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Tony Heller @TonyClimate 12 hours ago

Two Days Left For The Planet Five years ago this week, United Nations climate expert @GretaThunberg announced we only had five years left to save the planet from global warming. Time is up.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is promoting a deadly dangerous, disastrous and non-sustainable position regarding fossil fuels. In case you missed it, his statements can be reviewed here: https://budbromley.blog/2023/06/18/un-secretary-general-guterres-jumps-the-shark/

Below are a few responses worth reading. I will post more as I find them.

Click here for A 30 second video by Pat Boone, legendary star, producer, musical artist and writer.

Friends of Science responded to the Secretary General with this video:

Energy Literacy Newsletter – Let’s Face The Elephant in the room,

by Ronald Stein (link to bio below.)

Energy literacy starts with the knowledge that renewable energy is only intermittent electricity generated from weather dependent breezes and sunshine. For the 8 billion on this planet that are quite dependent on food and medications, wind turbines and solar panels cannot manufacture any of the 6,000 products in our daily lives, nor any of the fuels for ships, planes, militaries, and space programs. Enhancing ones energy literacy will empower individuals to have conversations on energy at the dinner table with friends and co-workers .

California’s emissions regulatory death spiral: Numerous bureaucratic agencies are just doing their jobs to implement regulations to save the underprivileged from emissions, at the expense of the other 40 million Californians.

Published June 18, 2023 at the Center for a Constructive Tomorrow

Summary: Infliction of further inflation and shortages in perpetuity with California only focusing on emission reductions, is guaranteed without a replacement for fossil fuels that support the supply chain of products and fuels now being manufactured from oil.

I just got back from a recent 2-hour lunch with one of the guys who serves on working groups and committees of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), and he shared his frustrations working with these agencies. The frustration stems from the devastating impact that an enormously complex system of rules and regulations involving federal, state, and regional agencies are having on individual businesses and entire industries in California and the rest of the United States.   No one can argue that a certain degree of regulation of business practices is necessary to protect employees, the public and the environment from the negative impacts of their operations. But over time, the federal, state, and local regulations have not only increased in number, complexity, and cost but have gotten so oppressively burdensome that it has become economically infeasible to produce certain products anywhere else except outside the United States.   Ironically, this outsourcing of our once-proud domestic manufacturing capability has bolstered the economies of our allies as well as our enemies.   Here in California for example, bureaucratic agencies like CARB and the SCAQMD will follow federal law and enact even more California laws in the form of additional rules and regulations which means they are doing everything possible to shut down all the emissions from the oil industry inclusive of oil production and manufacturing, i.e., refineries.   While the bureaucracies within CARB, SCAQMD, and other air districts, feel secure in developing and enforcing an endless stream of regulations, none of them has a replacement for the fossil fuels they are actively ridding the state of, nor do they have any concern about the unintended consequences on ALL of humanity, as they slowly achieve the elimination of the oil industry from California and inflict restrictions to the supply chain of products that are the basis of our economy.   Without a replacement for the fossil fuels that California wishes to rid the state of, the domino effects from tinkering with the supply chain of crude oil, is supply shortages and soaring prices for thousands of products that support the DEMANDS of the entire medical industry, all branches of the military, airports, electronics, communications, merchant ships, container ships, and cruise liners, as well as asphalt for roads, and fertilizers to help feed the world. Product shortages are fueling (no pun intended) inflation as it imposes serious damage onto the energy and raw materials infrastructures.   The law of supply and demand guarantees further inflation and shortages in perpetuity as fewer refineries will be available to manufacture crude oil into the derivatives that account for more than 6,000 products for society, as well as manufacturing the fuels for 50,000 jets moving people and products, and more than 50,000 merchant ships for global trade flows, and the military and space programs.   In the last few years, California has shuttered two refineries (Phillips 66 at Rodeo and Marathon at Martinez), both in Northern California, that once manufactured many fuels and oil derivatives used to make thousands of products for humanity, are now only focusing on manufacturing renewable diesel fuel.   Today, the Bay Area AQMD (BAAQMD) in Northern California has their regulatory sights set on the refineries at Chevron Richmond and PBF Martinez (the old Shell site). If the courts uphold the recent BAAQMD rule 6-5 for a further reduction in particulate emissions, both the Chevron Refinery at Richmond and the PBF Refinery at Martinez have stated that they will shut down before spending one billion dollars at each site to retrofit their refineries to comply with further particulate emission reductions to 2.5 microns or less.   With the potential loss of two more California refineries in the coming years, Northern California’s gasoline and jet fuel demands will be imported from China and India to supply military bases, and the major international airports in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Sacramento, along with many oil derivatives that shuttered California refineries will no longer be manufacturing.   While the folks at CARB, SCAQMD, and the other air districts continue to do their job according to the regulations they have in hand, they are only tinkering with the emissions reductions that are needed to achieve our emissions attainment goals and the reductions in fossil fuels from the supply chain, while demand for the fossil fuel oil derivatives and fuels continues to increase worldwide.   Because the emissions from manufacturing operations and the production and use of fossil fuels doesn’t recognize community or international boundaries, those who live in underserved communities or developing countries will derive little if any benefit from this massive trove of government regulations.   While wind turbines and solar panels are seen as a promising source of renewable electricity to transition away from fossil fuels, it’s important to acknowledge their limitations. Two of the key drawbacks are their inability to generate continuous electricity, and most importantly, their inability to manufacture any goods to meet the demand for products for the growing population around the world.   With California being the 4th largest economy in the world, California may have regulated itself into an emission reductions death spiral. The few in the underprivileged communities of California will benefit from a reduction in emissions in their backyards, while the other 40 million residents of the state, and others around the world pick up the expense associated with the impact from the reductions to the supply chain of products and fuels now being manufactured from oil that are supporting the 8 billion on this planet.

