Quote from 1984: There were the vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored, and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.
http://www.climateaction.org/news/chiles-largest-metro-network-to-be-powered-by-solar-and-wind 21 June 2017 Chile’s largest metro network to be powered by solar and wind Santiago’s metro system – which transports approximately 2.4 million passengers each day – will become one of the first subways in the world to source most of its power needs from renewable energy Next year, Latin America’s second largest subway system, will source 60 per cent of its energy from solar and wind projects. In a statement Metro de Santiago said that it had signed two 15-year agreements, one with a solar energy provider, and another with a wind power company. According to The Wall Street Journal, California-based SunPower’s will supply 42 per cent of the subway system’s power with a 100-megawatt (MW) solar plant using 254,000 panels covering an area the size of 370 football fields, located in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert. The remaining 18 per cent will be provided by a recently developed wind farm located just north of the SunPower solar project, The Wall Street Journal said. https://www.theepochtimes.com/expen...e-yellow-vest-protests-in-france_3127717.html Expensive Climate Policies Sparked the Chile Riots, Just Like the Yellow Vest Protests in France On Friday, protestors took to the streets throughout Santiago in response to Metro fare hikes. The protests soon spread to other cities and led to rioting and at least five reported deaths. The Chilean government and the legacy media blamed the fare hikes on rising oil prices. But that is not true. Oil prices are not rising. Global oil prices are currently 25 percent lower than they were a year ago and 37 percent lower than they were five years ago. In Chile, gasoline prices reflect the lower oil prices. Chilean gasoline prices were $1.12 U.S. per liter in August 2019 (the last month for which data are available), compared to $1.28 a year ago. Five years ago, Chilean gasoline sold at $1.50 U.S. Santiago Metro fares are rising, despite falling oil and gasoline prices, because government officials in 2018 traded out most of the Metro’s energy sources from conventional power to wind and solar power. The Chilean government also hit the portion of conventional power that remains with new carbon dioxide taxes. As a result, Chileans are now burdened by higher Metro fares reflecting unnecessary energy price hikes. As Chileans protest in the streets, climate activists and their media allies want people to believe oil is to blame rather than government climate programs that raise energy prices and impoverish people.
It is a hoax. However, I have argued for years on this board that in the case that I am wrong and there is global warming due to anthropogenic causes that technology is the only solution. Period. There is already an insane amount of private and public money being spent on CO2 capture, alternative energy, etc. A technological solution is on the horizon due to the amount of money and entities working on a solution for the hoax. Dems continually argue that a multi-trillion dollar or quadrillion dollar tax that will destroy the economy and disproportionately harm the poor is the only solution. Which is purely politics and not a solution.
BOOM! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03199-8 Ancient air challenges prominent explanation for a shift in glacial cycles An analysis of air up to 2 million years old, trapped in Antarctic ice, shows that a major shift in the periodicity of glacial cycles was probably not caused by a long-term decline in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide.
Exactly. All the carbon emissions in the world will not change a thing, in the grand scheme of things.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/climate/trump-paris-agreement-climate.html Trump Serves Notice to Quit Paris Climate Agreement, as Diplomats Plot to Save It WASHINGTON — The Trump administration formally notified the United Nations on Monday that it would withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, leaving global climate diplomats to plot a way forward without the cooperation of the world’s largest economy. The action, which came on the first day possible under the accord’s complex rules on withdrawal, begins a yearlong countdown to the United States exit and a concerted effort to preserve the Paris Agreement, under which nearly 200 nations have pledged to cut greenhouse emissions and to help poor countries cope with the worst effects of an already warming planet.
wait a minute. I thought that's what plants do. Will this new MIT thingy be cheaper than planting radishes? It seems that's what MIT has to compete with..