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

[XPan]

Yes, yes, Greta... we know that you are a drama queen

 

[XPan]

Huummmm, this is interesting.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1629973677101158401

Sort of like the EPA with its air quality measurements in East Palestine.

I don't know how it is in the US really. Here in Sweden we have of course temperature stations too at airports. However, airports are often colder than the temperatures registered in the cities.

But - since the 70s, many rural temperature stations have been taken off globally (or been excluded) from the climate analysis, in favor of more urban stations - which then of course supports the narrative of global warming...

The whole Global Warming narrative is like a Swiss cheese - filled with many holes.

 

[Palinurus]

The whole Global Warming narrative is like a Swiss cheese - filled with many holes.

Is there any cheese left between all those holes ?!

 

[brandon]

Saw this from Australian senator Gerard Rennick yesterday:

Is Australia already at Net Zero? - Senator Gerard Rennick

Since then Australia has reduced its CO2 emissions from over 600 million tonnes to less than 500 million tonnes. So we are closer to absorbing four times more CO2 than we emit.

gerardrennick.com.au

“Australia exports 2.5 times more carbon in fossil fuels than it emits from burning them, the most recent analysis of the nation’s carbon stocks shows. The CSIRO study is the first full carbon budget yet completed for Australia and is part of a global project to better track carbon emissions.” - (ABC, 2013)

In 2013 the ABC reported that Australia had already reached net zero two and a half times over.

Since then Australia has reduced its CO2 emissions from over 600 million tonnes to less than 500 million tonnes. So we are closer to absorbing four times more CO2 than we emit.

It’s worth noting that the CO2 absorbed by phytoplankton in our oceans aren’t even counted.

Yet when one clicks on the link to the CSIRO report in the ABC article it is no longer there. See link below.

I asked the CSIRO in estimates why the link was removed. They aren’t trying to hide how much CO2 is taken up by Australia’s natural environment are they?

Surely if Australia is already at net zero multiple times over there is no need to build renewables which are expensive and bad for the environment right?

Audit tallies Australia's carbon budget › News in Science (ABC Science)

But the thing that annoys me about this guy, as well-intentioned as he might be, is he's not very details-oriented... like he just read one sentence and ran with it. What the ABC article actually says the paper (the link DOES work, the paper is still there) says - I don't understand all the sciencey stuff in the paper, myself - is:

The work shows the Australian landscape has soaked up one-third of the carbon emitted by fossil fuels in Australia over the past 20 years. On average about 2.2 billion tonnes of carbon is taken up by plants each year.

Across Australia, grassy vegetation (dominant in dry and savanna regions) accounts for 56 per cent of carbon uptake while woody vegetation accounts for 44 per cent.

But critically the study finds the amount of carbon plants 'breathe in' during periods of high growth in wet years is countered by the carbon released during periods of drought.

"For Australia as a whole, increased carbon dioxide has caused a 15 per cent increase in plant production over the past two decades, relative to pre-industrial times," she says.

The analysis shows that during these high-growth periods the Australian biosphere 'breathes in' more than the total human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.

However, she says in dry years, the biosphere 'breathes out' a nearly equal amount of carbon to the atmosphere.

Haverd says the data helps in understanding how carbon stored in the Australian landscape responds to the swings between drought and flood.

"It is important to know that carbon stored in the land during periods of high plant growth may disappear again during the next drought," Haverd says.

The work also shows fire contributes about 1.3 times as much carbon to the atmosphere as fossil fuel emissions. But Harverd says the net impact, which takes into account the carbon the plants would have respired and the regrowth that then takes up carbon, is about one-quarter of fossil fuel emissions.

It's clearly part of a hugely complex, natural, interlocking global ecosystem (fascinating, actually!), and the "carbon bad" thing is just an excuse being used to drive the evil.. But oh I wish people like Senator Rennick would be more vigorous about the details when they speak about it publically!

 

[brandon]

vigorous

Oof! I meant rigorous of course. Though vigorous sort of works too....

