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Despite Plenty Of Pitfalls, Biden Doubles Down On Offshore Wind
by Christopher Talgo  17 seconds ago 
 

In general, the Biden administration favors top-down, centralized economic planning rather than allowing the miracle that is the “invisible hand” of the free market system to drive the U.S. economy forward. [emphasis, links added]

Consider the automobile industry for example. Do most Americans want to purchase electric vehicles as of now? Nope.


Yet that has not stopped Biden and company from doing virtually everything in their power, including heavy-handed mandates and billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded subsidies to force Americans into eventually having no choice other than an electric vehicle.

The same strategy has also been applied to several types of appliances, including gas stoves, furnaces, washing machines, etc.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/despite-plenty-of-pitfalls-biden-doubles-down-on-offshore-wind/
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Gov Greaseball is hiding.

Member of the UC Regents, including Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmon – both running for governor – declined NBC Los Angeles’ requests for comment. State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas also declined to offer a statement on the campus protests.

While Republicans put on the pressure, denouncing antisemitism on campuses, Newsom and his Democratic colleagues have a good reason to tip-toe around the issue, according to Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College

“If I were a Democratic party politician, I’d want to stay as far away from this as possible,” Pitney said. “If they support the students, there could be a demonstration with antisemitic references … If they support a removal of them from campus, it could result in over policing and be a very bad image.”

When anti-war protests took place on UC campuses decades ago, Gov. Ronald Reagan, a Republican, had a different approach: He famously sent in the National Guard to UC Berkeley.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/newsom-state-leaders-stay-mum-about-pro-palestinian-protest-at-ucla/3503133/
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G7 Despots, Including The U.S., Agree To Shut Down All Coal Plants By 2035
by Jim Hᴏft  17 hours ago 

Democrat Climate Change Cult: Ban Everything!

Ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) nations have agreed to eliminate all coal-fired power plants by 2035. [emphasis, links added]

The countries that are members of the Group of Seven (G7) are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union.


This declaration was made by Andrew Bowie, a UK minister at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, during an interview in Turing, Italy.

“We do have an agreement to phase out coal in the first half of the 2030s,” Bowie said.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/g7-despots-including-the-u-s-agree-to-shut-down-all-coal-plants-by-2035/
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Forbes Calls BS on the latest Climate Economics Doomsday Prediction
19 hours ago Eric Worrall

Essay by Eric Worrall

”… While I am not an economist, in my opinion the data seems flawed. …”

New Study: Climate Change Could Reduce The World Economy 19% By 2049

Jon McGowan
Contributor

I am an attorney who writes about ESG policy, laws, and regulations.

A new study claims that loss of productivity because of climate change could result in a 19% reduction in the world economy by 2049. Despite the number being significantly higher than previous studies, the authors claim their numbers are conservative and could be as high 29% of the global GDP. Climate activists were quick to latch onto the study, calling for more aggressive measures to prevent climate change and fund mitigation efforts.

The study, The economic commitment of climate change, was published in Nature on April 17 by researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, also known as PIK, a non-profit organization funded by the German government.



While I am not an economist, in my opinion the data seems flawed. According to a study published by NOAA in January 2024, the average temperature has risen 2° F since 1850. In that same period, the global GDP increased from $1.73 trillion to $134.08 trillion. If we accept the climate projection models used in the study, it dismisses the resiliency of human nature and our ability to overcome economic challenges.
 
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/30/forbes-calls-bs-on-the-latest-climate-economics-doomsday-prediction/
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Isn't climate change supposed to be killing all crops to begin with?  And now they want to use those few measly crops that are surviving to feed jets, not people? :whistle:
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Pookie's Toons / Re: Today's Toons 5/1/24
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Thanks, Pookie.
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Airlines Launch Effort Backing Green Jet Fuel Tax Credit That Could Raise Food Prices For Americans
 

ROBERT SCHMAD
CONTRIBUTOR
April 29, 2024
12:10 PM ET
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A coalition of major airlines has formed a group supporting a tax credit pushed by President Joe Biden that experts say could jack up food prices.

