This is the dramatic story of how an eccentric environmental speculation grew into a powerful global scare industry; it is the story of the corruption of science, the defrauding of taxpayers, the destruction of reliable energy, the bullying of anyone who dares question the narrative and a hidden agenda for shortages, rationing, environmental destruction and global control. The film exposes the climate alarm as an invented scare without any basis in science. It emphatically counters the claim that current temperatures and levels of atmospheric CO2 are unusually and worryingly high. In fact, we are currently near the end of a warm interlude in an ice age and there is no evidence that changing levels of CO2 (it has changed many times) has ever ‘driven’ climate change in the past.
Continue reading “The Cold Truth on Global Warming”Ad-free Media? No Such Thing
By Viv Forbes
There is no ad-free media.
Commercial media promotes goods, services, functions and political messages for those prepared to pay for this service.
The government-owned ABC also runs incessant ads. However, ABC ads promote the ABC, its own programs, and its black-red-green-rainbow political agenda. This agenda does not serve most of the net payers of tax who fund their propaganda.
Continue reading “Ad-free Media? No Such Thing”Grand Land Grab: Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Needs 70% of Australia’s Prime Farmland
Australia’s prime agricultural land is being carpeted with endless seas of solar panels and thousands of these things are being speared everywhere the panels can’t go.
Dilute and diffuse, wind and solar require a staggering amount of space, and way more than their occasional, weather (and/or sunshine) dependent power generation can ever hope to justify.
Taking up vast tracts of farmland with solar panels means that that land produces nothing else. While the solar panels are lucky to produce power for 5-6 hours every day (ie 20-25% of the time).
Spearing hundreds of 300 tonne, 280m high turbines into productive farmland brings its own range of special ‘challenges’ for primary producers.
Continue reading: https://stopthesethings.com/2024/03/16/grand-land-grab-wind-solar-transition-needs-70-of-australias-prime-farmland/
Exploding Energy Prices in Costly California
By Steve Goreham. Originally published in Master Resource.
Energy prices are skyrocketing in California. The state’s electricity, gasoline, and natural gas prices are amongst the nation’s highest and rising. Green energy policies are the primary cause for high and escalating California energy prices.
California electricity prices increased by 98.2 percent over the last 15 years, the highest rise in the nation. No other state comes close in terms of price increases. US average electricity prices rose 30.6 percent over the same period. California power prices rose to a level that is the second highest in the nation, only lower than Hawaii. In contrast, prices in Texas have actually declined since 2008 due to a focus on retail competition and a decrease in natural gas prices
Continue reading “Exploding Energy Prices in Costly California”Graphene, the material that could change the world
By Graham Pinn
The invention of plastics changed the world in the Twentieth Century, graphene a form of carbon, will do the same in the Twenty-first. It is light and very strong (estimated at up to 200 times stronger than steel) – strong enough to stop a speeding bullet! It is heat and electricity conducting, and is believed to be the future of electronics, with applications in computers, batteries, solar panels, sensors, and medical and military devices. A recent development has suggested the possibility that graphene can even produce its own low- energy output, coming from the motion of its molecules.
The problem has been how to economically manufacture it on a commercial scale. Carbon exists in nature in two forms, graphite (as in lead pencils) and the more exotic diamond; graphene does not exist in nature. There had been 70 years of speculation about the substance before it was finally produced by rudimentary processes in 2004; its discoverers, in UK, were subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 2010. Its development has been the Holy Grail of technology.
Continue reading “Graphene, the material that could change the world”Pious Greenies Making Matters Worse
By Howard Dewhirst
ONCE upon a time in the West, anxious Greenies tied themselves to trees in the path of bulldozers to prevent the building of a new road, or dam, or anything that might improve the lot of human residents at the expense of nature.
By the 1970s, Tasmania’s industrial and residential development had spawned the construction of 40 or so dams to provide water and power, but by 1978 more were needed, and the Tasmanian Hydro Electric Commission announced its intention to build a new dam on the Gordon River below the existing Gordon dam. Two years later, 10,000 people marched in the capital Hobart to protest, and in 1981 Aboriginal cave art was discovered within the lake catchment area, further justifying the protest. Nevertheless, in the state election of 1981, not a single ‘No Dams’ candidate was elected. On December 14, 1982, UNESCO declared the South West Wilderness area of Tasmania a world heritage site, but the Tasmanian government ignored this, and strong Federal Government pressure, and continued with planning the new Franklin Dam.
The Tasmanian economy was fading, which the dam would help counteract, but Wilderness Society protesters disagreed, and 1,200 were arrested for blocking construction. On July 1, 1983, the High Court in Brisbane gave the Federal Government the power to legislate on any issue in favour of an international treaty obligation, the newly elected Hawke government sprang into Greenie mode and 2,000 future jobs for the Franklin area went up in the smoke of victory, or defeat. The dam was not to be and the protesters went back to their city jobs, well pleased with themselves.
The proposed dam was small by fossil fuel standards, with a capacity of just 172 MW, compared to 2,000 MW (or 2 GW) from a conventional coal-fired plant; likewise, the planned reservoir behind the dam was much smaller than the footprint of the high-tension cables and towers needed to bring wind power from the crest of mountain tops, where so many are installed, to where it is needed in the cities.
