wokester on a siriusxm discussion just said the England is a fiery raging inferno right now due to global warming.
here's London's forecast high/low for the next week
Thu
75°
60°
Fri
77°
61°
Sat
75°
61°
Sun
73°
62°
Mon
73°
60°
Tue
69°
57°
Wed
69°
57°
Thu
69°
53°
here's London's forecast high/low for the next week
Thu
75°
60°
Fri
77°
61°
Sat
75°
61°
Sun
73°
62°
Mon
73°
60°
Tue
69°
57°
Wed
69°
57°
Thu
69°
53°
Many think we will subsidize our way to renewables, but we won't, for inherently physical reasons. Sunlight & wind are too energy-dilute. Solar/wind projects need ~300x more land, 300% more copper, and 700% more rare earths than fossil fuels, making them prohibitively expensive.
Wind/solar/batteries require: 1,000% more steel, concrete and glass; 300% more copper; and 4,200%, 2,500%, 1,900%, and 700% more lithium, graphite, nickel, and rare earths, respectively, than fossil fuels, to produce the same amount of energy, according to IEA and others.
The capital costs of solar, wind, and batteries have been rising since 2017 and, given the energy crisis, are about to skyrocket, and stay high for a decade. Energy today only uses 10%–20% of total global minerals. There's no way its share will rise to 50-70%, as IEA envisions.
Today, 40 CEOs of European metal companies warned of the “existential threat” to the industry due to energy shortages and the "extra raw materials needed to shift away from fossil fuels...50% of the EU’s aluminium & zinc capacity has already been forced offline due to the crisis”
Policymakers insist that taxpayers will subsidize the transition to renewables, but renewables make electricity more expensive everywhere they are deployed at scale, and higher energy costs will make them prohibitively expensive.
The proximate cause of the global energy crisis is Europe's over-dependence on Russian fuels, and yet Western elites are on the verge of repeating that mistake by becoming dependent on China for the extraction and processing of the minerals needed to make solar, wind, & batteries
China’s market share of renewables/EV minerals is 2x OPEC’s share of oil. The U.S. is dependent on imports for 100% of 17 renewables/EV-critical minerals; for 28 others, imports account for >50% of domestic demand.
China dominates solar and battery production. Minerals = 60%–70% of the cost to produce solar panels & lithium batteries. And China's solar panel labor costs have been very low to free, considering that they have been covered as part of its genocide.
Ban Chinese Solar Genocide PanelsManchin-Schumer energy bill must include ban on Chinese solar panels, which are a moral catastrophe.https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/ban-chinese-solar-genocide-panels
There is no tech fix. The underlying problem is physical: the energy-dilute nature of sunlight & wind & their low power densities. There is simply no way that energy's share of minerals consumption will rise from 10%–20% to 50-70%, with or without today's energy shortages.
We've known for 200 years that the industrial revolution was made possible first by coal and then by oil and gas. It simply wasn't possible with wood, water wheels, and wind mills. Scholars have now shown, using physical measures, why this was the case.
https://www.amazon.com/Energy-Engli...ergy+and+industrial+revolution,aps,132&sr=8-1
"The availability of free energy... explains why the industrial revolution started in Britain, where coal was readily available & firewood already depleted, or difficult to transport, whereas Germany, with its huge forests next to rivers, was much later."
https://www.amazon.com/Subterranean...x=subterranean+forest+sieferle,aps,105&sr=8-1
For a much more exciting, humanistic, and contemporary account of energy transitions, check out this 2020 best-seller ?
https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691
If renewables are doomed for basic physical reasons, why do so many educated people believe we will transition to them?
Most politicians are just ignorant. They have been surrounded by professional ideologues who have deceived them for decades. To wit:
But many others are nihilists who have turned nature into a god and have convinced themselves that civilization is destroying it. They are in the grip of a pathological dogma no different from the dogma that grips cult members. They dream of apocalypse.
