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Where are the bills? President Trump has ordered the demise of wind projects, but even this wind bigly blowing on their backs, the feeble Republicans of Maine remain motionless, stymied and completely lacking courage.
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Comment by Willem Post on January 22, 2025 at 5:02pm
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Insider villains discussing how they are going to spend our money on dysfunctional wind and solar systems.
Who are these people ,in a private jet ,living it up, while the poor are told to tighten their belt?
Criminals they are.
Their motto is "Let them eat cake". Screw the federal deficit. Totally tone deaf.
VOTE THEM OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on January 22, 2025 at 2:52pm
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Go ahead, just put it in your pocket.
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Great Idea Penny, McDonalds,etc..Please call Tucker's office, or Steve Bannon's War Room for that matter.
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All the facts and great Maine expertise gathered for over a decade are here,right here on this site.
Use it. Spread it , Bring it to Augusta!
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"That's a great idea (as a traditionally aloof Mainer says), as long as you do it and you pay for it".
NOW , or Never Maine!
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Those are all great questions. I wonder if Tucker Carlson could get Senator Collins, Senator King and Gov. Mills on his show and hold their feet to the fire to get some honest answers.
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Blog posting here is of limited value if boots on the ground are not projected to the EUT in Augusta.
You have a Champion in the White House now, one we all fought for for years!
Maine seems to have few wind warrior leaders any more who are willing to organize and directly confront the thieves at the legislature from what I see and IMHO. Prove me wrong please !!! I and scores of others did so while actively organizing and fighting after the original Expedited Wind Law was signed and the initial attacks began in 2007-2013.
Doing blog posts is fun for some, it does inform for some, for the few that do this any more , and the limited audience I think this modality reaches.
Boots on the ground NOW is the only way for Maine to survive .
Wind Warrior Boots in the ether is useless unless there is direct political action lest we are talking to ourselves.
Remaining Maine Wind Warriors must Organize, get a few good legislators who support Trump's Energy Program and who have a set, and strike NOW!!
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CO2 Has a Very Minor Global Warming Role in the Atmosphere
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-has-a-very-minor-r...
By Willem Post
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The Tropics and Sub-tropics,
CO2 a weak photon absorber, plays no measurable role, because, near the surface, it is outnumbered by about 27400/420 = 65 to 1 by water vapor, WV, a strong photon absorber.
Dry air molecules outnumber CO2 by 999,000/420 = 2400 to 1, and WV by 999,000/27400 = 35 to 1
All IR surface photons are eliminated by collision or absorption within 10 meter of the surface.
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WV, 18, is lighter than CO2, 44, and air, 29, so it rises and condenses into clouds at about 2,000 meter elevation.
The clouds, with prevailing winds, are transported to northern latitudes, to areas underserved by the sun, especially during winter, with trees dormant for 6 or more months.
That means the WV and clouds we see up north, from the 37th parallel upwards, come from faraway places, because up north there is not enough energy to evaporate much water, where flora sheds its leaves and hibernates from September to April, and where much fauna migrates to southern latitudes.
Any evaporation is from near or on the ground, such as from as dew, ground fog, snow and ice.
But, even up north, near the surface, CO2 plays no measurable role, because WV outnumbers CO2 by about 17700/420 = 42 to 1.
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Northern Latitudes, such as New England
Low- Pressure System
During a low-pressure system, clouds from elsewhere accumulate to form a dense layer, which may produce precipitation; rain in summer, sleet and snow in winter.
Right now, Jan 11, 2025, pressure is low, temperature is 20 F, cloud cover is 100%, PV panels covered with snow, no wind, and it is snowing.
Thank the Lord for fossil fuels, as otherwise we would be very miserable.
Local WV will freeze on grass and trees during the night in winter. It will evaporate by sunshine during the next day.
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High Pressure System
During a high-pressure system, dry winds are from the North, skies go from being cloudy to almost clear.
There is little wind when the high pressure is established.
There are strong winds from the north during the transitory stage, from low- to high pressure,
At colder temperatures above the clouds, any emitted IR photons would have longer wavelengths beyond the CO2 15 micrometer absorption window.
However, WV would absorb these photons, because it has a much wider window starting at about 15 micrometer.
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At higher elevation, temperature is less, density is less, there are fewer molecules/m^3 or moles/m^3, there are fewer collisions, because molecules are moving slower and are further apart.
The average kinetic energy of molecules decreases with temperature. See URL
KE avg = 3/2 R*T = 3/2 x (8.314 J / K) * T, where T is in Kelvin.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-albany-chemistry/chapter/the...
