Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

Cutting down 16 million trees to fight climate change is truly asinine

Posted: August 10, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Wherever large-scale green energy facilities are built forests are first cut down, grasslands are cleared, and other natural habitats are destroyed. This is all done in the name of saving the environment from climate change.

Liberals are apoplectic when a land is cleared for a single housing development, factory, or shopping center, yet they remain completely silent, and often cheer loudly, when nature is destroyed so that a green energy boondoggle can be built.  That to me makes no sense at all. 

In my town I’ve witnessed the clearing of many acres of forest so that solar farms can be built.  I was absolutely outraged at the destruction of the beautiful ecosystems that were the home of countless animals and birds.  I’ve seen the erosion and soil runoff that results.

This has been repeated over and over again all across the United States for solar and windfarms.  The same holds true in Europe.

The worst environmental carnage so far has taken place in Scotland where 16 million trees have been cleared away to build wind farms.   

Since 2000, the Scottish government has felled around 1,700 trees on a daily basis, all to make way for “green” initiatives. Leave it to the government and their leftist abettors to harp on the “destruction of the environment” then chop down literal trees to create barren wastelands—all to make room for obtrusive, industrial, inanimate behemoths that obliterate all sorts of animal populations, and create massive amounts of environmental pollution (in production, maintenance, and disposal).

According to an article by Frank Bergman and posted to Slay News yesterday, the Scottish government’s scheme of systematic deforestation was implemented to “meet the goals” of the climate agenda. Is that not one of the most ludicrous and asinine things you’ve ever heard? Or perhaps, the move is right in line with the climate agenda, because the goal isn’t environmentalism… but rather communistic destruction?

A Scottish government official has admitted that almost 16 million trees have been cut down in Scotland to make way for ‘green energy’ farms.

These fools seem oblivious to the fact that trees, bushes, and other plants, absorb Carbon Dioxide.  Will the windmills and solar farms eliminate even a tiny fraction of the CO2 that these millions of trees would have absorbed?  That is extremely doubtful.

License Plate Scanners plus AI Tracking Software equals an all powerful police state plus travel restrictions

Posted: August 3, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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License plate scanners have been used by police departments across the United States for more than a decade.  I know the police department in the town I live in uses them constantly.   I here them using them on my police scanner.  They routinely stop a vehicle because the registered owner’s license is suspended, or something similar. 

License plate scanners, on their own, are a grave threat to the right to privacy of each and every American.  They are a gross violation of our most cherished constitutional rights.  Every single American has a God-given Natural Right to move as we wish, completely free of any government snooping or surveillance.  .

Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, this gross violation of privacy has become much worse, as you can see from this Breitbart article: Breitbart – Police Use AI-Powered License Plate Recognition to Track ‘Suspicious’ Travel Patterns

American law enforcement are now using AI-powered license plate recognition systems to identify “suspicious” patterns of movement by analyzing billions of license plate records. However, this new technology raises significant concerns about privacy and potential misuse.

Forbes reports that by examining billions of license plate records, AI is now assisting American law enforcement in locating “suspicious” movement patterns. This new technology raises serious concerns about privacy and potential abuse. 

When you combine the gross violation of license plate scanners and AI with this article, Breitbart – Climate of Fear: U.N. Chief Guterres Warns ‘Era of Global Boiling’ Is Here, all of the recent hysteria over the supposed hottest temperatures ever becomes more ominous.

Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday night rolled out some of his most apocalyptic climate rhetoric to date declaring “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.”

He went on to lament how “terrifying” it is seeing children “swept away by monsoon rains, families running from the flames, workers collapsing in scorching heat.”  He said “short of a mini ice age” over coming days, some scientists estimate July 2023 would shatter records across the board.

Could it be possible that license plate scanners and AI could be used to curtail the movement of Americans to fight a made up dire climate change emergency?  Absolutely.  The hysteria over climate change is already beig used to curtail air travel in a very back handed manner: In the Name of Climate Change: Travel Restrictions and the Great Reset – American Thinker

In 2022, the 193-member nation International Civil Aviation Organizations (ICAO), a U.N.  agency, agreed to a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.  Ironically, the call to reduce the use of aviation fuel is accompanied by a boom in private air travel, as airline travel becomes more difficult.  Private jets constitute 25% of U.S.  flights and increased by 17% in the first half of 2022.  Clearly, despite purported concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, the Great Reset does not restrict travel for the elite.  The agenda obviously has more to do with politics and control than science.

This year, summer air travel was subjected to massive delays.  More than 11,000 flights were delayed or cancelled on June 25; some 8,000 on June 26; and there were 35,000 flight delays and 7,000 cancellations on July 4.  Candid airline employees confessed this had nothing to do with the weather, and that pilot and ATC understaffing was responsible for the chaos.  In late June, I found myself stuck in New York for three days with no available flight options to the West Coast.  I was also trapped in Reykjavik for four nights because of the cancellation of flights to Ilulissat, Greenland.  An Icelandair captain revealed the reason: a tower at an adjacent airport, required for potential flight diversions, was unmanned because of an ATC shortage.

The hysteria over the hottest day on record BS proves just how far to the left Boston News Channels are

Posted: July 13, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Overwhelming biased news stations is the number one reason why New Englanders lean so far to the left.  The news coverage is so incredibly infected with Democrat propaganda and talking points.  No other point of view is given.  There are few other sources of news available.  Most are unaware that they are being indoctrinated and brainwashed.

