Consulting firm McKinsey estimates $9 trillion per year cost for climate accords

By Bud Bromley | Jan. 26, 2022 Consulting firm McKinsey estimates $9 trillion per year spending needed to comply with the Paris climate accord!  Running that out to the 2050 date for 50% achievement of the “net zero” plan implies spending over $275 trillion. That’s $9 TRILLION PER YEAR …all loss and no gain. No reduction in CO2 and no reduction in warming will result. McKinsey is a global consulting firm and they are usually expensive. Who is paying them? Links to download the full report and exec summary are here: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/sustainability/our-insights/the-net-zero-transition-what-it-would-cost-what-it-could-bring Down at the bottom on McKinsey’s reports on …

Texas: Wind Fails, Media Blames Natural Gas… Again

Texas: Wind Fails, Media Blames Natural Gas… Again

by David Middleton | Jan. 8, 2022 Plunging Natural Gas Supply Shows Texas Still Not Ready for Cold By Gerson Freitas Jr, Francesca Maglione, and Sergio Chapa January 3, 2022, 12:06 PM CST Corrected January 6, 2022, 1:18 PM CST Texas’s natural gas industry had almost a year to prepare for last weekend’s cold blast and avoid another loss of production. But yet again, instruments froze, output plunged and companies spewed a miasma of pollutants into the atmosphere in a bid to keep operations stable. Though Saturday’s cold front wasn’t as severe as the February storm that killed hundreds and …

No Wind Friday

No Wind Friday

Not a Lot of People Know That By Paul Homewood | Dec. 17, 2021 High pressure is settling in now for at least the next week, not only in the UK but also over much of NW Europe. Hardly surprising then that wind power has disappeared to virtually nothing here, just 0.62 GW: https://grid.iamkate.com/ We are now dangerously reliant on interconnectors, not least because wind power is also falling in countries like Germany and Denmark: In Germany, demand is currently running at 70 GW, leaving a shortfall of 10 GW with generation at 60 GW. Poland, France and Spain have …

BOMBSHELL: In court filing, Facebook admits ‘fact checks’ are nothing more than opinion

BOMBSHELL: In court filing, Facebook admits ‘fact checks’ are nothing more than opinion

By Anthony Watts | Dec. 9, 2021 Facebook has admitted in a court of law that such fact checks are not factual at all, but merely opinions. People send me stuff. As we have previously reported, journalist John Stossel is suing Facebook after Facebook’s ‘fact checkers’ labeled climate change information that Stossel posted as “false and misleading”. In the middle of all this is the nefarious website “Climate Feedback” which has a bunch of climate zealots that write up what they claim are “fact checks” for articles, videos, and news stories they disagree with. Facebook just blew the “fact check” …

NY Times Claims Brazil Is Turning Into Desert, As Foliage Growth Surges

NY Times Claims Brazil Is Turning Into Desert, As Foliage Growth Surges

Climate Realism By James Taylor – December 6, 2021 The New York Times published an article Friday titled, “A Slow-Motion Climate Disaster: The Spread of Barren Land.” The article claims global warming is causing drought in northeastern Brazil, turning the region into a desert. Objective satellite measurements of vegetation, however, show increasing vegetation in northeast Brazil and throughout Brazil as a whole, not the other way around. The Times article is merely another example of agenda-driven fake climate news. In its subtitle, the article claims, “Brazil’s northeast, long a victim of droughts, is now effectively turning into desert. The cause? …

Weather Lulls: Germany Forced To Burn 20% More Coal, The Very Energy Source That’s To Be Phased Out

No Tricks Zone By P Gosselin on 27. November 2021 The energy source that Germany moves to shut down, rescued the country from widespread blackouts in 2021. Blackout News reports that more of Germany’s power is being produced by coal and nuclear fuels.  In 2021, due to unfavorable weather conditions, wind and solar energy production plummeted in 2021 compared to 2020. “Germany’s power mix is getting dirtier.” The figures were compiled by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen (Working Group for Energy Budgets) and based on the first 9 months of the year. Compared to 2020, the first nine months of 2021 saw a …

BBC and Met Office at war over ‘deep freeze’ winter weather forecasts

BBC and Met Office at war over ‘deep freeze’ winter weather forecasts

Not a lot of people know that By Paul Homewood | Nov. 23, 2021 Get the popcorn out! A rare clash has emerged between the two ‘big boys’ of UK weather forecasting after they made hugely different long-term predictions for the winter ahead. Britain’s two biggest forecasters have predicted polar opposites for this winter. The Government-run Met Office has forecast a mild few months ahead but the BBC, which gets its information from DTN, warned of a deep freeze. Experts say energy and road transport firms, airlines and supermarkets will all be hit by the uncertainty. John Hammond, a former …

Biden Advises Americans Who Can’t Afford Gasoline to Buy an EV

Biden Advises Americans Who Can’t Afford Gasoline to Buy an EV

By Eric Worrall | Nov. 23, 2021 Biden does not understand why people are finding rising gasoline prices such a struggle, when the obvious solution is to buy a $112,595 electric Hummer pickup. Joe Biden Addresses High Gas Prices: Americans Can Save Money if They Buy Electric Cars CHARLIE SPIERING 23 Nov 2021 President Joe Biden promoted his efforts to lower gas prices on Tuesday, but he reminded Americans they would save more money on gas if they owned electric cars. “For the hundreds of thousands of folks who bought one of those electric cars, they’re going to save $800 …

EU to Restrict Coffee Imports to Combat Climate Change

By Eric Worrall | Nov. 18, 2021 Has the European Union finally crossed a line? Coffee importers who cannot pinpoint the exact geographical source of their product, and prove their product is “deforestation free”, are set to be locked out of the common market, potentially starving European coffee lovers of their morning fix. E.U. seeks to block import of commodities that drive deforestation By Bryan PietschToday at 5:04 p.m. EST The European Union on Wednesday proposed a measure that would seek to restrict imports to “deforestation-free” goods and materials for countries in the bloc, in an effort to fight consumer trends that …