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Climate Change / Offshore wind is gearing up to bulldoze the ocean
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 10:56:07 am »
Offshore wind is gearing up to bulldoze the ocean
By
David Wojick
|
May 1st, 2024
 
The Biden Administration has recently produced a wave of plans and regulatory actions aimed at building a monstrous amount of destructive offshore wind. No environmental impact assessment is included.

Time scales range from tomorrow to 2050. Here is a quick look at some of it, starting with the Grand Plan.

“Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Offshore Wind” is the grandiose title of the Energy Department’s version of Biden’s vision. Their basic idea is that having successfully traversed the unexpected cost crisis, offshore wind is ready to take off.

They point out that even though costs quickly jumped an average of 65%, the boom market is unchanged. The coastal States are raring to go with huge offshore wind targets and laws. In short, it is a seller’s market. Cost is no object.

https://www.cfact.org/2024/05/01/offshore-wind-is-gearing-up-to-bulldoze-the-ocean/
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Climate Change / Germany’s Economic Bloodbath Worsens As Green Revolution Causes Economy To Bleed To Death
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 10:53:22 am »
Germany’s Economic Bloodbath Worsens As Green Revolution Causes Economy To Bleed To Death
By P Gosselin on 3. May 2024

The “greener” Germany gets, the bloodier its economy becomes. How much can an economy bleed before it dies?

Since Germany has become hostile to industry and its Green Revolution has made energy prices among the world’s highest, it’s no wonder that the country’s economy is hemorrhaging economically. Companies are shutting down and moving out.



Foreign direct investment from Germany into the United States from 2000 to 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars, on a historical-cost basis). Source: statista

For example, German online Blackout News here reports on how automotive supplier IHI has announced the closure of its plant at Erfurter Kreuz, Thuringia, and that around 300 employees will be affected in a region that is already struggling.

The company is an manufacturer of turbochargers for cars and intends to close the plant in 12 to 15 months, reports Blackout News.

https://notrickszone.com/2024/05/03/germanys-economic-bloodbath-worsens-as-green-revolution-causes-economy-to-bleed-to-death/
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Climate Change / EVs, climate agenda are a national security threat used 'to weaken us and ultimately destroy us,' ex
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 10:50:31 am »
MEDIA Published April 24, 2024 5:00am EDT
EVs, climate agenda are a national security threat used 'to weaken us and ultimately destroy us,' expert warns
Electric vehicles pose environmental problems and national security issues and compromise the safety of drivers, former CIA operations officer says
 
By Kendall Tietz FOXBusiness

Bryan Dean Wright breaks down how EVs pose a national security threat to the US
The former CIA officer and host of the podcast ‘The Wright Report’ broke down how China controls the EV industry and plans to flood the U.S. market in an attempt to dismantle America’s national security.

Electric vehicles are often touted as the green alternative to gas-powered vehicles, but one expert believes that if people knew the truth about EVs, they would think twice before purchasing one.


Bryan Dean Wright, a former CIA operations officer and host of the podcast "The Wright Report," told Fox News Digital that electric vehicles pose environmental problems, national security issues and compromise the safety of drivers, making them a less than desirable alternative to gas-powered vehicles.

Wright said that one of the most important things to consider when buying an electric vehicle is whether it is actually green. It is his belief that they are actually quite "dirty." Starting with their batteries, he explained that thousands of pounds of minerals, including cobalt, lithium and nickel from all around the world have to first be extracted.

The Congo is the source of 70% of the world's cobalt. Of that, about a third come from miners who are "mostly kids," Wright said.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/evs-climate-agenda-national-security-threat-weaken-ultimately-destroy-expert-warns
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Climate Change / Sen. John Kennedy Makes Climate Alarmist Democrat Look Like A Fool At Hearing
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 10:42:45 am »
Sen. John Kennedy Makes Climate Alarmist Democrat Look Like A Fool At Hearing
by Townhall  14 hours ago 

Senator John Kennedy (R) fired a round of questions on climate change reduction policies and goals that turned out to be devastating for Democrat Jamie Raskin.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/sen-john-kennedy-makes-climate-alarmist-democrat-look-like-a-fool-at-hearing/
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Climate Change / Costly Climate Agendas Are Raising Bills While Doing Zilch For The Climate
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 10:39:40 am »
Costly Climate Agendas Are Raising Bills While Doing Zilch For The Climate
by David Holt  4 hours ago 

One curious but predictable effect of making decisions that restrict access to affordable, reliable, and environmentally sound energy is that the more we squeeze supply in the name of climate action, the higher prices go and the faster less environmentally friendly options are brought back into service. [emphasis, links added]

The other outcome? Elected leaders propose costly programs to help people pay for their ever-climbing energy bills – caused by restrictive policies these same leaders supported.


That’s treating the symptoms, not curing the disease.

