{"id":257358,"date":"2023-05-14T13:16:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T11:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=257358"},"modified":"2023-05-14T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T11:17:00","slug":"column-the-climate-energy-environment-debate-is-completely-unhinged-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=257358","title":{"rendered":"Column: The climate\/energy\/environment debate is completely unhinged \u2013 here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From BOE REPORT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0By Terry Etam<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old-school politics used to be easy, industrially speaking. The left\/right divide seemed so endearingly simple. People existed in two world views, generally cleaved along the lines of more\/less government control, or more collective vision vs. more individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An analogy that works: Imagine someone starts a business, it grows wildly, they hire a thousand people, and the owner gets fantastically wealthy. Old school voters would fall into one of two camps: Camp free enterprise would say that not only did the owner deserve to get rich but also created a thousand jobs out of thin air; Camp socialist\/social democrat would say this is an injustice because the owner got rich off the backs of the employees who did not fall into wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People are what they are, and they believe what they believe, and we had some fairly decent democratic runs where the tug of war between those two camps did wonders. We had free enterprise societies, but we also had social safety nets. We had arenas where business\u2019 best could compete, but where it wasn\u2019t a free for all. We had economic growth, but also had environmental standards that grew more stringent over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t perfect, but it was as good of a balance as we could hope for from people that inherently view the world diametrically opposite. We\u2019d elect a government leaning one way until they stepped out of the box or were overwhelmed by their own incompetence, then we\u2019d elect one leading the other way. It may not have seemed peaceful or great at the time, but compared to what we have now, it was paradise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, we have two opposing forces governing the energy world, but what is hellish about this scenario is that each day pushes us further from the ability to constructively work together. The desired outcomes are mutually exclusive. Those searching for \u2018middle ground\u2019 don\u2019t really understand the forces at play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two opposing camps. Each day brings new evidence that their position is right, and the divide grows stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One camp is linked to the weather, and is terrified of what is happening to the weather, so let\u2019s call it Camp Thunder. Any weather event, to them, is proof that CO2 emissions must be stopped. Every day that goes by means more tonnes of CO2 in the air and that means more drought, rain, heat waves, tornadoes, hurricanes, and more extreme weather. (Google \u201cclimate change causes extreme weather\u201d gets 139 million results.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An extreme weather event occurs somewhere in the world every day. It has always been thus, but now we know about it. Instantly. A hundred years ago, a drought 150 miles northwest of Timbuktu would have been noticed by the four people living 150 miles northwest of Timbuktu. Now, those four people have cell phones, and photos of wide drought cracks in the earth appear around the world in the news in four seconds flat, and boom, just like that \u2013 more \u2018proof\u2019 we need to stop burning fossil fuels immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those that subscribe to that causal link, every tonne of carbon spewed into the air is another brick on the wall, another gallon of water coming aboard a sinking ship. Immediate and drastic action is not desirable; it is mandatory. A film called \u201cHow to Blow up a Pipeline\u201d is receiving critical praise<\/a> (\u201cHere, the pipeline destroyers are the good guys.\u201d). Pete Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and one of the more ardent members of the climate emergency camp, described the sound of jets flying overhead as the sound of babies being ground up. At a climate protest, where Kalmus chained himself to the door of a JPMorgan Chase building to protest the bank\u2019s \u2018fossil fuel lending\u2019,  he lamented<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019re going to lose everything, and we\u2019re not joking, and we\u2019re not lying, and we\u2019re not exaggerating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not exaggerating either when I say that every day the world consumes<\/a> 100 million barrels of oil and 370 billion cubic feet of gas and 22 million tonnes<\/a> of coal. And that brings us to the other camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since this camp is unilaterally concerned with our ability to feed, fuel, and heat 8 billion people, let\u2019s call this Camp Pipes, because nothing symbolizes utilitarianism like those things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Camp Pipes is concerned that this energy transition is being guided by nothing other than government will, an ominous thought. Governments are not noted for their ability to successfully plan anything. Camp Pipes talks about things like cost, availability, and reliability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every governmental policy unveiled to state Camp Thunder just strengthens the case of Camp Pipes that we are headed for a train wreck, and that the new policy just upped the speed of the runaway train. Camp Pipes points out, somewhat too quietly, that there aren\u2019t enough critical metals\/minerals in existence to force through such policies in an all-EV world. They try to shift the dialogue to the warning signs, which they hope will somehow break through policymakers\u2019 tunnel vision and generate more sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if you feel we are all doomed without immediate \u2018climate action\u2019, anything Camp Pipes says is deemed \u2018obstructionist\u2019 or \u2018climate denier\u2019 or \u2018climate delayer\u2019 or whatever this week\u2019s insult is. And because every gram of carbon into the air makes the problem worse, the need for action grows, to the point that militant action is right around the corner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think that\u2019s an exaggeration? Nope, and probably an understatement. A recent strategy<\/a> is for activists to openly vandalize or destroy energy infrastructure, then use in court the grounds that it is a necessity to save other lives that will suffer from climate change. \u201cThe necessity defense is a legal defense used in certain situations where a person\u2019s actions that would normally be considered unlawful are justified because they were necessary to prevent greater harm or evil. For example, if a person breaks into a building to rescue someone who is in imminent danger, they may be able to use the necessity defense to argue that their actions were justified\u2026As climate change threatens our planet, the climate necessity defense is gaining traction among environmental activists and attorneys practicing climate justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above, I said that those searching for middle ground don\u2019t really understand the forces at play. That comment isn\u2019t a condemnation of the sincere desire of many to adopt new energy sources and look to a new energy model for the future. It\u2019s just a point that needs acknowledging before making real progress; that the doomsday loop needs to be broken before we are going to see any coherence in global energy policy (if policy is even the right word).