Europe is Busy Scrapping Net Zero, While Biden's Handlers Cling to it
Europe is Busy Scrapping Net Zero, Biden's Handlers Cling to it.
BY TYLER DURDEN
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
“Unaffordable climate commitments have two leftist British parties racing to exit stage left.”
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The Wall Street Journal reports Europeans Ditch Net Zero, While Biden Clings to It
You know you’ve fallen through the looking glass when European politicians start sounding saner on climate policy than the Americans do.
Well here we are, Alice: Europeans are admitting the folly of net zero quicker than their American peers.
The latest example—perhaps “victim” is more apt—is Humza Yousaf, who resigned this week as Scotland’s first minister.
That region within the U.K. enjoys substantial powers over its own affairs, including on climate policy.
An administration led by Mr. Yousaf’s left-leaning Scottish National Party had hoped to rush ahead of the national government in London in slashing carbon emissions.
Until, that is, someone noticed the costs.
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A recent report from the U.K.’s Climate Change Committee noted, Scotland had fallen far behind on its climate goals.
The government aimed to reduce by 20% the aggregate distance driven by Scottish motorists, compared with 2019 levels, but had no plan to accomplish the reduction in personal mobility by the 2030 deadline.
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To get back on track with the government’s goal of a transition to home electric heat pumps,
Scotland would have to replace natural-gas fired boilers at a rate of more than 80,000 households a year by the end of the decade.
That’s a big ask, considering, in 2023, it managed 6,000 boiler replacements.
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The government resisted imposing an aviation tax to discourage excess flying. And so on.
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Mr. Yousaf did the only thing he could under the circumstances:
He all but abandoned net zero.
His administration announced it is ditching firm annual emission-reduction targets in favor of fuzzier “carbon budgets.”
The Green Party, with which Mr. Yousaf’s SNP governed in a coalition, balked.
After a series of political machinations that were one part “Macbeth” and two parts “Comedy of Errors,” Mr. Yousaf’s administration collapsed and he was forced to resign.
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Observe two salient details. First, the specific list of targets the country was missing.
Scotland had reached the point where further net-zero progress would have made obvious and material demands of household budgets.
That was not counting the additional costs of renewable power hidden in utility bills.
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I have discussed the above ideas many times. There are farm protests in nearly every country of the EU, and Greens are likely to get clobbered hard in the European Parliament elections in June.
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What About the US?
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The Journal reports “The puzzlement is, the U.S. is headed in the opposite direction.
Biden 's cabal of handlers is pressing ahead with aggressive net-zero policies, such as EV mandates and pouring trillions of dollars of deficit spending, plus hard-earned household money into wind/solar/battery/heat pumps follies“
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However, there is no puzzle. Biden's cabal of handlers are calling100% of the shots.
They command/control federal and state governments, climate policy, regulations, student loans, abortion, open borders, Ukraine-blackhole giveaways, everything.
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Please note Biden Promotes Climate Change at the Expense of More Global Poverty
The mad rush to deal with climate change, even if it works (it won’t), has a nasty tradeoff (more global impoverishment).
We need a Tsunami of change in November 2024 to end all this nonsense as soon as possible
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Comment by Willem Post on May 6, 2024 at 9:37am
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The elites, and IPCC, and WEF, and $politicians, and entrenched bureaucrats, and compromised academia, and lapdog Media, have combined to perpetuate and/or enrich themselves and impoverish all others, using the unscientific hoax of "CO2 causes global warming".
The hoax is based on fossil fuels and CO2 being the villains
However, CO2 greens the earth, creates flora and fauna, including us, and increases crop yields per acre, and reduces desert areas.
We need more CO2, as proven by plant growth in greenhouses with 1000 to 1200 ppm CO2
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The West’s scam includes wind/solar/batteries/hydrogen/CO2 extraction/EVs/air-source heat pumps, etc., to enrich/reward world elites, who will continue to fly their planes and sail their yachts
No command/control, choking restrictions off any kind on them!!
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These elitists caused the impoverishment of the EU, especially the UK and Germany., which are overrun by millions of scruffy, poor, inexperienced, uneducated, culturally-different folks, from all over, crossing borders, or secretly flown in, unvetted, to get free work permits, free phones, and free debit cards, and free housing, and free sucking from various leftist/Democrat-run government programs.
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The elites want to impose their no-fossil-fuel misery on the rules-based world to the glory of the Golden Billion in The Garden of Eden.
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However, fast-growing BRISC, with 11 members and 20 applicants, including China, India, Russia, etc., are not playing along with the multi-$trillion per year hoax and scam, and the demonizing of fossil fuels.
In fact, they know it is a Western, rules-based, insanity, to impoverish them..
