A 21st-century version of Lysenkoism has become the dominant pseudoscience of the American Left, with ever-changing theories associated with anthropogenic global warming having shaped Democrat control policies and crackpot economic schemes for over a generation.
Green-Scam
Boris Johnson’s food policy strategist says meat tax ‘may be necessary’ but warns of FOOD RIOTS if brought in too soon – reports
After the UK’s government climate change advisers urged it to implement policy to reduce meat and dairy consumption, Boris Johnson’s hand-picked food strategy planner reportedly says a meat tax “may be necessary” in the future.
Restaurateur Henry Dimbleby, chosen to lead Downing Street’s ‘National Food Strategy’ formulation body, believes that a levy on processed meat staples like burgers, steaks, ham, sausages, and chicken nuggets could be needed in order to tackle climate change, according to media reports.
Food riots? OK, if that’s what you want to call the lynching of the idiots who would impose this anti-human policy.
GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s prohibitively expensive climate plan comes with imaginary climate targets
With Canadian governments never having hit a single greenhouse gas reduction target they’ve set since 1988, a new report by Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux explains why the Trudeau government won’t hit its latest target for 2030.
Technically, Giroux’s report — Beyond Paris: Reducing Canada’s GHG emissions by 2030 — outlines the “prohibitive costs” Canadians will have to pay and the “extraordinary measures” required by government and the private sector.
European Parliament Votes to Make EU Climate Neutral by 2050
The European Parliament has formally set a goal to make the entire European Union carbon neutral by 2050.
Members of the European Parliament passed the Climate Act on Thursday in a vote of 442 for, 203 against, and 51 abstentions. The Act also increased the EU’s goal to reduce carbon emissions from 44 per cent of 1990 levels to 55 per cent by 2030.
Delingpole: Climate Jackals Move In to Steal What Is Left of Your Freedom
Meet Sir David King, climate jackal. He and his fellow scavengers (the collective noun for jackals, appropriately enough, is a ‘skulk’) are moving in to feed on the denuded carcass of what used to be your freedoms.
With Its Power Grid On The Verge Of Failure, California Begs Residents To Change Their EV Charging Routines
It appears as though California’s plans to become an environmental and socialist utopia are running face first into reality.
The latest dose of reality came this week when the state, facing triple digit temperatures, began to “fret” about pressure on the state’s power grid as a result of everybody charging their electric vehicles all at once.
The rush to ‘go electric’ comes with a hidden cost: destructive lithium mining
The Atacama salt flat is a majestic, high-altitude expanse of gradations of white and grey, peppered with red lagoons and ringed by towering volcanoes. It took me a moment to get my bearings on my first visit, standing on this windswept plateau of 3,000 sq km (1,200 sq miles). A vertiginous drive had taken me and two other researchers through a sandstorm, a rainstorm, and the peaks and valleys of this mountainous region of northern Chile. The sun bore down on us intensely – the Atacama desert boasts the Earth’s highest levels of solar radiation, and only parts of Antarctica are drier.
They don’t want you to drive anything. That’s the bottom line.
Terence Corcoran: Keystone XL shutdown signals the real climate risk facing Canada and the world
The Keystone XL expansion is dead. The new pipeline would have shipped 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the United States, which at $70 a barrel would have generated more than $400-billion in growth-creating revenues over 20 years. Ten years ago, when TC Energy announced the expansion, few would have believed the great project would be killed off, a victim of the war on fossil fuels.
Keystone XL pipeline project cancelled by TC Energy after over a decade of delays
CALGARY – TC Energy Corp. is walking away from the Keystone XL pipeline project, ending a decade-plus battle that pitted the energy industry against environmentalists as oilsands producers sought to export Canadian crude.
Construction on the pipeline was suspended earlier this year after newly elected U.S. President Joe Biden fulfilled a campaign promise to cancel its presidential permit in January.
TC Energy last month took a $2.2-billion writedown on the cancelled project, which pushed the company to a loss in its most recent quarterly earnings.
7-Eleven Chooses Wokeness Over Convenience With EV Charging Stations
While they virtue-signal, everyone else gets to wait.
Convenience stores are about … convenience. People go there chiefly in order to get out of there, and quickly. Otherwise they’d go someplace else.
That’s why they’re willing to pay more for a bag of chips and a six-pack than you would at the grocery store.
Peter Foster: Mark Carney, man of destiny, arises to revolutionize society. It won’t be pleasant
What Carney ultimately wants is a technocratic dictatorship justified by climate alarmism
In his book Value(s): Building a Better World for All, Mark Carney, former governor both of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, claims that western society is morally rotten, and that it has been corrupted by capitalism, which has brought about a “climate emergency” that threatens life on earth. This, he claims, requires rigid controls on personal freedom, industry and corporate funding.
EPA says it will declare a desert flower an ‘endangered species’ that could halt a mine necessary for electric vehicle batteries
The idiotic and expensive plans to force electric vehicles down the throats of drivers have run into an obstacle created by a law that environmentalists demanded. You can’t have electric vehicles without lithium ion batteries, and you can’t build all those car batteries without a supply of lithium, which some warn will be inadequate soon.
Fees to finance net-zero are net-positive and rising
Somebody has to pay for all this social activism. Three guesses as to who it will be, two of which you won’t need
My latest home insurance renewal policy raised our household premium by 11.6 per cent. Why, I wondered, since we hadn’t made any claims.
The cover letter stated: “The increased cost of repairs and increased occurrence of severe weather and natural disasters in Ontario have affected your premium. Due to inflation, the cost of building materials has increased, meaning that the cost to repair and rebuild your home in the event of a claim has increased. Significant weather events such as ice storms, high winds and heavy rainfall, as well as the increase in frequency and severity of natural disasters such as fires and floods have affected the cost of home insurance in Ontario.”
Without Dirty Mining, You Can’t Make Clean Cars
The U.S. needs to ramp up lithium production if it wants to compete with China in the electric vehicle race.
Before the November election, candidate Joe Biden’s campaign let it be known that the Democratic nominee would part ways with environmental activists by supporting mining in the United States for technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Unnamed sources from Team Biden told Reuters, “A Biden administration would emphasize green energy, and in order to get more solar panels, you need more raw materials. These materials don’t come out of a test tube.”