[Master Thread] Environmentalism, Climate Change, etc.

[TBoneTX 45,251]

This is WONDERFUL.

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MUST WATCH:  Guyana President Lights Up BBC Host Who Tries to Climate Shame Him Over Extracting Oil

 

I'd like to introduce you to Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of Guyana.

What he did in the face of climate activism being thrown at him has now gone viral (almost 3 million views on the video below) and it isn't hard to see why.  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/03/30/epic-guyana-president-tells-bbc-reporter-to-shove-it-when-he-brings-up-climate-issues-use-of-their-oil-n2172094

[Dashinka 24,479]

Hmm, a bunch of bureaucrats going after food production.  I guess they fell safe sort of like KJU.

 

The fury of Europe’s farmers

All of this has been done with the approval and encouragement of the EU. And there is worse to come in the Netherlands and beyond. The absurd nitrogen rules that are threatening Dutch farms come from an EU environmental directive that dates back to the 1990s. But the EU’s eco-mania has intensified massively since then. Farmers now have to contend with the drive to Net Zero, too. According to Laurence Tubiana, chief executive of the European Climate Foundation and the architect of the Paris Climate accords, Net Zero will require ‘the biggest overhaul of farming since the Second World War’. And yet, once again, farmers haven’t been consulted on this. Targets have simply been drawn up by the technocrats and rubber stamped by national governments, without any consideration for their impact on farmers and their ability to produce food.
 

Under the EU’s so-called Green Deal, every EU member state has to reach Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050. And the EU’s emissions rules for agriculture are especially, insanely, stringent. The punishing green policies don’t stop there, either. The Farm to Fork strategy, announced in 2020, calls for 10 per cent of farmland to be set aside for non-agricultural use. It says that at least a quarter of EU farms should become organic. It says fertiliser use must fall by 20 per cent. Pesticide use must be cut by 50 per cent. And all of this should be done by 2030. Each of these demands would be enough to put thousands of farms out of business on their own. When combined, they pose an existential threat to European agriculture. And if the EU’s laws weren’t bad enough, member states are actually gold plating these regulations. The EU had already demanded the impossible of farmers. Now national elites in Berlin, Paris and The Hague want to go even further.
 

This is why farmers are out on the streets across the continent. It’s why they’re taking matters into their own hands. It’s why they feel they have no choice but to block roads with their tractors, bring life to a standstill and dowse public buildings with manure. They are determined to remind the powers-that-be just how essential they are to the functioning of modern life.

 

At first, the elites tried to dismiss the protests. They resorted to their usual playbook. They called the farmers fascists, far right and pawns of online disinformation. But this propaganda campaign has flopped. Not only have these smears failed to demoralise the farmers, they have also failed to turn the public against the protests. In country after country, European peoples are backing their farmers, even as the protests disrupt daily life.

 

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/01/the-fury-of-europes-farmers/

[Dashinka 24,479]

Very good read especially if one is open minded.

 

Fact-Checking Wind and Solar Claims: Climate Expert Makes Case for ‘Realism’

 

Part of the issue is that carbon dioxide, we’re told that it’s a magic climate control. No. That essentially, if you put more carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide into the atmosphere, temperatures go up, you get more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more droughts, more floods, more all of the bad stuff that people don’t want to see.

 

And if we somehow kept carbon dioxide to a minimal level, somewhere between 350 parts per million to 286 parts per million, that life would be good. We wouldn’t have hurricanes, we wouldn’t have tornadoes. All these bad things would stop happening.

 

Temperature would stop rising, the seas would stop rising, as [former President] Barack Obama said. And magic happens.

 

And the problem is it’s not connected directly to carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is a bit player in all of this. So that I think is one of the take-home messages, is that carbon dioxide isn’t the climate control knob.

 

For most of climate history, we’ve actually seen that air temperature leads and carbon dioxide follows. And that makes total sense because when air temperature goes up, water becomes warmer. There’s more outgassing of carbon dioxide. And so as your temperature of the oceans rise, carbon dioxide is given off by the oceans, the atmospheric concentrations increase.

 

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/03/fact-checking-wind-solar-claims-climate-expert-makes-case-realism/

[TBoneTX 45,251]

7 hours ago, Dashinka said:

carbon dioxide isn’t the climate control knob.

Great article.  A few weeks back, I read something like this, albeit a lot more technical.  It needs to be understood by these simplistic Chicken Littles.

[Dashinka 24,479]

1 hour ago, TBoneTX said:

Great article.  A few weeks back, I read something like this, albeit a lot more technical.  It needs to be understood by these simplistic Chicken Littles.

Post the link if you still have it.

[TBoneTX 45,251]

6 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

Post the link if you still have it.

Oh, gosh.  Unless I posted it here previously, it would be pure luck to find it again.  Regardless, will try.

[Dashinka 24,479]

Not really sure this would be my go to in order to promote climate alarmism, but apparently some think it is relevant.

