climate change

“Time is melting away for one of Antarctica’s biggest glaciers, and its rapid deterioration could end with the ice shelf’s complete collapse in just a few years,” alarmist researchers warned at a virtual press briefing on Dec. 13, 2021 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)–a once outstanding professional society, but now a shill for the left.

We have this article by Mindy Weisberger, published December 21, 2021, at least four years after discovering the 91 additional volcanoes (138 total) underneath the melting glacier. Her article does not even mention the word volcanoes. The Thwaites glacier should have broken off around 2019, but it’s still there and still melting from below caused by volcanic activities, yet these useless so called scientists still place all the blame for melting on humans.

Michael Shellenberger, Founder - President of Environmental Progress: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said, "The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change." Then, yesterday, she proposed a “transition from” nuclear power, America’s largest source of emissions-free energy. How does she avoid the cognitive dissonance created by holding two radically opposed views? The Socialist revolutions of the last century all over again.

This websites presents articles about people and their relationship to use of energy for a better life. The use of fossil fuels has improved life tremendously. It has caused pollution. Steps have been taken to reduce the pollution. One political party in the USA is determined to stop use of fossil fuels and return life to the way it was more than a century ago. The other political party is determined to continue the use of fossil fuels and the high standards of modern societies. Similar struggles are taking place in other countries. This will have more impact than many wars. A very big struggle is coming.

This topic is very important and extremely controversial. Everyone who appreciates freedom and prosperity needs to decide whether they elect politicians who are against fossil fuels or for them. Your wellbeing depends on it.

Responding effectively to the challenge of climate change requires a full understanding that there is now a high degree of agreement among climate scientists about the fact that climate change is happening because of human activities, and that the risks will increase the longer greenhouse gas emissions continue.

Calls to keep fossil fuels in the ground are anathema to leaders in the oil and gas industry, who insist the world will continue “to be thirsty for all energy sources” in the years ahead.

Climate activists and campaign groups are pursuing an abrupt end to the fossil fuel era, condemning the latest round of net-zero pledges from many governments and corporations as a smokescreen that fails to meet the demands of the climate emergency.

John Droz is the publisher of "Energy and Environmental Newsletter." A hundred-plus years ago, wind energy was recognized as an antiquated, unreliable and expensive source of energy – and now, after hundreds of billions of wasted tax and consumer dollars, we find that (surprise!) it still is an antiquated, unreliable and expensive source of energy. This is what happens when science is relegated to a back-of-the-bus status. When a major turbine manufacturer calls a catastrophic failure like a blade falling off "component liberation", we know we are in for an adventurous ride in a theme park divorced from reality.

Bret Kugelmass, Managing Director of Energy Impact Center with main goal to stop use of fossil fuels and reverse man-made global warming. John Shanahan, Editor of All About Energy website: Bret Kugelmass -When I first launched the Energy Impact Center two years ago all I knew was that I wanted to dedicate my life to tackling climate change. John Shanahan - Has worked in energy, environmental cleanup and public education about energy and related by-products since 1970. His goals are to work for a better world with plentiful energy. He does not see the need to force everyone to stop using fossil fuels. He thinks that attempts to reverse climate change are unnecessary and would be futile.

Many states and the utilities they regulate are talking about replacing their coal and gas fired generators with solar and wind power.

Given the high intermittency of wind and solar the idea of running on solar and wind turns out to be an extremely costly prospect. It is all about reliability. Electricity must be there when we need it.

The world was previously decarbonized in the 1800’s and earlier, but Biden lacks a basic understanding of what crude oil is used for, as he tinkers with the supply chain of oil that supports the lifestyles and economies for the world’s 8 billion. A year before being inaugurated President in 2021, Biden professed that “we are going to get rid of fossil fuels.

America will be discouraging U.S. energy independence, starting with tightening restrictions on fossil fuel development by suspending Federal Oil and Gas Permits, encouraging the shuttering, and halting of further fracking efforts in America.

Kerry said the recent uptick in coal use over the last year and plans by countries to continue building coal plants will worsen global warming and urged countries to change course.

President Joe Biden appears to be doing everything in his power to lower energy prices. Last month, Biden officials eased sanctions on Venezuela with an eye to increasing oil imports. Next month, Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia with the intention of improving relations and increasing oil production.

But none of those actions will lower energy prices. Increasing oil production in Venezuela would take years and it wouldn’t be nearly enough to make up for the reduction of oil imports from Russia. Even Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates together could not produce enough oil to offset declining supply from Russia.

But these gestures pale in comparison to the overarching hostility the Biden Administration has directed toward oil and gas companies since taking office.

Dr. Willie Soon is an independent solar physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who has been studying the Sun and its influence on the Earth’s climate for more than a quarter of a century. This is a biographical outline of an exceptional person.

