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This is looking deliberate on the part of the wests handlers. 15 minute cities, no travel, no farms, no cash, social credit score? The rise of China not just allowed but assisted by whom? Starting when? Putin as a WEF young leader but now disavowed? Maybe? Europe neutered? NATO? Long game?!
Attrition? Expensive?
France’s Aquitaine-class FREMM frigate Alsace has turned tail from the Red Sea after running out of missiles and munitions repelling attacks from the Yemeni armed forces, according to its commander, Jerome Henry.“We didn’t necessarily expect this level of threat. There was an uninhibited violence that was quite surprising and very significant. [The Yemenis] do not hesitate to use drones that fly at water level, to explode them on commercial ships, and to fire ballistic missiles,” Henry told French news outlet Le Figaro in an exclusive interview published on 11 April.
“We had to carry out at least half a dozen assistances following [Yemeni] strikes,” he added. The commander of the Alsace also revealed that, after a 71-day deployment, all combat equipment was depleted.
“From the Aster missile to the 7.62 machine gun of the helicopter, including the 12.7mm, 20mm, or 76mm cannon, we dealt with three ballistic missiles and half a dozen drones,” Henry adds.
According to the French commander, the Franco–Italian Aster missile – each carrying a price tag of up to $2 million – “was pushed to its limits” by the Yemeni armed forces, as the Alsace had to use it “on targets that we did not necessarily imagine at the start.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthi-uninhibited-attacks-push-french-warship-exit-red-sea
Aspnaz White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming.
Not going to consult anyone else on this planet?
Certainly not, no need. This just shows how much the solar industry is a scam. Off grid my ass. If solar panels and wind farms were the future, blocking the sun wouldn’t even break the surface in an intellectually meaningful way. We the masses are the problem and have to be reduced to say… somewhere around 200 million plus the controllers and rulers. Also what about the crops? Wouldn’t reducing the amount of sunlight interfere with that? Or would the increase in CO2 help with the difference? Won’t need as much agriculture anyway if the population decline reaches anywhere near what seems to be the target. Blocking the sun is just another distraction anyway you cut it.Zerosum, Phoenix a continuing thought from yesterday. I’ve taken the following from Worldometer:
Countdown to the end of Oil:
14,310Days to the end of oil (~39 years)
Assumption:
If consumed at current rates
Sources and info:World Proved Reserves of Oil and Natural Gas, Most Recent Estimates – Energy Information Administration (EIA) – Data from BP Statistical Review, Oil & Gas Journal, World Oil, BP Statistical Review, CEDIGAZ, and Oil & Gas Journal.
Now lets do a little thought experiment. If that is true and we’ll assume so for the sake of this little experiment. How much oil is required by the powers that be to run their militaries and militarized police forces globally? How much longer would that oil supply last if the general public wasn’t using very much or any? Why not shift the general public toward electric everything and remove most of the infrastructure that supports the supply side of oil to the wider public? If over the next decade or so the oil is removed from the greater view than there will be a century? of oil left for the control faction of the PTB. This is paramount to the longevity of the ruling class. Joe public is planning out as far as the next paycheque, .gov is planning out the next quarter with an eye to the next election, bankers are looking ahead a couple of decades and the rulers are thinking the next generation is short term. Saving the biosphere is not part of the overall plan, it’s just a means to an end, our end. Yes a certain number of plebes will be needed to run the infrastructure needed by the controllers to run the system but nowhere the numbers now required. I’ve read somewhere that the oil industry employs about 2 billion people either directly or indirectly. If the domestic side is removed how many of those jobs are gone? Not to mention how many directly involved would become redundant? As the population drops so will the numbers of police and military personnel drop. The numbers for EROEI to keep our industrial civ going are estimated to be somewhere north of 11:1 but if the only industry is to supply the MIC with fuel and the hardware, it would likely reduce that number substantially. Imagine if you will a world more like that of the 1400’s with a bit of electricity tossed in here and there in geographically to support the “factory workers” with those further out living a less than optimal life. This is a long game and we aren’t even at the level of pawns. We tend to assign ourselves a level of importance that does not exist in the minds of the rulers. Never trust a millionaire, a billionaire even less and their offspring…..well!
Your, USA, northern border:
https://www.brighteon.com/6c7306a7-ee5b-4488-9646-a08eeb532874
Zerosum, Phoenix The solution is very simple, less energy use it is. It won’t be in any way like we would all hope. More like this maybe:
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/on-radical-acceptance?
Envision the human enterprise as a whole, in the macro, everything and all things we do. Now start taking away the things that the hivemind will do without willingly. It is a big self re-enforcing circle as you remove parts other parts start to seize up and then stop all together. Subsistence agriculture will work for a small percentage of the existing population. Most don’t have a f@#king clue even where to start such an operation, fewer still have the stamina to actually do it. Who has any reasonable skill with a scythe let alone how to sharpen one or the stamina required to mow a couple of acres a day for later storage. Just making hay would test most. First the mowing for a couple of days followed with tedding it then windrowing followed by gathering on a cart and putting up in a barn. None of this can be done on wet days and has to happen when the hay is at the maturity, no exceptions or there is a major loss in quality which will show up in the barn by spring, malnourished critters. All the while the gardens have to be planted and wed as well as looking after the berry bushes and fruit trees during the same time. Fall in now approaching and the harvest starts, food stuff has to be cured or canned/bottled and beasts have to be butchered again without much of a break between and the daily chores must also be looked after the whole god damn time. The best we could do is slow the slide back for a century or maybe even two. However back is where the civilization as a whole is destined to go. How far isn’t really a concern but I would think it will be a damn sight farther than the any part of the 1900’s. Don’t mind my prattling on I’m just looking at the reality of the situation the whole is in. Holistic bucolic fantasies about life on the farmstead come up alarmingly short when reality is added in.
