THE BIG DISCONNECT BETWEEN POLICIES AND REALITIES
Don't know about anyone else, but last week's few days of bitter cold weather didn't make me any more or less believing in 'global warming'.
We need more than weather statistics and computer models to justify all the consequential, societal, environmental and economic upheaval that has come as part of the energy policies foisted on us by the climate change enforcers.
Ignoring climate change just got more expensive
By Eric Roston
Bloomberg News
If President-elect Donald Trump stops taking climate change into account when making
federal energy policy, he’ll do so just as a leading projection of climate-related costs
bolts upwards.
William Nordhaus of Yale University is a central figure in the study of climate change
and economics. In the early 1990s he developed what became the leading computer
model for studying the effects of warming on the global economy. The Dynamic
Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (DICE) has long given resource
economists, students, and policymakers an opportunity to test how different scenarios
might lead to very different future climates.
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Even after adjusting for uncertainty, he writes, there is “virtually no chance” that nations
will prevent the world from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), the
upper bound for avoiding cascading catastrophes. With revisions to methods and data in
the model, he estimates that the price associated with each ton of carbon dioxide emitted
should be about 50 percent higher than the previous version of DICE.
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Tea-leaf-reading aside, the new administration’s actual intentions and priorities will
become clear only after Jan. 20. The planet, meanwhile, seems to have intentions and
priorities of its own, judging by the unprecedented warm Christmas near the top of the
world.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-23/ignoring-climate...
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Comment by Pineo Girl on December 24, 2016 at 10:12am
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What we need is the truth about climate change today - How much the climate is changing and what is causing it! There is more fake news related to the wind industry than any other sector - Fake news about jobs, production costs, benefits, and how it helps stop climate change. If we can do anything we must bring real and true information about wind to the public. The average person is just being duped.
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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