Imposing Climate Emergency Powers in America Will Usher in China’s Social Model: Marc Morano
The ruling class wants to impose COVID-like emergency powers to deal with climate change, but its ultimate goal is to control every aspect of the life of society, said Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot.
“Their goal all along has been to evolve us to something related to what China has been following,” Mr. Morano said in an interview on EpochTV's "Crossroads" program.
The ruling class liked the COVID-19 emergency declaration because it bypassed people in making the most consequential decisions about their lives without allowing for even “an ounce of democracy,” Mr. Morano explained.
COVID-19, especially COVID lockdowns, “brought the once free West to emulate one-party rule in China,” said Mr. Morano, author of the book “The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown.”
Similarly, the climate emergency declaration will give the establishment emergency powers in general, which will allow it to control American society in the same way as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) controls the Chinese people, according to Mr. Morano.
“It's deep within our political psyche and our ruling class that they should be a more dominant and forceful ruling class," he said. “They love crises, whether it's terrorism, war, viruses, climate—they're not going to let it go.”
John Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate in the Biden administration, drew a parallel between COVID-19 and climate change, Mr. Morano said.
In April 2020, Mr. Kerry said in his opinion piece for The Boston Globe: “You could just as easily replace the words ‘climate change' with ‘COVID-19’; it is truly the tale of two pandemics deferred, denied, and distorted.”
Jamie Margolin, climate activist and founder of the organization Zero Hour, wrote for Teen Vogue: ”The way the world has been able to mobilize itself and shut down in the blink of an eye to properly respond to the coronavirus is proof that political leaders actually do have the ability to make rapid change happen if they want.”
“The COVID-19 world response has proven that rapid change and disruption of business as usual is possible” to effect “transformation to halt climate change,” Ms. Margolin said.
Mr. Morano cited several comments and statements by government officials, business leaders, journalists, scholars, and activists praising the Chinese one-party authoritarian rule model for years.
It is "documented—the major figures all saying it out loud,” Mr. Morano said.
Justin Trudeau said in 2013, two years before his tenure as the Canadian prime minister, that he admired China's basic dictatorship.
Mr. Trudeau, the then-leader of the Liberal Party, said at a fundraising event, according to a CBC report: “There is a level of admiration I actually have for China. Because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime.”
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm praised the Chinese regime’s efforts to counter climate change at the annual SXSW conference in March. China has been very “sensitive ” to climate change and “has actually invested a lot in their solutions to achieve their goals," Ms. Granholm said in an interview at SXSW Studio.
"So we’re hopeful that we can all learn from what China is doing,” Ms. Granholm said. “The amount of money that they’re investing in clean energy is actually encouraging."
Apple CEO Tim Cook told Forbes in 2017 that what the Chinese government was doing for the environment “aligned completely with Apple's values. “They're very fixated on doing the right things to avert climate change,” Mr. Cook explained.
In a paper published in March 2020, Andrew Harmer from Queen Mary University of London and other European scientists argue that the WHO should treat climate change “in the same way as global threats from specific diseases.”
Many of these people, who advocate emergency powers and tight control of society, truly believe that people are “unwashed masses” and that every aspect of their life needs to be regulated and guided by experts; otherwise, the masses "will create inequity, racism, environmental destruction, and a climate crisis,” Mr. Morano said.
The ruling class believes that “they're saving the world,” Mr. Morano said. “They may not see the climate crisis as real, but they just see it as a more orderly society.”
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Bidenomics Can’t Save Unreliable Clean Energy and EVs
Many have long cautioned lawmakers - namely those in the Biden administration - against the forceful adoption of solar, wind, and electric vehicles due to their lofty costs, unreliability, and adverse environmental impacts.
Democrats have largely downplayed criticism and, instead, restored to gaslighting their way into enacting, with urgency, the forceful transition to solar, wind, and electric vehicles to fight the “climate crisis.”
The Green New Deal-lite “Inflation Reduction Act”, passed in the summer 2022, promised billions of “incentives” to spur investment in so-called clean energy technologies and projects. A year later, all those lofty promises of decarbonizing our grid and our vehicle fleet - unsurprisingly - fizzled out and, insulted, have resulted in greater unreliability and energy insecurity.
Offshore Wind Can’t Be Saved
The most recent positive development to derail the Biden administration’s goal of dispatching 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030 came with the announcement of Orsted, a Danish wind giant, canceling two offshore projects in New Jersey.
Recent cancellations - including these two New Jersey projects - amount to stopping “nearly one-fifth of President Joe Biden’s goal of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030.” This means the U.S. will fail to meet its 2030 goal. That is good news for our oceans, marine life, and beach communities.
The company cites inflation, supply chain issues, and insufficient federal subsidies as factors that imperiled their projects. In 2023 alone, Orsted’s stock is down 60%.
One financial analyst issued this dire warning about wind’s profitability going forward: “The wind power sector has stalled, with virtually no companies in the industry now turning a profit.” And analyst and former clean energy advocate Brian Gitt, tweeted, “In 2021, Biden announced a target of 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind power capacity by 2030. The gap between wishful thinking & reality is obvious now. Over 50% of US offshore wind power contracts have been canceled or are at risk of cancellation.“
“Ørsted has taken the decision to cease the development of the Ocean Winds 1 and 2 projects,” the company announced. “This is a consequence of additional supplier delays further impacting the project schedule and leading to an additional significant project delay. In addition, Ørsted has updated its view on certain assumptions, including tax credit monetization and the timing and likelihood of final construction permits. Finally, increased long-dated US interest rates have further deteriorated the business case.”
Six Northeastern Democrat governors r– along with Orsted - are begging the Biden administration for a bailout and hiking IRA subsidies to cover 50% of offshore wind development costs.
