The Politics of Climate Change: Green New Deal And Other Madness

[XPan]

Realistic Reflections

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"The evolutionary psychologist William von Hippel found out, that humans use a large part of their mental capacity to find his way in his complicated social world. -- Why is my boss looking so funny today? -- What does my neighbour's insinuation about my new car mean? -- Is the waitress flirting with me or is she just being friendly?

Our "social" brain also checks facts from time to time. But much more important is the question: What are the social consequences if I do or say this or that? So we have a mechanism in our heads that, in case even prevents us from thinking what is right, if, in return, it endangers our social status.

This phenomenon is more pronounced the higher a person's social and economic status of a person. Educated and/or wealthy people are more concerned about what others might think of their opinions. Because they have an academic reputation or a good professional position to lose.

What's more, the more educated and clever a person is, the more adept his brain is at making the biggest nonsense as a sensible idea, as long as it raises his social status. As a result, the educated bourgeoisie is more inclined to chase after some ideas than ordinary people.

The American data analyst David Shor found in extensive studies that educated people are more ideologically coherent and extreme views than working class people. Taxi drivers, cleaners, tradesmen or warehouse workers often have a much more realism and common sense than professors, teachers and and senior civil servants. The ideological follower sits less at the regulars' table / pub, and more in the lecture hall."

 

[XPan]

Reuters ™ = Never waste an opportunity to brainwash normies

 

[Glenn]

Around here, there is a lot of, on location, movie (or TV) filming, and you can see the trucks moving around in the evening. I was surprised to see a very large generator truck, which was also towing a smaller generator. So I was thinking, why don't they set up a windmill farm, or solar farm when they go out to location.... Ah, alas, they need a lot of dependable power right away. Also, they probably need a lot of power to charge up all their Tesla's, for the virtue signalling actors...

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[XPan]

Hmm....

 

[XPan]

World's Electricity Costs
(1 kilowatt in Eurocents i assume)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1558340555641339904

 

[Anthony]

It has been a deliberate UK government policy to keep the country short of water. Why? Because of climate change...

Similar to how the Woke brigades create problems that they complain about.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1558050017251934210

 

[Voyageur]

World's Electricity Costs

The big chart above did not even have Canada on it, wherein they of course produce massive amounts of electricity exported to the US (James Bay etc.).

Found them on a different chart - just above Norway in costs.

 

[XPan]

The big chart above did not even have Canada on it, wherein they of course produce massive amounts of electricity exported to the US (James Bay etc.).

Canada was actually in the first chart, only that it was placed a notch higher (more expensive) than Norway. Perhaps depending on what currency exchange rate has been used ($CAD vs EURO)

 

[iamthatis]

1,200 Scientists and Professionals Declare: “There is No Climate Emergency” – The Daily Sceptic

First we had the Great Barrington Declaration, challenging the 'settled' scientific consensus about lockdowns. Now comes the World Climate Declaration, challenging the computer models predicting environmental catastrophe.

dailysceptic.org

The political fiction that humans cause most or all climate change and the claim that the science behind this notion is ‘settled’, has been dealt a savage blow by the publication of a ‘World Climate Declaration (WCD)’ signed by over 1,100 scientists and professionals. There is no climate emergency, say the authors, who are drawn from across the world and led by the Norwegian physics Nobel Prize laureate Professor Ivar Giaever. Climate science is said to have degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound self-critical science.

The scale of the opposition to modern day ‘settled’ climate science is remarkable, given how difficult it is in academia to raise grants for any climate research that departs from the political orthodoxy. (A full list of the signatories is available here.) Another lead author of the declaration, Professor Richard Lindzen, has called the current climate narrative “absurd”, but acknowledged that trillions of dollars and the relentless propaganda from grant-dependent academics and agenda-driven journalists currently says it is not absurd.

Particular ire in the WCD is reserved for climate models. To believe in the outcome of a climate model is to believe what the model makers have put in. Climate models are now central to today’s climate discussion and the scientists see this as a problem. “We should free ourselves from the naïve belief in immature climate models,” says the WCD. “In future, climate research must give significantly more emphasis to empirical science.”

Since emerging from the ‘Little Ice Age’ in around 1850, the world has warmed significantly less than predicted by the IPCC on the basis of modelled human influences. “The gap between the real world and the modelled world tells us that we are far from understanding climate change,” the WCD notes.

The Declaration is an event of enormous important, although it will be ignored by the mainstream media. But it is not the first time distinguished scientists have petitioned for more realism in climate science. In Italy, the discoverer of nuclear anti-matter Emeritus Professor Antonino Zichichi recently led 48 local science professors in stating that human responsibility for climate change is “unjustifiably exaggerated and catastrophic predictions are not realistic”. In their scientific view, “natural variation explains a substantial part of global warming observed since 1850”. Professor Zichichi has signed the WCD.

The Declaration notes that the Earth’s climate has varied for as long as the planet has existed, with natural cold and warm periods. “It is no surprise that we are experiencing a period of warming,” it continues. Climate models have many shortcomings, it says, “and are not remotely plausible as global policy tools”. They blow up the effect of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, but ignore any beneficial effects. “CO2 is not a pollutant,” it says. “It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth; additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yield of crops worldwide.”