Forgot the link for the above:
https://vsnyder.substack.com/p/enormous-pile-of-evidence-that-global?Is there now a moral void at the heart of Western societies? Now!? The void has grown to take in most of the whole.
In other lies and omissions by our saints at the helm:
In the Beginning….
And thus, were seen, in the space of eight months, the rise, progress, and fall of that mighty fabric, which, being wound up by mysterious springs to a wonderful height, had fixed the eyes and expectations of all Europe, but whose foundation, being fraud, illusion, credulity, and infatuation, fell to the ground as soon as the artful management of its directors was discovered….The public mind was in a state of unwholesome fermentation. Men were no longer satisfied with the slow but sure profits of cautious industry. The hope of boundless wealth for the morrow made them heedless and extravagant today…. Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity… From the bitter experience of that period, posterity may learn how dangerous it is to let speculation riot unrestrained, and to hope for enormous profits from inadequate causes.
— Description of The Parliamentary History of the early 18th Century British South Sea Company in Memoirs of Extraordinary Public Delusions, written by Charles Mackay in 1841 but still relevant today.
In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first….
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
— Mackay’s description of the 1720s Mississippi (Louisiana) scheme. The tombstone of the perpetrator, John Law (not a policeman), bears the inscription (translated from French):
Here lies this famous Scotsman
This unrivaled calculator
Who, by the rules of algebra
Put France into the Hospital
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The Hoax
Earth surface temperatures began to be measured and semi-systematically recorded by thermometers in 1722 at Uppsala University when Anders Celsius got one of Gabriel Fahrenheit’s newly-invented mercury thermometers (and re-calibrated it to his eponymous scale). By 1850 temperatures were being routinely (but not really systematically) recorded at many places in the Northern Hemisphere. But even by 1850, there was only one place in the Southern Hemisphere where temperatures were being recorded: Jakarta. By 1880, there were several more.Earth-surface temperature records are notoriously unreliable. On land, was the temperature recorded at the same solar time (not clock time) every day? Did the same person take the measurement? Was the instrument moved? Was the instrument replaced? In the 1950s, the United States Weather Service had more than 8,000 temperature measuring stations, mostly in rural areas. Now there are about 1,700, mostly in urban areas, and many of those in airports or parking lots. The “heat island” effect is well known, but almost never mentioned.
On his many trans-Atlantic voyages, Benjamin Franklin discovered the Gulf Stream by taking daily temperature measurements. He noticed that there were systematic differences that depended upon the sampling depth, whether the water was brought on deck using a canvas or wooden bucket, and how long it sat on deck before he measured the temperature. Today, temperatures are measured on shipping lanes by thermometers in the engine cooling water intake. It’s at a different depth in every ship. The measured temperature depends upon how far into the ship the pipe has extended to where the thermometer is emplaced. Air temperatures at sea are frequently recorded on the bridge, at a different height on every ship, and frequently “corrected” differently in every instance for “average night-time temperature.” There’s not much in-situ coverage outside the shipping lanes.
Temperature can be measured in many other ways, extending the record back millions of years. One way is by measuring the relative abundance of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in ice cores. Oxygen-18 is heavier than the more-abundant oxygen-16, and deuterium is heavier than the more-abundant hydrogen. Thus the relationship between evaporation rates of different weights of water molecules is exquisitely sensitive to sea-surface temperature. The atmosphere is well mixed, so arctic and antarctic ice cores are records of world-wide average sea-surface temperatures. These records show that 1880 was the coldest year in 8,700 years. What happens when you start a series of records at the minimum? All you see is increase — until about 1995, when world-wide average temperature stopped increasing.
Similar descriptions apply to different isotopes of carbon and oxygen in ocean bottom and bog sediments, extending the temperature record back hundreds of thousands of years, and stalactites, extending the record back millions of years.
Reliable world-wide records of temperature profiles, extending from the Earth’s surface up to even 100 kilometers, began to accumulate in the mid 1970s, with the launch of satellites. Before then, there were widespread, but by no means uniform, systematic, and dense measurements, using balloons and small sounding rockets. So we have a reliable history for only about fifty years.
The world-wide Ponzi scheme is aimed at eliminating CO2 emissions. Why CO2? Alarmists say that increasing its concentration from 400 parts per million (ppm), or 0.04%, to 500 ppm, will increase Earth’s average temperature by two degrees Celsius. Where do they get this? In 1971, when he was an acolyte worshiping at the altar in the Coming Ice Age church, the late Professor Stephen Schneider, along with S. Ichtiaqe Rasool, wrote in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate, Science 173, 3992 (9 July 1971) pp 138-141 that the “CO2 doubling sensitivity” of the atmosphere is 0.75 degrees Celsius. They remarked that increasing the concentration by a factor of ten, to 4,000 ppm could increase temperature by only 2.5 degrees. Their conclusion was that no matter how much coal we burned, we could not prevent the coming ice age.
