CO2 is not pollution
It’s dangerous, *we must* do this that and the other, ambition, fight, requirements etc. When will the tedious climate ranting ever stop? Endless stats come and go, announcing the latest failures of policies supposedly intended to arrange global temperatures to some fraction of a degree. The more they complain, the faster total energy consumption rises, defeating all attempts at control by (as Bill Gates put it) ‘jerking around with renewables’.
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The world is falling dangerously short of the ambition that is needed to secure a safe future climate, according to new analysis by PwC, and as a result we need to fight to prevent every fraction of a degree of warming. [Talkshop comment – fight with what?]
PwC’s latest Net Zero Economy Index shows that a year-on-year decarbonisation rate of 17.2% (up from 15.2% last year) is now required to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels – seven times greater than what was achieved over the last year (2.5%) and 12 times faster than the global average (1.4%) over the past two decades.
To put this into perspective, since 2000, no G20 country has achieved a decarbonisation rate of more than 11% in a single year – the highest level was achieved by the UK in 2014 (-10.9%).
The Index provides a stark illustration of the growing divergence between the global ambition to tackle climate change and the reality of current progress.
Our analysis shows that all nations need to work harder to reduce emissions to stand any chance of meeting the IPCC’s 2030 deadline to reduce emissions by 43%, with a 78% reduction in carbon intensity now required in under seven years.
Emma Cox, Global Climate Leader, at PwC said:
“The fact the world needs to decarbonise seven times faster is a spur to action, not a counsel of despair. While the overall pace has to pick up rapidly, dramatic change is possible when business and policy makers align. The rapid acceleration of the deployment of wind and solar in several regions shows change can happen. The world is decoupling growth from carbon emissions, now we need that trend to become a surge.”
Full article here.
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Related: World must invest more than entire German economy each year to hit net zero, says IEA – Telegraph today.
[Talkshop comment: World must! Do you hear!?]
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Meanwhile, unfortunately for PwC and their acolytes, the AGW hoax is coming apart at the seams, probably caused by the dawning realisation that Nut Zero just isn’t going to happen, and the roll-back on all the swingeing regulations to impoverish us all that are going to result in major civil unrest needs “Scientific” justification.
So it is necessary therefore for this roll-back to be accompanied by some urgent ass-covering, admitting that perhaps “The Science” might not be as settled as claimed and we’re not in fact all going to roast (or is it boil) alive before Christmas unless we revert to the Stone Age.
The IPCC is rowing back from catastrophism:
“In interviews with German media, Skea said it is wrong and misleading for climate activists to imply that temperature increases of 1.5°C posed an existential threat to humanity.” https://www.sustainabilitymatters.net.au/content/sustainability/news/ipcc-chairman-rebukes-exaggerated-climate-alarm-329382719#:~:text=In%20interviews%20with%20German%20media,for%20’saving%20the%20planet‘.
And so is Bill Gates:
“On Thursday, Gates made a sudden U-turn on his climate doom narrative and now expects “No temperate country is going to become uninhabitable.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/why-did-bill-gates-make-sudden-u-turn-climate-doom-narrative?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1848
Expect to see much more in the same vein as the AGW rats desert the sinking ship.
‘with a 78% reduction in carbon intensity now required in under seven years’
Who’s taking the lead on that one? 😴
a fools errand! The 1.5 degrees is a non-scientific made-up number (like a lot of other numbers). In point of fact we should be at around 1200ppm to be “average” in this interglacial period.
Are these ravers working for the WEF/NWO?? It seems their real goal is to enhance the starvation and death rate. Unless and until I see them forcing China and India to divest from coal I detest these jerks. All they do is scare the cheap seats. Look at the psychotic children! Those of us in the maths and sciences don’t often look and take note of how many in the population are modest IQ, low/no science training types who work strictly on emotions, thus easily herded by scare mongers like these.
[an old saw on this:] “No amount of science and technology will ever overcome fear and superstition.”
Now DON’t be telling them that: nobody likes to be called a fool ….. ( sarc).
But it IS OK to send the POPULACE on a fool’s errand to do their stupid work.
Quote from zerohedge – And, of course, Gates is smart. He understands the propaganda isn’t working anymore and must resonate with the majority to prevent getting ‘Bud Light’d.’
