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These are the Morons Who are Running Climate with Our Government
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"Dr Lomborg describes the Expanding Bull’s-Eye Effect as the growth in population and wealth -including livestock- placed on the path of weather-related hazards as the main reason for obtaining ever-growing financial losses in the aftermath of these disasters, as opposed to blaming increased losses on stronger disasters."
"Doomsday scenarios often used by irresponsible media, claim extreme weather events are worsening due to climate change. These are in most cases, misleading narratives, inconsistent with UN Climate Panel (IPCC) research.
The IPCC in fact, finds no increasing trend in hurricane frequency at the global scale and places low confidence in attributing any such increase to human activity. Lomborg notes that the US has not recorded an increase in hurricanes arriving on US shores since 1900.
The risk of human deaths by extreme weather events, for instance, has declined 99% in the last century, and global damages to property have declined 26% in the last quarter century.
Doomsday adepts often ignore or minimize adaptation, but this is precisely, the most powerful "
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"Doomsday scenarios often used by irresponsible media, claim extreme weather events are worsening due to climate change. These are in most cases, misleading narratives, inconsistent with UN Climate Panel (IPCC) research.
The IPCC in fact, finds no increasing trend in hurricane frequency at the global scale and places low confidence in attributing any such increase to human activity. Lomborg notes that the US has not recorded an increase in hurricanes arriving on US shores since 1900.
The risk of human deaths by extreme weather events, for instance, has declined 99% in the last century, and global damages to property have declined 26% in the last quarter century.
Doomsday adepts often ignore or minimize adaptation, but this is precisely, the most powerful "
Climate Change, The Expanding Bullseye Effect of Disasters, & Farm Animals
Prologue: This article seeks to examine and start the discussion on the effect of global warming, climate change, farm animal vulnerability and the policies to mitigate these threats. Idioms?: As the key block concepts in the discussion, climate and weather are used in different ways to describe sim
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OPEC is slashing production by another 5%. That should solve the pesky warming problem.
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Over-production in the US, particularly high gravity "liquids-rich" oils unsuited for gasoline or diesel production, has crushed the price of natural gas. Natural gas is a common by-product of oil production from the Permian Basin, leading to a glut of natural gas. Natural gas cars are basically all you find in some countries like Bangladesh. And China, India, Pakistan, Iran, and Argentina use natural gas (methane) in most cars and it is far cleaner than other ICE vehicles either gas or diesel. We have to trade our thin liquids for heavier oils from Nigeria, and other OPEC nations to make gasoline.
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Is Canadian oil suitable for gasoline production?
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Some is. Much of the oil sands are too thick. It is brought to the US and blended with the ultra-thin oils from the shale plays to make a refinable blend. Don't know how that really works but I am told that these oils (sands and light blends both) sell for about half or less price and it costs about $10-15 per barrel to blend.
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It appears to be the season of the liberal meltdown. Poor babies.
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The Editorial Board
June 10, 2024, 5:38 pm ET
Die Gruenen (Green) party and Democratic Party (SPD) election campaign posters in Berlin, June 4. PHOTO: KRISZTIAN BOCSI/BLOOMBERG NEWS
If the big story of this weekend’s European Parliament elections is that voters are drifting right, one question is why they’re drifting from parties of the left. In Germany, it’s more like a stampede as that country’s Green Party emerged as the biggest loser.
The Greens, one of three parties in Berlin’s governing coalition, won 11.9% of the vote for Germany’s 96 seats in the EU Parliament, compared to a combined 30% for the center-right Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) which are in opposition in Berlin. This is down from the Greens’ 20.5% share in the 2019 European Parliament elections and the 15% the party took in national elections in 2021.
Turnout was higher this year than in 2019, so that steep drop in vote share means the Greens lost an enormous number of voters. Their tally this weekend was nearly three million shy of their count in 2019. Their support among voters under age 30 has all but collapsed, to a 12% share, down 19 percentage points from 2019, according to exit polls.
Part of this is German fatigue with the national coalition government led by Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The SPD’s vote share fell nearly two percentage points to 13.9%, and the party tallied some 370,000 fewer votes than in 2019. Of the three governing parties only the Free Democrats (FDP) improved their absolute vote count, although not enough to stave off a small decline in their vote share given higher turnout.
