$3 Trillion a Year for Nonexistent ‘Climate Crisis’? Seriously?
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says governments will need to spend $3 trillion every year to fight climate change.
Bend over and open that wallet wide, here it comes again.
Meanwhile, a new peer-reviewed study finds that carbon dioxide emissions now has zero impact on global warming because new CO2 falls out into more plants, because it’s what plants crave.
In other words, burning fossil fuels simply converts toxic sludge—petroleum—into beautiful forests.
Meaning, we’d spend $3 trillion a year for … fewer trees.
Yellen’s $3 trillion hustle came at the Group of 20 finance leaders meeting in Brazil, where she’s currently spending your tax dollars promoting a Soviet-style takeover of the global economy in the name of climate.
Hilariously, she frames that tax as the “biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.”
If $3 trillion a year to dig holes and fill them with broken wind turbines and solar panels is the economic opportunity of the century, I’m having what Yellen is smoking.
For perspective, $3 trillion is roughly 30 times what’s already being spent on crony handouts to green billionaires and activists—40% of which comes from so-called multilateral development banks that are funded by your tax dollars going through a Rube Goldberg machine so you can’t see it.
Alas, Yellen is just a cog in a much bigger machine. The U.N. is demanding $150 trillion for the imaginary climate crisis—the most ambitious taxpayer fleecing since the Federal Reserve.
That $150 trillion, it’s worth noting, is roughly half the accumulated wealth of the human race going back to Babylonia—whizzed away so we have less trees.
So what’s next? Like most government programs, climate change has nothing to do with the alleged crisis. If it did, that CO2 study would be on every front page—after all, it means we’re out of the woods, the planet’s not doomed after all. Worth a headline or two.
Instead, of course, crickets.
That’s because climate is just the excuse. The actual goal is that $150 trillion Soviet takeover. They’ll do it with climate. They’ll do it with COVID-19. They’ll do it with war, if that’s what it takes.
Of course, this is nothing new; the granddaddy of fake crises was World War I, fought allegedly over … Serbia. And even today it’s painted as just one big misunderstanding.
In fact, the Deep State engineers of that war on both sides openly saw it as a way to install what they called “wartime socialism.”
Murray Rothbard writes about this in “WWI as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals” at Mises.org.
Then, as now, the left-wing media was only too happy to play along, ginning up a crisis to scare the plebs into handing over their liberties, their life savings and, of course, their lives measured in the millions.
More than 100 years later, the excuses change, but the goal remains the same: the eternal battle between liberty and the monopolies of violence we call governments.
Given former President Donald Trump’s skepticism toward global warming, this next election will be a stark choice on climate. But given the profits involved—half of humanity’s wealth—the battle will, alas, be permanent.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/08/02/3-trillion-year-climate-crisis-seriously/
*****************************************************NY State Misses Climate Goals But Sues Companies For Not Meeting Theirs
If it weren’t for double standards, Albany Democrats wouldn’t have any standards at all—especially regarding “green” energy.
As new reporting shows, New York’s renewable energy plans have been decimated, highlighting a disconnect between radical policy proposals and real-world execution.
In 2019, New York State set a whimsical goal of reaching a renewables target of 70% by 2030.
But in a new report that serves as a devastating blow to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s agenda, the state now admits they are on track to massively miss that target — and not by a small margin.
New York will reach just a 44% renewables target by 2030.
Hochul’s administration now wants to push the renewables deadline to 2033. Three additional years won’t get them there either.
But New York realizing (and admitting) they’re not on track to meet their “green” goals has not stopped them from trying to enforce those same goals on private companies.
Earlier this year, New York Attorney General Letitia James [pictured above] filed a lawsuit against a beef producer, JBS USA, for allegedly misrepresenting the environmental impact of their production and misleading consumers by claiming that the company would “achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.”
It’s the height of hypocrisy that the state is now targeting JBS for allegedly misleading consumers for coming up short of that 2040 trajectory while the state is also failing to meet its own unattainable goals.
Instead of admitting that the state is guilty of misleading New Yorkers, New York is now coming up with its own excuses as to why it’s failing to meet its objectives.
They’re blaming a variety of factors like “supply chain disruptions” and “geopolitical developments.” Another attempted excuse from the state is that developers backed out of contracts amid record-high “Bidenflation” and rising costs.
The state expects private companies to meet standards [it] will not achieve. And instead of recognizing the flaws in the Hochul plan and abandoning the unattainable goals and counterproductive net zero targets, they are doubling down by attempting to enforce them on private companies.
They should be embarrassed by their rank hypocrisy.
Further, their failures undermine their credibility to sue others for similar shortcomings, but it also calls into question the practicality of these renewable energy and net zero targets.
If Hochul wants to present a serious energy plan for New Yorkers, it should be based on energy abundance, affordability, choice, innovation, reliability, and common sense — not on unattainable, counterproductive goals pushed by radical environmentalists that don’t work in the real world and ultimately hurt New Yorkers.
All of this only underscores the need for reliable energy and the need to reverse the state’s ban on the safe extraction of natural gas.
Not only would reversing the ban on natural gas extraction help create more jobs in the Southern Tier, but it would also revitalize communities, drive down energy costs, and provide an abundant source of reliable energy for the entire country.
As these renewable deadlines approach, we can expect Hochul’s administration to continue to move the goalposts rather than address the underlying problems.
New York policymakers failed to foresee the economic conditions impacting renewable energy’s viability. Ultimately, New York’s shifting timelines reflect poorly on the state.
The bottom line: New York’s lofty climate goals are little more than political posturing and an embrace of a “rules for thee, but not for me” mindset.
