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Climate Change / Climate Lawfare: A Well-Funded Trojan Horse For Upending Democracies
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:36:32 am »
Climate Lawfare: A Well-Funded Trojan Horse For Upending Democracies
by Tilak Doshi  2 hours ago 

In an astonishing verdict, Europe’s highest human rights court ruled on April 9 that countries must better protect their citizens from “the consequences of climate change.” [emphasis, links added]

In the landmark ruling, setting a legal precedent across 46 member states of the Council of Europe, the court sided with a group of women called KlimaSeniorinnen or “Senior Women for Climate Protection.”


The elderly Swiss ladies claimed that their lives were endangered by heat waves caused by “climate change.”

In the court’s judgment, there is no uncertainty that heat waves are induced — as “scientific knowledge” supposedly makes clear — by fossil fuel use in modern industrial civilization.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/climate-lawfare-a-well-funded-trojan-horse-for-upending-democracies/
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Climate Change / Is Biden About To Declare Himself Climate Dictator?
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:34:50 am »
Is Biden About To Declare Himself Climate Dictator?
by I & I Editorial Board  15 hours ago i

Democrats have already made it clear that they will stop at nothing – nothing – to prevent Donald Trump from winning in November. [emphasis, links added]

So, we aren’t surprised to read reports that President Joe Biden might declare a “climate emergency” this year in hopes that it gooses his reelection odds. Never mind that such a declaration would put the U.S. right on the path to a Venezuela-style future.


Late last week, Bloomberg reported that “White House officials are weighing whether to declare a national climate emergency several months out from the 2024 election.”

Bloomberg goes on to report that:

White House advisers are divided over the idea of declaring a climate emergency, with some saying it wouldn’t provide Biden with enough newfound authority to make substantial changes, the people said. Others, however, argue such an announcement would galvanize climate-minded voters.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/is-biden-about-to-declare-himself-climate-dictator/
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Health/Education / Kids Are Giving Up on Elite Colleges—and Heading South ‘Even if I could’ve gotten into Harvard, I wo
« Last post by 240B on Today at 11:34:19 am »

Kids Are Giving Up on Elite Colleges—and Heading South
‘Even if I could’ve gotten into Harvard, I wouldn’t have gone.’

The Free Press
By Eric Spitznagel
April 22, 2024

The recent wave of violent protests and arrests at elite universities like Yale and Columbia have only confirmed for Scott Katz that he made the right decision to attend Elon University. The North Carolina college, where he is currently wrapping up his sophomore year, is a long way from his hometown of Lafayette Hill, the predominantly liberal Philadelphia suburb where the average home costs $610,000.

Katz, who is Jewish, says the antisemitism that’s increasingly visible at colleges nationwide—especially in the Ivy League, and other elite institutions like Stanford and Berkeley—hasn’t even touched his campus.

“I haven’t been affected by it at all,” Katz told me. “I definitely feel very safe on campus regarding my religion.”

He notes that Elon was one of only two universities in the country to get an A grade from the Anti-Defamation League for its policies protecting Jewish students against hate. (The other is Brandeis.) According to the ADL ranking, Elon has seen zero “severe antisemitic and anti-Zionist incidents” and zero “hostile anti-Zionist student groups.”

“It was a big deal,” Katz says of the level of comfort he feels on campus.

(more)
https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools
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Climate Change / Re: No, AXIOS, the Dubai “Rain Bomb” Has No Ties to Climate Change
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:31:39 am »
Maybe they need to clean the camel sh*t from the drainage systems. :whistle:
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Climate Change / No, AXIOS, the Dubai “Rain Bomb” Has No Ties to Climate Change
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:30:39 am »
No, AXIOS, the Dubai “Rain Bomb” Has No Ties to Climate Change
 
By
Anthony Watts
April 19, 2024
 

An article written by Andrew Freedman, titled “Dubai’s record-shattering “rain bomb” has clear climate change ties,” published April 17th, in the online news website AXIOS makes the claim that record rainfall received in one day in the city of Dubai United Arab Emirates (UAE), has a clear connection to climate change. This is false. Not only is AXIOS conflating weather events with long term climate change, other evidence suggests this was little more than a rare weather event, which has happened before according to weather history for the area, and weak city drainage infrastructure was unable to handle the excess water.

The article notes the heavy rainfall and poor drainage stating:

At least two years’ worth of rain, or about 6.26 inches, fell in just 24 hours, qualifying as what have come to be known colloquially as “rain bombs” for their ultra-heavy totals in such short periods of time.
This amount of rainfall in a single day would cause problems even in more temperate locations, let alone Dubai, a desert city with poor drainage.

https://climaterealism.com/2024/04/no-axios-the-dubai-rain-bomb-has-no-ties-to-climate-change/
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Climate Change / Green on Green: Wilderness Protection Laws and Indigenous Rights are Derailing Renewable Energy Proj
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:28:15 am »
Green on Green: Wilderness Protection Laws and Indigenous Rights are Derailing Renewable Energy Projects
14 hours ago Eric Worrall 29 Comments

Essay by Eric Worrall

Laws protecting Koalas and “the magnificent brood frog” have prevented a renewable energy company from clearing 500 acres 500 hectares of native vegetation in the Australian tropics.