The larger explanation for the Green Party flop is flagging voter interest in climate change—and exasperation with the costs of Green policies. Five years ago, climate ranked among the top voter concerns. A pandemic, European war, energy-price crisis and inflation wave later, not so much. Security policy and immigration now top the list of voter priorities.
Voters have noticed that the Green promise of affordable renewable energy is as distant as ever. Crucial German industries such as autos and chemicals are struggling under sky-high energy prices and anti-carbon regulations. This election also is a sign that many voters may share the frustrations of farmers who took to the streets last winter to protest climate-based tax increases on cars and fuel.
This marks a stunning reversal for Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, the most senior Green politicians in Mr. Scholz’s administration. Mr. Habeck is minister for the economy and climate protection and Ms. Baerbock is foreign minister, and for a time they were the most popular politicians in Germany.
The consequences of this election shock may extend beyond Germany. Voters across Europe this weekend turned to parties that are disinclined to sacrifice economic security today for the speculative future benefit from costly net-zero climate policies. That this happened in the European Union’s largest country is a warning to Brussels to back off its own green agenda. America’s Democrats may also want to pay attention.
The Fall of Germany’s Greens
European voters are souring on the costs of net-zero climate policies.
By
The Editorial Board
June 10, 2024, 5:38 pm ET
If the big story of this weekend’s European Parliament elections is that voters are drifting right, one question is why they’re drifting from parties of the left. In Germany, it’s more like a stampede as that country’s Green Party emerged as the biggest loser.
The Greens, one of three parties in Berlin’s governing coalition, won 11.9% of the vote for Germany’s 96 seats in the EU Parliament, compared to a combined 30% for the center-right Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) which are in opposition in Berlin. This is down from the Greens’ 20.5% share in the 2019 European Parliament elections and the 15% the party took in national elections in 2021.
Turnout was higher this year than in 2019, so that steep drop in vote share means the Greens lost an enormous number of voters. Their tally this weekend was nearly three million shy of their count in 2019. Their support among voters under age 30 has all but collapsed, to a 12% share, down 19 percentage points from 2019, according to exit polls.
Part of this is German fatigue with the national coalition government led by Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The SPD’s vote share fell nearly two percentage points to 13.9%, and the party tallied some 370,000 fewer votes than in 2019. Of the three governing parties only the Free Democrats (FDP) improved their absolute vote count, although not enough to stave off a small decline in their vote share given higher turnout.
The larger explanation for the Green Party flop is flagging voter interest in climate change—and exasperation with the costs of Green policies. Five years ago, climate ranked among the top voter concerns. A pandemic, European war, energy-price crisis and inflation wave later, not so much. Security policy and immigration now top the list of voter priorities.
Voters have noticed that the Green promise of affordable renewable energy is as distant as ever. Crucial German industries such as autos and chemicals are struggling under sky-high energy prices and anti-carbon regulations. This election also is a sign that many voters may share the frustrations of farmers who took to the streets last winter to protest climate-based tax increases on cars and fuel.
This marks a stunning reversal for Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, the most senior Green politicians in Mr. Scholz’s administration. Mr. Habeck is minister for the economy and climate protection and Ms. Baerbock is foreign minister, and for a time they were the most popular politicians in Germany.
The consequences of this election shock may extend beyond Germany. Voters across Europe this weekend turned to parties that are disinclined to sacrifice economic security today for the speculative future benefit from costly net-zero climate policies. That this happened in the European Union’s largest country is a warning to Brussels to back off its own green agenda. America’s Democrats may also want to pay attention.
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Saying a carbon tax was net neutral is a lie.
"Canada’s Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault got into quite a spat with the Parliamentary Budget Officer at the beginning of June over information they had provided to him that showed they were lying about the economic impact of their carbon tax and that they had forbidden him to reveal. They deployed all the usual nasty tools of denial, evasion and partisanship, only to be forced by an impending motion to release the data and it was even worse than we thought. As Blacklock’s Reporter put it, “The figures contradicted repeated claims by cabinet that its tax was revenue neutral and created jobs.” And how: it showed that the tax would knock something between $20 billion and $30 billion a year off GDP. And they knew it. But it's important to grasp that the Minister and his colleagues are not hoaxers caught in a lie but zealots with a higher cause; in releasing the figures Guilbeault continued to insist that the tax was for our own good, indeed a bargain. Just not one the peasants were well-placed to understand."