Posted on 04/06/2022 4:30:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It was only a few weeks ago when the UN’s International Energy Agency issued its Report on “CO2 Emissions in 2021.” (The Report does not bear a precise date, but only “March 2022.”) I covered the IEA’s Report in my previous post a few days ago. The Report gives detail as to the obvious fact that world CO2 emissions, after a downward blip in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic, have resumed their rapid increase, mostly attributable to massive deployment of coal-fired electricity generation resources in large-population developing countries like China and India.
In any rational world, this Report would have to have dashed any remaining dreams of climate campaigners that overall world CO2 emissions would see anything but large ongoing increases for the foreseeable future. The climate-obsessed jurisdictions in the U.S. and Europe already represent only a shrinking minority of world energy consumption, headed for insignificance as the large-population countries of the developing world join the fossil fuel age. For example, why would a small-population jurisdiction like New York — with about 20 million people, compared to about 2.8 billion for the combination of China and India, and with existing fossil-fuel electricity generation capacity of about 25 GW — struggle to reduce its fossil-fueled electricity generation by, say, one GW per year, when China alone is adding 38 GW of coal-fired power plants this year, and another 47 GW next year, with hundreds more gigawatts worth of coal plants already in the pipeline?
The answer is that reality just can’t penetrate into the fantasy world of the climate campaigners.
To prove my point, another UN agency, the IPCC, came out just yesterday with its own Report with the title “Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change.” This is the output of the IPCC’s so-called Working Group III, the portion of the “AR6” assessment report that deals with “mitigation” strategies. In the aggregate, this new Report has some 3000 pages. For those without the tolerance to wade through that kind of volume, here is the Summary for Policy Makers; and here is the press release; and here is a piece over at Bloomberg titled “Five Takeaways from the UN’s Latest 3,000-Page Climate Report.”
Let’s start with the press release. The headline is “The evidence is clear: the time for action is now. We can halve emissions by 2030.” A few pithy excerpts:
Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5°C is beyond reach. However, there is increasing evidence of climate action, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today. . . . “We are at a crossroads. The decisions we make now can secure a liveable future. We have the tools and know-how required to limit warming,” said IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee. “I am encouraged by climate action being taken in many countries. There are policies, regulations and market instruments that are proving effective. If these are scaled up and applied more widely and equitably, they can support deep emissions reductions and stimulate innovation.”
OK guys, how exactly are you going to “halve emissions by 2030” with China going all-out to build new coal plants on a scale far beyond anything the world has ever seen, and India (with population almost as large as China) not far behind, and the rest of Asia and all of Africa waiting in the wings? You will not find the answer. Go through the press release and the SPM and all you find is studious avoidance of any mention of the development plans of places like China and India. Even the names “China” and “India” appear to be on some kind of taboo list. For example, here from the SPM is a chart of total world GHG emission since 1990:
Eastern Asia? I wonder who that could be.
As you would expect from these people, there is the usual assertion, based on the completely deceptive “levelized costs,” that wind and solar electricity generation are now as cheap or cheaper than generation by fossil fuels. Four “renewable” technologies are considered: onshore wind, offshore wind, solar photovoltaic, and concentrated solar. From page 14 of the SPM:
In 2020, the levelised costs of energy (LCOE) of the four renewable energy technologies could compete with fossil fuels in many places. . . . LCOE . . . includes installation, capital, operations, and maintenance costs per MWh of electricity produced. The literature uses LCOE because it allows consistent comparisons of cost trends across a diverse set of energy technologies to be made.
The SPM does mention that LCOE “does not include grid integration costs,” but fails to note that those are almost certainly a large multiple of what is included in the LCOE measure.
So perhaps you might think, this can’t possibly be fooling anybody. If so, you are not understanding the depths of ignorance and incompetence that pervade our governing class here in New York. As I previously reported back in December, our City Council had just passed a new local law banning any new building from using natural gas for heat or cooking starting in 2024 for smaller buildings and 2027 for larger. That was just the City, but now the entire State wants to get in on the game. From Reuters yesterday:
New York Governor Kathy Hochul will soon release a budget that likely will include a plan to make New York the first state to ban natural gas and other fossil fuels in new construction, according to Food & Water Watch and other environmental groups. . . . In her State of the State address in January, Hochul committed to "zero on-site greenhouse gas emissions for new construction no later than 2027."