The worst declaration against humanity ever
by John Shanahan
June 19, 2023
Over the course of human history individuals, heads of organizations, and leaders of nations have announced terrible things they are doing.

The recent statement by the Chief of the United Nations, António Guterres, is one of the worst statements against humanity in all history.

“The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It’s fossil fuels – period.”

Getting rid of fossil fuels would put the world back to where it was from the beginning of history to the 1800s when a lot of slavery and poverty ended.

Before use of fossil fuels:
a) population was never more than one billion,
b) most people were enslaved or lived in poverty,
c) needed millions of work animals with all their waste and dead carcasses,
d) had greatly reduced communications and transportation,
e) owned a lot less and most weren’t happy,
f) had much less leisure time,
g) primitive medical practices and medicines,
h) greatly reduced education,
i) much shorter life spans,
j) shorter people,
k) very primitive dentistry,

l) all kinds of fantasy belief systems,
m) no safe municipal drinking water,
n) no municipal wastewater treatment,
o) primitive fishing industry,
p) dirt two lane streets, no national highways, no long bridges
q) no cars, primitive bicycles,
r) no cellphones, Internet, Internet search engines or free Internet telephoning service worldwide,
s) no flights to wonderful vacation destinations or easily visiting relatives far away
t) no cruise vacations
u) no commuting by car or public transportation
v) no mall shopping, just open air markets and small stores
w) no plastic packaging for safe food and convenient shopping bags
x) no hearing aides, pacemakers, few eyeglasses
y) no Internet artificial intelligence assistance
z) more hatred, less love!

That is the standard of living the Chief of the United Nations, António Guterres demands.

Get rid of seven billion people. Let the rest work much harder for a lot less. Cut down forests for buildings, carts, ships and fire wood. Wildlife habitats disappear into thin air. Return of massive whale hunting. More regional wars over resources. Back to primitive farming with ox or horse drawn wooden plows. No synthetic fertilizers, pesticides. Uncontrolled plagues.

See the proclamation against fossil fuels by António Guterres, Chief of the
United Nations here.

Democratically elected leaders of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, UK,
USA, other countries, the European Union, and the World Economic Forum
demand that we stop using fossil fuels. Who are humanity’s worst enemies?
Look around. They are closer than you think. They are either:

Dumb as they come.

Out of their minds.

The world’s worst criminals.

The world with fossil fuels.

Electricity from fossil fuels brings music to people everywhere. There will never be enough wind turbines and solar panels to bring music to all the people of the world.

Fossil fuels enable much better food supplies through soil and plant management, farm machinery, food processing and rapid transportation to supermarkets.

Australia

Brazil

China has changed from a peasant and rice paddy economy to the top manufacturing country, good schools and universities for many. It became close to the world’s best economy in just sixty years. One of the most amazing accomplishments in world history.

