Climate Change Cheating and Hypocrisy
Eurointelligence comments on the EU’s Exaggerated Climate Change Sp[ending.
We note that the European Court of Auditors is becoming increasingly nervous about the European Commission’s overblown claims about its programmes.
The auditors specifically looked at agricultural policies and structural funds, and concluded that the proportion of funds earmarked for climate change is almost comically exaggerated. The worst offender is agriculture. The plan had been to reserve half of the €100bn spent on agriculture for climate protection. The Commission counts subsistence payments to farmers as climate spending, so long as the farmers fulfil some nominal climate standards which almost every farmer does.
On spending programmes, the EU uses an old-fashioned rounding trick. The OECD has recommended a simplified category whereby governments count the climate-protection share of their expenditures in steps of 0, 40% or 100%. What the Commission does is to round expenditures up to the next level.
Over the years, we have noted an increasing tendency by the Commission to make dishonest claims about its programmes. This is also why we have become very sceptical about any headlines coming out of Brussels. The headline numbers usually conflate different categories of money, and do not translate into reality.
US Gasoline Reduction Effort Underway
If people don’t work, they don’t drive to work.
On that basis, we should should count every penny of pandemic assistance as part of our global warming effort because pandemic assistance enables people to not work.
That’s $3 trillion and counting. What did the EU spend?
Also note that Work-From-Home Will Reduce Driving by 270 Billion Miles Per Year.
270 billion miles divided by 15 miles per gallon = 18 billion in gasoline reduction. If we round that to the nearest 30 billion then we save 30 billion of gas every year.
Want a bigger reduction?
We can save 27 billion gallons annually by lowering the MPG estimate to 10 miles per gallon.
Rounded to the nearest 50 billion gallons, 27 billion morphs into a reduction of 50 billion gallons of gas per year.
Trump vs the EU
By the EU’s methodology, Trump clobbers the EU by orders of magnitude when it comes to money spent to defeat global warming.
Mish
Global Warming is a complete waste of Time . . . We will never beat Mother Nature . . . Now Global Pollution that is a Real Problem which we can do something about and to start with the first thing is to get rid of all the Politicians !
This is what happens when you have people who don’t understand science trying to solve a scientific problem. I doubt more than few even know what branch of science global warming falls under.
Astronomy?
I’m about half way through Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, by Michael Shellenberger. For me it’s more of a review, especially when it comes to electricity and renewable energy but new to me is all the incest going on within the oil industry and California politicians (or at least their families). But of corse it’s not just Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom, Al Gore Sr worked for Occidental Petroleum, and of course the oil-dollar trade lets the federal government export inflation. And California is the heart of the no-nukes crowd, Hollywood specifically scaring everyone over 50 with fear of nuclear waste zombies and other horrors. But The China Syndrome was pure fiction, no one died when TMI 2 melted down, and it’s looking more and more like the reaction to the Fukushima disaster will have greater harmful impact to people than the meltdown.
Exactly.
I don’t recall if it was Shellenberger or somebody else, but they comprehensively laid out why nuclear is the best option by showing how much land mass you would need to dedicate to electricity generation in the absence of fossil fuels. Nuclear power is the only valid option unless you are lucky enough to live somewhere with daily wind and constant sunshine.
More people killed by renewables every year than have ever been killed by civil nuclear power.
Every major energy research should be concentrating on development of fusion power. That is the only viable nuclear option that would be acceptable in today’s political world.
Alternately, we could concentrate on digging a deep hole down into depths of the planet where we could dump the waste radioactive fuel from fission power.
I have operated three different pressurized water reactors. I thought they were safe until Fukushima completely changed my views. It is far to dangerous for people and the environment. If San Onofre experienced a Fukushima type disaster it would be devastating. Millions would have a much shorter life and millions more would be displaced. Nuclear power in its current form is not the answer.
Covid may solve all climate issues.
‘heaven on earth’ it was, that first total lockdown, here in overcrowded, traffic laden little Belgium….Pity , money printing lala land don t exist….not for long anyway ….
