Greta Thunberg: High Treason To Civilization? Make Europe Greta’s Apocalypse?

Greta, the climate maniac, has gone nuts and opportunistic for all to see… Her parents were actors, that’s her acting. She has protested hysterically and moronically against French farmers creating lakes to fight droughts. Her latest target: French freeways. She is helped by so-called “black blocks” masked hoodlums in herds by the thousands paid to go around Europe destroying stuff… Who pays them? Putin? How come they are not caged?

This sort of acting against lakes and roads has nothing to do with climate change, everything to do with celebritism… In France the climate war is turning vicious, the government having gone Greta. The government is actively dissuading people from driving cars, sometimes putting taxes in excess of $70,000 on ONE car (sporty models). The funny thing is that electric cars as presently done have no impact on climate… except and until nobody can afford them, nobody has valets to go charge them, or Musk solar panels with Musk batteries to charge at home their Musk cars, in one’s five million dollar mansion (from buying Musk stock)… so nobody can drive… which is clearly the aim in France. I am writing this in 2024. It was very different 18 months ago. Now it’s clear…

Yes, winter in the Alps, where I am presently located, has been maybe 11 Celsius above average in 4 weeks moving average (I am estimating this). And yes I am zero surprised. 

20 years ago, where I am located, there would have been more than a meter of snow for two months already. Now there are traces of snow… sometimes… a kilometer higher. Palm trees are thriving. Banana trees grow. Tropical plants are met in the wilderness, deep in the woods, healthy and strong. Butterflies in January… In the Alps, above lake Geneva… I am zero surprised: climate change is a super exponential and we are on target for PLUS SEVEN Centigrades by 2100. I have been saying this for years… And yes, the sea level will rise by meters, etc. The IPCC, the UN climate catastrophe body, has been careful to not be too catastrophic,.. Lest it displeases its fossil fuels fuelled sponsors… 

BUT a major cause for this disaster has been the fake ecologists who have dominated the information space for decades, with their lies and hysteria. They targeted nuclear power, and succeeded: we are still stuck with not very efficient and potentially dangerous second generation reactors… we should be in generation four, eating their own waste.

The price of the fake ecologists success against nuclear power has been a climate catastrophe: all electric generation that is not PV and hydraulic could have been nuclear, that is carbon free.

Also the fake ecologists pushed against hydrogen, prefering to sponsor huge electric cars for wealthy posers…

Indeed, wrong minded celebrities and eco-stupid people make a bad situation worse, as they made up wrong plastic trees to bark up to. Most ecologists are just celebrities insisting on stupid policies which are devised to be hateful and ineffective, to give fighting climate change a bad name, and preventing it… Because celebritism is sponsored by the powers that be, that is… fossil fuels…

For example French ecologists made a secret accord in 1999 with the French Socialist PM, Jospin: we will support you, but you will destroy nuclear energy, including maintenance and research. Wonder who got the idea… Simultaneously a law was passed to never drill for French natural gas. Wonder who got the idea…  And a solution was found: Russian gas. Wonder who got the idea…  

Such traitors should be tried for high treason to civilization.

Nuclear energies under all their forms, especially the future ones, are the number one solution to the climate crisis. True solar PV can help enormously in some climates… Especially with hydrogen and derivatives… Hydrogen that can also be derived carbon free from many types of nuclear…

A breakthrough was made in California at LLL, what is called INERTIAL THERMONUCLEAR FUSION was achieved with positive energy gain by multiple factors. The lab in question is a nuclear weapon lab, and that research is just a hobby. You would assume that Europe has launched a gigantic program of investment in this… All the more as it is laser tech dependent and lasers have extreme military interest, especially considering what is going in Ukraine, Israel and the Red Sea…

However, in Europe, right now, Greta has won. The French government has turned Greta and has decided to phase out cars (they will say no no no, but they are lying). Europe has decided to phase out growth. They call it “degrowth”, it’s the official policy… Wonder who got the idea… The same high treason to civilization outfit? 

All that European degrowth has accomplished is that now a US nuclear carrier task force is keeping the Red Sea open, and is engaged in the heaviest sea battle since World War Two (dixit Pentagon). The US task force is helped by two French and two British destroyers. They are all busy firing two million dollar missiles at a rich assortment of drones, sea skimming and ballistic missiles… Otherwise the Red Sea closes, and so does the Suez Canal, Egypt, etc… The point is, as Trump no doubt notices, is that the Roman empire used to sprawl along the Red Sea. It should be for Europe to keep the Red Sea open, not US taxpayers… Ah, but European ecologists paid by the Kremlin do not like nuclear power…So a US task force with several nuclear boats can’t please them… Or, more exactly, do not please their masters in the Kremlin…  

There should be a hefty carbon tax, all over, and the free market would do the rest… providing consumers with the most efficient cars… that means, in 2024, hybrid cars… And, in general, the most efficient battery systems. There is an optimal battery mass at a stage of battery development, depending upon the product (a fixed installation can use a massive battery). To be obsessed by pure Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) is not climate optimal. Demonizing the fossil fuel industry is so hypocritical that it is counterproductive.

Greta, whatever her name is, did not complete her second year of high school. Instead she went on knowledge strike because it was too hot in Sweden. But what we need now is knowledge. She should be careful that French farmers, who have difficult lives because of endowed hypocrites like her, may want to drown her in one of these bassines they built so agriculture still has water in summer… To feed us, who don’t dine with presidents, as she does, just because she has no education mais juste une grande gueule… to serve the mighty with her smoke screens…

Patrice Ayme

Ancient Sponges Show Planetary Warming More Than 1.7 Centigrades Already. 4 Years Ago!

And these are tropical sponges. Warming is greater in polar and mountainous regions… Considering all the gathering disasters, global man-made warming is nearly relaxing, in an exponential sort of way. Now we have one more formal proof that the warming is in excess of 1.7 Centigrades… Already… 

300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C

This winter, in the Western Alps, temperatures have been in excess of ten degree Centigrades above normal… for several weeks. Some ski resorts with more than 65 lifts found themselves without any snow whatsoever in Switzerland. That’s not from drought: thanks to a super El Nino, the fifth strongest since 1950, Western Europe got record amounts of rain…and thus snow, high enough. However the snow-rain limit is 1,500 meters (5,000 feet) higher than normal.