Excerpt:
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-e...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-p...Important Role of CO2 for Flora and Fauna Growth
Plants require require at least 1000 to 1200 ppm of CO2, as proven in greenhouses
Many plants have become extinct, along with the fauna they supported, due to a lack of CO2
As a result, many areas of the world became arid and deserts.
The current CO2 needs to at least double or triple
Earth temperature increased about 1.2 C since 1900, which is due to many causes, such as fossil CO2, flora CO2, and permafrost methane which converts to CO2.
CO2 emissions of fossil fuels are a blessing.
CO2 has increased from about 296 ppm in 1900 to 423 ppm at end 2023. It:
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1) Increased world greening by at least 10 to 15%, as measured by satellites since 1979.
2) Increased world fauna
3) Increased crop yields per acre.
4) Reduced desert areas
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https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/new-study-2001-2020-gl...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-a-life-gas-no-c...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-not-pollution-i...
.Benefits of CO2
https://issuu.com/johna.shanahan/docs/co2_pitch_4-3-24_baeuerle_eng...
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Oceans Absorb CO2
CO2 molecules continuously move from the air into sea water, in accordance with Henry’s Law
The sea water contains 3% salt, NaCl, by weight.
The CO2 continuously combines with salt to form numerous Ca, Cl, O2 and H2 compounds that support ocean flora and fauna.
As a result, the oceans are the major sink of CO2 from human and natural sources in the TS.
At least 80% of new CO2 in the TS, human and natural, is added to the oceans
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on May 5, 2024 at 4:52pm
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Al Gore was an avid reader, who fell in love with scientific and mathematical theories, but he did not do well in science classes and avoided taking math.
During his first two years, his grades placed him in the lower one-fifth of his class.
During his second year, he reportedly spent much of his time watching television, shooting pool and occasionally smoking marijuana.
In his junior and senior years, he became more involved with his studies, earning As and Bs.
In his senior year, he took a class with oceanographer and global warming theorist Roger Revelle, who sparked Gore’s interest in global warming and other environmental issues.
Gore earned an A on his thesis, “The Impact of Television on the Conduct of the Presidency, 1947–1969”, and graduated with with honors, in June 1969
After the Army, he was in Vanderbilt Law School, but when he found his father’s seat was available, he ran and won.
What in hell does he know about climate and calculations?
Global warming usually is equated with retained energy in the atmosphere, as explained below.
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Biden Considering Bringing Some Refugees from Gaza to the US
BY TYLER DURDEN
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With scenes like this spreading across the country, as standoffs at various liberal campuses turn increasingly more violent...
... the Biden administration appears to have gotten its Soros marching orders to pour gasoline into the fire, with CBS reporting that the White House is considering bringing "certain..., a move that would offer a permanent safe haven to some of those fleeing war-torn Gaza, and would also drastically escalate what has already been the 2024 equivalent of the 2020 BLM summer of violence, only this time with spoiled, rich Marxist kids pretending they live in the 1960s and their actions can stop the war in
VietnamMiddle East..According to the report, in recent weeks senior officials across several federal U.S. agencies have discussed the practicality of different options to resettle Palestinians from Gaza who have immediate family members who are American citizens or permanent residents..
One of those proposals involves using the decades-old United States Refugee Admissions Program to welcome Palestinians with U.S. ties who have managed to escape Gaza and enter neighboring Egypt, according to the inter-agency planning documents.
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Top U.S. officials have also discussed getting additional Palestinians out of Gaza and processing them as refugees if they have American relatives, the documents show.
The plans would require coordination with Egypt, which has so far refused to welcome large numbers of people from Gaza.
Those who pass a series of eligibility, medical and security screenings would qualify to fly to the U.S. with refugee status, which offers beneficiaries permanent residency, resettlement benefits like housing assistance and a path to American citizenship.
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While the eligible population is expected to be relatively small, the plans being discussed by U.S. officials could offer a lifeline to some Palestinians fleeing the Israel-Hamas war, which local public health authorities say has claimed the lives of more than 34,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians in Gaza.
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Needless to say, this comes from the same admin, which a few days ago decided against a ban of menthol cigarettes over fears it would alienate the black vote, and today targeted the pot-smoking voters with a report the DEA was preparing to reclassify marijuana to a less dangerous drug category.
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The same admin which in the past 2 years has welcomed over 20 million illegals with the hope that they will illegally vote for Biden and the Democrats in Nov 2024, and thus enshrine the current Democrat, klepto-fascist regime in perpetuity.
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So it is hardly a surprise, Biden, desperate to avoid losing the vote of the ultra-left progressive wing of the Democrat party, which just happens to sympathize with Hamas, will pander to this group whose votes may end up deciding the November election.
