The would be King-Emperors of the world don’t just want to transform energy and change the weather, they also want to rebuild the entire financial system, no doubt to put the UN at the centre of the rivers of money.
Make no mistake, the lauded “loss and damages” fantasy plan was but a shiny bauble to distract you. The bigger ambit is to get the West to pay for the whole world to become a solar and windmill paradise and — “obviously” that means they have to rebuild the entire world’s financial system. (They actually say that).
Consider the numbers: The combined loss and damages claim for 55 countries over twenty years amounts to just $525 billion or a paltry $26 billion a year. But building all the useless renewable farms will supposedly require at least USD 4-6 trillion a year in investments.
Sensible investors will notice that it is 200 times as expensive to try to control the weather with windmills as it is to pay for all the current (theoretical) damage. Sadly, nobody is talking about sensible investments.
The UN announcement comes dressed up in a headline about the paltry Christmas fantasy payments to the third world. But a few paragraphs in are the “other details” about payments that are larger than most national GDP’s and the naked desire for the UN to be the conduit for the cash.
UN COP27 Reaches Breakthrough Agreement on New “Loss and Damage” Fund for Vulnerable Countries
[blah, blah, blah]
The cover decision, known as the Sharm el-Sheikh Implementation Plan, highlights that a global transformation to a low-carbon economy is expected to require investments of at least USD 4-6 trillion a year. Delivering such funding will require a swift and comprehensive transformation of the financial system and its structures and processes, engaging governments, central banks, commercial banks, institutional investors and other financial actors.
So much better to siphon from the centre, eh? Let me be your banker…
Think about how obscenely large this claim is in the strangely aptly named Sharm el-Sheikh Implementation Plan. On page 6 we casually find that there are layers of trillions, and despite the enormity of the values, no one bothered to explain if these are different additive trillions or overlapping trillions. And since the first reference has 54 mentions of the word “trillion” it isn’t easy to figure it out either. What does it matter, it’s only money?
They might be hoping for ten trillion per annum, with a 6 trillion one off bonus in the next eight years:
Highlights that about USD 4 trillion per year needs to be invested in renewable energy up until 2030 to be able to reach net zero emissions by 2050,18 and that, furthermore, a global transformation to a low-carbon economy is expected to require investment of at least USD 4–6 trillion per year;19
Notes with concern the growing gap between the needs of developing country Parties, in particular those due to the increasing impacts of climate change and their increased indebtedness, and the support provided and mobilized for their efforts to implement their nationally determined contributions, highlighting that such needs are currently estimated at USD 5.8–5.9 trillion20 for the pre-2030 period;
I defy anyone to explain the difference between a “renewable energy cost” and a furthermore category of… “low carbon global transformation cost”.
Will that be $4,000 from every family or $40,000?
Only a week ago the UN was asking “rich nations” for well beyond a trillion dollars a year to help the Global South. But even at that bargain price, effectively the UN is demanding $1000 US per annum from every man, woman, pensioner and baby in the West.* How many families of four will be happy to chip in $4,000 US (or $6,000 Australian) every year to build solar farms in Mogadishu is a question no one wants to ask.
The bottom line is that the token offering of “loss and damages” to the world’s poor is nothing compared to the dark ambition of being the world’s Treasury and Energy Police.
The UN is the enemy. The West conquered communism then gave its’ friends money and an office in Geneva.
REFERENCES
18 See https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/830fe099-5530-48f2-a7c1-11f35d510983/WorldEnergyOutlook2022.pdf.
19 As footnote 5 above. [See United Nations Environment Programme. 2022. Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window – Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme. Available at https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2022.]
20 See https://unfccc.int/topics/climate-finance/workstreams/needs-report.
*If the top 39 countries* on the Human Development Index pay up, the cost is split among 1.1 billion people. Why stop at 39 countries? The 40th nation was Saudi Arabia, and I’m guessing they won’t pay a cent.
Where the heck do they think that amount of money will come from. Do they think that the money will grow on trees?
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As Dillinger would say: It is in the banks.
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Why do you rob banks Mr Dillinger………. Because that’s where the money is at.
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“We used to rob banks – now we own a bank and use it to rob the people.” – Brecht, in one version of the Dreigroschenoper
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It was Willie Sutton, not John Dillinger
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They think you can just 1) print it, 2) confiscate it as tax.
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Fear not mr rotten as it is physically impossible to build that amount of wind & solar
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But very possible for the UN to disappear that amount of money even quicker.
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Private jet flights for the anointed alone will take care of plenty.
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But they’ll take your trillions, then decide!
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Wife helped a refugee for a time after her husband walked out leaving her pregnant and alone. It became clear from the refugees comments regarding all the welfare support she was going to get (yes she knew all that she was “entitled” to) that she had no concept of taxation and how the monetary system works. After about the fifth “and the government pays for this” wife explained the “government money” was actually what the people had “given” them through taxes. The refugee thought the government was like a bank and just printed it when needed. Refugee “lost contact” with wife soon after she got set up in her house around the time that the husband suddenly reappeared. Later news from a third party was that while absent the husband had taken up with another woman and effectively now had two wives. Two down just two more to fill the quota.