Ocean commerce

Singapore and Switzerland have two of the world’s best democracies and economies

World economic prosperity skyrocketed along with the use of fossil fuels

World without fossil fuels

After fossil fuels and nuclear power, forests are the next most important source of energy and by-products. With fossil fuels, forested areas have increased. When the United Nations and free countries demand halting the use of fossil fuels a lot of forests will disappear again like for the last two thousand years in Europe.

Mini and full blown ice ages will return. Warm periods like now last much shorter. Fossil fuels and nuclear power are needed to survive colder climates.

Very rudimentary electricity.

Life in cabins with no electricity, running water, flush toilets and simple transportation.

What should be done about man-made climate change alarmists,
anti-fossil fuel fanatics and anti-nuclear power protesters? The
UN, the World Economic Forum, John Kerry (Biden), John
Holdren (Obama) etc. demand stopping use of fossil fuels!!!!

Earth’s climate is controlled by solar energy and physics. People
partially influence regional climate by development of large
cities and agriculture. Life and climate today are the best ever!

John A. Shanahan

Civil Engineer

Founder,  website:  allaboutenergy.net

Denver, Colorado, USA 80210

#UN #UnitedNations #UNIPCC #IPCC #Environment #FossilFuels #Climate #Globalwarming #ClimateChange #Extinction #Sustainable #CO2 #Greenhouse #NetZero #Energy

“The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions,” Antonio Guterres said, “it’s fossil fuels – period.”

https://apnews.com/article/climate-talks-un-uae-guterres-fossil-fuel-9cadf724c9545c7032522b10eaf33d22

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/un-chief-claims-fossil-fuels-are-incompatible-human-survival

Excerpt of Guterres bio (link below).

Guterres studied physics and engineering at the Universidade de Lisboa’s elite Instituto Superior Técnico, earning a degree in 1971. His time as a student was marked by the decline of the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar, and Guterres was active in the protest movement that helped to topple Salazar’s successor, Marcello Caetano, in 1974. After graduating, Guterres worked as a physics instructor, but, as Portugal began its transition to democracy, he became more active in politics. He joined the Socialist Party in 1974, and two years later he was elected to the Portuguese parliament.

In 1992 he was elected secretary-general of the Socialist Party, and in 1995 he was elected prime minister of Portugal at the head of a minority government. During his term Guterres oversaw Portugal’s transition to the euro as its official currency and presided over the transfer of Macau to Chinese sovereignty.  …After the Socialists were soundly beaten in local elections in December 2001, Guterres resigned, and in early legislative elections held in March 2002, the Socialists were swept from power.

In 2005 the UN General Assembly elected Guterres to serve as the High Commissioner for Refugees…

On October 13, 2016, the United Nations General Assembly elected Guterres to serve as UN secretary-general.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antonio-Guterres bio above

“Along with a stint as prime minister of Portugal from 1995-2002, Guterres also served as president of the Socialist International, from 1999-2005, following a stint as vice-president of the organization from 1992-1999.”

Website for Socialist International: https://www.socialistinternational.org/

“UN Picks former president of Socialist International As New Secretary-General”

“Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, admitted to the bar in Germany and California for 26 years, is primarily a trial lawyer. He has worked on highly visible fraud cases such as Deutsche Bank and VW. “

“Dr. Fuellmich is one of four founding members of the German Corona Investigative Committee, founded on July 10, 2020, to find answers to critical questions regarding the so-called Corona crisis, which he thinks should be more appropriately called the Corona fraud scandal.

Glenn Lee Beck is an American conservative political commentator, radio host, entrepreneur, and television producer. He is the CEO, founder, and owner of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze. (Wikipedia)

In the video below, he reveals the criminals involved in the biggest case ever, a case which has unfolded into one of the greatest crimes against humanity ever committed, involving all levels of most governments. Glenn Beck vigorously expands on the failures in government, particularly in the U.S. government.

The following 1 minute video excerpt from a longer interview is Călin Georgescu with Reiner Fuellmich.

The following 1 minute video excerpt from a longer interview is Călin Georgescu with Reiner Fuellmich. Călin Georgescu is an expert and practitioner in Sustainable Development. For more than 17 years he was involved in the United Nations. He has served as director of the United Nations Global Sustainable Index Institute (UNGSII) in the 2015-2016 period. He has also held various positions, such as being a senior fellow in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and a member of the UN Special Rapporteur UNHRC. Georgescu also member of the Club of Rome, and has served as president of the European Research Center of the Club of Rome in the period 2013-2015.

