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- ‘Global temperature was on course to meet the 2-degree target without any emissions cuts’ – Will the Climate Industry Move the Goalposts Again?
- Build Back with Coal!? Global coal boom hits record levels
Build Back Blacker: Both coal and CO2 emissions hit record levels in 2021 - The Australian, 14 January 2022 - Coal generated more power in 2021 than at any other time in history as the energy crisis in Europe and China pushed up power prices and forced a switch back to coal generators, according to the International Energy Agency.
- ‘How many ‘last chance’ climate summits will there be? Watch new Morano Minute
- Unsettling ‘Settled’ Science: When Science Went Badly Wrong
The spectacle of COP26 and the attendant drama is a perfect example of poorly understood scientific ideas marshalled for political ideologies. Official speakers and protestors alike point to hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and fires as proof of climate change and impending catastrophe, despite the lack of evidence showing long-term trends for these extreme weather events. ... Just as eugenicists a century ago were confident that their policies for “racial health” would be a great boon for future generations, climate envoys and activists demand costly policies, now, for the benefit of our grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The COP26 participants and their cheerleaders are disturbingly certain of their policies’ impacts centuries down the road – and, with an excess of confidence (or hubris), they consistently misrepresent virtually every extreme weather event as a code red for the planet.
- ‘It’s a simple choice, heat or eat’: Over 7 MILLION older people are worried about the cost of heating this winter as UK energy bills surge
Some 7m older Britons are worried about cost of heating their homes as bills rise
Age UK is calling on the Government to step in now and help older people
Chris, 75, told the charity he has a stark choice between heating or eating
This is Money reader Joseph da Cunha feels pensioners have been forgotten
Email [email protected] if you're struggling to heat your home
- Global coal surge defies push for Net Zero
- Greta tells UN to ‘shove your climate crisis up your a***’ – Finally, skeptics can applaud Greta! Watch new Morano Minute
- ‘Rich Countries’ Climate Policies Are Colonialism in Green’ – ‘Once again, the rich world sees Africans as a threat to the planet’
Foreign Policy mag: At COP26, developed-world governments are working to keep the global south poor.
Scaremongering about Africa points to a disturbing undertone in rich-world debates. On climate change, as on so many other issues, many in the West seem to see Africans as a mass of passive victims lacking agency and requiring charity—the quintessential “white man’s burden”—or a looming threat to civilization. To save the planet, this thinking goes, Africans can’t enjoy a high-energy future that people in rich countries take for granted. The climate just can’t afford Africans to be prosperous. ...
Blaming Africa takes several classic forms. The first is to rattle off big scary numbers without background or context. Bill McKibben—one of the world’s most prominent climate activists—recently declared that the world can’t fight climate change if it doesn’t stop Uganda from building an oil pipeline, citing the project’s planned transport of 210,000 barrels per day, which sounds like a lot. McKibben never mentions that Uganda is one of the world’s poorest countries, that its people suffer from severe energy shortages, that it emitted a mere 0.01 percent of global carbon dioxide last year, and that the pipeline’s capacity will be equivalent to only 1.8 percent of crude oil output in the United States, where McKibben is based.
- Michael Mann rips Morano as ‘fossil fuel-funded climate inactivist’
- Indian PM slams ‘COLONIAL MINDSET’ of Western Leaders threatening India’s growth prospects in the name of Climate
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Constitution Day speech on Friday called for erasing a "colonial mindset" that only exists to "thwart India's growth".
"The colonial mindset hasn't gone. We are seeing from developed nations that the path that made them developed is being closed for developing nations."
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Flashback 2009: India: ‘It is morally wrong for us to reduce emissions when 40% of Indians do not have access to electricity’
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‘Global warming’ has saved 500,000 lives in England & Wales in the last 20 years – ‘Cold temperature deaths greatly outnumbers deaths associated with warm temperatures’
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‘Unprecedentedly few’: ‘2021 had the fewest global hurricanes in the satellite era’ & 2nd fewest strong hurricanes since 1980
. Bjorn Lomborg: "Hurricanes in 2021 were unprecedented — as in unprecedentedly few. Globally, 2021 had the fewest hurricanes ever in the satellite era (1980-2021). Globally, 2021 had some of the fewest strong hurricanes in the satellite era (1980-2021). With 16 strong (Cat 3+) hurricanes, 2021 was the second-lowest strong hurricane year since 1980. Globally, 2021 was a weak hurricane year. When measured by total energy (Accumulated Cyclone Energy), 2021 was the 9th weakest year. Did you see that reported anywhere?
Hurricanes in 2021 were weak and exceptionally few. But we heard lots about North Atlantic hurricanes. Conveniently, North Atlantic is the only basin where hurricanes are stronger. Does this leave us well-informed?. But we hear lots about names storms (hurricanes + weaker storms). Ever-easier to detect, so numbers keep climbing (4 of 2020s 30 named storms wouldn't have been named in 2000!). Not as relevant, but hey, scary numbers."
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Physicist Dr. Ed Berry explains ‘why climate change is a fraud’
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Paper in Health Physics finds ‘upper limit of human CO2 in the atmosphere is 11.6%, which (as of 2020) is 48 ppm of the 415-ppm total’
