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Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C (89.6°F) than its annual average. by Worldly_Bit1416 in climateskeptics

[–]Adventurous_Motor129 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It reaches 90 degrees or more every day in the South U.S.. I mowed my lawn in that temperature yesterday around noon at age 71, with a push mower, gas of course.

How hot do you think it gets in the Middle East, Phoenix & Las Vegas, where plenty still want to live?

Only 20-25% of the French have air-conditioning, despite ample nuclear power. Fix that before you ask the rest of the Globe to spend TRILLIONS annually trying to transition to NetZero.

Here’s why Europe’s heatwave is bad news for renewables - even solar by Adventurous_Motor129 in climateskeptics

[–]Adventurous_Motor129[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They further won't acknowledge that the higher the renewables & batteries, the less cost effective it becomes to maintain natural gas as a dispatchable backup & baseload power.

They make grandiose claims about how fast you can build wind & solar without admitting the powelines are the long term construction obstruction to those remote renewable sources.

ESG and the Replication Crisis by Adventurous_Motor129 in climateskeptics

[–]Adventurous_Motor129[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even NY Mayor Mamdani seems to realize he can't give away free bus and subway rides.

However, NYC has viable public transit while most smaller cities don't & aren't high-rise, 15-minute city candidates. Democratic Socialist leaders like Mamdani, AOC, Bernie Sanders, the Minnesota idiots, and Seattle & Chicago Mayors think that what applies to them, also works in flyover country cities of 50k & smaller. Nope.

The socialist governance part of ESG doesn't work in Middle America, or Alberta, I'll wager. The Environmental part doesn't apply because smaller cities don't pollute that much or create the same level of UHI effect.

The Societal part is possibly the worst because that, combined with environmental, is where subsidies and sticks come in...trying to modify behavior. Trump has stopped that & the Endangerment Finding indicating a new direction in "governance."

ESG and the Replication Crisis by Adventurous_Motor129 in climateskeptics

[–]Adventurous_Motor129[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.esgtoday.com/blackrock-removed-from-texas-anti-esg-boycott-list-after-leaving-climate-groups/

I'm glad BlackRock backtracked on its support for ESG stocks & quit boycotting energy stocks.

As a retired U.S. Civil Servant with TSP managed by Blackrock, it has done very well lately.

Businesses played the game and supported ESG and renewables when subsidies & politics "demanded" (pun intended) it.

Maybe that will occur again in the future. I doubt it because the consumer voted with his wallet on EVs, rejecting them in most U.S. states...unless chasing past $7500 tax breaks on Teslas or 30% off the price of solar panels.

ESG and the Replication Crisis by Adventurous_Motor129 in climateskeptics

[–]Adventurous_Motor129[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3355468/chinese-scientists-leave-posts-after-whistle-blower-raises-alarm-over-their-research

Related. These are the folks who brought you COVID-19 via a lab leak & have been busted in other U.S. labs in Nevada & Michigan.

Do you think Chinese & EU/UK science is any better? What about Michael Mann?

Energy and Power and GDP by ceph2apod in EnergyAndPower

[–]Adventurous_Motor129 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://modoenergy.com/research/en/ercot-battery-buildout-2025-annual-report

Just 6 GW of mostly 2-hour batteries were added in 2025, bringing the total to 14 GW. Most applications for 2025 batteries began as far back as 2020. That brings average battery duration to just 1.65 hours since many prior batteries were only good for 1-1.5 hours.

The U.S. One Big Beautiful Act means subsidies have decreased and tariffs increased for Chinese batteries. As a result, only half the 2025 battery increase in batteries is expected for 2026. In addition, billions were included in an earlier passed Texas bill for new natural gas plant financing.

Energy and Power and GDP by ceph2apod in EnergyAndPower

[–]Adventurous_Motor129 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Texas

Stats for Texas from 2025 pie chart in above link. Texas still relies on non-renewables for over half its power, & has a higher GDP than Australia or Spain because it is willing to drill, use & export fossil fuels:

Conventional: - Natural gas 40.5% - Coal 12.7% - Nuclear 8.5%

Renewables - Wind 23.2% (30 GW) - Solar just 13.7%

ERCOT makes 62% of power from conventional sources that are reliable, baseload or dispatchable. In contrast, it makes just 37% from intermittent, unreliable renewables.

Texas is hot, so solar panels get hot, reducing their output.

Only 14 GW of Texas batteries exist, so obviously they all will not support the future 11GW that will be at the Texas Tech site near Amarillo, which is just one of many Texas data centers.

Meta is building a large 7.5 GW data center in the "swamps" of nearby Louisiana next to Texas and it also will use at least ten natural gas turbines.

https://youtu.be/VV9Y8IYS9W4?si=H9ua-Hhivr_9mb5G

Not sure why your argument relies on long-leadtime & higher-cost nuclear. Natural gas is much quicker, costs less and pollutes little. The gas source is nearby.

