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Climate Change / Gov. Inslee’s Latest Wasteful EV Subsidy Is The Equivalent Of Paying $1,125 For A Latte
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:34:05 am »
Gov. Inslee’s Latest Wasteful EV Subsidy Is The Equivalent Of Paying $1,125 For A Latte
by Todd Myers  4 hours ago 
 
washington state ev subsides

Governor Inslee wants to buy 8,767 people a $1,125 latte. Metaphorically, at least. [emphasis, links added]

Governor Inslee’s new program to subsidize the purchase of electric vehicles is so wasteful at reducing CO2 emissions, it is the equivalent of paying that absurd amount for a 16-ounce latte.


On Earth Day, Governor Inslee announced a $45 million program to subsidize the purchase or lease of electric vehicles.

The program is targeted at those making 300% of the federal poverty level or less, which amounts to $93,600 per year for a family of four.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/gov-inslees-latest-wasteful-ev-subsidy-is-the-equivalent-of-paying-1125-for-a-latte/
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Climate Change / Researchers Find Arctic Region Was Warmer ~10,000 Years Ago Than Today
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:31:24 am »
Researchers Find Arctic Region Was Warmer ~10,000 Years Ago Than Today
by Pierre Gosselin  2 hours ago in Bipolar, News Reading Time: 2 mins read
 

The Early Holocene was warmer 10,000 years ago…Arctic ice melted.

The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE presents its latest climate video on its YouTube channel. [emphasis, links added]

Examined today is a paper appearing in the journal Nature Communications titled: “Seasonal sea-ice in the Arctic’s last ice area during the Early Holocene.”


The authors looked at sea ice in the region of the Lincoln Sea, bordering northern Greenland and Canada, which “will be the final stronghold of perennial Arctic sea ice in a warming climate.”

https://climatechangedispatch.com/researchers-find-arctic-region-was-warmer-10000-years-ago-than-today/
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Climate Change / Coral Reefs are as Good as Dead, so We Don’t have to Try Anymore?
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:29:03 am »
Coral Reefs are as Good as Dead, so We Don’t have to Try Anymore?
18 hours ago 
Essay by Eric Worrall

But, but, there is still hope if we restrict fishing, reduce runoff pollution, and immediately commit to reducing CO2 emissions.

The end of coral reefs as we know them

Years ago, scientists made a devastating prediction about the ocean. Now it’s unfolding.

By Benji Jones@BenjiSJones  Apr 26, 2024, 7:15am EDT

More than five years ago, the world’s top climate scientists made a frightening prediction: If the planet warms by 1.5 degrees Celsius, relative to preindustrial times, 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs globally would die off. At 2°C, that number jumps to more than 99 percent.
 
In not so great news, the planet is now approaching that 1.5°C mark. In 2023, the hottest year ever measured, the average global temperature was 1.52°C above the preindustrial average, as my colleague Umair Irfan reported. That doesn’t mean Earth has officially blown past this important threshold — typically, scientists measure these sorts of averages over decades, not years — but it’s a sign that we’re getting close.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/29/claim-coral-reefs-are-as-good-as-dead-so-we-dont-have-to-try-anymore/
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Climate Change / It’s Been A Brutal Year For Offshore Wind — Despite Analysts’ Best Guesses
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:26:16 am »
It’s Been A Brutal Year For Offshore Wind — Despite Analysts’ Best Guesses
 

NICK POPE
CONTRIBUTOR
April 28, 2024
 

Some analysts predicted that the U.S. offshore wind industry would bounce back after a rough 2023, but many of the same problems that plagued the industry last year have continued to burden developers through the beginning of 2024.

Energy data analytics provider Wood Mackenzie, consultants from Deloitte, Reuters and environmental lawyers for a law firm called Locke Lord variously projected that the U.S. offshore wind sector would rebound after a distressing 2023. However, four months in to 2024, the inflation, higher borrowing costs, logistical problems and supply chain woes that battered the industry in 2023 have not relented, forcing developers to cancel or seek to renegotiate deals as they did in 2023.


“Obviously, providing affordable and reliable energy for everyone is a challenging endeavor,” Kevin Dayaratna, a senior research fellow for the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Even despite all of the subsidies these alternative forms of energy – such as offshore wind – have received, they have still failed to become a significantly mainstream source of energy.” (RELATED: Blue State Doubles Down On Offshore Wind After 2023’s Massive Failure)
 
Since the start of 2023, approximately 60% of all contracts signed by American offshore wind developers have been cancelled, according to E&E News. Ørsted, a Danish company and one of the world’s leading offshore wind developers, backed out of two major planned projects in New Jersey in 2023, while other players like General Electric, British Petroleum (BP) and Equinor attempted to renegotiate with state governments as economic headwinds eroded projects’ profitability.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/28/analysts-predicted-offshore-wind-rebound-2023-2024/
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Climate Change / Polar bears: They are going extinct!?
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:23:15 am »
Polar bears: They are going extinct!?
14 hours ago Charles Rotter


Reef Rebels

We are told that Polar Bears are on hugely threatened by climate change. But does the data support this proposition?