What is this “doubling sensitivity?” Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius wrote in On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature on the ground, Philosophical Magazine 45, 251 (April 1896) pp 237-276:
Thus if the quantity of carbonic acid [CO2] increases in geometric progression, the augmentation of temperature will increase nearly in arithmetic proportion.
That is, temperature increases by adding the same amount, for EVERY doubling of the atmospheric concentration of CO2.
The study of climate cannot be called a science because the scientific method requires testable and falsifiable hypotheses, the consequences of which can be compared to controlled experiments that include careful measurements. In such a brief time as we have been studying it, we cannot honestly say that climatism is a science, no matter how loudly climatists proclaim it is.
So, upon what do climatists rely? Models.
Reality isn’t optional.
— Professor Thomas Sowell
Real scientists, such as Professor John R. Christy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (also the Alabama State Climatologist), have taken it upon themselves to validate models. For fifty years, I developed mathematical methods for models, implemented software to evaluate them, and used one for twenty years to calculate stratospheric temperatures — along with concentrations of about fifteen minor atmospheric constituents such as hypochlorous acid, sulfur dioxide, and ozone — at 72 levels on 3,500 profiles every day. Our results were validated by in-situ measurements: A NASA U-2 or WB-57 “Canberra” was flown on the satellite track many times (look up the NASA Aura Microwave Limb Sounder). Professor Christy and others obtained 102 models that are widely cited as “proof” that we’re all going to die because of heat or something. They compared the results of starting the models with a 1975 climate, and running them for fifty years, with the results of fifty years of satellite, balloon, and radiosonde measurements. They observed that they all (but one) grossly predicted much larger temperature increases than actually occurred. Which model worked? The Russian INM-CM4 model. Here is one summary of the results, presented on page 5 of Congressional testimony:
The eleven-year solar sunspot cycle is clearly visible in the data, but oddly does not appear in most models’ outputs. About the models, one prominent modeler at Oxford University, named David Frame, said “The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful.” Another one, Professor Chris Folland at the Hadley Centre for Climate Research at East Anglia University, said “The data doesn’t (sic) matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re basing them on the climate models.”
Professor Schneider eventually became an apostate in the Coming Ice Age Church and joined the Global Warming cult. In an interview with Detroit News he said
We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. . . . So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts…. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest [my emphasis].
A few others have said or written similarly interesting things:
We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.
– Timothy Wirth, president of the UN Foundation. Former U.S. Senator.
No matter if the science of global warming is all phony… climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.
– Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment.
The first chair of the IPCC, Sir John Houghton, said in 1995:
Unless we announce disasters, no-one will listen.
The IPCC is fundamentally dishonest, and apparently was intended to be from its beginning. The claim that “climate change” is harmful, and exclusively or even primarily driven by humans burning fossil fuels, is based on five decades of Lysenkoism masquerading as science. Paul Ehrlich, Amory Lovins, Michael Mann, and Al Gore have done more damage to world science than Trofim Lysenko did to Soviet genetics.
I commented on the proposition that CO2 is a bad thing in Eliminating CO2 Emissions Will End Life on Earth, so there is no need for detail here. The conclusion was that Gaia has been slowly committing suicide for 150 million years, and she would have succeeded in about eight million years. What happened? Did dinosaurs stop burning coal and driving automobiles? No, marine plants and creatures combine CO2 with calcium to form bones and armor. When they die, they sink to the oceans’ bottoms and become permanent limestone or chalk. Fortunately, human intervention in the form of the Industrial Age has postponed Gaia’s suicide until about eighteen million years. Instead of reducing CO2 emissions, we should be burning coal and making cement as fast as we can.
The Ponzi Scheme
That the Green New Deal, or the Energiewende, is a Ponzi scheme should be obvious by observing that the “cheapest way to make electricity” is financially unsustainable without 103 dollars of direct US Federal subsidies for wind, and 262 dollars of subsidies for solar, for each dollar of subsidies for nuclear power. From Mercenary Audacity: How Crony Capitalists Drive The Wind & Solar ‘Transition’:… obscene guaranteed profits are underwritten by power consumers and taxpayers; all the risk is born by the same class of suckers; and weather-obsessed politicos are falling over themselves to engineer new and exciting ways of providing a malevolent elite with opportunities to separate you and yours from their hard-earned cash….
The main game is, of course, soaking in wind and solar subsidies – it’s the place where you’ll find spivs peddling the most heavily subsidised Ponzi scheme on earth. Rent-seeker heaven, if you will, where there’s apparently no limit to their mercenary audacity.
The Problems — Well Some of Them Anyway
In order to build the spectrum of “technology units” that the UN IEA insists are necessary to reach climate and energy nirvana, it’s necessary to find only 1.6 times more copper than is known to exist, thirteen times more nickel, thirty times more cobalt…, as explained by Professor Simon Michaux in Assessment of the Extra Capacity Required of Alternative Energy Electrical Power Systems to Completely Replace Fossil Fuels. My calculations are less optimistic than Professor Michaux’s. Obtaining even today’s levels of quantities of the necessary materials is causing enormous environmental damage and social misery.Solar panels and windmills last less than 25 years. Assuming the first generation can be built, where will the second generation come from? They’re utterly un-recyclable. Those who have tried found that the cost is fifty times the value of recovered materials. Maybe subsidies can fix that too. But remember: subsidies don’t eliminate costs; they just hide them in your tax bill where politicians hope you won’t notice them mixed in with all the other fraud, waste, and abuse.
