It’s bad enough that central bankers are clueless about inflation.
They now want their hands in another thing they do not understand and cannot control even if they did.
Fed’s Core Mission Change
Lael Brainard, Chair of the Fed’s Committee on Financial Stability, says Climate Change Matters for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability.
So how does climate change fit into the work of the Federal Reserve? To support a strong economy and a stable financial system, the Federal Reserve needs to analyze and adapt to important changes to the economy and financial system. This is no less true for climate change than it was for globalization or the information technology revolution.
To fulfill our core responsibilities, it will be important for the Federal Reserve to study the implications of climate change for the economy and the financial system and to adapt our work accordingly.
Climate Change Essential to Achieving Mission
Brainard was just one of the speakers at the Fed’s Economics of Climate Change summit last November.
Mary Daly, San Francisco Fed president has this Q&A in her presentation.
Q: Why is the San Francisco Fed hosting a climate conference? Why this? Why now?
A: The answer is simple. It’s essential to achieving our mission.
Bank of Japan Warns of Climate Change Risks
Japan Times reports Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda Warns of Climate Change Risks.
The challenges posed by a string of recent natural disasters and the potential hit to the economy from slowing overseas growth “should be better addressed by government with fiscal policy and structural policies,” Kuroda said at a seminar.
As Japan is prone to big typhoons and earthquakes, Kuroda highlighted the risks related to climate change as an example of new issues central banks must deal with in maintaining financial stability.
“Climate-related risk differs from other risks in that its relatively long-term impact means the effects will last longer than other financial risks, and the impact is far less predictable,” he said. “It is therefore necessary to thoroughly investigate and analyze the impact of climate-related risk.”
Bank of England Climate Change Warning
The Bank of England hopped on the climate change bandwagon on December 30, with a Climate Change Warning from BoE Chief Mark Carney.
The world will face irreversible heating unless firms shift their priorities soon, the outgoing head of the Bank of England has told the BBC.
He said leading pension fund analysis “is that if you add up the policies of all of companies out there, they are consistent with warming of 3.7-3.8C”.
Scientists say the risks associated with an increase of 4C include a nine metre rise in sea levels – affecting up to 760 million people – searing heatwaves and droughts, and serious food supply problems.
“Now $120tn worth of balance sheets of banks and asset managers are wanting this disclosure [of investments in fossil fuels]. But it’s not moving fast enough.”
ECB in on the Climate Change Act
The Financial Times reports Christine Lagarde Wants Key Role for Climate Change in ECB Review.
Consider this Open Letter to ECB head Christine Lagarde from the European Parliament.
During your hearing at the European Parliament, you rightly pledged to make sure the ECB puts the “protection of the environment at the core of the understanding of its mission.” As academics, civil society and trade union leaders, entrepreneurs and citizens deeply concerned by climate change, we believe that the most powerful financial institution in Europe cannot just sit passively as we witness a growing environmental crisis.
Climate change not only imperils life-sustaining processes, it also threatens the financial stability, real economy and jobs. It has been estimated that without mitigation efforts, physical risks related to climate change could result in losses of up to $24 trillion of the value of global financial assets.
Wow. $24 Trillion at risk.
Nonetheless, Germany’s Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann, who also sits on the on the ECB’s governing council, understands the silliness of the move.
Weidmann says that he would view “very critically” any attempt to redirect a central bank’s actions towards climate change, such as favouring the purchase of green bonds as part of a quantitative easing programme.
Weidmann is guaranteed to be overruled.
Excellent Video on Climate Nonsense
Global Warming Fraud Exposed In Pictures
Please consider Global Warming Fraud Exposed In Pictures
The key to understanding the fraud is a changing timeline for temperature, fires, Winters, growing seasons, and sea level, all cherry picked for maximum impact.
Central Bank Fearmongering Blue Ribbon Contenders
- European Parliament: $24 Trillion in Damages
- Bank of England: 9 Meter rise in seal level (29.53 feet).
To decide who wins the blue ribbon, first let’s do a simulation.
10 Meter Rise in Seal Level
Mercy!
The above Alarming Map shows what might be left of Florida when the sea level rises by 10 meters.