Susan Crockford’s report.

Peter Ridd has been researching the Great Barrier Reef since 1984, has invented a range of advanced scientific instrumentation, and written over 100 scientific publications. Since being fired by James Cook University for raising concerns about science quality assurance issues, Peter Ridd receives no payment for any of the work he does. Also see https://www.facebook.com/ProjectforRealScienceReefRebels/

Transcript

Polar bears have seen their numbers collapse in recent decades due to climate change. My focus on problems within science institutions stems from work on the Great Barrier Reef, where groupthink, emotion, and raw self-interest to maintain funding have resulted in a form of noble cause corruption. Polar bears are another great example of this. You’ll have seen lots of news stories about the loss of polar bears due to melting ice around the North Pole, featuring pictures of starving bears stranded on tiny melting pieces of ice, which look absolutely terrible.

Unlike coral, which grows faster in hotter climates, it makes sense to worry about polar bears in a warming climate. The North Pole ice has reduced over the last few decades. There is a debate as to how much of that reduction is part of natural variation, because we know over centuries the ice comes and goes. But that’s a debate for another video. There has been a loss of ice in the last few decades, so it sounds credible that this is bad for polar bears. Polar bears like ice, right? Less ice, fewer bears. And we have fewer bears today, right? Wrong.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/29/polar-bears-they-are-going-extinct/
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Climate Change / Developing Nations Reject Western Carbon Colonialism
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:18:25 am »
Developing Nations Reject Western Carbon Colonialism
10 hours ago Guest Blogger 12 Comments

By Vijay Jayaraj

Guyana President Irfaan Ali is the latest leader of a developing nation to publicly note the hypocrisy of those pressuring countries like his to forego wealth in pursuit of a “green” agenda.

In a fiery response to a BBC interviewer’s questioning of Guyana’s “right” to emit carbon dioxide in developing $150 billion of oil and gas reserves, President Ali questioned the reporter’s “right to lecture us on climate change. I will lecture you on climate change.”

It is not new, but still dismaying, that many leaders of developed nations assume a posture of moral superiority in leveling criticisms at countries with expanding economies and increasing emissions of carbon dioxide. Ensconced in seats of power from Brussels to Washington, D.C., they point accusing fingers while overlooking centuries of using coal, oil and natural gas to enrich their own countries.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/29/developing-nations-reject-western-carbon-colonialism/
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Climate Change / No Gas and Air For Women Giving Birth in the Eco-Utopian Future
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:14:50 am »
No Gas and Air For Women Giving Birth in the Eco-Utopian Future
BY SALLUST 28 APRIL 2024 5:00 PM

Anyone who might have doubted the zealotry of eco-warriors of our age and the depth of their totalitarian inclinations need only turn to a ‘Marriage Diary’ published in the Telegraph. It’s written by a woman who is now pregnant after 10 years of marriage to her “self-confessed eco-warrior husband”. Indeed, his climate credentials were why she married him in the first place.

While it had never been top of my agenda, I was happy to follow his example – swapping all our cleaning products for eco-alternatives, using our bikes to get around and then more recently swapping out the diesel car for an electric one. Now I’m pregnant with our first child and I’m sure we’ll raise our children with the same values.

However, at a recent antenatal class, when we learnt about baby delivery options, my husband announced that there was no way I would have gas and air during labour because of the impact on the environment.

I laughed out loud when he said it, assuming he was joking. The look on his face told me that he wasn’t. He shoved his phone at me to show me an article about the Scottish Government writing to the NHS about the impact of greenhouse emissions from Entonox, which is commonly known as “gas and air”.

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/28/no-gas-and-air-in-the-eco-future/
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Climate Change / 13 Reasons Electric Cars Aren’t As Green As You Think
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:10:53 am »
13 Reasons Electric Cars Aren’t As Green As You Think
©Provided by RideRambler

Electric vehicles (EVs) are all the rage, touted as the clean, green cars of the future. But there’s more to the story than just plugging in and saving the planet. While they skip the gas pump, EVs have their own set of environmental challenges. In this article, we’re going to break down 13 ways these cars aren’t as clean as you might think.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/13-reasons-electric-cars-aren-t-as-green-as-you-think/ss-AA1nSyXp?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=3002e13a0dda4d789a89bbf6d4e0d127&ei=70
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Health/Education / Re: Based: Someone Put Up a Big Screen and Loudspeaker Near UCLA Protests That Plays Footage From Oc
« Last post by LMAO on Today at 11:10:03 am »
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Climate Change / Re: WEF speaker warns every time we drink coffee, we are 'putting CO2 into the atmosphere’
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 11:06:48 am »
Every time I use the bathroom throne I emit hot, toxic fumes which, I guess, means I should give up bowel movements. :whistle:
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