Global warming, climate change, all these things are just a dream come true for politicians. I deal with evidence and not with frightening computer models because the seeker after truth does not put his faith in any consensus. The road to the truth is long and hard, but this is the road we must follow. People who describe the unprecedented comfort and ease of modern life as a climate disaster, in my opinion have no idea what a real problem is.
Interview with Climate Depot executive director Marc Morano.
From CFACT
Interview with Climate Depot executive director Marc Morano.
Dean says Australia’s energy systems are a mess because of Labor’s net-zero obsession.
Morano details his experience following his visit to the COP30. Morano points out climate summits have gone on for 33 years now.
He notes the COP30 host city Belem, was unprepared as the city was riddled with poverty.
He adds many dignitaries and world leaders attended on private jets and accommodation arranged on cruises.
We must not dwell too long on private misfortune nor ought we to speculate on Mr. Dale Vince’s alleged lavish lifestyle of fast cars, quaffing Dom Perignon, designer clothes, yachts and private jet travel. Mrs Vince is in a divorce court giving details of conspicuous consumption, with her ex suggesting he has been inspired by the “concept” of lower consumption since the 1980s. Such is the disputatious way with these trying family battles, it is good manners to stay silent.
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We must not dwell too long on private misfortune nor ought we to speculate on Mr. Dale Vince’s alleged lavish lifestyle of fast cars, quaffing Dom Perignon, designer clothes, yachts and private jet travel. Mrs Vince is in a divorce court giving details of conspicuous consumption, with her ex suggesting he has been inspired by the “concept” of lower consumption since the 1980s. Such is the disputatious way with these trying family battles, it is good manners to stay silent. Except perhaps to note that Mr. Vince has made his fortune from collecting over £110 million in taxpayer windmill subsidies and has been making a bit of a virtue of late about everyone cutting down on consumption to save the planet. Nobody it seems is safe from his proselytising. While Vince runs his onshore wind farms, children as young as seven are being educated in the technology of the past by his foundation-funded Ministry of Eco Education (MEE). Fed a diet of climate and ecological catastrophe, the children are also being encouraged to build their own model wind turbines.
At this age, children probably don’t understand what electricity is and a primer explaining the difference between an amp and a volt might be more useful. Or perhaps just learning to read and count properly. Times change, but probably not very much. When your correspondent was seven, the nuns at his Catholic primary school were very excited by something called the Second Vatican Council and scrapbooks were kept about something that in truth meant nothing to Dartford schoolchildren. I have it in mind that slightly older pupils were making models of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Get them young and you get them for life, as the Jesuits say. Meanwhile, any doubts about the existence of the Almighty would have been met with condign punishment similar in some ways to Vince’s recent suggestion that “climate denial” should be illegal.
Whether or not Vince has been glugging vintage shampoo and shopping at chic clothing emporiums, his Ministry of Eco Education is one of the finest moral fashion accessories money can buy. It recently said its ambition was to insert its curriculum into 1,000 schools with green messaging on transport, nature and society.
Its stories seem designed to scare the living daylights out of anyone lacking the intellectual ability and wider education to question the climate Armageddon presented. All seven-year-olds in fact. They would not, for instance, be able to challenge the claim made by MEE that around the world “diversity is being annihilated at a terrifying rate”. Population sizes of thousands of species of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles are claimed by MEE to have fallen by 60% since the 1970s. No source is provided for this imprecise claim, but variations of it are common in alarmist circles. Some of the evidence suggests otherwise. A bedrock scares repeated endlessly in the mainstream is that 69% of vertebrates across the planet have declined since 1970. The figures are provided by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London. However, a group of Canadian biologists recently revealed that the figure was a statistical freak. They pointed out that the estimate was driven by 2.4% of wildlife populations, adding: “If these extremely declining populations are excluded, the global trend switches to an increase.”
According to a paper on MEE’s website identifying the foundations of its eco curriculum, the Earth’s environment is breaking down with warmer temperatures wreaking havoc causing an increase in ‘extreme’ weather and leading to a sixth mass extinction. It can of course be argued that slightly warmer temperatures bouncing back from a recent colder period have been almost entirely beneficial for life on Earth. Food supplies have risen, and famine is at bay in many parts of the world, carbon dioxide has significantly ‘greened’ the planet, mass extinction scares are the product of computer models, most ‘extreme’ weather events are not becoming more frequent or more severe and there is barely a scintilla of evidence to suggest humans have a hand in their frequency or ferocity. On this latter point, even the IPCC confirms, at least for now, this interpretation of the science. Presumably, such reassurance is not to be encouraged in the classroom – indeed it seems that according to Vince any ‘denial’ of climate science that is thought to be ‘settled’ should be against the law.