Maybe some day the EU and US can get together and agree that both have a major share of the loonie population of the planet. The shrinking population share of both (discounting legal and illegal migration), makes their climate antics a complete laughing stock.
That does not mean the climate/environment disaster isn’t real, just that the wrong people are freaking out about it.
Well, we have about a thousand million years to figure how to migrate to another planet as the sun expands, but maybe earth’s orbit can be changed by then.
dramatic overpopulation and its consequential ecological destruction is the ONLY problem on earth ! Covid 19 is obviously not strong enough yet, if we continue on our insane path though, a unsustainable situation will eventually sort out itself ….
Although global fertility rates are falling. About 10% fewer of us in a century’s time. That is, unless certain peaceful religions with large family sizes come to the fore.
Global warming ended over a decade ago.
Some people have laughed at Global Warming, claiming it is a Hoax (Sound familiar?). But not so laughbal if it is related to CoronaVirus.
“The coronavirus may have been lying dormant across the world until emerging under favourable environmental conditions, rather than originating in China, an expert has claimed.
Dr Tom Jefferson, from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) at Oxford University, has pointed to a string of recent discoveries of the virus’s presence around the world before it emerged in Asia as growing evidence of its true origin as a global organism that was waiting for favourable conditions to finally emerge.
Traces of COVID-19 have been found in sewage samples from Spain, Italy and Brazil which pre-date its discovery in China. “
Not likely. Much more likely that China’s first case of COVID-19 was months earlier than officially acknowledged. Also much more likely that the unusual genetics of SARS-CoV-2 are the result of laboratory manipulation and not the result of anthropogenic climate change.
I call BS on that one. It was in China much earlier imho.
Dr Tom Jefferson obviously believes everything the Chinese say.
Just like I trust Fauci, not tRump, on CoronaVirus issues, I trust an Oxford University Medical expert’s insights, not CautiousObservr and caradoc-again’s conspiracy theories, unless these two can prove they have at least the same amount of medical/scientific credentials as Dr. Jefferson does. In general I listen to science and experts, not to the demagogues and self-claimed stable genius.
Trust the experts
The lock down model we used to shut down the US for the coronavirus “pandemic” was a developed by a 14 year old high school student from Albuquerque, New Mexico… no sh!t. Now for the rest of the story: link to aier.org
That was a great article! I somehow missed it originally.
Climate change is estimated to kill at least 250k people yearly from 2030-2050. WHY aren’t we closing down business and all economies until we have this figured out to prevent those deaths?!?
More Than 250,000 People May Die Each Year Due to Climate Change
17 January 2019
Don’t be dumb. Those 250K are poor people. They will die anyways because it’s already planned by corporations. A pandemic is a different beast. Even Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates might succumb unexpectedly.
don’t know if jojo is just a troll, or he really that dumb
yes
Dumb!
According to predictions made 10 years ago, there was supposed to be mass starvation by the early 2020’s. Yet here we sit with more overweight people than starving people in the world. The Arctic was supposed to be ice free 5 years ago according to Al Gore and Britain was supposed to have a Siberian climate by 2020. The list could go on and on. People have been making doomsday predictions about climate change for decades now, care to mention one that has actually come to pass?
And just a few months back, so-called scientists were predicting 2-3 million CV19 deaths in the USA by now. Who knew?
There aren’t any – not one of the doomsday predictions related to the climate (which newspaper records reveal to have been trumpeted incessantly since the 1860s!!!) has come to pass. The exact opposite has in fact happened – things have never been better. See link to environmentalprogress.org
And you may live forever. Or may not.
“Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world.”
— Thomas Malthus, 1798
Malthus was predicting based on the state of science and technology in his time. But he wasn’t wrong, just a few centuries early. Sort of like Peter Schiff’s constant predictions of doom in the markets over the past 15 years or so.
But Malthus is in fact even more wrong today than ever before. We have never produced as much surplus food relative to the planet’s population as today.
AGAIN – today’s science and technology are far beyond what Malthus and people of his day could begin to imagine.