Why would Texas have prepared for record cold and snow if they listened to the media and other global warming fanatics the last forty years?

American Thinker ^ | 02/21/2021 | Jack Hellner

[SeekAndFind]

Since 1980 Americans have heard that the Earth was warming rapidly, that the South would not have winters anymore and we would see “the end of snow.”

We were told it is the “scientific consensus” and the science was “settled.”  So why the heck would politicians prepare for something when they were told by "experts" that it would never happen?

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Clearly the UN, Al Gore, John Kerry, Bill Gates and all the others that push this garbage on the public, without scientific data to support it, are to blame, not the Texas politicians.

John Kerry, who flies on private jets, is out there saying there are only 9 years left to solve the problem. If we had honest reporters, instead of people pushing an agenda, they would tell him that the UN said in 1989 that we only had ten years left to solve the problem. As far as I can tell we are still having snow, the temperature is nearly the same, the coastal cities are still here, the icecaps are still here, and Manhattan and Miami are still not flooded.

Fifty years of made-up dire predictions that have been wrong and yet we are told the science is settled?

Let's Review 50 Years Of Dire Climate Forecasts And What Actually Happened

1. 1967 Salt Lake Tribune: Dire Famine Forecast by 1975, Already Too Late
2. 1969 NYT: "Unless we are extremely lucky, everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years. The situation will get worse unless we change our behavior."
3. 1970 Boston Globe: Scientist Predicts New Ice Age by 21st Century said James P. Lodge, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. 
4. 1971 Washington Post: Disastrous New Ice Age Coming says S.I. Rasool at NASA. 
5. 1972 Brown University Letter to President Nixon: Warning on Global Cooling 

[entropy12]

If humans are causing 0.001% more global warming over and above caused by the Sun, that is great news. It could postpone the next ice age by a day or 2.
Ice age kills more life than global warming ever will.

[fireman15]

He was tweeting about the storm and the dangers it posed to the electrical grid a week before it hit.

Texas has spent untold billions “upgrading” their power grid to the point where 40% of their power comes from “renewable energy”. They have three times as much wind power online as any other state in the union including California. For every megawatt of wind power they need to have an equivalent amount of gas, coal, or nuclear power on standby ready to spool up instantaneously. Now we know what happens in Texas when wind and solar fail. The reserve power was not ready to go when it was needed. The increased demand caused water in gas lines that had been running at low capacity to freeze. This was caused not as much by low outside temperatures as by low pressure in the lines from increased demand... the same way that an air conditioner works by increasing the pressure of refrigerant gasses to expel heat and decreasing pressure to absorb it. The lines would have had problems from increased demand even if the outside temperatures were much higher.

Texas now has a poorly engineered and undependable electrical grid. What is going to be done about it? Most likely nothing. Texans are going to have to learn to deal with an undependable 3rd world style electric supply grid. Way to go Texas!

Who is to blame? Look at the grifters in the green energy sector and the politicians who have been funneling government money to their buddies through grants, loans and policy. Who am I talking about??? Someone who stabbed President Trump in the back calling him “RECKLESS AND IRRESPONSIBLE” a week before he was ensnared in a bad joke of a political scandal completely of his own making. What does a politician do when the electric grid that he helped destabilize fails? I am speaking of Cancun Ted of course.

Wash., D.C. (Dec. 23, 2019) — Tri Global Energy, a leading U.S. originator and developer of utility-scale wind energy projects, today announced that U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the 2019 recipient of the Tri Global Energy Wind Leadership Award, recognizing commitment to wind development and to the people who rely on wind farms to support their families and communities.

https://www.triglobalenergy.com/news/u-s-senator-ted-cruz-receives-tri-global-energy-s-2019-wind-leadership-award#:~:text=23%2C%202019)%20%2D%2D%20Tri%20Global,rely%20on%20wind%20farms%20to

[setter]

“Astronauts circling earth can’t see any man made objects.”

They sure can see the cities lit up at night.

[entropy12]

Light is not an object.