Since the dawn of the civilization, human activities warmed the planet by considerably more than today’s most widely accepted estimates imply. Indeed, first of all, lions got replaced by cattle. Lions eat all species from rabbit to cattle, and humans wanted to eat and milk cattle instead. But cattle make methane, a strong greenhouse gas. So, for at least 5,000 years, the planet enjoyed a man-made methane blanket.

Now new information about Earth’s past climate comes from a new source: centuries-old sponges living very deep in the Caribbean Sea.

Networks of sensors have measured the rising temperatures of recent decades with great precision. However scientists typically combine this data with 19th-century thermometer readings that were spotty and sometimes produced faulty higher readings (some of these readings are so high, they are considered increasingly as inadmissible; for example even record high readings in Death Valley from the early 20th-century).

By examining the chemical composition of six (!) sponges’ skeletons, which the creatures built up steadily over centuries, the researchers pieced together a more precise evaluation of the earliest man-made warming (the sponges are so deep, 100 meters, ten atmosphere, they need special submarines and divers breathing part 60% Helium to grab them).

The measurements of old sponges point to a startling conclusion: Humans raised global temperatures by a total of about 1.7 degrees Celsius, or 3.1 Fahrenheit, over the baseline, not 1.2 degrees Celsius, the most commonly used propaganda value.

“It’s a bit of a wake-up call,” said Malcolm T. McCulloch, a geochemist at the University of Western Australia and one of the scientists who worked on the new research.

Prevailing estimates of the planet’s warming are a political hot potato. To mitigate them, scientists, anxious to please their paymasters, have used rolling averages… The warming has been evaluated by comparing with averaged conditions between 1986 and 2005, not conditions during preindustrial times… when the temps were clearly lower, and should have been that way. Limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius and, if possible, 1.5 Celsius, as stipulated under the 2015 Paris Agreement is then a bit tongue in cheek.

Revised temperature estimates for the 19th century therefore do not change our fake understanding of whether these guardrails have been breached.

The two drastic coolings below marked T and K are the Tambora and Krakatau explosions... They are well-documented... Notice that the "LAND" thermometer readings, planet-wide, show a warming since 1960, which is well in excess of TWO (2) C... And this does not count the extravagant warming of 2023... the warmest year in more than 100,000 years, since the Eemian...  
Patrice Ayme
From Nature Climate Change Published February 5, 2024 (today!):

Anomalies relative to 1961–1990 baseline with +0.9 °C offset (unless indicated). a, OML and Berkeley land12 temperature anomalies with onset of extreme land-air temperature from about 1990 (pink shading). b, GMSTs from blended OML and land12 anomalies (this study dark red circles) and from blended HadSST4 and land temperatures12 (orange circles), the latter relative to IPCC 1850–1900 pre-industrial period, which underestimates global warming by ∼0.5 °C. See refs. 11,12,13 and Supplementary Data for uncertainties. c, OML and HadSST4 of >1.5 °C and land >2 °C temperature increases by 2020. d, GMST records for blended OML + land and blended HadSST4 + land with 1.5 °C passed during 2012–2015. At current rates of emissions 2 °C global warming will be reached by late 2020s. Historic evolution of atmospheric CO2 (solid line), future increases with present-day rates of emissions (dashed line) and 10% annual reductions from 2025 to halve emissions by early 2030 (dotted line).

Abstract

Anthropogenic emissions drive global-scale warming yet the temperature increase relative to pre-industrial levels is uncertain. Using 300 years of ocean mixed-layer temperature records preserved in sclerosponge carbonate skeletons, we demonstrate that industrial-era warming began in the mid-1860s, more than 80 years earlier than instrumental sea surface temperature records. The Sr/Ca palaeothermometer was calibrated against ‘modern’ (post-1963) highly correlated (R2 = 0.91) instrumental records of global sea surface temperatures, with the pre-industrial defined by nearly constant (<±0.1 °C) temperatures from 1700 to the early 1860s. Increasing ocean and land-air temperatures overlap until the late twentieth century, when the land began warming at nearly twice the rate of the surface oceans. Hotter land temperatures, together with the earlier onset of industrial-era warming, indicate that global warming was already 1.7 ± 0.1 °C above pre-industrial levels by 2020. Our result is 0.5 °C higher than IPCC estimates, with 2 °C global warming projected by the late 2020s, nearly two decades earlier than expected.

Is New York Times Advocating Blowing Up Pipe Lines?

The New York Times wrote: “the idea of attacking infrastructure and closing down new pipelines is a disarmament. It’s about taking down a machine that actually kills people.” [0]. I protested: This is as wrong as it gets. Shutting down the fossil fuel economy would kill billions of people. NYT censored my common sense. After declaring that men who want to be women just have to say so, or that white racism destroys civilization, now the NYT is advertizing for the immediate destruction of the world energy and food production system. That would obviously be the greatest disaster ever. So it makes an excellent diversion from serious subjects… Now that potentially wokism peters out….

The New York Times in a remarkably biased and crime promoting interminable interview advertised Lund university professor, the deranged, terroristic and ill-infomed Andreas Malm. Malm is the author of “How To Blow Up A Pipeline” [1]. 

The Nordic bandit agreed that he had taken illegal actions. The NYT quoted with approbation terrorists acts made in France, where non-French terrorists had attacked local irrigation works made by local farmers! Amusingly, that was the only specific terrorist acts that was revendicated 

I sent comments. The New York Times censored them. The parts between brackets were NOT sent to the NYT. Only the inclined letter parts.

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We should not blow up pipelines: around 85% of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels. This is not just a question of “profits”. Actually most fossil fuels are now produced by state owned companies (the “majors” of a century ago produce now just a small fraction of total production). Canceling fossil fuels right now would create a crisis that would require the world population to decrease by 85%. In other words, billions would die. 

Those who claim fossil fuel production should be destroyed are exactly following in the footsteps of those who destroyed the flour mills in Poland in 1939. 

If that’s what ecology requires, not thank you.

Malm advocates destroying water retention systems in France which are made and used for a variety of reasons by local people. The fact is these are local decisions taken democratically by local workers, and people in accord with local authorities and Malm eggs on anti-democratic criminals.

[We don’t need to blow up pipe lines. Pseudo-ecologists have gone around hysterically promoting Putin’s gas and electric cars… At least in Europe. Enormous subsidies for both have brought crises: Putin was made strong and confident, while the price of cars shot up to the point the lower classes can’t afford them. When asked about this problem, some of the European politicians, who are chauffeured around, answer that people have to learn to do without cars… ] 

Roman industrial production and Roman population peaked around 100 CE. The industrial production then collapsed. By 162 CE, a “plague” started, and lasted 20 years. It is very clear that the epidemics which ravaged the empire afterwards were related to the malnourishment of the population. Horrendous civil wars followed.

