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Climate lunacy takes center stage in Poland
December 9, 2018 by Robert
�People resent being scammed and get angry when they realize their taxes and energy payments often line the pockets of climate activists, scientists, bureaucrats, politicians, and wind, solar and biofuel cronies.�
� Paul Driessen___________

�The IPCC recently claimed carbon taxes worldwide must climb to $5,500 per ton of CO2 by 2030, to avoid climate chaos,� says Paul Driessen. �Meanwhile, the Deep State�s 2018 US National Climate Assessment predicted that continued use of fossil fuels will make global temperatures skyrocket 15 degrees F by 2100, bringing unimaginable cataclysms to civilization and planet. Both were timed to generate scare stories ahead of the IPCC�s ongoing climate conference in Katowice, Poland. So once again, headlines and computer models reign supreme over real-world evidence.�

�My article this week tears into these reports � and notes that the Yellow Vest protests in France � rampant energy deprivation and crushing poverty in Africa � and carbon colonialist attitudes at the World Bank show a very different aspect of the climate issue that rarely gets mentioned by the �mainstream media.�
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Climate lunacy takes center stage in Poland
IPCC Poland conference presents fictional climate chaos and fake renewable energy salvation

Paul Driessen

The unwritten rule seems to be that each successive climate report and news release must be more scarifying than any predecessors, especially during the run-up to international conferences.

Thus Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report 15 claims governments worldwide must make �unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,� spend $40 trillion by 2035 on renewable energy, and impose carbon taxes that climb to $5,500 per ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) by 2030. Or temperatures could climb another 1 degree F (0.5 C) and bring utter cataclysm to human civilization and our planet.

Not to be outdone, the 1,700-page 2018 US National Climate Assessment wailed that failure to eliminate fossil fuels and roll back American industry and living standards would send global temperatures soaring 15 degrees F by 2100! Chaos and food shortages would ensue; US economic growth would plummet.

The hyperbole continues in Katowice, Poland � where 30,000 activists and bureaucrats (and a few scientists) are meeting to finalize regulations to implement the 2015 Paris climate treaty and compel wealthy nations to give trillions of dollars in �adaptation, mitigation and compensation� money to poor countries that have been �victimized� by climate change, even as the rich nations de-industrialize.

All of this certainly plays well with those who orchestrated these reports and programs, are ideologically opposed to fossil fuels, or get paid to advance climate chaos and renewable energy narratives. However, a very different response among other audiences is increasingly evident around the world.

The �unprecedented climate and weather chaos� isn�t actually happening

People look out their windows and realize the �unprecedented climate and weather chaos� isn�t actually happening, is little different from what they and previous generations experienced, and cannot possibly be attributed solely to fossil fuel use. They know the sun and other powerful natural forces have driven frequent climate changes throughout history, and play equally important roles today.

They understand that the scary headlines are the product of �scenarios� conjured up by computer models that blame climate change on greenhouse gases. They see the boy who cried �fifty 20-foot-tall wolves� far too often. They don�t buy the notion that today�s incredibly wealthy, high-tech, energy-rich societies are somehow less able to deal with climate change than those that lived through the Little Ice Age, for example. They typically put climate change at the bottom of any list of pressing concerns.

Fossil fuels are essential to lifting billions more people out of crushing poverty

More and more people understand that fossil fuels provide 80% of US and global energy � and are essential to lifting billions more people out of crushing poverty. They see Asian and African countries building thousands of new coal- and gas-fired electrical generating plants, and making and driving millions of new cars. They know even Germany and Japan are burning more coal, as they realize that wind and solar subsidies and facilities raise energy costs, kill jobs and hurt poor families the most.

People resent being scammed and get angry when they realize their taxes and energy payments often line the pockets of climate activists, scientists, bureaucrats, politicians, and wind, solar and biofuel cronies.

Above all, a growing number see the proposed solutions as far worse than the wildly exaggerated and even fabricated climate disasters. They won�t tolerate having their livelihoods and living standards disrupted or destroyed by carbon taxes, even higher energy prices or fossil fuel bans � especially when the antipathy toward those fuels is combined with plans to terminate nuclear and even hydroelectric power.

People resent being scammed

In recent weeks, millions of mostly poor, working class and rural French citizens have joined the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) movement, protesting and even rioting against President Macron�s proposed carbon tax hikes on their driving and living standards. Even a French police union has sided with the protesters. A shaken Macron finally postponed the tax for six months, then scrapped the plan entirely.

The protests are the first serious backlash against international eco-imperialism. They won�t be the last.

Can actual, real-world climate risks possibly be worse than the horrid poverty, deprivation and disease that afflicts Africans now?

