By Paul Homewood

Remember when Kamala Harris was extolling electric school buses?

Fortunately nobody was injured when this one caught fire, but sooner or later there will be a tragedy:

A school bus was destroyed by a fire in Ontario Monday morning, police say.

Ontario Provincial Police said officers responded at 8:32 a.m. to the scene on Earls Road in Huntsville.

Police said all students were evacuated from the bus and taken to their schools by other buses.

No injuries were reported among any of the students or the driver.

https://www.insauga.com/students-safe-after-school-bus-destroyed-by-fire-in-ontario/

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It was reported that children has smelled burning on the bus, which led the driver to evacuate.

Every report seems to absolve the battery – “the fire’s cause remains unknown, but the bus’ battery is not believed to be involved.” is a statement widely reported.

This is of course nonsense. There has been no time to find out what the cause was, as they admit, so how do they know the battery was not at fault.

Either way, such claims are meaningless and dangerous. The cause of ignition is irrelevant – once the bus on fire, it is the battery which turns it into a death trap.

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January 16, 2025 at 03:28AM

The headline says it all. Time for persistent AMOC worriers like the BBC to pack up their coulds, mights and maybes and move on to other speculations. AMOC has many variables and alarmist guessing games are a waste of time.
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Earth, being 71% covered in water, is influenced by the ocean and its movements, says Phys.org.

In the Atlantic Ocean, a system of connected currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), moves water throughout the world’s oceans powered by a combination of winds and ocean density.

It not only distributes the ocean’s heat, moisture, and nutrients, but regulates the Earth’s climate and weather.

As the climate is continuously changing and the atmosphere is warming, many scientists fear that fresh water from melting polar ice sheets could significantly disrupt—or collapse—the AMOC. While a decline of the AMOC would have grave consequences, a collapse would be truly catastrophic.

However, studies about the AMOC’s long term future are uncertain. Instead of predicting the future, a team of scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) quantified the past to help inform where we could be going.

In a new paper published in Nature Communications, scientists found that the AMOC has not declined in the last 60 years.

Authors Nicholas P. Foukal, adjunct scientist in Physical Oceanography at WHOI and assistant professor at the University of Georgia; Jens Terhaar, affiliated scientist at WHOI and senior scientist at the University of Bern; and Linus Vogt, visiting student at WHOI when he started to work on this study and now scientist at LOCEAN, Sorbonne Université, say their results mean that the AMOC is currently more stable than expected.

“Our paper says that the Atlantic overturning has not declined yet,” said Foukal, who conducted the research while at WHOI. “That doesn’t say anything about its future, but it doesn’t appear the anticipated changes have occurred yet.”

Their findings contrast with previous work, notably a paper from 2018 cited in their study, which reported that the AMOC has declined over the last 70 years.

This past work relied on sea surface temperature measurements to understand how the AMOC has changed, but “we’ve learned that sea surface temperature doesn’t work as well as initially thought,” said Terhaar, who began leading this study at WHOI as a postdoctoral scientist and completed the work in Bern.
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The paper states that air-sea heat flux anomalies in the North Atlantic are tightly linked to the AMOC and that “the decadal averaged AMOC has not weakened from 1963 to 2017.”

Since there are many processes that lead to large year-to-year variability in the AMOC, the air-sea heat flux and the AMOC are correlated strongest at those timescales, as opposed to annual averages.

Full article here.
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January 16, 2025 at 02:49AM

Bloomberg) — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he would seek to have a policy of having no wind farms constructed during his second term, threatening billions of dollars in planned wind projects.

“We are going to have a policy where no windmills are being built,” Trump said during a lengthy tirade against wind power during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Trump, who has vowed a first day executive order targeting wind farms, has long made no secret his disdain for the energy source. But his remarks Tuesday represented the sharpest threat yet from the incoming president.

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January 16, 2025 at 01:55AM

“So the U.S. is about one percent, with six years to go, toward meeting the Biden/Harris goal for offshore wind of 30 GW. Just another rank exaggeration, another energy fantasy, in the undoing.”

It should simply be worded “The Offshore Wind Rescue Act.” Instead, the Reinvesting in Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems Act (S. 373: 118th Congress) reads:

To modify the disposition of certain outer Continental Shelf revenues and to open Federal financial sharing to heighten opportunities for renewable energy, and for other purposes.

A BILL
To modify the disposition of certain outer Continental Shelf revenues and to open Federal financial sharing to heighten opportunities for renewable energy, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reinvesting In Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems Act of 2023’’ or the
‘‘RISEE Act of 2023’’.

The bill is summarized as follows:

This bill increases revenue streams provided to states from offshore wind projects, offshore oil and gas leases, and onshore energy and mineral resources. States must use the revenue for specified purposes, such as coastal restoration, conservation, or infrastructure.

Specifically, the bill requires revenues generated from offshore wind projects carried out under a lease entered into on or after January 1, 2022, to be deposited into accounts for the U.S. Treasury, the National Oceans and Coastal Security Fund, and adjacent coastal states. Currently, this revenue is deposited in the U.S. Treasury. The Department of the Interior must disburse the revenue to a state in an amount that is based on a formula that is inversely proportional to a state’s distance from the offshore wind site.

In addition, the bill removes the cap on the amount of revenue generated from offshore oil and gas leases that may be shared with states under the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006.

It also eliminates a fee under the Mineral Leasing Act that Interior currently collects to administer the onshore revenue sharing program.

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The gray train is over. This languishing bill, supported by the political side of the Climate Industrial Complex, first introduced on February 9, 2023, will die in the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The terrible economics of offshore wind, and the growing pressure on electricity rates from prior wind and solar duplication, will not be reversed anytime soon.

So what has become of the Biden-Harris Administration goal of constructing 30,000 MW (30 GW) of offshore wind by 2030? The current operating projects are:

• Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind: 12 MW (2 turbines), offshore Virginia

• South Fork Wind Farm: 132 MW (12 turbines) , offshore Long Island

• Block Island Wind Farm: 30 MW (5 turbines), offshore Rhode Island

• Vineyard Wind 1: 130 MW (24 turbines), offshore Massachusetts (in construction with a planned 62 turbine, 806 MW project

The U.S. is about one percent there (with six years to go) to meet the Biden/Harris goal for offshore wind of 30 GW. Just another rank exaggeration, another energy fantasy, in the undoing.

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January 16, 2025 at 01:11AM