From CLIMATE DEPOT

Marc Morano

Via the Committee to Unleash Prosperity: Kamala Explains Fracking Flip Flop

There is NO “progress on climate.” Today we get more than 80% of our energy from fossil fuels – which is about exactly where we were five years ago – despite the hundreds of billions spent. …

In 2023 the world burned more fossil fuels than at any other time in history. Here are the facts:

Global energy-related CO2 emissions increased by 1.7%, driven by China and India.

Fossil fuel consumption in 2023 reached a record high, rising by 1.5% to 505 exajoules.

China is by far the world’s largest consumer of primary energy, burning 34% of world consumption 170.7.

Almost no country is meeting their UN anti-fossil fuel targets.

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Via the Committee to Unleash Prosperity: Kamala Explains Fracking Flip Flop

It’s entertaining to watch liberal operatives explain why Kamala is suddenly retreating from her radical positions on everything from the border wall, to the Green New Deal, to reparations, to fracking, to taxing unrealized capital gains, to Medicare for all, et al.

She says even though her positions shift with the political winds, “my values haven’t changed.”

But her campaign’s explanation below for why she is now FOR fracking is a non sequitur.

As we’ve noted many times on these pages, there is NO “progress on climate.” Today we get more than 80% of our energy from fossil fuels – which is about exactly where we were five years ago – despite the hundreds of billions spent.

As for Kamala’s statement that other nations are reaching their climate targets, that’s a myth too. Actually, in 2023 the world burned more fossil fuels than at any other time in history. Here are the facts:

• • Global energy-related CO2 emissions increased by 1.7%, driven by China and India.
  • Fossil fuel consumption in 2023 reached a record high, rising by 1.5% to 505 exajoules.
  • China is by far the world’s largest consumer of primary energy, burning 34% of world consumption 170.7.
  • Almost no country is meeting their UN anti-fossil fuel targets.

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Solar & Wind made up just 13.9% of the world’s electricity in 2023 – Despite trillions in subsidies, mandates, UN climate summits, net zero & restrictions on fossil fuels

Despite the mandates, subsidies & regs — solar & wind generate only 14% of U.S. electricity in 2022

Study in journal Science: Only 63 of 1,500 Global Climate Policies of Past 25 Years Worked to Reduce CO2 Emissions – A success rate of 4.2% – Study author: ‘We find that it’s very rare that [subsidies and regulations] really work in reducing emissions.’

Devastating testimony against solar, wind & EVs: ‘Colossal amount of energy & resources’ necessary to run ‘so-called green’ solutions

July 18, 2024

“These so-called green or ethical solutions aren’t solutions at all. Just very good marketing from the $1.5 trillion a year climate change industry.” A whole heap of inconvenient truths on the corporatist transfer of wealth of net zero. pic.twitter.com/Jr6fy2AY3X — James Melville (@JamesMelville) July 16, 2024 Rachel Mathews:

USA produces mostly fossil fuel energy, 84% – Solar & wind make up just 2.2% of all energy – Over the past decade, solar & wind increased total energy production by 2.1% compared to fossil fuels increase at 27.9% – July 15, 2024

Bjorn Lomborg: ” The US produces mostly fossil fuel energy (84%). Solar and wind make up just 2.2% of all energy (not just electricity). Over the past decade, solar and wind increased total energy production by 2.1%. Fossil fuels increased energy production by 27.9%.

The US is mostly run on fossil fuels, also in 2023. 82% of all energy (not just electricity) consumed comes from coal, oil and gas. Nuclear is 9%, renewables (mostly biomass) is 9%. Solar and wind contributes 2.5%.

The US, has since 2019, produced more energy than it consumes. And it has never been more energy-independent since WWII. Last time of small energy surpluses was 1957.”

Watch: ‘Juice’ debunks claims that solar & wind power as ‘green’: To make one wind turbine, ‘we have to extract 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete, & 45 tons of non-renewable plastic’

March 5, 2024

Juice: Why Wind and Solar Make Our Power Grid Less Reliable: Excerpt: “Just to produce one turbine, we have to extract 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete, and 45 tons of non-renewable plastic. Then we’ve got to transport that and burn fuel, getting it all carried across the world and put up. And none of these things that go into a turbine are renewable.”

Energy analyst Mark P. Mills exposes folly of EVs being ‘Net-Zero’: ‘You have to dig up about 500,000 pounds of materials to make a single 1000-pound battery’

Mandating EVs in U.S. would require ’18 times current global production of cobalt…three quarters of lithium & half the world’s copper & rare earths. China dominates all these markets’

Wind Turbine Collapses: ‘Leaking Oil Everywhere!’ – ‘Wait, these ‘green’ wind turbines use oil???’ – Yes, avg of 12,000 gallons of oil for typical wind farm

‘Coal is now world’s top energy source’ – Coal, no longer shunned, keeps Europe’s lights on

Black Rock’s Larry Fink Admits Green Energy IS A FRAUD! – At the WEF, Larry Fink ironically destroys net-zero when it comes to the power needed for AI: “By 2030 [data centers] need 30 gigawatts.. Where’s that power gonna come from? To power these data companies you can’t have intermittent power like wind & solar”

Wash Post admits reality: ‘Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power’ – U.S. ‘power grid’ being pushed ‘to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up’ – ‘It is staggering’ – But WaPo frets energy shortage ‘threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy’

AI = Energy Detransition: Energy analyst Mark P. Mills Testifies to Congress on how massive electricity demand for AI means ‘policymakers can no longer entertain the idea of an ‘energy transition’

WaPo: Top six states with ‘clean energy’ are powered primarily by nuclear or hydropower — Not solar or wind. – USA’s huge drop in CO2 emissions due to natural gas replacing coal

Report says the quiet part out loud: ‘Heavy industry’ (iron, steel, cement) will have to ‘adapt’ to intermittent solar/wind energy – ‘Will need to accommodate effects of weather conditions…time of day on wind & solar power generation’

You Will Build Nothing & Be Happy: UN report urges ‘massive emission cuts in construction sector’ by using ‘gov’t regs & enforcement’ to achieve ‘Net Zero’ – Replace ‘concrete & steel’ with ‘stone, timber, & bamboo’

Flashback 2011: ‘Era of Constant Electricity at Home is Ending, says UK power chief’ — ‘Families would have to get used to only using power when it was available’

Bloomberg News: ‘South Africa Beats Climate Goal as Blackouts Slash Emissions’ – ‘Unintentional…power plant breakdowns are reducing industrial activity’

LA Times says quiet part out loud: ‘Would an occasional blackout help solve climate change?’ – ‘We might not have a choice’

Energy crisis solved!? ‘Poor families (w/ smart meters) will be paid not to use electricity at certain times’ to reduce risk of blackouts

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