Posted on 12/29/2022 7:29:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Another year gone by. Another 365 days of drought, fire, flood and heat. With more to come in the New Year.
You’ve heard it all before; I won’t ask you to relive every blow struck by the climate crisis over the last 12 months. But there are lessons to learn, and they’re not all scary. We’ve got plenty of reasons to worry — and also cause for hope.
Here are my top 10 climate takeaways from 2022, with a focus on California and the American West.
1. Doom is not inevitable
2. Progress isn’t inevitable, either
3. The oil industry is far from dead
4. Electric utilities will do what is best for them
5. Aridification is now the West’s main water problem
6. Climate change is making it harder to solve climate change
7. Coal power is still dying
8. Keep an eye on hydrogen — and nuclear
9. Land-use conflicts are on the rise
10. Not every year will be hell
Yes, 2020 and 2021 were record fire years. And yes, there was plenty of destruction this year, including nine deaths, compared to three last year. But 2022 could have been a lot worse.
Not every year will be worse than the last. It’s a small blessing, maybe. But let’s take our gratitude where we can get it.
Here at the Los Angeles Times, we’ll do our best to keep bringing you climate, energy and environment stories that hopefully help solve these problems. If our work was meaningful to you this year, please consider subscribing to help us keep doing it.
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LA Times “ If our work was meaningful to you this year, please consider subscribing to help us keep doing it.”
How about you go F yourself instead.
“1. Doom is not inevitable”
Actually it is, unless elections are cleaned up and the country is freed up to have open debate on issues again.
Climate change due to atmospheric CO2 is a massive fraud. That simple fact can’t be repeated often enough.
Van Halen mash-up??? :-)
If we’re doomed by anything, it will be the panic and hysteria surrounding climate change, real or not.
Ditto that!
“THE climate crisis”
I see this phrase repeated ad infinitum. Details and facts are always light. If anything is mentioned with specificity, it is an “average” global temp. rise of # degrees C over a span of x years. Why this is bad, and how we are certain man is to blame, is rarely explained or questioned.
But the policy prescriptions are always certain.
1. Kill capitalism through regulatory strangulation.
2. Kill “fossil” fuel industries.
3. Forcibly invest government resources in unsustainable “renewable” energy sources.
4. Ignore the economic realities of “renewable” energy sources.
5. Rejigger entire economies to all-electric grids and electric devices, whilst killing all technologies that could conceivably support such an increase in electrical demand.
5. Silence all debate. Silence calls for moderation or long-term re-structuring.
6. Act now, act now, act now. Don’t think. Don’t question “experts.” Don’t be on the wrong side of history.
7. Reduce human populations.
I could go on. It is anti-man, anti-God, anti-progress through and through.
Whenever a problem is not rightly understood, solutions are not rightly produced.
The MSM - including the LA Times - exists to protect the power of corrupt liberal ‘elites’ and that’s the group that should subscribe. The rest of us (97% of any city population) should cancel our subscriptions.
The MSM - including the LA Times - exists to protect the power of corrupt liberal ‘elites’ and that’s the group that should subscribe. The rest of us (97% of any city population) should cancel our subscriptions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.
***Yes, 2020 and 2021 were record fire years.***
Really? Back in 1957 public service announcements from Smokey the Bear said there were so many wildfires in the US that if they were all put together each year they would cover the entire state of Louisiana.
Louisiana has 33 million acres
2021 acres burned 7,125,643
2020 - 10,122,336
2019 - 4,664,364
We got a long way to go to equal 1956. And that did not include Alaska or Hawaii.
The first step in avoiding doom is to understand the actual problem and make decisions based on reality rather than irrational perceptions. The idea that human progress is a threat to the Earth’s ecosystem is an irrational perception with roots in the romantic progressive notions going back to Gallileo and the Enlightenment.
The reality is that energy is the driver of human progress and prosperity and the facts are that nuclear power is the best choice based on efficiency, reliability, economy, waste production, and human health.
“hopefully help solve these problems” — If these so-called bogus “problems” were solved, all these “Sky Is Falling” writers would have to go get real jobs. It’s just like homelessness, another industry too big to fail.
Exactly right. The panic and hysteria pushed by these nonstop Gloom & Boomers has created a couple of generations of neurotics who won’t have children.
So we’re supposed to believe the fires were due to the “climate crisis” and not the left’s mismanagement of the forests?
They forgot to mention the illegal aliens who deliberately started what turned into massive fires in CA.
I lived in the desert a few years back and the LA Times would throw a paper and bill me even though I had never subscribed. Even after I compelled them to admit i had not subscribed they continued to throw a paper. Guess they needed to pretend they had subscribers to keep their advertising rates up.
If I were king, I would mandate that coal powered electricity would dominate. I would use coal to take care of 75%-80% of our power generation. The way it was 20-30 years ago. Use the most hi-tech scrubbers to clean up the coal emissions.
Then use our fracked gas and oil bonanza for other purposes. Such as gas to make fertilizers and for home heating and cooking/ and use oil to make gasoline, diesel, heating oil, asphalt, plastics.
Good list!
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