Caney said 9 meters but the average elevation of Florida is allegedly only 6 feet. The highest elevation is only 312 feet.
Mark Carney Wins Fearmongering Blue Ribbon
I give Mark Carney the Central Bank fearmongering Blue Ribbon because people can understand the concept of Florida being three feet underwater.
In contrast, no one understands $24 trillion. Besides, that estimates will soon be $250 trillion or higher due to Fearmongering Inflation.
Fearmongering Lesson
None of the above tops AOC who says World Will End in 12 Years: Here’s What to Do About It
Here’s a lesson for you climate fearmongers: Never put a time frame on your prediction that is shorter than your expected life or you will be ridiculed until you die.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
I think a reason why it is difficult for those like Realist to accept that climate science is a fraud, is that the fraud is so extreme. Tony Heller makes an outstanding case for this extreme fraud, and that’s the only reason I think of why anyone would reject his slam dunk argument.
I am in the healthcare field, and fraud is rampant. Most medical studies are fraudulent, paid for by the drug companies. Then there are many studies that are just plain bad science. Additionally, many studies are simply from researchers trying to make a name for themselves (“publish or perish”). Good honest studies are few.
Because of the politicization of global warming, climate scientists either go with the program, or find a new job and new friends. Not many will do this, but a few brave souls have and are then free to tell the truth.
Ain’t no cure for stupid
How did the FED deal with the cooling after the warm 1930’s?
The real threat for the FED is the 250 trillion dollar global debt bubble.
The earth’s mean surface temperature is not going to warm anywhere near 4C from human produced CO2.
Yes, very good, thank you. Obviously he can’t go into detail in 4 minutes, but even though apparently it’s quite heroic to have got 250 years of reliable data (exactly what I didn’t catch), 250 is just about 8 data points (using the typical 30 year integer).
Also, even if the correlation of Co2 to globally higher temperatures is a helpful observation, given the complexity of Gaia, how many feedback loops and mechanisms are in the mix? Maybe some other driver manifests in part as increased Co2. In any case, my personal bottom line for this is that unless and until we have a solid handle on what the normal variations are, how can we possibly determine what is abnormal, let alone how to fix it without going back into the stone age?
Bottom line: there is far too much hyperbole and guesswork in the mix.
And those pushing the hyperbole – especially the ‘world is over in 12 years stuff’ are doing far more harm than good, both to their argument, and to the impressionable minds of young people who feel they have no future because of all this brainwashing. I have very little sympathy for people pushing all that societal anxiety was trumpeting that they only deal in ‘facts’ or ‘science’ when in fact their speech is mainly hysterical in tone and impact.
Bah Humbug! I say!
Pisa and Pompeii were once sea ports, now high and dry because of global cooling.
This is the same as the government justifying their over-reach in many things by how it will affect interstate commerce.
Well now this should make Greta attempt to smile. I am so sick of the people that run this circus.
I’m a stupid man but what I fail to get is this. Central banks are about propping up economies. Addressing global warming if taken seriously demands that they stab a dagger into the heart of the economy.
People can talk about green jobs all day long, but the reality of our situation is that any serious attempt to stop global warming must involve cutting back on our economies. Killing the old economy in favour of the new green one. Which at a minimum would not only involve defunding coal mines, oil fields and the like but also cutting back on construction, the airline industry, the automotive industry and so on.
I imagine people are going to argue that central banks will splash out on massive new infrastructure projects (generating new emissions while doing so of course). And that these new green projects will employ the people left unemployed from the stranded assets of the old economy. Of course running the risk of leaving those very same people stranded as they lack the proper skills to join the new green economy.
I just can’t see how letting central banks attempt to pick the winners of the new green economy and the losers of the old one is going to be compatible with maintaining employment and industries because at some point these are going to be mutually exclusive aims.
Either way a die off is coming.
See the videos of Tony Heller.
I would hate to take the risk and live in Florida or some other place at sea level in the tropics where hurricanes happen. There is already evidence seas are rising as some islands have receded in the last 30 years. Whatever it is that is causing this does have economic impact whether you think it is global warming or something else.
