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Walkin' In A Winter Wonderland

Yep, Globull Warming has hit Saudi Arabia.

The northwest desert is now blanketed in snow. Clearly, something must be done. Where's "Greta"?

The whole planet's going to look like this if we don't Take Action to stop the Warming!

 

Green, Greed - What;s The Difference?

A neighbor down the street proudly placed solar panels on his house. He spent $4,000 after government subsidies and whatever deductions he may have taken from his income tax. He is confident that this move will save him tons of money on electricity and will safeguard the planet from global warming Armageddon by reducing his carbon footprint from fossil fuels. 

There is one fly in this perfect ointment—solar panels generate “tons of toxic waste” during the production process and during their disposal/replacement.

As mentioned here before, the output of solar panels decreases rapidly once installed, and they are effectively dead after 20 to 25 years. A number of companies offer "free" purchase and installation - but removal and disposal of non-functioning equipment is on you. Enjoy the smug feelings; they won't last long.

 

 

Bombogenesis

The National Weather Service apparently had nothing better to do, so decided to scare people to death around the Pacific Northwest by referring to an inbound nasty storm system as a "bombogenesis". EVERYBODY PANIC!

What they were describing with the term was just another storm bringing high winds, heavy snows, and rain. We get them all the time, although they're usually more of a December - February thing. Admittedly, it's unusual for November around here, but hey.

What we got was cold temps, some blustery winds that only made it to 45 mph here atop a mountain, and a bunch of rain - stuff that you come to expect a bit later in the year, but not a big deal; I've seen rain blowing in sideways with stronger winds. Evidently it's a big deal because Holiday Travel. Yep, they closed 100 miles or so of I-5 between southern Oregon and northern California because Heavy Snow, but that's not a bad thing - many of the locals here wouldn't mind seeing that done year-round.

It probably wouldn't hurt to have fresh batteries in your trusty flashlight while you prepare for disaster. And you probably don't want to "carry snow tires"; just sayin'.

But look at the snowplow teams, intrepidly tackling as much as six inches of powder!

'There is a large number of spun out vehicles, large trucks and smaller cars, along the road that didn't put chains in their tires as required,' Denise Yergenson, a California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) spokeswoman said. 'That blocked the road and it's hampering our ability to plow.'

It's unclear how putting chains in their tires would be especially helpful, but seems to be a requirement in California.

 

Step Away From The Stove, Citizen

We're from the Government, and we're here to Save The Planet.

SAN FRANCISCO – Fix global warming or cook dinner on a gas stove?

That’s the choice for people in 13 cities and one county in California that have enacted new zoning codes encouraging or requiring all-electric new construction.  

The codes, most of them passed since June, are meant to keep builders from running natural gas lines to new homes and apartments, with an eye toward creating fewer legacy gas hookups as the nation shifts to carbon-neutral energy sources.

Natural gas is a fossil fuel, mostly methane, and produces 33% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas causing climate change.

Some of the cities ban natural gas hookups to new construction.

Wrong on a number of levels: natural gas is not derived from dead dinosaurs and dead plants; it's formed by heat and pressure. It is also not the primary driver of global warming/global cooling/climate change. Contrary to widespread belief, our planet doesn't maintain a circular orbit around the sun - it's elliptical. This means that the Earth warms during periods of closer approach, and cools as we reach the elliptical perihelion. Obviously, human activities exert no impact upon the planetary orbit.

Moreover, CO₂ is not the primary greenhouse gas on our planet; that distinction goes to water vapor. And as our planet is largely bathed in water, it produces a lot of water vapor. Again, human activities exert no effect upon the natural process. Nor will bans on the use of natural gas for activities such as home heating and cooking.

But it's a great bogyman to use in order to impose ever more controls upon your life.

It's interesting that governments are moving to essentially require you to depend upon electricity, when as noted above, much of that electricity is generated by natural gas-fed power plants. And given California's most recent experiences with widespread power outages and conflagrations sparked by downed power lines, it seems a bit ironic to force people to rely upon electricity. Oddly, for some reason, natural gas lines were unaffected.

No word regarding the amount of CO₂ and particulates resulting from the wildfires. How curious.

 

 

Imperiled Cemetaries

Most movies about climate change are disaster flicks, but the real-life plight of cemeteries affected by climate change is pure horror. Floods and other extreme weather phenomena present unprecedented challenges to cemeteries, reports Scientific American.

Millions of people are dead.

It's a climate change crisis!

Don't know about you, but I don't care what happens to my corpse....

 

Can You Help?

The U.N. "climate summit" next month has been moved from Chile to Spain, and little Greta's flummoxed. She's asking for the public to help her make the 6,000-mile trip from Los Angeles to Spain (of course, by "eco-friendly" transport only).

“As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help,” Ms Thunberg tweeted from Los Angeles.

“It turns out I’ve travelled half around the world, the wrong way.”

“Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November … If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.”

Thunberg refuses to fly because of the carbon emissions involved. I'd suggest water-wings and swim flippers, but they're made with petroleum products, so that's out. Maybe she could take one of these:

 

Florida's Magic Beans

In promotional materials and patents, Joi Scientific has claimed to have found an efficient way to generate hydrogen from seawater, something that would be a major scientific breakthrough. (Joi Scientific)

Presumably, they've also found a way to turn lead into gold.

A Florida-based hydrogen company that received millions of public dollars from New Brunswickers has told shareholders that its technology doesn't work as previously described, CBC News has learned. NB Power paid Joi Scientific $13 million Cdn to license a technology that claims to be able to efficiently generate hydrogen gas from seawater to generate electricity on demand, something that would be a major scientific breakthrough. 

One of the company's patents claims it can generate hydrogen at 200 per cent efficiency. For one watt of input energy, the patent says two watts of energy in the form of hydrogen gas are produced.

Evidently, the geniuses running that Canadian power company are unaware of Florida's long-standing history of scams. 200% efficiency? Really? Somebody must have flunked high-school physics.

Hydrogen is magic, all right....

 

The Cimate! Shave The Planet!

When you thought it couldn't get any wackier...

Apparently, the supporters of the climate change hypothesis are jealous of the streaming service because they released something almost as funny as a comedian on Netflix. They are complaining that watching Netflix (or porn) releases CO2 into the atmosphere and causes Climate Change.

Per Maxime Efoui-Hess, which is associated with the French think tank The Shift Project: “Watching a half-hour show leads to emissions of up to 1.6 kilograms of carbon dioxide.” That’s the equivalent of driving 3.9 miles.

 

Extinction Rebellion - London Style (The Self-Extinguishing Phase)

So much for their clever plan to cover the Treasury building in fake blood...

Bumblers.

Don't let the vegan hold the hose!

It might have been a good idea to locate the "off" switch for the pump BEFORE engaging in idiocy. Just sayin'.

All in all, it seems safe to say that normal people have had about enough of the loons.

Both over there and here in the USA, people are increasingly fed up with the continued disruptions in their daily lives.

 

Good Points

It's curious that these folks have apparently never heard of teleconferencing. Nope, they have to fly to "climate conferences" in Copenhagen or Brazil or wherever. Unfortunately, they also fly back.