While primary schools seem to be the main target of MEE, there are hopes to extend it to the secondary sector, while the material is also said to be suitable for home educators. A recent MEE presentation highlighted the work of an MEE London-based home educator who was using MEE materials entitled ‘The future of electricity’. Those great unreliables wind and solar had pride of place but given that windmills first started operating in Britain in the reign of Henry II (1154-89), perhaps the materials should be called “The past of electricity’. Children as young as seven are encouraged to build their own wind turbines using Lego and the blades should turn when placed near a fan. Children are keen on animals, so it is just as well they are not told that wind turbines around the globe kill millions of bats every year. The giant turbines being planned to blanket Britain should make a good start on the next mass extinction. Blades almost as high as the London Shard will efficiently sweep the countryside of tonnes of wildlife from the smallest fry to the largest eagle. If the blades don’t get the bigger birds, the vast number of new high-capacity electric cables and pylons probably will.
What happens to the children’s toy windmills when the fan are switched off would be a good question for them to ask, although it might get a similar response to innocents in a former age inquiring of Sister Agnes if God actually existed.
Day-to-day running of MEE seems to be in the charge of Paul Turner. who styles himself a “Radical Geographer Paul” on his website. Among his noted activities is “teaching climate breakdown” along with providing material asking, “who owns England” and “should land be returned to the masses”. He claims to be inspired by the radical theatre collective called Three Acres and a Cow. The show’s cast includes a Kohenet Hebrew Priestess and a “radical queer Christian activist” who these days spends most of his time “gardening with asylum seekers”.
Turner’s site also links to the Radical Geographers’ Handbook, which provides a definition of radical geography. It is said to recognise the need for a “reclamation of geography from its imperialist past, showing how geographical knowledge and thinking could play a key role in radical, social, political and environmental activism”.
How school geography has come on from rocks, contours and map reading! Apparently, useful observational and practical skills are not nearly as interesting for some teachers as converting young children into parent-nagging activists. Let loose in schools, the radical geographer is charged to declare a climate and ecological emergency, sell his or her car and walk everywhere (not you Dale) and “teach what you love and not to the exam”.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
Ah, the sweet scent of self-awareness wafting through the hallowed halls of climate orthodoxy. A new article from Nature titled “Private Aviation is Making a Growing Contribution to Climate Change” pulls back the velvet curtain on the jet-setting hypocrisy of the ultra-wealthy, and boy, is it rich. Literally. For years, skeptics like Michael Crichton have pointed out the glaring contradictions between the climate rhetoric of the global elite and their private jet-fueled lifestyles. Now, the same critique has oozed into the very peer-reviewed journals that once dismissed such observations as heresy.
From Watts Up With That?
Ah, the sweet scent of self-awareness wafting through the hallowed halls of climate orthodoxy. A new article from Nature titled “Private Aviation is Making a Growing Contribution to Climate Change” pulls back the velvet curtain on the jet-setting hypocrisy of the ultra-wealthy, and boy, is it rich. Literally. For years, skeptics like Michael Crichton have pointed out the glaring contradictions between the climate rhetoric of the global elite and their private jet-fueled lifestyles. Now, the same critique has oozed into the very peer-reviewed journals that once dismissed such observations as heresy.
The Nature piece explores the carbon carnage of private aviation, quantifying the annual emissions of private jets at a hefty 15.6 million tons of CO2 in 2023. For context, that’s about the same as the yearly emissions of Croatia. Nearly half of these flights were under 500 km—essentially airborne Ubers for billionaires—and some were as short as 50 km. In one hilarious (or infuriating) twist, many jets weren’t even carrying passengers but were repositioned empty. Efficiency, thy name is not “private aviation.”
The report notes that while commercial aviation’s carbon footprint is broadly understood, private jets occupy a particularly egregious spot in the emissions hierarchy. They emit 5-9 times more CO2 per passenger than a commercial flight, depending on whether you’re in economy or lounging in business class. Yet, despite their planetary bloviating, the elites’ addiction to private aviation remains unchecked, with emissions growing by 46% between 2019 and 2023.
Abstract
Commercial aviation’s contribution to climate change is growing, but the global role of private aviation is not well quantified. Here we calculate the sector’s CO2 emissions, using flight tracker data from the ADS-B Exchange platform for the period 2019 to 2023. Flight times for 25,993 private aircraft and 18,655,789 individual flights in 2019-2023 are linked to 72 aircraft models and their average fuel consumption. We find that private aviation contributed at least 15.6 Mt CO2 in direct emissions in 2023, or about 3.6 t CO2 per flight. Almost half of all flights (47.4%) are shorter than 500 km. Private aviation is concentrated in the USA, where 68.7% of the aircraft are registered. Flight pattern analysis confirms extensive travel for leisure purposes, and for cultural and political events. Emissions increased by 46% between 2019-2023, with industry expectations of continued strong growth. Regulation is needed to address the sector’s growing climate impact.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01775-z
Long before Nature decided to go all National Enquirer on the Davos crowd, the late Michael Crichton was calling out the same nonsense. In his 2007 lecture, “Aliens Cause Global Warming,” Crichton argued that environmentalism had morphed into a quasi-religion for the affluent, complete with sin (carbon emissions), indulgences (carbon offsets), and a priestly class of celebrities and politicians eager to atone in public while sinning in private. Crichton’s observations didn’t just age well—they’ve fossilized into truth.