Federal environmental laws ‘single biggest challenge’ for delivering renewable energy projects in Australia

By national regional affairs reporter Jane Norman

In far north Queensland, traditional owners, clean energy developers and conservationists had spent three long years sweating on this decision.

Depending on which side you believed, this development would either supply 150,000 homes with clean, green energy or destroy the forest habitat of threatened native species.

Late on Friday, the wait was finally over.

An email from Ark Energy landed in inboxes, announcing the company had “withdrawn the Wooroora Station Wind Farm proposal from the federal environmental assessment process.”

In other words, the proposed project was dead.

The Korean-owned developer had planned to clear more than 500 hectares of native vegetation next to the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area, home to animals including the koala and magnificent brood frog.

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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-22/environmental-laws-biggest-challenge-for-clean-energy-developers/103750830

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/23/green-on-green-world-heritage-wilderness-laws-are-derailing-renewable-energy-projects/
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Climate Change / Unnecessary Net Zero, Part II: A Demonstration with Global Carbon Project Data
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:26:14 am »
Latest Global Temp. Anomaly (March '24: +0.95°C)
Unnecessary Net Zero, Part II: A Demonstration with Global Carbon Project Data
April 23rd, 2024 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.

Some commenters on my previous blog post, Net Zero CO2 Emissions: A Damaging and Totally Unnecessary Goal, were dubious of my claim that nature will continue to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at about the same rate even if anthropogenic emissions decrease…or even if they were suddenly eliminated.

Rather than appeal to the simple CO2 budget model I created for that blog post, let’s look at the published data from the 123 (!) authors the IPCC relies upon to provide their best estimate of CO2 flows in and out of the atmosphere, the Global Carbon Project team. I created the following chart from their data spreadsheet available here. Updated yearly, the 2023 report shows that their best estimate of the net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere by land and ocean processes has increased along with the rise in atmospheric CO2. This plot is from their yearly estimates, 1850-2022.

https://www.drroyspencer.com/2024/04/unnecessary-net-zero-part-ii-a-demonstration-with-global-carbon-project-data/
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Climate Change / Climate Queries: The Search for Gullibility
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:23:39 am »
Climate Queries: The Search for Gullibility
10 hours ago Charles Rotter 

An academic group of climate communicators  shameless propagandists from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Professional School of Public Manipulation and Indoctrination recently conducted a survey.  Then they “analyzed” the results of their subjective questions and concluded they are very smart, that they need to gesticulate more, and scream louder.

These findings indicate that it is vital to communicate the five key facts about climate change: scientists agree, it’s real, it’s us, it’s bad, and there’s hope.

https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/ask-an-expert/
My commentary on this masturbatory “study” follows:


The Enigma of American Concern

What do Americans really want to know about climate change? The inquiry, as posed by a cadre of academics in a recent survey, might seem significant on its surface. Yet, it spirals into a narrative that inadvertently showcases a profound confusion and a hint of orchestrated alarmism about our environmental future. The revelation that a majority accept global warming as both real and human-caused should give the “researchers” orgasms, but the devil, as always, is in the details—or the lack thereof.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/23/climate-queries-unveiling-the-curiosity-of-the-american-public/
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Climate Change / Net zero has become unhelpful slogan, says outgoing head of UK climate watchdog
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:20:48 am »
Net zero has become unhelpful slogan, says outgoing head of UK climate watchdog
Chris Stark says populist response and culture war around the term is inhibiting environmental progress

Fiona Harvey Environment editor
Mon 22 Apr 2024 14.06 EDT
 
The concept of “net zero” has become a political slogan used to start a “dangerous” culture war over the climate, and may be better dropped, the outgoing head of the UK’s climate watchdog has warned.

Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said sensible improvements to the economy and people’s lives were being blocked by a populist response to the net zero label, and he would be “intensely relaxed” about losing the term.

“Net zero has definitely become a slogan that I feel occasionally is now unhelpful, because it’s so associated with the campaigns against it,” he said. “That wasn’t something I expected.”

Politicians on all sides are now wary of associating themselves with the term, he said, which was inhibiting progress. Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, made several policy U-turns last year, including delaying the changeover to electric vehicles, while the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, watered down a promise to invest £28bn a year in a green economy.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/net-zero-has-become-unhelpful-slogan-says-outgoing-head-of-uk-climate-watchdog
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Immigration/Border / Re: Migrants shipped to Martha’s Vineyard by Gov. Ron DeSantis given crime victim visas
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:16:12 am »
Doesn't this open the doors for other "victims" like those who don't have high enough welfare, weren't told of the dangers they faced on their illegal journey, or were given bad maps?? :shrug:
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