There is a serious CO2 crisis and some people are dying from it… But it is a very small number relative to what would happen if the world’s energy system was destroyed, as Malm advocates.
Fossil Fuels have to be replaced ASAP, As Soon As Possible, but not before it is possible. Solution? More solar, more hydrogen, etc.

The New York Times called Trump a terrorist, countless times… But Trump never suggested to engage in acts that would kill billions. The NYT did, and when I attracted its attention to that potential holocaust, the NYT censored me… Meaning the NYT knows perfectly well that I am right.

Patrice Ayme

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No Ecological Crisis Solution, Except For Further Research & More Fusion (Solar)

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[0] Some readers pointed out that the NYT was actually quoting Malm… Yes it did, in many laces, but alos made statements which were not presented as quotes, but as notes… Also the article was immensely long and uncritical… especially when confronted to the advocacy of crimes (like against waterworks… in France!)

[1] Here are extracts from the NYT article incriminated above :

Talk Jan. 14, 2024
How This Climate Activist Justifies Political Violence
By David Marchese Photo Illustration by Bráulio Amado

With the 2021 publication of his unsettling book, “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” Andreas Malm established himself as a leading thinker of climate radicalism. The provocatively titled manifesto, which, to be clear, does not actually provide instructions for destroying anything, functioned both as a question — why has climate activism remained so steadfastly peaceful in the face of minimal results? — and as a call for the escalation of protest tactics like sabotage. The book found an audience far beyond that of texts typically published by relatively obscure Marxist-influenced Swedish academics, earning thoughtful coverage in The New Yorker, The Economist, The Nation, The New Republic and a host of other decidedly nonradical publications, including this one…

NYT: I know you’re saying historically this is not the case, but it’s hard to think that deaths don’t become inevitable if there is more sabotage. 

Malm: Sure, if you have a thousand pipeline explosions per year, if it takes on that extreme scale. But we are some distance from that, unfortunately... I want sabotage to happen on a much larger scale than it does now. I can’t guarantee that it won’t come with accidents…

But the thing we need to keep in mind is that existing pipelines, new pipelines, new infrastructure for extracting fossil fuels are not potentially, possibly — they are killing people as we speak. The more saturated the atmosphere is with CO2, putting more CO2 into the atmosphere causes more destruction and death. In Libya in September, in the city of Derna, you had thousands of people killed in floods in one night. Scientists could conclude that global warming made these floods 50 times as likely as if there hadn’t been such warming.³

NYT adds: 3
To reach this conclusion, scientists working with the World Weather Attribution research group employed computer simulations to compare weather events today, including the Syrian flooding, with the weather that was most likely to have occurred if the climate had not already warmed, as it has, by 1.2 degrees Celsius above the average preindustrial temperature.We need to start seeing these people as victims of the violence of the climate crisis. In the light of this, the idea of attacking infrastructure and closing down new pipelines is a disarmament. It’s about taking down a machine that actually kills people.

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Malm advertises the capitalist economy as the solution of all problems (whereas the real solution is publicly financed research)… showing clearly who planted him… major plutocracy:

Malm: “So in this context, the rationale of sabotage is to bring home the message to these companies: Yes, your assets are at risk of destruction. When something happens that makes the threat of stranded assets credible, investors will suddenly realize, there’s a real risk that if I invest a lot of money, I might lose everything.”

The buffoon does not know that the “majors” control very little of the fossil fuel economy, worldwide.

The Oil and Gas Industry in Energy Transitions – Analysis

International Energy Agencyhttps://www.iea.org › reports › th…

But the industry is much larger: the Majors account for 12% of oil and gas reserves, 15% of production and 10% of estimated emissions from industry operations.

… In other words, Swedish academic gangster Malm advocates to go to war against nation states….

CO2 Crisis Recap November 2023

The banana trees around Geneve, Suisse, are holding fine as the shortest days of the year leave them little light. Fifty years ago, there would have been one meter of snow on the ground. Switzerland, an elevated land, used to look like Sweden, but now, at least in the balmiest areas, it looks like Provence, with palm trees, pins parasols, and rows of cypresses. It’s eerie…

None of this surprises me, I expected as much, but to see it for real is baffling. It looks like a movie set. I have graduate degrees both in Physics and in Mathematics, and studied science all my life. I am a science fanatic. So I accept facts. But those facts, although predicted, are amazing. And that’s only from two degrees centigrade of warming…
https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2022/09/15/truth-is-our-religion/
The CO2 crisis, besides the fatal aspect it presents for all of humanity, because civilization is a fossil fuel civilization, is a fascinating case of applied physics, mathematics and philosophy. 

Saying CO2 acts as a catalyst for water vapor, is a semantic stretch, but somewhat reflects the complexity of the CO2 crisis. What happens is that the rise in CO2 brings a low elevation greenhouse rise, which in turns brings a water vapor rise, which augments further the greenhouse effect.
CO2 level evaluation graphs can be found in Patrice Ayme’s essays. The Earth cooled and CO2 went down three million years ago, due to geotectonic. That corresponds to the start of the evolution of domineering human species. So the rise of man follows shortly after a spectacular cooling of the climate:

Camels in The Highest Arctic, Again, Soon.

Part of the problem we have is that, since fossil fuels provides more than 80% of the world’s energy and 100% of its plastics, they have a lot of partisans… who are very sophisticated in how to fight enemie
https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2022/07/06/failed-solutions-to-pollution-climate-crisis-are-no-accident-but-invisible-plot/
Those who insist to find fault in uncontroversial science, while correctly disparaging present efforts to mitigate the CO2 crisis, diminish the latter by sounding like crackpots. Today’s CO2 mitigation efforts are deliberately heading the wrong way:
https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2022/07/08/real-reason-for-massive-electric-vehicles-push-diverting-worthy-anti-fossil-fuels-efforts-down-rabbit-holes/

Implementing heat pumps, fuel cells, indigenous solar, nuclear, hydrogen or ammonia were the most worthy avenues. Battery Electric Vehicles are more of a distraction.
https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2022/07/08/real-reason-for-massive-electric-vehicles-push-diverting-worthy-anti-fossil-fuels-efforts-down-rabbit-holes/

Illustrating the CO2 crisis: This sort of landscape will be a memory all too soon… And all too sad. The banana trees around Geneva were holding, last I checked.. [Prof. Wayne Burleson, Lac de Tanay, Vouvry, Suisse Romande.]