This hypocrisy has always been a favorite target for skeptics, and it’s finally catching up with the climate priesthood. Even leftist commentators have started to gnash their teeth at the contradiction: how can one scold the masses for their SUVs while gallivanting across continents in Gulfstreams?
The Nature article specifically names events like the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Cannes Film Festival, and COP28 as magnets for private jet traffic. These gatherings are not just a who’s who of climate alarmism—they’re a what’s what of conspicuous carbon consumption. In 2023 alone, Davos saw 1,559 private jet flights, while COP28, the UN’s very own climate carnival, added 1,012 flights to the tally.
Here’s the kicker: the same tail numbers pop up at multiple events. Aircraft ferrying delegates to Davos also frequent Cannes and COP28. If ever there were a carbon aristocracy, this is it.
The ultra-wealthy’s love affair with private jets is about more than just luxury; it’s about control. Why endure the indignities of TSA pat-downs or missed connections when you can glide through your own terminal? But this convenience comes with a carbon cost that the global elite are happy to externalize—onto you.
The Nature authors recommend regulating private aviation to mitigate its emissions. But let’s not kid ourselves: any such policies would likely exempt the very people they’re meant to target. As the study acknowledges, focusing on CO2 reductions tends to disproportionately burden the less affluent. In other words, the elites’ jet-setting won’t stop, but your gas-powered car might.
What’s particularly fascinating about this development is the way the left is turning on itself. Climate activists now accuse their own heroes of being complicit in the planetary apocalypse. Twitter (sorry, X) is aflame with videos like those shared by Stay Grounded, an anti-aviation network calling out celebrity CO2 offenders. Even mainstream outlets like the New York Times have started to notice the glaring disconnect between climate rhetoric and reality.
It’s Schadenfreude of the highest order: the same people who flew into COP28 to scold you for not biking to work are now being publicly skewered by their ideological comrades.
Probably not. The ultra-wealthy will continue to jet around the globe while preaching austerity to the rest of us. What will change is the increasing recognition of this hypocrisy, as even climate faithful can no longer ignore the absurdity of private jets at a climate conference.
The takeaway is clear: the climate crisis, to the extent it exists, is not a crisis for the elite. It’s a crisis for everyone else, to be managed with taxes, regulations, and lifestyle restrictions that leave the jet set untouched. Until the climate faithful are willing to ground their planes, their sermons will remain as hollow as the cargo bays of their empty repositioning flights.
In the meantime, buckle up, folks. The hypocrisy show isn’t landing anytime soon.
The mega-rich are using private jets like taxis, warn climate scientists who tracked flights to calculate the planet-warming gases they release.
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
The mega-rich are using private jets like taxis, warn climate scientists who tracked flights to calculate the planet-warming gases they release.
The scientists worked out that the carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to climate change, rose by 46% between 2019 and 2023.
Researchers traced all private flights globally, including summer weekend trips to Ibiza, Spain and travel to the Fifa World Cup and the UN climate conference in Dubai.
Flying in a private jet for a single hour can release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the average person produces in a year, according to the research team.
“There are a lot of people using these aircraft as taxis, where you cover whatever distance by aircraft simply because it’s more convenient,” Professor Stefan Gossling, from Sweden’s Linnaeus University, who led the research, said.
“If somebody’s flight emits in one hour as much as an average human being emits in a year – just to watch a soccer game – then perhaps it shows those people think they are outside the standards that we have as a global community.”
In 2023, private flights produced an estimated 15.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide – the equivalent of 3.7 million petrol cars being driven over the course of a year, external – according to the research.
Overall, that is small compared to global carbon emissions. It represents about 1.8% of emissions from all air travel, and aviation is 4% of global emissions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lvq4el5vo
Maybe they should start with cancelling all future climate conferences and holding them on line then!
But there is a more serious issue here.
Putting taxes
What will they do to stop or at least reduce private flights?
Putting taxes on flights will not make the slightest difference to billionaires, showbiz luvvies, the political elite or big business.
And you can guarantee that whatever sanctions are put on private jets, the ordinary air traveller will be next in line.
It feels like at COP28 the delusions of Western greens finally crashed against the shores of reality. The luxuriant doom-mongering of privileged eco-warriors who insist the world will end if we don’t phase out fossil fuels was confronted by a truth no reasonable person can deny: that fossil fuels remain vital to human life.