In addition, the scientists declare that there is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and such-like natural disasters, or making them more frequent. “There is no climate emergency,” the Declaration goes on. “We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050,” it says, adding that the aim of global policy should be “prosperity for all” by providing reliable and affordable energy at all times. “In a prosperous society, men and women are well educated, birth rates are low and people care about their environment,” it concludes.

Although, there is a climate emergency, just not caused by C02 - and it is intensifying. The points made above are good about not destroying the global economy to stop AGW, but they risk minimizing the seriously mad times the earth is in for.

The WCD is the latest sign that the ‘settled’ fantasy surrounding climate change science is rapidly breaking down. Last year, Steven Koonin, an Under-Secretary of Science in the Obama Administration, published a book titled Unsettled in which he noted that, “The science is insufficient to make useful projections about how the climate will change over the coming decades, much less what our actions will be.” He also noted that rigidly promulgating the idea that climate change is settled demeans and chills the scientific enterprise, “retarding its progress in these important matters”. In 2020, the long-time green activist Michael Shellenberger wrote a book called Apocalypse Never in which he said he believed the conversation about climate change and the environment had in the last few years “spiralled out of control”. Much of what people are told about the environment, including the climate, is wrong, he wrote.

Of course, green extremists in academia, politics and journalism will continue to argue for the command-and-control they crave through a Net Zero policy. In the end, their warped view of the scientific process will fade, leaving a trail of ludicrous Armageddon forecasts, and yet more failed experiments in hard-left economic and societal control.

Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.

 

[Voyageur]

Canada was actually in the first chart, only that it was placed a notch higher (more expensive) than Norway

Darndest thing, could not spot it at all . Kind of like Canada itself as a nation, it seems to be disappearing right before not just my own eyes.

1,200 Scientists and Professionals Declare: “There is No Climate Emergency” – The Daily Sceptic

First we had the Great Barrington Declaration, challenging the 'settled' scientific consensus about lockdowns. Now comes the World Climate Declaration, challenging the computer models predicting environmental catastrophe.

dailysceptic.org

It is kind of funny, if not for its serious implications, when at first bandwagon headlines read 97% of scientists say, and to then point out the statistical elephant in the room usually begot, well you are just a denier, it is all settled science. There is probably an old link somewhere to someone like Doc. Tim Ball unpacking this in detail. Looked, he did, yet this should do:

The mainstream media peddle the claim that 97% of (climate) scientists believe in man-made global warming and, therefore, there can be no debate. This is false and irrelevant. To get the 97% figure, they basically counted people who had mentioned climate change in an abstract or heading of a scientific paper. Dr. David Legates has reviewed the work and shows that, in fact, only 0.3% of the papers claim that “man had caused most post-1950 warming.” Nonetheless, science isn’t about consensus, it is about facts, and not a fictitious number the media has seized upon

Anyway, always good to hear some scientists now speaking out, and perhaps many politicians are steeling their nerves as their systems are quickly staring into a deep abyss, while people are pointing their fingers and raising their voices at them, as they should. As S. Jackson once said, "sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

Here is Tim, who pretty much had the bead on all this climate mess for decades:

"Its the sun, pretty simple"
- Tim Ball


Edit: Interesting photo:

 

[Vulcan59]

A couple revealed they spend a measly $10 a month on their water bill — and do so by reusing their shower water to cook — all while forgoing toilet paper.

We spend $10 a month on water bill — and cook with used shower water

A couple revealed they spend a measly $10 a month on their water bill — and do so by reusing their shower water to cook — all while forgoing toilet paper.

nypost.com

 

[XPan]

There is a Sicilian saying...



"O caca o scuru"
(go and shit in the dark)

 

[XPan]

Dystopian Fandom ™





Allergic Chitin and numerous Parasites
included into the children's Green Deal lunch box

It could be funny, if this wouldn't be so sad as well maddening.

(psssst... we only lie 10 times to you)



The Whatsape ™

Finally he is here. The fourth Ape. He is the sum of the first three.
He sees nothing, he hears nothing and he says nothing.





Dystopian Fandom ™ (Part II)






Q 2030 Manual for Dummies ™




Bonus ™



Indeed ™

 

[Anthony]

Anyone fancy some candy made from wind turbines?

Wind turbine blades could be recycled into gummy bears, scientists say

Researchers design composite resin for blades that can be broken down to make new products including sweets

The next generation of wind turbine blades could be recycled into gummy bears at the end of their service, scientists have said.

Researchers at Michigan State University have made a composite resin for the blades by combining glass fibres with a plant-derived polymer and a synthetic one. Once the blades have reached the end of their lifespan the materials can be broken down and recycled to make new products including turbine blades – and chewy sweets.


Wind power is one of the dominant forms of renewable energy. However, turbine blades, usually made of fibreglass, can be as long as half a football field and cause problems with disposal, with many discarded in landfills when they reach the end of their use cycle.

 

[XPan]

Yup, i saw the article yesterday, too, and it was like... what on earth ?!?!

Imagine if people, science and medicine would use their energies/efforts they this far have put into rather nefarious experiments and creations, instead transforming them into serving (honest, sincere) science and accomplishments for and with humanity... What a beautiful world we could start to create.

But breaking down turbine blades into tiny components... wouldn't that require huge amounts of energy ? (at least twice the amount of what it took to make those blades). Begs the question, if making gummy bears (and writing stupid articles) even is a thing ? Other than being distasteful BS fantasy anyway.