Climate denialists are interesting, because they are like any denialists: they use anti-ideas to the max… Like: climate always changed… right, true, but irrelevant… It turns out we know exactly why the climate changed over the last 300 million years… Plate tectonics had much to do with it. The controversial part is the collapse, the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago. There was a cooling, two sorts of cooling, maybe three… Long story…

Three millions years ago, the two main heat transfer currents from the equator to the poles failed, and one of them, call it the Panama current, failed completely, as it was replaced by solid land… The other is being constricted, one giant quake at a time, between Australia and Eurasia….

But there go the denialists, grabbing at fumes…. And blocking a constructive debate focused on smart solutions. Yes we won’t get rid of fossil fuels overnight, but the non-deployment of hydrogen is a result of the denialism. Yes there are hydrogen rockets and there could be hydrogen planes…

Let’s not deny that…

Patrice Ayme

Climate Science, Full Of Hot Air Didn’t Want to See Coming EXPONENTIAL HEAT

CO2 corruption rules. Scientists, whatever that means, are first government employees: universities, even private universities, are mostly financially dependent upon governments. And the governments have been fossil fuels dominated for two centuries now. Fossil fuels are powerful, in part because they are tyranny friendly, intrinsically, as fossil fuel research, production, and transportation is capital intensive, but requires few workers, especially at the highest levels.

For the last 45 years the Greenhouse Crisis has been clear and blatant, yet fossil fuel usage has only grown, greatly thanks to the manipulation of the fossil fuel lobby. The storage of CO2 in the atmosphere is so great in 2023, that, absent a deliberate effort in the proximal future to lower drastically the CO2 parts per million in the atmosphere, sea level will go up at least ten meters. Yes, that’s a personal theory, from what happened in the Eemian, around 120,000 years ago, when sea levels were 6 meters higher..a dnthe CO2 ppm equivalent was significantly less (a third less). Now, right, the Eemian warming was forced by orbital characteristics… but for reasons too long to expose here, I believe that the orbital forcing induces the CO2 forcing. Right now we have a man-made GreenHouse Gaz forcing on a scale not seen in… thirty million years (at least!)

Many, manipulated by the fossil fuelists, say: no problem, no panic. However Earth’s climate is the largest machine around. The mass of Earth’s atmosphere is approximately 5.1 × 10^18 kilograms. That is 5 million gigatons. Moreover, it is entangled with the oceans, with a mass around 300 times greater… And certainly the upper layers of the ground are also involved. So the climate system has huge inertia. In the F = ma equation, m is the mass of the climate, F the forcing, and a the acceleration, is what people do not see much of. What they will experience is the speed of change, which one gets by integrating a. Another problem is nonlinear effects which will augment the F, the force, as the Earth’s heats up. That’s the self-feeding, exponential character of the catastrophe.

The anti-nuclear lobby is a striking example of the lunacy commandeered by the fossil fuel lobbies. Recently the head of IAEA had to recognize that there was no problem with releasing tritium off Fukushima, but still, he recognized that he had to beg for forgiveness, due the masses of people who suffer from radiation fear. So they freak out about tritium… because they know nothing and they impose on all respect for their demented, immoral ignorance… That means they force everybody to respect irrationality.   

And even more striking example of the machiavellianism of the fossil fuel lobbies has been the present course pursued by mainstream ecology: mainstream ecology utterly failed. And that’s no accident: that’s exactly what the fossil fuel tyranno-industrial complex wanted. The proportion of decarbonated energy is the same as 45 years ago… but of course, as energy usage augmented enormously in south and east Asia, in absolute value the emissions are higher than ever: 55 gigatons of CO2 per year (if one includes steel and cement production, plus deforestation, as one should). 

On top of that other GreenHouse gasses, methane, CH4, Nitrogen oxides, NOx, Chlorofluorocarbons of all types, etc. add another third in CO2 equivalence.

That gets us above 600 ppm of CO2 equivalents, a percentage of forcing not seen in at least 30 million years. At the time, there was ice only on the highest mountains in Antarctica. More exactly it seems that around 600 ppm of CO2 is the tipping point for glaciation in Antarctica, and we are motoring through it at roughly 1% of added GreenHouse gases per year…

Oh, shut up, they bleat self-admiringly, we are so “net zero”, don’t you listen to our mellifluous discourses? Don’t you know we are net zero in 2050? Alternatively, we can destroy industry right away, and we will be a neat zero right away! (The latter being the “solution” in Europe and most prominently, in France!)

The treacherous ecologists with their middle age windmills, and hate for nuclear energy, have fostered the offshorization of employment and regulation to enslaving tyrants. Unbeknownst to themselves, they do as their masters want.

Nor are they alone: actually these ecologists are of course nothing, they just grate like Greta. 

Ecology has served as a pretext to deindustrialization and offshorization, the process which advantages the plutocrats and transformed the Roman Republic into the Roman dictatorship.

The extremely highly educated, but just as ridiculous and treacherous French PM was recently insisting France had to totally deindustrialize in the next seven years. Just to cut the emissions (4 tons/year/person). Actually France uses 11 tons… in “China” and its ilk… Which means that PM Borne and her predecessor have sent 7/11 of the French economy to China. Borne est bornée….

Just as ecologists have been paid (in fame and money) to promote ineffective “solutions” to the GreenHouse Gaz (GHG) crisis, scientists have been paid to pretend that the crisis was a crisis, but not that bad of a crisis. 

I begged to differ totally. Not only are we on a +7 degree C trajectory for 2100 CE, but should nonlinear factors come into play, we could get higher than that.  

To my satisfaction, I made even more enemies at Berkeley than I already had, when I attacked one of the main climate high priests who pretended a magic stop to climate heating was possible… the sort of magic fossil fuels lobbyists want everybody to believe, so that putting an end to fossil fuels burning would be an instant stop, an act of utmost sorcery straight out of Harry Potter, just on a much grander and altruistic scale… didn’t they all learn witchcraft, reading Harry Potter? It works! At least in the popular imagination:

New Climate Lie: Magical CO2 Stop Possible

[UC Berkeley got 50 million dollars from British Petroleum shortly before this admirable bout of magical thinking …]

So what’s going, ladies, gentlemen, and species in between, or beyond like yours truly? 

We are above 600 ppm of equivalent CO2 in GHG.

