July, 2017, Part 1, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: 100 Year Predictions and Massive C02 From Electric Cars

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in manmade global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees

As we have dove into the whole issue of manmade global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control of our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical posts listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

1) We have frequently reported in this blog how climate alarmists have almost always been wrong in their predictions and forecasts. Back in the 1970s they predicted that a new Ice Age was imminent. When that did not happen they predicted that massive global warming was imminent. When that did not happen they rebranded themselves to freak out over climate change, covering both ends of the climate spectrum, global warming and global cooling.

In 2009 Al Gore predicted that by 2014 there was a 75% chance that the North Pole would be completely melted. Did not happen. ABC ran a freakout news report over ten years ago that predicted by now major cities along the U.S. coasts would be under water. Did not happen. Every UN, government, and “expert” who predicted the future global warming of the Earth have been embarrassingly wrong.

But the global warming and climate change alarmists keep on trying to scare us and warn us even though their track record of being accurate is abysmal. But they found a way around them being wrong all of the time according to a recent article by Stephen Kruiser on the Independent Journal Review website: Climate alarmist James Hansen, who once predicted that New York City would be underwater by 2018, decided that he cannot be that wrong again if he changes his prediction to say that New York City will be underwater “50 to 150” years from now.

Nicely done, make a prediction that will come true long after just about anyone alive today will be dead by the time the new timeframe comes around, making it impossible to be wrong again in our lifetime.

How many times does this nonsense of being wrong have to exist before we have an adult conversation about the climate that involves ALL of the available research and science?

2) Most global warming advocates and climate change advocates are so into alternative energy sources and alternative energy transportation technologies. We have already shown studies in this blog that prove that the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and installation of solar panels is worse for the environment than fossil fuels.

Today let’s take a shot at how an alternative car technology, i.e. Tesla electric cars, are actually worse for the environment than fossil fuel driven cars:

• Johan Kristensson, writing for the Principia Scientific International website on June 20, 2017, discussed a new study that showed that the production of Tesla car batteries released as much CO2 gas as 8 years of driving a similar car using gasoline.
• The study was done by the Swedish Environment Institute at the request of the Swedish Transport Administration and the Swedish Energy Agency.
• They studied the total climate impact of lithium ion batteries over the complete life cycle of the batteries, including car lithium batteries.
• The study technique is a so called meta study which is a comprehensive review of previously done research studies.
• The study estimated that for every kilowatt of storage capacity in a lithium battery, 150 to 200 kilograms of carbon dioxide gas is created.
• Since each Tesla battery has a capacity of 100 kilowatts, simple math says that a Tesla battery creates 15,000 to 20,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide in the manufacturing process.
• The study then estimated how long one would have to drive a gas or diesel car to generate as much CO2 as what went into the production of car lithium batteries.
• The answer: the break even point of a gas or diesel car for CO2 production was a whopping 8.2 years for a Tesla sized battery.
• Which means up to 8.2 years driving a comparable gas driven engine would have been better for the environment than a Tesla battery powered car.
• After 8.2 years the benefit to the environment goes to the Tesla but who knows if the average life of a Tesla car is 8.2 years; if it is less than 8.2 years Tesla never becomes environmentally more friendly.
• The deal is much better for a Nissan leaf model which has a much smaller battery, meaning it is less powerful, since its breakeven point environmentally is less than three years.
• But very few people have bought Leafs over the years, possibly because of how under powered they are.

The bottom line reality is that electric cars, as are solar panels, are not necessarily the golden solution that global warming advocates hope for. In fact, they may be worse than the current status quo. But often facts and realities are of little importance to people like Al Gore.

That’s enough to get us started on this month’s, “I am a global warming doubter and a believer in science.” Making predictions that cannot be proven and claiming technology that works that maybe does not. More to follow.

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