July, 2017, Part 5, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: Wind Power Is Not The Answer and China Hits The Jackpot In The Paris Climate Agreement

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) While global warming advocates have always been big supporters of solar energy, we have shown research, numbers, and realities over this past week that proved the production and destruction of solar panels cause more total environmental damage than fossil fuel driven energy sources. This obviously should kill the lust of global warming advocates for solar energy.

But what about that other great savior of the Earth, wind power? Maybe that source of clean energy is the great salvation of humanity from manmade global warming and climate change without the destructiveness of solar panel mining, manufacturing, and destruction activities.

Unfortunately, according to the International Energy Agency’s 2016 Key Renewables Trends research and report, wind power is probably not the salvation of the Earth that Al Gore types hoped for:

• According to the 2016 report, from a total energy perspective (i.e. not just electricity production), wind power provided about .46% of the global energy consumption in 2014 (solar and tidal energy sources were even less productive at a combined .35%).
• This paltry .46% was achieved despite decades worth of government and taxpayer subsidies for wind power generation.
• While about 14% of the world’s energy is from renewable sources, the vast majority (75%) of that renewable source consists of energy from biomass including sticks, logs, charcoal, and dung burned for energy by the poor around the world.
• Another large chunk of that renewable energy is from hydroelectric sources, not wind and solar.
• The International Energy Agency estimated that world energy demand grew 2% in 2014 or almost 2,000 terawatt hours.
• This means if we wanted to deploy wind turbines just to cover that incremental 2%, about 350,000 wind turbines would have to be installed just to cover the increase in energy consumption, not replace the energy from other sources.
• Since only about two thirds of that amount of wind turbines exist today, having been built over the past decades, it is highly unlikely that enough wind turbines could be put in place to even handle the year over year growth in energy needs.
• Given that 50 acres are needed for each megawatt of wind energy produced, 350,000 turbines would cover half the landmass of the British Isles and doing the same thing for 50 years to cover the annual growth in energy needs would eventually require a landmass the size of half of Russia.
• This energy source would of course still be subject to the whims of the local weather, no wind = no energy.
• And land availability is just one problem with wind energy; other problems include the pollution and CO2 created by the manufacturing, shipping, and installation of wind turbine parts and cement needed for their foundations and the other environmental issue of mining impacts on the environment from mining rare earth metals needed for the magnets of the turbines.
• Oh, and let’s not forget the biological impacts of the untold number of birds and bats killed every year from flying into the turbine blades.

A more detailed discussion of these numbers and other highlights of the International Energy Agency’s findings, including how much dirty coal has to be burned to build wind turbines, can be accessed at:

http://rightalerts.com/the-utterly-complete-and-total-fraud-of-wind-power/

So yes, let’s talk about global warming and climate change but let’s do it in the context of looking at ALL of the data and ALL of the research, including the tremendous downsides of solar and wind energy courses.

2) A lot of liberals and global warming advocates went nuts when Trump pulled us out of the illegal, un-Constitutional, and stupid Paris climate agreement. One of the primary reasons to pull out was the reality that the U.S. would have been making all of the sacrifices and paying blackmail to other countries not to pollute while other major players in the world economy would have had none of those same burdens placed on themselves.

The primary beneficiary of such a stupid agreement that Obama negotiated was China which was probably laughing all of the way to the bank with what it got away with in the agreement, as outlined by a Heritage Foundation article Michael Bastasch on June 2, 2017:

• Under the Paris agreement, China would be able to and plans to raise its coal powered energy generation capacity (remember, coal is a VERY big contributor to global warming) from 900 gigawatts in 2016 to as high as 1,100 by 2020, just three years from now.
• That would make China’s COAL generated energy larger than the TOTAL energy capacity of Canada.
• But this massive 22% increase in coal burning was somehow legal under the Paris agreement since China is allowed, under the agreement, to allow its greenhouse gas emissions to rise, in absolute terms, for another 13 years until 2030.
• In other words, China’s economy and citizens would not experience any global warming inconvenience or economic hardships for at least another 13 years, i.e. how badly did Obama handle that negotiating point with a major economic power and competitor and major CO2 emitter?
• China did promise to cut CO23 emissions per unit of output but that really does not matter if the total CO2 emissions is growing fast, i.e. “China can reduce its emissions per unit of output while increasing overall emissions—that’s what matters in terms of global warming. It’s almost like it is gaming the whole Paris Agreement.”
• The Energy Information Administration estimates that China’s total emissions will grow a whopping 32% between now and 2040 and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate will increase 34% over 2012 levels by 2030.
• Much of this new energy will be coming from coal powered power plants inside China.
• Oh, and by the way, not only is China getting away like highway robbers relative to its domestic energy production within the Paris agreement, but it is also exporting its coal production expertise around the world, having recently signed an agreement with Pakistan (according to a Reuters report) “to spend around $15 billion over the next 15 years to build close to a dozen coal power plants of varying sizes around the country.”

Bottom line is that the Paris Climate Agreement was a really crappy agreement from a U.S. perspective, an agreement that even Al Gore has publicly admitted would have virtually no impact on the environment. But it would allow countries like China to go along their merry way with little or no negative impact on their economies and citizens while burdening the U.S. and its taxpayers with economic hardships. It is a crappy, illegal agreement that should be ignored.

That will do it for this month’s review under the theme “I am a global warming doubter and a believer in science.” Climate is a difficult animal to understand, made even more difficult and dangerous when people like Al Gore ignore the realities, data, science, and research that do not fit their pre-conceived notions or agendas. The purpose of this theme is to uncover what is real and then decide what, if anything, should be done. More doubts next month.

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