All Solar, Et Al, In 12 Years?

[Randolph Kinney]

Climate change is inevitable due in large part to human activity, according to climate scientists who warn that if nothing is done to stop global warming, the Earth could end up with a runaway greenhouse effect, which will eventually extinguish all species, including humans. In response, the Environment Council of the EU has agreed to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius in the long-term. However, even with a two-degree rise in temperature, there are a number of negative consequences, not least of which, according to Climate Central, is the increase of survival rate of mosquitoes of 50 percent with just a 2°C temperature rise in the region.

The consequences of the increase in numbers and size of mosquitoes in the region will have devastating consequences to the indigenous populations and the behavior of wildlife which are not adapted to handle this invasive and disease spreading organism.

Climate change also has negative consequences for human health, including the psychology of humans. According to Psychologists for Social Responsibility, the following symptoms will increase in the human population in direct response to climate change.

Symptoms include: Anxiety; Post-traumatic stress; Depression; Interpersonal conflict and societal conflict; Family stress; Persistent grief; Child behavioral and developmental problems and academic decline; Eco-anxiety; hopelessness; and, avoidance from the awareness of climate change.

According to the study, this is due to the uncertainty of weather, such as more severe storms, flooding, droughts, heat waves and polluted air. Human psychology is a delicate balance relying on a view of the future which is overall positive. Environmental changes which devastate the “human habitat” will create a mental health crises which threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems worldwide as well as disrupt the economy as people are unable to go to work, either because their local area is impacted by flooding, forest fires, and other natural disasters, or because the fear of such events push people over the edge of stress tolerance in anticipation of these things.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2431886/ar...nd-religious-faith-all-climate-change-issues/

Gee, all the above claimed symptoms produced by climate change are prophesied:

(2 Timothy 3:1) . . .But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here.

(Luke 21:10, 11) . . .Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, and in one place after another food shortages and pestilences. . .

Oh well, armageddon is predestined to be upon us ... we need to sacrifice children to the climate change god to save the planet.

 

[Meandering]

Composite map of the world assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/earth-at-night.html

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[Randolph Kinney]

Seems like from the center of the U.S. all the way to the east coast needs to be punished by a massive carbon tax, according to the map. And also California, which already has a massive carbon tax, to save the planet.

 

[Meandering]

The consequences of the increase in numbers and size of mosquitoes in the region will have devastating consequences to the indigenous populations and the behavior of wildlife which are not adapted to handle this invasive and disease spreading organism.

Fleas too. I hate fleas.

Climate change also has negative consequences for human health, including the psychology of humans. According to Psychologists for Social Responsibility, the following symptoms will increase in the human population in direct response to climate change.

Symptoms include: Anxiety; Post-traumatic stress; Depression; Interpersonal conflict and societal conflict; Family stress; Persistent grief; Child behavioral and developmental problems and academic decline; Eco-anxiety; hopelessness; and, avoidance from the awareness of climate change..

OMG! We'll need gun control because of global warming!
Actually, couldn't we say that all the psychology issue increases could be due to bad government policies? Shrinking standards of living? Increased taxes? Loss of income?

A very important development of the period was the rise of a self-sufficient village economy where production was according to the local requirements with little attempts at producing a surplus to be used for trade or exchange. This existing system led to accepting the standard of minimum production since the incentive to improve production was absent. As a result pressure on peasantry was increased and production stayed at a subsistence level only.

The subsistence economy of the village led to decline in trade. Trade was further hampered by the emergence of wide range of local weights and measures making long distance trade more difficult. Unstable political conditions and internal fighting only help this process of decline in trade.

This decline in trade affected the growth of towns. Coastal areas however, prospered because they continue to trade. The only prosperous class during this period was feudal lords. But the surplus wealth was not invested in trade or craft production. It was on the other hand used for conspicuous consumption. The huge amounts were given to temples also thus attracting outsiders.

The Manorial System, is the political, economic, and social system by which peasants were made dependent on their land and on their lord derived from the word ‘manor.’ Its basic unit was the manor, a self-sufficient stationary estate, or fief that was under the control of a lord who enjoyed a variety of rights over it and the peasants attached to it by means of serfdom. The manorial system was the most convenient device for organizing the estates of the aristocracy and the clergy, and it made feudalism possible, the system that granted the upper-class clergy and nobles power. Under other names the manorial system was found not only in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and England, but also in varying degrees, in the Byzantine Empire, Russia, Japan, and elsewhere. The manorial system's importance as an institution varied in different parts of Europe at different times. In western Europe it was flourishing by the 8th century and had begun to decline by the 13th century, while in eastern Europe, it achieved its greatest strength after the 15th century.
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[Randolph Kinney]

Actually, couldn't we say that all the psychology issue increases could be due to bad government policies? Shrinking standards of living? Increased taxes? Loss of income?

