{"id":284477,"date":"2023-10-22T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T11:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=284477"},"modified":"2023-10-22T13:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T11:26:06","slug":"ccn-demand-higher-energy-prices-but-dont-tell-the-proles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=284477","title":{"rendered":"CCN Demand Higher Energy Prices (But Don\u2019t Tell The\u00a0Proles!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The far left extremists and eco- nutters really want is for us all to pay much more for our energy in the name of global warming. Well, what do they want to tell us when we get a colder climate period?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s see what the fraudsters at CCN have been up to this week:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Writing in the Los Angeles Times on Monday, Bill McKibben and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. <\/strong><\/em>urged<\/strong><\/em><\/a> President Joe Biden\u2019s administration to block \u201ca massive fossil fuel buildout\u201d being proposed in Louisiana. The argument they make is worth journalists\u2019 attention, for it highlights a central challenge often overlooked in climate coverage.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


It\u2019s indisputably good news that solar, wind, batteries, and other climate-friendly energy sources have been plummeting in cost and gaining market share, because this can reduce demand for fossil fuels. But reducing the supply of fossil fuels is the true measure of successful climate policy, because global temperatures will keep rising until the world stops burning those fossil fuels.
The fossil fuel industry has no intention of letting that happen. ExxonMobil just announced a $60 billion purchase of a rival oil and gas producer, signaling that Exxon plans to sell vast amounts of fossil fuel for decades. The United Arab Emirates is <\/em>expanding<\/em><\/a> its production capacity by 7.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent, even as Sultan Al Jaber, who heads UAE\u2019s state-owned oil company while also presiding over next month\u2019s COP28 summit, insists that he favors a net-zero future.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


The contradiction at the heart of the climate fight, as Paris Agreement architect Christiana Figueres <\/em>told<\/em><\/a> the recent \u201cClimate Changes Everything\u201d conference, is that climate-friendly technologies are accelerating even as fossil fuel industry intransigence keeps greenhouse gas emissions climbing. This is the contradiction that our reporting needs to spotlight and explain to audiences.
In Louisiana, oil and gas companies want to construct an array of pipelines and terminals to export liquid natural gas. The climate implications are enormous, partly because LNG is as carbon intensive as coal. The proposed CP2 terminal alone would \u201cbe responsible for 20 times more greenhouse gas emissions annually than the controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska\u201d that Biden approved earlier this year, McKibben and Yearwood write, according to analysis by the US Environmental Protection Agency and Interior Department cited by the Sierra Club.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Journalists do not have to be in Louisiana to report this story. As Damian Carrington and Matthew Taylor <\/em>revealed<\/em><\/a> last year in their \u201ccarbon bombs\u201d expose for the Guardian, scores of similar climate-busting projects are being proposed or developed all over the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Incredibly, governments and public lending agencies are spending trillions of dollars to subsidize such climate-wrecking fossil fuel production. In 2022, they <\/em>paid<\/em><\/a> out $7 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies, the International Monetary Fund calculated. \u201cThat\u2019s a definition of insanity,\u201d John Kerry, the US special envoy for climate change, <\/em>said two years ago<\/em><\/a> in the lead-up to COP26.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


As journalists prepare to cover the COP28 summit starting November 30 and elections in the US and elsewhere next year, it\u2019s essential we understand \u2014 and help our audiences understand \u2014 that fossil fuels have to go, soon, if a livable planet is to be preserved. Questions to explore in your reporting include: How much is your country\u2019s government spending to subsidize fossil fuels? And what is your country doing \u2014 or failing to do \u2014 to stop burning the fossil fuels that are dangerously overheating the planet?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/coveringclimatenow\/subsidizing-ourselves-to-death?e=26b08cfb8d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of questioning why fossil fuels appear to be irreplaceable, the con-merchants at CCN naturally blame it all on fossil fuel subsidies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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$7 trillion ? WOW! \u2013 If governments are sending trillions of our money every year, no wonder we keep producing fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except that John Kerry is not telling you the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their link to the supposed subsidies offers this insight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/Publications\/WP\/Issues\/2023\/08\/22\/IMF-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-Data-2023-Update-537281<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In other words, us poor old taxpayers are not actually paying a penny to all of those wicked Big Oil companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the contrary, they are actually selling us all oil, gas and coal extremely cheaply, much cheaper than the eco-nutters demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact what the far left extremists at CCN really want is for us all to pay much more for our energy in the name of global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently that\u2019s progress!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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