Posted on 02/15/2020 6:42:22 AM PST by Kaslin
After three years of apocalyptic wailing and gnashing of environmentalist teeth over President Trumps decision to withdraw from the job and economy killing Paris Climate Accord, it is ironic that the one country that faces the brunt of criticism from climate change zealots such as Greta Thunberg is leading the world and the European Union in lowering emissions and promoting cleaner energy, such as natural gas, all the while not hurting the economy:
Despite shrieks of terror from the left about how President Donald Trumps presidency threatens the existence of Earth and thus mankind, the fact is that under his leadership, America continues to lead the world in total emissions decline.
The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis -- a fall of 140 [million tons], or 2.9%, to 4.8 gigatons], the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) revealed in a report Tuesday.
The entire European Union, which consists of 28 nations, meanwhile only lowered emissions by 160 million tons total, or roughly 5.71 mt per nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Leading with that statement about reducing the man-made carbon load to zero, was only to gain the attention of those folks that have an irrational fear of carbon dioxide. Turns out, they have an even more irrational fear of nuclear energy, or so they claim. Command-and-control regimes have an irrational fear of ANYBODY having access to cheap energy, because cheap energy is what fuels large-scale capitalism.
The world NEEDS that tiny amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, because that is the fountain that sustains ALL life on earth. Without carbon dioxide present, every green plant in the world would sicken and die. Carbon dioxide is plant food. And also incidentally, it is the source of renewal of the oxygen supply of our atmosphere.
Good summary.
A thorium rector not producing fissile plutonium is both an advantage and a disadvantage.
As far as I’m concerned, Iran can build as many thorium reactors as it wants.
I dont think we should humor the gullible alarmists misguided delusions.
^^^^^^^This ^^^^^^
Never give up and never give one inch to a lie.
Whatever...ALL atmospheric gases are "greenhouse gases".
Don't buy the lie...4/1000ths is a rounding error.
Please take a look at this video and others that speak to the farce that is being perpetrated on mankind about CO2 and carbon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjlmFr4FMvI&list=PLMcTavhzbeH735rENOkJ6sePJrN8qeQyw
Basically correct but misses the point. Fossil is not clean, although the left has coopted the word. Also extra CO2 winds up in the ocean with pH lowered from 8.2 to 8.1 in the last century. The pH was headed lower but at a much slower rate for the past million years. By 2100 we will lower the pH to the 7.7 or so. Once you add/subtract the daily cycle of about 1 unit that gives us a 7.2 at the low end which is pretty low.
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Hmmm..at least you havent been drinking the kool aid...merely sipping it, IMHO.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/05/the-total-myth-of-ocean-acidification/
PS - Hows that acid rain working out for you? The leftist progressives are quite imaginative when coming up with new boogie men to mislead the public into supporting their efforts to weaken and destroy Western Civilization.
Want to do more, ban disposable diapers 500 yrs to decompose.
Make items easy to use and reusable. Tip you do your Blood Sugar for diabetes save the old bottle, then dump the new strips into the old bottle. It makes the Coding side go in the right way on the bottom, Idiots put them in Coding side you get many errors, turn them upside down, making less errors, the Blood up take doesn’t have that issue, saves money. Then I use the new empty bottle for small beads, sewing needles, or pills I need to carry in my purses.
But most other factors are mostly equal. For the most part higher atmospheric CO2 does produce lower ocean pH. There are many other factors that raise and lower pH, mainly ocean currents which control upwelling. Like PDO as pointed out in that article. There's also a diurnal cycle close to shore of 1 unit of pH.
Mostly though the argument presented in the article is that pH of 8.1 is not "acidic" and 8.2 dropping to 8.1 is not "acidification". That's true. But it's a semantic argument.
BTW, Koolaid is pH 3, and 1/3 of the cost of my coal plant (which I own 50% of because of where I live) was for acid rain reduction. That's some myth they spent that money on.
Soooo...
Conservatives are taking credit for improvement to a phony statistic that is part of a liberal agenda?
Will we cheer when its announced that less Americans own “assault” rifles while [insert GOP POTUS] is in office?
Exactly, but the actual retort to combat the lying AGW freaks should be my comment that "There is no CO2 in the atmosphere" and let the burden of proof be on them.
I also agree with your comments on thorium reactors.
I think xp38 was referring to photosynthesis (plant growth and oxygen production) when he said “critical gas.”
“When we take credit for CO2 reduction that is not needed, we are playing the Greta game. Gretas crowd is not going to give us any credit for saying, Were not so bad our emissions are lower than theirs.
I disagree. THEY believe Co2 reduction is wonderful.
Doesn’t mean WE do.
But if THEY believe it, they should walk the walk. But they don’t, as usual the USA bears all the burden.
So, tariff the crap out of them until they step up.
They can stick to their (stupid) beliefs and we will finally be repaid all the monies Europe owes us.
Agreed, I've heard it said that we are in a historic "CO drought" and would be better off with a greener warmer planet, with longer growing seasons and happier plants.
Although not alone...we had -13F last night.
"We should threaten Europe that if they dont match our reductions, we will impose climate change tariffs on all their goods."
“Climate change
Excellent post!
But don’t let them get away with changing the phrasing. It is “Global Warming”. They changed it to climate change because they were looking ridiculous because global warming conferences were getting canceled due to storms. Whenever someone tells me climate change I correct them, I’m not letting them control the narrative.
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