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  • Time Mag’s Great Reset issue: How COVID lockdowns ‘murdered’ Polish coal mining & forced it to accept its own demise & the EU’s Green New Deal

    Time Mag Great Reset issue: "At first, Poland rejected the plan’s ambitions. President Andrzej Duda had promised to save the coal industry and its jobs—part of a controversial populist appeal to national identity and heritage. “As long as I am the President,” he said in 2018, “I won’t allow for anyone to murder Polish mining.” For months, Duda’s government opposed the bloc’s 2050 carbon-neutrality target, the only E.U. country to do so."

    Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. Rather than slow down the process, leaders in Brussels saw an opportunity to expedite their plans. The E.U. Commission—the bloc’s executive body—promised to pour hundreds of billions of euros into the economy in response to the virus and the subsequent lockdowns that halted economies across the Continent. A quarter of the €750 billion recovery plan would be directed toward low-carbon investments; the remainder of the funds came with a 'do no harm' provision, meaning the investment shouldn’t be used on projects that harm the environment. And, to keep up the momentum, E.U. leadership promised to spend that proportion of the bloc’s budget on green measures over the next seven years.

    Polish leaders in Warsaw faced a conundrum: the government remained rhetorically committed to coal, but the economics had become increasingly difficult. Until the coronavirus plunged the world into global recession, Poland had experienced three decades of sustained economic expansion. But the country would need to rethink its economy to return to growth. As electricity demand plummeted, caused by the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, coal mines shuttered with difficult economic headwinds anticipated ahead even when the pandemic eases. And leaders in Brussels demanded that the country commit to net zero to be eligible for all of its allocated money under the Just Transition program. So, slowly, Poland changed its tone. In late July, after months of foot dragging, Polish leaders signed on to the package."

    Posted December 19, 20184:19 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: 400, co2, consensus buster, mediacd, poland
  • Europe’s New Climate Rebels: Germany, Italy, Hungary & Poland Reject Net-Zero Climate Target
    Posted 4:19 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: 400, co2, consensus buster, mediacd, poland
  • Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ Agenda Is Breaking Russia’s Grip On Poland
    Posted 4:19 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: 400, co2, consensus buster, mediacd, poland
  • CFACT’s media saturation bombing of UN climate summit in Poland
    Posted 4:19 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: 400, co2, consensus buster, mediacd, poland
  • COP 24: Good news — The big moves failed at the UN climate summit
    Posted 4:19 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: 400, co2, consensus buster, mediacd, poland
  • US Climate Skeptics Upended UN Climate Summit in Poland
    Posted 4:19 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: 400, co2, consensus buster, mediacd, poland
  • Google Survey: The World Is Bored About Climate Change – Public interest peaked in 2007
    Posted 4:19 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: 400, co2, consensus buster, mediacd, poland
  • Dangerous rules added to Paris Climate Accord at UN climate summit
    Posted 4:19 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: 400, co2, consensus buster, mediacd, poland
  • Deep State undermines Trump? Career US diplomats working ‘to implement the Paris Agreement’
    Deep State undermines Trump? Career US diplomats working ‘to implement the Paris Agreement’

    Former Obama UN climate envoy Todd Stern: "A perception floats in public that under President Trump the US has stepped out of the Paris Agreement. But, at [the] Katowice, [Poland UN climate summit] we find that the US is as deeply engaged at the moment in several negotiations behind closed doors."

    Another prominent climate activist not worried that the U.S. will actually withdraw is former Vice President Al Gore. See: Gore not worried about Trump’s UN Paris exit: No exit until after 2020 election – ‘A new president could simply give 30 days’ notice, and we’re right back in’

    Posted 4:19 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: 400, co2, consensus buster, mediacd, poland
  • Former astronaut: ‘Hundreds of different factors’ affect climate, not just humans

    “What bothers me about this topic is just how accepted this is to the public,” Walt Cunningham said. “They just believe what they are told by public officials and they don’t realize that if you look at the data it shows there are hundreds of different factors that contribute to temperature.”

    “The green vision of the U.N. is one of a planet that is about to be burned up and destroyed,” CFACT's Craig Rucker said. “They view the world as finite pie one where every piece that is eaten leaves one less for another person down the road.”

    Morano warned audience members that the U.N. is not interested in sound science and it is pushing a policy agenda that is detrimental to average people.“CO 2 is not the control knob for climate, and we’ve had higher CO 2 levels in the past,” Morano said. “The U.N. will say that it draws from top scientists, but the U.N. climate panel is really a political body posing as a scientific institution. What they really care about is controlling people.”

    Posted 4:19 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: 400, co2, consensus buster, mediacd, poland
  • Coral Extinction Crisis Canceled – New Study Documents Billions of Coral Colonies
  • Coffee Farming Getting Easier, Not Harder, under ‘Climate Change’
  • 10 Recent Studies Affirm It Was Regionally 2-6°C Warmer Than Today During The Last Glacial

    From 80,000 to 12,000 years ago, when CO2 concentrations lingered near or below 200 ppm, many new or recent studies suggest that when directly comparing region to region, it was as much as 6°C warmer than today even during this ice age period. This has prompted some scientists to “exclude atmospheric pCO2 as a direct driver of SST [sea surface temperature] variations”.

  • ‘New Reality’ of climate change or better detection technology? NOAA moving up hurricane season outlook to May 15 from June 1

    Sean Sublette, a meteorologist at Climate Central, who pointed out that the 1960s through 2010s saw between one and three storms each decade before the June 1 start date on average. It might be tempting to ascribe this earlier season entirely to climate change warming the Atlantic. But technology also has a role to play, with more observations along the coast as well as satellites that can spot storms far out to sea.

    “I would caution that we can’t just go, ‘hah, the planet’s warming, we’ve had to move the entire season!’” Sublette said. “I don’t think there’s solid ground for attribution of how much of one there is over the other. Weather folks can sit around and debate that for awhile.” Earlier storms don’t necessarily mean more harmful ones, either.

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