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Naturally, news of the proposal spread like wildfire with prominent republicans slamming the idea...
.... although as with most things Republicans oppose, or at least pretend to oppose, it is guaranteed that Biden will once again get his way, even though - as so many have noted - the US is on the verge of accepting Palestinians from Gaza, whereas every Arab nation is REFUSING to do so.
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$3.5 Billion Slipped into Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill To 'Supercharge Mass Migration From The Middle East'
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Reducing CO2 is suicide
We have been living with a CO2 DROUGHT, for millions of years, which causes desertification, as flora and fauna becomes extinct
The oil, gas and coal companies are providing very valuable CO2 to re-green the earth. to promote flora and fauna, to reduce deserts areas, and to increase crop yields per acre.
Plants grow best with 1000 to 1200 ppm CO2, as proven in green houses
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El Niños, Hunga Tonga Volcanic Eruption, and the Tropics
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-e...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-p...Retained Energy (Enthalpy) in Atmosphere
The RE in atmosphere is ONE net effect of the interplay of the sun, atmosphere, earth surface (land and water), and what grows on the surface and in water.
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Dry Air and Water Vapor
ha = Cpa x T = 1006 kJ/kg.C x T, where Cpa is specific heat of dry air
hg = (2501 kJ/kg, specific enthalpy of WV at 0 C) + (Cpwv x T = 1.84 kJ/kg x T), where Cpwv is specific heat of WV at constant pressure.
1) Worldwide, enthalpy of moist air, at T = 16 C and H = 0.0025 kg WV/kg dry air (4028 ppm)
h = ha + H.hg = 1.006T + H(2501 + 1.84T) = 1.006 (16) + 0.0025 {2501 + 1.84 (16)} = 22.4 kJ/kg dry air
RE of dry air is 16.1 kJ/kg; RE of WV is 6.3 kJ/kg2) Tropics, enthalpy of moist air, at T = 27 C and H = 0.017 kg WV/kg dry air (27389 ppm)
h = 1.006 (27) + 0.017 {2501 + 1.84 (16)} = 70.5 kJ/kg dry air
RE of dry air is 27.2 kJ/kg; RE of WV is 43.3 kJ/kghttps://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-the-Enthalpy-of-Moist-Air#:~:text....
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CO2
h CO2 = Cp CO2 x K = 0.834 x (16 + 273) = 241 kJ/kg CO2, where Cp CO2 is specific heatWorldwide, enthalpy of CO2 = {(423 x 44)/(1000000 x 29) = 0.000642 kg CO2/kg dry air} x 241 kJ/kg CO2 @ 289 K = 0.155 kJ/kg dry air.
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RE In 2023; 16 C
World: (16.1 + 6.3 + 0.155) kJ/kg dry air x 1000 J/kJ x 5.148 x 10^18 kg x 10^-18 = 1.161 x 10^5 EJ
Dry air, WV and CO2 played 71.4%, 27.9% and 0.69% RE roles. WV RE/CO2 RE = 40.6Tropics: (27.2 + 43.3 + 0.155) kJ/kg dry air x 1000 J/kJ x 2.049 x 10^18 kg x 10^-18 = 1,448 x 10^5 EJ.
Dry air, WV and CO2 played 38.5%, 61.2% and 0.22% RE roles. WV RE/CO2 RE = 279.4The Tropics is a major RE area, almost all of it by WV. At least 35% of the RE is transferred, 24/7/365, to areas north and south of the 37 parallels with energy deficits
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RE in 1900; 14.8 CWorld: (14.8 + 5.8 + 0.106) kJ/kg dry air x 1000 J/kJ x 5.148 x 10^18 kg x 10^-18 = 1.066 x 10^5 EJ
Dry air, WV and CO2 played 71.5%, 28% and 0.51% RE roles. WV RE/CO2 RE = 54.7The 2023/1900 RE ratio was 1.089
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NOTE: My calculations are based on three well-known items. I assumed 16 C in 2023 and 14.8 C in 1900, as the temp of the entire atmosphere, which is overstated, but helps simplicity. The RE ratio would not be much different, if complex analyses were used, such as how the three items vary with altitude and temp. The complex stuff would subtract from both REs, leaving the ratio in tact.
The above method is suitable to objectively approximate the RE role of CO2. How CO2 performs that role, the A-to-Z process, will keep many academia folks busy for many years.
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NOTE: This short video shows, CO2 plays no RE role in the world’s driest places, with 423 ppm CO2 and minimal WV ppm, i.e., blaming CO2 for global warming is an unscientific hoax.
https://youtu.be/QCO7x6W61wc
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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
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