As I wrote in Adequate Storage for Renewable Energy is Not Possible, and more recent calculations at Renewable Energy Storage Requirements Are Impossible, the cost to provide firm power from “renewables” alone could be as much as thirty times total USA GDP — every year!
Nobody knows how to start an electricity transmission and distribution system in which the only generators are a chaotic collection of millions of occasionally-working variable-output solar panels and wind turbines, or keep it going. The problems are voltage, frequency, and phase stability. Without heavy rotating synchronous generators (i.e., coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear) putting a reference on the grid, Joe Random Windmill has no idea what phase power to provide.
Professor Michaux included the amounts of materials needed for battery-powered electric automobiles in his calculations. In The EV transition explained, Robert Charette wrote that the transition to electric vehicles is “an intricately tangled web of technological innovation, complexity, and uncertainty, combined with equal amounts of policy optimism and dysfunction.” Ford and Porsche and Volvo and others have essentially abandoned EVs for now. But there’s another important problem: The average EV weighs 25-33% more than an equivalent ICE vehicle. Road engineers have known for seventy years that road damage increases as the fourth power of axle weight. So EVs cause 2-3 times more road damage — and they don’t pay road tax at the pump — yet another subsidy for wealthy people. An electric tractor for an 18-wheeler would weigh 78% more than a Diesel one, so they would cause ten times more road damage. Last summer, California’s grid almost failed, so Governor “Hairdo” Gruesome told us not to plug in our cars.
The average 37.5 kVA distribution transformer supports 15 households. If every one plugs an EV into a charger, it will support one or two. Even now, manufacturers are having trouble keeping up with demand, not least because the Department of Energy has mandated a new kind of steel to increase efficiency from 95% to 96%, and the only supplier is in China.
VW engineers reported that an electric Golf needs to be driven 125,000 kilometers (in the German power mix) before the CO2 emitted in its manufacture and operation is the same as a Diesel Golf. It would never break even in China. In The Norwegian Illusion, it is reported that Norwegian engineers calculated that an electric Volvo that lasts fifteen years needs to be driven in their 92%-hydro almost carbon-free economy for 45 years to break even on CO2 emissions.
The National Transmission Needs Study, a 2023 technical report by the U.S. Department of Energy, said that 48,740 gigawatt-miles of new transmission grid must be built to get the electricity from where it’s generated behind the back of nowhere to where it’s actually needed. “GW-mi” is an obscure unit, and they didn’t specify physical lengths, but it’s a 57% increase. The current U.S. high-voltage transmission grid is 240,000 miles, so about 138,000 more miles are needed. A footnote suggested maybe the requirement is actually 813,000 GW-miles, or 2.3 million miles. At today’s construction rate that will require only 1,350 years.
An expanded transmission grid would expand electromagnetic pulse (EMP) vulnerability. The 1859 “Carrington Event” resulted in aurora as far south as Cuba. A few telegraph operators were electrocuted. A similar event in 1969 affected telegraph, telephone, and electricity transmission. Wiring was melted. Circuit breakers and switches were damaged. Recovery took more than a week in some areas. In the imagined nirvana, in the next EMP event, whether caused by the Sun or a nefarious actor, all the tiny wires in solar panels would become tiny blown fuses. The expanded transmission grid would be an enormously larger EMP antenna that would transmit damage into every nook and cranny. Computers would be destroyed. Recovery would take years, but its more likely that modern civilization will collapse.
Biofuels, biomass, ocean currents, ocean tides, ocean thermal gradients, Tinkerbell’s magic pixie dust, unicorn farts, and ocean waves either cannot provide more than a tiny fraction of the necessary energy, or their efficiencies are so low as to require enormous machines (which were not included in Professor Michaux’s calculations). Concentric-tube recirculating geothermal could conceivably make a bigger dent, but environists (not much mental in that crowd) complain that fracking to make geothermal work causes earthquakes. And they want to remove dams, not build newer and bigger ones. They removed the dams on the Klamath river between California and Oregon to save the salmon. The result was the destruction of salmon spawning areas. So much for environist mentalism.
The energy return on energy invested (EROI) is about 4.8 for solar with storage, about the same for biomass, and about eleven for wind with storage. Economists estimate EROI of at least seven is necessary for economic viability. EROI for hydro or nuclear power is about 100. Every time I read an article about putting solar panels into orbit, I ask the author “what would EROI be?” None of them ever respond.
Solar and wind require enormous amounts of land, about 7.9 acres per MWe for large-scale (>20 MWe) solar and 10 acres for concentrating solar thermal. Total area for wind projects is estimated at 84 acres per MWe. In Observation-based solar and wind power capacity factors and power densities, Environmental Research Letters 13 (April 2018), two Harvard researchers wrote “for wind, we found that the average power density – meaning the rate of energy generation divided by the encompassing area of the wind plant – was up to 100 times lower than estimates by some leading energy experts.” San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station’s 2.3 GWe plant occupied 82 acres, or 0.036 acres per MWe. When it was closed, Senator Barbara Boxer almost broke her arm, patting herself on the back, for her part in closing it. Then she had a hissy fit when Southern California Edison Company asked the PUC for an 18% rate increase to buy — wait for it — wait for it — coal-fired electricity from Navajo and Hopi generators in the Four Corners region.
