“Powerless in the storm” Climate Industry Misdirection
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Roger Caiazza

I came across a paper that concludes “The US power grid is proven to be highly reliable in general; however, the resilient and reliable grid operation is increasingly challenged by severe weather events–events that are increasing in frequency and magnitude due to climate change.”  I have many issues with this paper, but I am only going to discuss one.  Apparently peer reviewed papers today require marginal support for claiming increasing severity because everyone knows that climate change affects the frequency and magnitude of severe weather events

The paper in question is  “Powerless in the storm: Severe weather driven power outages in New York State, 2017–2020” (Flores NM, Northrop AJ, Do V, Gordon M, Jiang Y, Rudolph KE, et al. (2024) Powerless in the storm: Severe weather-driven power outages in New York State, 2017–2020. PLOS Clim 3(5): e0000364. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000364)

The only proof cited to “support climate change is increasing weather variability” is the reference to this sentence: “The power grid’s vulnerability to severe weather events becomes even more critical in the context of climate change, which is expected to increase weather variability and prevalence of extreme events (e.g., storms, wildfires, heatwaves, floods)”.  The reference included cites the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report: IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Portner H.-O., Roberts D.C., Tignor M., Poloczanska E.S., Mintenbeck K., Alegrı´a A., Craig M., Langsdorf S., Lo¨schke S., Mo¨ ller V., Okem A., Rama B. (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, 3056 pp., https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009325844

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/06/powerless-in-the-storm-climate-industry-misdirection/

So if a candidate jaywalks on the way to a campaign rally because they are late, do they fall under this 'law'? It seems vague and over broad, and nothing but a way to allow the prosecution to grasp and reach with dubious legality to leverage more charges based on conspiracy theory type claims. It's kafkaesque despotic, kangaroo court manipulation of the legal system.

G'day, Pookie!

Mornin', Ricebug!

So when do we pass that threshold of the fruit of the poisonous tree that's gong to convince this tainted court, since for any other normal case it was passed a long time ago?

I thought she was going to have some work done. Maybe she hasn't scheduled it yet.