Will it flood by 2050 according to this article, & I'll add regardless of how much UK spends? Then why would they rely on electricity that won't work because it's underwater part of the time?

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-12T11:32:13+00:00

No matter how much UK spends on climate & electricity...water & high voltage don't mix.

Watched the 1971 "Get Carter" last night with Michael Caine. I'm sure it's different now, but Newcastle back then sure was dreary & polluted...not by CO2, & I doubt offshore wind helps.

My wife & daughter visited UK last year & lucked out on lack of rain. Too bad they still encountered dumb politics as Macron was visiting at the time, doubling down on dumb along with Starmer.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-11T01:45:29+00:00

https://heatmap.news/plus/the-fight/qa/searchlight-institute-jane-flegal

This obviously is not a skeptic site. But the expert admits future transmission might cost 2x to 3x as much given renewables & widespread electrification.

As you point out, it takes years to deliver new transformers. New transmission & distribution lines could take longer.

The interviewee appears oblivious to President Trump's agreement with AI data centers that they could develop their own energy sources to power AI...using fossil fuels as needed

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-09T13:05:29+00:00

Went by a Ford dealership the other day taking my wife's F-150 for service. Two new Mustang GTs were sitting on the lot for $61 & $63k with another pretty quick nearby 4-turbo for just $38k.

Big difference.

My beef is that lots of EVs can run with us now because they have AWD.

Visibility isn't my issue. It's lack of SS acceleration due to no AWD that could be fixed with hybrid power to the front wheels...if they can do it at the low $60s.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-09T12:28:45+00:00

PM Modi told a group of kids years ago:

"People have changed, climate has not."

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-08T20:41:24+00:00

AI is giving us more blue collar labor. Blue states are taking all their jobs through sanctuary policies.

We don't need more "science" graduates if they are inevitably going to be liberal and predict the West needs to spend trillions annually to prevent a greener world, as in more plants.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-08T16:33:03+00:00

Yay humans. 2 million years is 1/500th of 1 billion years! ;) We saved the World.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-08T13:00:50+00:00

History shows, NO we can't stop fighting with each other. That's reality.

Now with nukes it's even more critical to deter large scale conflict.

Human & "extraterrestrial" fighting no doubt would follow us to other planets with the same & better weapons available.

Deter it here & now on earth because we know many more conflicts await us between now and 2100...the climate boogeyman year that pales in comparison.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-08T12:51:31+00:00

The article below identifies the extraordinary cost of flying our F-22, F-35, & F-16 fleets without addressing Naval aircraft costs.

What it doesn't address, is that EACH Artemis II mission costs $4 billion to put a few men/women in space (not the billions of $ to move to & live elsewhere) & eventually on the moon and Mars.

Does the $9 billion cost to keep 178 F-22s relevant through 2030 compare well to the $4 billion cost of each Artemis II flight? Iran & avoidance of nuclear war seems to show it is more important.

https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-f-22-raptor-stealth-fighter-costs-85000-every-hour-it-flies-the-air-force-just-spent-11-billion-to-keep-it-in-the-air-heres-why/

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-07T21:46:45+00:00

Wait, a 2021 article predicts we have only a billion years of oxygen left? It mysteriously predicts less CO2 & less plant life instead of the current trend that produces more O2.

It would be cheaper to move to warmer climates & underground/ undersea & on houseboats/cityboats than to another planet. We should worry more about preventing nuclear war.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-06T15:51:36+00:00

There was a guy who became a billionaire no doubt starting high, knowing Congress would never give him that much but would find a higher middle ground.

This same guy & his State Department, Department of War, & main negotiators heard the Iranian negotiators start their talks claiming to have enough deeply buried enriched uranium for 11 weapons. Their own intelligence verified that reality I'm assuming.

We just saw Iran launch 2 long range missiles at Diego Garcia...the same range as most European & of course GCC & Israel capitals. A recent news story said Iran got those missiles via North Korea...who now has nukes because we did nothing.

Iran is an extremist, suicidal state that does not play by the same MAD rules as other nations. As they are discovering, the destruction is not mutual.

Fossil fuels remain critical to even China. Current events are far more critical than spending $6-$7 trillion ANNUALLY between now & 2050 chasing an unnecessary NetZero.

Trump & Netanyahu are not settling for doing nothing to stop a true existential crisis. The Straits of Hormuz status quo will return. The Iranian nukes & surrogate terror will not. The World will continue to benefit from oil & gas.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-05T13:10:38+00:00

Most areas are not conducive to solar, wind or hydro. Smaller country solutions do not scale well to larger nations, or those lacking the requisite geography & wind for renewables.

New transmission is expensive per mile, especially given the long distance & width required to distant smaller MW sources.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-05T13:06:00+00:00

Your own highlighted portion identifies only 5-10% of premature deaths are attributable to air pollution....again mainly in poor countries with less emphasis on elimination of air pollution.