 

Climate Change Harming Indonesian Trans Sex Workers. Seriously.

 

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/04/05/climate-change-harming-indonesian-trans-sex-workers-seriously-n3785932

[TBoneTX 45,251]

9 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Not really sure this would be my go to in order to promote climate alarmism, but apparently some think it is relevant.

Hotair.com comes up with the best stuff!  Good find.

[TBoneTX 45,251]

   

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?  Biden Admin Okayed Geoengineering Test in San Francisco Bay

 

What could possibly go wrong when the government allows aerosolized materials to be sprayed into the atmosphere to help combat 'climate change'?

Well, we guess we'll find out because it happened quietly in the San Francisco Bay area, with the blessing of the Biden administration: [...]

 

https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/04/07/san-francisco-spraying-sodium-chloride-to-combat-global-warming-n2394816

[Ban Hammer 13,327]

9 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

   

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?  Biden Admin Okayed Geoengineering Test in San Francisco Bay

 

What could possibly go wrong when the government allows aerosolized materials to be sprayed into the atmosphere to help combat 'climate change'?

Well, we guess we'll find out because it happened quietly in the San Francisco Bay area, with the blessing of the Biden administration: [...]

 

https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/04/07/san-francisco-spraying-sodium-chloride-to-combat-global-warming-n2394816

 

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The experiment is spraying microscopic salt particles into the air, and the secrecy surrounding its timing caught even some experts off guard.

which will then drift inland and the ground it lands on won't grow anything.  not to mention the damage it does to car paint.  

[Dashinka 24,479]

10 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

   

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?  Biden Admin Okayed Geoengineering Test in San Francisco Bay

 

What could possibly go wrong when the government allows aerosolized materials to be sprayed into the atmosphere to help combat 'climate change'?

Well, we guess we'll find out because it happened quietly in the San Francisco Bay area, with the blessing of the Biden administration: [...]

 

https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/04/07/san-francisco-spraying-sodium-chloride-to-combat-global-warming-n2394816

How is any useful data going to be gathered from this experiment?

 

48 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

 

which will then drift inland and the ground it lands on won't grow anything.  not to mention the damage it does to car paint.  

What about what it will do to all those solar farms.  I hear they don't fair well in hailstorms either.

[TBoneTX 45,251]

3 hours ago, Dashinka said:

How is any useful data going to be gathered from this experiment?

What about what it will do to all those solar farms.  I hear they don't fair well in hailstorms either.

Leftists ==> CONSEQUENCES

[Dashinka 24,479]

Democrats doing everything they can to drive up oil prices.  I do wonder if Red States can sue these Blue States for the harm they are causing economically.

 

After a long slog, climate change lawsuits will finally put Big Oil on trial

 

https://stateline.org/2024/04/04/after-a-long-slog-climate-change-lawsuits-will-finally-put-big-oil-on-trial/

[TBoneTX 45,251]

This well-intended relaxation of a recycling program seems to have consequences different than expected.  A bunch of sub-issues are involved; I'd be interested in hearing how YOU would resolve the situation (return to long-time program, eliminate program altogether, or happy medium).

 

The article doesn't mention that the Iowa can/bottle redemption program has been around for decades, and that schoolkids and poor people have used it to earn a few extra dollars by collecting discards.

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Bottle bill changes leave more Iowans in the lurch for returning cans, bottles, group says

 

Two years after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law major changes in Iowa's bottle and can redemption program, a nonprofit says Iowans have far fewer options for where they can redeem their beverage containers for a 5-cent deposit.

The program, known as the bottle bill, allows Iowans to return empty cans and bottles to redemption centers, grocery stores and convenience stores to get back a 5-cent deposit they paid when buying the drink.  [...]

 

https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/09/most-iowa-retailers-no-longer-redeem-bottles-cans-after-2022-law-change/73245544007/

[Dashinka 24,479]

8 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

This well-intended relaxation of a recycling program seems to have consequences different than expected.  A bunch of sub-issues are involved; I'd be interested in hearing how YOU would resolve the situation (return to long-time program, eliminate program altogether, or happy medium).

 

The article doesn't mention that the Iowa can/bottle redemption program has been around for decades, and that schoolkids and poor people have used it to earn a few extra dollars by collecting discards.

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Bottle bill changes leave more Iowans in the lurch for returning cans, bottles, group says

 

Two years after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law major changes in Iowa's bottle and can redemption program, a nonprofit says Iowans have far fewer options for where they can redeem their beverage containers for a 5-cent deposit.

The program, known as the bottle bill, allows Iowans to return empty cans and bottles to redemption centers, grocery stores and convenience stores to get back a 5-cent deposit they paid when buying the drink.  [...]

 

https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/09/most-iowa-retailers-no-longer-redeem-bottles-cans-after-2022-law-change/73245544007/

Seems like this was completely predictable.