Four days ago :
“Wind power produced up to 2/3 of Texas’s energy output in 2020”
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Yesterday :
Frozen wind turbines have caused almost 1/2 of Texas’s wind generation capacity to go offline in the midst of an “unprecedented storm”.
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The green energy industry has hijacked civilization, the environmental movement, and common sense.
The Rawhide Generating Station in Northern Colorado is scheduled to shut down by 2030, and be replaced by “green energy.”
I used to ride my bicycle up there regularly when I lived in Fort Collins, and it was surrounded by miles of prairie and Pronghorns. That prairie has been destroyed and replaced by solar panels. This what the area looked like this morning – massive arrays of solar panels covered in snow at -10F. The coal fired plant was putting out a small amount of water vapor under spectacular blue skies.
There has been no wind here for days, so the residents of Northern Colorado have been completely dependent on coal power to stay alive during the record cold. Just across the border in Cheyenne, we had our coldest Valentines Day on record and coldest afternoon ever this late in winter.
Three days ago, the Biden administration was bragging about wind power in Texas.
Wind power produced up to two thirds of Texas’s energy output in 2020, according to the Energy Information Administration. In total, the Lone Star State generated about 29,407 MWs of wind power, installing 2,197 MWs in 2020 – meaning that if Texas were a country, it would rank fifth in the world for wind power capacity, some estimates say.
Today they have millions of people without power because of reliance on wind .
“Nearly half of Texas’ installed wind power generation capacity has been offline because of frozen wind turbines in West Texas, according to Texas grid operators.”
I took these pictures over the Midwest on January 7, 2018 during the coldest start to a year on record. The wind turbines were motionless, and the steam from the power plants was rising vertically due to dead calm winds.
Washington DC got down to -17C and was frozen solid.
Wind power also fails during the hottest times in summer.
Britain Has Gone Nine Days Without Wind Power – Bloomberg
Green energy is not reliable and is also very destructive.
U.S. to give 30-year wind farm permits; thousands of eagle deaths seen – Reuters
Center For Biological Diversity
I went to a talk at an Audubon bird rescue facility in Phoenix on January 13, 2019, and pressed them about wind farms killing thousands of eagles. They acknowledged it was true and provided some details, but said it was a tough trade off between “clean energy” and dead birds.
I then asked why hunters go to jail for killing eagles, and wind farm operators don’t – and they of course blamed President Trump for choosing jobs over the environment. So I responded with “are you saying President Trump is promoting wind farms?” They quickly changed the subject.
Here are some of the birds they rescued.
Coal fired power plants used to generate a lot of pollution in the US, but we resolved that problem 50 years ago.
Solar and wind are not reliable. And there is one more piece to the green energy equation – hydroelectric.
Sixty years ago, hydroelectric power was the number one target of environmentalists. The building of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River destroyed one of America’s most spectacular locations.
The building of Glen Canyon Dam inspired Edward Abbey to write “The Monkey Wrench Gang” – a fictional story about a band of eco-warriors who target industrial development in the southwest, and Glen Canyon Dam in particular.
Wind farms, solar farms and hydroelectric dams would all have been considered unacceptable by environmentalists 60 years ago – but a campaign of fearmongering about CO2 hijacked the environmental movement and turned them against all their core values. Environmentalists used to fight against actual air pollution, but now they campaign against harmless water vapor and invisible CO2.
Three weeks ago, Biden rejoined the World Health Organization.
And WHO immediately engaged in a COVID-19 coverup for China.
Ten years ago, Texas leading climate experts said the state would be hot and dry for the rest of the century.
Texas is vulnerable to warming climate – Houston Chronicle
Temperatures have declined since then, and Texas has had its wettest years on record.
Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
They are facing historic cold and snow next week.
10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.
Twenty-one years ago, The Independent and Climate Research Unit announced the end of snow in Britain.
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent
The Met Office announced the end of Scottish skiing.
Skiing is ‘doomed’ … so enjoy it while it lasts | The Scotsman
The National Trust predicted a Mediterranean climate for Britain.
Two years ago, The Independent said February warmth was a “climate breakdown.”
The UK has record snow and just had the coldest February night in 66 years.
Pictures show Braemar after coldest night in 25 years
The Thames is freezing for the first time in 60 years.
Perhaps The Guardian got it right in 2004?
“Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020”
Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us | Environment | The Guardian
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.”
? George Orwell, 1984
Three weeks ago, NOAA predicted 30% maximum ice cover for the Great Lakes, due to climate change.
They are currently at 32%, and with record cold forecast next week should be above 50% in a few days.
Four of the last seven years have been above average, and 2014 was second highest on record. That is what NOAA calls a “declining trend.”
Note that NOAA started their graph in the mid-1970s, right before the three coldest winters on record in the Great Lakes states – 1977, 1978 and 1979.
The winter of 1977 was the coldest on record in the eastern US.
20 Jan 1977, Page 3 – Valley News
Lakeland Ledger – Google News Archive Search
19 Jan 1977, Page 20 – The Town Talk at Newspapers.com
The National Geographic Archive | December 1977 | page 1
And while I am on the topic of ice …
A look back on twenty years of spectacular incompetence by our leading climate experts and journalists.
