DGS49
Diamond Member
For anyone reading this who frets about his (her) own carbon footprint, or frets that the United States is not taking the threat of "climate change" seriously, does it impact your thinking when you read that...
"...China alone is adding 38 GW of coal-fired power plants this year, and another 47 GW next year, with hundreds more gigawatts worth of coal plants already in the pipeline..."?
And that doesn't even consider India, which is doing approximately the same thing on a more limited scale, and all of sub-Saharan Africa which would LIKE TO DO the same thing, given some technological assistance. Aren't they entitled to electric light, modern transportation, and cooking on something other than dung fires?
Seriously. Everyone in the U.S. could park his (her) SUV, turn off the lights, and take up subsistence farming, and the global impact would be like removing a bucket of water from Lake Superior in the hope that it will lower the level of water in the lake.
And parenthetically, what's up with that homely Swedish girl? Why is she sailing to the U.S. to preach her sermon? Shouldn't she be going to China?
KNOWING THE FACTS, does it really make any sense for Americans to make significant sacrifices to reduce our carbon footprint, when in the big picture it makes NO DIFFERENCE whatsoever? If "we" [in the U.S.] do everything desired by the Paris Climate Accords, the impact on global temperatures a hundred years out will not even be measurable. Literally.
Here is the article from which the quoted language is extracted.
www.manhattancontrarian.com
"...China alone is adding 38 GW of coal-fired power plants this year, and another 47 GW next year, with hundreds more gigawatts worth of coal plants already in the pipeline..."?
And that doesn't even consider India, which is doing approximately the same thing on a more limited scale, and all of sub-Saharan Africa which would LIKE TO DO the same thing, given some technological assistance. Aren't they entitled to electric light, modern transportation, and cooking on something other than dung fires?
Seriously. Everyone in the U.S. could park his (her) SUV, turn off the lights, and take up subsistence farming, and the global impact would be like removing a bucket of water from Lake Superior in the hope that it will lower the level of water in the lake.
And parenthetically, what's up with that homely Swedish girl? Why is she sailing to the U.S. to preach her sermon? Shouldn't she be going to China?
KNOWING THE FACTS, does it really make any sense for Americans to make significant sacrifices to reduce our carbon footprint, when in the big picture it makes NO DIFFERENCE whatsoever? If "we" [in the U.S.] do everything desired by the Paris Climate Accords, the impact on global temperatures a hundred years out will not even be measurable. Literally.
Here is the article from which the quoted language is extracted.
Reality Cannot Penetrate Into The Fantasy World Of Climate Campaigners — Manhattan Contrarian
It was only a few weeks ago when the UN’s International Energy Agency issued its Report on “CO2 Emissions in 2021.” (The Report does not bear a precise date, but only “March 2022.”) I covered the IEA’s Report in my previous post a few days ago . The Report gives detail as to the obvious fact
www.manhattancontrarian.com