No, we can't say that. Pete has accused us of being a conspiracy driven bunch. Blaming the government is not acceptable to global warming crazies. Government has not gone far enough to shrink standards of living to match North Korea: lights out!

This existing system led to accepting the standard of minimum production since the incentive to improve production was absent. As a result pressure on peasantry was increased and production stayed at a subsistence level only.

That is the end system driven by climate change. That's the ticket to success.

Coastal areas however, prospered because they continue to trade.

Yes, and they deserve the rising sea levels brought on by climate change, which left unabated will extinguish them. So the purist say anyway.

Historical recounts of economic systems just shows that the least dense population with the most retarded means of production produce the least carbon dioxide. That is the model (economic and political) that is preferred by the climate change purist.

 

[Meandering]

Green financing has hobbled home sales in California

(Reuters) - An innovative, government-sponsored program aimed at funding energy-saving home improvements has drawn praise from powerful supporters, including President Obama. But complaints from a growing number of homeowners, lenders and realtors in California suggest the financing is making homes more difficult to sell and disrupting the mortgage market.

More than 50,000 California households have signed up for Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing since state legislators passed a law in 2008 allowing residents to borrow money for such things as solar panels and energy-efficient windows. The financing method, authorized by cities and counties, and funded by venture capital-backed startups like Renovate America Inc, Renew Financial LLC and Ygrene Energy Fund Inc, is then paid off through special assessments on property tax bills.

Because the improvements stay with the home, and subsequent owners will reap the benefits of them, the assessments are intended to remain with the property in the event of a sale.

But some homeowners trying to sell their houses have found potential buyers scared off by the higher tax assessments. And now realtors in the state are organizing against PACE, saying it makes getting new mortgages much tougher and can leave sellers stuck in their homes.

In Riverside County, an inland part of Southern California where PACE has been particularly popular, Paul Herrera, government affairs director for two realtor groups, said he gets daily phone calls from agents reporting difficulties selling homes with PACE assessments.

Sancho Lopez, a Riverside police officer and homeowner in an adjacent county, experienced the problem first-hand. He and his wife financed the $40,000 cost of 21 dual-pane, energy efficient windows and two sliding doors with a PACE loan. When they decided to sell their house, their realtor warned them it wouldn’t be easy.

The house sat on the market for 10 months, and it is in escrow now, Lopez said, only because he has agreed to pay off the loan balance - now $46,000 because of interest and fees.

"I wouldn't ever do it again," Lopez said of the PACE program he used to pay for the windows.

MORTGAGE HIERARCHY

Banks dislike PACE loans because they take precedent over mortgage debt in the event of a default, upending a basic tenet of the market.

“There is a general principle in mortgage banking: first in time, first in line," said Pete Mills, senior vice president with the Washington-based Mortgage Bankers Association. "Taxing authorities are always a risk of jumping ahead, but that's a far different matter than a private company selling energy improvements being able to jump ahead."

Wait, What? We gave away some of our power and did not know it? Is this what happens when you pass bills without reading them?

Both the Federal Housing Administration and the Federal Housing Finance Agency, while saying they support energy efficiency, have not supported the program up to now because the first lien position of mortgages is not assured. In 2010, the Federal Housing Finance Agency directed mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac not to buy mortgages on properties with PACE liens.

The federal housing regulators’ reluctance has caught the attention of President Obama, who has said he wants the program to succeed and grow because it helps citizens participate in reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

In August, the White House said it will work with the Federal Housing Administration to boost adoption of PACE financing nationwide. Nearly 30 states have passed laws to enable residential PACE, but states other than California have sat on the sidelines pending a resolution to the controversy.

The PACE program was created at a time when California's construction sector had been hit hard by the housing crisis. A new funding source for green home improvements was seen as a way of both putting contractors back to work and helping meet climate goals.

Seven years on, supporters say the program is working. Renovate America, which has financed 90 percent of the residential PACE deals in California through its HERO program, said its 47,000 projects have created more than 8,000 jobs and reduced carbon dioxide emissions by an amount equal to taking 330,000 sport utility vehicles off the road for a year.

