Ranting And Raving On A Sunday Morning -- And Then I'm Going Off Line To Read -- Good Luck To All -- February 3, 2019

From iceagenow:

NOTE: the graphic is from PJM. 

For the millennials who may not be able to read a pie graph (or even know what a pie graph is):

• coal: 33%
• natural gas: 33%
• nuclear energy (much of which will be going away in the out years): 27%
• subtotal: 93%
• multiple fuels, which I assume include heating oil, diesel, fuel oil: 4%
• subtotal: 97%
• I can't make out solar or wind on the pie graph

When you see these graphics and have just lived through the polar vortex, a sentient being (perhaps even Scott Adams) needs to ask "why" is anyone in their right mind promoting wind and solar energy? Even if it's all about CO2/global warming (and, of course, it isn't), putting up a few wind farms in the US will make no difference when the Indians and Chinese are going to be burning more fossil fuel (natural gas and coal) than ever before in the out years. Thank goodness India and China are on the other side of the earth; it will take longer for that atmospheric CO2 to reach America.

Transferring $100 billion from OECD to a couple of islands in the South Pacific, administered by a committee in South Korea, tells me:

• this whole thing is a scam; and,
• this $100 billion won't do anything to combat AGW (which doesn't exist anyway)

1,500 private jets carrying 1,500 non-scientist billionaires also speaks volumes. If they aren't concerned about CO2 emissions, why should the rest of us be concerned? Couldn't they have at least jet-pooled and/or car-pooled?

Fact check:

• there were not exactly 1,500 private jets flying into Davos
• not all private jets carried only one or two passengers; some carried more
• not all private jets were owned by billionaires; some were leased; and some of the "billionaires" were only multi-millionaires

What was it that P. T. Barnum was said to have said?

• “Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.”

Whenever our granddaughters have a question they cannot answer, I tell them to a) google it; or, b) follow the money.

Google, in this case, is unhelpful. Google searches on AGW will simply take you to religious arguments: one either "believes" in AGW or one doesn't "believe" in AGW. When it comes to AGW, I am not agnostic. I am an atheist.

In this case, it's all about "following the money."

As one example this story is all over the AGW blogosphere, but won't be reported in the mainstream media. Just as the mainstream sports media won't report on how the PGA ruled on Justin Thomas' infraction yesterday (but that's another story).

This is not some low-level worker-bee. This is the head of the UK global warming climate scheme/scam:

How much has Algore made on this scam?

See comments below to explain why this screenshot is posted here:

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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, James Gleick, c. 1992.