The humpback death rate roughly tripled starting in 2016 and continued high thereafter.
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January 23, 2023 at 04:09AM
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But who is going to save us from them? Jo Nova has captured a few highlights from the gathering of this bizarre cult. Here is the link:
You can only imagine what the pressure must be like to have such enormous responsibility on their shoulders.
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January 23, 2023 at 03:03AM
“The major international energy issue should not be climate change. It should be, per Guillermo M. Yeatts, country-by-country privatization of subsurface mineral rights to benefit the mass of surface owners and would-be entrepreneurs.”
He was a true friend of private property, free markets, the rule of law, and goodwill for all. He was a successful entrepreneur in the U.S. and Latin America. He was a thinker and doer, building up an intellectual case for public policy reform and acting on it. And for a lot of us, he was a shining star. In my case, he introduced my work to Latin America.
Guillermo M. Yeatts (1937–2018) died just short of his 81st birthday. Born in Buenos Aires, he studied in America and successively rose in business in the US and in Argentina (see Appendix A). As he advanced, he embraced classical liberal think tanks at home and abroad, including the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), the Institute for Energy Research (IER), the Atlas Society, and Fundación Atlas 1853.
Meeting Yeatts
In 1996, I received a phone call from an enthusiastic gentleman planning to publish an English edition of his primer, El Robo Del Subsuelo. Billy Yeatts, as he preferred to be called, had read the mineral-rights section (Chapter 2) of my Oil, Gas, and Government: The US Experience (Cato: 1996) and invited me to write the foreword for what became Subsurface Wealth: The Struggle for Privatization in Argentina (FEE: 1997).
I wrote in part:
[There is] a general economic maxim: public resources are really private, owned and exploited by a political elite, while private resources are really public, owned and managed by a multitude. Government-owned resources do not “belong to all of the people” and allow “self determination;” they belong to none or a very few.
Yeatts then invited me to come to Buenos Aires for a conference on this subject. My presentation in April 1997, “Private Subsoil Rights for Public Good: The U.S. Oil and Gas Experience,” was published in Propiedad del Subsuelo y Privatizacion en America Latina (FEEL: 1997).
Six months later, I again visited Buenos Aires to give a talk to the Center for International Studies, University of Belgrano, “Seminar on U.S. Oil and Gas Property Rights.” All this was part of his effort to educate and spur property reform at the local level. He came close in one political jurisdiction, I am told, but his vision remains for the future.
I became fast friends with the debonair Billy Yeatts. I was flattered by the rare opportunity to lecture abroad and visit his private estate (replete with a polo field!). Yeatts gave me a new business card, Director, Fundacion de Estudios Energeticos Latinamericanos, and he joined the board of directors of my small nonprofit at the time, IER.
Yeatts and I stayed in touch, but he was always scrambling as a legitimate entrepreneur to win profits in a statist, lackluster economy.
Last Communications
In August 2018, Billy called me about the possibility of working again on subsoil privatization scholarship for his side of the world. He was arranging a debate that Fall and wanted to commission a paper from me as well.
He then wrote an email a week or two later to report that a worsening situation in Argentina put the project on hold. (His last communication to me is in Appendix B.)
Until the very end, he was thinking-and-doing for his cherished goal of expanding private property rights from the surface to the subsurface to democratize wealth and create market incentives to produce greater mineral wealth.
For the Future
The major international energy issue should not be climate change. It should be, per Guillermo M. Yeatts, privatization of subsurface mineral rights to benefit the mass of surface owners and would-be entrepreneurs in Mexico, Venezuela, the Argentine Republic, and many other nations ’round the world.
When that time comes, may Yeatts be remembered as the father of a great idea. May a statue in Buenos Aires be erected in his honor. Ideas have consequences, and his time will surely come.
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Appendix A: Guillermo M. Yeatts
Education:
- New York University, BS, MS in Economics
- Harvard Graduate Business School Program
- Honorary doctorate of philosophy, Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Business positions:
- Accountant, Citibank (National Association), New York City, 1960-1966
- Supervisor, cash management, Ford Motor Argentina S.A., Buenos Aires, 1966-1967
- Manager, banking & credit department; Manager, special projects, Ford Motor Argentina S.A., 1967-1968;
- General manager and director, Ford Financiera S. A., Buenos Aires, 1969
- Senior finance analyst for Latin American operations, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, 1969-1970
- International finance manager, Atlantic Richfield Company. New York City, 1971-1972
- Director, finance; President and general manager, Massey-Ferguson Argentina S.A., Buenos Aires, 1972-1978
- President, Austrofueguina Oil Holding, Buenos Aires, 1979–
- President Cadesa, Buenos Aires, 1980-1990
- Vice president Sol Petroleo SA, Buenos Aires. President Phoebus Energy Ltd., Bermuda.
