Posted on 03/25/2023 5:27:41 AM PDT by rktman
This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report. Unsurprisingly alarming, the report aimed to turn up the heat on governments, the business world, and every one of us to do more about the energy transition. Decarbonization, the report said, had to move faster and more dramatically. Yet that wasn’t the only document that made the headlines this week. Shell also released a report in which it detailed two different scenarios for the future to 2050. In those scenarios, the supermajor’s analysts pitted energy security against the energy transition – something the IPCC reports have never done.
The choice between energy security and decarbonization is not one that tends to attract a lot of attention. It is a sensitive topic because it exposes the shortcomings of low-carbon energy. Yet, as Europe found out last year, it may be wise to discuss this topic before we splash $110 trillion on the energy transition. In one of its scenarios, dubbed Archipelagos, Shell paints a familiar picture of the world of the future, at least politically. With a focus on energy security rather than decarbonization, the Archipelagos scenario describes a world similar to 19th-century Europe, where spheres of interest shift and nations ally with a view to energy security and resilience.
In that scenario, emission reductions and the Paris Agreement take a back seat, but work continues on deploying low-carbon energy technology. It simply progresses at a much slower pace.
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There is plenty of Cray Cray to go around too.
Common sense tells to global warming is a hoax.
If sea level rise was real we’d be spending trillions to build seawalls beginning decades ago.
Any seawall construction going on?
Adapt or die. (NOT ‘DEI’)
Any millionaire Democrats selling their ocean-front property and moving to the mountains?
Maybe in New Orleans, although that is probably just an excuse for bribery, with little or no actual construction.
Ha! My county is above water. Island paradise were we come!
Well, if I’m in the plains I start advertising my home for sale on beach front property!
I would like to hold the “expert”’s feet to the fire regarding their past predictions. Nobody is doing that.
WooHoo! I’ll be a lot closer to the ocean without having to move. Win, win!
energy insecurity is the hidden agenda
scarcity increases govt control
people freezing and starving will turn to the govt for security
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New Orleans has giant pumps along with the dikes to keep itself dry.
Coastal cities would also need those pumps after the sea walls were built.
FILL a large glass with ICE-———
Then fill it with water———
MARK the level of fluid———
Stand glass on counter-——
Check 2 hours later-——
Tell me the new level after ICE MeltS-—
It WILL BE LOWER-—NOT HIGHER
Old style ICE CUBE TRAYS were angled outward so water could RISE as cubes were freezing.
We are immersed in propaganda, and most people have never cultivated an eye for such social engineering. Most people go about their lives on auto-pilot, their little beaks agape, eagerly awaiting their mamas' regurgitated lies, which they dutifully repeat.
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