A view of the other side of zero carbon energy use
So, the batteries of the solar system failed and were not replaced, therefore climate change is not a threat? That’s logic right there.
Later in the same article
India saw a record jump in electricity demand this year, partly due to increased use of air conditioning units
Perhaps because India is breaking all temperature records this year? As was openly predicted by climate scientists last year. And as I posted on this board last year. In a few years it will be even hotter.
And then hotter still.
But the problem is the battery technology for a solar PV array. And the solution is more coal fired power stations.
Yep yep yep.
Back in reality, here’s an interesting article about the coming predicament that is facing India’s economy and farming output due to climate change
Note that I agree, as I have said before, that net-zero policies are a scam. It’s possible to recognise that 2 things are true though
1 net zero is a scam
2 climate change is a monumental existential threat to human civilization on this planet
Although we could also add
3 - the prospect of nuclear attacks by rabid Israeli politicians (and/or rabid US and EU politicians) is also an existential threat to human civilization.
Happy thoughts
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What if we’re comfortably between the two? I digress.
I posted this, not for bait but show what’s likely going to happen across half the world if not more. Also highlights the serious problem we have with storing all this abundance of power.
#3 Recently read that Pakistan has promised to gift one to Israel if they decide to get really daft.
Edit. You’re aware we’re currently in a solar maximum?
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Time will tell, I guess. As more and more crop failures occur, greater extreme weather events batter our coastlines and cities, the collapse of biosystems accelerates and heatstroke and death of millions of people (and other sentient beings) around the world each year become regular events, we can come back and revisit this chat. Let’s book a time next year, eh?
There are a number of things we could be doing to mitigate the worst of this, but we’re too busy protecting capitalism from the lunatic fringe who see the issue clearly. A bit like how we can’t see the deaths of palestinians, but are happy to scramble jets to protect israel from unwarranted attacks from Iran…
Yes, fully aware of the solar maximum. Solar forcing is an important part of our planetary energy budget, and perhaps not as well understood as is should be. Carbon dioxide is a well understood forcing component too. One that has a pretty clear effect on temperature on planet earth (and other planets in the solar system).
We can see the effect that increasing CO2 has on the planet’s temperature. The sun making it even worse will not change that…But we can do something about CO2, and nothing about what the sun decides to do.
Denis Rancourt says you can double the CO2 and it will not have a noticeable affect on the Earth’s mean surface temperature. Quote “Period. This is a hard calculation”
As I have pointed out several times already, Denis Rancourt is a shill, and totally not to be trusted on climate change.
He gets the basics totally wrong, and just gets worse from there. His views on CO2 are plain not reliable.
You’ll be quoting the Heartland institute next.
In this case, it’s not a difficult scientific matter to go back to a period where the global CO2 was double what it is now and check what the temperatures were like. Paleoclimatology has the answers that Rancourt will never look for.
Who are they?
I barely know who Rancourt is. And I quoted him because it’s his words, not mine.
they are the outfit that shilled for big tobacco when it was beyond obvious that cigarettes cause cancer. Now they have turned their attention to climate change.
Fair enough. He’s not a reliable source is all I’m saying. This is a case in point. He could just go and look at the scientific literature on what the earth’s temp was when CO2 was double what it is. Instead he hand waves about hard calculations.
He’s not interested in the answer to the question, he’s simply trying to obfuscate.