Even if you’re never hit by a 7-ton blade falling from the night sky, alternative energy will fail you. Regardless of facts or feelings about the climate, there are reasons why wind and solar power are not replacing fossil fuels. Wind and solar are also no substitute for nuclear power.
The government of California can issue as many proclamations and prohibitions as it wants against gasoline-powered vehicles. No doubt the Biden administration will enjoy spending the ocean of tax dollars now earmarked for low-intensity energy sources. But reality will stubbornly remain.
In a new report due out next week from the Manhattan Institute, Mark Mills takes on the “dangerous delusion” of a global energy transition that eliminates the use of fossil fuels. Surveying energy markets and public policy around the world, Mr. Mills asks readers to “consider that years of hypertrophied rhetoric and trillions of dollars of spending and subsidies on a transition have not significantly changed the energy landscape.” He notes:
Civilization still depends on hydrocarbons for 84% of all energy, a mere two percentage points lower than two decades ago. Solar and wind technologies today supply barely 5% of global energy. Electric vehicles still offset less than 0.5% of world oil demand.
Mr. Mills then explains why the global appetite for energy is not heading south:
One can begin with a reality that cannot be blinked away: energy is needed for everything that is fabricated, grown, operated, or moved… digital devices and hardware—the most complex products ever produced at scale—require, on average, about 1,000 times more energy to fabricate, pound for pound, than the products that dominated the 20th century… it takes nearly as much energy to make one smartphone as it does one refrigerator, even though the latter weighs 1,000 times more. The world produces nearly 10 times more smartphones a year than refrigerators. Thus, the global fabrication of smartphones now uses 15% as much energy as does the entire automotive industry, even though a car weighs 10,000 times more than a smartphone. The global Cloud, society’s newest and biggest infrastructure, uses twice as much electricity as the entire nation of Japan. And then, of course, there are all the other common, vital needs for energy, from heating and cooling homes to producing food and delivering freight.
Advocates of a carbon-free world underestimate not only how much energy the world already uses, but how much more energy the world will yet demand… In America, there are nearly as many vehicles as people, while in most of the world, fewer than 1 in 20 people have a car. More than 80% of the world population has yet to take a single flight.
He then proceeds to take on the argument that wind and solar power are now becoming competitive with fossil fuels:
Claims that wind, solar, and [electrical vehicles] have reached cost parity with traditional energy sources or modes of transportation are not based on evidence. Even before the latest period of rising energy prices, Germany and Britain—both further down the grid transition path than the U.S.— have seen average electricity rates rise 60%–110% over the past two decades. The same pattern is visible in Australia and Canada. It’s also apparent in U.S. states and regions where mandates have resulted in grids with a higher share of wind/solar energy. In general, overall U.S. residential electricity costs rose over the past 20 years. But those rates should have declined because of the collapse in the cost of natural gas and coal—the two energy sources that, together, supplied nearly 70% of electricity in that period. Instead, rates have been pushed higher thanks to elevated spending on the otherwise unneeded infrastructure required to transmit wind/solar-generated electricity, as well as the increased costs to keep lights on during “droughts” of wind and sun that come from also keeping conventional power plants available (like having an extra, fully fueled car parked and ready to go) in effect by spending on two grids.
None of the above accounts for the costs hidden as taxpayer-funded subsidies that were intended to make alternative energy cheaper. Added up over the past two decades, the cumulative subsidies across the world for biofuels, wind, and solar approach about $5 trillion, all of that to supply roughly 5% of global energy.
Whether it’s to cool a home, heat steel, or power a data center, the eternal engineering challenge has always been to find the lowest-cost way to make energy available when it’s needed to meet inherently variable demands, especially in the face of inevitable challenges from nature’s attacks as well as supply chain and machine failures. Oil, natural gas, coal, and even wood and water are easy to store in very large volumes at very low cost, but not so electricity. Hence, grid-scale electric availability has been made possible by using electricity-producing machines (turbines) that can be turned on when needed, fueled by large quantities of primary energy sources (such as natural gas, coal, and flowing water) that are easily and inexpensively stored. Such metrics characterize, for now, more than 80% of U.S. electricity production and more than 90% of transportation. The U.S., on average, has about one to two months’ worth of national demand in storage for each kind of hydrocarbon. Such enormous quantities are possible because it costs less than $1 a barrel per month to store oil or the energy equivalent of natural gas. Storing coal is even cheaper. Thus, over the past century, engineers achieved the feat of building a nation-spanning group of electricity grids that powers nearly everything, anytime, while still consuming less than 3% of the GDP.
