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Climate Change / The H Stands For Hype
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:39:40 am »
The H Stands For Hype
The New York Times calls hydrogen a “renewable energy source” and other silliness about using an element that’s “a thermodynamic obscenity”
MAY 09, 2024
 
The Sun is mainly made of hydrogen. But there is nothing new under the Sun, and that includes hydrogen.

That Old Testament reference — “what has been will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun” — is appropriate here because the hype about hydrogen seems nearly as old as the Bible itself.

On June 10, 1975, during the 94th Congress, the House of Representatives held the first of two “investigative hearings on the subject of hydrogen — its production, utilization, and potential effects on our energy economy of the future.” The hearing was chaired by Mike McCormack, a Democrat from Washington state, who claimed hydrogen “has the potential of playing the same kind of role in our energy system as electricity does today.”

In 1996, the Chicago Sun-Times declared “The first steps toward what proponents call the hydrogen economy are being taken.” In 2003, Jeremy Rifkin, an “economic and social theorist,” published The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth. In that book, Rifkin claimed that “Globalization represents the end stage of the fossil-fuel era.” Turning “toward hydrogen is a promissory note for a safer world,” he averred.

https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/the-h-in-hydrogen-stands-for-hype
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Climate Change / Fossil Fuels and Greenhouse Gases Climate Science
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:36:16 am »
Fossil Fuels and Greenhouse Gases Climate Science
23 hours ago Guest Blogger

Paper prepared by Richard Lindzen, William Happer, Steven Koonin and submitted April 16, 2024.

Summary provided below and the entire paper can be accessed here: Lindzen Happer Koonin climate science 4-24.

THERE WILL BE DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE POOR, PEOPLE WORLDWIDE, FUTURE GENERATIONS AND THE WEST IF FOSSIL FUELS, CO2 AND OTHER GHG EMISSIONS ARE REDUCED TO “NET ZERO”

CO2 is Essential to Our Food, and Thus to Life on Earth
More CO2, Including CO2 from Fossil Fuels, Produces More Food.
More CO2 Increases Food in Drought-Stricken Areas.
Greenhouse Gases Prevent Us from Freezing to Death
Enormous Social Benefits of Fossil Fuels
“Net Zeroing” Fossil Fuels Will Cause Massive Human Starvation by Eliminating Nitrogen Fertilizer

THE IPCC IS GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED AND THUS ONLY ISSUES GOVERNMENT OPINIONS, NOT SCIENCE

SCIENCE DEMONSTRATES FOSSIL FUELS, CO2 AND OTHER GHGs WILL NOT CAUSE CATASTROPHIC GLOBAL WARMING AND EXTREME WEATHER

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/13/fossil-fuels-and-greenhouse-gases-climate-science/
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The importance of distinguishing climate science from climate activism
Ulf Büntgen
npj Climate Action volume 3, Article number: 36 (2024) Cite this article
 

I am concerned by climate scientists becoming climate activists, because scholars should not have a priori interests in the outcome of their studies. Likewise, I am worried about activists who pretend to be scientists, as this can be a misleading form of instrumentalization.

Background and motivation
It comes as no surprise that the slow production of scientific knowledge by an ever-growing international and interdisciplinary community of climate change researchers is not feasible to track the accelerating pace of cultural, political and economic perceptions of, and actions to the many threats anthropogenic global warming is likely to pose on natural and societal systems at different spatiotemporal scales. Recognition of a decoupling between “normal” and “post-normal” science is not new1, with the latter often being described as a legitimation of the plurality of knowledge in policy debates that became a liberating insight for many2. Characteristic for the yet unfolding phenomenon is an intermingling of science and policy3, in which political decisions are believed to be without any alternative (because they are scientifically predefined) and large parts of the scientific community accept a subordinate role to society (because there is an apparent moral obligation)4.

Motivated by the continuous inability of an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to tackle global warming, despite an alarming recent rise in surface temperatures and associated hydroclimatic extremes5, I argue that quasi-religious belief in, rather than the understanding of the complex causes and consequences of climate and environmental changes undermines academic principles. I recommend that climate science and climate activism should be separated conceptually and practically, and the latter should not be confused with science communication and public engagement.


https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-024-00126-0
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John Kerry Pushes Massive Tax Rises to Meet the $13.6 trillion Climate Finance Challenge
14 hours ago Eric Worrall 52 Comments

Essay by Eric Worrall

Squeezing the global economy dry to solve a fake problem.

The $13.6 trillion question: how do we pay for the green transition?

The public sector will have to provide about 30 per cent of climate finance globally, and the heat is building on governments to come up with ways of doing that.



The bill will be immense. If average global temperature rises are to be limited in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, climate finance globally will need to increase to about $US9 trillion ($13.6 trillion) a year globally by 2030, up from just under $US1.3 trillion in 2021-22, according to a report last year from the Climate Policy Initiative.



Former US presidential candidate John Kerry, who stepped down from his role as the US special climate envoy in March, puts the challenge of meeting this bluntly: “We don’t have the money.”

The 80-year-old is now planning to turn his attention to climate finance to prepare for the phaseout of fossil fuels. “We have to put in place more rapidly the funding mechanisms that are going to actually fuel this transition at the pace it needs to be,” he says.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/13/john-kerry-pushes-massive-tax-rises-to-meet-the-13-6-trillion-climate-finance-challenge/
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While this board is an ‘advisory’ board for the school, they do have the power of the purse and I think they used it quite well this time.

https://defiantamerica.com/the-university-of-north-carolina-dumped-dei-and-the-frat-boys-will-be-more-than-happy-when-they-see-where-all-the-funding-went/
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I wonder how much Biden was willing to "incentivize" Obrador to SAY he's in on the plan?  Think about it, he can unload his entire prison population and it's costs by making his thugs "migrants" to the US!  Plus, he can make more money by allowing the prison populations of his friends south of the border through Mejico, for "donations" to his favorite charity - himself. :whistle:
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How did he get Covid?  I thought he was fully vaxed?
And quarantined, until he got caught riding his bike etc.....
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Pookie's Toons / Re: Today's Toons 5/14/24
« Last post by verga on Today at 11:20:55 am »
Thank you Pookie
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65+ seniors are going to outnumber children by 2030. The answer is quite clear. Do you want a few Jose's in your town, Christian, pro family, strong work ethic or your SS/Medicare and pension plan collapse without  huge tax increases and benefit cuts. That is the choice.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13412171/americas-population-silver-tsunami-economy-outnumber-children.html

More Moslems. Gazans.  Sharia Law. No Democracy.  Yeah Retread you go boy.
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