In Africa alone, twice as many people as live in the USA still do not have electricity, or have it only rarely and unpredictably. Can you imagine your life without electricity? And yet they are told by the EU, environmentalists, the World Bank and others that they must restrict their ambitions to what is possible with wind, solar and biofuel energy. Would you accept such carbon colonialism? Can actual, real-world climate risks possibly be worse than the horrid poverty, deprivation and disease that afflicts them now?

The World Bank recently said it would kindly give poor countries $200 billion during its FY2021-25 cycle, for �adaptation and resilience� in the face of manmade climate change. But still nothing for fossil fuel or nuclear power. The White House should read it the riot act, especially if US money is involved.

Poor countries don�t need climate cash. They need to develop: energy, infrastructure, factories, jobs, health, living standards. They need to do what rich countries did to become rich � not what (some) rich countries are doing (or at least saying) now that they are rich. Thankfully, many are doing exactly that.

�Green� energy is insufficient, unsustainable and ecologically harmful

Abundant, reliable, affordable electricity, motor fuels and factory power creates its own prosperity; its own ability to improve roads, hospitals, schools, homes and so on; its own �drop dead money� to tell carbon colonialists to take a hike. �Green� energy is insufficient, unsustainable and ecologically harmful.

With America likely being joined soon by Brazil in rejecting the Paris climate trap, poor nations are on firm ground. Ontario (Canada), Poland. Australia, China, India and other countries have also rejected carbon taxes and coal use restrictions. The Paris deal is fast becoming a climate Potemkin Village.

But what about that National Climate Assessment? Wasn�t that a Trump White House document? It certainly needed some adult supervision, to ride herd on the 1,000 Deep State scientists and bureaucrats who prepared it. However, the White House let them prove how loony climate alarmism has become.

Garbage In-Garbage Out climate models

Indeed, as Nick Loris, Roger Pielke, Jr. and other experts have pointed out, the NCA was based on absurd assumptions (eg, vastly increased coal use and no energy technology advances over the next 70 years) and a ridiculous worst-case global temperature increase of 15 degrees F by 2100. That�s twice as high as even the IPCC�s worst-case projections, and far worse than Garbage In-Garbage Out climate models are predicting. It�s more than 15 times the total warming our Earth has experienced since 1820!

Failure to factor in the incalculable benefits of fossil fuels

The NCA is also based on rampant cherry-picking of data, to wildly inflate climate risks; an almost total failure to factor in the incalculable benefits of fossil fuels; and a refusal to consider the plant-fertilizing benefits of more atmospheric carbon dioxide. It just depicts the CO2 we exhale solely as a dangerous climate-changing pollutant. The NCA also ignored the fact that actual observations show no increases in drought, no increases in the frequency or magnitude of floods, no trends in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes. It didn�t mention the 12-year absence of Category 3-5 hurricanes making US landfall.

Just as egregious, the Deep State NCA claimed continued fossil fuel use would hit the United States with $500 billion in annual climate related costs by 2090. That�s more than twice the percentage lost during the Great Depression. It�s 10% of the US economy in 1971. Even with modest economic growth, it�s likely to be a trivial 0.6% of America�s GDP in 2090. The NCA bogeyman is a little stuffed bear.

But based on IPCC and NCA fear mongering, America and the world are supposed to keep their fossil fuels in the ground � including what the US Geological Survey says is the �largest continuous oil and gas resource potential ever assessed!!� Over 46 billion barrels of oil, 280 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 20 billion barrels of natural gas liquids in just part of the Texas-New Mexico Permian Basin.

No one denies that the climate changes, or even that human activities have some effects on climate and weather. But there is no real-world evidence that human CO2 emissions have replaced the sun and other natural forces; that another degree of warming would be cataclysmic; or that humans can control climate changes and weather events by tweaking the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Want some facts and common sense? See what CFACT and Heartland have been saying in Poland, and read books by Dr Roy Spencer, Marc Morano, Anthony Watts and others. They�ll be a breath of fresh air.

Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and author of books, studies and articles on energy, climate change, the environment and human rights.

thomas davison · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:02 am Post subject:

�Climate Change� Fanatics Can�t Explain Record Snowfalls, Evidence of Life under South Pole 10,000 Years Ago
TNO STAFF � JANUARY 23, 2019

Climate change fanatics�who have blamed white western nations for �heating the planet� with their totally unproven �global warming� theory�have been dealt two body blows recently: the third annual season of record snowfalls across the northern hemisphere, and evidence of ancient life frozen beneath the polar ice caps�indicating that that region was warm over 10,0000 years ago.

In Europe, rescue teams in the Alps are on �avalanche alert after record-breaking snowfall,� according to media.

