Where will it stop?
Will it require the end of humanity?
I am talking about the green agenda response to so-called human induced climate change.
Scientists in the U.K. are now saying that breathing is bad for the environment.
The new study was led by Dr Nicholas Cowan, an atmospheric physicist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh.
'Exhaled human breath can contain small, elevated concentrations of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), both of which contribute to global warming,' Dr Cowan and colleagues say.
'We would urge caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are negligible.'
Do we really have scientists worrying about 0.1%?
Of course, this comes after we have been told to stop eating meat.
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| Source: https://sentientmedia.org/how-does-eating-less-meat-help-climate-change/ |
They are trying to shut down farms in the Netherlands because they produce too much nitrogen run-off and have too much livestock.
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| Source: https://www.beefcentral.com/news/dutch-govt-to-shut-down-up-to-3000-farms-sparking-more-protests/ |
The plans to halve the country’s nitrogen output by 2030 sparked mass protests earlier this year, with farmers blocking supermarket distribution centres with tractors and lighting silage bags on fire. Signs expressing solidarity with Dutch farmers were displayed across Europe.
The plans to reduce fertilisers and livestock-related nitrogen run-off came after several court cases ruled the The Netherlands’ Government was not doing enough to address the “nitrogen crisis.” The Government replied with plans to reduce livestock numbers by 25pc and a series of other measures.
You wonder how they expect people to eat without farms to produce food?
You already know that they plan to ban all internal combustion engines in favor of electric vehicles.
California already has mandated that all new cars and light trucks sold by 2035 in that state must be zero emissions.
Two years ago the Biden Administration got Congress to pass legislation to provide $7.5 billion to build 500,000 electric charging stations around the United States. Biden claimed that they would be as common as gas stations and allow 50% of the vehicles on the road to be electric by 2030.
They are a little behind in doing what they said they would despite having the money appropriated.
Built so far with those billions of dollars? ZERO.
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| Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-chargers-billions-00129996 |
They would also like to limit air travel for the common folk.
How about a four-flight lifetime limit on air travel?
A recent French poll found that a 41% of the respondents favored a four-flight air travel limit for everyone's lifetime.
The four-flight limit garnered 59% support from 18-24 year olds.
Of course, the elites would keep using their private planes because they are doing "important work".
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| Source: https://simpleflying.com/private-jet-flights-cop-28-carbon-footprint/ |
The work to stop climate change is so important that the Biden's administration's climate envoy John Kerry and Kamala Harris both had to
take their own private jets to Dubai for the climate conference in Dubai.
They couldn't at least fly together as a small sacrifice for the climate?
The Biden administration recently announced a climate rule through the EPA that would require most fossil fuel power generation plants (coal and natural gas) to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions at leasts 90% by between 2035 and 2040---or shut down.
For context, 60% of power generation in the United States today comes from fossil fuels.
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Net electricity generation in the United States from 1990 to 2022, by energy source
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The use of coal in power generation has already been cut in half over the last decade in the United States. Most of that loss has been made up with another fossil fuel---natural gas.
Does anyone honestly believe that 60% of electric generation capacity can be replaced in 10-15 years especially if green enthusiasts also want everyone to be plugging their car into the electric grid?
While all of this green agenda is being pushed on us every day I thought this factoid was interesting.
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Source: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3778974-global-coal-use-hits-all-time-high-report/
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Global coal use will reach its highest level ever driven principally by consumption in Asia despite calls for net zero in the U.S. and Europe.
Most of the increased usage was for new coal-fired electric generating plants.
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| Source: https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3232574/china-coal-power-spree-continues-frantic-pace-300-plants-pipeline-despite-2030-carbon-pledge |
While the United States and Europe pursue their green agendas, the portion of the planet with the most humans beings exhaling those dangerous emissions in every breath they take seem to not care much about their carbon emissions.
Coal, breath or otherwise.
To put that in perspective, consider this map of world population by longitude.
Those of us who live in the Western Hemisphere have little perspective on what crowded really means.
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World Population by Longitude
Source: https://engaging-data.com/population-latitude-longitude/
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Carbon emissions are exploding in Asia in order to provide electricity to the masses.
Europe and the United States have actually reduced emissions over the last 20 years.
The United States and Europe could both achieve net zero carbon emissions and it would not offset what is happening in Asia.
At the same time, the United States has more coal reserves than any other nation (and several continents) on earth.
It is not just coal either.
Despite the best efforts of Biden and the Democrats to handcuff crude oil production, most would be surprised to see that the United States is projected to pump out more crude oil production than any other country in the world in the fourth quarter, 2023.
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Credit: https://twitter.com/PlanMaestro/status/1731679194302542057
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The United States is also the leading natural gas producer in the world by a fair measure.
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Source: https://www.globalfirepower.com/natural-gas-production-by-country.php#google_vignette
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Does any of those who are pushing the green agenda make any sense?
The United States has the greatest competitive energy advantage in the world compared to its global competitors in coal. oil and natural gas but we have politicians who want to ban their use?
In the meantime, our biggest global competitor, China, is building coal-fired generating plants and setting records every year in consuming more and more coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels.
Where will it stop?
They don't want to use coal.
They don't want to use oil.
They don't want to use natural gas.
They don't want you to drive a gasoline powered vehicle.
They don't want you to fly.
They don't want you to eat meat.
They don't want farmers to use fertilizer to grow our food.
They now don't want you to breathe.
Will the last person alive please blow out the candle?
The lights will have long since been turned off.
However, we cannot even be sure the planet will be green if we follow the green agenda as there will likely not be enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to keep the trees and plants alive.
Welcome to Insanityland.
Postscript
Only in a liberal mind does it make sense to...
shut down your most cost-effective energy generating source,
shut-off your most abundant energy resource,
raise electricity costs on all Americans,
and risk losing hundreds of thousand of jobs in the process.
In an attempt to solve a problem...
that we are not even sure we have,
and if we do, we are not sure we can do anything about it,
because of natural or external forces that we cannot control,
that may overwhelm anything we do anyway,
that ultimately works to the advantage of your biggest trade partner,
that will undoubtedly result in more job losses for Americans over the longer term.
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