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Welcome to Australia.
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JR >”Where the heck do they think that amount of money [4 – 10 trillion pa] will come from ?”
Remember:
And,
Obviously such a trifling amount needed to be adjusted up by an order of magnitude now that 2020 has been and gone and that “far off” target was missed by a mile and global inflation and the revolution’s falling short and why not pitch for a really really BIG number this time ?
But why stop there? Quadrillions or nothing next COP.
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It’s called WORLD GOVERNMENT! Shut the UN & WEF down. The New York building could be utilised as an asylum for the mentally deranged!
Reserve a few beds for our ALP loonies please!
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Like minds! I also include some actual UN text:
COP27 — UN calls for “transformation” of the global financial system
https://www.cfact.org/2022/11/22/cop27-un-calls-for-transformation-of-the-global-financial-system/
The mounting climate debt is also of interest. Calls for “debt relief” were a big party of COP27.
The COP will never stop.
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I think they are deliberately low balling the “loss and damage” numbers.
Given this hummer: https://www.cfact.org/2022/11/16/cop27-colombia-claims-an-absurd-800-billion-a-year-loss-and-damage/
They don’t want to scare us off. Mind you all they agreed to was a Committee to decide what we might agree to next COP, or eventually, maybe.
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The think tank says The combined loss and damages claim for 55 countries over twenty years amounts to just $525 billion or a paltry $26 billion a year.
The small country Colombia’s official estimate is $800 billion A YEAR.
Bit of a difference.
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Yes, this is a very tried and true tactic in developing countries: Agree in principle to a deal, then add in a ‘previoulsy miscalculated factor’ which provides a multiple on the agreed deal.
I once managed an ag company in a developing country which agreed to pay compensation to protesting villagers to cover their (non-existant) inconvenience from the farming operations. The company’s ‘fix-it’ men (well connected, expensively retained, permanently on the payroll, and extremely necessary in those environments) pretended to be shocked when their agreed deal got factored up by 6 times (into the millions of dollars) due to a ‘miscommunication’ over the total number of people in each affected village. And it took me a short while to realize the fix-it men were not simply idiots, but looters who undoubtedly pocketed massive kick-backs from the organisers of the protests, who in turn undoubtedly pocketed the vast majority of the balance, leaving the villagers each with a token payment.
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Of course Albo immediately jumped on the bandwagon to spend OUR money so HE could look good. “Get a seat at the table” as he said in response to Peter Dutton’s question. Socialists who have never earned a dollar in their lives have no idea of what it takes to get that dollar in the first place. The communists are winning so long as we keep giving them our money. Stop the money flow and their great plans fall in a heap. While ever we vote for socialists like Labor and the Greens (Teals included) we are committing suicide. In fairness I should include the lefty Liberals like Birmingham and Kean, both useless and both dangerous.
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Not everyone is so happy having a socialist in charge even if he got there by cheating the election. Not Biden.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/brazilian-military-just-waiting-bolsonaro-give-order-arrest-corrupt-communist-judge/
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/brazil_was_watching_canada_now_theyre_freezing_bank_accounts_and_threatening_children_.html
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Ah, the old Sham and Shakedown Initiative.
And these people expect to be taken seriously. They have no idea as to how much money a Trillion Dollars is, or a Billion for that matter.
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Since I do not take them seriously I get to enjoy the show.
As I predicted:
https://www.cfact.org/2022/10/14/cop27-hopeless-hopeful-money-will-dominate-the-discussion/
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But the children of ‘the world’ DEMANDED it! And we all know lifelong-career pollies & bureaus do exactly as ‘the children’ demand.
Wonder what the new UN digital currency will be called: Gazillion? Squidillion? Pterodactylion? Will it be launched to the tune of ABBA’s ‘Money Money Money’ or Frank Sinatra’s ‘I’ve Got You, Under My Skin’… Cash is king, ka-ching?
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And isn’t the NZ government going to put the children in charge of the whole country if they decide the current proposal to give 16 year olds the vote is bang on the money?
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Some court judge decreed it was ‘discriminatory’ that 16- and 17-year-old teenagers weren’t allowed to vote. At the risk of sounding like my parents – long ago – one has to discriminate between wisdom and stupidity sometimes.
Don’t think Jacinda’s Jackboots have the numbers to change the law, but that’s never stopped them before. Meanwhile, it’s begun snowing (again) down in the South Island: some things never change.
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Well Greg, if thats the case I think the 8yr olds should protest that its discriminatory not to give them the vote too.