[entropy12]

Can you guess how the 4 km high glacier ice on top of where Chicago is, melted after the last ice age? Did the cave man burn too many twigs? There was so much ice in mid-west, when it melted by global warming, the largest body of fresh water on earth was formed, known as The Great Lakes.

[norwaypinesavage]

"We were cutting hay last year into October due to above normal temps"

According to this site, you were damaging your hay field, since optimum time is determined by sunlight, not temperature:https://blog.caseih.com/so-when-will-you-make-that-last-hay-cut/

"During the fall, fewer daylight hours signal alfalfa and other legumes that it’s time to begin storing energy in their taproots and crowns. For northern climates, University of Wisconsin forage specialists recommend cutting early enough (early to mid-September) to allow plants time to regrow and replenish root carbohydrates and proteins before a killing frost. Another option is to delay the last cutting until near the time you expect a killing frost; that way, plants don’t regrow or use the energy reserves they’ll need for winter survival and spring regrowth.

[SaxxonWoods]

Sorry, this is a stupid argument.

Texas has always needed more power for it’s long hot season, so more warming expected would mean more power needed, not less.

[crz]

OK, so then you need to quit with the fertilizers on your crops then, AND no more spreading liquid manure on fields contaminating the ground water.

[Keyhopper]

Great wall of China? Maybe?

[Vaquero]

Even if it is partially true. We are clean. When we burn coal for power we scrub the stacks. Look to China and India who are fouling the environment not the US. And those nations get a pass.

[crusty old prospector]

Not sure what your point is. We probably won’t have another storm like this for fifty years. By then, we will all be burning algae in our fireplaces and the windmills will be used by artists to ply their trade.

[SaxxonWoods]

Indeed, if the USA had been in the Paris Accords prior to now, we would be the only country to not only make its goal every year, we would be the only country to ever hit a goal under the agreement.

China’s goal doesn’t exist, they get to do whatever they want.

The USA is the only country in the world to lower emissions for 8 straight years. But under Democrats the goal isn’t actually lowering emissions, the goal is lowering our energy independence.

[crz]

“And those nations get a pass.”

And tell the eco freaks to go to there and protest.

[entropy12]

Haha if you call a barely visible little squiggly line as significant object, you are right. Here is a picture from NASA of the wall as seen from space:

[IrishBrigade]

‘Humans are causing some of it.’

yeah, ok, sure they are...

by the way, did you know that cloth masks worn over your mouth and nostrils will prevent you from catching a viral bug...?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: so more warming expected would mean more power needed, not less.

Yes, but since warming is expected, wouldn’t it be expected to increase the building and reliance on sources that make use of such warming? E.g., solar power?

[fireman15]

Not sure what your point is. We probably won't have another storm like this for fifty years

The same type of grid failure could happen next summer if the wind dies down and temperatures increase demand. My point is that it would not take another weather event like the one that was just experienced to take down Texas's power grid. 40% of the power on the Texas grid is now provided by “renewable energy” meaning wind and solar. 90% of Texas's renewable power comes from wind. The plans of the “green energy” suppliers and the politicians whose palms are being greased are to increase this percentage in the coming years. As a result Texas's power grid is projected to become more and more unstable. Anything event that takes out a sizable percentage of wind and solar is now going to result in the same type of failure. This is just the first of many failures.

When wind and solar go down they now take natural gas power plants with them. The increased demand for natural gas lowers temperatures in the distribution chain and results in further failures. Do you get it... the backup system has been improperly conceived and engineered. Its all flowers and butterflies until the crap hits the fan, then this nonsense is exposed for what it really is.

[Mouton]

Yup. Joe was on touting the coming equal of a cat 5 hurricane at least five days beforehand while on hannity and on his web site.

[Tucker39]

Where do you live? I was born in 1939. Growing up, we ALWAYS got 3 cuttings of alfalfa here in PA. I left the farm in 1957, but I’m sure they still get 3 cuttings if they want it.

After the worldwide Noahic flood, God told Noah there would never be another global flood, and that ‘til the end of time, summer and winter, hot and cold, seed time and harvest will not cease. I choose to believe God.

[entropy12]