fossil fuels

Richard S Courtney BA ABSW FRSA ESEF: Reports published by the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are biased and misleading polemic and, therefore, any decisions based on them are likely to be very flawed. The IPCC’s Reports are political tracts that promote a political policy, and they are given the appearance of scientific documents by presenting selected scientific information and misrepresentation of scientific data together with a sham that the contents of the reports have been subjected to scientific peer review.

Hans Rosling, is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker. He is the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation. He rose to international celebrity status after producing a Ted Talk in which he promoted the use of data to explore development issues. In this video, he presents dynamic results of statistics for life expectancy versus income for the last 200 years. The results are amazing. It tells the story of how fossil fuels have changed life for the better., both for income and life expectancy.

Anthony Watts, publisher of wattsupwiththat.com Watts Up With That? Modern living would collapse without energy from fossil fuels and without all their by-products. This has an amusing video to demonstrate life with out fossil fuels.

By-products of oil make up more than half of its uses. Oil for energy and for by-products are key to the modern world. When we run out of oil, it will most likely be replaced by synthetic hydrocarbons, not hydrogen and electric batteries for wind, solar, and electric vehicles. This will continue the CO2, H2O, hydrocarbon cycle of nature. Hydrogen and Lithium batteries require different infrastructures than fossil fuels, have new risks, and more impact on the environment. Nuclear power advocates who claim that nuclear power can control climate change need to take a few more courses in the future of nuclear power and what controls climate. They are making a mistake that is not helping nuclear power construction to get going again.

Jim Steele, director emeritus of the Sierra Nevada Field Campus, SFSU and author Landscapes and Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism: There are too many fear mongering politicians pushing an “existential climate crisis”. I find the climate history told by the trees far more trustworthy, and the trees are whispering there is no crisis.

The Anglo/American Empire today resembles the decadent dying days of Rome. Europe is becoming a green energy wasteland, the British Empire died with Churchill, and America has dodderers and adolescents in charge. Australia plans to defend the outback with battery-powered Bushmasters (good for battlefields with plenty of power points).

Our farmers and miners produced wool booms, gold rushes, silver booms, coal bonanzas, and a cornucopia of meat and butter, iron and steel, oil and gas, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, aluminium, lithium, cobalt, manganese and uranium. But now green dreamers think we can afford to destroy our processing and manufacturing industry with solar/wind dreams, shut the gate on mining and exploration, and turn farms, forests and grassland into industry-free world-heritage and first-nations wilderness.

Viv Forbes, Executive Director of the Saltbush Club: Industry needs low cost reliable power. We must ensure that EVERY electricity generator who connects to the grid can supply reliable 24/7 power using their own backup facilities or via firm contracts.

Abandon the Zero Emissions farce. Bullock-drawn wagons, camel trains and horse teams may achieve the zero emissions dream but they will not keep our cities fed - there are no electric tractors, dozers or road trains.

This Lockdown Depression is giving us a taste of “Zero Emissions”. It is a bitter taste. It leads to unemployment and poverty with no proven benefits for nature or the climate.

David Wojick, Heartland Institute, Ph.D. Philosophy of Science and Mathematical Logic, B.Sc. Civil Engineering:The climate change debate is not about the basic greenhouse effect. It is about what warming, if any, the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration might bring and whether or not it is dangerous. Deming addresses none of this, which is certainly simple, but also useless. He simply equates the increased CO2 concentration with global warming. The validity of this equation is what most of the debate is about, but there is no hint of this in his presentation. It is as if the debate did not exist. He even suggests that this entire issue was settled over 100 years ago, which is simply laughable.

Early 2020, the world was struck by the man-made disaster of the spread of the COVID-19 virus that escaped from the Wuhan laboratory (Rogin, 2021). But long before this incredible blunder started to be acknowledged after much denying, world leaders and some influential billionaires had already announced what would be the next and even more expensive economic devastation, climate change policies and “decarbonation” of our economies. These perspectives are far worse than a transient virus misery.

In the midst of this COVID-19 man-made disaster I started, as a geophysicist, geochemist and computer scientist, to painfully resent the ludicrous harping of ecologist crooks, NGOs and supranational bodies of the UN to make them feel guilty to just try to make a living for themselves and for their families and to the forthcoming requirement for them to resort to a more frugal way of living «to save the planet» when they themselves have probably not ever experienced what it means to make ends meets.

President Obama’s advice to college graduates «you can’t just accept what the experts and the people in charge tell you» was spot on and I could not accept to be a silent accomplice of the future destruction of western economies for a witch hunt without going in depth: 1) into the relevance of the brandished scientific « proofs » arising from so many disciplines as climate science is just an illusion but resorts to a bunch of well known disciplines as chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy, biology, to name a few, 2) the relevance of computer models mainly based on fluid mechanics equations which are unable to make a decent fifteen day forecast but will – based on the same physical principles and technology – tell you the average temperature a century away, and 3) the delirious policies that will be implemented to fight the enemy, nothing less than the gas of life, the gas which has enabled in the end all living species on this planet to exist. One should never forget that irreplaceable and widely available fossil energy sources together with nuclear energy have simply enabled mankind to move out of the cave and improve living conditions on earth as never imagined before.