�Wintry conditions cause disruption in parts of Europe and heavy snow also falls on US

ere was significant snowfall across central and eastern parts of Europe last week, with record-breaking amounts of snow for January in some parts of the Alps. It has been reported that over 3.5 meters (11.5ft) fell in places,� it was reported.

In Russia, record snowfall has hit Moscow, killing one person and downing over 2,000 trees. Over half a meter of snow blanketed the Russian capital by Monday morning in what was already dubbed a �snowfall of the century.�

Reports also reveal that the �wintry conditions have not just been restricted to Europe, with disruptive snowfall impacting parts of the US. A developing area of low pressure moved into cold air over the weekend, bringing heavy snow across an area extending from Kansas to the east coast. The snow was particularly heavy across the midwest, with more than 50cm falling in Montgomery City, Missouri.�

In upstate New York, the world-famous Niagara Falls have frozen solid, while North America�s November 2018 snow cover �set a record for any autumn month in the satellite era,� covering 5.24 million square miles, topping the previous November record of 5.11 million square miles in 2014, according to data from the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab (GSL) dating to 1966.

This extent of snow cover was about 861,000 square miles larger than average, over three times the size of Texas.

�Persistent cold from the Northeast to the Plains to the northern and western Gulf Coast and a number of expansive winter storms gave this winter weather season a fast start, driven by a persistent southward nosedive of the jet stream.�

This is the third year in a row that the northern hemisphere has seen record snow falls. In April 2018, for example, it was reported that Billings, Montana, had had the �snowiest winter on record.� Weather records in Billings date to 1934.

In December 2017, snow buried Pennsylvania�s fourth largest city under more than four feet of snow over Christmas, �smashing both local and state snowfall records while hampering holiday travel around the Great Lakes.�

According to the National Weather Service, Erie received 34 inches on Christmas Day, easily topping its previous 24-hour snowfall record. The National Weather Service said Erie had broken Pennsylvania�s previous all-time two-day state snowfall record, set in 1958 when Morgantown received 44 inches.

In March 2000, the climate change fanatics announced to the world that Climate Change meant that �Snowfalls are just a thing of the past.�

The prediction, made by Dr. David Viner of at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia�an institution was is at the forefront of promoting the �climate change� theory�claimed that within a few years snowfall will become �a very rare and exciting event,� and that �Children just aren�t going to know what snow is.�

Needless to say, The Independent newspaper has since taken down that story, unable to admit that it simply repeated hysterical lies.

Unable to explain the ongoing snow rationally, the climate change proponents have now resorted to the bizarre tactic of blaming the increased snow levels on global warming.

According to a recent article in the Guardian newspaper, the reason for the increased snow is because water temperatures are higher�and �Global warming enhances the current snowfall � Anomalously high sea surface temperatures in the North Sea and Baltic are loading winds from the north with moisture,� tweeted Stefan Rahmstorf of the University of Potsdam.

This of course does not explain the heavy snowfalls in the US or Russia, but this obvious fact does not stop the climate change fanatics from continuing with their obsession.

As if all this was not enough, a new report in the journal Nature revealed that scientists drilling into a buried Antarctic lake 600 kilometres from the South Pole found �surprising� signs of ancient life: the carcasses of tiny animals preserved under a kilometer of ice.

According to the report, crustaceans and a tardigrade, or �water bear� � all smaller than poppy seeds � were found in Subglacial Lake Mercer, a body of water that had lain undisturbed for thousands of years. Until now, humans had seen the lake only indirectly, through ice-penetrating radar and other remote-sensing techniques1. But that changed on 26 December when researchers funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) succeeded in melting a narrow portal through the ice to the water below.

Discovering the animals there was �fully unexpected�, says David Harwood, a micro-palaeontologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who is part of the expedition � known as SALSA (Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access).

The significant part of the report continued:

�The researchers now think that the creatures inhabited ponds and streams in the Transantarctic Mountains, roughly 50 kilometres from Lake Mercer, during brief warm periods in which the glaciers receded � either in the past 10,000 years, or 120,000 years ago. Later, as the climate cooled, ice smothered these oases of animal life.

�How the crustaceans and tardigrade reached Lake Mercer is still a matter of debate. Answers could come as the SALSA team tries to determine the age of the material using carbon dating and attempts to sequence the creatures� DNA. Piecing together that history could reveal more about when, and how far, Antarctica�s glaciers retreated millennia ago.�

In other words, �climate change� is an ongoing natural cycle, and has been present for millennia. All the evidence points in this direction, and the current obsession is clearly just another liberal drive to blame white people for all the ills, real or imagined, afflicting the world.

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