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Idiot who wrote the article thinks that fairies are going to magically convert a home or business from gas to electric simply by switching the appliances.  :chairbang:

Current estimates to retrofit a house from gas to electric for: stove, water heater, furnace and dryer are in the ~$40k range. Oh, not counting the cost of the new appliances.

How many years will it take me to see the "...win-win for my wallet..." from this as the article purports?
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Cat 6 hurricanes are just more hysterical climate gibberish
By
Joe Bastardi
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April 30th, 2024
 
Well, “there they go again,” as Ronald Reagan would say.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/you-re-gonna-need-a-bigger-number-scientists-consider-a-category-6-for-mega-hurricane-era/ar-AA1nI6CQ

The Category  6 crowd is at it again. We all know they would like to declare a climate emergency during the hurricane season. But the idea of Cat 6 is to make you think storms are worse now than ever

If you want to do this, there are other storms from the past that should already be there. And on the power and impact scale, I advocate for several.  But it’s the usual worse-than-ever jibberish.

https://www.cfact.org/2024/04/30/cat-6-hurricanes-just-more-hysterical-climate-gibberish/
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WND by Nick Pope Daily Caller News Foundation 5/4/2024

'Gambling with the grid'

New government data shows that wind power generation fell in 2023 despite the addition of new capacity, a fact that energy sector experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation demonstrates its inherent flaw.

Wind generation fell by about 2.1% in 2023 relative to 2022 generation, despite the 6 gigawatts (GW) of wind power capacity that came online last year, according to data published Tuesday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). That wind power output dropped despite new capacity coming online and the availability of government subsidies highlights its intermittency and the problems wind power could pose for grid reliability, energy sector experts told the DCNF.

The decrease in wind generation is the first drop on record with the EIA since the 1990s; the drop was not evenly distributed across all regions of the U.S., and slower wind speeds last year also contributed to the decline, according to EIA. The Biden administration wants to have the American power sector reach carbon neutrality by 2035, a goal that will require a significant shift away from natural gas- and coal-fired power toward wind, solar and other green sources.

“Relying on wind power to meet your peak electricity demands is gambling with the grid,” Isaac Orr, a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment who specializes in power grid-related analysis, told the DCNF. “Will the wind blow, or won’t it? This should be a moment where policymakers step back and consider the wisdom of heavily subsidizing intermittent generators and punishing reliable coal and gas plants with onerous regulations.”

Between 2016 and 2022, the wind industry received an estimated $18.6 billion worth of subsidies, about 10% of the total amount of subsidies extended to the energy sector by the U.S. government, according to an August 2023 EIA report. Wind power received more assistance from the government than nuclear power, coal or natural gas over the same period of time.

More: https://www.wnd.com/2024/05/new-data-highlights-achilles-heel-1-bidens-favorite-green-power-sources/

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New Florida resident Jeff Bezos pumped $60 million into making lab-grown meat taste better. Ron DeSantis just banned it from the state
By Marc Morano
May 4, 2024
9:33 am

https://fortune.com/2024/05/03/florida-jeff-bezos-lab-meat-desantis-ban-mcbee-calah/

BY AMANDA GERUT


New Florida resident Jeff Bezos pumped $60 million into making lab-grown meat taste better. Ron DeSantis just banned it from the state

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may have just crossed a formidable new constituent.

The former presidential hopeful this week signed legislation banning the sale of lab-grown meat in the state of Florida, saying the Sunshine State wants to stop the World Economic Forum’s goal of “forcing the world to eat lab-grown meat and insects.” The WEF in 2021 said bugs might be a way to help the global population feed itself more sustainably and that insect breeding could be helped by AI, which fueled online conspiracy theories.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/05/04/new-florida-resident-jeff-bezos-pumped-60-million-into-making-lab-grown-meat-taste-better-ron-desantis-just-banned-it-from-the-state/
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Here’s How We Know The ‘Climate Crisis’ Is Not About The Climate
by I & I Editorial Board  18 hours ago 
 

Carbon dioxide is a pollutant, the Environmental Protection Agency says. It’s been drilled into us for more than 30 years that we have to cut our CO2 emissions if we don’t want the world to end too soon. [emphasis, links added]

But we know that the climate scare is in no way related to protecting the sky. The data tell us so.


Over the last three calendar years, 2021, 2022, and 2023, “​​​​no country has reduced its carbon emissions more than any other major nation on a per capita basis,” the Committee to Unleash Prosperity tells us.

“Even though our GDP is about 50% higher than China’s, our per capita emissions are roughly the same,” says the group.