California, long seen as the leader in taking action for the climate, is patient zero when it comes to understanding this irrational phenomenon.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/costly-climate-agendas-are-raising-bills-while-doing-zilch-for-the-climate/
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Climate Change / The G7’s Latest Absurdly Ambitious Climate Pronouncements
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 10:36:48 am »
The G7’s Latest Absurdly Ambitious Climate Pronouncements
22 hours ago Charles Rotter 36 

The recent G7 communiqué on climate, energy, and environment policy is laden with the typical rhetoric and ambitious declarations that have come to characterize such international missives. Yet, beneath the surface of urgent calls and reaffirmed commitments lies a web of unaddressed complexities and overly optimistic goals that warrant a closer, more skeptical examination.


The Triple Global Crisis: An Overarching Narrative
The G7 ministers open with a sweeping narrative about the “triple global crisis” of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, further exacerbated by desertification, land, soil and ocean degradation, water scarcity, drought, and deforestation. They assert:

“We reiterate our concerns on the gravity and urgency arising from the interlinked and mutually reinforcing global crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution as well as desertification, land, soil and ocean degradation and water scarcity, drought and deforestation which pose a global threat to sustainable development.”

This passage sets the stage for the G7’s ambitious agenda, framing these crises as cataclysmic and implying a direct linkage with human activity, particularly through emissions and environmental degradation. However, the complexity of these issues is significantly downplayed, and the narrative leans heavily on a presumption of consensus about the causes, trajectories, and solutions to these problems.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/02/the-g7s-latest-absurdly-ambitious-climate-pronouncements/
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Climate Change / Climate Obsessed Democrats Demand an Oil Exploration Halt in the Middle of a Gasoline Price Crisis
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 10:32:49 am »
Climate Obsessed Democrats Demand an Oil Exploration Halt in the Middle of a Gasoline Price Crisis
14 hours ago Eric Worrall 89 Comments

Essay by Eric Worrall

Who needs Gasoline?

Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, joint committee investigation finds

Internal documents revealed by committee show companies lobbied against climate laws they publicly claimed to support

Big oil has privately acknowledged its efforts to downplay the dangers of burning fossil fuels, US Democrats have found.

Major fossil-fuel firms have also pledged support for international climate efforts, but internally admit these efforts are incompatible with their own climate plans. And they have lobbied against climate laws and regulations they have publicly claimed to support, documents newly revealed by the committee show.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/02/climate-obsessed-democrats-demand-an-oil-exploration-halt-in-the-middle-of-a-gasoline-price-crisis/
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Climate Change / The Looming Electrical Power Shortage
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 10:30:01 am »
The Looming Electrical Power Shortage
5 hours ago Guest Blogger 7 Comments

By Steve Goreham

Originally published in Washington Examiner.

People in developed nations take abundant electricity for granted. When asked where electricity comes from, most will point to their wall outlet. But many states in the US are headed for a serious and prolonged shortage of electrical power not seen in decades, driven by rising demand from the artificial intelligence revolution and mandates to adopt green energy.

For 20 years, US electrical power policy has been dominated by efforts to try to “mitigate” global warming, believed to be caused by human greenhouse gas emissions. In 2021, President Joe Biden called for achieving a 100% carbon-free electric sector by 2035. Twenty-three states have enacted statues or issued executive orders to achieve Net Zero electricity generation by 2050.

Because of Net Zero mandates, US grid operators spent the last two decades replacing coal-fired power plants with natural gas plants, wind turbines, and solar installations. More than 200 coal plants have been closed, reducing electricity output from coal by almost 60% since 2007. From 2000 to 2023, wind and solar output rose from near zero to a combined 14.1% of US production. Over the same period, natural gas rose from 16.2% to 43.1% of power generation.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/02/the-looming-electrical-power-shortage/
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Military/Defense News / Re: Unprecedented Proximity: Russian Troops Gain Access to US Military Base in Niger
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 10:27:04 am »
Is our military now providing Russia war material for their war with Ukraine?
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Military/Defense News / Unprecedented Proximity: Russian Troops Gain Access to US Military Base in Niger
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 10:25:41 am »

Unprecedented Proximity: Russian Troops Gain Access to US Military Base in Niger
Story by Isaac Jones • 7h •

As the sun beat down on the dusty hangars of Airbase 101 in Niger, a curious and potentially incendiary new chapter in global geopolitics unfurled. Russian military personnel have entered an air base that hosts U.S. troops in Niger’s capital, Niamey, marking a notable shift in the nation’s allegiance and the balance of international influence in West Africa.


This development follows a decision by Niger’s ruling junta to sever ties with the U.S. and expel its military personnel. The U.S. had maintained nearly 1,000 troops in the country as part of its strategy to combat insurgents in the Sahel, a region grappling with violence from groups linked to al-Qaeda and Islamic State. A senior U.S. defense official, preferring to remain anonymous, described the situation as “not great but in the short-term manageable,” despite the unnerving closeness of Russian and U.S. forces.
 
The Russian move comes at a time when the U.S. and its allies are experiencing a reduction in military footholds in Africa, forced by coups that have brought power groups eager to distance themselves from Western influence. With U.S. troops having recently left Chad, and French forces ousted from Mali and Burkina Faso, the trend is unmistakable.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/unprecedented-proximity-russian-troops-gain-access-to-us-military-base-in-niger/ar-AA1o4ecW?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=ada31b6bd5e1411595d991df800d19f6&ei=88
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