41 wind-threatens-whales articles reveal federal deception
https://www.cfact.org/2024/12/30/my-41-wind-threatens-whales-articles-track-federal-deception/ By David Wojick A New Years’s retrospective. Many of these 41 CFACT articles were sent to key NOAA whale protection people when published over a period of 2.5 years. All have been carefully ignored, an ongoing deception. Trump has promised action. 1. Capping marine mammal harassment constrains offshore wind https://www.cfact.org/2024/12/09/capping-marine-mamma-harassment-constrains-offshore-wind/ 2. The California offshore […]
What rapid transition?! 400-900 years to get to Zero fossil fuels!? – ‘Today, world gets 81% of its energy from fossil fuels’ – ‘On current trends from 2010, we get to zero in 2401’
No, fossil fuels won't end soon Today, world gets 81% of its energy (not just electricity) from fossil fuels, down from 82.8% in 2010 and 81.2% in 2000 On current trends from 2010, we get to zero in 2401, four centuries from now On current trends…https://t.co/rEXBafxUmE pic.twitter.com/kb7hvt5vqG — Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) December 26, 2024
Bloomberg News: Big tech data centers, & AI are ‘going to disrupt the green transition’ as utilities ‘rely heavily on natural gas, & even coal’ to ‘have reliable & affordable power’
Bloomberg News: Big tech companies need lots of electricity, for data centers and especially for artificial intelligence. Homes are using more electricity for heating and cooling. Factories need more electricity to shift away from fossil fuels. … That’s really going to disrupt the green transition. Power providers that have made pledges to cut back or eliminate carbon emissions are now starting to reverse course. Duke Energy Corp. plans to extend the life of its largest coal-fired power plant, which would push aside its goal to exit coal by 2035. Duke has said that its resource plans are not final decisions and are revised regularly.
Power providers that have made pledges to cut back or eliminate carbon emissions are now starting to reverse course. … And all of that is before Donald Trump returns to the White House next month. The president-elect is well-known for his support of fossil fuels and his skepticism of climate policies.
An Energy/Climate Christmas ‘Wish List’ for President Trump – Eliminate UN climate pact ‘permanently’
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/trump-administration-agenda/2024/12/16/id/1191766/ By Craig Rucker For young tots across the nation, December “Tis the season” to put together a Christmas “wish list” for mom and dad. While no one knows for sure how this tradition began, some suspect it was the Sears and Roebuck Company which was responsible when it began publishing its Christmas Wish Book in […]
Todd Stern’s Climate Lesson for the Trump Admin: A Review of UN Paris Climate Pact: How It Happened, Why It Matters, & What Comes Next
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2024/12/11/sterns_climate_lesson_for_the_trump_administration_1077973.html By Rupert Darwall December 11, 2024 “The 2015 Paris climate should take its place as one of the great triumphs in history,” Jonathan Chait wrote two days after it was concluded. Todd Stern, America’s climate envoy for all but eight months of Barack Obama’s presidency, was indispensable in making the Paris agreement happen. With his new book, Landing […]
Pielke Jr.’s U.S. Hurricane Overview 2024: North Atlantic was active while most of rest of the world saw relatively inactive year – No trend in global hurricanes since 1980
The IPCC actually concluded about trends in tropical cyclones: “There is low confidence in most reported long-term (multidecadal to centennial) trends in TC frequency- or intensity-based metrics . . .” …
MIT’s Kerry Emanuel, who is more bullish on human influences on tropical cyclones than the IPCC or most of his peers, but also recognizes that current understandings are far from black and white:
“At present, there is little scientific consensus about trends in global or regional [tropical cyclone] activity, either in the past, as detected in observations or in climate model simulations, or in the future as our climate continues to change.” …
By all metrics, 2024 was a very active season in historical context — the 12th most active in the past 74 years or about the 85th percentile. The continental U.S. saw five hurricane landfalls — 2 major (Category 3+ = Helene and Milton) and 3 minor (Categories 1 and 2 = Beryl, Debby, and Francine). …
The figures above show long-term trends in continental U.S. hurricane landfalls. The last 8 years have seen a lot of major hurricane landfalls. The 8 years before that saw none. Since 1900 there are no trends in either variable. …
North Atlantic hurricanes have not overall become more intense since 1900.
