BYD Electric Car Showroom Catches Fire In China, Tenth Blaze Since 2021
by Sebastien Bell  60 mins ago in Electric Vehicles, News Reading Time: 3 mins read
 

A massive fire broke out overnight at a BYD showroom on May 16, leaving little more than the bare framing of the building, the skeletons of a handful of vehicles, and soot. [emphasis, links added]

Fortunately, no one was killed in the blaze.


Videos shared online show large clouds of smoke billowing in the skies above the showroom, giving the entire surrounding area an orange hue as the flames reflected off the rising plumes. In the background, loud bangs and pops can be heard.

The fire started at 12:32 a.m. in Qingkou in Fujian Province, and seven fire trucks were dispatched to the scene, report HK01.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/byd-electric-car-showroom-catches-fire-in-china-tenth-blaze-since-2021/

The Climate Cost Conspiracy: The Overstated Economic Damages From Global Warming
by Dr. Matthew Wielicki  37 mins ago 

The non-peer-reviewed recent paper claiming that global temperature increases drastically harm economic activity is a prime example of the climate industrial complex inflating costs. [emphasis, links added]

The assertion that a 1°C rise in global temperature could lower world GDP by 12% at its peak starkly contrasts with empirical data suggesting a reduction of merely 1-3%.


This article critically examines the methodology and conclusions of the paper, arguing that the authors are overstating the economic damages while ignoring their own clear evidence that warmer temperatures have recently boosted global GDP.

The authors rely on a time-series local projection approach to estimate the impact of global temperature shocks on GDP. This method is fraught with issues.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-climate-cost-conspiracy-the-overstated-economic-damages-from-global-warming/

How El Nino La Nina And The Sun Drive Climate Change!
10 hours ago Guest Blogger 

By Jim Steele

The short answer, based on peer-reviewed science is, small increases in solar insolation increase the tropical trade winds. Stronger trade winds push the Pacific Ocean into a La Nina-like state that reduces cloud cover in the eastern Pacific and eastern Atlantic. Less cloud cover during La Nina-like conditions increase heat flux into the oceans, where the greatest heat flux is now observed. That greater flux warms the oceans and via ocean currents warms the world as it ventilates, as it does now. In contrast El Nino-like conditions increase cloud cover over the eastern Pacific and reduces heat flux into the oceans which cools the world as it did during the Little Ice Age.


In the American southwest, natural La Nina-like conditions induce dry climates and reduce vegetation. Panel “A” from Jimenez-Moreno (2021) using proxy evidence from precipitation-sensitive Pinyon Pines in southwest, illustrates 1200 years of climate change and the oscillating effects of EL Nino and La Nina. When solar irradiance was low during the solar minimums, reduced trade winds created EL Nino-like conditions that enabled greater precipitation across the southwest, and greater growth of Pinyon Pines during the Little Ice Age (LIA) from 1400 to 1850 AD.

Previously from 800 to 1400 AD, solar maximums increased the trade winds and caused the American southwest to suffer megadroughts due to dominance of La Nina-like conditions.


Panel “B” represents the standard contrast between El Nino and La Nino events. During La Nina-like conditions, strong trade winds blow warm water to the west and cause upwelling of cool subsurface water which reduces cloud cover. Reduced cloud cover amplifies solar heating of the oceans. Thus, Southwest megadroughts and warmer temperatures of the Medieval Warm Period strongly correlate with La Nina-like conditions.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/20/how-el-nino-la-nina-and-the-sun-drive-climate-change/

Electric Van Sales In Decline
MAY 20, 2024
 
By Paul Homewood
 

https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/lcv-registrations/

Whilst EV car sales remain sluggish, the market for electric vans is even worse. The government’s ZEV mandate demands that 10% of van sales are electric this year, and this figure rises rapidly in the next few years.

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pathway-for-zero-emission-vehicle-transition-by-2035-becomes-law

However sales of the useless things gave actually fallen this year, and only account for 4.9% of the market.

Fleetworld sum up the problem:


The Association of Fleet Professionals (AFP) said several major van makers now insist that a proportion of all vehicle orders must be electric vans in order to reflect the percentage of ZEV vehicles they are now legally required to sell – creating a dilemma for fleets that can’t go electric yet.

AFP chair Paul Hollick explained: “It’s quickly becoming a widespread practice that when a fleet wants to order a quantity of vans, manufacturers are asserting that a percentage is electric – often 10% to reflect the 2024 ZEV mandate.

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/electric-van-sales-in-decline/#more-73480

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