Author: cne4h
Farmer Trent Gerlach was disappointed when he found out a solar farm was going to be built on the land he's long farmed in northwest Illinois. “As a farmer, it's difficult to see land stop producing. When you've farmed it for many years, you've been a steward of that land, fertilizing that land, caring for it as if it were your own, ” he said. The Gerlaches have been growing corn, soybeans and livestock since 1968, and like many farmers, they lease farmland in addition to farming their own land. When the owner of one of the leased parcels decided…
On New Mexico's oil and gas drilling sites, people work long hours of hard, dangerous labor. Marcela Díaz of Somos un Pueblo Unido, an immigrant-led workers' rights nonprofit, said more than 40 percent of the workforce is Latino. Díaz: “Most members of this industry in our area are not unionized. They don't have pensions. If they're undocumented, they can't get Social Security benefits. When the economy goes into recession… they can't lose their jobs. Dias said that as the clean energy industry grows, many oil and gas workers are eager to move to new jobs. However, when you work long…
From the Daily Skeptic by Toby Young Robert Jenrick has promised to tear up the Climate Change Bill if he becomes Tory leader and eventually Prime Minister. this telegraph There is more. He said that if he entered No. 10, he would repeal key elements of the Blair and Brown era legislation, including the Climate Change Act, the Equality Act and the Human Rights Act, under the “Great Reform Bill”. His plans include scrapping the carbon budget and easing the burden on businesses under equality laws, which have been criticized for promoting positive discrimination and political correctness in the workplace.…
from CFACT David Wojcik Numerous wind and solar energy projects are being proposed across the United States. The idea is to replace fossil fuel electricity, which is the main source in most places. Some states even have laws in this area. Putting aside the fact that this is an impossible goal, it would be interesting, even comical, to see how this avalanche would play out in Washington state. Most of their electricity comes from hydropower, but wind and solar will eliminate that power as well. This is a disorienting goal! I became aware of this avalanche a few years ago…
Kennedy Corn “So-called 'weather attribution,' the study of assigning cause and effect to observed weather events, is fraught with methodological problems,” senior climate scientist Roger A. Pielke Jr. said in his Substack publication The Honest Broker It is the “alchemy of weather attribution”. Last year it was extremely hot. Global temperatures are nearly 0.3°C above 2022 levels, so much higher that even traditional analyzes of global warming seem unable to explain the phenomenon. As a recent article in Science notes, iconic climate scientist James Hansen suggests that a new, air pollution-driven warming mechanism may be at work. NASA's Gavin Schmidt…
Tilak Doshi The Irrationality of Western Energy Policies What causes a country to begin phasing out domestic oil and gas production while promoting the use of imported wood, a wasteful and inefficient fuel, to generate electricity? What led policymakers to close a country's last remaining operating coal-fired power plant after nearly 150 years of using coal, and within months reach a point where generators had to be issued blackout prevention notices? Britain is by no means the only Western country to embark on the perverse path of deindustrialization and national economic suicide. Why are the energy policies of major Western…
World Weather Attribution was founded in 2014 to conduct research linking extreme weather events to climate change. [emphasis, links added] This research is then fed into mainstream media outlets, giving them what the group calls “the larger global warming context” when reporting on natural disasters. The organization found a friend in Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who announced a $10 million donation to WWA in 2022 and two other organizations “to expand effective communication on the links between climate change and extreme weather.” Bezos Earth Foundation says the money It will provide WWA with a way to “reach their most important…
FEMA has been criticized for its increasing focus on immigration and diversity, equity and inclusion policies, while its response to recent hurricanes has also come under scrutiny. [emphasis, links added] Many Americans believe that FEMA is only focused on helping respond to disasters, but a closer look at FEMA's recent internal documents, spending, and public actions reveals: FEMA has expanded its focus to address the flow of immigrants into the United States and has sought to increase DEI initiatives on gender, sexual orientation, and race. FEMA's 2022-2026 Strategic Plan is an overarching document that agencies have developed to outline priorities.…
Doomsayers immediately saw the devastation caused by hurricanes Helen and Milton as “evidence” of climate change. [emphasis, links added] It's the latest example of an increasingly common phenomenon: attribution to individual weather events— Flooding in Vermont, heat waves in the Pacific Northwest, cold snaps in Texas and many others —climate change. Linking individual weather events that have occurred since ancient times to long-term changes in climate has given rise to a new academic field called attribution science. However, since it is impossible to prove that a specific weather event is the result of human-caused climate change, it is impossible to…
From the Daily Skeptic Chris Morrison A group of net zero enthusiasts led by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) have proposed a radical new plan to reduce international air travel from Europe to a minimum over the next few years. The impact of proposed huge fees under a “frequent flyer tax” could quickly destroy large parts of the international air transport industry. A portion of the funds raised, or as the case may be, will be sent abroad as “climate aid” to less developed countries forced into poverty by mandated restrictions on the use of hydrocarbons. Needless to say, this…