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Above the Clouds
CO2 begins to play a measurable role when the presence of WV is less, say 3 to 1, at about 3,000 m elevation, which usually is above the clouds.
WV freezes on all dry air molecules, and on CO2 molecules, pollen, aerosols, etc., similar to combustion WV condensing/freezing on ash particles and CO2 molecules from jet engines of airliners at 10,000 m elevation. As a result WV is about 1.8 ppm from 20 km to 80 km
Any sunlight high-frequency/short-wavelength photons are reflected and refracted.
IR photons will be absorbed by the frozen WV molecules, or collide with other ice-covered molecules, etc.
IR photons will not be absorbed by the CO2 molecules, because they are covered with ice.
The thermal effect of the high-elevation absorption of IR photons (with longer wavelengths) is miniscule, compared to the absorption of IR photons (with shorter wavelengths) near the earth surface.
The atmosphere heat content/m^3, aka Enthalpy, is 358 kJ / m^3 near the surface, decreases to 19.5 KJ / m^3 at 20 km.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-p...
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The Logarithmic Temperature Rise of Higher CO2 Levels
This image shows, each time CO2 ppm doubles, the temperature increases only 1 C
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Radiation Transport in Clouds
https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/SCC-2025-vWijngaarden-Happer.pdf
By Drs. van Wijngaarden and Happer
The article details just how insignificant CO2 is as a factor in climate change, revealing that doubling the CO2 concentration from 400 ppm to 800 ppm – a 100% increase – hypothetically reduces radiative heat loss to space by just 1%.
It would take many decades to achieve such a ppm increase, plus there are not enough fossil fuels left over to make it happen.
Because CO2 has increased by only 50% since 1850 (280 ppm to 420 ppm), the CO2 total greenhouse effect regarding reducing upward IR radiation has thus far been in the range of tenths of a percentage point.
Such a small change in upward IR radiation, over 175 years, is not even detectable amid the noise of outgoing radiation measurement.
For example, the measured upward IR radiation has an error of about 33 W/m²
This negligible CO2 greenhouse effect is a calculated value for an atmosphere that is perpetually cloud-free.
As clouds are present 60 - 70% of the time, this clear-sky-only condition only occurs in an imaginary world – an atmosphere that doesn’t exist.
Compared to the CO2 role, the greenhouse effect of clouds is tens of times more influential.
To decrease solar heating of the Earth by a few percent, low cloud cover needs to increase by only a few percent.
During cloudy skies, there is warming, due to downward IR radiation from cloud bottoms at about 340 W/m^2
During clear skies, there is about 30% less warming, due to downward IR radiation at about 260 W/m^2, primarily from thermal emission of water vapor and CO2
Because cloud cover changes of much more than 1% routinely occur, over time-scale of a few years, the role of CO2 within the greenhouse effect is insignificant, if not irrelevant.
Cloud cover changes are the only plausible explanation for most of the modest “secular” warming of the past two centuries. Together with ocean current fluctuations (see below URLs), cloud cover changes are also the only physical mechanism that could account for fluctuating temperature changes with time scales of a few years.
Based on fundamental physics, one should expect some warming from increasing CO2. But this warming will be too small to account for what has been observed.
Cloud cover changes provide the only rational explanation that does not violate basic physics.
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El Nino Warming Events Occur Tens of Times Faster than CO2 Warming Effects
El Nino events typically produce temporary increases in global temperatures of 0.2 to 0.7 C, due to increased evaporation resulting in increased cloud cover of 2 to 5%, usually in less than 2 years.
The increase in low cloud cover reduces the net cooling effect of upward IR radiation.
See URLs and El Nino temperature peaks in image.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-periodic-global-warming
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-eruption.
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We Are in a CO2 Famine
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/we-are-in-a-co2-famine
By Willem Post
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Atmospheric CO2 ppm, human plus natural, it is near the lowest level in 600 million years.
Highly subsidized CO2 sequestering schemes and Net Zero by 2050 schemes are super-expensive, ineffective suicide programs.
Crops in open fields, with CO2 at 420 ppm, require fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and much machinery to have high yields/acre.
Crops in greenhouses, with CO2 at 1200 ppm, require minimal chemicals, have 2 to 3 times higher yields/acre
https://www.masterresource.org/carbon-dioxide/increased-plant-produ...
