Virtue signalling with heavily subsidised and hopelessly intermittent wind and solar power comes with a staggering cost. Ask a virtue signalling victim from Germany, Denmark or South Australia where wind and solar obsessions have left them paying world’s highest power prices.
Like the aforementioned, Ontario is another place where ideologues destroyed a perfectly reliable and thoroughly affordable electricity supply; the economic consequences have been an unmitigated disaster.
Ontario’s Liberal government under Kathleen Wynne took the wind and solar obsession to extremes, driving power prices into orbit and well-paid manufacturing jobs offshore.
Wynne and her band of acolytes were shown the door, after an electoral drubbing at the hands of Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservatives in June 2019. However, as Parker Gallant details below, Wynne’s dismal legacy will haunt her compatriots for generations to come.
Ontario electricity ratepayers paid up big-time to reduce emissions
Energy Perspectives
Parker Gallant
10 February…
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Cronkite in Vietnam, 1968
As I’ve frequently noted, the misuse of RCP8.5 is pervasive. While there are some legitimate uses of high forcing levels in exploratory research, that is not what I am referring to here. Below, an example of RCP8.5 being put to use in a consulting sales pitch, which then finds its way to a Reuters news story about the real world, taking the misuse of RCP8.5-as-BAU into broader circulation. Posted here just so I have it …
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