Another study by the same Harvard authors concluded that if the required enormous wind facilities were to be built they would increase average surface temperatures over the continental United States by 0.25 degrees Celsius. I thought the goal was to prevent warming, not cause it.
In Manmade: Studies suggest that wind parks cause climate change, even regional drought, Pierre Gosselin summarized a German study that their wind facilities had decreased soil moisture and reduced rainfall. A similar study in China reached the same conclusions. Yet another study (also in China) found that wind parks reduce the diversity and productivity of native plant ecosystems.
If a wind turbine blade breaks over a farmer’s field, he can’t harvest the crop or allow his livestock to graze because of the impossible-to-remove fiberglass pollution. If it gets into surface water, neither he nor his downstream neighbors can use it. The companies that lease his land refuse to compensate him.
Wind turbine blades are made from fiberglass bonded by epoxy. Epoxy is used because polyester resin is destroyed by sunlight. Epoxy contains up to 40% Bisphenol-A. Technical Report USWTDB_V6_0_20230531 (May 2023), from the U.S. Geological survey, estimated that ten million pounds of plastic microparticles would be emitted per year by leading edge erosion from the blades of today’s 72,731 American windmills. Bisphenol-A (and other PFAS) have been banned in packaging materials, especially food packaging, because it’s carcinogenic. But if it gets into food, say fish or livestock, by being eroded from windmills, that’s OK because the planet is being saved. PFAS also appear in hydraulic and lubricating fluids in windmills; they accumulate and are therefore concentrated in all animals’ fatty tissues.
Rural wind turbines’ blinking lights, blade flicker, and low-frequency noise, below the frequency of conscious observation, disrupt sleep and cause other health disorders, not just in humans but also in creatures that live nearby.
Whale, dolphin, and seal populations are being decimated by exploration, surveying, construction, and operation of offshore wind turbines. It is estimated that there are only about 350 North Atlantic Right Whales, including 70 females capable of bearing young. Fifty five of them have washed up dead on New Jersey shores during the last five years. Where is Greenpeace where you need them? Cheering for offshore wind.
Crabs and lobsters become addicted to the magnetic fields produced by cables that transmit offshore wind turbine power to shore. They just sit in one place instead of migrating and feeding and mating. The magnetic fields also cause birth defects that result in reduced ability to swim, which is especially important for lobsters, which ascend and descend to feed every night.
In Estimates of bird collision mortality at wind facilities in the contiguous United States, Biological Conservation 168 (December 2013) pp 201-209, Scott Loss et al estimated that five birds are killed per year per MWe of wind turbine label capacity. Environists say “cats kill birds too.” But they don’t kill vultures or condors, or apex preditors such as eagles or hawks or falcons or pelicans. Bats are also being killed at dangerous rates.
Wind turbines are the least safe “renewable” way to make electricity. Since 2000, among the accidents known to Caithness Wind Farms, there were 165 fatal accidents resulting in 229 fatalities. Caithness says they are no longer in a position to collect and publish the data, so Scotland Against Spin has taken over. They both remark that, with government blessing, the wind industry is very secretive, so the numbers of non-fatal accidents they know about are almost certainly the tip of the iceberg.
As remarked above, solar panels and wind turbines are essentially non-recyclable. So when they reach the ends of their service lives they pile up, sometimes just dumped at random, and sometimes semi-responsibly in purpose-built landfills. The International Renewable Energy Agency estimates that total worldwide solar panel waste will amount to 78 million tonnes by 2050. In Wind turbine blade waste in 2050, Waste Management 62 (April 2017) pp 229-240, Liu and Barlow estimated there will be 43 million tonnes of wind turbine blade waste by 2050.
In Apocalypse Never, Michael Shellenberger asked “must we destroy the environment to save the planet?”
Why are we doing this? To make a very small number of people very wealthy, and very powerful, at the expense of the wealth and liberty of the vast majority of us.
Some interesting times:
“It took three Democrat presidents to raise $25 million and one president to raise over $50 million, Donald J. Trump,” Trump campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez told The Post.
Hahaha, just watch the monies flow into this incinerator. “360 degree wireless power transmission” we have that already it’s called lightning.
“Solar power beamed to Earth from space could happen within decade…
“Space Solar, based in Belfast, has demonstrated the world’s first 360-degree wireless power transmission – an important milestone of the technology, which could bring limitless green energy.”https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/05/solar-power-beamed-space-earth-renewable-energy/
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has insisted that Kiev will be allowed to join the Western military bloc
Some of it will, the parts that Poland, Hungary, Romania and others claim from the western side will then be in NATO. Assuming of course Russia agrees with this when it finally capitulates.