 

[Voyageur]

This is very short, and it could be cross posted to The Situation in Germany thread as it has to do with one of their industrialist manufactures. The industrialist is Volkswagen, who seem to have made a deal in Canada to build electric car batteries. The deal is subsidized by who else than Justin and the cabal. It would help his other initiatives - mass taxpayer spending, to implement EV's ad infinitum to their current environmental mandates. This deal seems to involve possibly 15 billion or more to Volkswagen to relocate out of Germany for this venture.

The Andrew Lawton Show | Liberals won't say how much Volkswagen battery plant is costing us

...Liberals won’t say how much Volkswagen battery plant is costing us​

Volkswagen has chosen St. Thomas, Ontario as the site of its first North American electric vehicle battery plant. The federal and provincial governments haven’t said what they had to pay to make this deal happen, though the Financial Times reported that Volkswagen put plans for a European battery plant on hold because the company claimed it could get $15 billion in subsidies for a North American plant.
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[XPan]

Climate Insanity ™
Berlin, Germany

It certainly has nothing to do with science or debates, neither reasoning nor insights. It's just plain insanity.

Berlin’s March 26th Climate Referendum… Berlin Leaders Could Have Immediate Dictatorial Powers

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Berlin’s March 26th Climate Referendum… Berlin Leaders Could Have Immediate Dictatorial Powers | Watts Up With That?

Draft amendment: carbon neutrality already by 2030 instead of 2045!

wattsupwiththat.com

Berlin’s March 26th Climate Referendum…
Berlin Leaders Could Have Immediate Dictatorial Powers​

By P Gosselin on 12. March 2023

The road to tyranny begins in Berlin as climate gets framed as a state of emergency​

A new, radical climate amendment that will be voted on on March 26th in a referendum that could change Berlin’s climate targets to enforceable obligations, thus clearing the way for radical CO2 reduction measures by an unelected council. ​

Draft amendment: carbon neutrality already by 2030 instead of 2045!​

If Berliners think protesters obstructing traffic by gluing themselves to the streets are a nuisance, just wait until what could be the case after March 26, when Berliners vote on climate referendum.

If the climate referendum is successful, a radical amendment to the current climate protection and energy transition law will be enacted. The online German Pleiteticker.de exclusively has an internal paper and reports of an “empowerment paragraph” in the proposed amended law.
The aim of the referendum is to amend the existing Climate Protection and Energy Transition Act (EWG Bln) in order to force the city of Berlin to achieve climate neutrality by 2030 instead of 2045.

The vote will be binding, which means that if the referendum is successful, the amendment will be enacted into law. The amendment is being pushed by the Green Party and radical groups like Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion.

Targets would become legal obligations
The amendment would be so radical that even Berlin SPD socialists consider it dangerous and speak of an “empowerment paragraph” in the law that would transfer immense power to a small group of unelected people, namely a Climate Protection Council appointed by the Berlin Senate.
Concerning paragraph 6 of the new amendment, “Immediate program in the event of non-fulfillment of obligations”, the SPD explicitly warns that climate targets have been changed to “obligations”, which would mean the Berlin Senate probably would have to implement immediate radical measures to achieve the obligations, even by court order.

Paragraph 14 provides for a “Climate Protection Council” to monitor compliance. It would be appointed by the Berlin Senate and not made up by democratically elected officials.

Good bye to cars in Berlin?
“There is a danger that the possibility of immediate measures – which, according to the SPD, are not democratically legitimized – will be used excessively”, Pleiteticker warns. “If the climate referendum is successfully implemented, it will therefore not only be expensive for Berliners, but there will be many more restrictions on freedom than under the previous the Socialist-Green Senate – Berliners may then have to say goodbye to their cars completely.”

Reducing flights at Berlin’s BER airport?
According to paragraph 3 on “Climate Protection Obligations”, CO2 reduction should be 70 percent by 2025 and 95 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels! “The previous regulation has been changed so that the time periods are dramatically shortened,”

According to Clause 2, even the Berlin airport would be a part of the climate budget. Pleiteticker warns: “So there is a risk that an immediate measure for emissions reduction could be to reduce the number of flights.”