I can’t wait until the people finally catch on to what their betters have in store for them.
Will the Last person to leave New York please turn off the lights. Unless, of course, if the lights already went out.
Making flat-earthers look more sane with each passing day. kekw
“You cannot reason a man out of a position he got to emotionally”
Thomas Sowell
“I can’t wait until the people finally catch on to what their betters have in store for them.“
The unions that install and maintain gas are holding a rally here on LI this week against this stupid ban.
I dunno....these people seem to like self abuse.....they voted for cuomo they voted for deblasio and now they voted for Adams.
I know the last two are mayors but it seems to be an indication that for some reason the whole state is moving in the wrong direction in general.....no wonder I’m seeing so many NY license plates in my town.
Our fear here is they bring their moronic liberal voting practices with them.
“So perhaps you might think, this can’t possibly be fooling anybody. If so, you are not understanding the depths of ignorance and incompetence that pervade our governing class here in New York.”
Don’t cover for them; there is nothing ignorant or incompetent at work here. The engineers of this scheme are involved in reducing the standard of living in the West to meet the rising standard of living in the East (so billions of Chinese and Indians don’t clamor for private vehicles and detached single-family homes).
It has always been about nothing but chasing money and destroying capitalism — which is not a contradiction if you are the one first getting YOUR $$ before the system collapses.
Not only China,
Rest of Asia, Africa and South America.
The only places controlling Co2 are Europe (to the ultimate) Australia, and North America. That’s now only about 1/4 of CO2. 3/4 - nobody cares!
We need to declare war on China, if we want to stop Co2!
The alleged threat of Climate Change will be used to establish the long sought after global government ... hello 666
Grooming the stupid ,LOL
Cap and Trade Equals Sales Tax
Applying a carbon tax to Oregon citizens is a poorly disguised strategy to extract huge sales tax amounts. The tax will be passed on to residents except for the 100’s of businesses that will fail due to the unmanageable tax burden and the regulations imposed by a new bureaucracy. For those of us who remain, we can expect a large cost of living increase.
Supposedly SB 1530 and its 177-page amendment are critical because resent years recorded the highest global temperatures on record since recording began in 1880. That announcement removes credibility from the man-made global warming concept and from the Oregon legislative proposal to fix it.
Global warming models fail to reserve a dominate roll for the sun’s radiance. In 1880 it was impossible to measure the sun’s effect, because until 1978 precise, independent solar irradiance measurements were impossible. The sun is a variable star in which solar activity, luminosity, and diameter cannot be precisely predicted, but must play an important role in any model, so only an increment and not total temperature could have been reported.
Even if manmade climate change was real, the policy would have an unmeasurable impact. Two of the greatest polluters on the planet are China and India. Oregon has a population of 4.18 million. The population of Beijing China is 24.18 million. That of Delhi India is 26.5 million.
Oregonians should not be subjected to a huge new bureaucracy and suffer so horribly as a result of this deception imposing a sales tax.
THE SUN DEFINES THE CLIMATE
http://www.gaoran.ru/english/astrometr/abduss_nkj_2009.pdf
The 10 Hottest Global Years on Record
https://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/the-10-hottest-global-years-on-record
My favorite example of where the “climate change” crowd lied, got caught, and then tried to hide the evidence that they lied:
https://nypost.com/2020/01/10/the-telling-tale-of-glacier-national-parks-gone-by-2020-signs/
The “Can’t-miss Way to Run a Scam in Four Steps”:
1) Conjure up a lie that most people will be willing to believe through ignorance or stupidity.
2) Pimp the lie like it is gospel.
3) Crush all fact-based reports that contradict the big lie.
4) Rinse; repeat infinitely ad nauseum.
Climate Swindlers is more apt.
You know it’s a scam when the biggest proponents of this global warming nonsense are buying oceanfront property.
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