Indeed on top of the CO2, we have the other man made GreenHouse Gasses, methane, CH4, Nitrogen oxides, NOx, Chlorofluorocarbons of all types, etc. 

They add another third in CO2 equivalence.That gets us above 600 ppm of CO2 equivalents, a percentage of forcing not seen in at least 30 million years. At the time, there was ice only on the highest mountains in Antarctica. 

What exactly the levels of CO2 were in the distant past is still a matter of debate, it seems. However, it seems pretty certain that around 600 ppm of CO2 is the tipping point for glaciation in Antarctica…and we are motoring through it at roughly 1% per year… Now, granted, there is inertia in the system… But that’s part of the problem: when a monster avalanche starts, it looks cute in the beginning, a little cloud. 

The exponential surge may have started (helped by coming El Nino). The planet just experienced its warmest June ever recorded, researchers said, with deadly heat waves scorching Texas, Mexico and India. Off the coasts of Antarctica, sea ice levels this year have plummeted to record lows.

The North Atlantic ocean has been hot. Surface temperatures in May were 2.9 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1.6 degrees Celsius, warmer than typical for this time of year, breaking previous records by an unusually large margin.

This climate Armageddon is going to get way worse. California should start thinking about daming the Golden Gate… A big bad Golden Dam…

A solution? Besides hefty carbon taxes and cutting all and any subsidies to fossil fuels… Besides launching a hydrogen economy (which can use much of the existing fossil fuel and natural gas infrastructure)… Launch a Manhattan style project to develop nuclear fusion. It has become just a question of money, using high temperature superconductors.

Some of the preceding was published in the New York Times, and the usual silly objections by the ignorant to thermonuclear fusion were also published in retort. I will reply to them in a separate essay.

Patrice Ayme

If We Boiled The Oceans… What Would Happen To The Atmospheric Oxygen?

If we boiled the oceans, the Earth’s temperature would be so high that the permafrost would entirely melt, releasing CH4, and then the carbon in the permafrost would burn (22% of the Northern hemisphere is covered with permafrost.). Permafrost is a mixture of water ice, frozen CO2, and frozen organic material (“carbon”)… including lots of pathogens… Permafrost covers roughly 65% of Russia’s territory…

The resulting recombination of permafrost with oxygen could spectacularly reduce the O2 in the atmosphere. The usual number advanced for permafrost mass seems to evaluate only the first two meters. Even computed that way, by minimalizing how much permafrost lurks below, there’s a huge amount of carbon stored in permafrost — an estimated 1,500 gigatons, or twice as much as the atmosphere contains carbon (under the form of CO2, mostly).

Recombining the first two meters of permafrost with oxygen, would produce around 5,000 gigatons of CO2, one hundred times the present yearly emissions of CO2. Mass of O2 in the atmosphere is roughly one million gigatons. So recombining that O2 with the disappeared permafrost, we get that roughly .3% of O2 would disappear.

However in some places, in the northern Lena and Yana River basins in Siberia, drilling has shown the permafrost to be up to 1,493 meters thick. Permafrost stops in depth due to geothermal heating. I have not seen an evaluation for the total permafrost mass, nor does it seem to have been attempted. If the permafrost were 200 meters deep in the average, then, under full recombination with O2, an order of magnitude around 30% of the present atmospheric O2 would disappear.

This says that there is a danger of global hypoxia under catastrophic anthropogenic warming…

Now on the positive side, an average depth of 200 meters may be way pessimistic. But even 20 meters would be a serious problem, potentially reducing atmospheric CO2 by 3% in the fullness of time… And twenty meters seems likely as a lower bound….

In remote northern Siberia, the world’s largest permafrost landslide, the Batagay megaslump, aka the Batagaika Crater… Up to one kilometer wide, 60 meters deep, the melter permafrost above reveal frozen layers 650,000 years deep.

This reveals that ancient permafrost survived past episodes of intense global warming… constituting a global warning, then, because it’s not surviving this one!

Batagaika Crater survived multiple warm episodes known as ‘interglacials’, including exceptionally warm and wet conditions during a ‘super-interglacial’ 420,000 years ago. Moreover, it has also survived warmer-than-present conditions about 120,000 years ago, during the Eemian, when summer air temperatures in the Arctic may have been as much as 4–5°C warmer than now. So many have said reassuringly: see, permafrost will never melt… However, the fact is that the Batagaika Crater is presently melting… and never melted before!

Thus I expect the theory of professional climate reassurers to be all wet, as I expect warming in Northern Siberia to exceed +10 Celsius… pretty soon. (Because I expect +4C overall, and there is a multiplication effect in the Arctic…)

Global planetary hypoxia: keep an eye on it…

Patrice Ayme

Unsustainable Exponentiation Of Temperature

ANTHROPOCENE DETERIORATING CLIMATE: CO2, GHG, Questions And Answers:

Nigel: Based on your posts I have great admiration for your depth of research and the quest for truth so I implore you to let me brief you on this climate change subject some more..

PA: Thanks, I appreciate the compliment a lot, and it encourages me to persist in my ways, whatever they are. On all subjects, I try to get all perspectives, keep what I perceive to be right, what is false, and then rebuild a logic around those truths. My positions on everything, including climate, often lead people to label me in ways far removed from, or even opposite to, my balance point. On the human caused climate change, my positions are nuanced and wildly diverse, yet they make a coherent whole. Yes, we are on an eminent +7C trajectory. Should we panic and blow hot air? No. 

Nigel: I am not in denial but am well informed…Yes the climate is changing (Always has) and mostly for the better and we may need some adaptation but we have time and it’s far from an emergency…

Patrice Ayme: I am looking directly across the Golden Gate bridge. I have no doubt that someday, California will have to dam the Golden Gate. Otherwise the most productive agricultural area of the USA will become an interior sea,  flooding twenty million people. 

A recent (2023) paper revealed a tidal way of melting for ice shelves, which had not been discovered prior. Thanks to this new activity, the many authors from many prestigious research centers double the rate of ice shelf melting. It was completely obvious, BTW, that this was happening, as ice shelves breathe with the tides.

I have observed that we are on a cataclysmic 7 degree C trajectory for 2100. France, which has very ancient precise readings, has the long term average at +1.7 C above the famed baseline from 1880 CE. Right now the entire planet is well above 1.5 C. This year, from El Nino, it’s likely going to come closer to +2C, as warm deep water is pushed up to the surface. One has to understand most of the planetary heating is in the polar regions. 