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Roger Higgs, geologist, Founder, Geoclastica Ltd. The IPCC says ongoing warming is due to man’s CO2 emissions, hence ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’ (AGW). However, the 3 pillars on which they base this claim are unscientific and quickly disproved. (PILLAR I) “EARTH’S AVERAGE SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND MAN’S CO2 EMISSIONS HAVE BOTH RISEN SINCE 1850, SO CO2 MUST HAVE CAUSED THE WARMING” FIVE DISPROOFS. (PILLAR II) “GLOBAL WARMING’S CONTINUANCE DESPITE THE SUN’S WEAKENING AFTER 1991 ABSOLVES THE SUN AND INCRIMINATES CO2” DISPROOF. (PILLAR III) “SEA LEVEL (SL) FOR THE LAST FEW THOUSAND YEARS VARIED LESS THAN 25CM, SO THE 30CM SL RISE SINCE 1850 PROVES ABNORMAL WARMING BY CO2” DISPROOF.

Marty Cornell, chemist. Career with Dow Chemical specializing in transportation and environmental issues: This is a clearly written, well documented presentation on the history of Earth's climate and the topic of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. It is a good counterpart to John Holdrens presentation also over 100 slides claiming that everything that represents severe climate change and severe weather is due to man's use of fossil fuels. Billions of lives depend on having the right answer.

Steve Goreham, Executive Director, Climate Science Coalition of America: The record hottest days in the United States occurred before the intensive use of fossil fuels. The driest and wettest periods occur at regular intervals. They are not getting a lot worse. All in all there is no sign of catastrophic climate change from use of fossil fuels. But the media keeps printing headlines and the public is fully panicked. The real catastrophe will be when North America, Europe and Australia abandon fossil fuels and nuclear - when the lights go out and the elevators in the high-rise apartments and condominiums stop working. Extreme hot and cold days have always been around. 21st Century humans think that we are the cause. People made those mistakes in the past: witches, having the wrong religion, the Inquisition. How smart is mankind?

David Burton is a Soil Scientist and Professor in the Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences in the Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada: He is an important contributor to global discussions about soil science, crop science and the carbon dioxide cycle in the atmosphere, on land and in the ocean. This is a snapshot taken November 29, 2019 of his website that is a compendium of information about sea levels. Go to the website for more recent information and any other changes. This is an excellent resource on the subject.

Charles Battig, M.D. and electrical engineer: This is a short summary of the status of the man-made global warming debate, written by an informed medical doctor and engineer.

Escalating climate change pressures are strangling capital flows for oil and gas producers, driving up the price of gasoline, electricity, and home heating and cooling.

World leaders and the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) movement that are setting policies to rid the world of fossil fuels, have short memories of petrochemical products and human ingenuity being the reasons for the world populating from 1 to 8 billion in less than two hundred years.

In the 1700’s, before fossil fuel driven ships, Ben Franklin made eight voyages via sailboat across the Atlantic Ocean, between the Colonies and Europe that each took as long as three-to-four months to complete a one-way voyage.

Today, we have the fuels to move the heavy-weight, and long-range needs of more than 50,000 merchant ships and more than 50,000 jets. We also have the manufactured fuels for the vehicle population dominated by truck registrations, and the military and space programs, which are needed to support the worldwide efforts to feed those eight billion on this earth.

2022 so far has made one thing abundantly clear: there is bipartisan support for nuclear carbon-free energy.

Carbon dioxide is an essential molecule of all life and energy from fossil fuels. Nuclear power advocates in the United States are misleading the public with their war on fossil fuels by emphasizing that nuclear power is carbon free.

Armstrong Economics: Amazingly, among the list of 11,000 climate experts includes Mickey Mouse from the Mickey Mouse Institute For the Blind. No one in the press bothered to verify such an announcement despite 11,000 scientists claiming to have signed something that no legitimate scientist would EVER ascribe to. This is not science, it is propaganda. What scientist would advocate teaching girls not to have children?

Richard McPherson, LCDR, U.S. Navy (Retired), Represented United States at the IAEA Chernobyl accident assessment. Co-Founder of Global Humanitarian Resources, Inc. helping humanity under the nexus of agriculture, water and energy: In a new Middle East, largely secured by their own joint force, the U.S. could shift its Middle East relationship away from investing tax dollars in the Department of Defense for ships, aircraft, helicopters and military personnel to safeguard the oil flow out of those countries. Instead, our relationship could focus on private investment for long-term energy security for the world.