Resisting Climate Hysteria

[mullokintyre]

Back in 2016 the NY times posted the following about the Chinese CO2 emissions peaking.
it was part of push to get the US to reduce its planned CO2 emissions.
It was during the 2nd Obama term, so would have had a sympathetic ear.

Unfortunately fior the NY times and the rest of us, China has in fact icreased its CO2 output by 22% according to Our World in Data

I don't see Greta, Al Gore or Michael Mann marching up and down to protest.
Mick

 

[mullokintyre]

Seven years later in 2023, Bloomberg also predicted that China has reached peak Co2 emissions.
Looking at the chart above, one can see their prediction was no more accurate than that of the NY Times.
Mick

 

[Smurf1976]

Seven years later in 2023, Bloomberg also predicted that China has reached peak Co2 emissions.
Looking at the chart above, one can see their prediction was no more accurate than that of the NY Times.

The problem is simply that if you ask any of these people to explain the technical detail of their prediction, you'll soon realise it's lacking at best and more likely completely absent.

It's a bit like building a railway. There's a lot more to it than just drawing lines on a map. There's a lot of detail that determines what's possible and where it needs to go.

Biggest thing that's missed with energy is an awful lot of things don't scale. The idea works as such, and it can be done pretty easily on a small scale, but there's a technical barrier that means increasing scale comes with increasing cost and difficulty. That's the bit the non-technical people invariably miss.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

I posted a while ago the surf forecaster that talked about El Nino not firing the why's and how's also talked why so much rain on the east coast in a El Nino year and that La Nina returning which means ongoing rain east coast but the important part good surf east coast, bad southern and western coasts.

Edit explained here: https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-analysis/2024/02/27/slip-sliding-la-nina

nice drenching rain in the interior brought some flooding to QLD channel country , then the trough turned into an east coast low. By today the storm has moved off, the swell consolidated and nice waves are hitting the nsw coast.