It is an emergency, but that does not mean we should run around like chickens… as we have been. If nuclear power had been developed as it should have been, with new types of reactors, electricity could be 100% carbon free, with safe, non-proliferating and non-polluting fission reactors. In France, Kremlin sponsored ecologists made a secret deal with the Socialist (PS) government of Lionel Jospin, in 1999, to stop nuclear energy, especially the research. Generations of know-how disappeared (French gov launched its nuclear program in January 1938, oldest in the world).  

Nigel: We are exiting an ice age and this has happened before and in the life cycle of humanity we have at least 3 measured periods when temperatures were far higher than the current predictions. 

PA: There are three episodes with temps equal or slightly superior (with three pulses less than 2 C above the present…). .. Around 120,000 years ago (Eemian), temps were not really higher than the present, except for one very short pulse 3C above the present…. but global sea level was 6 meters higher. The climate is full of surprises: there was a warm glaciation (!!!) 450 K years ago… But now we are guaranteed at least +4C within a century, and that’s not been the case for at least 3 million years, and probably much more.

Temp fluctuations in the past rarely happened at the present pace, and when they did (Dryas), that didn’t last.

Nigel: CO2 is at the lowest it’s been for 250 million years and we will be good with 3 times the current amount.

PA: Two centuries ago, we were around 250 ppm CO2, now we are getting close to 600 ppm EQUIVALENT CO2 (CO2 + CH4 + NOx + CFCs + etc.).Cattle in France contributes as much from its CH4 emissions as residential heating (12% of total CO2 equivalent each). Barring volcanism or impact, CO2 levels varied over millennia, or even millions of years (consider the end of the Cretaceous).

Nigel: The other fact is that our industrial impact on CO2 levels is insignificant 

PA: Going from 250 ppm to 600 ppm CO2 equivalents in 140 years is not insignificant. To boot, the main greenhouse gas is H2O, not CO2. The GreenHouse Gases (GHG) act through FORCING. It forces more H2O up, and that’s nonlinear. The exact function, called sensitivity, is unknown.

 

Observe that in the graph above the temperature curve seems to accelerate higher than the CO2 curve. That’s caused by the other GHG gases…. which add 1/3 of forcing. A better graph would have represented the GHG (which vary according to NOx and CFCs…)

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Nigel: …and our biggest threat is we will destroy our prosperity and ability to fund adaptation by a panic to focus on so-called Net-Zero. So it’s drill baby drill and stop the nonsense on wind and solar and move to nuclear as quickly as possible to avoid pollution. Also reduce globalization and change to a fish farming strategy to save the oceans.

PA: I do not disagree with any of these points. Biden himself opened Alaska to drilling in a way Trump did not dare to do. My position is that massive research is needed. If prosperity is cut down, research will become impossible, which is the worst outcome.

Solar works (in combination with green hydrogen or derivatives). Wind is much more problematic, as the wind belts will migrate in the polar directions.
Nigel: On the trends of fires floods sea levels rise and weather induced tornados and such we see all danger trends reducing and our adaptive capability increases.. there is some work to do on forest fires but it’s NOT the climate but mainly our management approach.

Forests are burning and will burn. The Australian fires were so terrible that they changed the Pacific ocean surface temperature, and caused 3 La Nina in a row, desiccating California. The ravages of old growth forests in California have been heart breaking… even without fire. I documented them on this site with my own pictures. Years before the fires (which I predicted)

Climate Catastrophe: California Forests Dying. Giant Fires Coming In 2018

Nigel: The planet is doing just fine and will continue to do its variable thing…. 

PA: The biosphere could die from hypoxia (second worst case scenario) 

https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/global-hypoxia/

It has already started: huge zones of the oceans are too low in oxygen for advanced animal life. It could get worse if the permafrost rots on a hypermassive scale.

Nigel: …it’s us I am worried about as we are moving from science based thinking toward self destructive religion based group think.
More at https://co2coalition.org Home – CO2 Coalition
I suggest you take the quiz… they have a debate in a few weeks I can plug you into to learn more.

My suggestion is you study this scientific based data and we chat more..

PA: An uncle of mine, a famous astronomer, was studying the subject, up at the Jungfrau observatory, in the Berner Oberland… a century ago!

I talked to him, long ago, about the subject of CO2 precisely ( he was mostly an astrophysicist). Founder of the Institut d’Astrophysique, Daniel Challonge was a member of the French Communist Party, and was forbidden to travel to the USA… Although he was the gentlest of souls. He founded the observatory, the Observatoire de Haute Provence, which discovered the first exoplanets (the two PIs, astronomers from Geneva got the Nobel)…

I have been science obsessed all my life. This (grand) uncle, a professional, was friends with my two grandfathers who were amateur astronomers. My own father, a geologist from Algeria who found Algerian gas and oil, was skeptical about the rise of-temperature (of course, he was born in Africa, and roamed the Sahara!) But he died from an African disease before the heat wave which killed thousands in France in 2003, the hottest since precise records started in 1540 CE. The heat caused a crop shortfall in parts of Southern Europe. The death toll has been estimated at more than 70,000, half of them in northern France. The records were beaten since, several times.

This year is guaranteed to shatter records, because of El Nino and the exponentiation of climate change.
Much more effort should be made towards nuclear, especially thermonuclear fusion. It can clearly work, but the efficiencies have to be boosted, and for that government sponsored fundamental research has to be lavishly funded. Star power is also the key to solar system colonization.

My uncle Daniel Challonge has a 30 kilometer diameter crater named after him on the Moon. So science, yes, I know, never leave a moment without it….

This being said, I understand, and even approve, the frustration of those infurauted by ineffectual and often unjust policies to mitigate the climate crisis.

Decarbonification and global trade were used in Occident as Trojan Horses for deindustrialization, the latter a device for disempowering of the Plebs in Occident. This global conspiracy happened once already, in ancient Rome. It’s a basic plutocratic ruse to turn We The People into pigeons.

Patrice Ayme

Truth Is Our Religion

We have crossed the technological Rubicon, perhaps 6,000 years ago, when Neolithics men erected thousands of Menhirs, man made giant stones, generally aligned sometimes by the thousands, the greatest concentrations of them found in what is now France’s Brittany. The largest menhir known was nearly twenty-three meters tall, weighted 350 tons, and was probably ferried in a gigantic raft across the Gulf of Morbihan (the orthogneiss it was made of came from 20 kilometers away across the sea). The greatest set of menhir alignement is in Carnac, over 4 kilometers, involving several rows of menhirs. It seemed to have had an astronomical significance, according to Alexander Thom, the UK founder of archeoastronomy.