What is causing “it” is the same thing that has always caused the climate to constantly change from the beginning of time – mostly sun spots and cosmic rays, which the 93% bogus consensus conveniently ignores.
I guarantee none of the elites that are trying to get this tax and eugenics scheme rammed down our throats are moving from their water-front homes. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/the-absurd-theory-of-rising-sea-levels-is-a-childs-bedtime-story/
MISH
Follow the money…Thanks to this climate bullshit, the money supply / M3
MUST continue to expand…thank god or else the bankers could NOT receive their interest…
First they deny Gods creation promising that every thing came from nothing
and now they want us to pay for the fight against natural selection that will kill,drown and starve the least fittest.
This recent advocacy for climate change is just another cover for their true purpose – bailing out banks.
“See! Look people, we are up to date with the latest fads – just like you!” (or so they perceive).
Reminiscent of a mafia movie which traces a family’s history through the years: The faces, hair styles, cars, mannerisms, etc. all change with the times, but the occupation stays the same – criminal enterprise!
Every Hour’s Idiot Hour at the Dumb House.
What else is new?
People upstream ranting about predictions being wrong. You want predictions that might be right? Here you go!
Blind Mystic Baba Vanga’s 2020 Predictions Are As Bleak As All Her Others
23 DEC 2019
Fancy knowing what’s going to happen to us all next year, doom and gloom and all?
Of course you do, because why wouldn’t you want to dampen your spirits just two days before Christmas? That’s what the festive period is all about, hey?
Enter: Baba Vanga, the blind Bulgarian mystic who has so far correctly predicted 9/11, the rise of ISIS, the Boxing Day tsunami and Brexit – and who, just before her death 23 years ago, had some chilling predictions for 2020.
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https://www.unilad.co.uk/life/blind-mystic-baba-vangas-2020-predictions-are-as-bleak-as-all-her-others/
A war on climate change will soon replace the war on terror. Terror requires us to fund & train terrorists who often screw up and give away the “esoterics” of terror theater whereas climate change merely requires selective data timelines and MSM mouthpieces.
Funny stuff, Mish. It’s the intersection of two hopelessly biased and corrupted fields.
Does she spend time making her hair look like that – or does she just get out of bed in the morning and do nothing with it?
Environmentalists are confusing pollution with climate change…someone please get them a dictionary!
Just picture the carbon credit arrangement as being a global asset forfeiture law. Why? Because that’s what it is.
Climate change that brings down an empire is nothing new, it certainly contributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-change-and-disease-helped-fall-rome-180967591/
That’s a wonderful example of post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Climate and the Affairs of Man by Iben Browning is a classic in this regard.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OVNHUE/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
(they list the author names incorrectly, but anyway)
(In which as an aside he mentioned that any notion that we have the ability to change planetary climate is total hubris on our part and shouldn’t be taken seriously. I think he’s right and HE was a real scientist!)
The Roman Empire was an agrarian society so a little ice age and the associated collapse in agricultural yields could easily weaken it.
This is no longer the case. Also we are told that the threat is global warming caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration. The latter would actually be very beneficial to global agriculture by accelerating plant growth while the former would increase agricultural yields in northern Europe and North America (supposedly the empire we should be concerned about).
Lots of different things happened around the time the Roman empire collapsed. I supposed all of them, each taken by themselves, brought it down….
“It’s bad enough that central bankers are clueless about inflation.
They now want their hands in another thing they do not understand and cannot control even if they did…
… Here’s a lesson for you climate fearmongers: Never put a time frame on your prediction that is shorter than your expected life or you will be ridiculed until you die.”
That’s some real kickass writing!
The climate change thing is really about globalism and pushing for global governance of sorts.
The central banking cartels are always looking for more ways to trump national sovereignty without explicitly saying so.
So this is a natural fit – and for all we know, the latter is funding the former anyway. Right up their alley.
I read a lot about climate twenty years ago and every so often check back in but nothing really has changed, except that the more that is known about climate, the more apparent it is that we have only just begun. (Although Piers Corbyn might argue with that since apparently his forecasts are second to none.)