“The US mantra that Russia must change its behaviour to improve relations with the West”
Changes like this:
MOSCOW, RUSSIA — Russia is urging the BRICS, a trade alliance of nine emerging countries, to establish an inter-bloc grain exchange. The officially declared purpose of the alliance is to facilitate trade between member states, but analysts warn that the new structure will aim to become an analogue of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for the global grain market, with the goal of influencing free pricing.
https://www.world-grain.com/articles/19823-russia-pushing-for-brics-grain-exchange
The week at Retraction Watch featured:
Following mass resignation, obstetrics journals place editor’s notes on studies
Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 400. There are more than 48,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database — which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 250 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately — or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? What about The Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List — or our new list of papers with evidence they were written by ChatGPT?Here’s what was happening elsewhere (some of these items may be paywalled, metered access, or require free registration to read):
“Why not focus on preventing diabetes?”
No profit in prevention, in fact there is a lot to be lost. Prevention would require shutting down most processed foods as well as a big dent in the big pharma.Bit coin? Still fiat and also traceable right down to that old rocking chair you sold to your neighbour for twenty bucks! Did you claim that on your income?
“Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are ready for a full normalization of ties with Israel.”
I fully expect the opposite at this point in the turning.Peace talks for Ukraine? You mean sue for peace. Draw a line from Chernobyl to Transnistria everything east and south of that is about to be Russia. Poland, Hungary and Romania will want a piece of what’s left. Lviv wil be the new capital of whatever is left of the former Ukraine. Just a thought.
Dora, yes Lara does seem a bit excited, not in a good way. She may be thinking that the USA is being targeted for nefarious reasons.Hmmm. The WEF wants one world .gov with borders only for the plebs. It has managed to destroy Europes future and now on to the grand pooba of hegemony. Nationalism has a part to play here as well, at least nationalism according to the WEF. That is get the populations up in arms about foreign nationals and close the borders to movement in any direction. This plays well to the public and has some merit but without a strong energy supply and some/a lot of manufacturing/mining rebuilds to go with it where does it lead? Internal strife is most likely, followed by collapse. Corporate plus their legal beagles = wide spread carnage. Pass the popcorn the race is on. I bet my money on the bobtail nag, somebody bet on the bay.
Ocean carriers are declaring “force majeure” due to the Baltimore port bridge crisis, telling logistics companies and U.S. shippers including retailers that once cargo is dropped off at alternate ports, it becomes their responsibility to pick up.
In an alert to customers Tuesday, CMA CGM wrote, “Those (containers) on the water will be discharged at an alternate port where they will be made available for pick-up, and CMA CGM’s bill of lading will terminate.”
It was the first ocean carrier to declare force majeure — the provision in a contract that frees parties from an obligation due to events beyond their control.
COSCO announced Wednesday morning that its services would “be concluded” once the diverted container arrives at the alternate port. Evergreen announced the same measure.
In contrast, Maersk is providing transport. “For cargo already on water, we will omit the port, and will discharge cargo set for Baltimore, in nearby ports. From these ports, it will be possible to utilize landside transportation to reach final destination instead,” Maersk said in an alert to customers. Though it noted that the situation remains fluid. “We are still working through the various contingencies with our customers and will continue to provide both specific and general customer advisories as the matter progresses,” it said.
Ocean carriers Hapag Lloyd and MSC did not respond to requests for comment about their plans.Logistics executives tell CNBC the next 36 hours will be critical in the movement of the diverted trade away from the Port of Baltimore after the deadly accident of the 10,000-container capacity containership Dali which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early hours of Tuesday.
The Dali was chartered by Maersk.
According to ImportGenius, the Dali unloaded freight on March 24 which included clothing and household goods that could be on the diverted vessels, also ranged from approximately 80 containers of Satsuma mandarin oranges, approximately 74 containers of IKEA products and furniture to 104 containers of Electrolux products including chest freezers, air conditioners, and microwaves.
The Port of Baltimore is also No. 1 in the U.S for auto/light truck and agriculture tractor imports and exports.
The supply chains for major wood panel importers, including Lumin Forest Products, Sudati, and Arauco, also rely heavily on Baltimore.
“The impact of the Baltimore port stoppage on construction and contractor supply chains may be significant,” said William George, director of research for ImportGenius.
One problem, according to logistics managers, is that ocean carriers are not updating their vessel transits fast enough to alert them to the new diverted port so they can plan for their customer’s container pick-up.More @:
Some interesting talk here, remove the space between . and com
Lara Logan On The Francis Scott Key Bridge: “It Is A Financial And Economic Attack”
https://rumble. com/v4lq4j2-lara-logan-on-the-francis-scott-key-bridge-it-is-a-financial-and-economic-a.html
Have you heard anything about WPATH? This is mind numbing but par for the course considering what the last five years have produced.
“This Is One of the Biggest Medical Malpractice Scandals in History”
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with bestselling author and journalist Michael Shellenberger to discuss the shocking revelations now being published in the WPATH Files.Michael Shellenberger is a climate activist, journalist, and bestselling author. He has covered climate for over 30 years, as well as AI, emergent technologies, the Twitter Files, and most recently, the WPATH files
I’ve mentioned to my wife back when the special military operation started that balkanizing Russia wasn’t likely to happen. It would more likely end up balkanizing the USA and in fact that may be the plan. Well, as things turn it’s looking more and more likely that it will be the US that goes the way of the Dodo. I’m saying if they don’t turn things around politically and geo-politically that is going to become reality. I see three autonomous or semi autonomous regions by the end of this decade. Shortly after they lose global reserve currency. Just sayin’.
