Posted on 10/08/2022 3:00:49 PM PDT by dennisw
"Some men just want to watch the world burn.” — Alfred Pennyworth
In Europe, they’re burning garbage to stay warm. “It’s so bad this season that you can smell trash burning every day, which is completely new,” said the 35-year-old mother of three from Jablonna, Poland, near Warsaw. “Rarely can you smell a regular fuel. It’s scary to think what happens when it really gets cold.” The Polish government suspended quality regulations on coal burning for those who can still afford it; 60% of households no longer can. Because of all the garbage burning, the government may soon hand out masks so its residents don’t inhale toxic fumes. Said one of Poland’s most powerful politicians last month, “one needs to burn almost everything, except for tires and similarly harmful things.” The government estimates that 40,000 people died annually from premature deaths from air pollution before the current crisis.
Forests are being hammered. In Estonia and Finland, forests that had been set aside to capture carbon dioxide to reduce climate change are now being so heavily logged that they are net emitters. Hungary lifted conservation regulations so old-growth forests could be logged; it then banned the export of wood pellets. “People buy wood pellets thinking they’re the sustainable choice, but in reality, they’re driving the destruction of Europe’s last wild forests,” said one conservationist. Wood pellets prices have doubled even in nuclear-heavy France which, under pressure from Germany, and in the grip of renewable energy mania, had been shutting down its nuclear plants so rapidly that it had stopped properly maintaining them. Romania has been forced to cap the price of firewood, which had skyrocketed. Burning wood releases more greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, something most experts finally acknowledge.
And Europe is returning to coal as quickly as it can. This year it increased thermal coal imports more than any other region. Coal imports increased by 36% more during the first eight months of 2022 than of 2021. Europe’s coal imports are today 10% of the global total. Germany is importing coal from South Africa, which is ironic because, just one year ago, Germany gave South Africa $810 million in exchange for an agreement that South Africa not use coal. And at the United Nations climate change talks in Scotland less one year ago this month, the UN created a special CGI dinosaur to warn all nations, but particularly Africans, that they must not use fossil fuels, and instead do what Europe was doing and, supposedly, transitioning away from fossil fuels to renewables.
In response to this unfolding ecological horror show, Greta Thunberg, Greenpeace, WWF, Extinction Rebellion, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Sierra Club, and the Natural Resources Defense Council have mobilized millions of people to take to the streets across the Western world to demand the building, continued operation, and re-start of shuttered nuclear plants; the expedited building of liquefied natural gas (LNG) import and export terminals in Europe and North America; and expanded natural gas production in North America; and the beginning of fracking in Europe. “The energy crisis and the climate crisis have the same solution!” shouted Thunberg to a cheering audience in Germany, many of whom had glued themselves to a nuclear plant at risk of premature closure. “We need to immediately expand the use of nuclear power and natural gas to prevent the burning of garbage, wood, and coal!” In response, Germany and Belgium announced the continued operation of nuclear plants and the re-starting of closed ones, and President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the expedited production of natural gas and LNG.
I’m kidding, of course. No, what climate activists have actually done is the exact opposite.
Perhaps they can go to Greta for warmth.
8 Oct: Daily Mail: SNOW is on the way as Britain faces a week of heavy rain amid flood warnings as weather experts predict cold winter
by Jessica Warren
Longer range predictions looking at November and December predict ‘snow and ice’ arriving this winter...
The warning of a cold winter ahead has also come from forecaster Nick Finnis, who analysed the ECMWF long-range forecast on his Netweather blog.
He said that cold ‘polar air’ could hit Britain between November and January as the jet stream may drop further south...
This would lead to high energy demand during late autumn and through much of the winter for Europe,’ he said...
This, Mr Finnis said, could cause a problem for the UK due to ‘the threat of Russia shutting off its supplies and increasing demand across Europe for heating and producing electricity’...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11291343/SNOW-way-Britain-faces-week-heavy-rain-amid-flood-warnings.html
““We need to immediately expand the use of nuclear power”
Oh wait what about three mile island? China Syndrome? Nuclear Armageddon are we swinging in that direction again? We just spent 50 years shutting down nuclear power and now suddenly the democraps want to power them up again?
So, Just to be consistent. I’m all in for nuclear power. But, I’ve always been so. These democrats suddenly want nuclear power when their stupidity leads to the increase of BURNING COW DUNG in a modern city. I gotta call that out.
We’re getting closer to dystopian SF movies coming true more than ever.
Some book cover had an empty, deteriorating freeway cloverleaf and in the distance you could see someone had loaded a wagon and trailer with junk items and it was being pulled by horses.
Thanks for destroying our civilization over your phony climate change, Leftists.
If you had read just a little farther, you’d have come to where the author says, “I’m kidding, of course. No, what climate activists have actually done is the exact opposite.”
Had me fooled for a moment, too. The greenies will never accept reality. Why start now?
I often think of all the frozen, burst pipes there will be and all the destroyed homes that will result. The thaw may be worse than the freeze.
It's not that bad in the Italian Market because it's in South Philly -- miles away from the North Philly ghetto where most of the killings are happening-- and also because there has always been a "vigilante justice association" in the neighborhood. Most of the vendors are no one you would want to mess with, either.
The only way that market can operate is from foot traffic, which is very crowded most days, especially on the weekends. Whites outnumber blacks in that zip code two to one, and there are lots of Asians and Hispanics moving in who are also food entrepreneurs or shopkeepers.
That shot from Rocky where the street looks empty of foot traffic was done in the very early morning, like 5:00 AM, and digitally lightened.
I checked Polish websites, even the leftist ones.
No news like this.
Then I called acquaintances in Jablona and asked them and they were puzzled as they never heard or smelt such a thing.
I’m inclined to call it false news
Thanks for the details... Meet me on south street.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6q5KM5THAs&t=28s
Are they going to Polish forests to collect firewood?
“I often think of all the frozen, burst pipes there will be and all the destroyed homes that will result. The thaw may be worse than the freeze.”
Right! What a mess
Nope. We have coal at the worse case.
I should have known
Libs and greenies hate it when everyone burns tires. They hate it even more than the burning of fossil fuels. Just sayin.
You’re welcome. But South Street can be dangerous now. Just sayin’.
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