There are 1,039 new coal fired power plants in the works, with the majority in China and almost all in the developing world. Yet for some reason the “climate protests” aren’t being held in those countries.
Tracker Map – Global Energy Monitor
Climate Protest Tracker – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Dennis Meadows of the Club of Rome wants to reduce the world’s population by almost 90%, without complaint or resistance from the people being eliminated.
Forecasting climate is impossible, because nobody understands it. But forecasting the bad behavior of climate academics is quite predictable.
Ruby and Toto became parents yesterday, and Kirye and Caesar are grandparents of four new climate warriors.
After seventeen years, Toto is father of four beautiful babies. Ruby is the proud mother.
“ISLANDERS ON VERGE OF RUIN.
Drought and Famine Have Devastated the Cape Verde Islands, and the In- habitants Are Starving.
Further details were obtained yesterday concerning the terrible famine now raging throughout the Cape Verde Islands, following an unprecedented drought and consequent failure of crops. The brigantine St. Thiago, Capt. Francisco Olivera, from Praia, the chief town of the Island of St. Thiago and seat of the Portuguese Island Government, brings the news that not a drop of rain has fallen on any of the ten islands of the group for more than two years. At last the once blossoming and fertile lands have been reduced to barren wastes, on which dire want and suffering have afflicted the inhabitants in varying degrees for months, until at last the limit has been reached, and now the peasants, never greatly blessed with riches, are dying by scores daily of actual starvation.”
The US has the world’s largest coal reserves, and Michael Bloomberg wants to shut down US coal and gas. But for some reason he isn’t trying to stop 100 new coal fired power plants in China per year.
The left loved Russell Brand until he figured out how awful the left is.
Heroes of 2014: Russell Brand | George Monbiot | The Guardian
Russell Brand was grilled by police in 2014 over claims he sexually assaulted masseuse
Ten years ago, the BBC reported that the global warming hiatus was central to the IPCC report. Since then it has been completely erased.
Global warming pause ‘central’ to IPCC climate report – BBC News
The Associated Press says the burning of fossil fuels has melted the Austrian Alps, and they have pictures to prove it.
In the warming Alps, Austria’s melting glaciers are in their final decades | AP News
They forgot to mention that most of the melting occurred before 1950.
National Geographic Magazine Archive
They also forgot to mention the glaciers were disappearing during the 19th century.
16 Aug 1902 – Alpine Glaciers Disappearing. – Trove
22 Oct 1903, 2 – The Newton Journal at Newspapers.com
Thirty-eight percent of cars were electric at that time.
38% Of American Cars Were Electric In 1900 – CleanTechnica
26 Jul 1905, Page 1 – The Topeka Daily Capital at Newspapers.com
28 Sep 1910 – RECEDING GLACIERS. – Trove
“It appears that, save over a small area, the glaciers of the world are retreating to the mountains. The Arapahoe glacier in the Rockies has been melting at a rapid rate for several years. The glacier on Mount Sarmiento in South America. ; which descended into the sea during the last century, is now separated from the shore by a vigorous growth of timber The Jacobshaven glacier in Greenland hat* retreated four miles since the year 1860, and the East glacier in Spitzbergen is more than a mile away from its old terminal moraine. In Scandinavia the s:now line is farther up the mountains, and the glaciers have withdrawn 3,000 feet from the lowlands in a century In the Eastern Alps and one or two other small districts the glaciers are growing.”
Sausalito News 30 November 1912 — California Digital Newspaper Collection