“Absent intervention, these near-term projects are increasingly at risk of failing,” the governors said in a statement to Associated Press. “Without federal action, offshore wind deployment in the U.S. is at serious risk of stalling because states’ ratepayers may be unable to absorb these significant new costs alone.”
California Curtailing Renewable Power - Especially Solar
On Halloween, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) - an Independent System Operator operating in the Golden State - is curtailing clean energy power—namely solar— due to the “increased congestion” of these sources.
EIA said, “In 2022, CAISO curtailed 2.4 million megawatt hours (MWh) of utility-scale wind and solar output, a 63% increase from the amount of electricity curtailed in 2021. As of September, CAISO has curtailed more than 2.3 million MWh of wind and solar output this year. Solar accounts for almost all of the energy curtailed in CAISO—95% in 2022 and 94% in the first seven months of 2023. CAISO tends to curtail the most solar in the spring when electricity demand is relatively low (because moderate spring temperatures mean less demand for space heating or air conditioning) and solar output is relatively high.”
As I noted at IWF this week, Congestion results from “a higher demand and a lack of supply to meet said demands. Unsurprisingly, congestion-related curtailments—especially those involving solar—have drastically increased since 2019. Curtailment of solar, in this case, usually occurs in spring when electricity demand is significantly lower…”
I added, “As recently as April 2023, the agency curtailed a whopping 703,000 megawatts of electricity. And the previous April, it was reported over 596,000 megawatts of electricity were cut.
E.V.s Won’t Ever Be Ready for Primetime
Let’s not kid ourselves: Organic, widespread EV adoption is never happening.
An April 2023 Gallup poll found the majority of Americans won’t ever buy one, while a July 2023 Pew Research Center survey found a greater share – 63% of Americans – will never buy nor are ever likely to buy an EV.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) published a new study detailing the true costs of EVs and found, minus subsidies and perks, the cost totals about $50,000–about $4,600 more than a standard gas-powered car. More concerning, the hidden costs of fueling an EV amounts to a whopping $17 per gallon. (I’ll keep my gas-powered, environmentally-friendly Subaru Forester, thank you very much.)
Manufacturers who followed along are finally conceding defeat here.
GM and Honda are scrapping a joint “affordable” EV venture. Ford Motor Company said it lost $37,000 on EVs sold in the last three months. And Mercedes said EVs are “a pretty brutal space” to occupy today.
Conclusion
Everything Bidenomics touches collapses and crumbles – including its beloved “clean energy” industries and projects.
The market has clearly spoken: forcibly scaling up solar, wind, and EVs is unsustainable, costly, and impractical.
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Texan Turbine Graveyards Becomes Latest ‘Green’ Tourism Venture
A while back, wind industry spinners reckoned tourists would flock to see a few of these whirling wonders in action, now they’re flocking to their graveyards
Texans now have the opportunity to visit the growing piles of toxic turbine blades and other junk left over after these things give up the ghost.
James Morrow and Ron Kendall have put together a video tourist brochure, propounding the latest in ‘green’ tourism.
Independent journalist Ron Kendall Jr warns of “turbine graveyards” which have been popping up over the US state of Texas as turbine blades reach their useful life.
Texas is home to more than 15,000 wind turbines and has been dubbed a “clean energy powerhouse”.
In a documentary produced by Yucca Films, Mr Kendall Jr investigates the lifespan of the turbines and where they go once used.
“Once they reach their useful life we are seeing more of these, I like to call them turbine graveyards, popping up throughout the state, some to the scale of over 20 to 40 acres of maybe ten tall stacked up,” he told Sky News host James Morrow.
“It doesn’t seem like there was much thought into the end of life for a lot of these renewable energy sources.”
Mr Kendall Jr added many blades are being replaced within two years on some of the newer facilities.
https://principia-scientific.com/texan-turbine-graveyards-becomes-latest-green-tourism-venture/
************************************************What Happened on an Electric Google Bus Was Laughably Predictable
Electric vehicles are the future, says the car industry. It’s why they’ve poured billions into research and development to roll out a line of electric cars that no one wants. Ford has lost billions with this silly vanity project that only the wealthy can afford. The cost of the electric vehicle, plus buying two charging stations—one for the workplace and the other for your home—and upgrading one’s residential power grid is too costly for most working families. It’s a $100,000-plus purchase, and it’s laughably unreliable.
Once the cold and snow hit, the batteries’ charge degrades exponentially to the point where trips that aren’t local shouldn’t even be considered. One man in Canada discovered that the hard way, leading him to declare the electric vehicle craze the greatest scam of the modern era. In San Francisco, a Google bus trip turned chaotic when it lost power going up the steep hills that dot the city. It resulted in a crash that sent one person to the hospital (via KTVU):
An "electric" shuttle bus operated by Google collided with multiple vehicles in San Francisco on Monday morning, sending one person to a hospital.
The crash happened near Castro and 20th streets at approximately 8:45 a.m., according to the San Francisco Police Department.
Multiple vehicles were damaged after the bus collided with them, police said.
A person inside one of the involved vehicles sustained injuries and was transported to a hospital. The extent of their injuries has not been disclosed.
The crash was initially reported on Twitter by Xian Ke (@xianke).
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Google confirmed that the bus involved is part of the company's shuttle fleet.
"The safety and wellbeing of everyone involved is our highest priority while we work with local authorities to understand what happened," Google said in an email to KTVU.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Neither the SFPD nor Google explained what caused the collision.
But according to Ke, the bus lost power while ascending a hill, rolling backwards and smacked into multiple cars.
A gas-powered bus wouldn’t have led to this crash. That is a fact.
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