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Love the last paragraph! Hey, what is a few trillion at the disposal of the unelected anyway, after they are “professional, honest, caring etc.” Reality say the destruction wrought on the environment by mining for wind and solar materials wont leave much to worry about. That is without the damage done by filling the earth with huge pads of steel and concrete. But they must really care for the planet! Oh and as an aside can anyone tell us the cost of the gabfest at Egypt’s small gathering? (sarc)
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I would like to think that this “Loss and Damage” fund will never receive any funds, but unfortunately a Biden or Albanese or Trudeau (or even a Sunak who should know better) will probably move some of their citizens’ money into it. But the money won’t build solar farms in Mogadishu, because it will be syphoned off into corrupt officials’ pockets.
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We already donate a lot of money to global disaster relief efforts so some can be pushed through this fund, if it ever exists.
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They can want
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Leftists are fundamentally selfish people.
They love spending other people’s money but not their own.
And we all know what Margaret Thatcher said about “other people’s money”.
And Leftists are incapable of doing things inexpensively, you see it all the time on government purchasing or building projects.
Everything for them has to involve HUGE amounts of money, and most gets wasted. And because of general innumeracy of them and The Sheeple, none of them have any clue how much “a billion dollars” is, let alone trillions being spoken of.
It’s rare to see them give money, materiel or personal support (i.e. their own hard work actually doing something as a volunteer) to those in need.
If you want to help people in the Third World you do projects such as education, immunisation with properly tested vaccines, clean drinking water, proper toilets, access to proper building materials (corrugated steel roof sheets, machine cut timber of standard sizes, cladding materials) so they can transition from mud or grass huts to more substantial structures, education in organisational skills and time management, teach modern agricultural skills, provide small petrol/gasoline agricultural machines like walk behind ploughs and pumps, education in basic plumbing so they can pipe water to homes, institute systems of property rights as we have in in the West, access to inexpensive central electricity such as coal or gas power stations, or individually generated electricity such as a solar panel and battery for lighting, clean non-polluting cooking fuels (respiratory diseases are huge due to inhalation of indoor smoke fumes from wood and don’t fires), provide education in numeracy, literacy and modern free market economics and civics and the list goes on.
All of these things and many more measures are inexpensive and fast to implement except for the central electricity generating plant I mentioned and every single one would make a huge impact at very little cost.
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Correction: Should say “dung” not “don’t” – An unauthorised spelling checker alteration.
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Here is an example of a very simple and cheap item that helps Third World people enormously. Most African village homes don’t have lighting. One of many consequences of that is that children can’t do homework. A simple, self-contained solar powered rechargeable light as in the link can help enormously.
https://luminaid.com/pages/social-impact-at-luminaid-pillar-page
You can donate or even buy one yourself for uses such as camping (and profits go to support the charity).
Providing functional toilets is also an amazingly effective thing. Otherwise they go wherever they feel like it, spreading disease, and women won’t go at all during daylight hours due to modesty and risk being assaulted when they go out at night, not to mention other issues with “not going when you have to”. This was documented in the book:
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters (published in the United Kingdom as The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste), written by Rose George
Here is an example of a toilet charity, there are a number. I can’t vouch for this one, do your own research.
https://au.whogivesacrap.org/pages/our-impact
This sort of thing will achieve far more than billions or trillions stolen from Westerners to transfer to corrupt dictators or be lost due to mismanagement or ends up in the pockets of billionaire subsidy harvesters.
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The upper left picture is the latrine my father (Ed Abbott, working for the American Friends Service Committee) designed in the early 1950’s in Barpali India. It is cast in cement and flushes with a litre of water. What he found out then, was that you had to provide water that did not have to be carried from a communal well by the women. He went on to design inexpensive and easily made well rings and methods to deal with shifting due to sand – and a whole lot more. All of his designs are, unattributed, in WHO development documents.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=water+seal+latrine+india&t=newext&atb=v288-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fprofile%2FMd_Mahbubur_Rahman18%2Fpublication%2F326233261%2Ffigure%2Ffig2%2FAS%3A645442064900104%401530896788942%2FLatrine-water-seal-schematic-diagram-and-example-of-a-broken-water-seal-a-diagrammatic.png&pn=1
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Seems like the UN has a bad case of mission creep (in the business sense). Mind you I am not sure they succeeded at their original remit either. Have there been any armed conflicts prevented by the UN? Any potential conflicts calmed down as a result of the UN…?
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It’s in the interests of the UN and their numerous parasites to keep the poverty of the Third World, and wars, going indefinitely.
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I remember some UN clown being interviewed many years ago about Rwanda or Somalia or some other armpit country and the interviewer asked the clown why the UN wasn’t in there keeping the peace, clown relied ‘There is no peace to keep’, classic.
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In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four there was perpetual warfare.
The objective was to keep the Proles in a constant state of fear and submissive to The Party.
We have that now either as hot conventional wars or substitute wars against the coronavirus or endless new releases thereof or the war against supposed “climate change”. With “climate change” we are at war with the Sun and orbital mechanics.
