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And yet we are spending trillions on a path to nowhere. One must ask oneself who will benefit from this futile endeavor? The answer is the friends and cronies of those pushing this agenda. Michael Mann went from a low-level meteorologist to a multimillionaire celebrity once he concocted the “hockey stick,” which has subsequently been rejected as junk science. However, once the gravy train started rolling, more and more hopped on board and now everyone from politics to media to academia is now feeding at the trough of climate alarmism. Anyone who can not see this is either naive, stupid or in on it.

Yes, just how would you go about destroying the worlds economy?

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken

Imagine you are the emperor of the planet and your task is to reduce global crime. You will not make a dent by over policing Switzerland while ignoring Haiti. The U.N. Says we need to achieve Net Zero by 2050. With China and India building hundreds of coal plants, with a lifespan of 40 to 50 years, it ain’t going to happen.

PA closes one coal plant per year (average) meanwhile China builds two coal plants per week and India is not far behind.

It won’t even begin until the growth of renewables outpace growth in demand which is projected to explode. From Newsmax “According to estimates in The Wall Street Journal, data centers which accounted for about 2.5% of U.S. electricity in 2022 are projected to consume more than 20% by 2030. That power is needed around-the-clock 24/7, competing with nighttime EV recharging demands, particularly when there is no sunlight, and the wind isn’t blowing. AEP Ohio warns that new data centers and Intel’s planned $20 billion chip plant will strain its grid as well because chip factories and data centers can consume 100 times more power than typical businesses.”

“Energy transition not happening”

From Hydroreview.com 4/8/24 “The world is burning more fossil fuels than ever before, global energy-related emissions are increasing, and ever-growing energy demand is not being fully met by renewables” If renewables can’t even keep pace with the growth in demand, they sure as hell won’t be able replace fossil fuels in time to “save the planet” You guys must live in the land of Magical Thinking.

Let me bring you up to speed… Energy transition, not happening EV transition, not happening End of the world from climate change, not happening. How is that?

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“In February 2024, the electric vehicle (EV) producer reduced its salaried workforce by 10%. Yesterday, it announced plans to lay off even more workers.” I guess they are giving them a rest before the inevitable massive transition to EV.

2016, it’s as out of date as their predictions.

Well when one side says the glaciers in Glacier National Park will be gone by 2020 and the other side says they won’t….2020 comes and goes and the glaciers are still there…it kinda does.

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?