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By Paul Homewood
From Spiked:
It feels like at COP28 the delusions of Western greens finally crashed against the shores of reality. The luxuriant doom-mongering of privileged eco-warriors who insist the world will end if we don’t phase out fossil fuels was confronted by a truth no reasonable person can deny: that fossil fuels remain vital to human life. In the gleaming oasis of Dubai it became clear that oil, gas and even coal are not going away anytime soon, however much the Gretas of the West might want them to.
Why? Because – brace yourselves – India, China, Brazil and other nations are not prepared to sacrifice their economic health at the altar of our deranged anti-modernism.On the surface, COP28 was like every other UN climate-change conference of recent years.
There was the usual hypocrisy. Kings and sultans flew in on private jets to wag a collective finger at the rest of us for our eco-sins.
There was the foot-stomping of pampered greens who think the final agreement didn’t go far enough. ‘This text is bullshit’, they chanted, outside the conference venue. (How did they get to the Arabian desert? Not by bicycle.) And yet those who looked harder, beyond the decadence, will have glimpsed one of the key clashes of our time – a global conflict of interests that is likely to shape humanity’s future.
That’s the clash between Western ideologues who are exhausted with the modern world and developing nations who want in on the modern world. Between our misanthropic turn against the Industrial Revolution and their longing for such revolutions.Most of the coverage is focusing on the final agreement. Some say it’s radical. This is ‘the first time’, says an excitable BBC, that a COP has ‘taken explicit aim at the use of fossil fuels’.
Others say it’s disappointing because it only talks about ‘transitioning away from fossil fuels… in a just, orderly and equitable manner’. That’s a far cry from the ‘phaseout of fossil fuels’ eco-activists wanted to see. The absence of a promise to phase out such fuels is a ‘tragedy for the planet’, wails the Guardian, next to a photo of green activists blubbing outside the conference venue.
Yet it pays to look at why the idea of a ‘phaseout’ was, well, phased out. It’s because winding down fossil-fuel use would be suicidal for the developing world. It’s all very well for Westerners whose Industrial Revolutions took place 150 years ago to dry heave at the sight of coal-fired power stations, but for billions of people such stations are the difference between life and death, light and dark, food and no food.
In admirably restrained language, African diplomats said at COP that ‘the idea of a fossil-fuel phaseout [is] unworkable’. A Bolivian official, speaking on behalf of a bloc that includes India, China and other large developing nations, went further: we cannot accept the targeting of ‘any sources of energy’, he said (my italics). ‘Any phaseout or phasedown… is unacceptable to us.’
By: Craig Rucker
As it has been doing for decades, the United Nations is once again planning to hold its annual “Conference of the Parties” (COP28) to tell the world we face impending doom from manmade climate change.
Over the next two weeks, expect to see news reports covering how brave delegates, flying in on private jets to glitzy Dubai, are hard at work protecting us from the SUVs, gas ovens, red meat, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, plastics and other fossil-fuel consumer products we foolishly enjoy. Human Events has the Story.
Having attended some 25 of these COP meetings, I expect few surprises. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be some oddities. Among them is that the United Arab Emirates has been chosen to host the COP-28 confab. That sounds like a joke, but it’s not.
As everyone knows, the climate cabal is all about limiting fossil fuels. The UAE, on the other hand, is all about producing and using them. A lot of them.
In fact, last year the UAE employed fossil fuels: 607.25 terawatt-hours of oil and 698.48 TWh of gas, to meet over 95 percent of its electricity consumption. Solar and wind, by contrast, supplied a minuscule fraction of that, less than 20 TWh (barely 1 percent).
Making matters worse for climate worrywarts, the UAE is also planning to surge its development of fossil fuels. According to the UK Guardian, ADNOC (the UAE’s national oil company) “announced a $150bn investment over five years to enable an ‘accelerated growth strategy’ for oil and gas production.”
One might think ADNOC’s president, Sultan Al Jaber, would be run out of town by the climate faithful for making such a proclamation. But they’re doing nothing. In fact, he’s set to preside over COP-28.
The big news at this year’s conference will likely center on its attendees. King Charles III, who famously predicted in 2019 that the world only had 18 months to save our planet from climate change, is set to give the opening address. He will be joined by Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and potentially Pope Francis. Notably missing are the leaders of the two biggest carbon-emitting nations, China and United States.
Both President Biden and President Xi will stay home, but they did meet right beforehand to discuss climate change during their November powwow in San Francisco. Both pledged to “work together … to rise up to one of the greatest challenges of our time.” What this actually means is unclear.
Some experts believe all that was achieved during their San Francisco rendezvous was that the U.S. pledged to gut its fossil-fuel infrastructure and replace it with unreliable solar and wind. China only agreed to sell us the equipment to make that happen.
