Climate Change? What Climate Change?

  Oil and petroleum products explained Use of oil Crude oil and other liquids produced from fossil fuels are refined into petroleum products that people use for many different purposes. Biofuels are also used as petroleum products, mainly in mixtures with gasoline and diesel fuel. Petroleum has historically been the largest major energy source for total annual U.S. energy consumption. We use petroleum products to propel vehicles, to heat buildings, and to produce electricity. In the industrial sector, the petrochemical industry uses petroleum as a raw material (a feedstock) to make products such as plastics, polyurethane, solvents, and hundreds of other intermediate and end-user goods. In 2020, U.S. petroleum consumption averaged about 18.12 million barrels per day (b/d), which included nearly 1 million ...

Rail freight goes back to diesel as electricity costs soar SOME rail freight operators have abandoned electric traction, at least for now, because the price of electricity has been rising sharply. The electricity tariffs include a 40 per cent renewable energy tax, and following the latest rises diesel traction is now cheaper. The drivers' union ASLEF is calling for the government to intervene, but Freightliner has already taken action.  The company said: 'As a result of soaring prices in the UK’s wholesale electricity market, the price Network Rail charges us to operate electric services has increased by more than 210 per cent between September and October. This unprecedented rise in electricity charges has resulted in a sharp increase in the cost of operating electric freight services. As a result, Freightliner has taken the difficult decision to temporarily replace electric freight services with diesel-hauled services, in order to maintain a cost-e...

  O’Toole: An environmentalist comes clean on the climate scare July 10, 2020 By Randal O'Toole “Climate change is happening,” says environmentalist Michael Shellenberger . “It’s just not the end of the world . It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.” Shellenberger makes these statements in an article “apologizing” for the “climate scare.” Although he himself used to call climate change an “existential crisis,” he no longer believes that. In fact, he hasn’t believed it for awhile, but didn’t say so publicly because he feared “losing friends and funding.” Shellenberger says he has been an environmentalist for 30 years, which means he joined the movement just as it was being taken over by socialists. As I describe in The Education of an Iconoclast , the environmental movement in the 1980s was tolerant of a wide range of views. We had nuclear engineers fighting log...

  O’Toole: Polis greenhouse gas plan more of what doesn’t work November 9, 2021 By Randal O'Toole If you believe that human-caused climate change is a serious problem, then you would naturally support Colorado Governor Jared Polis’ Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap . But if you truly believe that human-caused climate change is a serious problem, then there is no way you should support this plan, as the transportation portion, at least, will cost Coloradans a colossal amount of money but have almost no effect on greenhouse gases. The plan calls for a 10 percent reduction in total driving by 2030. Colorado’s population grew by 15 percent between 2010 and 2020, and it is likely to grow 15 percent more by 2030, which means the plan is really calling for a 25-percent reduction in per capita driving. Only once in history has the United States ever seen a 25-percent red...

  Read Chapter 3 excerpt of Green Fraud: ‘Man-Made Climate Change Is Not a Threat’ – ‘Hundreds of causes & variables influence climate’ not just CO2 Order Green Fraud  here : Chapter 3 Excerpt: This chapter will take the reader through the facts on the claims about climate, energy, and the environment from the media, UN, and Green New Deal advocates. Princeton professor emeritus of physics Will Happer explained why climate activists are wrong. “Aside from the human brain, the climate is the most complex thing on the planet. The number of factors that influence climate—the sun, the earth’s orbital properties, oceans, clouds, and, yes, industrial man—is huge and enormously variable,” Happer said. The global warming coalition can accurately be called climate change cause deniers. They deny the hundreds of causes and variables that influence climate change and inste...

Sea Level Rise is Accelerating Dramatically Coastal erosion – houses built on weak clay soil slide down to the sea and collapse near Odessa, Ukraine 123rf.com The arguments and claims for this being an issue of concern: Climate Change is causing rising sea levels to accelerate, threatening to displace millions of people. From NASA Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate, as previously thought, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satellite data. If the rate of ocean rise continues to change at this pace, sea level will rise 26 inches (65 centimeters) by 2100 — enough to cause significant problems for coastal cities, according to the new assessment by Nerem and colleagues from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; CU Boulder; the University of South Florida in Tampa; and Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. https://climate.nasa.g...