But what if you really, really want to show alarming, upwards trends? Here is what you do: Using ACE, identify the most inactive period for North Atlantic hurricane activity in the past 125 years. That happens to be the period 1970 to 1979. Then, start a trend analysis in 1970. Voila!
Pro tip: Start analyses of hurricane trends in 1970s to detect upwards trends. Attribute these trends to human causes and watch the publications, citations, media coverage roll in!
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Continental U.S. Hurricane Landfalls by President
Finally, a bit of fun with some meaningless data. The figure above shows U.S. hurricane landfalls by president. President Biden sits in the middle of the pack with Presidents Harding and Eisenhower. A second term President Trump will have a chance to continue his efforts to best President Taft as the president with the most hurricanes during his term in office. President Obama’s record hurricane inactivity over his two terms is likely to stand for a while — Thanks Obama!
Top 10 Climate & Energy Action Items for Trump in His 2nd Term
Top 10 Climate and Energy Action Items for President Trump in His Second Term By James Taylor, Steven Milloy This list was compiled and presented by The Heartland Institute, E&E Legal Institute, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), Truth in Energy and Climate, and The American Energy Institute. Get the PDF 1. Paris Climate Treaty and Endangerment […]
COP FLOP: UN climate summit COP29 faces ‘Trump Effect’ – UN advisors label summit ‘meaningless ritual’ – Climate grifters unhappy with $300 billion a year pledges
Climate Depot COP29 Round Up Watch: Morano on Sky News TV: ‘UN climate slush fund’: ‘This whole UN conference was about money, money, money’ Money, money, money! Compromise deal reached at UN’s COP29 climate talks for $300 billion a year (up from $100 billion) to poor nations – ‘With hopes that more money flows in […]
COP FLOP: ‘Woefully inadequate’: activists slam COP29 UN climate finance deal – ‘A death sentence for the millions on the climate front lines’ & ‘The world is still on course for runaway collapse’
A report produced for the UN talks by economic experts concluded that developing countries outside China would need $2.4 trillion a year by 2030 – a four-fold increase in total global climate investments. It proposed that around $1 trillion a year would come from domestic budgets, with the rest raised by a combination of public and private finance. This could include novel global forms of taxation, such as on financial transactions, extreme wealth, and frequent flying. Countries also disagreed over who should contribute. The donor base for the $100 billion comprises the 24 countries who were members of the OECD in 1992 when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed.
Developed countries such as the US and EU argued that countries that have since become wealthier and emit high levels of greenhouse gases such as China and Saudi Arabia should now pay into the new fund. The final agreed text calls for “all actors” to scale up funds from “all public and private sources”, and leaves an option for voluntary donations from other countries that have not previously donated.
Jasper Inventor, head of the COP29 Greenpeace delegation, called the agreement “woefully inadequate”, adding that it was “overshadowed by the level of despair and scale of action needed”.
WaterAid described the deal as a “death sentence for millions” and labelled the sum a “mere fraction”.
Lesley Pories, lead policy analyst for water, sanitation and hygiene finance at WaterAid, said: “Failure to deliver on its most anticipated financial commitment at the so-called ‘finance COP’ is nothing less than a death sentence for the millions on the climate front lines.” “The clue is in the name. Next year countries will try for the 30th time. What is clear is the era of oil and gas must end: fast, fairly and forever.”
Just Stop Oil called for people to “get off our screens and on to the streets”, adding: “Twenty-nine COPs with the fossil fuel lobby at the helm, and the world is still on course for runaway collapse.”
Extinction Rebellion also slammed the summit. “The clue is in the name. Next year countries will try for the 30th time. What is clear is the era of oil and gas must end: fast, fairly and forever.”
Watch: Sen. Bernie Sanders declares on CNN: ‘If Trump wins, the struggle—the global struggle—against climate change is over’
Sen. Sanders: “If Trump wins, the struggle—the global struggle—against climate change is over. Because if the largest economy in the world, the United States, pulls back, so will China, so will Europe.”