fossil fuels

Survey by John Shanahan, civil engineer, Environmentalists for Nuclear - USA, EFN-USA, website: efn-usa.org and John Droz, physicist, Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions, website: wiseenergy.org: This survey has ten questions about fossil fuels, man-made global warming, and nuclear energy. Understanding the roles of fossil fuels and nuclear and the debate about man-made global warming are essential to making a better world. It was sent only to the Board of Advisors for EFN-USA. There were 13 responses from members in Chile, France, India, New Zealand and the United States. While the number of responses is very small, they come from people, most of whom have lots of experience in these fields. The survey presents their answers and most importantly their comments - all anonymously. Finally, one respondent offered an additional comment, beyond the scope of the survey. We considered it very valuable and posted it on the last page of this report.

Rich Lowry, Editor of National Review: The youthful climate activists claim they’ve been sold out by their elders. Greta Thunberg put it with her usual accusatory starkness at the U.N.: “You are failing us, but young people are starting to understand your betrayal.” This is laughable. By no global measure of social and economic well-being have we failed kids. According to HumanProgress.org, the global poverty rate fell from 28 percent in 1999 to 11 percent in 2013. Life expectancy increased from 63.2 years to 71.9 years from 1981 to 2015. The completion rate for primary school increased from 80 percent in 1981 to 90 percent in 2015. The same benign trends hold for hunger, child labor, literacy.

Greta Thunberg thinks it is wrong for Germany to shut down its current nuclear power plants and burn coal instead.

Burning more coal is definitely not a good idea to reduce CO2 emissions. But that is exactly what the traffic light government is doing at the moment and will do it even more in the future when more stable power generators such as nuclear power plants are taken off the grid. Even floating oil power plants in the North Sea are seriously under discussion.

Greta Thunberg, Swedish high school student leading global campaign against fossil fuels: Greta Thunberg has excoriated world leaders for their “betrayal” of young people through their inertia over the climate crisis at a United Nations summit that failed to deliver ambitious new commitments to address dangerous global heating.In a stinging speech on Monday, the teenage Swedish climate activist told governments that “you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal.” Comments by energy and environmental specialists around the world have been added.

Jane Orient, MD, President, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness: Greta Thunberg and her followers must not be allowed to silence or drown out scientists who challenge their apocalyptic scenarios. Or those such as Tony Heller, who expose the fraud. As she herself says, Greta should be in school. And the politicians should be confronted with all these questions. How dare they presume to destroy the world’s economy and our freedoms based on a false apocalypse?

Greta Thunberg, Swedish high school student leading global campaign against fossil fuels: Address to the United Nations, To those wielding power, the activist said, "You are failing us, but young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you." "We will not let you get away with this," she added. "Right here, right now is where we draw the line." Thunberg concluded her remarks by saying, "The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not."

Greta Thunberg, Swedish high school student leading global campaign against fossil fuels: Greta Thunberg is just an ordinary 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl whose fiery visions have convinced the parliaments of Britain and Ireland to declare a “climate emergency”. Greta’s parents are just an ordinary pair of parent-managers who want to save the planet. Query their motives, and you risk being accused of “climate denial”, or of bullying a vulnerable child with Asperger’s. But the Greta phenomenon has also involved green lobbyists, PR hustlers, eco-academics, and a think-tank founded by a wealthy ex-minister in Sweden’s Social Democratic government with links to the country’s energy companies.

John Eidson, writer, analyst for energy, climate change, government policies, retired electrical engineer, independent voter: How do you take over the world? You find a way to terrify the world’s children to believe they will die if they don’t listen to you. In what amounts to nothing less than intentional child abuse, the Left has sought since the 1980s to terrify the world’s children about global warming.