More than 40 companies, including Boeing, American Airlines, JetBlue and United as well as ethanol trade groups, are pushing the federal government to “expand” existing tax credits for “sustainable aviation fuel” (SAF) and to pass legislation to increase the fuel’s availability, Axios reported. Corn-based ethanol is a common component in SAF and experts previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation that increasing the demand for corn by incentivizing its use in jet fuel could indirectly raise food costs for Americans. (RELATED: Biden Admin Unveils Green Jet Fuel Subsidy Rules In Win For Big Corn)


The Biden administration is reportedly planning to disclose how it will measure eligibility for the SAF tax credit, per recent reports. A bipartisan group of senators, many of whom represent states that produce large amounts of corn, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in June 2023 urging her department to adopt the U.S. Department of Energy’s Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Technologies (GREET) model for calculating SAF tax credits.

GREET, if adopted, would make it easier for ethanol to be deemed sufficiently eco-friendly to qualify for SAF tax credits.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/29/airlines-effort-jet-fuel-tax-credit-food-prices/
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The In-depth Story Behind the 97% of Scientists Climate Myth
3 hours ago Charles Rotter 19 Comments
 

This four year old presentation by Dr. John Robson investigates the unsound origins and fundamental inaccuracy, even dishonesty, of the claim that 97% of scientists, or “the world’s scientists”, or something agree that climate change is man-made, urgent and dangerous.
 
TRANSCRIPT

There are so many empty slogans out there I wish we could tackle all of them at once. But the “97% of scientists agree” is surely the elephant in the room. Lots of people have tried to rebut it by dismissing the notion of consensus itself, or by praising the historical examples of renegade scientists who went against a prevailing consensus and turned out to be right. But that unnecessarily concedes the major claim itself, which the evidence shows is simply not true. I hope you enjoy the video, and that you’ll share it widely.
-JR

Narrator

The claim that 97% of the world’s scientists agree is pretty much the ace of trumps in the whole climate debate. After all, who’s going to argue against a consensus that strong, backed by so many experts. But what exactly are they supposed to agree on? If you look behind the curtain, no one seems sure what the experts actually said. Or who they are. Or… anything.

John

At first glance it seems straightforward enough. In 2013 President Barack Obama famously tweeted that “Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.”

In 2014, his Secretary of State John Kerry said 97% of “the world’s scientists tell us this is urgent.” And that same year, CNN said “97% of scientists agree that climate change is happening now, that it’s damaging the planet and that it’s manmade.”

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/01/the-in-depth-story-behind-the-97-of-scientists-climate-fraud/
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40 million tons of chicken feathers are incinerated each year. Why not make renewable energy from them, instead?
© Provided by Anthropocene Magazine published by Future Earth

Look at a chicken feather, and what you’re seeing is 91% keratin. Now a team of scientists have found a way to repurpose this abundant agricultural byproduct—and in a surprise move, they’ve used it to make renewable energy.

The scale of the global poultry industry is such that it produces 6 billion tons of chicken feathers each year, most of which are tossed aside. The problem isn’t just the waste, but the impact it goes on to have: an estimated 40 million tons of these waste feathers are burned annually, spewing out sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide in the process.
 
Meanwhile, keratin is actually an incredible useful ingredient in so many industries, from medicine to packaging. But the researchers on the new study set their targets on green energy for the wasted feather flurry.

They had their eye on a crucial component of hydrogen fuel cells that sorely needs an upgrade. Hydrogen fuel cells generate electricity by combining hydrogen with oxygen atoms, and produce a clean electrochemical reaction, instead of combustion. Key to this process is the cell’s semi-permeable membrane, across which protons can move to generate the required chemical reaction. However, “normal fuel cell membranes are formed by highly toxic polymers which cannot be degraded, and which persist in the environment,” says the paper’s lead author Raffaele Mezzenga, who is a materials scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/40-million-tons-of-chicken-feathers-are-incinerated-each-year-why-not-make-renewable-energy-from-them/ar-AA1iWAqg?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=fdd0178c65b54583a6b77be847eeee62&ei=73
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California's $20 Minimum Wage Backfires Worse Than Imagined
Story by Daniel Walker • 13h
 
California is set to raise its minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour starting in April.
 

As the controversy unfolds, the policy implications and long-term repercussions on labor regulations and industry practices remain subjects of intense scrutiny and debate.
 

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/california-s-20-minimum-wage-backfires-worse-than-imagined/ss-AA1nWTZ3?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=fdd0178c65b54583a6b77be847eeee62&ei=60#image=1
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