Anthony Watts, publisher of wattsupwiththat.com Watts Up With That? The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change: The entire rationale for wind turbines is to stop global warming by reducing the amount of CO2 being returned to the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. In the picture recently taken in Sweden, freezing cold weather has caused the rotor blades of a wind turbine to ice up bringing the blades to a complete stop. To fix the “problem” a helicopter is employed (burning aviation fuel) to spray hot water (which is heated in the frigid temperatures using a truck equipped with a 260 kW oil burner) on the blades of the turbine to de-ice them.

Over the course of the 20th century, the Jakobshavn Glacier in Iceland retreated about 10 to 15 kilometers. Over just the next eight years, it retreated about the same amount, For anyone who has entertained doubts about the warming of the planet, a trip to Greenland serves as a bracing corrective.

Greenland is about the size of Alaska and California combined and, except at its coasts, is covered by ice that in places is nearly two miles thick. Even that’s only a fraction of the ice in Antarctica, which is more than six times as large. But the Arctic is warming at nearly four times the global average, meaning Greenland’s ice also poses a nearer-term risk because it is melting faster. But just how fast is Greenland’s ice melting right now? Is this an emergency for our time, or is it a problem for the future?...... Global warming is real and getting worse, Pielke said, yet still it’s possible that humanity will be able to adapt to, and compensate for, its effects. [Is mankind the cause of this warming? Can mankind control climate change? The answers to these two questions is NO! Climate change is caused by the sun and other physics of the solar system. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is the molecule of life.]

Judith Curry, Pope Francis: From the Vatican - World leaders meeting at the Vatican for a conference on climate change have issued a final statement, declaring that “human-induced climate change is a scientific reality” and “its decisive mitigation is a moral and religious imperative for humanity.” The statement says that humans have the technological and financial means, and the know-how, to combat human-induced climate change, while at the same time eliminating global poverty. Judith Curry - The debate on climate change has centered on the science and economic cost/benefit analyses – both of which are dominated by deep uncertainties. The moral dimensions of the climate change problem have received short shrift.

Brian Fraga writes in the National Catholic Register on Man-Made Climate Change from a Catholic Perspective. The conclusions are that use of fossil fuels is causing serious global warming and almost every other serious negative change in the climate, but none of the good changes. The indication is that the leaders of the Catholic Church want the world to stop using fossil fuels or implement programs that would probably not keep Earth's climate where it is today or was fifty or one hundred years ago. The programs would transfer wealth from First World countries who are using fossil fuels to Third World countries who will continue to use fossil fuels. Without fossil fuels, Third World countries will be worse off than they are today.

Pope Francis is genuinely concerned about the poor and environment. The most obvious results of abandoning use of fossil fuels is continued extreme poverty and terrible living conditions for over one billion people in the Third and Fourth World today. It also would mean the return to a way of living in the First and Second World as it was two hundred years ago. Very simple living, human muscle, horse and cattle power, and probably slavery like it existed for hundreds of years. It is unfortunate that this Pope and all the Climate Change Alarmists don't acknowledge that. Many leaders in the great religions of the world don't want those consequences.

William M Briggs, initiator of Declaration to the Vatican on man-made climate change: The Magisterium of the Catholic Church makes no mention of earth’s optimal climate, or the best rate of change of the climate, nor should it. Neither optimum is known to anybody. Extreme caution, even skepticism, is warranted in any statement about the climate given the decades of failed and overreaching forecasts and hyperbole from official and interested sources. PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ARE ENCOURAGED TO SIGN THIS DECLARATION.

We are faced with the great challenge of limiting global warming to below 2°C.

The large-scale production of fossil fuel energy which was initiated by the Industrial Revolution and accelerated in the 20th century has led to great human development – for a minority. For the very few, it has even generated extreme wealth. On the other side of this development stand the poor and the poorest of the poor. The structural violence of this development predetermines their lives. Sources of fossil fuel energy are private goods, owned by corporations or controlled by governments.

Uli Weber, Geophysiker: Papst Franziskus fordert in seiner Enzyklika ‚Laudatio Si‘ also ganz unverblümt eine mit eigener Macht ausgestattete politische Weltregierung zur Rettung der Menschheit ein. Mit dieser übereinstimmenden Zielsetzung von Wissenschaft, Politik und Religion ging es dann in die UN-Klimakonferenz vom Dezember 2015 in Paris (COP 21). Das wenig überraschende Ergebnis dieser Klimakonferenz war dann eine „Dekarbonisierung der Welt“ für ein 1,5-2 Grad Klimaziel bis zum Jahre 2100 in einer „nicht verbindlichen“ völkerrechtlichen Vereinbarung, die inzwischen von mehr als 80 Staaten ratifiziert worden ist.