Nothing new for most here:
The true costs of the West’s corporate media system have been hidden from view. It entails restricting control over information dissemination to a corporate elite. It depends on an advertising model that makes us the product, not the truth. And it necessarily promotes an economic model of endless consumption that, as should be all too clear, is destroying the planet.
Here is a short extract from a talk I gave about how journalists like myself were the first to break free of corporate media servitude, and how we now face a backlash to disappear us by the very media establishment we threaten:
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-battle-for-control-of-our-minds
Expect a Financial Crisis in Europe With France at the Epicenter
Say what! Financial crisis? Can’t possibly be, the models don’t show it! Quadrillion has entered the lexicon around debt discussions yet any problems in the foreseeable future are slim? Eyes wide shut for most, the few that are using their eyes amount to a rounding error it would seem.
Exerts from the article:
Note that the EU can tweak enforcement but not the baseline Stability and Growth Pact targets themselves without unanimous agreement, and a new treaty.
With that background, let’s look ahead to the crisis that looms as described by Eurointelligence.
The German Council of Economic Experts see a potential growth of around 0.5% until the end of the decade. With productivity growth that low, Europe’s model has become financially unsustainable. It is unsurprising that the political system is fragmenting everywhere. The argument for sustained deficits, in France for example, is that you need them to keep Marine Le Pen out of power. This means they will persist.
Expect a Financial Crisis in Europe With France at the Epicenter
If you think The Big Fat Lie was a work of fiction, that climate gate was a one off or the jab was really intended for the better than don’t watch this:
This film exposes the climate alarm as an invented scare without any basis in science. It shows that mainstream studies and official data do not support the claim that we are witnessing an increase in extreme weather events – hurricanes, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires and all the rest. It emphatically counters the claim that current temperatures and levels of atmospheric CO2 are unusually and worryingly high. On the contrary, compared to the last half billion years of earth’s history, both current temperatures and CO2 levels are extremely and unusually low. We are currently in an ice age. It also shows that there is no evidence that changing levels of CO2 (it has changed many times) has ever ‘driven’ climate change in the past.
Why then, are we told, again and again, that ‘catastrophic man-made climate-change’ is an irrefutable fact? Why are we told that there is no evidence that contradicts it? Why are we told that anyone who questions ‘climate chaos’ is a ‘flat-earther’ and a ‘science-denier’?
The film explores the nature of the consensus behind climate change. It describes the origins of the climate funding bandwagon, and the rise of the trillion-dollar climate industry. It describes the hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on the climate crisis. It explains the enormous pressure on scientists and others not to question the climate alarm: the withdrawal of funds, rejection by science journals, social ostracism.
But the climate alarm is much more than a funding and jobs bandwagon. The film explores the politics of climate. From the beginning, the climate scare was political. The culprit was free-market industrial capitalism. The solution was higher taxes and more regulation. From the start, the climate alarm appealed to, and has been adopted and promoted by, those groups who favour bigger government.
This is the unspoken political divide behind the climate alarm. The climate scare appeals especially to all those in the sprawling publicly-funded establishment. This includes the largely publicly-funded Western intelligentsia, for whom climate has become a moral cause. In these circles, to criticise or question the climate alarm has become is a breach of social etiquette.
The film includes interviews with a number of very prominent scientists, including Professor Steven Koonin (author of ‘Unsettled’, a former provost and vice-president of Caltech), Professor Dick Lindzen (formerly professor of meteorology at Harvard and MIT), Professor Will Happer (professor of physics at Princeton), Dr John Clauser (winner of the Nobel prize in Physics in 2022), Professor Nir Shaviv (Racah Institute of Physics), professor Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph), Willie Soon and several others.
Oroboros I’ve been going over the footage frame by frame and can’t see anything that looks like an explosion anywhere, to my eye, can you point them out?
celticbiker “Couldn’t convince my own family either Micheal, now they’re all fucked up. It’s only here I discuss such things. Everywhere I go, people just regurgitate what they saw on talmudvision. Wish I had an answer. It’s an ugly, dangerous situation, about to get much worse.”
Same here, just cut your emotional losses and move along. I have found a few folks who see things more along these lines. They are a little sheepish to talk about this situation at first but warm up quickly when they feel no confrontation to these observations. The scamdemic has been a good filter in this sense. As more of the non-vax surface I find them much more open to discuss the topics that are spoken about here at TAE. I have a few “friends” that are fully indoctrinated and if it isn’t on the evening news it doesn’t exist.
Pointing to things like the ’08 NATO summit in Budapest, Maidan coup, Minsk agreement even Merkle’s admission that Minsk was a con all easily brought front and centre thanks to the wayback machine doesn’t move them one bit. All that shit was on MSM so going deeper is a non starter. Micheal you can pic your nose, pick your friends but you can’t pick your family, they are just a unremovable birth mark. They didn’t get to pick you either. I’ve been the black sheep in my family all my life, it’s a good fit for me, embrace it.@dr-d-rich “So, get over it already” As soon as I reach the summit, I’ll be over it ;-).
