[Master Thread] Environmentalism, Climate Change, etc.

[Boiler 43,859]

Carbon credit speculators could lose billions as offsets deemed ‘worthless’
Many credits in the voluntary market going unused, with study finding some offsetting could make global heating worse

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/24/carbon-credit-speculators-could-lose-billions-as-offsets-deemed-worthless-aoe

 

Well who saw that one coming...

[TBoneTX 43,538]

Interesting article with examples.

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ERCOT alert:  Everything's big in Texas includes today's electricity price spikes

 

[...] Speaking of inert wind turbines, even snooty Texas Monthly magazine is noticing an inconvenient fact about renewables besides warm afternoons trapped indoors – there’s no way to get rid of them when they poop the bed.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/08/24/ercot-alert-everythings-big-in-texas-includes-todays-electricity-price-spikes-n573484

[TBoneTX 43,538]

Newt to put too fine a point on it, but this is nuts

 

The British Isles have pretty much wiped themselves clean of every form of ranging wildlife they once had.  Nothing roams the few forests you can find, or the denuded hills, that will scratch or bite or plain maul you to death – well, anything that's furry and four-footed, that is.  So I am assuming that's where this heavy-handed focus on one of the few remaining native species they have comes from.  To wax poetic over a slimy tove... how British.  They are mad about the great crested newt.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/08/24/newt-to-put-too-fine-a-point-on-it-but-this-is-nuts-n573574

[Dashinka 23,425]

16 hours ago, Boiler said:

Carbon credit speculators could lose billions as offsets deemed ‘worthless’
Many credits in the voluntary market going unused, with study finding some offsetting could make global heating worse

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/24/carbon-credit-speculators-could-lose-billions-as-offsets-deemed-worthless-aoe

 

Well who saw that one coming...

It would seem to me that if a carbon credit certifying company, even the world's leading certifier, certifies a bunch of worthless carbon credits, they really don't have any idea what they are doing.

 

A new study in the journal Science has found that millions of forest carbon credits approved by Verra, the world’s leading certifier, are largely worthless and could make global heating worse if used for offsetting.

[Crazy Cat 39,876]

Here we go again.  Now, Ceiling Fans.  

 

 

Edited August 25, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[TBoneTX 43,538]

This is delicious.

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Eco-Friendly Hysterics Hardest Hit After Paper Straws Revealed to Contain Toxic Chemicals

 

Wait, you mean it's a bad idea to get rid of proven products in favor of hysterical "green" solutions based on no actual scientific evidence?  That's the story after it was recently revealed that almost all paper straws and their bamboo alternatives contain toxic chemicals known as "forever chemicals."  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/08/25/eco-friendly-hysterics-hardest-hit-after-paper-straws-revealed-to-contain-toxic-chemicals-n2163035

[Dashinka 23,425]

The church of climatology, and John Kerry is one of the high priests.  As usual with Democrats, when they accuse the other side of being something, in this case “cult like”, it is to hide the face that this is just what they are.

 

‘Tyrant’ John Kerry slammed for scolding climate change deniers: They’ve ‘threatened’ ‘humanity’

 

The Biden administration’s climate czar John Kerry sparked social media outrage this weekend with a video of him scolding humanity for threatening itself by not curbing its effect on the climate. 
 

The clip, which featured Kerry’s speech at an event in Scotland, was viewed over one million times since being posted Friday. X (formerly Twitter) users ripped into it, calling Kerry a "con-artist" and a "tyrant" for his strong rebuke of those not on board with the climate agenda.

 

During the address, Kerry likened climate-change deniers to "cult" members, who "lash out at the truth tellers" and refuse to accept "indisputable evidence" of manmade climate change.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/tyrant-john-kerry-slammed-scolding-climate-change-deniers-theyve-threatened-humanity

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[Dashinka 23,425]

7 hours ago, Boiler said:

 

Seems pretty cult like to me.

[Boiler 43,859]

Seems lots of coverage from different angles, they seem to have forgot where they were and who they would be dealing with.

[Dashinka 23,425]

4 hours ago, Boiler said:

Seems lots of coverage from different angles, they seem to have forgot where they were and who they would be dealing with.

Wasn't it tribal lands?  Not sure the protesting/1A laws are quite the same.  Also, they are not going to allow disruption of such a huge moneymaker.

[Boiler 43,859]

Not sure, Park Rangers or Tribal Rangers, anyway not people who mess around.

[TBoneTX 43,538]

Texas Governor Signs Legislation Making It Legal To Make Climate Protestors Dance By Firing Six-Shooters At Their Feet

 

[...] "If namby-pamby protestors wish to sit on Texas roads and block our jacked 4x4 trucks, they're plumb free to get a wiggle on," said the governor of the Lone Star State while signing legislation with his customary red-hot cattle brand.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/texas-governor-signs-legislation-making-it-legal-to-make-climate-protestors-dance-by-firing-six-shooters-at-their-feet

[Dashinka 23,425]

Hmm, the environmentalists in the UK seem to have lost their collective minds (I know, that is obvious given their actions and recommendations).

 

When Gramps becomes a popsicle: UK winter plan for heat pumps is "Turn them off at night"

 

It is happening again with the mandates to switch the entirety of the British Isles – including the naughty north bits who routinely plunge into frozen wastelands come winter – to electric heat pumps. Even as folks intimately familiar with such technology, and the fact that the U.K. can’t keep the lights on as it is, insist with moral authority “Heat pumps are not designed for heating in C-O-L-D climates.”

 

…To his credit, one of the largest heat pump suppliers in the country has spoken up to tell the climate cultists in the government just that – heat pumps and winter do not co-exist.

 

…Lord Willie Haughey, the business tycoon, said the heating system is unsuitable for the Scottish climate as its performance declines markedly in freezing weather.

 

The Labour peer said some units can stop working properly at temperatures of -5C (23F), or require more electricity to function properly, resulting in higher bills.

 

Parts of Scotland hit -15C last winter and the country holds the record for the UK’s lowest temperature of -27.2C seen in Braemar in Aberdeenshire in 1982 and Altnaharra in Sutherland in 1995.

 

I’ll do the math for you, cuz I’m that kinda gal: -15°C is 5°F and that -27.2°C is -16.96°F. That’s frickin’ Arctic in any book and heat pumps – they cannae handle it.

 

Oh, NO WORRIES THERE, fellow Brits!

 

You friends in the climate cult have the perfect answer, and they’ll hit NetZero that much faster.

 

You just turn the heat off in the evening.

 

Seriously. That’s the plan.

 

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/08/28/when-gramps-becomes-a-popsicle-uk-winter-plan-for-heat-pumps-is-turn-them-off-at-night-n574278

[Dashinka 23,425]

German citizens are also starting to lose their patience with these Leftist cultist eco-nuts.

 

Driver drags radical climate protesters through highway after they refuse to get out of way

 

Radical climate protesters in Munich, Germany, who were blocking a street in a staged protest, were then dragged forward by a vehicle after they refused to move from incoming traffic, according to a video the environmental group posted on X. 

 

A video posted on Monday showed a car refusing to pause amid the protesters blocking the road. As the protesters approached to block the car, it slowly lurched forward. The climate protesters were dragged hundreds of feet into the roadway by the car. 

 

"We are all part of the last generation who still has the chance to stop the complete ecological collapse of Earth, regardless of whether we want it or not," the Letzte Generation said. "We come together and offer resolute non-violent resistance to the fossil-fuel madness happening in our present. We are society's will to survive! We still have two to three years in which we can divert from the path of the fossil-fuel led annihilation."

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/driver-drags-radical-climate-protesters-through-highway-refuse-out-way