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What’s the alternative? Global surface temperatures will continue to rise until net greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to net zero. Below will be several posts from b.nice and others asserting without evidence that climate has nothing to do with atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration….
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Surely you are trolling Simon……?
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Reminiscent of a scratch on a vinyl LP record:
Stuck… stuck… stuck… stuck…
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There is no evidence that in the last 450 million years that carbon dioxide causes the Global surface temperature to rise. There were occasions when a drop in CO2 was accompanied by a temperature rise and others when the temperature went down when the CO2 rose.
And note the bit about greenhouse gas emissions – purely semantic drivel. The WHOLE atmosphere is the greenhouse. That was realised nearly 200 years ago so it shows how little science, history or logic he has.
Apart from his lack of knowledge Simon has the brains of a mosquito and just likes annoying buzzing.
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Simon is a bore.
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“Global surface temperatures will continue to rise until net greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to net zero”
ROFLMAO..
What a ridiculously laughable anti-science statement!
It is based on absolutely nothing in the way of rational science. !
And you are totally unable to produce any science that shows that it is.
It is a myth, a fantasy, a piece of cracked crystal-ball gazing…. a deluded piece of NONSENSE. !!
Stan and Laurel couldn’t be any sillier.
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“Stan and Laurel couldn’t be any sillier.”
That should of course be “Stan and Oliver“.
Surprised no-one picked up the error 😉
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“asserting without evidence”
Well.. where is YOUR evidence. ! (Not mantra-driven brain-washed propaganda, please!)
You have none, as always.
1. There has been no atmospheric warming except from El Nino events for the last 43 years
2. Measurement prove that CO2 does not trap energy, but that energy is moved to a different frequency.
3. Warming by atmospheric CO2 has never been observed or measured anywhere on the planet.
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You define everything but what you, without evidence, assert as this. You’ve been dodging accountability like this for years and express faux outrage when people quit responding. Give them a reason to respond.
So, how about engaging and instead show how, with evidence, all that other stuff is wrong.
I for one stopped responding to AndyG cum b.nice about 5 years ago and will resume doing so after this post until he changes.
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🙄
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Really GA.. you also have zero science to back up the CO2 warming scam
You know that..
You know you cannot respond with anything except empty comments… of course you stop.
I have presented plenty of arguments and data to show thatit doesn’t exist.
Three points above.. none of which you can counter..for a start.
You et al. have presented nothing.
Dodging science.. ??
I’m waiting…… bring it, if you can. ! 😉
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“until he changes.”
I think GA means I stop asking for evidence that he knows doesn’t exist. !
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To Quote Ian Plimer….
I’ll repeat that line..
“endless citation of the dozen or so seminal scientific papers demonstrating this proof.”
WHERE ???? They do not exist !!
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“Give them a reason to respond.”
Here is your chance to respond…….
Please put forward your very best “scientific evidence”.
Isn’t that reason enough to respond ?? 😉
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“until net greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to net zero”
Which of course will not happen for decades, if not centuries. 🙂
(Anywhere that civilisation still exists, anyway.)
Tough luck .. You will have to tolerate imaginary warming 😉
.. CO2 is a “radiative” gas, used in greenhouses to increase plant growth.
It does NOT act like a blanket, but is in fact just a conduit for radiative cooling of the surface.
The very slight absorption increase in the weak, thin CO2 band is more than compensated for by the stronger band increase in the atmospheric window.
[snip-LVA]
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The old “Do something! Do anything! Just do it NOW!” approach to problem solving eh Simon?
I’ve found using time and logic to be a slightly better approach.
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“Do something! Do anything! Just do it NOW!”
Otherwise known as PANIC.
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Sort of like a “Chicken Little”… but a lot less rational thought.
I mean, at least Chicken Little had something real that formed his belief.
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Simon >”Global surface temperatures will continue to rise until net greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to net zero”
What rise?
SH GFS 2m-T is fluctuating around 0 anomaly from the 1981 – 2010 baseline (midpoint 1996) at the time of greatest CO2 emissions (21st Century):
GFS 2m-T 2022
http://www.karstenhaustein.com/reanalysis/gfs0p5/GFS_anomaly_timeseries_global.png
GFS 2m-T 2015
http://www.karstenhaustein.com/reanalysis/gfs0p5/GFS_anomaly_timeseries_global_2015.png
Nobody born and living in the SH since 1996 (26 years old and younger) has experienced “climate change” (warming) in terms of temperature.
Yes there are localized anomalies e.g. a warm Tasman due to El Nino but that is not typical of the SH and is offset by cooler elsewhere anyway and nothing to do with CO2. At the time NZ was basking in peak warm El Nino-driven warmth WA e.g. Perth was exhibiting cooler than average temperature. Similarly around the bottom half of the planet, offsets averaging out to zero.
Also, the above graphs illustrate the absurdity of the IPCC’s “1.5 ºC limit”. The NH has been well above the limit most of this century but the SH well below it.
Clearly, CO2 is not driving global temperature.