When I was very small child my dad, an Algiers-born geologist, carried me on his shoulders through such a field of menhirs. But he sprained an ankle badly and I had to call my mom for rescue. 

Rescues and tragedies are everywhere. The “Right Whale” is now no more than 350 individuals, 100 of whom are females. There used to be hundreds of thousands.  They were called “Right Whales” because they were slow, and could be caught easily, differently from, say, Blue Rorquals who outsped boats before steamships. Also, when dead, those fatty mammals would float to the surface.

They have long been protected, but their population is now facing extinction… from human activity.

Seafood Watch, part of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, provides scientific guidance to businesses, including some of the country’s major seafood buyers, about what they sell to customers. 

Seafood Watch put the American lobster, as well as some species of crab and fish, on its red list because of the effect fishing for lobsters has on North Atlantic right whales. Commercial fishers still use traps, to catch lobsters. Loaded with bait and lowered to the seafloor, they have one way tunnels to the kitchen. To recover the traps, they are connected to a buoy floating at the surface by a vertical line of rope.

Whales can easily become entangled in these ropes, which can prevent them from reaching the surface to breathe or from diving. Entangled whales may drag gear for years, causing deep lacerations.

And so it is, all around the biosphere: deep lacerations from human frolicking.

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Humanity has a huge, and increasing impact on the biosphere. With a population of 8 billion people, this impact is here to stay, and will only get worse as, say, everybody gets access to electricity (more than a billion people have no access to it).

There is no more wilderness: plastic and excess CO2 and other human generated poisons are everywhere. For example “wild” salmon eating “wild” fish ends up more contaminated with human made poisons than farm trout fed on genetically engineered soja.

The solutions out of these gigantic human impacts will be found along two main axes, and both have to be exploited: 1) we have to modify human behavior: say not eating lobsters until lobster procurement changes, because present lobster fishing kills into extermination Right Whales; or have Australians, Canadians and Americans reduce their CO2 emissions by 75%, to reach French or Swiss, and world average, levels of CO2 emissions… 4 tons of CO2 per person, per year… instead of the 20+ tons Australians are presently enjoying… and that doesn’t count all the coal they sell all over…

Before cutting CERN out, European authorities should cut out ski resorts which are huge consumers of power… to make artifical snow. Of course elected oligarchs will pontificate that millions live of, and from, and for, skiing on artificial snow. Let ski resorts use the renwable resources at their disposal! (Some do.)

We have to modify human behavior, and that means changing how we amuse ourselves.

2) we have to research, develop, deploy and use more advanced technology (here built smart, autonomous lobster traps). In any case we have to develop and progress. Shrinking back into old ways will only make the situation worse. Whereas what one should call colonial Anglo-Saxons, the Australians, Canadians and Americans want to keep on growing into Armageddon, the other excess is those (pseudo-) ecologists who argue for what they call de-growth (decroissance)… They are particularly festering and multiplying in France, with disastrous results…

We have to GROW mentally and energetically out of the problematic we are in. Cognitively, scientifically, technologically… Financing science, any science, is part of the solution. Present difficulties are from a lack of science, and, or lack of smarts (betting on the long tradition of Kremlin, or Chinese, dictatorships.) Developing science helps to develop smarts.

We have to progress towards a more scientific, more technological, more deliberate world. And debating the problems at hand, or over the horizon, is crucial, because only that way will the best solutions be found. Scientist have been derelict in evaluating the dangers we are in, and the solutions we urgently need to get out of our 84% dependency upon fossil fuels for primary energy (for example hydrogen and small batteries, instead of giant batteries and no hydrogen).

Paradoxically, the survival of the wilderness demands more, and smarter tech! Direct intervention to save entangled whales is one of these tech solutions. Recent science has revealed that whales tend to live very long lives, and that means their reproduction rate is much lower than once believed, thus any living adult whale is very hard to replace. And a source of knowledge: we don’t know what biology enables whales to live centuries. And what they talk about.

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We don’t know what Neolithic Europeans, working three thousand years before the Celtic invasion, were thinking of, when they built those gigantic alignements of stones sculpted by men. Their motivations may have been similar to those of Easter Island Natives, 5,000 years later.

Why we want to go to the Moon and Mars is clear: those planets (yes, the Moon is a planet) are colonizable… Very likely: they have water.

Why were the Menhirs cut, shaped, transported, aligned and erected? They may have been early astronomical observatories of the movements of the Moon! 

Yes, science didn’t start a few centuries ago!

Truth Is Our Religion, says the Department of Defense of Ukraine…

Truth Is Has Long Been Our Religion

Truth is us.

Patrice Ayme 

The Universe shall be as we make it, proud, erect, domineering…

Smoking Us Blind With Carbon Capture And Storage, The Demo-Rats Are…

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is supposed to capture carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources and pump them deep underground where the CO2 can be imprisoned under huge pressure, or, if pressurized into cracked basalt, as found in Iceland, CO2 quickly combines into rock. Indeed, CO2 can be dissolved into water as bubbly, acidic champagne. Basalts contain high concentrations of calcium and magnesium ions that chemically react with CO₂ to make rocks such as calcite, dolomite, and magnesite. Stuff champagne, get rock. The process takes as little as two years. This is all true, and it is used on a very small scale in Iceland… a place full of pressurized CO2 and basalts…

Carbon Capture and Storage was a big winner in the climate provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, signed into law during August 2022. But that version of CCS is a complete fake-out… Because the USA is not Iceland…. In the US, CCS is used to AUGMENT CO2 production. No way the clowns around Biden don’t know this.

 

C.C.S. is widely used by the FF industry, to boost the production of oil and natural gas. Natural gas processing facilities separate carbon dioxide from methane CH4, they are always mixed, similar bacteria producing  both. Some of these plants then pipe the “captured” carbon dioxide into what are known as enhanced oil recovery: it is re-injected into oil field reservoirs to increase their pressure and extract additional oil that would otherwise stay trapped underground.

 

Observe the cynicism of that conspiracy: CCS is presented as a climate solution, when actually it makes the situation worse!

 

Carbon Capture And Storage (CCS) is one more Public Relation way to sell Fossil Fuels (FF). 

On closer inspection, it’s just CO2 reinjection for FF, an old FF industry trick.

 

There are other ways to insure the survival of FF, such as so-called renewables without anything to store the energy they produce… except for ecologically, economically and financially expensive, inefficient batteries… which cannot be scaled up at the scale required, from lack of primary materials!  

