‘Trying to force people’: Numbers reveal massive electric vehicle ‘flop’ in Australia as well!
https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/trying-to-force-people-numbers-reveal-massive-electric-vehicle-flop/news-story/34c85564365f2e21392ac1e29d52ffeb EVs have been such a “commercial flop” that manufacturers are now trying to flog them by any means necessary, says Caleb Bond. By Caleb Bond Electric vehicles have been such a commercial flop that manufacturers are now trying to flog them by any means necessary. EV deliveries dropped 10 per cent in June when […]
NY Times finally admits reality! ‘Offshore Wind Slowed by Broken Blades, Rising Costs & Angry Fishermen’ – Warns wind failures ‘could imperil climate goals’
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/business/energy-environment/offshore-wind-blade-vineyard-wind.html NY Times: “Accidents involving blades made by GE Vernova have delayed projects off the coasts of Massachusetts and England and could imperil climate goals.” “Everyone wants this green legacy, but at the cost of what?” – Peter Kaizer, commercial fisherman. Offshore wind farms are a danger to our coasts, fishermen, and marine life. https://t.co/kUfCPRGbH9 […]
UK Independent promotes Halloween scare! ‘Halloween pumpkins contribute to the climate crisis’ as ‘methane emitters’
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/halloween-pumpkins-climate-crisis-b2606240.html By Julia Musto – UK Independent Excerpt: It just wouldn’t be Halloween without pumpkins. Every year, billions of bright orange gourds are sold around the U.S., as children and adults alike mark the spooky holiday with some creative carving. But there’s a sinister side to the fun. After Halloween ends, people throw their pumpkins away, and […]
Yes, NPR, Wine Grapes Can and Have Endured Climate Change
Yes, NPR, Wine Grapes Can and Have Endured Climate Change By Anthony Watts A September 9th story published by National Public Radio (NPR) asked the question: Can the most popular red wine in the U.S. endure climate change? The answer is yes, despite the story falsely suggesting the opposite. Data suggests that Napa valley grapes have survived […]
Unelected bureaucrats target the ‘crisis’ of ‘pedestrian deaths’ on roads – First ever federal rule to ‘rein in excessively large trucks & SUVs’ by mandating ‘permanent’ changes to ‘shape of a vehicle’ – Regs ‘could save up to 67 lives every year’
The Verge – Sept 10, 2024: This week, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stunned safety advocates by proposing new vehicle rules that it says will help reduce pedestrian deaths in America. The new rules appear aimed directly at the trend of increasingly massive SUVs and trucks, which have been shown to be more deadly to pedestrians than smaller and midsize vehicles.
Never in its 50-plus years in existence has the regulator issued new rules for automakers requiring them to change their vehicle designs to better prevent pedestrian fatalities. If enacted, the new rules could change how vehicles are designed in the US — permanently.
The rules announced this week would update the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), the government’s bible for everything that’s required in a new vehicle before it’s sold — from steering wheels to rearview mirrors — to set testing procedures to simulate head-to-hood impact, with the aim of reducing head injuries. If enacted, automakers will have to test their vehicles using crash test dummies representing adult and child pedestrians for the first time. NHTSA says the changes could save up to 67 lives every year. …
The proposed rules come amid a deadly period for pedestrians in this country. Each year, cars kill roughly 40,000 Americans. But while automakers have become very good at protecting people inside of vehicles, they have essentially neglected the safety of people outside of them. …
Meanwhile, pedestrian deaths have skyrocketed in recent years. Between 2013 and 2022, pedestrian fatalities increased 57 percent, from 4,779 to 7,522, NHTSA reports. In 2022, 88 percent of pedestrian deaths occurred in single-vehicle crashes. …
The shape of a vehicle, especially the hood, also plays a critical role in determining whether a pedestrian can survive being struck. Vehicles with hood heights of more than 40 inches and blunt front ends angled at greater than 65 degrees were 44 percent more likely to cause fatalities, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. …
The new NHTSA proposal is an important step, but it’s just the first of many needed to turn this crisis around.
‘Spoiled Brats’: Greenpeace Co-Founder Dr. Patrick Moore Supports Pipeline Tycoon’s Campaign To Punish His Old Group
https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/10/patrick-moore-greenpeace-energy-transfer-dakota-access-pipeline-lawsuit/ By Nick Pope One of the original founders of Greenpeace told the Daily Caller News Foundation that he hopes to see Greenpeace USA lose a lawsuit that threatens the group’s existence. Patrick Moore, who was listed on Greenpeace’s website as one of the original founders as recently as 2007 before the organization attempted to distance itself from him, […]
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): ‘Medical Schools Are Updating Their Curricula as Climate Change Becomes Impossible to Ignore’ – A ‘looming threat poised to deepen inequities’
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2822673?guestAccessKey=c9beb7a7-9a64-45f6-abd7-c0a79734544b&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jama&utm_content=olf&utm_term=081624&adv=000003907076 Excerpt: In the spring of 2020, Maddy Kline was finishing her first year of medical school at Harvard and things were not going as expected. As the COVID-19 pandemic was surging across the nation, it was highlighting entrenched socioeconomic inequalities in health care and working conditions. George Floyd’s death at the hands of police […]
Miami Herald: ‘Rising temps, rising anxiety: Climate change creates emerging mental health challenge’ – ‘Hispanic/Latino adults more likely to experience high levels of climate anxiety’
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article290432059.html by Claire Grunewald, Miami Herald Excerpt: Many troubling signs of climate change in South Florida are visible — but one that affects a growing number of people is not. It’s called climate anxiety, a fear of what the future may hold in a warming world. It hit Olivia Collins not long ago, The wave […]
Women Find A Solution To ‘Climate Change’ Anxiety
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/women-find-a-solution-to-climate By William M Briggs How about this breathless article title from JAMA (thanks to Stephen Shipman): “Medical Schools Are Updating Their Curricula as Climate Change Becomes Impossible to Ignore“. “Climate change” is indeed impossible to ignore. Not changes in the climate, which are easy to miss, mostly because nobody can really see them, and the […]