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Plants are on a starvation diet with CO2 at 420 ppm
The image shows plant growth at 420 ppm; at 420 +150; at 420 +300; at 420+450
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Many plants have become weak or extinct, along with the fauna they support, due to CO2 at 420 ppm, or less.
As a result, many areas of the world lost resilience, became arid and deserts.
Current CO2 ppm needs to at least double or triple. Unfortunately, not enough fossil fuel is left over to make that CO2 increase happen.
Earth temperature increased about 1.2 C since 1900, due to many causes, such as long-term cycles, fossil CO2, and permafrost methane which converts to CO2.
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CO2 ppm increase from 1979 to 2023 was 421/336 = 1.25, greening increase about 12%, per NASA.
CO2 ppm increase from 1900 to 2023 was 421/296 = 1.42, greening increase about 19%
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Increased greening: 1) Produces oxygen by photosynthesis; 2) Increases world flora and fauna; 3) Increases crop yields per acre; 4) Reduces world desert areas
The ozone layer absorbs 200 to 315 nm UV wavelengths, which would genetically damage exposed lifeforms.
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Energy-related CO2 was 37.55 Gt, or 4.8 ppm in 2023, about 75% of total human CO2.
One CO2 ppm in atmosphere = 7.821 Gt.Total human CO2 was 4.8/0.75 = 6.4 ppm in 2023. See URLs
CO2, human plus natural, to atmosphere = 421.08 ppm, end 2023 – 418.53, end 2022 = 2.55 ppm; to oceans 2.3 ppm (assumed); to forests and other sinks 1.55 ppm; natural CO2 increase is assumed at zero.Forests net CO2 absorption = absorption 15.6 Gt - emission 8.1 Gt = 7.6 Gt, or almost 1 ppm
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-satellites-help-quantify-forests...
Mauna Loa curve shows a variation of about 9 ppm during a year, due to seasons
Inside buildings, CO2 is about 1000 ppm, greenhouses about 1200 ppm, submarines up to 5000 ppm
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Respiration: glucose + O2 → CO2 + H20 (+ energy)
Photosynthesis: 6 CO2 + 12 H2O (+ sunlight+ chlorophyll) → 1 glucose + 6 O2 + 6 H20
Plants respire 24/7. Plants photosynthesize with brighter light
In low light, respiration and photosynthesis are in balance
In bright light, photosynthesis is much greater than respiration
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https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2/co2_annmean_mlo.txt
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/new-study-2001-2020-gl...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/summary-of-world-co2eq...
https://issuu.com/johna.shanahan/docs/co2_pitch_4-3-24_baeuerle_eng...
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Oceans Absorb CO2
Sea water has 3.5% salt, NaCl, by weight.
CO2 molecules continuously move from the air into sea water, per Henry’s Law
CO2 and NaCl form many compounds that contain C, O, H, Cl, Ca
They sustain flora and fauna in the oceans, such as plankton, kelp, coral, seagrass, shell fishes, etc. See
The Fairy Tale of The CO2 Paradise Before 1850...A Look at The Real Sciencehttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-fairy-tale-of-the-...
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At the surface, seawater pH 8.1, and CO2 421 ppm, the % presence of ions [CO2], [HCO3−], and [CO3 2−] is 0.5, 89, and 10.5; “Free” CO2 is only 0.5%; CO2 out-migration is minimal, given the conditions.
The oceans are a major sink of CO2 (human + natural)
https://tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/14-4_feely.pdf.
Here are four articles attesting to the small global warming role of CO2 in the atmosphere
Eight Taiwanese Engineers Determine Climate Sensitivity to a 300 ppm CO2 Increase Is 'Negligibly Small'
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/eight-taiwanese-engine...
By Kenneth Richard
The Fairy Tale of The CO2 Paradise Before 1850...A Look at The Real Science
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-fairy-tale-of-the-...
By Fred F. Mueller
Achieving 'Net Zero by 2050' Reduces Temps by 0.28 C Costing Tens of $TRILLIONS
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/achieving-net-zero-by-...
By Kenneth Richard
German Researcher: Doubling Of Atmospheric CO2 Causes Only 0.24°C Of Warming ...Practically Insignificant
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Give them hell, Ken
They more tan deserve it
CO2 is an essential gas to grow flora and fauna.
It is near the lowest level in 600 million years
The uptick from pre-industrial 280 ppm to the present 424 ppm is very small compared to past ppm levels
It has been abundantly shown by real scientists, CO2 ppm doubling adds only 1 C, which is hardly measurable
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
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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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