Gregory Wrightstone, geologist has been investigating the Earth’s processes for more than 35 years. He is author of the newly published book Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know. On September 23, 2019 an irate 16-year-old Swedish girl told the United Nations General Assembly that her elders are failing to address the supposed dangers of climate change. While it is easy to poke fun at the blatant virtue signaling of this whole affair, more dangerous is her vitriolic message that was accepted uncritically by the world’s media as factual. It turns out that very little of what she said is supported by science.

Irene Aegerter, physicist, Simon Aegerter, physicist: Nuclear Energy has a bad name and is allegedly not wanted by the people. Yet, even after Harrisburg, Tschernobyl and Fukushima it remains the cleanest, safest and most environmentally safe source of energy and – if done right – will become the cheapest. With new generations of nuclear reactors, the perceived dangers of nuclear power will be eliminated: The Generation IV reactors are inherently safe in normal and abnormal operations, they are proliferation resistant and they use the long lived "waste" isotopes as fuel. They utilize Thorium and all of the Uranium, thereby making the available resources essentially inexhaustible.

Here is a link to a talk by Dr. Schernikau - "The Future of Energy" or is the Energy Crisis caused by Putin?

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Switzerland ice storm on Lake Geneva, Lac Leman, Genfer See: Dramatic ice formations on land with the lake not frozen.

Click here to see pictures of the ice storm on Lake Geneva in January, 2009 with song, Ameno by Era.

Markus Haering, geologist: The complexity of life and nature keeps you humble. Science helps us understand nature in increasingly greater detail. And while it may help us recognize future trends, it will never allow us to predict the future.

Alexander Stahel is a Zug, Switzerland-based commodities investor. The major strategic issue that threatens the grid is that a handful of people in positions of power have committed most of Europe to a dramatic reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, even though most of the rest of the world will never follow this policy. The European Commission has transformed these commitments into legal requirement to reduce emissions by 55% from 1990 levels before 2030 - the so-called "Fit for 55" laws. The scale of change to society that this implies is hard to comprehend. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Ed Berry, physicist and climate scientist: The scientific basis for the effect of human carbon dioxide on atmospheric carbon dioxide rests upon correctly calculating the human carbon cycle. This paper uses the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) carbon-cycle data and allows IPCC’s assumption that the CO2 level in 1750 was 280 ppm. Human emissions through 2019 have added only 31 ppm to atmospheric CO2 while nature has added 100 ppm. If human emissions were stopped in 2020, then by 2100 only 8 ppm of human CO2 would remain in the atmosphere. Siimon Aegerter, Eric Jelinski and Douglas Lightfoot offer comments from different perspectives.

Germany is responsible for about 2% of global annual CO2 emissions from energy. To match Germany’s electricity demand (or over 15% of EU’s electricity demand) solely from solar photovoltaic panels located in Spain, about 7% of Spain would have to be covered with solar panels (~35.000 km2).

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Through the process of photosynthesis, and with the power of the sun (specific UV wavelengths), and naturally occurring chemicals such as chlorophyll, and invivo reactor sites provided by naturally occurring enzymes, we know how to produce gigatons of feedstock for our hydrocarbon production process from CO2. Algae farms might be our best alternative to accomplishing this part.

Kerry Sheridan, AFP: Dr. James Hansen addresses the topic of catastrophic man-made global warming. He considers it so urgent as to publish it before it is peer reviewed. He claims it is urgently necessary to tax fossil fuels (in the United States) and greatly reduce their use or (American) kids will suffer from man-made extremes in the climate/weather. Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy - USA presents their photographic evidence. People around the world, who depend on fossil fuels, disagree with Dr. Hansen about taxing and stopping use of fossil fuels.

Peter Roff, Washington Examiner: Spurred on by trial lawyers and environmental activists, whose political support is crucial for any up and coming progressive, state and local elected officials have been trying to prove as a matter of law that the nation’s energy companies lied for years to their stockholders and to the American people about the possible impact of global warming. They’ve been unsuccessful, largely because the charge is untrue — as several of those who’ve already brought these lawsuits have been forced by the facts to admit.