Storing electricity itself—the output from solar/wind machines—remains extremely expensive despite the vaunted battery revolution. Lithium batteries, a Nobel-winning invention, are some 400% better than lead-acid batteries in terms of energy stored per unit of weight (which is critical for vehicles). And the costs for lithium batteries have declined more than 10-fold in the past two decades. Even so, it costs at least $30 to store the energy equivalent of one barrel of oil using lithium batteries. That alone explains why, regardless of mandates and subsidies, batteries aren’t a solution at grid scales for days, never mind weeks, of storage.
President Joe Biden is unlikely to listen to such an explanation and who knows if he would even understand it. But reality’s not going anywhere.
“Even if President Trump had classified records in his possession, they were protected. All former Presidents get a federally funded office, security clearances, Secret Service protection, and secure facilities (SCIFs) for classified records.” – @mrddmia
Mike Davis is the founder and president of Unsilenced Majority, an organization dedicated to opposing Cancel Culture and fighting back against the woke mob and their enablers. As the former Chief Counsel for Nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, Davis also leads the Article III Project (A3P), established to defend constitutionalist judges and the rule of law, and the Internet Accountability Project (IAP), an advocacy organization fighting to rein in Big Tech.
As Chief Counsel for Nominations, Davis advised Chairman Grassley and other senators on the confirmation of federal judges and senior Executive Branch appointees, serving as staff lead for 30 hearings and 41 markup meetings. He oversaw the floor votes for 278 nominees, including the confirmations of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the record number of circuit judges confirmed during President Trump’s first two years in office.
Davis has served in all three branches of the federal government, including for President George W. Bush, the Justice Department, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and current Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Davis also led the outside support team for Justice Gorsuch’s successful confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Before returning to public service in 2017, Davis spent nearly ten years as a civil litigator in Denver, working at one of the largest law firms in the world and one of the top-ranked law firms in Colorado before running his own law practice for more than five years.
Davis is from Des Moines, Iowa. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 2000 and Juris Doctor in 2004, both from the University of Iowa. In 2017, Davis received Iowa Law’s “Emerging Leader Award.” Davis also serves on the University of Iowa Political Science Advisory Board.
“We were “told that in times of crisis it is better to put up and shut up than to undermine the authorities. But look where that has got us. An economic crisis, a health-service crisis and an education crisis are now engulfing the nation.” ~ @FraserMyers
“It will take decades, but the only way to gradually restore trust in the scientific community is to first come clean about the misguided, disastrous and unscientific covid policies that too many scientists supported.”
People in government now use your money to promote left-wing advocacy, disguised as science. The problem goes all the way to the White House. The co-head of President Biden’s “Scientific Integrity Task Force,” Jane Lubchenco, just got caught abusing science. Yet she still has her job.
Don’t White House officials care about scientific integrity? “They could not care less,” says science writer Andrew Follett. “Her job from their perspective is to generate papers that rationalize and justify the regulations they want to impose.”
Today’s bad government science goes well beyond the White House. Your tax money is used for gibberish. That’s how people like comedian Steven Crowder are able to hoax so-called “experts” in absurd.
Here is the trailer for the movie Soylent Green, starring Charleton Heston, based in New York City in 2022. The dystopian Sci-Fi movie Soylent Green was released in 1973.
According to some reports received privately, now in 2022 euthanasia is being promoted by the tyranny in Canada.
Humans inhale air of ~78% N2 gas, ~21% O2 gas, a variable % water vapor gas, and many trace gases including 0.09% argon gas, ~0.04% CO2 gas, etc. Then humans exhale ~78% N2, ~16% O2, a variable % of water vapor gas, ~0.09% argon, and ~4% CO2. In other words, humans exhale CO2 that is about 100 times more concentrated than the air they inhaled a moment before. Where does that CO2 go?
The measured, not computer modeled nor estimated, net increase of CO2 from all sources, combining all human CO2 sources and sinks and all natural CO2 sources and sinks, for 2020 was 0.000258%. Measured by NOAA-Scripps Oceanographic. This means for 2020 the net amount of CO2 from humans could not have exceeded 0.000258% of the atmosphere, and was probably much less. The maximum possible amount of net human CO2 as a percent of net global CO2 for 2020 could not have exceeded 0.6%.