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Wind turbine debris washes up on Nantucket shores closing beaches
Large chunks of a damaged wind turbine from Vineyard Wind continue to wash up on Nantucket's south shore beaches this week after a failure over the weekend.
Vineyard Wind said in a statement that a blade was damaged on a wind turbine on Saturday evening. The company announced a cleanup effort on Tuesday for the southern-facing shores of the island as hundreds of pieces of large and small debris continue to wash up.
On Tuesday, the Nantucket Harbormaster closed all south shore beaches because of the debris.
Multiple photos show fiberglass pieces from Vinyard Wind turbines washing up on the southern shores of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
"All south shore beaches are closed to swimming, due to large floating debris and sharp fiberglass shards. Please go to the North shore to swim, there are lifeguards there ready to help," the Nantucket Harbormaster said.
The town of Nantucket said walking is permitted but "we advise that you use caution, wear appropriate footwear, and leave pets at home."
Video and photos shared with FOX Weather show pieces of green and white fiberglass in large pieces and small chunks washing up with the waves and lining the beaches. Fiberglass is a type of plastic that is not biodegradable.
Vineyard Wind deployed two teams to Nantucket to remove debris. The company said the pieces are "not hazardous to people or the environment" but recommends that the public not touch them.
Beginning Tuesday, patrol teams will be walking Miacomet Beach, Nobadeer Beach, Madequecham Beach, Pebble Beach, Tom Nevers Beach, Low Beach, and Sconset Beach as they pick up debris.
Anyone who finds debris can find contact information to report it to Vineyard Winds here.
It's unclear how long the cleanup efforts will continue.
Vineyard Wind, the country's largest commercial offshore wind farm, began construction in January 2023 and started operating in January.
https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/wind-turbine-debris-nantucket-beaches-closed
***************************************************Virginia’s Risk of Offshore Wind Turbine Blade Failure Is Serious
On July 26, CFACT’s President Craig Rucker sent Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin a letter warning him about the serious risk of blade failure in the giant offshore wind facility being built off Virginia. The warning builds on the recent blade failure off of Nantucket, which has littered the beaches with fiberglass fragments. Virginia is also at risk.
In this article, I present some technical background on that risk. The facility will be one of the world’s biggest, with 176 enormous turbines. It is just getting started with pile driving, so no turbine blades have been installed to date. This is an opportune time to undertake caution.
The Nantucket turbines are made by GE, and they are the world’s largest in operation today at 13 MW, each driven by three huge 107-meter-long blades. That is 351 feet for those of us who do not speak metric. The Virginia turbines will be even bigger at 14 MW with 108 meters (154+ feet) long. They are made by Siemens Gamesa, or SG for short.
The GE turbines and blades have been in production for going on two years, so have some operational experience. The SG turbines and blades just came into production so there is no experience with them. One could say they are being beta tested off Virginia.
This newness in itself is a great concern. At three blades each, there are an incredible 528 blades with a combined length of over 57,000 meters (187,000 feet or 35 miles) of blades. To take first production blades to these huge lengths is surely very risky.
Multiple or even systemic failures are certainly possible. A sound engineering approach would be to build a few and see how they did over time. Note, too, that the prototypes were in Europe, so these blades have never been tested in a hurricane, which offshore Virginia is prone to get.
Now let’s look at the blade stress physics just a bit, as it is amazing. SG has a quick look on their website, saying this:
“The rotational forces found in offshore wind turbines in operation put IMMENSE STRAIN ON THE BLADES and the rest of the wind turbine structure. (Emphasis added) At a tip speed of approximately 90 meters per second – equivalent to 324 kilometers per hour! (201 mph!) – and a projected lifetime of more than 25 years, high-quality and innovative design is imperative. For a 108-meter-long blade, the rotational forces are around a staggering 80 million newton meters, and the strain on the blades and the structure is intense! To put this into perspective, the force pulling on a human shoulder while spinning a 1 kg object around in an outstretched arm is only about 10 newton meters!”
(80 million newton meters is about 59 million pound-feet of torque).
Given these immense, intense strains, the novelty of the SG blades becomes even more of an issue.
To begin with, they are constructed in an unusual way. GE and other major manufacturers build half a lengthwise blade at a time, then glue the two halves together. Building half a tube is relatively simple, just lining a trough-like mold with fiberglass. Gravity is your friend, and inspection is easy.
In contrast, SG builds the entire tubular blade at once. I have no idea how, but it cannot be simple. Gravity wants to distort the tube, and inspection must be difficult. In addition, while SG has built a lot of smaller blades this full tube way, their giant blades are of a different composition. Because of the extreme stresses, they have added carbon fibers.
In summary, we have a newly huge blade, subject to immense stresses, made for the first time in an unusual way with a new composition and never tested in a hurricane. The high novelty risk to Virginia is obvious.
But there is another big risk issue as well, a business issue if you like. SG no longer exists as a corporation. It was absorbed by its majority stockholder to keep it from going under. The reason, as Reuters puts it, is “quality issues and ramp-up problems caused a 4.6 billion euro (5 billion dollar) annual net loss.”
In Virginia, we are looking at the biggest wind turbine ramp-up in history, where high quality is imperative. One has to wonder if SG is capable of this prodigious task at this time, and that wonder signals a big risk. Not only does SG have a deep history of problems, they are undergoing restructuring.
Given these novelty-laden circumstances, it surely is unwise to try to throw up 35 miles of untested blades without further consideration. Hence Craig Rucker’s letter to Governor Youngkin.
https://heartland.org/opinion/virginias-risk-of-offshore-wind-turbine-blade-failure-is-serious/
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