What's with youse guys? Potential solar installers no longer drive SUVs, once they have a job? Or is it that creating 8,000 jobs reduced CO2 by 8,000 jobs???? Get one to kill one?

Wall Street also likes it. Investors have snapped up hundreds of millions of dollars of bonds backed by PACE projects, which are regarded as low risk because they enjoy priority over a mortgage.

Renovate America has raised more than $600 million through bond sales over the last two years.

“PACE is the only financing that allows the seller to transfer the remaining debt to a new buyer," Renovate America spokeswoman Ellen Qualls points out, noting that even under current federal policy, about 45% of home sellers with PACE financing from her company have been able to pass the assessments on to new buyers.

Renovate has also started allowing homeowners who ask – generally when trying to refinance or sell - to subordinate their assessments through a separate contract. But if subordinating PACE liens becomes the industry norm, providers argue that could hurt the credit quality of their securities and raise borrowing costs when they issue bonds.
http://news.yahoo.com/innovative-gr...-home-sales-california-053520629--sector.html



Uhmm, paying the tax man instead of the utility company, is not a savings. Locking out the ability to refinance or sell, is not a savings.


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[Randolph Kinney]

But ... but ... but solar panels increases the resale value of your home, right? Or is that propaganda? Which is it Pete?

 

[Meandering]

Break out the DCF. We'll mathematically strengthen out this mess!

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[Meandering]

Actually, this Pace thing might be good, it reduces the sales to all cash ones,

hence you can confidently say the value of the solar panels is $X with

FINANCING EQUIVALENT TO CASH

for the purchase.

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[Randolph Kinney]

Solar industry bosses attack government over jobs and subsidies
One solar executive says the 87% cut in state subsidy is ‘obscene’, and will lead to thousands of job losses

Some of Britain’s most powerful solar executives have accused the government of mounting an ideologically driven campaign against their industry which has driven it into crisis.

Their criticism comes as a solar power company backed by the billionaire inventor Elon Musk has pulled out of the UK, becoming the fourth such firm to close in two weeks.

Executives have become increasingly outspoken ahead of a consultation on a proposed 87% cut in small scale solar subsidy levels closing on Friday and job cuts mounting in the industry.

The Solar Trade Association (STA) has warned the move could cost up to 27,000 jobs.

“To let this green success story die, pushing more into unemployment and becoming a burden on the state. It’s obscene,” said Richard Rushin, UK sales manager for Trina, the largest solar panel manufacturer in the world.

“We want to wean ourselves off subsidies as soon as possible but you cannot just cut them by 87%."

Last week, Howard Johns, a former chairman of the Solar Trade Association and founder of Southern Solar, was forced to close his company with the loss of over 1,000 jobs, joining the Mark Group and Climate Energy. .

In a comment piece on the Guardian website, Johns accuses the government of “nothing less than political vandalism on a grand scale”.

“We, the public, have funded the growth of the UK solar industry for a few years now. Now, when it is getting close to not needing any subsidy at all, we are going to close it down. That’s just plain illogical, and can only be ideologically driven,” said Johns.

The angry statements from senior industry executives come as the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) prepares to close its latest consultation on subsidies for roof-top solar power being cut from 12.92p to 1.63p per KWh from January next year.

Decc said the move is being made to protect consumers from rising bills while reducing the 10% yield – or high profit margin - for those providing the schemes.

“Our priority is to keep bills as low as possible for hardworking families and businesses, and to build a long-term energy efficiency system that gives consumers value for money. We are protecting existing investment and bill payers, while reducing our emissions in the most cost-effective way.”

Amber Rudd, the energy and climate change secretary, told political reporters last week that she had been forced to cut back subsidies because her predecessor, the Lib Dem MP Ed Davey, had allowed spending to soar.

Already 8GW of solar power has been installed in Britain – enough to power more than 2m homes – compared with zero five years ago, while the economics of the industry have been helped by plunging panel costs.

But the solar capacity figure could rise to 20GW by the end of this decade with a £3 supplement on top of the existing £9 that solar adds annually to customer energy bills, argues the STA.

http://www.theguardian.com/business...ses-attack-government-over-jobs-and-subsidies

Take away the government subsidies and all those companies making profits selling solar panels close their businesses. And what about the consumers? They can't discern a green electron from a brown electron but they sure can tell the difference looking at their energy bill.

Watch California, the same is coming here.