{"id":313096,"date":"2024-03-26T15:25:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=313096"},"modified":"2024-03-26T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:25:58","slug":"time-for-billionaires-to-fund-climate-and-social-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=313096","title":{"rendered":"Time for Billionaires to Fund Climate and Social\u00a0Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wallace Manheimer provides the advice in his Daily Caller article Here\u2019s A Better Way For Billionaires To Give Their Money.<\/strong><\/a>  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. In the second part of this post Dr. Manheimer explains how philantropists and many others have been duped by Net Zero claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of your fellow billionaires contribute large sums to \u201ccure\u201d a
nonexistent climate crisis, falsely naming it an \u201cexistential threat.\u201d<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They wrongly claim that wind and solar<\/strong> can support modern civilization. For instance, Michael Bloomberg has proudly committed $500 million to eliminate coal. Jeffery Bezos has committed $10 billion to a variety of climate causes and \u201cclean energy\u201d efforts<\/strong>. These billions<\/strong> dwarf r<\/strong>esources available to small groups fighting,<\/strong> for instance, degradation of their land by gigantic wind companies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, these philanthropists direct many dollars into foolishness like Critical Race Theory<\/strong> and a fabricated division of the world into oppressors and the oppressed. In addition to unnecessary climate panic<\/strong>, college campuses harbor harmful notions of \u201cgender fluidity\u201d and dangerous divisiveness among students that manifest as rampant antisemitism and hostility toward the deplorables du jour.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know this is wrong but, despite your wealth, may feel powerless to stem the societal degradation. You make your own large contributions to hospitals, museums, medical schools, etc. Of course, that is very commendable. Still, you may be looking for other avenues for your generosity<\/strong> \u2013 perhaps actions that could not only help people but also challenge the promotion of negative forces<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, we have a few suggestions.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s first consider possibilities within the U.S. As a private citizen or group of citizens, you can certainly place\u00a0ads into major media to expose the fraudulence of scientifically invalid claims of a climate crisis.<\/strong>\u00a0You could cite the mountain of\u00a0scientific evidence that contradicts the popular apocalyptic narrative<\/strong>\u00a0as well as the\u00a0tens of thousands of prominent scientists attesting<\/strong>\u00a0that there is no climate crisis.\u00a0Sources include<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0CO2\u00a0Coalition<\/a>,\u00a0Global Warming Petition Project<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and CLINTEL\u2019s\u00a0World Climate Declaration<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0Furthermore, you could partially balance the scales by\u00a0financially supporting local groups fighting installation<\/strong>\u00a0of hundreds of gigantic wind turbines, each the size of the Washington Monument; or square miles and miles of solar panels, which will permanently scar their land.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you\u2019re more inclined to support universities, then we suggest\u00a0financing a faculty position about Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and Lincoln<\/strong>. Their accomplishments and documents are sources of inspiration worldwide. Alternatively, you might consider\u00a0supporting nuclear science and engineering department<\/strong>s, or initiating an interdepartmental organization, for domestic and international students, in the disciplines of petroleum geology, engineering, and industry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Internationally, there are many countries that suffer from a lack of energy.<\/strong> The less developed world is not giving up on fossil fuels regardless of pompous calls from the climate industrial complex for them to do so.  \u201cI firmly believe that no African country can be asked to halt the exploration of its natural resources, including fossil fuels,\u201d says Kenyan President William Ruto. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the head of the United Nations\u2019 most recent climate summit,<\/strong> Sultan Al-Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, said<\/strong> that use of fossil fuels cannot be discontinued \u201cunless you want to take the world back into caves.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps nobody exhibited resentment of meddling in Third World energy policy<\/strong> more than did Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi: \u201cThe colonial mindset hasn\u2019t gone. We are seeing from developed nations that the path that made them developed is being closed to developing nations.\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Lesser developed countries will continue to advance in ways they see fit, employing fossil fuels (and hopefully also nuclear power). China and India are building coal-fired power plants at a furious pace,<\/strong> and Africa and other regions<\/strong> will soon as well. There is no stopping it! Rather than utter hypocritical and futile pieties, let\u2019s help them and, while doing so, also help promote sensible, clean energy technologies developed in the U.S.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coal promises to be the salvation of more than half of sub-Saharan Africans<\/strong> \u2014 the number who labor daily with inadequate supplies of electricity. Cooking, heating and lighting are done with a combination of wood, charcoal and dried animal dung. The World Health Organization<\/a> estimates that about half a million die each year from the resulting indoor air pollution.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultra-super critical coal-fired generating facilities,<\/strong> recently developed in the United States, are cleaner and more efficient than traditional plants. American billionaires investing in these sources of clean, affordable, reliable electricity<\/strong> could save the lives of untold numbers of sub-Saharan Africans.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria, once an important oil producer, never instituted effective pollution controls and, with the advent of hydrofracturing technology in the U.S., is hardly competitive on the world market. In fact, Exxon Mobil is considering pulling out of the country. The right investments could restore both Nigeria\u2019s environment and oil industry.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many new things for rational, public-spirited billionaires to support.