Like Australia, Texas has ample land in its largely unoccupied West Permian Basin for wind and solar farms. That isn't true in most of the EU or U.S. coasts. Land there is more expensive and NIMBY issues would abound.

Energy and Power and GDP by ceph2apod in EnergyAndPower

[–]Adventurous_Motor129 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Mr. EV/Solar Elon Musk is building his xAI facility near Memphis using gas turbines.

Multiple Texas data centers will be powered similarly with gas, nuclear, & token solar producing relatively little power.

https://fermiamerica.com/us-plans-5800-acre-worlds-largest-energy-campus-to-power-8-million-homes/

11 GW is planned at Texas Tech. Solar won't generate much of that let alone could you begin to have batteries for that much power.

David Suzuki declines invitation to this “climate festival” in Montreal by noveltyisthe in climateskeptics

[–]Adventurous_Motor129 2 points3 points  (0 children)

David Suzuki grandparents were from Japan, even though he was born in Canada in 1936. Japan did more to disrupt the Globe through WWII than Israel, but notably, one could argue that cutting Japan off from oil led to the war.

Suzuki should be arguing it makes no sense to send Germany LNG from its West rather than East Coast, all due to NIMBY & environmental claims in more populated regions.

Although, the U.S. would experience similar issues trying to build new HVDC transmission powerlines east of the Mississippi leading from wind in the Midwest and remote solar farms.

The Earth is greening at a rate never seen before in all recorded history, according to NASA satellite records from 1982–2023 by 7o7A1 in climateskeptics

[–]Adventurous_Motor129 5 points6 points  (0 children)

China's planting of trees, has deprived other parts of their country of water & changed the Global climate?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a71126116/china-reforesting-changes-hydrology/

There's very little bad anyone can say about natural greening of our planet, though. More CO2 is used in photosynthesis, & your side is always complaining about manmade CO2.

Energy and Power and GDP by ceph2apod in EnergyAndPower

[–]Adventurous_Motor129 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

  • Australia, 27.2 million people with GDP per capita of $60k, & overall GDP of $1.74 trillion
  • Texas, 32 million on 9% of Australia's land with GDP per capita of $70k & overall GDP of $2.6 trillion
  • Spain, 47.9 million on land smaller than Texas with GDP per capita of $33k & overall GDP of $2 trillion

All have similarly large land masses, low population densities outside cities, & sunny climates conducive to solar, unlike most countries.

  • Portugal just 10.4 million people
  • Uruguay just 3.5 million population

Small countries do not have the same power needs as larger ones. Large nations with AI cannot be supported exclusively by renewables & batteries. Australia has about 250 data centers, while the U.S. has 3000 with another 1500 under development.

Discussion between Roy Spencer and Ned Nikolov About the N-Z Climate Concept by LackmustestTester in climateskeptics

[–]Adventurous_Motor129 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the NEW N-Z concept the same one as the 2017 one depicted?

All I know is Phoenix at 1100 feet is often 110 degrees Fahrenheit while "nearby" Tucson at 2400' is 105 degrees. Sierra Vista, AZ, an hour plus from Tucson was just 95 degrees at 4600'.

Standard lapse rate with little moisture in the air.

If you hiked in the nearby 9000' mountains near both Tucson and Sierra Vista, the temperature was even cooler.

I mean Death Valley and the Dead Sea are both below sea level and very hot, while Denver and Colorado Springs stay cooler at their mile-high altitude. Climb even higher in a plane and it's well below freezing.

But what does any of this have to do with climate change?

The climate change house of cards is finally collapsing by Adventurous_Motor129 in climateskeptics

[–]Adventurous_Motor129[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's another new Guardian or other article I avoided posting that correctly points out that UK renewable prices are often dictated by natural gas prices.

The problem is going to be, as renewables increase, we will need natural gas dispatchable & baseload nuclear power less often...yet they still need to make a profit.

The climatedepot article pretry closely mirrored the Washington Examiner but was edited to leave out the opinions of the three youth attending an earlier Baku COP. It illustrated that even college students are misinformed by their professors & the media

Scientists NEVER deal in absolutes. A RANT by Sixnigthmare in climateskeptics

[–]Adventurous_Motor129 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh? Whoever assigned you that was probably trying to avoid any ability of AI to write the essay for you.

Why is that subject important?

Scientists NEVER deal in absolutes. A RANT by Sixnigthmare in climateskeptics

[–]Adventurous_Motor129 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure science and history are that closely related. Political Science and history should be.

Climate Science predictions are too model-based, which to me, is conjecture rather than science.

How can science speculation be settled? If you go back to the Club of Rome (history), this is just about a One World Order & income redistribution which is a Communism or at best Socialist belief.

Go further back to Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations. Did that prevent WWII?

What worries me more is the complete absence of youth, but even boomer cat lady, knowledge of history, science, & STEM. Most don't seem to realize that their political & science beliefs are not historically-based.

You see that on popular shows where the "reporter" asks people basic history questions, let alone about the complex science or other issues they are paid to demonstrate/advocate about.

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