It is the maximum possible net amount of CO2 emitted by humans because that amount includes CO2 emissions from all sources and CO2 absorption by all sinks. CO2 is always, day and night, everywhere, (24 hours X 365 days per year) being absorbed by the environment, mostly ocean surface and plants, and simultaneously always being emitted. (CO2 gas is continuously colliding with ocean surface, which is ~71% of Earth’s surface. CO2 gas is highly soluble in water and ocean.) The “net amount” of CO2 means total CO2 absorption subtracted from total CO2 emission. The difference is the net increase (or growth) in net CO2 from 2019 to 2020, which was only 0.000258%. Thus for 2020 net human CO2 increase cannot exceed and must be less than 0.00025% of atmosphere and less than 0.6% of total CO2.
Consulting firm McKinsey & Co., supported by the UN, WHO, WEF, the governments of over 150 countries, many world bankers, and most mainstream media, and most academic institutions want you to spend $9 TRILLION dollars per year each year for decades into the future because they claim without proof that human CO2 emissions are dangerous.
There is no real-world evidence from the environment that so-called renewable or sustainable energy reduces net global CO2 concentration, nor does renewable or sustainable energy reduce global warming or climate change. There is strong engineering evidence that net zero CO2 emissions is impossible, deadly dangerous, and financially unaffordable. Climate modelers admit their models are wrong. It is a scam. You are their sucker. Would you like some snake oil along with your scam? You will either push back, or they will separate you from your property and your sovereignty.
Climate fraudsters have been building their scam for over 50 years. The laughably absurd response by proponents of the scam include only ad hominem efforts to change the subject, offered by so-called climate scientists (really computer gamers), along with attacks on the messengers who now number in the many thousands.
“Judicial Watch obtained the records [466 pages and 663 pages] in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services No.1:21-cv-02418) filed after Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious disease failed to respond to a June 8, 2021, FOIA request for:”
“Access to biodistribution studies and related data for the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines used to treat and/or prevent SARS-CoV-2 and/or COVID-19.“
“The Pfizer records include a report, which was approved in February 2021, on the animal trials on the distribution of the the Pfizer COVID vaccine in rat subjects. In a section titled “Safety Pharmacology,” the report notes, “No safety pharmacology studies were conducted with BNT162b2 [the BioNTech vaccine] as they are not considered necessary for the development of vaccines according to the WHO guideline (WHO, 2005).”
“Similarly, under “Pharmacodynamic Drug Interactions,” is “Nonclinical studies evaluating pharmacodynamic drug interactions with BNT162B2 were not conducted as they are generally not considered necessary to support development and licensure of vaccine products for infectious diseases (WHO, 2005).”…
“Under the heading, “Genotoxicity” is: “No genotoxicity studies are planned for BNT162b2 as the components of the vaccine constructs are lipids and RNA that are not expected to have genotoxic potential (WHO, 2005).” Similarly, “Carcinogenicity studies with BNT162b2 have not been conducted as the components of the vaccine construct are lipids and RNA and are not expected to have carcinogenic or tumorigenic potential.”
“Also included in the Pfizer records is a report, approved in January 2021, titled “Pharmacokinetics Tabulated Summary.” A table in the report shows the biodistribution of the lipid nanoparticles (LNP) containing mRNA used in the vaccine using rats as the clinical trial subjects reports LNPs accumulating after 48 hours, especially in the lymph nodes, ovaries, small intestine and spleen.”
Recall that the people of the world were told that these vaccines, mRNA and LNP remain in the region of the injection, normally one of the upper arm muscles.
“In a November 4.2020, report submitted to the FDA regarding the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine, … notes that metabolism, excretion and pharmacokinetic interactions with other drugs were not studied in this trial because they are “not applicable to vaccines.” It is also noted that “biodistribution studies have not been conducted with Ad26.COV2.S.””
“A table in the report shows that the vaccine virus continued to appear in the rabbits’ iliac lymph nodes 180 days after injection.”
This spending already is dramatically increasing the cost of every product and service. The U.S. Democrat’s recently passed $700 billion spending bill is a down payment, mendaciously titled “inflation reduction.”
Make no mistake: the proponents of human-CO2-caused-climate-change intend to tax every household and business on their carbon footprint, and their scheme is near completion. Bankers and brokers will sell carbon offset derivatives to offset your carbon taxes. The patent on the system was granted and soon the system and devices in the patent will be required to obtain a mortgage. The patent is attached, listing Franklin Raines, then CEO of Fannie Mae, assigned to FannieMae, a quasi-U.S.-government mortgage regulation and marketing agency. The other assignee was CO2e.com, part of investment banker Canter Fitzgerald. The patent is attached for reference because otherwise most readers will think this is conspiracy theory.