In this International Crimes Investigative Committee (ICIC) interview by Reiner Fuellmich, Călin Georgescu, with years of experience in international organizations, observes that the oligarch use UN as a ‘bridge’ for their greed. https://youtu.be/UhI2Fyr3ZRc

The website for ICIC is here: https://icic.law/en/dr-reiner-fuellmich/

Dr. Fuellmich’s website: https://www.fuellmich.com/

Dr. Fuellmich’s website, in German, where you can join the class action lawsuit.

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Dr. Fuellmich’s update on progress with the various legal cases from January 2021 is provided by John O’Sullivan at http://principia-scientific.org/

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“Darker than anything that has happened in this century.”

The world will want another trial in Nuremberg after this

No scientific, medical or legal basis for the pandemic

#covid #covid19 #SARS #mandates #FDA #NIH #CDC #mRNA #vax #VAERS #BigPharma

“North Korea, a dictatorship run by four generations of the Kim family and known for concentration camps and a habit of executing senior officials, has just commenced a 3-year term on the Executive Board of the WHO.”

North Korea Joins WHO’s Leadership

More on this subject on this blog

Your freedom will be handed to W.H.O. one year from now

U.S. and all free countries should immediately exit and defund W.H.O.

Michele Bachmann reporting from Geneva, CH on W.H.O.

E.U. Parliamentarian: “W.H.O. is a terrorist organization.”

UK will sign W.H.O. plandemic treaty

The proposed amendments to WHO’s International Health Regulations, and their implications for individual and national sovereignty sidestep U.S. Congress and other national legislatures, destroy democracy, and implement tyranny.

The jabs: “No safety pharmacology studies conducted … not considered necessary… according to the WHO guideline..”

“Those who were complicit should be prosecuted.”

Dr. David Martin exposes patented genocide: the mRNA covid-19 vaccines

A video lecture for us all, by Charles Martel

Video above originally posted on Canada Free Press:

https://canadafreepress.com/article/an-eye-for-an-eye

IF … 2025 finds our side with the levers of power, then punishment has to be doled out.

Punishment so severe to ensure that it will be at least a generation before bureaucrats once more attempt a similar power play.

Remember this: It is not just Donald Trump who has been indicted— it’s all of us! From the J6 protestors to parents who don’t want Drag Queen story hour, victims of cancel culture, and those of us who want to control our border—we’re ALL being indicted!

If we don’t hurl these demons into the furnace, they’re going to own us like prison punks.

Yes, this applies to all countries, only the faces are different.

by Dennis Prager: June 13, 2023

Read the original at this link:

https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2023/06/13/on-the-argument-that-we-shouldnt-be-aiding-a-corrupt-country-n2624413

I have supported aiding Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression. I don’t understand conservatives who want America to watch Russia crush an independent country. That is not the America I thought conservatism embraced. At the same time, the opponents of aid to Ukraine do make valid points. For example, America should not seek regime change in Russia; peace should be pursued as vigorously as war; and compromises — such as an agreement that Ukraine does not apply for NATO membership, at least for a specified amount of time — will be necessary.

But there is one argument made by opponents of American aid to Ukraine that holds no water — the argument that Ukraine is corrupt.

One reason this argument doesn’t hold water is that had it been applied in the past, America, to cite one example, would never have aided Korea in its fight for survival against North Korean/Chinese/Soviet aggression. It took many years for (South) Korea to become a fully functioning democracy. Yet, thank God and thank America, which lost 37,000 men, that America did aid Korea, or the entire Korean peninsula would have become what North Korea is — the world’s largest concentration camp.

And to cite the most extreme example, if corruption were a reason not to aid a country, America certainly should not have aided Stalin’s Soviet Union in its war with Nazi Germany. Stalin’s regime murdered about 30 million Soviet citizens, including the deliberate starvation of about 5 million Ukrainians. But we did aid Stalin because, at the time, Hitler was the evil that most needed to be destroyed.

There is a second reason the argument that we shouldn’t aid Ukraine because it is corrupt holds no water. It is hard to imagine that at this time Ukraine is more corrupt than America. I never imagined I would ever write such a thing. But it is, sadly, the case.

Under the influence of the left, both the government and virtually every governing body in America has been corrupted.

