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Great Barrier Reef Thriving Despite Doomsday Predictions

Climate alarmists have continually claimed that the Great Barrier reef is dying because of climate change. Unfortunately, for them, record coral cover and growth over the last two years is shooting a hole in that narrative. ¹ The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) reported that the Great Barrier Reef's central section and northern section now have record coral cover. A natural event, a crown-of-thorns outbreak, prevented the southern section reaching record level too.

Energy Poverty World Wide

Energy poverty is not being able to afford adequate warmth, cooling, lighting, or the energy to power appliances that guarantee a decent standard of living and health. One shorthand rule is that a household is energy poor if it must spend more than 10 percent of its income on power. As renewable energy mandates are rising 'ecological' taxes have driven up electricity prices, and increases in energy poverty have become a problem in a number of countries. ¹

Celebrities Private Jet Emissions

Flying is in general the most carbon intensive way to travel per mile. Private plane travel is at an all time high; demand continues to outpace supply, and it's more accessible than ever. You've seen the headlines: celebrities' love of private air travel is an environmental nightmare. Yet as the ultra rich enter image-recovery mode--shifting responsibility to sponsors, friends, and renters--it's still business as usual when it comes to flights by private jets. ¹ Researchers pinpoint a potential guideline: to keep things sustainable, everyone on Earth should limit their carbon footprint to a grand total of 2.3 metric tons per year. As for a private jet? It emits 2 metric tons of carbon dioxide per hour. To put one ton of carbon emissions into context, it's equivalent to driving the circumference of the Earth one time. ²

Germany's Energy Crisis

Germany has earmarked 200 billion euros ($220 billion) to fund industrial transformation between now and 2026, including climate protection, hydrogen technology and expansion of the electric vehicle charging network. ¹ Now, after pouring billions of those dollars into green energy, Germany is facing economic calamity, including potential collapse should Russia shut off gas supplies. The collapse comes after Germany unveiled their plan to spend $220 billion to transfer all their energy to renewable sources.

Questionable Temperature Surface Station Measurements

A recent study finds approximately 96 percent of US temperature Stations used to measure climate change fail to meet what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) considers to be 'acceptable' and uncorrupted placement by its own published standards. This nation-wide study follows up widespread corruption and heat biases found at NOAA stations in 2009, and the heat-bias distortion is even worse now. The study, published by The Heartland Institute, was compiled via satellite and in-person survey visits to NOAA weather stations that contribute to the 'official' land temperature data in the United States. The research shows that 96% of these stations are corrupted by localized effects of urbanization--producing heat-trapping, or heat-accentuating objects. Placing temperature stations in such locations violates NOAA's own published standards and strongly undermines the legitimacy and the magnitude of the official consensus on long-term climate warming trends in the United states. ¹

California's Ongoing Droughts

California is no stranger to drought; it is a recurring feature of the state's climate. They recently experienced a five year event from 2012-2016; other notable historical droughts included 2007-09, 1987-92, 1976-77, and off-and-on dry conditions more than a decade in the 1920s and 1930s. Presently, they are in year three of a serious drought. ¹ Looking back in time it's evident that things could be much worse. Beginning about 1,100 years ago, what is now California baked in two droughts, the first lasting 220 years and the second 140 years. Each was much more intense than the mere six year dry spells that afflict modern California from time to time. ²

Questioning Supplements

Dietary supplements are big business. Three out of four Americans take one or more on a regular basis, and for older Americans the fraction is four out of five. One in three children also take supplements. The estimated number of supplement products increased from 4,000 in 1994 to 50,000-80,000 today. Out of pocket expenditures for herbal and complementary nutritional products are about $50 billion, reports Henry Miller. ¹ Supplements have become a massive industry with plenty of enthusiastic promoters. But for all the research telling us how certain vitamins and nutrients affect our bodies, taking supplements can't always deliver the results we may hope and expect. ²

European Union- Fossil Fuel And Nuclear Are 'Green'

The European Union (EU) parliament announced a decision that's causing the fraudulent climate change narrative to self-destruct. EU parliament backs labeling gas and nuclear investments as ‘green' and 'climate friendly'. The EU has been plunged into an energy crisis that's dividing EU nations and forcing a reevaluation on which energy sources are deemed renewable. ¹ Since gas and nuclear power can be 'green' and natural gas in investments are now deemed sustainable, the EU hopes this will trigger more funding of those sectors but this would slow down the EU's shift to greener energy sources. ²

Africa and Climate Activists

If in the coming decades, Africa was to achieve rapid economic growth of the kind that China has experienced, it would lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. But as the rich world can attest, economic growth both requires energy consumption and leads to more of it, most of which must be provided by fossil fuels. ¹ Without abundant fuel and power, prosperity is impossible: workers cannot amplify their production, doctors cannot preserve vaccines, students cannot learn after dark, goods cannot get to market. Nearly 700 million Africans rely mainly on wood or dung to cook and heat with, and 600 million have no access to electric light. Britain with 60 million people has nearly as much electricity generating capacity as the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, minus South Africa with 800 million. ²