The data also tell us that though China’s emissions grow every year, “ours have come down every year over the last decade.”

https://climatechangedispatch.com/heres-how-we-know-the-climate-crisis-is-not-about-the-climate/
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Wind And Solar Intermittency May Be Worse Than Originally Thought, Reports Show
by Kevin Killough  6 hours ago
 
Last month, multiple news outlets reported on the record-smashing year the wind industry had in 2023. The Global Wind Energy Council released its latest report showing the world installed 117 gigawatts of capacity. [emphasis, links added]

The Associated Press called 2023 a “record year for wind installations” and Reuters noted that the U.S. was among the top five markets for wind installations.


The U.S. Energy Information Administration released a report this week showing that installing more wind farms doesn’t necessarily mean generating more electricity.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/wind-and-solar-intermittency-may-be-worse-than-originally-thought-reports-show/
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The Post & Email by Paul Driessen 5/4/2024

They’re gaslighting voters and consumers – when the real mass killers are environmentalists

We’re constantly told fossil fuel use is causing an existential climate crisis, extreme weather, worsening wildfires, and more frequent and intense hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts.

Actual temperature, storm and other records provide no support for these claims. They certainly don’t back up ludicrous assertions that burning coal, oil and natural gas – and even human breathing and baking pizzas in wood-fired ovens – are causing countless alleged calamities: such as slowing Earth’s rotation, thereby affecting scientific time clocks (by one second).

The claims are based primarily on computer models that erroneously assume carbon dioxide and a few other “greenhouse gases” (0.05% of Earth’s atmosphere, in total) control the climate, while the sun plays virtually no role, urban heat islands are inconsequential, and incompetent forest management is irrelevant.

It’s gaslighting: perversions of truth designed to make us guilt-ridden, willing to slash our living standards, and happy to keep poor countries energy-deprived and impoverished.

In the USA and worldwide, fossil fuels still provide 80% of total energy. They’re also the foundation for our economy, living standards, health and longevity – and over 6,000 vital products, including plastics, paints, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, cell phones, eyeglasses, fertilizers and wind turbine blades.

“Earth-friendly” wind and solar installations would blanket millions of acres of farmland, scenic areas and wildlife habitats; require billions of tons of ores; generate billions of tons of toxic water and air pollution from mining and manufacturing; and send electricity prices skyrocketing to pay for expensive battery or gas backup systems, and extensive new transmission lines and grid upgrades.

Climate Defiance, Extinction Rebellion and other radical groups nevertheless block pipelines, rant and rampage through our streets, deface priceless artwork, and glue themselves to roads and statues to intimidate legislators and regulators.

Others file endless lawsuits to bankrupt fossil fuel projects and promote their twisted views about “climate justice.” Their latest scheme could be viewed as the culmination of their self-indoctrination.

More: https://www.thepostemail.com/2024/05/04/radical-leftists-say-oil-companies-are-committing-climate-murder/
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The Biden Administration Ever More Delusional On Energy
May 01, 2024/ Francis Menton


Three and a half years into the Biden Administration, and to an ordinary citizen on the ground it might seem like not that much has changed as to energy.  Despite hundreds of government actions and initiatives in an all-of-government regulatory onslaught to transform the energy economy, the important things have been remarkably stable.  Production of oil and gas are actually up, and prices increases have been relatively modest — far less than one might have anticipated from the extreme regulatory hostility to production.  The percentage of what is called “primary energy” (that is, energy for everything, not just electricity) coming from fossil fuels has remained nearly unchanged.  EIA data here for 2022 (latest I can find) show about 79% of U.S. primary energy from fossil fuels, barely changed since Biden took office, and indeed very stable for decades.

Perhaps this situation of stable energy production and consumption results because it reflects what markets and consumers want and need to satisfy their demand for energy.  So do you think that the hyperactive regulators might just relax and let the consumers have what they want?

Unfortunately, that is not how this works.  Even as the energy producers and consumers have figured out endless workarounds to avoid the fossil fuel suppression that the Bidenauts attempt to impose, the little regulatory tyrants have been busy preparing new bouts of punitive restrictions.  Last week saw a round of some of the most sweeping regulatory edicts yet.  The regulators really plan to put the people in their place this time. 

In the new round, the regulators have gotten farther and farther away from anything realistic, anything consistent with the laws of physics or thermodynamics, anything that might actually work.  We are now well into the world of fantasy and delusion.

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-5-1-the-biden-administration-ever-more-delusional-on-energy
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Fredo's Mother, Matilda Cuomo, is still alive.  Which could explain why Fredo is still with us.
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