fossil fuels

Victor Hanson writer for the NYPost: Despite its cool green parties and ambitious wind and solar agendas, Europe remains by far the world’s largest importer of oil and natural gas. Europe itself is naturally rich in fossil fuels. It likely has more reserves of shale gas than the United States, currently the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas. Yet in most European countries, horizontal drilling and fracking are either illegal or mired in protests and court challenges. The result: Europe is almost entirely dependent on Russian, Middle Eastern and African energy. Which is why the American-Iranian standoff, coupled with radical drop-offs in Iranian and Venezuelan oil production, has terrified Europe. It is hard to be both the world’s largest importer of gas and oil and the loudest critic of fossil fuels, but Europe has managed to do it.

Thomas Schmid, German speaker, author, journalist, leader of discussions of new and old books: Basically, the Swedish preacher rejects the entire universe of the Western world. Greta Thunberg is not the solitaire she performs. It has not brought a fundamentally new topic into the political arena. It is part of a well-known movement that flourished, especially in the interior of the Western world of well-being, with its wonderful but dangerous willingness to doubt everything. Political leaders who give Greta their time and attention act like political ABC shooters. Then they immediately return to their agenda.

Thomas Schmid, German speaker, author, journalist, leader of discussions of new and old books: Basically, the Swedish preacher rejects the entire universe of the Western world. Greta Thunberg is not the solitaire she performs. It has not brought a fundamentally new topic into the political arena. It is part of a well-known movement that flourished, especially in the interior of the Western world of well-being, with its wonderful but dangerous willingness to doubt everything. Political leaders who give Greta their time and attention act like political ABC shooters. Then they immediately return to their agenda.

Thomas Schmid, German speaker, author, journalist, leader of discussions of new and old books: Basically, the Swedish preacher rejects the entire universe of the Western world. Greta Thunberg is not the solitaire she performs. It has not brought a fundamentally new topic into the political arena. It is part of a well-known movement that flourished, especially in the interior of the Western world of well-being, with its wonderful but dangerous willingness to doubt everything. Political leaders who give Greta their time and attention act like political ABC shooters. Then they immediately return to their agenda.

The G7 is an informal grouping of seven of the world's advanced economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union. The leaders and their spokespersons (John F Kerry) demand that their countries stop using fossil fuels. This is absurd. There is no justification for such a drastic change. Abandoning fossil fuels will destroy their economies. John Kerry and his counterparts say that investments in fossil fuels have to be stamped out, except when they help Europe end its catastrophic dependence on Russian gas.

That was the mixed message Friday from climate ministers of the world’s top industrialized democracies. The G7 called for an end to international investments in fossil fuels by the end of this year and slammed private finance for continuing to back dirty energy — but left a big out for EU countries desperate to replace Russian gas.

They’re acting like this is new news, as if nobody had ever thought of it before: ‘Scientists Discover A Warming Arctic Drove Earth Into The Little Ice Age’. They’re even calling it “surprising”

As reported by MSN, following an era known as the medieval warm period–so that did exist then…?–temperatures in Europe in the early 15th century plunged in what has become known as The Little Ice Age (LIA).

This remarkable multicentennial period of cold brought increased glaciation to the mountains, an expansion of sea ice, crop failures, famines and disease across the European continent. Flip-flopping summers –with extremes at both ends of the spectrum– were chased by brutally harsh winters, during which rivers and canals routinely froze over.

Studying the JET STREAM has long been an indicator of the weather to come, and to study the jet stream attention must turn to the SUN.

When solar activity is HIGH, the jet stream is tight and stable and follows somewhat of a straight path. But when solar activity is LOW, that meandering band of air flowing 6 miles above our heads becomes weak and wavy, it effectively buckles which diverts frigid Polar air to atypically low latitudes and replaces it with warmer tropical air.

LONDON (Reuters) - “Shall we all just kill ourselves?” With study-after-study showing climate impacts from extreme weather to polar melt and sea level rise outstripping initial forecasts, negotiators have a fast-closing window to try to turn the aspirations agreed in Paris into meaningful outcomes. “There’s so much on the line in the next 18 months or so,” said Sue Reid, vice-president of climate and energy at Ceres, a U.S. non-profit group that works to steer companies and investors onto a more sustainable path.

Europe’s wind turbine makers are in financial freefall; with subsidies slashed, demand for turbines has collapsed, input costs are soaring and their Chinese competitors are benefiting from their cheap and reliable supplies of coal-fired power. Oh, the irony!

The barely disguised panic in this article from ReCharge (one of Europe’s leading wind and solar propaganda outfits) suggests that Europe’s wind industry rent-seekers should be kept well away from sleeping pills and sharp objects, for the foreseeable future.

The UN COP-26 begins today, October 31, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK – Halloween, which is eminently appropriate, since the participants' primary goal is to terrify humanity into ignoring this looming energy, economic, health and human rights crisis... and convince us to forget about natural climate change and take immediate, drastic, but futile action to “prevent a man made climate cataclysm.”

At the beginning of March, Frans Timmermans, the European Union’s Executive Vice President for the European Green New Deal and European Commissioner for Climate Action, announced that EU nations planning to burn coal as an alternative to Russian natural gas are not out of line with the EU’s climate goals.

As Bill Winters, CEO of the British multinational banking and financial services firm Standard Chartered, said just last week, “The idea that we can turn off the taps and end fossil fuels tomorrow, it’s obviously ridiculous and naïve. First of all, it’s not going to happen and secondly, it would be very disruptive.”

O.R. Adams Jr. is a retired lawyer. He prepared this paper in 2011 about CO2 from fossil fuels and man-made global warming. He did it as thoroughly as a lawyer would to present a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. It is a combination of knowing the facts, having references and presenting it well. See comments dated December, 2016 by geologist, Robert (Robin) Richards, in South Africa on page 29.

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” - Richard Feynman, Physicist, Nobel laureate