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If the Great Miami Hurricane hit today, it would result in damages >~$265 billion (~4x Katrina)
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Why are so many moving to the nuisance?
10 Jan 2021 1 Comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, urban economics Tags: climate alarmists
Down under leads on tolerance
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UN Says The US Is The Most Successful Major Country in Carbon Emissions Reduction
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The UN released its global emissions and carbon report last month. The U.S. is the most successful major country at mitigating its own pollution carbon dioxide (CO2). So successful according to a Forbes posting written by Ellen Wald titled “The U.N. Says America Is Already Cutting So Much Carbon It Doesn’t Need the Paris Climate Accord”.
“According to the report,
“The United States of America emits 13 per cent of global GHG emissions.” Comparatively, “China emits more than one-quarter of global GHG emissions.” The U.S. still contributes the most greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the world, but, over the last decade, the country’s GHG emissions have been in decline (0.4 per cent per year). “Greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the U.S. are dropping precipitously while those of China, India and Russia continue to rise. With the world’s most successful economy (over $21 trillion in 2019), it is…
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China Crisis: Beijing’s Ban On Australian Coal Leaves Millions Freezing In The Dark
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Millions of Chinese are learning just how important coal-fired power is to their health, safety and comfort, thanks to Beijing’s ban on Australian coal imports.
High-quality Australian coal has helped fuel China’s miraculous industrial growth over the last generation. But the escalation of a trade spat between the PRC and the Morrison led Federal Government over the original source of the coronavirus has resulted in coal being added to a growing list of Australian exports which are no longer welcome in the Middle Kingdom.
Despite claims by wind and solar acolytes that China is well on its way to an all renewables powered future, apparently, the black stuff still matters.
China shivers as coal ban sparks electricity shortages
The Australian
Will Glasgow
18 December 2020
Electricity shortages are worsening across China, forcing tens of millions of residents in large cities to ration heating, raising questions about how long Xi Jinping…
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Perhaps a bit quick off the mark with the racist slur?
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#globalwarming #climateemergency
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California is scrambling to avoid blackouts – not using the refrigerator could help
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Solar power complex in California [USA. Gov – BLM – Bureau of Land Management]
Welcome to the inglorious green revolution, where the lives of ageing gas power plants have to be extended and various other mini ‘solutions’, some relying on equipment owned by individual citizens, have to be adopted in a frantic effort to keep the lights on. Of course none of this was necessary before renewables were deemed to be the future of electricity supply, in the vain hope of altering the climate. What’s next if these measures are not enough?
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Sometime next summer, there’s a decent chance a heat wave will bake the American West, and California’s power grid will again be stretched to its limits, says TechXplore.
As the sun sets, solar panels will start generating less electricity even as temperatures remain high.
Power plants that burn natural gas will fire up as…
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Australia’s Subsidised Wind & Solar Rush Threatens Total Power Grid Collapse
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Australia’s self-inflicted renewable energy calamity was as perfectly predictable as it was perfectly avoidable.
Now, amongst the myriad of energy commissars and boffins, it’s a case of avoiding responsibility for the disaster that everybody (save them) saw coming.
For years the likes of Kerry Schott – head of the inaptly named Energy Security Board – have been talking up the inevitable transition to an all wind and sun powered future. However, now, with Australia’s Eastern Grid on the brink of collapse, Schott and her fellow travellers are all crab walking away from the disaster for which they are, in large part, responsible. [Note to Ed: what’s that line about ‘failure being an orphan’?]
The Federal Government’s Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target is the principal source of subsidy for wind and large-scale solar – delivered by way of renewable energy certificates (LGCs) – the cost of which is added to all retail…
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Lessons Learned in 1939-40 Winter War
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The Setting is the Enemy
The peculiarities of the Finnish theater of war that caused the greatest combat difficulties were the absolute lack of roads and the close character of the terrain which, with its vest zone of virgin forests, is so very different from the European landscape in latitudes farther south. The Karelian woods are under no forestry management such as is commonly applied in central Europe. The primeval forest is the result of natural reseeding. Old and young stands of trees are intermingled and frequently give rise to impenetrable thickets. This boundless forest is virtually unexplored. Throughout the trackless, desolate region, deepest solitude and deathly silence reign supreme. Lakes, swamps, moors, and loose rock are characteristic of the Karelian landscape. Although on the Karelian Isthmus (the corridor between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Lagoda) and in the area between Lake Lagoda and Lake Onega the woods in…
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All self-made
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Creative destruction #COVID19
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