Property owners would be forced to make major renovations
The amendment also calls on the mandatory energy refurbishment of all public buildings by 2030 and the entire state administration would have to be CO2-neutral by 2030.

“Where the money is to come from remains a mystery once again,” Pleiteticker comments.

Paragraph 19, “Use of Renewable Energy”, could also mean the mandatory installation of solar panels for all homeowners. Again, no one knows how all of this would be paid for. Owning a home and property would certainly become unaffordable for many private owners.

Looking at it from a different angle, Berlin could serve as a pilot that would in all likelihood expose the shear folly of rapid climate neutrality once and for all. Maybe a “successful” referendum would be a good lesson for the rest of the world.

related - In german language

Exklusiv! SPD-Papier: Grünes Klimagesetz enthält „Ermächtigungs-Paragrafen“ - pleiteticker.de

Am 26. März wird in Berlin über den Klima-Volksentscheid abgestimmt. Sollte die Abstimmung erfolgreich sein, wird eine radikale Änderung des bisherigen Klimaschutz- und Energiewendegesetz erlassen – eine, die sogar die Berliner SPD für gefährlich hält. Pleiteticker.de liegt exklusiv ein internes...

pleiteticker.de

 

[Voyageur]

The following concerns the seriousness (and those serious in ensuring ) the fourth industrialization revolution and 15 Minute Cities under the leading strings of Lockdowns. Speaking, is Michelle Stirling of the Friends of Science. Back in February, the Alberta Prosperity Project featured guest, Stirling to discuss. The discussion is in the following video (1.5+ hrs.) or on this pfd slide version here.

Michelle takes the listener through the years 2015 to date and beyond related to 15 min. cities - before lockdowns took place - when they happened it was their wildest dreams come true, or they were orchestrated to come true. The line of force was in this direction, and they needed climate change, which more or less is failing, and lockdowns, which was a stupendous success for launching authoritarianism writ large.

Michelle pitches a good connecting talk (also noticed was an 'Open Letter – Call to Rescind the Calgary Climate Emergency Declaration and NetZero Plan' by Ron Davison, P. Eng. (March 9th, 2023 to Mayor Gondek and Council):

 

[benkostka]

It’s really something to watch some of this stuff. This is perhaps the embodiment of the ultimate participation trophy. Greta Thunberg gets an honary Doctorate degree for sitting on her butt and pouting.

Thirty new honorary doctorates to be conferred in the Conferment Jubilee | University of Helsinki

The Conferment Jubilee of the University of Helsinki commences on 20 March 2023 with the announcement of the University’s new honorary doctors. In the spring, the Faculty of Philosophy, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Law will celebrate the...

www.helsinki.fi

It just degrades anyone who’s put in the honest effort to be awarded a doctorate. Like the anti universe embodiment of Dookie Howser MD.

 

[Glenn]

Jyrki Lappi-Seppälä, MA, linguist and literary tarnslator

What in tarnation is a tarnslator?

 

[Pierre]

It’s really something to watch some of this stuff. This is perhaps the embodiment of the ultimate participation trophy. Greta Thunberg gets an honary Doctorate degree for sitting on her butt and pouting.

Plus, it is the Faculty of Theology of the University of Helsinki who conferred a honorary doctorate on Greta Thunberg. Climate change is a religion, and Greta Thunberg is high priestess.

 

[iamthatis]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1638142138566287363

How sustainable!

Edit - not sure if these are actually EVs...

 

[Hi_Henry]

Coal mines in the EU are being closed in many countries.

But then we have this.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1639981076297687041

Some comments in the source tweet say that it is ANC's fault as before this coal was transported to Europe went by rail. The use of trucks represents ANC patrons making money through transport, which they couldn't do when rail was used.

Either way, coal from South Africa being burned in Europe can only make sense to the griffters profiting on this (cheap labor). Going Green means profiting from the poor and eliminating obligation to payout to those going into retirement (early clot-shot related death and artificial inflation).

https://twitter.com/x/status/1639617575481901058

 

[Hi_Henry]

Hillary is off her meds

https://twitter.com/x/status/1633495962671874049

 

[XPan]

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