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The global CO2/methane experiment has already been done. Real scientists, not hashtag activists, have determined that levels of methane, and CO2, were of the order of a few percent, or even more, before the rise of photosynthesis flooded the world with oxygen and devoured all the CO2. That’s 10,000-20,000ppm or more of each, dwarfing current oxidizing-world levels and still allowing earth to be perfectly inhabitable. Indeed, it was perfect for the genesis and rise of photosynthetic organisms (algae) which needed exposure to the light to work, and were therefore exposed to extant global temperatures by default.
Further indeed, the photosynthetic equation:
6CO2 + 6H2O = sugar (CHO)6 + 6O2
suggests that if we have 20% O2 now, we had 28% CO2 (by mass) originally in the atmosphere (spread over eons, to be sure) to generate it. Evolution creating CO2-devouring bugs is not going to work if there was 280ppm CO2, but it sure would if there were % levels of potential food to work with.
The earth wasn’t a Venus when there were % levels of CO2 and methane, nor did it turn to an icy hell when those ferocious greenhouse gases disappeared (although it did under Milankovic forcings at various times). Conclusion? Water vapour dominates our first-order atmosphere-derived greenhouse settings, and CO2 and methane are trivial. Why is 400ppm CO2 and 1.8ppm methane (!) of any concern?
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Simon,
How long have you got?
The fact that CO2 is not a pollutant makes all the rest just commentary.
Confirmation bias, corruption, laziness, or disinterest of politicians, MSM, public, and scientists in various measures explains the rest: The alarmism and fuss about nothing.
Future generations possibly the very next one that follows will laugh and cry at the folly.
Adding more CO2 has a diminishing effect with every doubling.
The sensitivity is not there, either, which was sued as an excuse to account for the diminishing / logarithmic effect of ever increasing CO2.
In Summmary:
The atmosphereic physics doesn’t support the theory. Only confirmation biased studies do! No shortage of those…
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Well, we should be pushing for a ‘place at the table’ ourselves, and all this money should be raised individually. The Govt must ask us how much we would each like to donate from our individual taxes, so at least we know they are doing what the public want.
Of course, those many tens of thousands who are not taxpayers can just send a cheque to Canberra.
Whatever people are willing to donate becomes what Australia donates, end of story.
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Crowd funding might work if pinpointed, for instance, putting houses on stilts in flood prone areas like Bangladesh.
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I’d rather put houses on stilts in Forbes or Lismore.
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Or shift them out of the flood-plains.
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Carbon Dioxide is incredibly soluble, which everyone knows from beer, lemonade, soda water, cheese, bread, a massive 30x more soluble than highly soluble oxygen. This is how breathing works, rapidly swapping O2 and CO2. And the planet is covered 72% with water 3.4km deep.
So what is the problem again? Insoluble CO2? Really? That’s ridiculous.
Wind and solar only work 30% of the time, so how do they provide power when you need it, the other 70% of the time?
Why is China which produces more than half the world’s CO2 always exempt? 1/5th of the world’s population but more than 1/2 of the CO2. Clearly whatever they are doing the Chinese are producing produce 2.5x more CO2 than anyone else. Wouldn’t it be smarter to just ask them to stop it?
And when will we see this Global Warming and sea rise and drowning cities? Soonish? Another 9 years?
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Or put another way, China outputs more CO2 than all other countries combined. If you wanted to reduce CO2 output, surely there is only one place to go? And it’s not a beach in Egypt.
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As I said last week, these people have absolutely no idea about the size or quantity of money they are talking about. Most people have no idea about the size of $1 billion let alone a $1 trillion.
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And here’s another issue.
The typical Leftist parasite in charge of giving away your money has a Bullsh** “degree” in some nonsense like “gender studies” or “critical race theory”.
They have no practical skills or general knowledge whatsoever and have never done an honest day’s work in their lives.
The only thing they know to to do is to “tax, borrow and spend” with no conceptualisation of what the money is to spent on. This, for example, is how Turnbull gave away $440 million of your taxes to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation which wasn’t even asked for and their was no idea what to spend the money on.
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German Companies Scramble to Buy Generators Amid Grid Collapse Fears
Medium and large companies have reportedly been scrambling to purchase electricity generators amid fears that the country could see parts of its national grid collapse.
Companies responsible for the sale of electricity generators in Germany are reported to be seeing their business boom with many enterprises reportedly fearing that there could be widespread power outages or even partial grid collapse throughout Germany this winter.
It comes after one senior official in Germany recently warned that the country must now “assume” there will be serious power outages over the coming months, and plan accordingly for them.
Despite attempts by authorities to quash this warning almost as soon as it was made, it appears that reassurances from various parts of the German federal government have failed to convince many businesses, with Der Spiegel reporting that the country is now well and truly experiencing a run on electricity generators.