Why leave the field to those pursuing the climate fetish
and promoting destructive ideologies and fads?<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Wallace Manheimer is a life fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and is a member of the CO<\/em>2<\/em>.Coalition. He is the author of more than 150 refereed papers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background:\u00a0 Manheimer Steamrolls Net Zero Claims<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Accomplished and distinguished physicist Wallace Manheimer published a crushing argument against the rationale for Net Zero claims and policies.  His paper is While the Climate Always Has and Always Will Change, There Is no Climate Crisis. <\/strong><\/a>published in the Journal of Sustainable Development.  In italics with my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The emphasis on a false climate crisis is becoming a tragedy for modern civilization<\/strong>, which depends on relible, economic, and environmentally viable energy. The windmills, solar panels and backup batteries have none if these qualities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This falsehood is pushed by a powerful lobby<\/strong> which Bjorn Lomborg has called a climate industrial complex, comprising some scientists, most media, industrialists, and legislators. It has somehow managed to convince many that CO2<\/strong> in the atmosphere, a gas necessary for life on earth, one which we exhale with every breath, is an environmental poison.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple scientific theories and measurements show that there is no climate crisis.<\/strong> Radiation forcing calculations by both skeptics and believers show that the carbon dioxide radiation forcicng is about 0.3% of the incident radiation, far less than other effects on climate. Over the period of human civilization, the temperature has oscillated between quite a few warm and cold periods, with many of the warm periods being warmer than today. During geological times, it and the carbon dioxide level have been all over the place with no correlation between them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A useful synopsis is written by Chris Morrison at the Daily Sceptic  Net Zero Will Lead to the End of Modern Civilisation, Says Top Scientist<\/strong><\/a>.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A damning indictment of the Net Zero political project<\/strong> has been made by one of the world\u2019s leading nuclear physicists.<\/strong> In a recently published science paper, Dr. Wallace Manheimer said it would be the end of modern civilisation. Writing about wind and solar power<\/strong> he argued it would be especially tragic \u201cwhen not only will<\/strong> this new infrastructure fail, but will cost trillions, trash large portions of the environment, and be entirely unnecessary\u201d.<\/strong> The stakes, he added, \u201care enormous\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Manheimer holds a physics PhD from MIT and has had a 50-year career in nuclear research,<\/strong> including work at the Plasma Physics Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He has published over 150 science papers.<\/strong> In his view, there is \u201ccertainly no scientific basis\u201d for expecting a climate crisis from too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in the next century or so. He argues that there is no reason why civilisation cannot advance using both fossil fuel power and nuclear power,<\/strong> gradually shifting to more nuclear power.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is of course a growing body of opinion that points out that\u00a0the Emperor has no clothes when it comes to all the fashionable green technologies.<\/strong>\u00a0Electric cars, wind and solar power, hydrogen, battery storage, heat pumps \u2013 all have massive disadvantages, and are incapable of replacing existing systems without devastating consequences.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Manheimer points out that before fossil fuel<\/strong> became widely used, energy was provided by people and animals<\/strong>. Because so little energy was produced, \u201ccivilisation was a thin veneer atop a vast mountain of human squalor and misery, a veneer maintained by such institutions as slavery, colonialism and tyranny\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This argument hints at why so many rich, virtue-signalling celebrities argue not just for Net Zero but \u2018Real\u2019 Zero, with the banning of all fossil fuel use.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

King Charles said in 2009 that the age of consumerism and convenience was over, although the multi-mansion owning monarch presumably doesn\u2019t think such desperate restrictions apply to himself. Manheimer notes that fossil fuel has extended the benefits of civilisation to billions, but its job is not yet complete. \u201cTo spread the benefits of modern civilisation to the entire human family would require much more energy, as well as newer sources,\u201d<\/strong> he adds.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Manheimer\u2019s view, the partnership among self-interested businesses, grandstanding politicians and alarmist campaigners,\u00a0\u201ctruly is an unholy alliance\u201d.<\/strong>\u00a0The climate industrial complex<\/strong>\u00a0does not promote discussion on how to overcome this challenge in a way that will be best for everyone. \u201cWe should not be surprised or impressed that those who stand to make a profit are among the loudest calling for politicians to act,\u201d he added.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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