 

Pseudo-ecologists have pushed for that renewables-battery trick, knowing full well it could not work at a sufficient scale for a positive climate impact, while extolling the virtue of Putin’s oil and gas, and hating nuclear solutions (except nuclear based in Russia or China).

 

Renewables, as they stand, are useless for transportation: no plane will move enough from windmills and solar panels on its back: the plane needs fuel. And that fuel can be obtained from renewables with pretty much only hydrogen. 

 

A gigantic infrastructure of renewables, and only renewables means intermittent energy, thus requires a full FF infrastructure capable of ensuring 100% production when there is no sun and no wind (a condition so frequent that it has a name the barometric swamp). If one has 100% of an extremely expensive equipment, one will use it.

 

CCS makes no sense at the most basic physics level: FF extracts Carbon C from the ground thn combines it with oxygen in the air, making CO2 and heat. CCS proposes then to return the C, with added oxygen into the ground. On the face of it, that looks circular: get C out, combine it with O2, then return CO2 into the ground. The latter step requires energy… On the face of it, as much energy as extracting C to start with, as it is to the same place it goes (and that makes no sense… except, as said above, if it is to pressurize a oil or gas field…).  

 

It is true that CCS works for special reasons in a particular place in Iceland. But they also have a new volcano in the area there: Iceland is a very special place (which produces enormous amounts of CO2 from its volcanoes). It is entirely possible that the capital of Iceland will disappear under a lava flow… propelled by CO2. But what is totally impossible is that CCS helps the world survive the present CO2 crisis…

 

That the Biden administration imposes on us this smoke and mirror is reminiscent of its promotion of women’s rights in Afghanistan… Carbon Capture and Storage is an example of conspirational, Machiavellian, plot. There is no way that its promoters do not know that this Fossil Fuels masquerading as “green”, or CO2 abating… Because CO2 augmentation is the way it is used right now, and no other usage is profitable.

Ah, but I forgot, there are no conspiracies, our masters told us, and if we think there are, we need to have our heads examined….

Patrice Ayme

This latest Iceland volcano produces up to hundred of thousands of tons of lava a day, all CO2 propelled. CO2 volcanic production prevents snowball Earth tendencies…. Notice the public on the slope, watching… In the Meradalir valley, 40 kilometers west of Reijavik…

CLIMATE EMERGENCY: Global Heating Is Accelerating Considerably: Alpine Evidence.

GLOBAL HEATING is accelerating. How can we see this? In the Alps, glaciers are melting at an incredible rate. Just looking out, as I can in the French Alps, it’s clear all glaciers below 3.500 meters will be gone in a matter of years: one can see that their upper slopes, which feed them, are bare. Just look at the accompanying photo.

Now this disappearance of glaciers below 3,500 meters was the pessimistic prophecy of glaciologists for… 2100! It’s happening now! If extended globally, this means a global heating of seven (7) Centigrade…. Way outside of the worst IPCC/GIEC predictions… And it is happening, I repeat… now! 

The obvious plot to underestimate GLOBAL HEATING is increasingly contradicted by the facts:

Glacier du Casset. From where the picture was taken to the top of the mountain in the clouds, 2,200 meters, 1.3 mile. The glacier was going as low as the first pink granite rocks in the valley bottom. It has retreated arounf 1,000 meters in denivellation. More importantly, its feeding slopes are bare, so it will entirely die. The peak of the mountain is higher than the 3,500 meters below which glaciers are supposed to disappear according to glaciologists in… 2100! This would correspond to a retreat of nearly 2,000 meters in denivellation, thus a temperature rise of 14 Centigrades!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The pink snow is caused by deposition of Sahara sand.

“Experts” keep on talking as if a global temperature rise of 1.5C could be held… But France has officially already experienced a two (2) Centigrade rise. So how come France is already at +2C and the rest of the world at +1.3C? France is smack in the temperate zone (45 degree latitude). I would suggest that the French experts on temperature are more honest.

California Sierra Nevada forests are destroyed by heat. Pests and drought rise the heat wave. One has to see the astounding amount of destruction to believe it. Last year I took an hour to cover half a mile on a trail, so many trunks of giant trees being in the way, in confusing entanglements. Sometimes I had to walk on trunks, 20 feet above the ground.  

Meanwhile, in the Western Mediterranean, the sea reached considerably higher levels. In Corsica 30.7 Centigrades (5C above what the temperature used to be). The temperature is so high that several emblematic species of Mediterranean corals are threatened with extinction. As they can’t migrate north, they will forever disappear from life on Earth. In Greenland, temperatures have been 10 Centigrades above “normal”. There is no more “normal”. 

Abnormality is the new normal.

This accelerating pace of global heating is completely outside of the misleading picture that the IPCC gives. It is more than alarming. It looks as if the IPCC, anxious not to displease the established order, is deliberately tweaking the data by underestimating the present global heating..

The IPCC is certainly distorting its models of how temperature will evolve: the models all include Carbon Capture schemes… But those do not exist, except on a small scale, when the CO2 is already in pipes (as is done in Iceland). Carbon Capture at the needed scale will be possible only when we have nearly free energy (say H fusion). Not something happening before 2100…

84% of world primary energy production is from fossil fuels (The rest is mostly hydro and nuclear). That’s not negotiable. It is a fact, and a very hard one. Governments have to ask themselves how they will lower that number. It will not be with electric plugs and batteries. Nor fake carbon accounting a la California, counting as stored carbon, forests which have already burned…. Nor will primary energy become mostly carbon free thanks to a bit of sun, and a bit of wind. 

The International Energy Agency says coal burning in 2022 will tie with its old record of 2013. Next year, in 2023, the record in coal burning, worst contributor to the CO2 crisis, will be surpassed. Please thank all the opportunistic, lying pseudo-ecologists, sun-struck and wind blown…

We have to thank the politicians who walked away from nuclear and hydrogen (Obama on day one for the latter!)
They walked away because they were paid… Not just by oil majors, and major oil exporting countries, and the financial sectors attached to them, and oligarchs, but even paid by the Kremlin…

The planet is firmly united, in the matter of major corruption by self-declared leaders, imposed by the powers that be… who got where they are because, for them, the best way to forget about the precarity of their own human life is to visit hellfire and subjugation onto others. If imposing suffering is good, receiving it, not so bad, our dear leaders reason in their maleficent hearts. The metaphysics of pain and power dominate the fate of the biosphere.

Patrice Ayme