Blackouts On The Horizon

Tens of millions of Americans could be thrown into a summer of hell as a megadrought, heat waves, and reduced power generation could trigger widespread rolling electricity blackouts from the Great Lakes to the West Coast. ¹ The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a regulatory body that manages grid stability, warned that power supplies in the Western US could be strained this summer as a historic drought reduces hydroelectric power generation due to falling reservoir levels and what's expected to be an unseasonably hot summer. Compound the hellacious weather backdrop with grids decommissioning fossil fuel power plants to fight climate change and their inability to bring on new green power generation, such as solar, wind and batteries, in time, is a perfect storm waiting to happen that will produce electricity deficits that may force power companies into rolling blackouts for stability purposes.

Questioning Computer Climate Models

Climate change prophecy hangs its hat on computer climate models. The models have gigantic problems. According to Kevin Trenberth, once in charge of modeling at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, "None of the models correspond even remotely to the current observed climate of the Earth." The models can't properly model the Earth's climate, but we are supposed to believe that, if carbon dioxide has a certain effect on the imaginary earths of the many models it will have the same effect on the real earth. ¹

Coal On The Rise

Coal is proving quite resilient despite steep declines in some economies. New reports show how coal remains a huge share of the global mix and the scope of new plants, especially in China. The International Energy Agency (IEA) projects a big rebound from the pandemic, with coal fired generation potentially hitting an all time high in 2022. ¹

Energy Poverty Worldwide

Energy poverty is not being able to afford adequate warmth, cooling, lighting, or the energy to power appliances that guarantee a decent standard of living and health. One shorthand rule is that a household is energy poor if it must spend more than 10 percent of its income on power. As renewable energy mandates are rising 'ecological' taxes have driven up electricity prices, and increases in energy poverty have become a problem in a number of countries. It is estimated that 50 million European households now qualify. ¹

Offshore Wind Farm Issues

Offshore wind is a superstar of the renewable energy revolution. The ability to deliver massive amounts of green power at ever cheaper prices, regenerate run down ports and create high skilled jobs mean giant off shore wind farms are planned in seas from Australia to Norway, from Japan to California, and all points in between. ¹ However, a series of reviews of the financial accounts of offshore wind farms has shown that despite the claims of the offshore wind industry, overall costs of offshore wind farms remains stubbornly high, and are at best only declining slowly. ²

Solar Waste: A Burgeoning Problem

Scientists at America's National Renewable Laboratory have warned that in the next few decades, the world faces a 'tidal wave' of redundant blades that will number hundreds of thousands, if not more. It's estimated that by 2050, up to 78 million tons of solar panels will have reached the end of their life and the world will create another six million tons of photovoltaic waste every year. Where to put all of that is potentially an even bigger headache than wind turbine blades. It's very complicated to recover the more valuable materials, such as silver and silicon, used in solar panels. ¹

Solar Plant Failures

Government planning and subsidies will make many nations the world's green energy powers, create millions of jobs, and supercharge the economy—or so we've heard. Results with solar make one wonder about this statement. In recent times a number of large scale solar plants have failed world-wide and these aren't the first failures of heavily taxpayer funded solar plants. Dozens of solar focused companies around the globe have disappeared through bankruptcy, insolvency, or just shutting their doors since 2009 when prices of solar panels plunged as competition from China increased.

Germany's Energy Woes

Clueless Germany is the poster child for handing over its sovereignty to the howling minority of eco-whiners reports A. Dru Kristenev. Closing the last of its nuclear plants under the false pretense of replacing that clean energy with 'sustainable' wind power that is anything but and unreliable, Germany is cutting its own throat. Keeping outward appearances of taking measures to combat climate change, the country will be charging a premium for power that it's now forced to purchase from suppliers like France, which generates wattage from, guess what? Nuclear power plants. The hypocrisy is stretching the ability of average citizens to comprehend the strategy. ¹

Brrr! It's Getting Colder Cold

The majority of the world's major mainstream media, especially those that regularly spotlight hot weather events as signs of climate apocalypse do not address the fact that extreme cold events stand in stark contrast to the theories of climate alarmists. High temperature events get the media in a publishing frenzy. Not so with extremely cold events which are also worthy of publication, yet more often than not, get ignored. Here are some recent examples:

Islands Are Growing Not Shrinking

A study of over 700 islands for decades shows that even though seas are rising faster than any time in the last million years, somehow no islands with people on are shrinking. This means there are no climate change refugees from any vanishing island. ¹ The data, which covers 30 Pacific and Indian Ocean atolls reveals that no atoll lost land area and that 88.6% of islands were either stable or increased in area, while only 11.4% contracted. ² As Joanne Nova succinctly noted, “The oceans were supposed to be swallowing up the islands. The models did not predict that the islands would grow in size.” ³

Jeopardy's Great Barrier Reef Gaffe