This is the hard, rarely mentioned reality, since China already controls 40% of the polysilicon used to make solar panels, 70% of the lithium-ion battery cell production, and 80% of the globe’s rare earth elements.
What it clearly doesn’t mean is that China is planning to limit its fossil fuel use anytime soon. In 2022, for example, China built or issued permits for the construction of brand new coal plants at the rate of two per week, quadrupling the number of new coal power approvals. Overall, it is constructing six times more coal plants than the rest of the world combined. That Xi is losing sleep over climate change or carbon emissions seems a stretch.
Other things to look for at COP-28 are the “Global Stocktake” and financing a new “Loss and Damage” fund.
The Global Stocktake is a review of how nations are meeting their climate commitment goals. According to the Paris Climate Accord, each country is supposed to do what it can to keep the world from reaching a 2-degree Celsius warming (or 1.5-degree C if they want extra credit).
Although this is scientific nonsense, the Global Stocktake can be seen as a sort of “report card” on how countries are faring. Expect the USA and Europe to be sent to the principal’s office for bad behavior, while China and India receive kudos for simply pledging to do better in the distant future.
The Loss and Damage fund is supposed to compensate poorer countries for any climate hardships (droughts, floods, hurricanes, refugees, et cetera) they believe are imposed on them by richer nations that have used fossil fuels for a century or more.
Among the countries vociferously championing this idea is the island of Tuvalu, which claims it is sinking into the ocean like Atlantis from rising sea levels. In reality, the University of Auckland found that Tuvalu actually grew in land mass by 2.9 percent over the past 40 years. While this might calm their fears, don’t expect it to stymie Tuvalu’s efforts to get money out of wealthier countries anyway.
So there you have it. The world is set to endure another fancy UN shindig about climate change. Be prepared for the lectures, dire warnings and proclamations. Annoying, yes. But don’t let the charade ruin your holiday season.
This article originally appeared at Human Events
Rich kids climate activists whose families own these toys apparently pressure their parents to buy carbon offsets, so they would no doubt be shocked and dismayed if their family transport was targeted.
From Watts Up With That?
Essay by Eric Worrall
I wonder if rich kid climate activists will continue feeling the enthusiasm, when their family private jet or super yacht gets targeted?
Spanish activists vandalise superyacht in Ibiza believed to belong to billionaire Walmart heiress
By CNN 4:05am Jul 18, 2023
Spanish environmental activists have spray-painted a superyacht moored in Ibiza.
Activists from the environmental group Futuro Vegetal posted a video showing them standing in front of the superyacht named Kaos, holding a banner that says: “You Consume Others Suffer.” The activists then sprayed the vessel with red and black paint.
“The richest 1 per cent of the world population pollutes more than the poorest 50 per cent,” the activists said in the video.
It follows a similar act on Friday, when the group spray-painted a private jet at the Ibiza airport, leading to the runway to be shut down for several hours, Futuro Vegetal said.
Rich kids climate activists whose families own these toys apparently pressure their parents to buy carbon offsets, so they would no doubt be shocked and dismayed if their family transport was targeted.
There is a bigger issue. I can’t help thinking Futuro Vegetal is biting the hand which feeds it. I mean where would COP conferences be without private jets?
Sharm el sheik (COP27) is surrounded by dangerous places no sane person would sail through in a luxury private yacht. Even the Persian Gulf and the UAE, the site of the upcoming COP28, have piracy problems. Iranian forces sometimes board passing ships for allegedly arbitrary reasons, a problem which may grow worse as Iran experiences continued deterioration of their economy.
And of course, who would want to turn up to an event like the annual WEF Davos conference in public transport?
I guess time will tell whether private jet owning climate dilettantes who allegedly provide much of the funding for these groups threaten to pull that funding if their personal toys are messed up.
Reports from France are that in the first week of rioting, 5,600 cars were burned – taking them off the road. Now, aside from political and societal disruption, the carbon pollution from the burning of these vehicles hardly compares with, say, a volcanic eruption or a giant forest fire. But just think: That’s 5,600 sources of carbon pollution gone!
From CFACT
Reports from France are that in the first week of rioting, 5,600 cars were burned – taking them off the road. Now, aside from political and societal disruption, the carbon pollution from the burning of these vehicles hardly compares with, say, a volcanic eruption or a giant forest fire. But just think: That’s 5,600 sources of carbon pollution gone!
Statisticians tell us electrifying America’s buildings (eliminating gas-, oil-, and coal-fired boilers entirely) “would be like taking 65 million cars off road.” So, getting rid of cars is good – right?
Susan Rakov, chair of Environment America Research and Policy Center’s clean energy program, admitted she was just fine with her gas stove – until it failed. But shouldn’t a true environmentalist have always had an induction stove? They have been around since the 1970s.