To begin with, with the possible exception of Lyndon B. Johnson, Joe Biden is the most corrupt president in American history. While in government service, he has enriched himself and his family to an unprecedented extent. Have Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his extended family become as wealthy as Joe Biden and his extended family? Even if they have, would it make a difference? If it were proven that Zelenskyy was the most honest head of state in the world, would any conservative opponent of aid to Ukraine become a proponent of aid to Ukraine?

And while on the subject of relative corruption, are Ukraine’s intelligence agencies more corrupt than — or even just as corrupt as — America’s? America’s intelligence heads serve the interests of the ruling Democratic Party, not of America. To cite just one example, 51 heads and former heads of intelligence agencies signed a lie — that the Hunter Biden laptop was likely Russian disinformation — in order to help Joe Biden get elected president in 2020.

Has the Zelenskyy government sought to imprison a previous president or the leading opposition candidate as the American left is now doing?

Does the Ukraine government have as many political prisoners as the Biden government has?

Has the Ukrainian Medical Association announced that the sex of all Ukrainian newborns not be listed in the child’s birth certificate — because we do not know for certain the sex of a child and because the child should be able to choose his/her/their sex later in life? I doubt it. Yet, that is precisely what the American Medical Association has announced vis-a-vis American newborns.

Do Ukrainian children’s hospitals encourage pre-adolescents to take hormone blockers if they say they think they are a person of the opposite sex? Do Ukrainian medical schools tell their medical students never to say “pregnant woman” but “birthing person”?

The list of corrupted major American institutions — inside and outside the government — is almost as long as the list of major American institutions.

To repeat, I agree with opponents of aid to Ukraine that America should be pursuing peace as vigorously as it is pursuing war. Comments such as Joe Biden’s calling for regime change in Russia, his declaring Putin a “war criminal,” and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III’s statement that a key U.S. goal in supporting Ukraine is “to see Russia weakened” are likely prolonging a very dangerous war.

Nevertheless, we should all agree that one does not refuse to aid an attacked nation based on the amount of corruption in that nation. Especially when that nation is no more corrupt than one’s own — and considerably freer than the attacking nation.

Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His commentary on Deuteronomy, the third volume of “The Rational Bible,” his five-volume commentary on the first five books of the Bible, was published in October. He is the co-founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

Except from Ron Clutz at Science Matters. Link below.

The post below updates the UAH [University of Alabama, Huntsville] record of air temperatures over land and ocean. Each month and year exposes again the growing disconnect between the real world and the Zero Carbon zealots.  It is as though the anti-hydrocarbon band wagon hopes to drown out the data contradicting their justification for the Great Energy Transition.  Yes there is warming from an El Nino buildup but no basis to blame it on CO2.  

As an overview consider how recent rapid cooling  completely overcame the warming from the last 3 El Ninos (1998, 2010 and 2016).  The UAH record shows that the effects of the last one were gone as of April 2021, again in November 2021, and in February and June 2022  Now at year end 2022 and continuing into 2023 global temp anomaly is matching or lower than average since 1995, an ENSO neutral year. (UAH baseline is now 1991-2020).

For reference I added an overlay of CO2 annual concentrations as measured at Mauna Loa.  While temperatures fluctuated up and down ending flat, CO2 went up steadily by ~60 ppm, a 15% increase.

Furthermore, going back to previous warmings prior to the satellite record shows that the entire rise of 0.8C since 1947 is due to oceanic, not human activity.

The animation is an update of a previous analysis from Dr. Murry Salby.  These graphs use Hadcrut4 and include the 2016 El Nino warming event.  The exhibit shows since 1947 GMT warmed by 0.8 C, from 13.9 to 14.7, as estimated by Hadcrut4.  This resulted from three natural warming events involving ocean cycles. The most recent rise 2013-16 lifted temperatures by 0.2C.  Previously the 1997-98 El Nino produced a plateau increase of 0.4C.  Before that, a rise from 1977-81 added 0.2C to start the warming since 1947.

Importantly, the theory of human-caused global warming asserts that increasing CO2 in the atmosphere changes the baseline and causes systemic warming in our climate.  On the contrary, all of the warming since 1947 was episodic, coming from three brief events associated with oceanic cycles. 

Update August 3, 2021

Chris Schoeneveld has produced a similar graph to the animation above, with a temperature series combining HadCRUT4 and UAH6. H/T WUWT

The full article is here:

El Nino Warms UAH Air Temps in May 2023