Why do you think this idea is facetious?
I suppose this is a joke, especially considering your fear for Oriental (specifically Chinese) people. Also, considering your fear of the nuclear anything.
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China and India increase their use of coal
- China resumes Australian coal imports after a two-year hiatus due to diplomatic tensions.
- Coal demand surges in China, countering blackouts as hydropower faces a shortfall.
- While China increases imports from Australia and Russia, India turns to Indonesia, reshaping Asian coal trade dynamics.
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While the Biden administration Is going to shut down the US grid.
- The EPA’s new rules requiring 60% of new cars sold in 2030 to be electric and forcing many power plants to close are likely to increase demand and decrease supply on the U.S. power grid.
- The agency’s assumptions, which suggest that these rules won’t impact grid reliability or raise prices, are being challenged as they seem to overlook the interconnectedness of their policies and real-life behavior of EV users.
- The EPA’s Clean Power Plan 2.0 may lead to the closure of existing coal-fired power plants, which contribute significantly to U.S. electricity generation and grid reliability, and also affects existing natural gas plants, despite their lower carbon footprint.
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Not every fire or flood is due to climate change, the Greek arson edition:
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The Moon is slowly drifting away from Earth and it’s beginning to impact us (msn.com)
Global warming! The earth is getting so hot that even the moon is trying to get away from it.
From the article
It turns out that the Moon is moving away from Earth at us at 3.82 centimetres a year. That means that, eventually, it’ll result in Earth days lasting 25 hours in 200 million years time.
To put that in perspective Homo sapiens have existed about 100,000 years
Most scientists believe that the transition from Homo Erectus to Homo Sapiens occurred about 100,000 years ago
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I must not get around much because I never heard of “rolling coal “
Edit. 343,000 devices!
Rolling coal is the practice of installing a tampering device to pump more diesel into a vehicle’s engine than it can handle, leading it to spew out sooty black clouds of exhaust that pollute the air.
The practice is sometimes used as a form of anti-environmental protest. Coal rollers, or the drivers who engage in the action, may intentionally target Teslas, Priuses or other electric or hybrid vehicles.
The Department of Justice, on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, filed a lawsuit claiming that the e-commerce giant enabled the sale of more than 343,000 rolling coal devices. Each sale could spur a fine of up to $5,580 under the Clean Air Act.
No comment on your “rolling justice” quotient, but it’s been around since, at least, 2017. I’ve seen it used at an anti-coal protest and several anti-oil protests. It’s actually funny to see … from a distance. I would not want to be up close.
Now these would be legal to sell?
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From the article
specifically superfine coal dust. The dust was blown into a turbine engine like you’d find in a jet and burned as fuel.
By this time, all the crap you find in coal has been removed and it’s basically carbon. Not much different than kerosene or other hydrocarbons, but probably more concentrated, and therefore higher energy density.
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All the news that fits (the narrative) gets printed, the academic journal edition.
The first thing the astute climate researcher knows is that his or her work should support the mainstream narrative—namely, that the effects of climate change are both pervasive and catastrophic and that the primary way to deal with them is not by employing practical adaptation measures like stronger, more resilient infrastructure, better zoning and building codes, more air conditioning—or in the case of wildfires, better forest management or undergrounding power lines—but through policies like the Inflation Reduction Act, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
So in my recent Nature paper, which I authored with seven others, I focused narrowly on the influence of climate change on extreme wildfire behavior. Make no mistake: that influence is very real. But there are also other factors that can be just as or more important, such as poor forest management and the increasing number of people who start wildfires either accidentally or purposely. (A startling fact: over 80 percent of wildfires in the US are ignited by humans.)
In my paper, we didn’t bother to study the influence of these other obviously relevant factors. Did I know that including them would make for a more realistic and useful analysis? I did. But I also knew that it would detract from the clean narrative centered on the negative impact of climate change and thus decrease the odds that the paper would pass muster with Nature’s editors and reviewers.
Trust the Science™.
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From the article
I left academia over a year ago, partially because I felt the pressures put on academic scientists caused too much of the research to be distorted. Now, as a member of a private nonprofit research center, The Breakthrough Institute, I feel much less pressure to mold my research to the preferences of prominent journal editors and the rest of the field.
The colleges need to be abolished, their employees fired, and we start all over again. Ron DeSantis in Florida is making some steps along that path. Other republican governors are starting such as Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Arkansas. But others, such as Wyoming governor Mark Gordon still worship the climate cult.
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Wonder if Chatgpt or some browser extension can separate out opinion pieces and real news pieces. People can obviously choose to view either depending on their frame of mind. My feeling on this subject is we are all going to die
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Good luck with that
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They can’t even do virtue signaling. True believers in the cult are not happy. The important part is how much money they were able to extract from the western governments. I’m sure the Biden regime will step up with a few $trillion.
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Every time I hear Al Gore’s name I think of Florida being under water nearly a decade ago, and his solution to the Social Security “problem” , could have sworn this was on Youtube from an SNL skit, but can’t find it. I’ll recreate it with a duller than dishwater deadpan monotone “We’ll put the money in a lockbox … we’ll keep it safe in a lockbox … you don’t have to worry because it will all be in a lockbox.”
I miss Al Gore, and his climate friendly, hot rod Lincoln.
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AI is not needed, can filter the bullshit just by excluding Fox / Post …
Testing possible technology solutions rather than alarmism
https://www.wsj.com/science/environment/geoengineering-projects-cool-planet-weather-f0619bf7
growing concern that efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions aren’t moving fast enough to prevent the destructive effects of heat waves, storms and floods made worse by climate change. Geoengineering isn’t a substitute for reducing emissions, according to scientists and business leaders involved in the projects. Rather, it is a way to slow climate warming in the next few years while buying time to switch to a carbon-free economy in the longer term.
spraying a briny mixture through high-pressure nozzles into the air in an attempt to brighten low-altitude clouds that form over the ocean. Scientists hope bigger, brighter clouds will reflect sunlight away from the Earth
testing a system to disperse a cloud of tiny reflective particles about 60,000 feet in altitude, reflecting sunlight away from Earth to cool the atmosphere in a concept known as solar radiation management, or SRM.
plan to pour 6,000 gallons of a liquid solution of sodium hydroxide, a component of lye, into the ocean 10 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard this summer. They hope the chemical base will act like a big tablet of Tums, lowering the acidity of a patch of surface water and absorbing 20 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, storing it safely in the ocean.
This scares the hell out of me. Have they never heard of unintended consequences? How about doing something a lot less risky that is actually beneficial for people in poor countries: develop small modular nuclear reactors and get rid of all the obstructionists on the United States nuclear regulatory commission.
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