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I have not continued my vacation indefinitely. In fact, I relaxed so much that I came back with an idea for an article that has turned into a monster examination of the WEF and its connections to U.S.-sponsored agencies. I have an interest in a couple of books that spurred an idea about how and why the WEF was formed and whether it has to do with the predicted doom of globalization. What I’m finding is that the WEF is far from an Eurocentric creation and has more to do with past and present U.S. policies.
So, yes, I’ve fallen into the proverbial rabbit hole. As I try to climb back out, here are some Green Shenanigans of the past several weeks…
What Could Go Wrong?
Climate scientists have long argued that any “warming” is due to human contrivances and not the sun, so, it’s surprising that some scientist didn't get the message. Here are some great ideas!
An Umbrella For Earth: Scientist Proposes Deploying Solar Shield Tied to An Asteroid to Combat Climate Change!
István Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy, decided that we could launch a giant shield from earth, anchor it to a captured astroid and voila!, an earth umbrella! Why didn’t I think of that? Moron.
EU Backs Bill Gates’ Plan to ‘Fight Global Warming’ by Blocking the Sun
The dynamic duo of altruistic narcissism—Bill Gates and George Soros—have decided that pumping manmade clouds into the atmosphere would block the sun, thus mitigating warming. This geo-engineering Mensa-worthy idea involves injecting aerosol concentrations into the stratosphere to reflect the sun’s rays back into space.
The idea, promoted by Gates and leftist billionaire George Soros, involves pumping manmade white clouds into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from the planet’s surface.
The radical scheme would lower the planet’s temperature and allegedly “combat global warming.”
Soros claims the technology will help to prevent ice sheets from melting.
Ice sheets melting in Greenland in particular, he claimed, could doom human civilization.
“Our civilization is in danger of collapsing because of the inexorable advance of climate change,” Soros said.
“The melting of the Greenland ice sheet would increase the level of the oceans by seven meters.
“That poses a threat to the survival of our civilization,” he alleged.
The method pushed by Bill Gates involves increasing aerosol concentrations in the stratosphere to reflect solar radiation away from the Earth.
Gates has been funding a major project at Harvard using balloons to deploy aerosols.
Let’s tinker around with the atmosphere; absolutely no risks there. I thought that aerosols were responsible for the ozone hole, which was a scam alarmist scaremongering cause célèbre before Climate Change! became their new, reimagined (I hate that word) earth-ending scenario.
Warming Event: True Greenhouse Gas Unleashed
While the scaremongering scientists and politicians scream about carbon dioxide as being an existential threat to mankind, the most significant greenhouse gas is water vapor and an unprecedented amount was blasted by Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai into the stratosphere January of 2022.
The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature.
“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. He led a new study examining the amount of water vapor that the Tonga volcano injected into the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere between about 8 and 33 miles (12 and 53 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.
In the study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, Millán and his colleagues estimate that the Tonga eruption sent around 146 teragrams (1 teragram equals a trillion grams) of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer. That’s nearly four times the amount of water vapor that scientists estimate the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines lofted into the stratosphere.
Water vapor traps heat. With the unusually strong El Niño this summer, the insane jet stream trapping heat in various portions of the world, and the 2022 volcanic eruption, a perfect storm of Climate Change! is happening. And none of it was created by mankind.
Houston Recognizes They Have a Problem, the UHI
UHI, or the urban heat-island effect, creates strong micro-climes in concreted cities. Houston, a sprawling city (60 miles north to south, 55 miles east to west) where I call home, has heat influences above six degrees. With our temperatures checking in at 100+ for the past month and a half, it feels like we’re in the 106-110 range regularly. It’s kind of hot.
In the article, ABC13 News acknowledges what The Heartland Institute has long pointed out, the urban heat island effect impacts measured temperatures and people’s lives. They cite an example, saying:
Say the forecast high temperature is 90 degrees. Factor in the additional warmth from the urban heat island, and it could feel like 95 degrees in Rosenberg, 97 in Humble, 98 downtown, or even 99 in Baytown.
The story also notes that the UHI is greater with a broad reach than previously acknowledged, even effecting less densely populated areas.
This finding parallels what was revealed in the 2022 Heartland Institute report Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Surface Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed which found approximately 96 percent of U.S. 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 the agency’s own published standards. The UHI effect, which grows along with the size of cities, creates artificial warming at many long-term temperature stations.
