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Denmark is held up as proof a fossil grid can be replaced. But electricity prices have more than doubled since 2000. Moreover, the majority of what is labelled "renewable" is actually biomass. That is, wood. Trees are cut, often abroad, compressed into pellets, shipped in and then burnt for power. At the smokestack, more CO2 is released than just simply burning gas. But it is labelled as "green" because the emissions are not counted at the power plant - they are 1) assigned to the country where the trees were cut, and 2) assumed to be reabsorbed by future regrowth. So the system works like this: Cut trees. Burn them. Emit CO2. Call it clean. Laughably, 64% of Denmark's renewable energy comes from this process.
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If emissions reduction were the real goal, nuclear would already dominate. First off, it is the safest energy source per unit of power produced. Secondly, it has the lowest life cycle CO2 emissions. Lower than coal, gas and even wind and solar. Thirdly, nuclear runs 93% of the time. Wind and solar don't come anywhere near that, just 33% and 23% respectively. And on top of all that, a one-gigawatt nuclear plant fits on about one square mile and powers 750,000 homes. Wind and solar require vastly more land, materials and backup batteries for the same power. If climate alarmism were serious, the answer would be nuclear. The rest is just theater.
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A new paper argues the global mean surface temperature (GMST) is physically meaningless. The study shows that GMST has no thermodynamic validity, with temperature an intensive property. You cannot average Mount Everest with the Sahara, for example; or seawater with Arctic air. It's like averaging phone numbers. It's meaningless. Also, any changes to the averaging method will completely change the trend, again showing the number has no physical reality. The International Standards Organisation refuses to define GMST. The UN and IPCC use a circular definition. Yet governments treat this number as the foundation of trillions in climate spending. "It all statistical theater." Today's $100 trillion climate boondoggle is anchored to a number that doesn't exist.
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Long-running climate stations are being retired or downgraded across the world, even as officials insist "monitoring has never been more urgent". There are trillions of dollars available for climate subsidies, schemes and slogans, yet somehow there's not enough in the pot to maintain even the most basic weather networks to measure the climate itself. That contrast tells you everything. Trillions are flowing, though not to stations, not to data, not to reliably quantifying the problem, but instead to lining bureaucratic pockets.
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As temperatures collapsed below zero across Texas this week, so too did the state's renewable power generation. Wind, solar and batteries supplied just 7% of electricity as the storm hit. Solar output dropped first, cut by heavy cloud cover and low winter sun angles. Wind generation followed as the cold intensified. Renewable outages surged. The grid held on for one reason: dispatchable power. Coal generation ramped. Nuclear output stayed steady, while natural gas carried the bulk of the load. Texas avoided a humanitarian crisis because firm generation replaced failing renewables. The nationwide picture is the same. On Sunday, January 25, fossil fuels (plus nuclear) supplied 82% of U.S. electricity. This is what keeps the heating on when Americans need it most. Not ideology.
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This peer-reviewed paper has been viewed almost 2 million times. There's a reason for that. It blows a hole straight through the foundations of modern climate theory. The authors show that human CO2 is only 4% of the annual carbon cycle, that natural variability overwhelms the models, and that IPCC temperature projections fall apart when you remove their adjustments. The study's conclusion is simple: The models don't match reality. Natural drivers dominate.
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Twenty years ago, Al Gore warned of imminent polar melt. Today however, Antarctic sea ice is greater than it was at the time Gore made that claim. Satellite records show long periods of stability and even overall expansion. Antarctic wildlife tells the same story. Penguins populations, for example, have expanded their range and increased in number. Globally too, extinction rates are lower today than a century ago, with most losses occurring in the 19th and early 20th centuries due to hunting, habitat destruction, and invasive species - not 'climate change'. The #ClimateCult got it entirely backwards.