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a mini-catalogue of progress, provided by those that just do stuff, the ones that utilize every tool at their disposal to stand on the shoulders of giants and reach from there. They are doing what needs to happen, maintaining both existing productive capability and pushing new-energy technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This small representative cluster was pulled from Q1\/23 conference call scripts, showing how energy transition ideas are taking root in fertile ground: 29dk2902lhttps:\/\/boereport.com\/29dk2902l.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weatherford International (emphasis added): The company noted $290 million of multi-year contract extensions in Latin America for onshore petroleum activity, a 3-year, 5-rig Azerbaijan deep water rig contract, and that \u201cwe continue to gain traction in the geothermal energy space through a combination of commercial wins and partnerships\u2026e<\/strong>ntered into an exclusive collaboration agreement with CeraPhi Energy to provide an integrated package of products and services to end users for the development of geothermal energy. Weatherford will offer its global expertise in data acquisition, digitalization, and automation services, and CeraPhi will leverage its proven engineering and project management services to provide enhanced geothermal technology solutions to the market<\/strong><\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nabors Drilling (emphasis added): the company talked about a 10-rig new-build program for the Saudi market, with the wells under a six-year contract\u2026then this: \u201cI will update several impactful technologies, which are focused on reducing our own environmental footprint as well as on third-party rigs\u2026First is our PowerTap module, which connects rigs to the grid. We now have 15 of these units deployed\u2026 Second, our Smart Power Advisory and Control System optimizes utilization of the engines and reduces emissions. This solution is currently installed on all of our rigs in the Lower 48\u2026Third, the NanO2 diesel fuel additive improves engine performance and reduces emissions. We have already successfully treated more than 17 million gallons of diesel to date. Clients indicate strong interest in our solutions that reduce fuel consumption and emissions\u2026We are now in field testing for a new technology, which uses hydrogen economically generated at the well site to reduce fuel consumption. We expect this product to become commercial later this year<\/em>.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EQT (largest US natural gas producer) (emphasis added): \u201cEQT has taken material steps forward in achieving our peer-leading goal of net zero Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from production operations by 2025\u2026completing our pneumatic device replacement initiative a year ahead of schedule\u2026we announced EQT\u2019s first nature-based carbon offset initiative earlier this month, partnered with\u2026a public park in West Virginia, Teralytic a soil analytics company and Climate Smart Environmental Consulting to implement forest management projects with the goal of generating carbon offsets\u2026 These projects will span more than 1,000 acres of forest land and we will utilize Teralytics soil probe technology to ensure the quantification of offsets is accurate and transparent\u2026 One of the investments that we\u2019ve made on our new ventures front has been an investment in a company that is going to address the behind-the-grid power generation company called what fuel cells is creating basically a fuel cell that runs off natural gas and generates power for the size of a microwave can power your house. These are the type of solutions that are going to strengthen our grid but it\u2019s going to be the decentralized smaller scale opportunities that will exist and at price points that retail consumers can get into<\/strong><\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closer to home, we recently had news of Tourmaline<\/a>\u2019s excellent strategic move to enter the commercial truck fuelling CNG market via collaboration (oops, this is the \u201920\u2019s, I meant \u2018collab\u2019) with Clean Energy Fuels and Mullen Trucking (eccentric optimistic analysis here)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are examples of the sort of critical innovation we need. This fascinating article<\/a> gets into the concept of innovation, which outlines the relevance in an energy transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Innovation is not the same as invention. The odds of someone coming off the bench with some wild new invention that solves everything are pretty slim. Don\u2019t buy the stock touting some new miracle battery; investors have been losing money on those for a century. Odds are far better that we will make progress through steady innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article also flags how innovation thrives in free environments. For energy to develop properly, that free environment is necessary. The predominant energy system, the one that will innovate us into a new world as in the above examples, is under mortal threat as described above from Camp Thunder. How much energy is spent fighting rearguard actions, fighting lawsuits to justify the industry\u2019s very existence? What a freaking waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But sadly, here\u2019s a widely-read reason why that waste will continue. The most recent edition<\/a> of Toronto\u2019s Globe and Mail Report on Business magazine tallies up the costs of all extreme weather events and ties them directly to climate change. \u201cNo excuses for half measures on global warming,\u201d thunders the editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly and more potently, one of the \u2018experts\u2019 quoted in the article is a spokesperson for Environmental Defense, a massively well-funded activist group, who declares that the time for innovation is over (\u201cstop innovating, start implementing\u201d). The EDF is ideologically and tactically aligned with our federal and Western leaders, and I am pretty sure they can speak with whomever they want in Ottawa or Washington at will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the beat goes on. The pressure grows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The media absolutely loves the climate wars, they love misery, they love storms and floods and drought and people crying \u2013 which is simply more proof for the emotive Camp Thunder. Camp Pipes, standing there in dirty overalls, is no match at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know how that gets reversed. I see fantastic new examples of progress as documented above, and they will form the backbone of the energy transition. Somehow the tension needs to be ratcheted down, but with the media structures in place, I don\u2019t see how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One last thought for the conversation: Have you ever had a kitchen fire, or had your car go into a skid on an icy road, or found yourself in a dangerous situation, or being unprepared for an exam, or any other situation that struck fear in your heart\u2026ask yourself if panic was ever the right answer. Now do energy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Energy dialogue should be exciting and positive \u2013 if you\u2019re going to wade into the current energy mess, might as well enjoy it. Pick up  \u201cThe End of Fossil Fuel Insanity\u201d at <\/em>Amazon.ca<\/a>, <\/em>Indigo.ca<\/a>, or <\/em>Amazon.com.<\/a> Thanks!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more insightful analysis from Terry Etam here,<\/a> or email Terry here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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