His energy career centered around SOL Petroleo S.A. (refining and marketing); Diamond Shamrock Boliviana S.A. (Bolivia; exploration and production of crude oil and gas); Cadesa S.A. (Tierra del Fuego; petroleum drilling); and Joss S.A. (Buenos Aires; petroleum transportation).
An interview with Yeatts on his business career can be found here. A tribute to Yeatts in Spanish can be found here.
Appendix B: Last Communication (8-3-2018)
Dear Robert
I am sorry I did not get back to you yesterday morning but a huge scandal of the Peronista corruption machinery (10 high officials arrested) hit the press which will have strong influence over what is discussed in future conferences.
Today we are faced with a severe economic and financial crisis which the present government hesitates to cut expenditures because Peronistas control 60% votes (they are divided in 3 main blocks). The cut in expenditures are subsidies mainly to working class and unions. The IMF has granted Argentina $50,000 million in loans to clean up the corruption inherited from the Peronista administration during the 12 years of administration but many in the present administration are reluctant to take this step.
I will keep you in touch with the outcome.
Best regards
Billy
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January 23, 2023 at 01:09AM
Essay by Eric Worrall
Will Aussie PM Anthony Albanese listen to Bill Gates position that nuclear power is required to hit net zero?
Anthony Albanese hosts Bill Gates at Kirribilli House for discussions on climate change and global health issues
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is hosting Microsoft founder Bill Gates for discussions on climate change, global health issues and new and clean energy opportunities.
Jack Mahony Digital Reporter
January 21, 2023 – 1:35PMPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has hosted Bill Gates and representatives from his company Breakthough Energy and members from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
It is the first time the pair have met and they are expected to discuss responses to energy shortages, medical issues and climate change.
Mr Albanese thanked the Microsoft founder for his contribution to global health research and explained his government’s approach to climate change.
“We haven’t met before but I’ve admired your work and your contribution not just financially but in raising debates including the need to deal with health issues,” he said on Saturday.
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“And of course climate change, my government was elected on a platform of taking climate change seriously, we’ve introduced the first legislated caps of 43 per cent by 2030 and net zero by 2050.”
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Bill Gates on Nuclear Power;
Bill Gates: Stop shutting down nuclear reactors and build new nuclear power plants to fight climate change
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According to Gates, “if we’re serious about solving climate change, and quite frankly we have to be, the first thing we should do is keep safe reactors operating.”
But “even then, just maintaining that status quo is not enough. We need more nuclear power to zero out emissions in America and to prevent a climate disaster,” Gates said Wednesday.
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Nuclear power is all but banned in Australia. Australia operates a medical isotope reactor in Sydney, but has no nuclear power stations, despite having a third of the world’s known reserves of Uranium. In theory you could apply for a permit, but in the current political environment it won’t be approved.
Some politicians have put their head above the parapet, only to be shouted down by colleagues. For example, Anthony Albanese recently criticised his party colleague, the Premier of South Australia Peter Malinauskas, when the SA Premier appeared to open the door to considering nuclear – though the SA Premier later claimed his words were misinterpreted.
South Australia’s premier, Peter Malinauskas, is in ‘furious agreement’ with PM that nuclear power would not work for Australia
7.30 / By James Elton
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South Australia’s premier has comprehensively rejected the future use of nuclear power generators in Australia, saying the “completely uneconomic” technology had already been thoroughly investigated and dismissed.
Key points:
- Peter Malinauskas says he did not “seek to suggest that nuclear power should be part of the mix in our nation”
- He says nuclear power is not a viable option because it would make energy more expensive
- Mr Malinauskas says price caps on gas and coal are “worthy of consideration”
In an interview with ABC’s 7.30, Peter Malinauskas recast comments he made earlier in the week in a News Corp interview, that were widely interpreted as pro-nuclear energy and were labelled a mistake by the Prime Minister.
“I didn’t seek to suggest that nuclear power should be part of the mix in our nation,” the South Australian premier told ABC’s 7.30 host, Sarah Ferguson.
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Will a visit from nuclear power enthusiast Bill Gates soften Albanese’s hardline opposition to nuclear?
Personally I doubt a visit from Bill Gates will lead to any changes to policy direction.
In my opinion Prime Minister Albanese and his team have repeatedly demonstrated their utter ignorance and their sketchy grasp of numbers. In my opinion their bone headed net zero plans and profound policy blunders, along with their eye raising statements about renewable energy, are evidence of their ignorance and incompetence.
The Albanese government is not going to change course, just because Bill Gates supports nuclear, because Prime Minister Albanese and his team believe they already know what is best for Australia.
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January 23, 2023 at 12:38AM