Closely related, in the last few months, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed in the official U.S. Federal Register their plan to require all public companies to document in their SEC filings their activities with regard to climate change, an incredibly wasteful fool’s errand with no benefit. Those proposed SEC regulation have already appeared in 2 Federal Register filings and the time for comment has passed. The commodities regulatory agency has also filed similar proposals. Like Hannibal Lecter pursuing his next meal, these crooks are persistent across decades.
The global great resetters, the UN, and the governments of most nations intend to regulate and tax everyone’s carbon footprint, and then the assignees of FannieMae’s patent or similar in other countries will require carbon measuring devices and connection to the system to obtain a loan or refinance a home. To avoid taxes on carbon footprints in each home and business, individuals and businesses will be invited to buy carbon credits in the commodities markets where traders expect to make trillions of dollars per year trading carbon credit derivatives. Klaus told you, ‘you will own nothing and be happy,’ but did you believe him?
The carbon derivatives trading scheme is the reason banks are involved in the climate change agenda. Bankers donate to politicians who support the scheme and support dubious government-guaranteed loans and spending on so-called sustainable programs. It is a giant money laundry under color of authority. The carbon credit derivatives trading is expected to generate $1 trillion per year in brokers fees alone, currently the market is valued at $200 billion. https://www.coherentmarketinsights.com/market-insight/global-carbon-credit-market-4382
Truly, it is malfeasance, non-feasance and misfeasance rolled into one.
Joyce Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NGO), funded Northwestern University’s Kellogg business school professor Richard L. Sandor to design a carbon credit trading system and the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). Barack Obama was on the board of directors (see image below from the 2000 Joyce annual report.) The president of Joyce Foundation at that time, Paula DiPerna, became President-International of CCX, “the world’s first global cap-and-trade system covering all six greenhouse gases” and also co-founded the Tianjin Climate Exchange (TCX), China’s first pilot carbon market. Franklin Raines, a confidant of Obama, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Raines was CEO at FannieMae and coinventor on the carbon measuring device and system patent. This is a very strange patent for FannieMae, a quasi-U.S.-government mortgage agency, a fact that was noticed by members of U.S. Congress (letter attached). Raines was implicated in the U.S. mortgage banking crash. Today, Raines is apparently head of the Smithsonian Institution. It is a deep conspiracy, stay with me.
The late Maurice Strong, born Canadian, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, first executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, became one of CCX’s nine directors. Al Gore’s General Investment Management, a carbon offset trading company, invested and exerted considerable influence over CCX and other carbon credit trading firms. In the early 1990s, Strong founded Agenda 21, a UN program to promote so-called “sustainable development” and the human-caused global warming agenda. Strong was principle designer of The Kyoto Protocol, “an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits nations to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that (1) global warming is occurring and (2) that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it.”
After it was disclosed Strong accepted almost $1 million from Saddam Hussein, he fled the UN and US to Costa Rica, bilked Costa Rica on a land deal, and then fled to China, where he died in 2015. The huge conflict of interest between the UN and the carbon credit trading business went almost unreported.
Maurice Strong served for some time on the Commission on Global Governance, whose manifesto, titled “Our Global Neighborhood,” called for a dramatic redistribution of the world’s wealth and political power. It advocated a phasing out of America’s veto in the UN Security Council, while increasing UN authority over member nations. To further advance the cause of wealth redistribution, the manifesto advocated on behalf of: (a) the international taxation of multinational corporations; (b) the imposition of a worldwide carbon tax; and (c) the creation of a new international “Economic Security Council” to ensure that the world’s economic growth remains subjugated to “sustainable development” principles.
Strong believed global governance could be achieved by manipulating and exploiting international concern about the alleged degradation of the environment. This, he said, might require an all-powerful, authoritarian government to terminate the voting process by which people have traditionally elected their political leaders. “Our concept of ballot box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions,” Strong asserted, “particularly in terms of safeguarding the global environment.”
The above graphic, board of directors, and the following quotes are from the Joyce Foundation 2000 annual report (attached.)
