brenthutch

Did those in 2022.

Voyager 1, 47 years and counting

Trump tax cuts expire, child tax credit ends, rental properties fully depreciate…Doesn’t seem like a stretch.

“The decline in EV sales in the market was particularly pronounced among European automakers, as reported by data from the KBA, Germany’s federal motor transport authority. Citroen, Jaguar, Polestar, and Volkswagen all saw a 30 percent reduction in EV sales in Q1 2024 compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, Porsche, Peugeot, Mini, Fiat, and DS experienced even larger contractions, with reductions exceeding 40 percent.” From Carscoops.com

We don’t have 12 years to save the climate. We have 14 months,” the now-defunct ThinkProgress predicted 43 months ago. Former French prime minister Laurent Fabius warned 3,239 days ago that the international community had only “500 days to avoid climate chaos.” Earlier, in 2009, Gordon Brown, the U.K.’s prime minister at the time, said we had “fewer than fifty days to save our planet from catastrophe.” Also in 2009, former vice president Al Gore declared that “there is a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.” In 2013, mid-melt, the Guardian ran the following headline: “US Navy predicts summer ice-free Arctic by 2016.” The ice is still there. “NASA Scientist: We’re Toast,” reads the headline of an Associated Press report from 2008. In 2007, the IPCC predicted the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. The U.N.’s chief climate science body retracted the claim in 2010, explaining the prediction wasn’t based on any peer-reviewed data, but on a media interview with a scientist conducted in 1999. In 2006, Gore claimed that unless world leaders took “drastic measures” to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, Earth would surpass the “point of no return” in ten years — a “true planetary emergency,” he called it. The year 2016 came and went, and now we’re being told the early 2030s are the real point of no return. The Guardian, citing a “secret report,” warned in 2004 that “major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020.” “U.N. Predicts Disaster If Global Warming Not Checked,” the AP reported in 1989. The report’s opening line reads, “senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”

But I also predicted there would be record coal production. I predicted CO2 emissions would continue to increase. (So much for “energy transition”) I predicted floods, droughts, hurricanes and wildfires would remain within historical range. I predicted Polar bears would continue to thrive. I predicted global food production would remain at or near record levels (thanks CO2). I predicted the Polar ice cap would remain year round. And I predicted ICE vehicles sales would continue to outpace EVs. (I know that one hurts Olof). All in all I think I did pretty well.

I hope you know the difference between projections and observations. Other than a slight warming, none of those predictions have panned out.

If that was the case, why did the southern hemisphere have extensive glaciation at the same time? “Based on changes in position of ice sheet margins dated via terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides and radiocarbon dating, growth of ice sheets in the southern hemisphere commenced 33,000 years ago and maximum coverage has been estimated to have occurred sometime between 26,500 years ago[1] and 20,000 years ago.”

I would call it climate change, how else do you think the ice age ended?

Ford is also losing money on EVs. Let’s compare to an automobile company that didn’t buy into the EV craze….say…Toyota Toyota Motor Corp 233.81 USD+96.06 (69.74%)past yea

https://fb.watch/runGaPUcRf/? You have to spend it to get it. What form gets a better ROI?

155.90 USD-92.52 (-37.25%)year to date It was 180 just a few days ago In other news… “On Monday, Tesla sent an email to employees saying it was laying off around 10 percent of its workforce, or roughly 14,000 people. On Tuesday, affected employees found out they no longer had a job”

My iPad has stopped letting me copy and paste links, no subterfuge intended. Full transparency, I copied from the Daily Caller (not Reuters) dated 4/10 (If anyone knows how to fix this I would appreciate it)

They ceased to be quirky and interesting when NPR transitioned from informing and entertaining to propagandizing and proselytizing. It is like going to a restaurant and ordering your favorite meal and it comes out with a turd on the plate. Same great meal, yet much less appetizing.

And says as much in the article I posted.

My post was about private equity not government spending. I didn’t think I would have to spell it out for you. I was wrong. (when I’m wrong, I admit it) Oh and BTW, weren’t you complaining about all of the subsidies given to Big Oil? When all this time it was renewables getting the massive hand outs.

Global finance does not recognize borders but it does recognize winners from losers, and the winners appear to be oil and gas and the losers seem to be renewables.

Far from being mutually exclusive, they are woven into an all encompassing tapestry of woke.

You are adorable, Pax Americana did not end at the culmination of the Cold War, which arguably continues to this day. It is the absence of head-to-head major power wars since the U.S. became the global police man.

Yes I have. It’s called WWIII.

Yes, it gets hot, it gets cold, it rains then it doesn’t rain, the wind blows then it doesn’t, I like to call it WEATHER!

That presupposes that the audience from ten years ago was full of folks pining for tabloid journalism and Hunter Biden dick picks, when what actually happened was after the election of Trump, NPR programming went woke. Going overboard with queer, urban and climate crazy displacing the quirky and interesting stories they had been known for. As a longtime NPR listener (since the Clinton era) I can testify to this firsthand

It helps to have between one fifth and one third of your electricity imported from other states. https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=CA#:~:text=California imports more electricity than,from outside of the state. How is “energy transition” going to happen when billions of dollars are flowing out at the time you need billions of dollars to be flowing in?

Pax Americana