just pretend they are pro-Palestine protesters
At the carbon tax protest in Alberta : Canada_sub - "Seems like a problem the government found a solution to: using our money to militarize the police force. Genius move tbh"
"While leaving the actual military with piss-poor funding."
Left wingers hate the militarisation of the police - unless they are used against those they hate
It turns out police can stop a protest blockade if they feel like it - "The treatment of the Nationwide Protest Against the Carbon Tax has differed sharply from law-enforcement responses to other protest blockades. It was only four years ago that small groups of anti-pipeline protesters with roughly the same level of organization were able to able to stage days-long blockades of Canadian rail infrastructure, including a near-complete shutdown on Feb. 13, 2020 of eastern portions of the Canadian National Railway. More recently, anti-Israel protesters in Toronto were able to maintain a two-week blockade of a highway overpass servicing a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood. Only after intense political pressure did Toronto police announce that blockaders would be arrested."
Protests are only good if they push the left wing agenda
Swedish government criticised for curbing green policies in budget - "Sweden’s government has come under criticism after unveiling a budget that will dramatically increase carbon emissions. The budget, unveiled on Wednesday morning, includes a 259m krona (£19m) reduction in funding for climate and environmental measures next year, and tax cuts on petrol and diesel... Other features of the budget were tax cuts for pensioners, more money for the justice system, including plans to expand prisons, lowering tax on snus tobacco, raising taxes on cigarettes and abolishing a plastic bag tax. Svantesson warned of difficult months to come, with unemployment predicted to increase in the next two years and inflation remaining high. She said: “It’s a tough economic winter for many people.”... The former finance minister Mikael Damberg, the economic spokesperson for the largest opposition party, the Social Democrats, said the budget would “make Sweden poorer”.
From September 2023, on Agenda 2030. Left wingers hate standard economic accounting, so they want voodoo accounting to make people poorer while pretending the country is richer
New study shows climate change is already affecting food prices
Clearly, food prices going up are due to the effects of climate change, not governments screwing with farms for "green" purposes. The genius is that this problem is self perpetuating, which allows the green agenda to be accelerated indefinitely