Anti-Energy Nihilism Behind Economic CrisisIs it a coincidence that the people who said Western civilization was unsustainable are making it so?https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/anti-energy-nihilism-behind-economic
In Europe, politicians are either delusional or nihilistic. The delusional ones think they can cap the price of energy, but that will just shift the costs from ratepayers to taxpayers. The nihilistic ones, like the Greens, seek de-industrialization.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...is-will-last-beyond-this-winter-energy-update
We are headed for recession and Europe may be headed for depression. Western civilization will be rocked to its very core. Most of the politicians in power today won't be in power three years from now. People will learn the physics of energy the hard way.
Biden & Trudeau To Europe: Drop DeadWhy are the U.S. and Canada refusing to ramp up oil and gas production?https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/biden-and-trudeau-to-europe-drop
Energy is the biggest story the world. Most of what you read about it in the mainstream news media is misinformation. I am traveling the world to get to the bottom of the crisis. Please consider subscribing to my Substack to stay informed.
Anti-Energy Nihilism Behind Economic CrisisIs it a coincidence that the people who said Western civilization was unsustainable are making it so?https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/anti-energy-nihilism-behind-economic
• • •
Wind/solar/batteries require: 1,000% more steel, concrete and glass; 300% more copper; and 4,200%, 2,500%, 1,900%, and 700% more lithium, graphite, nickel, and rare earths, respectively, than fossil fuels, to produce the same amount of energy, according to IEA and others.
The capital costs of solar, wind, and batteries have been rising since 2017 and, given the energy crisis, are about to skyrocket, and stay high for a decade. Energy today only uses 10%–20% of total global minerals. There's no way its share will rise to 50-70%, as IEA envisions.
Today, 40 CEOs of European metal companies warned of the “existential threat” to the industry due to energy shortages and the "extra raw materials needed to shift away from fossil fuels...50% of the EU’s aluminium & zinc capacity has already been forced offline due to the crisis”
Policymakers insist that taxpayers will subsidize the transition to renewables, but renewables make electricity more expensive everywhere they are deployed at scale, and higher energy costs will make them prohibitively expensive.
The proximate cause of the global energy crisis is Europe's over-dependence on Russian fuels, and yet Western elites are on the verge of repeating that mistake by becoming dependent on China for the extraction and processing of the minerals needed to make solar, wind, & batteries
China’s market share of renewables/EV minerals is 2x OPEC’s share of oil. The U.S. is dependent on imports for 100% of 17 renewables/EV-critical minerals; for 28 others, imports account for >50% of domestic demand.
China dominates solar and battery production. Minerals = 60%–70% of the cost to produce solar panels & lithium batteries. And China's solar panel labor costs have been very low to free, considering that they have been covered as part of its genocide.
Ban Chinese Solar Genocide PanelsManchin-Schumer energy bill must include ban on Chinese solar panels, which are a moral catastrophe.https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/ban-chinese-solar-genocide-panels
There is no tech fix. The underlying problem is physical: the energy-dilute nature of sunlight & wind & their low power densities. There is simply no way that energy's share of minerals consumption will rise from 10%–20% to 50-70%, with or without today's energy shortages.
We've known for 200 years that the industrial revolution was made possible first by coal and then by oil and gas. It simply wasn't possible with wood, water wheels, and wind mills. Scholars have now shown, using physical measures, why this was the case.
https://www.amazon.com/Energy-Engli...ergy+and+industrial+revolution,aps,132&sr=8-1
"The availability of free energy... explains why the industrial revolution started in Britain, where coal was readily available & firewood already depleted, or difficult to transport, whereas Germany, with its huge forests next to rivers, was much later."
https://www.amazon.com/Subterranean...x=subterranean+forest+sieferle,aps,105&sr=8-1
For a much more exciting, humanistic, and contemporary account of energy transitions, check out this 2020 best-seller ?
https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691
If renewables are doomed for basic physical reasons, why do so many educated people believe we will transition to them?