The nonstop coverage of the deeply flawed pronouncement that we are experiencing the hottest days ever is proof of how far these stations are willing to push climate change hysteria.

This article is one of two that Channel Five has featured on their local weather webpage for a week: MIT climate scientist urges action after hottest days on record (wcvb.com)

A climate expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is urging action after a new report shows the earth just experienced the hottest days on record.

“I’ve seen a lot of messages that this is yet another wake-up call,” said Dr. Sergey Paltsev. “I’m afraid something is wrong with either us that we don’t hear the alarm clock or something is wrong with the alarm.

Paltsev is the deputy director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

“I’m afraid the worst is yet to come,” he said. “So hopefully, this is going to bring attention from policymakers and the general public who will push policymakers to do something more to prevent these extreme events in the future.”

As you can see from the article, the main purpose of this diatribe is to stir up the populace so much we demand our politicians enact something akin to the Green New Deal.

Here are the absurd claim made by supposed scientists.

Earth’s average temperature on Wednesday remained at an unofficial record high set the day before, the latest grim milestone in a week that has seen a series of climate-change-driven extremes.

The average global temperature was 17.18 Celsius (62.9 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, a tool that uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world’s condition. That matched a record set Tuesday and came after a previous record of 17.01 Celsius (62.6 degrees Fahrenheit) was set Monday.

This next article has also been featured on the Channel Five local forecast page: Museum of Science expert weighs in on Earth’s record heat (wcvb.com)

“It is an opportunity for us to think about how we can reduce our emissions right now and the tools that we have at hand. There are good pieces of understanding that some of the things we can do can make us both resilient to extreme weather like heat waves and flooding and also reduce our emissions at the same time,” said David Sittenfeld, the director of the Center for the Environment at the Museum of Science.

I am absolutely certain that no Boston News Channel dared to share the truth that is contained in this article: About those “hottest days ever” – HotAir

One obvious problem with the updated narrative is that there are no satellite data from 125,000 years ago. Calculated estimates of current temperatures can’t be fairly compared with guesses of global temperature from thousands of years ago.

A more likely alternative to the 62.6-degree estimate is something around 57.5 degrees. The latter is an average of actual surface temperature measurements taken around the world and processed on a minute-by-minute basis by a website called temperature.global. The numbers have been steady this year, with no spike in July.

Moreover, the notion of “average global temperature” is meaningless. Average global temperature is a concept invented by and for the global-warming hypothesis. It is more a political concept than a scientific one. The Earth and its atmosphere is large and diverse, and no place is meaningfully average.

Nor this article: Data Shows We’re NOT Seeing Record Heat – CO2 Coalition

Paulo Ceppi, a climate scientist at London’s Grantham Institute stated: “It hasn’t been this warm since at least 125,000 years ago, which was the previous interglacial.” And, of course, it was reported that it was our fault due to our “sins of emission.”

This didn’t meet the smell test for the scientists at the CO2 Coalition. We know that previous warm periods were warmer than our modern temperatures. For example, during the Roman Warm Period there was citrus being grown in the north of England and barley was grown by Vikings on Greenland 1,000 years ago. Why aren’t they grown there now? It’s quite simple: Lower modern temperatures.

Joe Biden is planning on running the entire US economy with nothing but unicorn farts and pixie dust

Posted: May 18, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Hardcore leftists such as Joe Biden and Barack Obama live in a fanciful universe that has less to do with reality than Dr. Seuss.  In the leftist fantasy land anthropomorphic climate change is real and the greatest threat to mankind.  The only option that could possibly stop this chimeral threat ts the transition of the entire energy production of the world from fossil fuels to wind and solar.  The most ludicrous belief that leftist hold is the belief that this insanity could possibly work.

Barack Obama began this madness with a war on coal fired power plants.  The Biden regime is taking this insanity to a whole new level by banning everything else: Biden wants to kill electric power from natural gas – American Thinker

The Supreme Court last summer blocked the Obama Clean Power Plan, which would have forced a generation-shift in electric power to renewables from coal. The Biden EPA’s plan would do that and more by other means that are also probably unconstitutional. … Section 111 of the Clean Air Act says the EPA can regulate pollutants from stationary sources through the “best system of emission reduction” that is “adequately demonstrated.” Yet the EPA wants to require that fossil-fuel plants adopt carbon capture and green hydrogen technologies that aren’t currently cost-effective or feasible, and may never be. Only one commercial-scale coal plant in the world uses carbon capture to reduce emissions, and no gas-fired plants do.

Biden’s EPA knows full well that it flouts the Clean Air Act by mandating that coal- and gas-fired plants adopt regulations based on technologies that are not, and may not ever become, “cost-effective or feasible.”  Clearly, the goal is to eliminate fossil fuel electric power generation:

The EPA has been stacking burdensome rules onto coal plants, including three others since March, with the goal of forcing them into premature retirement. … “By presenting all of those rules at the same time to the industry,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said last year, “the industry gets a chance to take a look at this suite of rules all at once and say, ‘Is it worth doubling down in investments in this current facility? Or should we look at that cost and say now it’s time to pivot and invest in a clean energy future?'”

This madness will completely destroy the economy of the United States.  Ayn Rand wrote a couple of fantastic books where the collectivists employed plans just like this latest nonsense announced by our senile faux president.  The novels are Atlas Shrugged an Anthem.

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