Susan first enrolled in Harvard in 1979 – some 44 years ago. She began working as a community organizer for MassPIRG in 1984 – a true, committed greenie. She likely bought her first house decades ago – long after induction stoves had become available. Only now does she gurgle, “It sure is different – and I love it. It boils water faster than my old gas stove.”
And then Susan’s pitch. “It doesn’t release dangerous air pollutants into my home when we’re cooking, and I no longer have to worry about escaping methane from the stove contributing to global warming.” But surely, as an advocate, she has known this for decades. So why did she wait so long?
It is gratifying to know that Susan can boil water – but “cooking with gas” cannot be replicated with any electric stove. The flame is the name of the game. You can’t even make Bananas Foster without a flame.
Every lit cigarette, joint, bong, candle, and, yes, campfire involves flames. Even electric fireplaces simulate flames – because you feel the heat and it smells good!
But we are not just talking about smoke. Ahead of the Fourth of July weekend, on just one day (June 28), over 1,200 flights were canceled, and another 5,600 were delayed.
Again, good news for the planet! Airplanes account for up to 3.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions – far more than gas stoves. And global CO2 emissions from international air travel more than doubled from 1990 to 2017. So, 1,200 flights canceled help the environment, we are told.
There is an exception, though, as John Kerry once so clearly explained. For guys like him and his fellow Davos billionaires, a private jet is “the only choice for somebody like me.”
The Smithsonian informs us that there are 56 active volcanic eruptions worldwide, including six that began this year. The most powerful was an underwater volcano in the South Pacific. The Hunga Tonga – Hunga Haʻapai submarine volcano sent ash into the third layer of Earth’s atmosphere – 36 miles high, higher than even from any on-ground volcanic eruption. It sent enough water to fill 60,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools into the atmosphere that scientists say “could warm our atmosphere in the future.” [Add in El Niño, and that future seems now!]
Now another study has revealed that at least 2,600 lightning bolts per minute were detected during peak volcanic activity – from that one volcano – nearly 200,000 lightning flashes over the 11-hour eruption, with some occurring as high as 19 miles above sea level.
Speaking of volcanoes, Antarctica is home to the largest volcano range on Earth, with 138 identified and many likely yet undiscovered. Two currently active volcanos are a significant reason for melting ice in the Ross Sea.
Lest anyone forget, the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helen’s in Washington State took 1,300 feet off the top of the volcano, destroyed over 230 square miles of forest in a 3-minute period, and sent 540 million tons of ash into the atmosphere up to 15 miles into the air.
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo was even more powerful, sending 20 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide up to 20 miles into the stratosphere. This and other volcanic eruptions have caused declines in Earth’s surface temperatures of up to 0.5ͦ F for up to 3 years.
While the Biden Administration is reportedly considering blocking the sun to slow global warming, we have no reports of federal efforts to stop volcanoes from belching smoke and ash into the atmosphere.
While hardly an ordinary occurrence, scientists now speculate that a comet that slammed into Earth 56 million years ago “may have triggered” global warming. The comet, we are told, jump-started the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, during which time CO2 levels rose to 1,000 parts per million (2.5 times current levels), and Antarctica became a lush tropical region.
Buried in the article is the NASA datum that global temperatures in 2016 had risen only 1.4ͦ F (0.83ͦ C) since 1880. To be sure, the jet-setting climate alarmists will tell you the sky is falling, or rather, the oceans are rising and will soon drown entire nations.
Take the alarmism that “the Marshall Islands could be wiped out by climate change” by 2035. Scary, eh? But in the real world, we learn that hundreds of atolls in the Pacific nations of the Marshall Islands and Kiribati, as well as the Maldives archipelago in the Indian Ocean, have grown up to 8 percent in size over the past six decades despite sea level rise.
According to the BBC, the world’s wealthiest 1 percent produce double the combined CO2 emissions of the poorest 50 percent, and the richest 5 percent are responsible for 37 percent of emissions growth between 1990 and 2015. The BBC also reports that global warming has likely contributed to the GDP per capita of several rich nations that are among the largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
It is quite the paradox that the wealthiest who are pouring billions (mostly taxpayer dollars) into imposing restrictions on the masses in the name of climate change are also making bank as they continue to “pollute.” Al Gore, who popularized climate fear 33 years ago with his book Earth in the Balance, has enriched himself by $300 million through that advocacy.
Is there any wonder that climate activists seek to suppress research findings that contradict their dire predictions or point out flaws in their beloved, disaster-predicting computer models? Is there any wonder why we can easily see there is a two-tier structure on sacrificing our freedoms and our prosperity in the name of climate change?
They get richer; we get poorer, and all the while, they claim the virtue seat for forcing us – not them – to change their lifestyles.