EV Nirvana
Exploding E-Bikes: Lithium Battery Fires Spread in New York, California
This isn’t something to laugh at because of the deaths, injuries, and destruction of property but… Seriously, this is the plan for salvation?
Lithium-ion batteries have sparked hundreds of fires across New York and San Francisco this year, injuring dozens and resulting in the death of a few individuals, triggering worries about public safety.
In New York, the number of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries has "grown exponentially every year since 2021,” Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said on July 21 during a public safety briefing. “We are now, unfortunately, seeing more and more of these kinds of extremely fast-moving, very powerful fires with some regularity in the city. As of this week, there have been 131 fires, 76 injuries, and 13 deaths caused by these lithium-ion batteries.”
This is a significant jump from 2021, when there were 79 injuries and four deaths from such fires. In 2022, there were 142 injuries and six deaths. The 2023 death toll has already exceeded those of the past two years combined.
And yet more…
500 EVs Among The 3000 Cars On Burning Ship Off Dutch Coast
Reuters pointed out that the Dutch coastguard said the fire's origin is unknown, but Dutch broadcaster RTL said emergency responders were heard saying, "The fire started in the battery of an electric car."
As much appeal as it has for some, EVs are not the wave of the future.
EV Suffers Minor Fender Bender, Owner Stunned as Repair Bill Skyrockets to $42,000 When Mechanics Start Work
Because of the complexity of EVs, even a minor collision impact moves deep into the car so that it has to be disassembled to check all of the multitude of systems. In the meantime, Ford will lose as much as $4.5 billion this year based solely on their EV production.
The costs associated with wide adoption of electric vehicles including the carbon impact of manufacturing, the ecological disaster of disposing spent batteries, the potentially fatal operational impacts, the absolute destruction of electric grids, and finally the enslavement of Third World countries to mine the needed rare earth minerals, EVs represent a crime against humanity—more so than Climate Change! This plan for replacing all gasoline cars with EVs is not just insane, it will bankrupt the western world—which I suppose is the intent.
And just as I was about to put this piece to bed, two more Cosmic Brownie Bites for your consideration…
Biden administration to invest $1.2 billion in projects to suck carbon out of the air
The Biden administration on Friday announced its first major investment to kickstart the US carbon removal industry – something energy experts say is key to getting the country’s planet-warming emissions under control.
Direct air capture removal projects are akin to huge vacuum cleaners sucking carbon dioxide out of the air, using chemicals to remove the greenhouse gas. Once removed, CO2 gets stored underground, or is used in industrial materials like cement. On Friday, the US Department of Energy announced it is spending $1.2 billion to fund two new demonstration projects in Texas and Louisiana – the South Texas Direct Air Capture hub and Project Cypress in Louisiana.
“These two projects are going to build these regional direct air capture hubs,” US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told reporters. “That means they’re going to link everything from capture to processing to deep underground storage, all in one seamless process.”
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this one. They like to throw billions, with a “B”, around like it’s no big deal. I remember sitting in an eighth-grade civics class when, while in discussion, a friend said something about his father going off about the federal government’s spending. What offended him? The budget called for spending a billion a day. A $365 billion dollar budget. In 2023 dollars? $1,960,935,237,258.35
As of 8/13/23 our spending since October, 2022 is: $5,302,102,522,743 with a “T”.
The only thing they’re sucking is the money from our pockets.
Jennifer Granholm-linked EV Company Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Speaking of Jennifer Granholm, our illustrious secretary of energy…
This woman is an evil flimflam man (I think it’s okay for women to be men, right? That’s what they tell us.)
Granholm held a major stock position in Proterra, an EV bus, truck, and battery systems manufacturer. She cashed in her shares in mid-2021 for a $1.6 million dollar profit. She was supposed to have completely divested before she took office but, of course, she didn’t. She only sold after Missouri Senator Josh Hawley inquired about her holdings. No one held her accountable.
Biden is trying to outdo his buddy Obama which is a hard trick to follow. Here are Obama’s sweetheart deals to the burgeoning “green industry” scam:
Solyndra – $570 million taxpayer dollars wasted
Abound Solar – $401 million taxpayer dollars wasted
Calisolar – $280 million taxpayer dollars wasted
Fisker Automotive – $193 million taxpayer dollars wasted
A123 Systems – $132 million taxpayer dollars wasted
ABB, Inc. – $12.6 million taxpayer dollars wasted
Talking about going down the rabbit hole…
What a farce.