According to the newspaper, a company spokesman for engine manufacturer Rolls Royce has described business this year as being extremely good for the company, with its entire 2023 stock of generators being nearly sold out by the first half of 2022, with many companies reportedly afraid of seeing their electronic equipment going down.
“The waiting times for the units is currently six to twelve months,” the spokesman reportedly said, who also noted that “data traffic is increasing in almost all sectors” and that both “medium-sized companies as well as large corporations” want to secure their digital networks in the event of a loss of power.
The rapid purchasing of electricity generators in Germany appears to betray a lack of confidence businesses have in their government, with the surge in demand occurring despite repeated public assurances from various officials and politicians that the situation is probably under control.
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Do they know something about sources of fuel for the electric generators that we don’t?
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Just like here in non-urban BC – every store that has things in freezers or fridges has a backup generator.
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How about we lobby to get the rich Northern Hemisphere to fund the poor Southern Hemisphere.
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South Pole Hits Record Cold November Temperatures
Extreme cold records continue to tumble at the South Pole. Three recent days – November 16th, 17th and 18th – have recorded a daily record, with the 18th plunging to –45.2°C, compared with –44.7°C on the same day in 1987. The records follow the six-month winter of 2020-21, which was the coldest since records began in 1957. Inexplicably, all these facts and trends have escaped reporting in the mainstream media. The excuse might be that it is just weather, and temperatures have always moved up and down. But the excuse doesn’t seem to apply to the July 19th U.K. high of 40.3°C at RAF Coningsby, recorded at the side of the runway used by after-burning Typhoon jets. This record high has barely been out of the Net Zero headlines ever since.
In fact, anything getting colder barely gets a look-in these days. Arctic sea ice is making a significant, near silent comeback.
Summer ice at the end of September covered 4.92 million square kilometres, which was 1.35 million sq kms higher than the 2012 low.
Over on land, the Greenland ice sheet may have increased in size over the last year to August 2022. Meanwhile, the zoologist Dr. Susan Crockford has reported that this is the fifth year out of the last seven that enough sea ice has formed along the west coast of Hudson Bay by mid-November for hunting polar bears to be able to head out to the ice, “just as it did in the 1980s”.
Of course, it has been a very bad year for climate catastrophists all round. Coral is growing on the Great Barrier Reef with a vengeance, just a few years after journalists and their ‘experts’ warned it was likely to disappear. According to the latest satellite data, the global temperature hasn’t moved for over eight years. A little extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has led to significant ‘greening’ of the planet, a process that over the last 30 years has undoubtedly reduced world hunger and famine. Sir David Attenborough recently ran a series of six Frozen Planet II green propaganda films featuring a variety of ‘modelled’ climate catastrophes. Notable was the claim that all the Arctic summer sea ice could be gone by 2035. In addition, he highlighted a colony of Adelie penguins in western Antarctica, whose numbers were said to have fallen over 40 years from 20,000 to just 400 breeding pairs, apparently due to climate change. Missing from the narrative was the more cheerful news that a colony of 1.5 million Adelies had recently been discovered on the eastern side of the continent.
Since all the recent poster scares are fast disappearing, there is increasing emphasis on ‘attributing’ single event bad weather to climate change, or to the climate crisis/emergency/breakdown – the new agitprop words used to disguise the fact that global temperatures, with or without CO2’s help, ran out of steam over two decades ago.
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But BoM and CSIRO have just released a report that Australia continues to warm.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-23/state-of-the-climate-report-2022-bom-csiro/101683628
Here in Melbourne, we are just 4 weeks away from the summer solstice and I am still waiting for spring to arrive. Yesterday would have been appropriate for June weather.
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“sea levels continue to rise. “
These people are hilarious. 🙂
Fort Denison shows a steady rise of around 0.75-1mm per year since 1910, no acceleration
Warming is because nearly half their temperature network is totally unfit for “climate” purposes, and they adjust to fit those unfit sites.
Temperature record started before 1910, and show a much warmer period.. just ignore that data. 😉
There hasn’t been any real warming in Australia for nearly 20 years.
Basically every statement they have made is provable wrong using data.
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Australia has been cooling for the last 5 years..
BoM and CSIRO are sprouting misinformation as always.
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That’s too kind b.nice.
It’s fraud.
Nothing less.
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I wonder how BoM is going to “homogenise” the November data to make it “one of Australia’s hottest eeevvveeerrr”?
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Bound to be sites here and there that have new air-conditioners providing extra hot air.
Or re-positioned so its nearer the runway .
Either way, they will continue to provide plenty of waste hot air of their own. !
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Australian Rainfall…. nope, not getting drier. !!
Hot days… Nope, no trend
Interesting graph I picked up a few years ago.
Add onto the end of that graph, Australia has been on a cooling trend since 2016
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China should give Australia money because our economy and lives have been destroyed trying to stop the supposed global warming supposedly caused by CO2. (Note to Leftists, in case you are unfamiliar with chemical nomenclature, “CO2” is the stuff you call “carbon” (sic)).