We get to quibble over the climate impact of giving up gas stoves, auto and air travel, and even eating meat while the climate elites party like it’s 1999.
Just take a gander at this video from the 2012 party held during the world conference of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil — a lavish affair replete with rich food, champagne, and even a fashion show as they demand economic contraction from everyone but them.
And you can bet that Al Gore and his chums at Davos are not dining on insects as they rake in the cash from scaring the bejeezus out of our children and gullible adults.
Duggan FlanakinThe Central Europe News here reports on how the WEF wants to reduce the global car fleet by 75% while WEF members crank up their private jet flights.
From NoTricksZone
By P Gosselin on 24. June 2023
The Central Europe News here reports on how the WEF wants to reduce the global car fleet by 75% while WEF members crank up their private jet flights.
What follows are some excerpts.
Chart: Greenpeace Switzerland
Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (WEF) is calling for a reduction of private motor vehicles to a quarter of the current level. Of course, no reduction in private jets is envisaged.
Last month, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published a new paper dedicated to the future of mobility on earth.
The document would not be worth paying much attention to if it were not hidden in the small print what concrete goals the WEF is striving for. It points out, for example, that by 2050 more than two thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. To achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, the report therefore recommends “electrification, public transport and shared mobility”.
75% fewer cars in just a single generation
On page 4 of the document, the WEF’s demand here reads in figures: “Reduce the vehicle fleet from potentially 2.1 billion to 0.5 billion.” That would be a radical regression within less than 30 years.
How such an extremely rapid change in societal transport systems and habitual individual mobility and consumption patterns can be implemented currently remains unclear to the public. Those “elites” who themselves thus fly around in private jets now want to take away your car and want to eliminate more than three quarters of motor vehicles from the roads within the next 27 years.
The WEF globalists’ briefing paper shows that they are obviously aware that they will not be able to cope with the expected traffic volume by 2050 with electrification. Where would the resources for the batteries come from and how do you want to produce so much electricity, even from “green” sources? There must therefore be a complete overhaul of private, individual mobility along with ’15-minute cities’.
15-minute ghettos
A dictatorial climate policy will keeps the broad masses in their own little ghettos while the chosen elites will continue to jet around the globe “to save the climate”. So a transhumanist “brave new world” without real freedom of movement and travel for ordinary people seems to be the future perspective.
Full article in German here.
We haven’t banned flights yet in the United States, but we can certainly see airline prices going up. Flying is going to be a venue only for the rich. Private jets are not going to face these restrictions. …
From CFACT
By Marc Morano
Morano: “You will go nowhere and be happy. This is happening all over the world. Bloomberg News did an article about how cheap airline travel is basically a thing of the past because of ‘climate compliance’ laws. So this is happening globally. We haven’t banned flights yet in the United States, but we can certainly see airline prices going up. Flying is going to be a venue only for the rich. Private jets are not going to face these restrictions. …
In this Net Zero world which we have signed onto, the United States is fully participating — we have 15-minute cities being experimented in Europe. It’s kind of like the old East Germany, if you leave your sector, you have to pay your fine and can only leave 95 times a year if you leave your little 15-minute area.
You have activists, those people you see defacing art, blocking traffic, they’re calling for a national ‘climate emergency’. Guess what happens in a national ‘climate emergency’? These activists claim you can only fly when it’s ‘morally justifiable’. So if you want to go to Florida for a beach trip, that is not happening, but if you have to go for a funeral, maybe. …
The Biden Administration is intentionally creating car shortages by mandating electric cars. We’re going to face a situation where they’re trying to force us into mass transit by raising the cost of cars. There’s no way they can meet the utopian vision, but they can restrict our movement.”
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By: Marc Morano – Climate DepotJune 2, 2023 10:34 AM
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Fox News Channel – Fox News Tonight – w/ Joey Jones – Broadcast June 1, 2023
Marc Morano Appears on ‘Fox News Tonight’ To Discuss France Banning Short Flights
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
Joey Jones: Thank you. All right, climate extremists are determined to ban everything from cars, cows and gas stoves to save the planet. Now, France has just banned short-haul domestic flights but the ban is only for commercial airlines, the ultra-wealthy can continue to take short flights on their private jets. Marc Morano is the publisher of ClimateDepot.com. He joins us now. Thanks for joining us break this down for us, so we understand, did France do anything of value here?
Marc Morano: Well, what France is doing is leading the way for the climate Net Zero agenda. We already have Germany, Austria, Spain; these are all countries that are following suit. Greenpeace is calling for an EU-wide ban for flights up to six hours in length. This is the new reality of Net Zero as it’s actually being implemented.