“Finally, our grant making through the special Joyce Millennium Initiatives addresses the dynamic of power flowing from one generation to the next. … For example, the problem of global warming caused by emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide will build up and plague generations that will have had very little to do with causing the problem. One of our first Millennium grants supports the design of a pilot phase for a carbon dioxide emissions trading market, called the Chicago Climate Exchange. Long discussed, the ability of the marketplace to create incentives for reducing carbon dioxide emissions has not been tested….” … “Northwestern University J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management Evanston, IL $347,600 To design a midwestern pilot program for the voluntary trading of carbon dioxide and other emissions that cause climate change, with the goal of answering methodological questions and resolving operational issues (1 yr.)” (attached annual report.)
Richard L Sandor’s system became the Chicago, European and Chinese climate exchanges and the patents on the system which were acquired by ICE (see attached two ICE press releases). Grant funding for this project by Joyce Foundation reached $1.1 million. Sandor was founder of CCX.
You may notice offers from your electric utility to attach (probably at no charge) to your house and business a meter which is attached to the internet.
Here are examples of the narratives of the global warming /climate change agenda:
“The latest estimate warns that the global temperature could rise by as much as 10.5ºF during the next hundred years. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, global warming poses a serious challenge for anyone who cares about intergenerational equity, as generations born in the new millennium will suffer the effects of industrial civilization that was a hallmark of the old.”…” The problem is carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere, caused largely by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil. Carbon dioxide (along with other greenhouse gases) traps the sun’s heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, much as a greenhouse traps warm air. Scientists have expressed increasing alarm over resulting changes in the earth’s climate, notably rising temperatures.” And another by Al Gore (in the attached Hedge Fund Review), “Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several “tipping points” that could, within as few as 10 years, make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet’s habitability for human civilisation.”…”Each passing day brings yet more evidence that we are now facing a planetary emergency – a climate crisis that demands immediate action to sharply reduce carbon dioxide emissions worldwide in order to turn down the earth’s thermostat and avert catastrophe.”…”For the last 14 years, I have advocated the elimination of all payroll taxes – including those for social security and unemployment compensation – and the replacement of that revenue in the form of pollution taxes – principally on CO2.”
On the other hand, the graph below, using only NOAA measurements, shows “carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere”… or rather the absence of significant CO2 buildup. The dashed green line near the horizontal baseline is the maximum possible net human CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, cement production, land use and all other human sources; this is only 0.6% of total CO2 in 2020 and only 0.00025% of the atmosphere in 2020. Governments, UN, WHO, WEF, proponents, etc. pretend they will control this negligible amount of CO2. They rely on what they believe is an ignorant population and they disserve our harsh ridicule. It is the maximum possible net human CO2 emissions because it is the measured net CO2 increase from all CO2 sources and sinks, human and natural, in 2020. Net human CO2 emissions cannot exceed this negligible amount.
There is no climate crisis caused by human use of fossil fuels, as attested to by the 1200 signers of the attached CLINTEL Declaration (attached.)
Politicians and regulators in the bureaucracies of national governments and the supranational wannabe governments do not listen to science, scientists, or economists. They have refused petitions and letters to reconsider their Endangerment Finding that claims CO2 is dangerous. (The EPA Endangerment Finding was instituted by the Obama administration – not a coincidence – along with hundreds of climate regulations. The Obama administration also approved billions of dollars spent on failed green energy projects. Follow the money trail.)
They will execute their fraud and tax scheme unless stopped by voters and persistent demands by the voting public to their legal representatives in government, as well as actions in the courts of law.
The money laundry feeds politicians and bureaucrats. Politicians and bureaucrats feed their cronies, who create among other things bogus peer-reviewed “science” publications, fake news, computer models, etc. It is an ongoing conspiracy, but it is not a theory.
The scheme will tax everyone on a negligible amount of carbon which has no negative effect on climate. But that regulation and tax enables a trillion dollar per year global carbon derivatives trading market and institutions which fund politicians, NGOs and cronies. The politicians and bureaucrats then spend their constituent’s money (or debt really) on solar panels, wind farms, electric vehicles, carbon sequestration projects, computer models, “big green”, and more than anything else spend big money on propaganda and miseducation, which explains the horse-blinder collusion by mainstream media, “peer-review” journal and associations and the education establishment. It is a money laundry designed to take your money, property and sovereignty and convince you that you will be happy. Follow the money trail. It leads to very big names.
This is the second largest fraud in history.
I am a member of CLINTEL and signer of the Declaration. More signers are welcome.
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