China is an advanced nuclear, industrial, military, bioweapons, coal using and space power and Australia isn’t so isn’t fair that the world’s largest emitter of the supposed causative agent (CO2) of supposed global warming pay Australia reparations?
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We’re going to need a lot of aid $$$$. Gotta do something about mental health in Australia.
We’ve got a whole political system, both sides, in serious need of extensive treatment!
Most urgent cases however are the two morons that identify as the energy minister and the second that identifies as the leader of Australia. Both are in a serious condition & unless treated will cause severe pain & suffering to the Australian nation!
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We will need all that lithium to treat all the nutters in OZ.
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Menzies was labelled Pig Iron Bob for allowing junk metal to be sent to Japan pre WWII.
So, start the competition for Albo funding CCP nukes, Nukem Dukem Albo perhaps!
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I have a single image that gives clear insight to global warming and climate change. You can view it here:
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-22-at-1.10.57-pm-1669150386.4961.png?fit=817%2C766&ssl=1
That image represents the temperate across the Northern Hemisphere in January. Any region in blue and maoroon is where there is alarming “global warming”. January average temperature is increasing at 3.7C per century. This is where and when “global warming” is most apparent. Since 1948 the January average has increased from -18C to -15C.
I am not being sarcastic here. This rise in minimums should be alarming for all the current developed nations with populations north of 40N. The only war minimum winter temperature can rise is due to increased snowfall.
Once snow becomes persistent over an annual cycle it is difficult to shift because it has low solar absorption. On average snow will not melt anywhere on earth because the EMR has to be above 560W/m^2 to melt it. Only the South Pole and parts of Antarctica exceed that average and there is not mush snow melting on an iceblock.
It appears Earth is very close or even past peak melt. So far Greenland is the only significant region that has increasing permanent ice cover:
https://kenskingdom.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/greenland-monthly-sqkm.jpg
But Earth is at the very beginning of a 9000 year first phase into the current glaciation. You aint seen nothin yet!
So all these developed nations north of 40N that survived through their ability to stay warm with ice all around them are going to see a lot more ice in coming centuries.
The main point here is that wind turbines will not spin when buried in ice and solar panels will collapse under just a few metres of ice. So most of the wealthy developed nations have a limited future as we currently know it.
oThis is where and
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Rick, how long do you think it will be before parts of North America and Europe will be uninhabitable due to permanent glacial ice cover and what particular areas?
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Long before permanent ice cover becomes a problem most of the NH population will have starved to death. As things cool down the immediate issue becomes lack of growing season for broadacre crops. That is, the period from the last frosts in Spring, to the first frosts of the next Autumn.
This process has already started. Add to that a lack of fertiliser and it doesn’t take a degree in agriculture to predict a lot of hungry people by this time next year.
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They will starve to death? I would have thought they’d just move.
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Become the first “climate refugees”, hey !
Although lots of people already move to warmer climates during the northern winters.
What you don’t seem to understand is that cold and lack of fertiliser will reduce the world-wide availability of food…
So, move…. to where ??
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Move where ?
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They’ll have plenty of time.
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“They’ll have plenty of time.”
What a fatuous non-answer.. !!
Talk to Sri Lankans about how long it takes for an absence of fertiliser to cause huge food issues.
Cold would harm a lot of currently productive areas very quickly.
Warming would actually increase the land available for farming by a huge amount.
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This process is highly non-linear. Once snow accumulates it begets more snow because the surface temperature cannot exceed 0C so any precipitation results in snow. Greenland, Antarctica and Himalayas are good examples of this
By 5000 years, land north of 40N will be accumulating ice at more than 0.5m a year on average. But more will accumulate on the ridges rather than valleys. The glaciers eventually flow into the valleys.
The accumulation process is highly susceptible to snow albedo. The Greenland plateau current averages 48% absorption of incoming solar. If China and India scrub all their coal flue gas then the albedo will increase resulting in lower melt and faster accumulation.
Extrapolating the current increase in minimum temperature, the average snowfall over the land north of 40N is 100mm (water equivalent) per century.
The average melt rate for flat land near sea level falls at 50mm (water equivalent) per degree of latitude. So we should expect to see the snowline ,move southward at 2 degrees per century.
At present, there is not much snow near sea level south of 80N. Greenland calves around 65S. That is the cause of the North Atlantic cool pool and hints at why glaciation eventually stops.
OK – I expect by 2050 that we will observe the snowline advancing south. For the next nine hundred years it will advance south at 2 degrees latitude per century. Hence by 3000, say 9 centuries, there should be permanent snow on land northward from 72N.
I expect the advance rate to be reasonably steady. By 4000 it will be 52N. The peak rate of accumulation will be in about 5000 years but most of that will be upward rather than southward. Glaciers will advance southward and outward to the oceans but that may not even occur this precession cycle (next 20kyr). I now believe glacier calving eventually shuts down the water cycle over the northern land masses and that took four precession cycles for the last glaciation – the opposite of what we are currently observing and misnaming “Global Warming”.