Phoenix it’s not about getting a sunburn, it’s a feeling to myself that’s like a tingling on the surface of my skin as the sun hits regardless of ambient temperature. As for sunburn, if I have to work in the sun most of the day I will tan through my tee shirt I’m usually in a white tee, well mostly white except for the paint splatters. This at 45 north, I can’t remember that happening even ten years back. I have had plenty of sunburns over my lifetime but don’t ever recall a physical feeling from the rays, beyond a feeling of warmth such as I’m now noticing. There just seems to be more energy hitting the ground and it’s not infra red.
John Day: “I feel something cringy, not just hot, in midday summer sun in recent years.”
I feel that as well and just in the last couple of years. Having worked and played outdoors always and still am I can feel the difference on my exposed skin within minutes of being exposed. By minutes I mean less than five. Now that the sun has crossed the equatorial region I’m waiting to see when that feeling returns this year. I haven’t paid enough attention to it in the past but will make note of it this year for future comparison. Not very scientific I know but I’m not in the “club” anyway.A recent exchange I’ve had with my insurance broker:
I’m currently working on your upcoming commercial auto renewal with economical, policy number # and I was hoping you could answer the below questions:
is the vehicle still the 2013 Toyota Tacoma?
are you still the only driver?
you currently have 1 million liability is this sufficient?
is your radius of operations still 80km?
do you still carry painting tools in the vehicle?also insurance companies now require a copy of the vehicle permit so if you could email a photo of the permit that would be great!
thank you,
first reply:
is the vehicle still the 2013 Toyota Tacoma? It would be fraud if it wasn’t.
are you still the only driver? Yes
you currently have 1 million liability is this sufficient? Yes
is your radius of operations still 80km? No it is 50km
do you still carry painting tools in the vehicle? Yesalso insurance companies now require a copy of the vehicle permit so if you could email a photo of the permit that would be great!
Why? I can’t get the permit renewed without proof of insurance. If the permit is required to get get the insurance than it will quickly turn into a catch-22 situation won’t it? I will need a detailed explanation in writing why this is required.
broker:
The reason we need the permit is to make sure that the registered owner of the vehicle is the same as the named insured. So where you have the named insured as yourself they’d like the vehicle to be registered in your name, if it isn’t you would either have to register it to your name or add the name its registered to as a named insured.
Your policy will renew even if you don’t send it over its just they like to make sure so you wont have any issues with renewing the permit as your policy will renew.
Hope this clarifies some things,My reply:
Sorry to keep banging on, but this just doesn’t pass the sniff test. They are solving a problem that does not exist. I renew my registration online, the only thing that is asked for is a policy number and expiration date. Nothing about who is insured as the driver. Also the actual ownership of the vehicle is a third document in this province, also me in this situation but beside the point.
Again sorry for the waste of your time on this.
ThanksBroker:
No worries it is a new thing that we and insurance companies do. Essentially if there was a loss of the vehicle, the insurance company would want to pay out the named insured and they like when the registered owner of the vehicle is the same as the named insured. If you were to let’s say have it registered under Shawns Construction company, they would pay out the named insured but it would get sticky as the registered owner technically isn’t the named insured so it would slow the process down. This is because the insurance company would question why you have a policy that is for a vehicle not registered under your name. you would have to submit your registration if their was a loss the insurance company was to pay out and they would question why a vehicle is registered under a different name then the policy if that’s the case.
This will not affect your premium in any way.
If the vehicle is registered under your name, then there will no issue with regards to this. But if the vehicle was registered under a name that isn’t on the policy is where it gets sticky.Me now:
This is were it gets very weird as the ownership paper is a third document. The registration plate in my province is owned by me and moves from one vehicle to the next. The ownership of said vehicle isn’t shown on the registration paper, it only shows what vehicle that plate should be attached too. The actual ownership certificate is never in the vehicle, it is home in the safe. Maybe the vehicle is owned by Dr.D they have noway to know by the registration papers.The following article alerted me to what maybe the reason for the strange requested info. They aren’t getting enough info on/from me?
I no have sympathy for these people. You reap what you sow and death is what they were sowing.
“A corporate media journalist, who controversially demanded that unvaccinated members of the public be taken away to concentration camps, has died at just 33 years old.”
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/canadian-journalist-who-demanded
@oxymoron
Never trust a million/billionaire. Even less their offspring, if that’s possible.FY2024 budgets is SEC. 1250A . LIMITATION ON WITHDRAWAL FROM THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION.
So the assumption here is that the next crew will start to follow the rules?
Why?Web site please?
I don’t read Kunstler often, too much word salad, this one however has some interesting chatter in the comments about balkanizing the US. Something I suggested was the most likely outcome at the start of the SMO in Ukraine. If/when there is a full blown depression 1930’s style in the west it shouldn’t take long for this sentiment to gain a foothold. This would lead back to a unipolar world directed from the other side of the pacific, most likely. It’s a long game, where is the wealth headed?
“Many of us were shocked after Herridge was included in layoffs this month, but those concerns have increased after CBS officials took the unusual step of seizing her files, computers and records, including information on privileged sources”
Lesson here: Keep copies of your work somewhere else, preferably at a third party’s location like an old safe buried under junk in their garage. Safety deposit boxes are to easy to find and be searched, although having one is a good decoy and early warning system.
Pfizer commercial. Seems they are alluding to the creation of penicillin. You decide. More at:
https://karenkingston.substack.com/p/israeli-film-director-shows-dark?