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I really don’t know what has happened to organisations like PwC. Reducing emissions is negative growth in most cases now. Countries might manage some growth despite that, but it is overall lower than it would otherwise have been. And the more negative growth we have, the harder it becomes to grow at all.
Facts about CO2
CO2 follows temperature, not the other way. Open a coke and you¥ll see it: The more you have it in your warm hand the more gas will go out when you open it.
CO2 is the transparent gas we all exhale (SOOT is black=Carbon dust) and plants breath with delight, to give us back what they exhale instead= Oxygen we breath in.
CO2 is a TRACE GAS in the atmosphere; it is the 0.038% of it.
There is no such a thing as greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases are gases IN a greenhouse, where heated gases are trapped and relatively isolated not to lose its heat so rapidly. If greenhouse effect were to be true, as Svante Arrhenius figured it out: CO2 like the window panes in a greenhouse, but the trouble is that those panes would be only 3.8 panes out of 10000, there would be 9996.2 HOLES.
CO2 is a gas essential to life. All carbohydrates are made of it. The sugar you eat, the bread you have eaten in your breakfast this morning, even the jeans you wear (these are made from 100% cotton, a polymer of glucose, made of CO2 you didn ́t know it, did you?)
You and I, we are made of CARBON and WATER.
CO2 is heavier than Air, so it cannot go up, up and away to cover the earth. The atmosphere, the air cannot hold heat, its volumetric heat capacity, per cubic centimeter is 0.00192 joules, while water is 4.186, i.e., 3227 times. This is the reason why people used hot water bottles to warm their feet and not hot air bottles.
Global Warmers models (a la Hansen) expected a kind of heated CO2 piggy bank to form in the tropical atmosphere, it never happened simply because it cannot.
If global warmers were to succeed in achieving their SUPPOSED goal of lowering CO2 level to nothing, life would disappear from the face of the earth. So, if no CO2 NO YOU!
*Cheap wind power* update…
Desperate governors beg for offshore wind cost relief
By David Wojick | September 25th, 2023
Six Atlantic shore Governors are begging the Feds to bail them out of a huge looming offshore wind cost overrun. They sent Biden a joint letter asking for a list of relief measures ranging from tax breaks to revenue sharing.
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But the need is urgent as the offshore developers are demanding immediate power price increases of around 50% lest they leave for better opportunities elsewhere. They can do this because offshore wind is a global boom. Even mid-income developing countries like Indonesia are talking big offshore numbers.
Ironically, it is this boom that is driving some of the sticker-shocking price increases.
https://www.cfact.org/2023/09/25/desperate-governors-beg-for-offshore-wind-cost-relief/
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Bidding war? How is the world going to go ‘7 times faster’ if the providers are scarce now, never mind in those sort of numbers?
‘Green hydrogen’ too expensive…
Clean Hydrogen Dreams Delayed By Rising Costs
Sep 28, 2023
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Clean-Hydrogen-Dreams-Delayed-By-Rising-Costs.html
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Could be a long delay if they’re waiting for costs to come down.
Hydrogen: A reality check
28 Sept 2023
In short, the IEA found that global clean hydrogen projects were struggling to leap from corporate presentation slides into green fields.
While “the number of announced projects for low emissions hydrogen continues to expand rapidly,” the agency warned that “installed capacity and volumes remain low as developers wait for government support before making investments”. [bold added]
https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/hydrogen-a-reality-check/
It’s the subsidy begging bowl again.
Ohh? (Could be a long delay if they’re waiting for costs to come down. …)
What price Success then?. Can’t be worth very much then, eh? Go tell it on the Mountain, tell it on the Sea, Go tell the Heron …. ON yer Wing mate!
And yes this now , do we have wind … DO we HAVE WIND ? Blimey, Agnes must have been on more than Cabbage & Beans. but we have only 36% of our needs catered for now … too windy for some then? Oh aye and all the EVs are ON the Road this now – rushing to get home before the power goes off. ( Talk about driving around consuming E-Power before the next permitted / available Charging cycle)
Aye a’ this wind, just not forecast and going to waste: from a previous Posting, Is Wind & Solar a Resource? Can’t keep it, unlike Coal & Oil or Hydro, for that matter… och even nuclear.
Try pi**in in the Wind & rain and ye’ll see what I mean.