You will go nowhere and be happy. This is happening all over the world. Bloomberg News did an article about how cheap airline travel is basically a thing of the past because of, ‘climate compliance’ laws. So this is happening globally. We haven’t banned flights yet in the United States, but we can certainly see airline prices going up. Flying is going to be a venue only for the rich. Private jets are not going to face these restrictions.
Joey Jones: Maybe that’s what it is, maybe the rich want more air space so they can take off and land whenever and whenever they want to don’t have to worry about peasants in the business class or on commercial jets. But more seriously here, you know, the left would tell us, and this is usually a priority of the left that healthcare is a human right, pretty much identity is a human right. Isn’t moving your body from one place to another, isn’t that kind of a human right?
Marc Morano: It absolutely is. America, we’re founded order that freedom. ‘Go west, young man’. And here’s the bottom line, in this Net Zero world which we have signed onto, the United States is fully participating — we have 15-minute cities being experimented in Europe. It’s kind of like the old East Germany, if you leave your sector you have to pay your fine and can only leave 95 times a year if you leave your little 15-minute area.
You have activists, those people you see defacing art blocking traffic, they’re calling for a national climate emergency. Guess what happens in a national climate emergency? These activists claim you can only fly when it’s ‘morally justifiable’. So if you want to go to Florida for a beach trip, that is not happening, but if you have to go for a funeral, maybe.
Joey Jones: France is 68% nuclear. They are, to my understanding, the cleanest energy in the developed world. Is this more just rhetoric and left-wing signaling than what they really should be doing?
Marc Morano: Yes, even advocates admit it’s not going to actually affect CO2 emissions by banning these short-haul flights. You’re right, they did something sensible with nuclear energy, but France is just following this whole Net Zero agenda. By the way, we’re following it when it comes to cars. The Biden Administration is intentionally creating car shortages by mandating electric cars. We’re going to face a situation where they’re trying to force us into mass transit by raising the cost of cars. There’s no way they can meet the utopian vision, but they can restrict our movement.
Joey Jones: There are a lot of remote places in this country that would really be hurt by something like this so let’s hope that common sense takes hold. Marc Morano, thanks for joining us.
Marc Morano: Thank you Joey.
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The Great Car Reset has arrived: Our transportation system is being intentionally collapsed; (and our freedom of movement is being stripped away) EVs to be forced upon YOU without a vote!
Marc Morano: “This is the planned rationing of vehicles. The planned rationing of American cars. That’s the only way this plan makes sense … the only result is going to be shortages of cars and a completely altered used car market. You can look to Cuba to find out what it’s like to have a raging used car market because that’s what we’re looking at here. And you can look to old East Germany. East Germany had their famed Trabant car, where people would have to get on waiting lists for years to get one and that’s what we’re faced with here when the government is going to mandate you can only buy a new electric car. … An Australian bank is announcing it’s not going to give financing for loans to anyone buying a gas-powered car. The World Bank has now announced it wants to set a timetable to stop the funding for — even at the automaker level for gas-powered cars. The powers that be, the corporate world, the bankers, the governments, academia — they’ve decided that gas-powered cars are over and they’re putting all the forces into play to end it without our say in it.
And if you somehow avoid the gas car bans, they will make obtaining gas for it a nightmare! See:Gas Station Bans Next on Climate Agenda: Colorado city BANS new gas stations due to ‘obligation’ to tackle ‘climate change’ – Follows California cities)& All the while, China is laughing at us. See: (Net Zero’s Global Winner is — China! ‘US hasn’t noticed yet that China-Made cars are taking over the world’ – Poised to become No. 2 exporter of cars, surpassing US & S. Korea)
Fox News Channel – Fox News Tonight – Broadcast April 24, 2023
“First, they came for your energy. Then they came for your gas-powered cars, your freedom of movement, your cheap flights. Now they’re coming for your food,” Morano, author of “The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown,” said on “Fox News Tonight.” “They will be monitoring what you eat. What’s coming next are the restrictions,” Morano said. “We are already seeing it globally with a net-zero commitment. They’re going after high-yield agriculture trying to collapse them. We saw the disaster in Sri Lanka. You also have Bill Gates… America’s number one single farmland owner and his goal is to get us to eat his billions of dollars invested in fake meat or his lab-grown synthetic beef made from the stem cells of animals and literally put it in a steel vat and printed on a 3D printer. Not making that up. The fix is in.”
“This will only happen if we allow it. They’re going after our modern diet. You will eat nothing and be happy according to this plan,” he added.
They’re always looking for reasons why the rest of us can’t be free. Now they’re going after rice production. There’s a big story in major media about rice causing all this global warming and emissions. But going after the meat is a way to make everything a problem in a climate emergency. Therefore, they have to be in charge of all this food. They’re not going to try to ban it. They will take over the means of production so the rest of us don’t destroy the Earth. We have to be managed. That’s what we’re looking at.”
Marc Morano
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