Earth’s climate is primed for land ice accumulation. It is an inevitable consequence of the precession cycle.
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During the depths of the last true Ice Age I have read reported that the Ice sheet over Chicago was at least 1.5 km thick. That is a sh**load of ice/ compacted snow. That means an incredible lack of heat energy to create it, then on the other side a huge increase in energy to melt it. To me, the changes in the earth’s orbit around the sun etc wouldn’t equate to those energy differences. Some other unknown factor must contribute to those differences in heat energy that the earth’s surface receives. We know it’s not CO2. Is it possible the earths air pressure alters during the glaciation/ warming phases? Or perhaps there are some geothermal processes deep within the earth that we do not understand. In my experience with science technology it is usually a combination of factors which causes large scale problems ie. The Perfect Storm type scenario.
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All the water on land came out of the ocean. Every tonne took 2.8E9J to get it out of the ocean and elevate it above freezing level.
It only takes 3.3E8J to melt a tonne of ice. So formation of the ice mountains takes 8 times more energy per unit of ice to lay down the ice than to melt it.
Glaciation is a highly energy intensive process. It requires a tremendous amount of ocean heat input.
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Disband the UN, they have exceeded their remit.
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If the cost of saving the world through renewables continues to climb at this rate it will soon pay to transport hydrocarbons from Titan.
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1. Since the entire monetary system is to be reset to zero, why quibble over FIAT trillions?
Perhaps it will soon be measured in “Schwabmarks”. (Neo-deutschmarks)
Easy – “renewable energy cost” is the monetary value of the “green” tech.
“low carbon global transformation cost” is the monetary cost of the vaxx depopulation plan.
Honestly Jo.😉😆
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To make the idea sound right.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-11-21
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I heard on the news today that the BOM is still talking about warming. They say Australia has warmed by 1.5°C since 1910. No mention about what happened before 1910
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Nothing happened.
The history was deleted.
“Year Zero” starts in 1910.
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Just as year zero in the NH is 1979. 🙂
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Millions, billions, trillions- I’m still waiting for the first article to mention quadrillions. Cant be far away. 🙂
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Time for UNexit
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It never ceases to amaze me how Leftists think warming is a bad thing, even if it were true that it was happening, and yet people, most animals (except cold-adapted ones) and food crops (including grasses for herbivorous livestock), LOVE THE WARMTH.
Furthermore, those of us who identify as H. sapiens go to considerable amounts of trouble and money to vacation in warm places (unless for cold weather sports like snow skiing).
And if Leftists knew any history they’d know that civilisation thrived during the naturally warm periods of recorded history such as the Minoan (if you can work out how to decipher Linear A), Egyptian, Roman and Medieval Warm Periods (the latter of which has been or soon will be written out of history).
The only thing to worry about is civilisation-destroying cold as commentators above mention.
Warming is wonderful. Too bad it’s not happening.
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“Everyone tries to game the System, whatever it is.”
Heard a BBC WS podcast on FIFA this week. Ever wondered how Qatar got to host the World Cup and change the time?
Interesting interview with a past president.
Interviewer: Some people have said FIFA was like the Mafia and you were the Don. Do you agree with them.
President: (after long silence) No. That’s not true.
Could not help reflecting how much the UN itself is morphing into a Mafia organisation, with all the vote-buying and corruption going on under the blanket of “climate change”.
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Dear mendicants and alms-seekers, thank you for your kind offer to bankrupt us. Before we address your claims, could you please supply the following evidence:
1. What loss or damage have you sustained to date?
2. What is the independently-audited cost of said damage and loss?
3. Where is the proof that the loss or damage was caused by rising CO2 levels and not normal weather patterns or events? We require detailed scientific proof from reputable institutions and journals, plus multi-decadal global trend data for storms, droughts. floods and food yields, not scientifically illiterate slogans from teenagers and Climate Ministers.
4. If you can supply proof that your loss or damage was caused by CO2 and no other factor, could you adjust your claims to account for Australia’s 1% global emissions, and the fact that our emissions have decreased since 2000?
5. Since Australia currently has installed enough wind and solar to supply 130% of our electricity needs at full capacity, how can you claim that Australia has not taken sufficient action in the past?
6. Have you served similar claims to China, whose emissions have doubled recently, and is now the largest global emitter?
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How do Rothschild banks, that established the UN, obtain funds to promote WEF’s Great Reset ?
Ref. https://stateofthenation.co/?p=116267. THIS IS OUR BANKING SYSTEM
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Didn’t know that, will have to ask some questions at St James’ Place
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“One fool can ask more questions than ten of the wise can answer.”
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I’ve thought that for a very long time.
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I’m assuming if they want 40 nations to pay for this; they will skip over Saudi Arabia and add Hungary, because “reasons”.
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Indeed Stephen. Add Hungary twice. It’s been very naughty.
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