These are the Morons Who are Running Climate with Our Government

[Elliott]

How many tonnes of pollution (CO2) from the Ukraine War in two years: 175 million tonnes

How many tonnes of pollution is saved each year by the 7 million EVs in the US: 12.6 million tonnes

 

[djd09]

Why people are pouring milk down the sink over Bill Gates conspiracy theory​

A new feed additive is designed to reduce methane emissions from cows, but some people believe it is part of a plot to take over British farming​

Friday December 06 2024, 12.01am GMT, The Times
Is Bill Gates secretly trying to depopulate the planet by injecting our cows with poison so that beef and milk will make men infertile? Well, obviously no but this is an idea that is being floated around on Elon Musk’s X site by people with hundreds of thousands of followers, and not just the usual tin-hat wearing crowd.

As with all great conspiracy theories, however, you cannot just simply dismiss them as insane. There is always an element that is, if not true, then at least adjacent to the truth.

The facts are these: the vast Danish milk co-operative Arla, whose members include one in four British dairy farmers, is trialling a new feed additive at 30 of its 2,053 UK farms. These farms supply milk to Morrisons, Aldi and Tesco.

The additive, Bovaer, is made by the Swiss-Dutch company DSM-Firmenich. It is given to cows, mixed in with their normal vitamin-enriched “cake”, and is designed to reduce the animal’s methane emissions. Bovaer, developed over the previous 15 years, has been used extensively around the world from Brazil to Japan. Indeed, Marks & Spencer announced a £1 million investment in April to reduce the carbon footprint of its milk using the additive. All its standard (rather than organic) milk since then has been supplied by Bovaer cows.

The supplement has been cleared by regulators in America, Europe and the UK as both safe and effective after extensive trials on rats, dogs and cows.

Why people are pouring milk down the sink over Bill Gates conspiracy theory

A new feed additive is designed to reduce methane emissions from cows, but some people believe it is part of a plot by Bill Gates to take over British farming

www.thetimes.com

cow farts...

 

[TerryRohrer]

Fortunately, it is all science, no hyperbole!

CNN —
Last year was the hottest on record, oceans boiled, glaciers melted at alarming rates, and it left scientists scrambling to understand exactly why.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/climate/global-warming-clouds/index.html

 

[djd09]

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Mortgages Face Climate Realities​

As fires and floods become a reality for many Americans with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages, homes in areas subject to natural disasters are seeing a drastic loss in value, the New York Times reports.

A report from February of 2023 estimated that homes in flood areas have been overpriced by a minimum of $187 billion in some counties in Appalachia and coastal Louisiana, amounting to more than 10% of the total property value.

In 2023, the Congressional Budget Office found that those properties covered by federally back mortgages could sustain close to $190 billion in flood damages over the next 30 years, not counting the dangers of wildfire or drought.


While lenders are taking greater care in offering credit to areas that might flood and homeowners have responded to flood disclosure risks on property websites, Fannie and Freddie do not take such risk into account when underwriting loans. The two entities have typically relied on insurance to deal with climate risk management as flood coverage is required in special flood hazard areas.

Susan Crawford, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Fannie and Freddie need to adjust their lending practices according.

"This is all about the safety and soundness of the enterprises," Crawford said. "We've got this mortgage-generating machine that is just moving blindly on without taking into account these risks."

Yet loaning based on climate risk comes with an additional social risk as well. Many of the areas in flood and fire zones are also populated by lower-income homeowners of color. Raising mortgages fees to compensate for climate could hurt at risk borrowers.

"When you start doing things on a geographic-area basis, that starts to feel a little bit like redlining," said Michael LaCour-Little, who was senior director of economics at Fannie Mae from 2016 to 2023. "The charters suggest that Fannie and Freddie should be there to create a liquid market under all circumstances at all times."

https://www.newsmax.com/us/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-mortgage/2024/12/07/id/1190763/

wait until appraisers have to comply to ansi green building standards...solar panels for everyone

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Climate change 'greatly overestimated'? Oceans cooling Earth far more than we thought

For the first time, researchers have found oceans help cool global temperatures more than anyone previously thought. Here's how it's happening.

studyfinds.org

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

After 3 decades of claiming the "Doomsday Glacier" could damage the coast lines of the world, now maybe not so much. No surprise to me. Most of the hysterical claims are beyond the pale and totally worthless and unscientific.

Scientists may have been wrong about "Doomsday Glacier"

The infamous glacier may not be an immediate threat, but scientists urge the outlook for Antarctica is still troubling.

www.newsweek.com

A recent study has challenged some of the most alarming predictions about Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, dubbed the "Doomsday Glacier," owing to the seismic impacts it could have on the world's oceans. The research suggested that a catastrophic collapse of the glacier, which could lead to rapid and dramatic sea-level rise, is less likely to occur this century than previously thought. The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica has been a major focus for climate scientists due to its unstable nature and significant contribution to global sea-level rise.​

Actually since Ice expands and contracts as it melts, the net change is minimal with melting ice in the ocean. It's only ice that is on land that can add to the oceans.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Michael Mann assured us that this year we would see 33 named hurricane storms... We got 18. As late as September, Mann was even doubling down and claiming he was right. "The oceans were hotter than ever. The temperatures were hotter than ever." (So was that really the case?) The good doctor is an idiot.

 

[shrubberyvaluation]

After 3 decades of claiming the "Doomsday Glacier" could damage the coast lines of the world, now maybe not so much. No surprise to me. Most of the hysterical claims are beyond the pale and totally worthless and unscientific.

Scientists may have been wrong about "Doomsday Glacier"

The infamous glacier may not be an immediate threat, but scientists urge the outlook for Antarctica is still troubling.

www.newsweek.com

A recent study has challenged some of the most alarming predictions about Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, dubbed the "Doomsday Glacier," owing to the seismic impacts it could have on the world's oceans. The research suggested that a catastrophic collapse of the glacier, which could lead to rapid and dramatic sea-level rise, is less likely to occur this century than previously thought. The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica has been a major focus for climate scientists due to its unstable nature and significant contribution to global sea-level rise.​

Actually since Ice expands and contracts as it melts, the net change is minimal with melting ice in the ocean. It's only ice that is on land that can add to the oceans.

The science is settled, shut up and believe.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

 

[Terrel L. Shields]