A couple of points: if you can’t determine, let alone measure, nearly all the variables involved in any subject of scientific inquiry, you are not able to determine if current behavior deviates from the norm or not. That pretty much sums up where we are with climate studies. The matrix of variables in planetary climate is beyond our ken at this point but they do include things like:
solar sunspot and related magnetic cycles;
similar galactic cycles;
(these effect particle density and the amount that penetrates the atmosphere to help seed clouds which are generally cooling because they deflect the suns’ rays, still the largest input we are aware of;
bacterial behaviors – there are zillions around the world currently changing their physical properties so they can rise up on thermals and then change again to become nuclei (like space particles) for forming raindrops (woo woo stuff!);
various gases, of which by far the largest is (drumroll please) water vapour, but also complex interplays with nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and to a far lesser extent CO2, which is a bit player. Without them there would be no life as we know it.
Then you have oceanic currents with their cycles, and vegetation inputs, the infamous termites who output more Co2 than we do apparently, planetary core issues involving both temperature (esp. if there we go through an active volcano period) and magnetic field (which is reducing in strength at an accelerated rate which some believe might precipitate an axis tilt which will destroy all life on earth and end our climate change worries right there – and finally END THE FED to boot, so there’s some upside!).
The bottom line: we don’t have the scientific ability to measure what ‘normal’ is, let alone what anthropogenic inputs may or may not have created deviations in that normal. It is entirely reasonable to suppose we are effecting global climate, but it is entirely unreasonable to believe that we are anywhere near being able to measure it, let alone do anything about it. Vegetation is up 14% in past 2-3 decades and that’s probably because Co2 levels have been rising from historically very very low to historically very low (IF our ways of extrapolating data from past events is accurate which there is NO way of proving one way or another).
So when you read apocalyptic doom and gloom statements of any ilk, although it’s possible they are more or less true, at the very least you can be sure that the people parroting such talking points, even if they have PhD’s and stirling reputations, don’t know one way or another. They have no proof; they are guessing.
Climate science (if you can call it that) is in its infancy.
Tinkering with the climate to ‘fix’ what we have harmed is an exercise in both ignorance and hubris, take your pick.
Mish is bang on with this one.
Exactly, the field has run amok with fantasies that we can accurately measure even the known factors. A paper this month that got a ton of press claimed that the average temperature of the oceans is known to have increased 0.1C from 2018 to 2019. How do we know this? With 4,000 Argo sensors spread around the globe! I’m not sure 4,000 thermometers could give much accuracy for the temps throughout a small lake. What these phd’s do, of course, is interpolate between the sensors to in effect pretend that they have measured the temperature of an unimaginably vast amount of water with 4,000 thermometers.
….While getting 4000 PhDs out of it in the process.
Most of which are handed out to the dilettante offspring of dilettantes whose unearned wealth has come purely by way of Fed engineered wealth transfer from their productive superiors.
OTOH, letting the dunces monkey about with thermometers they couldn’t begin to understand how works, is arguably still superior to letting them have a crack at “improving” something as complimecated as 50 year old air liners….
Makes sense. Climate change is something you can throw tons of money at despite nebulous goals. Discernible results don’t matter because the goalposts can be moved as much as needed. It’s a lot like the MIC.
Note that it doesn’t even matter if climate change is real. The Fed has no intention of “helping” anyone below elite status anyway.
As usual, sympatico.
I like it. Climate control should be added as their third mandate, but with the proviso that there be no future Fed nor FOMC meetings pending their proof of progress by restoring the California Grizzly and Dire Wolf.
For a good understanding of how nefarious the Fed really is read
The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve https://www.amazon.com/dp/0912986212/ref=cm_sw_r_em_apa_i_T7IjEbQN6S8MF
The ‘End of the World’ has been predicted for 2000 years (Bible, Revelations). So far, all those predictions have come to naught.
But this time around, they ‘really mean it’, just like the threats of nuclear war, worldwide pandemics, killer bees, the ‘Big One’ in California and Washington state, etc. And that is a short list.
In the meantime, I was scared of rising sea levels, till I saw the beach I grew up with get bigger than ever in Google Maps. Go to Google Earth, and use the timeline to see Palmar, Ecuador, lose and then gain beach.