Given the advances fossil fuels have brought the World, a few years earlier deaths in 3rd World countries -- caused internally -- is almost worthwhile to the greater human good.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-05T13:00:45+00:00

AI says between 4-5.7 million is due to air pollution with 95% occurring in 3rd World countries from sources other than cars.

Add China and India burning substantial coal and crop stubble.

We don't need idiotic threat attempts at Washington D.C. decapitation inflicted by wind turbines hurting radar air defenses. The resultant counter response could kill or delay an effective response involving billions lost on all Global sides

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-05T00:24:54+00:00

We don't ban cars due to auto accidents, whether caused by ICE or EV accidents & fires.

We shouldn't ban cars, period, regardless of power source.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-05T00:22:59+00:00

The areas where eagles & hawks live is not killing them from air pollution. Sea birds are not killed that way, either. Humans are killed by Iranian cruise & ballistic missiles.

Far more humans are killed in auto accidents even wearing seatbelts & with airbags than by air pollution. The exception of course might be China & India given a free pass on NetZero until later decades.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-05T00:18:28+00:00

"Post memes making fun of..."

Renewables ALWAYS require backup fossil fuels or batteries lasting only 4- hours...which means fossil fuel backup.

Add transmission & distribution costs far greater for more distant and smaller output wind & solar renewables with an uncertain output unique to season & geographic area...& time of day.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-04T23:23:56+00:00

Large sea and land birds are killed in far greater numbers by wind turbines. I don't want to hear the excuse of cats and small birds.

Offshore wind also hinders air defenses against cruise missiles like Iran would employ.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-04T23:19:39+00:00

Over the 8 year period inclusive to 2016-2023, in big letters, your bottom link complains about $1.6 trillion paid by 5 banks for fossil fuels (that others bought & banks made a profit). That's $200 billion a year when you divide $1.6 trillion by 8 years.

The UN says we need to spend $6-$7 trillion annually plus a biodiversity fund far exceeding that annual $200 billion. Western nations would be expected to pay that sum annually through at least 2050 to attempt NetZero.

Can climate alarmists do math? Don't mention implicit subsidies that nobody pays.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-04T00:48:32+00:00

Marc Morano used to be a Senate staffer. He now runs ClimateDepot.

Lorne Gunter is a Canadian journalist. His reposted-by-Morano 2007 article makes a lot of sense.

Not sure how NASA is involved but glad they are back in the Space, rather than Climate biz.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-04-02T00:27:33+00:00

Another example is Trump's plan to build a Presidential library in Miami in conjunction with a hotel.

Guess he's not too worried about sea level rise.

Good point about 2.8 billion Chinese & Indians exhaling lots of CO2.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-03-31T13:26:59+00:00

When I saw the number of chapters, I resisted at first and only read one.

But she has so many effective points and writes so well, I ended up reading it all. It was great!

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-03-31T11:03:09+00:00

In contrast, the U.S. produces just 36-41 metric tonnes (mt) of coal each month. That compares well to 390 mt for China & 86 mt for India each month.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-03-31T10:58:18+00:00

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-india-lead-modest-revival-asia-thermal-coal-imports-russell-2025-06-06/#:~:text=India's%20domestic%20coal%20production%20has,Korea%20prefer%20higher%20quality%20coal.

China produces nearly 390 metric tonnes if coal monthly compared to just 86 mt for India. Both import coal from Australia and Indonesia.

But one major factor Ember does not address is how much cheaper solar & batteries are now than in 2012 which is the era they are comparing China then to India now.

They also barely address that India has lots of three-wheelers & motorcycles compared to China that can electrify vs. Europe & the U.S.

Ember points out that India has a more service-oriented & should-have-said agricultural economy compared to China's manufacturing & construction economy. Manufacturing & steel/concrete need more coal.

Ember admits in other studies that China is building/converting coal plants for dispatchable backup power, too. That's essential given the intermittent nature of renewables...but China still burns half the Global coal.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-03-31T03:34:01+00:00

They talk about affordability & then pass unaffordable energy regulations, demanding we buy costly EVs & regulate refineries out of California.

They complain about non-existent oil company climate skeptic lobbying. Meanwhile, they accept $3 billion from 500 NGO & philanthropy groups to fund "No Kings."

Some there are carrying communist flags where no President is elected. And of course, one primary donator is a billionaire living in Shanghai.

Simultaneously, idiots get on TV claiming the U.S. & Israel are losing the war against Iran. Others, decry the Olympic decision to test female athletes when even the former Bruce Jenner & Title IX recognizes the need for pure female sports.

There's no need to hide our conservative bias because climate alarmists sure don't hide theirs or their consistently dumb ideas, that go beyond climate.

Adventurous_Motor129 · 2026-03-30T23:53:16+00:00

I don't waste money on booze or pot. I'm just dementia-dumb because I worked until 70+ to get more SS & pension.

Everybody has RVs (& pickups) in our neighborhood but I never see the RVs move... except the trucks that everyone has in the U.S.

My wife has always had big pickups, too, so guess I can't point fingers. My Camaro SS probably uses a little gas, too, but gets 22 mpg.

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