So how is Joe Biden’s war on conventional energy and “things that work” shaping up so far? If you ask the people in the administration and the various climate alarmists around the country, things are going swimmingly.
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Rowan Atkinson: I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped
Electric motoring is, in theory, a subject about which I should know something. My first university degree was in electrical and electronic engineering, with a subsequent master’s in control systems. Combine this, perhaps surprising, academic pathway with a lifelong passion for the motorcar, and you can see why I was drawn into an early adoption of electric vehicles. I bought my first electric hybrid 18 years ago and my first pure electric car nine years ago and (notwithstanding our poor electric charging infrastructure) have enjoyed my time with both very much. Electric vehicles may be a bit soulless, but they’re wonderful mechanisms: fast, quiet and, until recently, very cheap to run. But increasingly, I feel a little duped. When you start to drill into the facts, electric motoring doesn’t seem to be quite the environmental panacea it is claimed to be.
Ireland’s mooted cow massacre is a warning to net zero Britain
The Irish government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 dairy cows to meet its climate targets. It’s madness
The collateral damage of net zero is now getting uncomfortably close to home. First Dutch farmers were threatened with compulsory purchases to satisfy EU emissions targets, fomenting a new revolt in the process. Now it’s Ireland’s turn, where the government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 cows to meet its climate targets. The scheme would be a bit like voluntary redundancy, with farmers offered financial inducements to give up their cows.
The Revolt of the Farmers
The Dutch government wants farmers to give up their land to save the planet. They’re fighting back.
The Dutch have a particular horror of fascism. They bravely resisted the Nazis during the Second World War, as the German occupation of the Netherlands cut off food and fuel shipments. During the “Hunger Winter,” which lasted from 1944 until the Allied liberation in 1945, at least 22,000 Dutch people died from malnutrition.
That experience branded the national character with a strongly libertarian streak. It also explains why, post-war, the Netherlands created the most successful agricultural economy on the planet out of the ruins.
Stellantis Bribe Likely to Exceed Volkswagen Boondoggle
Stellantis NV is likely to receive more in subsidies for a new electric-vehicle battery plant in Canada than the C$13 billion ($9.5 billion) Volkswagen AG extracted for a similar project, according to an expert who has crunched the numbers.
Stellantis and South Korean partner LG Energy Solution Ltd. announced the factory in Windsor, Ontario last year, but have halted construction while they negotiate more financial aid from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. The companies are seeking the equivalent of what they would receive under the Inflation Reduction Act if they located the plant in the US.
The Left’s Climate Indoctrination Program Terrifies a Generation of Students
Children are becoming neurotic Green New Dealers. No more cars. No more flush toilets or washing machines. What’s next to save the planet? Euthanasia?
As nearly every standardized test is showing, our schools are doing an abysmal job teaching children how to read or do math. In some cases, children graduating from high school can barely read their diplomas.
Yet the schools are wildly succeeding with their climate change indoctrination program. When I speak to students on high school and college campuses and ask what the greatest threat is to their generation, the answer isn’t China’s aggression.
PBO report shows Ottawa’s carbon tax rhetoric was always bluster
We now know how much the Trudeau government’s carbon taxes will cost Ontario families once fully implemented: an average of $2,315 a year.
For the past five years, the feds have been peddling pure fiction on carbon taxes. The government’s line has consistently been that Canadians are better off financially with a carbon tax.
But Canadian taxpayers never bought the spin.
Liberals defend green-scam after Danielle Smith slams Justin Trudeau
OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government says the re-election of a Danielle Smith-led United Conservative government in Alberta will not hinder Ottawa’s efforts to advance aggressive climate action policies.
The morning after Smith’s victory speech took clear shots at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s environmental policies as a threat to Alberta’s economy, Trudeau slipped into a cabinet meeting via a back door after attending a national prayer breakfast, leaving key cabinet ministers to react to the overnight news of her victory.
Fourth Reich disseminates ominous new report on ‘environmental policy’
If you said that climate lockdowns would be next, you might be a conspiracy theorist.
If you’re making simple observations and drawing basic conclusions about the world around you, you might be a conspiracy theorist.
If you have even the most rudimentary understanding of big government leftism and limited government conservatism, you might be a conspiracy theorist.
Renewables and rare earths: the virtuous ravaging of South Africa
South Africa Beats Climate Goal as Blackouts Slash Emissions. It’s one of those headlines you read and assume the Babylon Bee is to blame. In this case, it came from a Bloomberg article, gushing about South Africa’s falling emissions putting it on track to meet its 2025 climate goals. They were even bold enough to note: ‘Power plant breakdowns are reducing industrial activity.’
Sure, collapsing into the Stone Age is probably going to lower your CO2 emissions – for a while – but pretty soon everyone is going to be chopping down the nearest forest like it’s 5000 BC.
More Proof Your SUV Won’t Cause the Earth to Become a Burning Ball of Fire
In light of increasing hysteria from climate activists, including a recent idiotic demonstration at the Trevi Fountain, it seems to be a good time to go back to hard data. A study last year found that atmospheric carbon caused by fossil fuels has been too low to cause global warming, as climate dogmatists claim. The earth is not about to become a burning ball of fire because you drive an SUV.
How big are Canada’s carbon emissions? Compared to China, we’re a rounding error
… The average G7 leader, to say nothing of the average G7 citizen, may be under the impression that this confab, with Canada sat in the seventh seat, is the club of the world’s most powerful countries and a kind of alternative global government. It isn’t. The G7 speaks for only a fraction of the Earth’s population. It also accounts for well under half the world’s economic output, a share that is steadily falling.
And when it comes to greenhouse gases, the G7′s contribution is surprisingly small. Small, and shrinking.
Job creation tied to Windsor, Ont., Stellantis EV battery plant compared to ‘musical chairs’: prof
A Carleton University business professor is casting doubt on the number of jobs that will be added to Windsor’s economy by an electric vehicle battery factory.
Ian Lee says the country’s unemployment level is the lowest it’s been since the 1960s and calls the idea that Ontario is desperate to create new jobs as “nonsense,” adding the province is already seeing a critical shortage of workers.
Stellantis and LG Energy Solution will draw many of their employees from other plants that are already operating in the region, he says.
Windsor mayor calls delay in Stellantis deal ‘unacceptable,’ urges action
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens says he is “deeply concerned” after two weeks of negotiations between the federal and provincial governments and Stellantis have failed to produce a new deal for the NextStar EV battery plant in Windsor.
“Each passing day increases the likelihood that Windsor, its workers, residents, and businesses will not receive the commitments made to them,” Dilkens said in a statement Friday afternoon.
The climate scaremongers: We’re all going to starve – or are we?
WE’RE all familiar with incessant warnings that global warming is putting the world’s food supply at risk. One recent study, for example, claimed that a third of global food production will be at risk by the end of the century, while the UN told us that climate change would bring floods, drought, storms and other types of extreme weather which would shrink the global food supply.