The best part, I did the calculations to figure out if there is enough electrical grid capacity to charge all those electric cars, and the answer is a resounding NO.
The end is nigh! The long history of doom-saying… n.b.:the earliest written prediction of imminent apocalypse we have found so far was actually created in 2800 BC – on an Akkadian stone tablet. It has been a highly lucrative business for scaremongers of all stripes ever since, whether they came in the mantle of religion or science.
What’s truly fascinating is that, despite the sheer variety of calamities and catastrophes which have been ending us over the years, the “solution” for how to deal with them, has always, 100% of the time, been exactly the same: To grant ever more arbitrary power and resource control to those preaching the doom.
Even in our little progressive dystopia, where thiiingz are alwaaaayyyyyz diiiiiiferent thiiiiiz tiiiime, that little detail remains, remarkably, always exactly the same.
The Florida on the right looks much better.
Ben Bernanke used to say that the Fed had a mandate for “price stability”. Does it have (a legal) one for climate change?
What can the Fed do to reduce CO2 levels other than cause a recession?
“The above Alarming Map shows what might be left of Florida when the sea level rises by 10 meters.”
Even if CO2 causes atmospheric temperatures to rise, the aggregate heat capacity of oceans, glaciers and ice caps far exceeds that of the atmosphere and will easily absorb the heat.
I suspect that what the climate change people are really afraid of is a global cooling cycle (due to low sunspot activity) without any ‘intervention’ from government policies – which will make people will realize they were FOS.
By claiming they want to fight climate change, central banks will claim ‘credit’ for stopping it – while we shiver through colder winters and higher food prices due to a shorter growing season.
You were close with your recession comment.
If the Federal Reserve were truly worried about climate change … and it was man made (at least if FR thinks man made)… they need to look in the mirror.
Central banks promoting growth by any means (low rates, liquidity and implied market backstop) has led to a glut of EVERYTHING. If households / business / governments forced to live within their means, none of this outsized growth – leading to their worry – would have occurred.
Extra CO2 also makes the corn grow faster…
Doesn’t congress give them the mandates? They can’t do this on their own? What a joke, if they handle climate change issue as well as they do the economy we will be dead in 20 years as AOC predicted.
Well Mish, Brian Deese, head of sustainable investing for Blackrock would appear to disagree with you. But hey, they are only the world’s largest asset manager, what could they possibly know compared to an internet blogger? [lol]
Why climate change means new risks for U.S. financial markets
Jan 17, 2020
Please explain – PRECISELY – what the Federal Reserve economists are supposed to do?
Read/listen to the article I posted. There are some points made about how investments could need to be changed, depending on how global warming presents itself going forward.
I want YOUR thoughts.
Do you have any of your OWN?
Are yo really Greta Thunberg using her daddy” account to post?
Are you saying an asset manager has superior knowledge? Seriously.
And are you also suggesting that Brian isn’t talking his own book?
When you receive millions in Fed provided, pure welfare; for picking random numbers out of a hat while serving as a convenient simpleton useful idiot to make dumb people believe that the “system” and institutions which keeps you in unearned splendor have some sort of merit; adding another layer of random to the equally random makework you are already engaged in, no doubt does seem like a, like, really, like important, like thing. Doubly so, if you’re not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed to begin with.
Why stop at climate change?
Surely, if Powell dumped enough liquidity on cancer, he could eradicate.
We could easily do it ourselves, IF we cut the yearly defense funding back by 2/3’ds and dedicated that money to medical research! But noooooooooooo. People in Washington like things that go BOOM!
Vote Sanders to finally bring the troops back home.
I wonder what the “carbon footprint” of the US military is?
If the Fed REALLY wanted to ‘combat climate change’, they would HALT the money-printing, which would cause the Congress to cut military spending by 50% immediately.
Of course, they (The Fed) will do the exact opposite.
The Central banks will be “adjusting” their money printing (ramping it up) to monetize the upayable debts of their respective bankrupt governments. Combating “climate change” is a convenient, if hare-brained, fig leaf. The Fiat End Game is rapidly approaching.
They wouldn’t need to cut down so many trees if they didn’t print so much money. 🙂