Most politicians are just ignorant. They have been surrounded by professional ideologues who have deceived them for decades. To wit:
But many others are nihilists who have turned nature into a god and have convinced themselves that civilization is destroying it. They are in the grip of a pathological dogma no different from the dogma that grips cult members. They dream of apocalypse.
Anti-Energy Nihilism Behind Economic CrisisIs it a coincidence that the people who said Western civilization was unsustainable are making it so?https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/anti-energy-nihilism-behind-economic
In Europe, politicians are either delusional or nihilistic. The delusional ones think they can cap the price of energy, but that will just shift the costs from ratepayers to taxpayers. The nihilistic ones, like the Greens, seek de-industrialization.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...is-will-last-beyond-this-winter-energy-update
We are headed for recession and Europe may be headed for depression. Western civilization will be rocked to its very core. Most of the politicians in power today won't be in power three years from now. People will learn the physics of energy the hard way.
Biden & Trudeau To Europe: Drop DeadWhy are the U.S. and Canada refusing to ramp up oil and gas production?https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/biden-and-trudeau-to-europe-drop
Energy is the biggest story the world. Most of what you read about it in the mainstream news media is misinformation. I am traveling the world to get to the bottom of the crisis. Please consider subscribing to my Substack to stay informed.
Anti-Energy Nihilism Behind Economic CrisisIs it a coincidence that the people who said Western civilization was unsustainable are making it so?https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/anti-energy-nihilism-behind-economic
• • •
Rashida Tlaib wants the climate change terrorists to go scorched earth on the people and politicians who refuse to let them have their way.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Rashida Tlaib urges eco-activists to be 'much more aggressive'
The Palestinian-American congresswoman praised a 'civil disobedience' campaign that is set to ramp u in August, like European protests that have brought whole cities to a standstill.
Democratic Donor Arrested and Charged With Setting Destructive Wildfire That Democrats Blamed on Climate Change
“The arson suspect has donated $1,775 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2020, government records show, including a $1,000 donation to Tim Ryan’s failed U.S. Senate campaign in 2022 and $400 to the Lincoln Project, a disgraced liberal super PAC"
“The arson suspect has donated $1,775 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2020, government records show, including a $1,000 donation to Tim Ryan’s failed U.S. Senate campaign in 2022 and $400 to the Lincoln Project, a disgraced liberal super PAC"
Time is coming where the country separates into two pieces where the different sides can live in harmony amongst similar people.Rashida Tlaib wants the climate change terrorists to go scorched earth on the people and politicians who refuse to let them have their way.
Rashida Tlaib urges eco-activists to be 'much more aggressive'
The Palestinian-American congresswoman praised a 'civil disobedience' campaign that is set to ramp u in August, like European protests that have brought whole cities to a standstill.
Otherwise it is going to get ugly, there will be a civil war and people like her and millions of others will disappear from this earth
Oh look! Everyone's still here! Amazing!
Every doomsday prediction from the Climate Cult has been incorrect.
EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
The Climate scam is an even BIGGER Scam than Covid.
How much evidence do you need?
Btw, that little whiny fraud is a Rothchild.
Greta is as big a fraud as the hoax she propagandizes.
Lake Oroville in California was nearly dried up in 2021. This, of course, was caused by "climate change".
Today the reservoir is more than 100% full due to heavy rain and snowmelt. But for some reason this is not attributed to "climate change".
Natural Weather = "Climate Change" for the Climate Clowns
? ? ? ?
https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12217149/Photos-difference-water-levels-Californias-Lake-Oroville-2021-today.html
Today the reservoir is more than 100% full due to heavy rain and snowmelt. But for some reason this is not attributed to "climate change".
Natural Weather = "Climate Change" for the Climate Clowns
? ? ? ?
https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12217149/Photos-difference-water-levels-Californias-Lake-Oroville-2021-today.html