The Australian Green Party can be said to have emerged as a political force during the Franklin Dam protests, and was up and running when the next environmental challenge emerged, this time in Queensland. In 1983 a campaign was mounted to prevent the building of a coastal road through some of the last remaining lowland tropical rainforest in Australia. The road was to link the Daintree and Cape Tribulation areas with the village of Bloomfield, completing a road link to Cooktown further north. The forest had been logged since the 1870s and the bigger trees close to the coast were long gone, but much remained inland and today the Daintree Forest reserve covers 1200 sq km with significant amounts of pristine forest habitat. Blocking the construction of a 60 km long and perhaps 6 m wide road would have negligible impact on the already logged forest, and would encourage tourism as a replacement for logging. Nevertheless the struggle went on and protesters chained themselves to trees or half buried themselves in the ground to prevent construction.
The protest did not stop the road, but it demonstrated the passion of the green warriors to preserve any plant or animal in the ‘pristine wilderness’, regardless of any benefits to the humans who lived there. The driver for these protests was, and still is, an emotional one: to protect Mother Nature from the wickedness of the modern world. So it is even more surprising that these feelings seem to have vanished, with Greens supporting the construction of massive solar and wind factories covering hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural and pastoral land and often pristine wilderness. Their aim of saving the environments they particularly love has morphed into saving the planet as a whole by insisting on Net Zero emissions of CO2.
However, as usual, they have not looked at the data. Australia’s emissions of CO2 from fossil fuels in 2022, were some 376 million tons, which may sounds a lot but is just 1 per cent of the global total of 34,374 million tons; even if these emissions were cut to zero, which cannot happen, what significant difference would it make? And if they would but look at the amount of CO2 sequestrated naturally by Australia’s truly enormous landmass, they would realise that we are already well past the Net Zero target.
To achieve their goal, they have mandated the closure of all Australia’s coal mines and coal-fired power stations, but again pay no attention to the data. In mid-February, one coal fired power station in Victoria was shut down by a spring storm, which also took out some high-tension power lines, which closed down another power station – and half a million homes and businesses lost power. Where was the mandated 20 per cent redundancy power back up? And could the renewables not do anything to help? Ah yes, batteries, I hear you say. When South Australia had a blackout in 2017 due to a power station shut down, the then biggest battery in the world was drained in less than five minutes.
The progressive closure of more and more of Australia’s manufacturing ability may be salve to the collective Greenies’ conscience, but they are kidding themselves if they think this helps the planet. All it has done is send the CO2 emissions overseas, mainly to Asia. The only way to cut Australia’s CO2 footprint is to immediately stop buying anything made in Asia, or anywhere else out of the country. So, no more iPhones, laptops, refrigerators, washing machines and tumble driers, TVs, clothing, gym equipment, X-ray, MRI and other medical equipment, motor vehicles, e-scooters and e-bicycles, ride on mowers and golf buggies, sports equipment, water and sewage pumps, windows and the thousand and one ‘everyday’ items that make the modern world function as it does, most of which can only be manufactured with or from crude oil, or coal.
The Greenies would have us go back to the pre-industrial age of poverty and a short life span. Shouldn’t we try to stop them?
Howard Dewhirst has a BA Hons, Geology & Eng Lit, MA, Ancient History and a long career in international exploration for energy and mineral resources, using sedimentary and stratigraphic concepts based on real climate change.
Can the Government Create a Green Hydrogen Fuel Industry?
By Steve Goreham. Originally published in Washington Examiner.
World leaders promote hydrogen as a possible low-emissions fuel for transportation and industry. Nations have announced hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to support development and supply of hydrogen. But will governments be able to create a new green hydrogen fuel industry?
When hydrogen burns, the only combustion product is water vapor. Net Zero advocates, such as the International Energy Agency (IEA), propose that green hydrogen be used as fuel in place of natural gas and coal in industry and transportation. But the problems with existing hydrogen technology are many.
Continue reading “Can the Government Create a Green Hydrogen Fuel Industry?”Australia’s ‘Green’ Politicians Spew Climate Alarmism As They Sabotage Water Conservation
By Viv Forbes
Almost every river in Eastern Australia is now pouring surplus water into the sea. But only two dams have been built in Queensland in the last 20 years—the Wyaralong Dam, built 13 years ago, and Paradise Dam, built 19 years ago.
Droughts will come again and we will wish for another dam-builder like Joh Bjelke-Petersen, whose government built at least eight dams in Queensland—the Burdekin, Wivenhoe, Hinze, Beardmore, Haig, Fairbairn, Bjelke-Petersen, and Eungella. [emphasis, links added]
But that all came to a halt in 1988 when the plans to build the Wolffdene Dam were scuttled by all the usual suspects.
Continue reading “Australia’s ‘Green’ Politicians Spew Climate Alarmism As They Sabotage Water Conservation”How Times Change
Carbon “facts” and Green Dream Believers
By John Mikkelsen
I’VE seen the light, the truth about “carbon pollution” in simple terms as explained by some Green Dream Believers and disciples of the new Climate Change religion.
So why am I still in the dark? I’ve always wondered how Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen, Greens leader Adam Bandt, the nowhere-near-independent Teals and a host of other climate change advocates keep banging on about “carbon pollution” and how we must eliminate it to save the planet while creating thousands of new Green Renewables jobs.
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