Like the man said, you can’t make this stuff up.
Donald Clark (no flags, no hashtags)
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COP [UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26)] coming to Glasgow. Leaders staying at Gleneagles Hotel & 20Tesla cars (£100K each) bought to ferry them 75km back & forth. Gleneagles has 1 Tesla charging station, so Malcolm Plant Hire contracted to supply Diesel Generators to recharge Tesla’s overnight. Couldn’t make it up.
Wow.
President Joe Biden (D) wants to make climate change a matter of government regulation in our nation’s financial sector.
Calling climate change a systemic risk to the financial system, the White House will release a report Friday outlining its strategy for new rules that could affect investment disclosures, insurance policies and home loans.
And
[T]he US needs “a road map for measuring, disclosing, managing, and mitigating climate-related financial risk across the economy.”
[L]ife is always full of tough choices and the relationship between nations. That was John Kerry answering David Westin, a Bloomberg Television anchor, who asked Kerry, “What is the process by which one trades off climate against human rights?” Kerry actually said that in all seriousness regarding the Biden-Harris administration’s prioritizing global warming over the People’s Republic of China’s genocide against Uyghurs.
Never mind that the Uyghurs are being murdered today, and even if Climatistas are right, nobody dies for generations under the warming.
But Kerry wasn’t done.
That’s John Kerry’s claim and goal as he stated at the recent, pretentiously styled, Leaders Summit on Climate.
Net zero is not enough. We need to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
There are two interpretations for Kerry’s claim.
One is that he meant complete removal, which would have the effect of starving to extinction all plant life, and from that all life on Earth.
The other interpretation is that he meant removal of “excess” CO2 from the atmosphere. He—and climatistas everywhere—decline to define “excess” in any concrete, measurable terms.
The headline of a Wall Street Journal piece regarding the Amazon forest, its putative role in Earth’s climate, and Brazil says it all: Brazil’s Climate Overture to Biden: Pay Us Not to Raze Amazon. The article’s lede lays it out in crystalline terms.
Brazil’s government, widely criticized by environmental groups as a negligent steward of the Amazon rainforest, has made an audacious offer to the Biden administration: provide $1 billion and President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration will reduce deforestation by 40%.
The article closed with a question for readers:
Should the US give the Bolsonaro government in Brazil $1 billion to slow deforestation in the Amazon?
President Joe Biden’s Climate MFWIC, John Kerry, traveled to Iceland to accept an Arctic Circle award for his climate “leadership.” Of course, Kerry traveled by flying in his private jet (which has a much larger per-passenger carbon footprint than a commercial jet, but we won’t mention that).
An Icelandic journalist, Jóhann Bjarni Kolbeinsson, asked him how that works. Kerry said,
If you offset your carbon—it’s the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle.
I negotiated the Paris Accords for the United States.
I’ve been involved with this fight for years. I negotiated with President Xi to bring President Xi to the table so we could get Paris.
From Watts Up With That, some data for the continental United States over the last 100 years, in graph form. Here’s the lead graph.
Cooling? Say, what? Notice the year-on-year variability, too. Sort of puts the “warming” since the mid- to late-80s in perspective.
Other data are similar in vein: precipitation data—flat; drought severity, when we have one—slightly rising.
RTWT
Readers here have known of my long-standing disdain for climatistas’ climate modeling skills: their models cannot simultaneously predict our past and our present, and their predictions of our future have wildly exaggerated for the last 20 years, and counting. NASA (yes, an agency that has been caught altering past temperature data to “true up” current temperature change) also has commented on the matter.
Working from cloud modeling and clouds’ effect on climate change, NASA noted that [emphasis in the article]
There is no climate emergency.
That’s the opening sentence of a letter from Professor Guus Berkhout of The Hague and 500 other scientists and climate science professionals to António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, and Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Berkhout, et al., did expand on that.
The general-circulation models of climate on which international policy is at present founded are unfit for their purpose. Therefore, it is cruel as well as imprudent to advocate the squandering of trillions on the basis of results from such immature models.
Deutsche Welle‘s Loveday Wright wondered about the Amazon forest fires in northern Brazil: Can international pressure help put them out?
Not when the Brazilian government, for good or ill, exposes them to fire by allowing clear-cutting in favor of agriculture.
But more importantly, not when climatistas openly lie about the extent and level of destruction of the fires.
Several of the most widely shared images aren’t actually from this month’s fires.
Some are old photographs of the Amazon, and some aren’t even from the area at all.
For instance: