Pirate's Cove

The climate cultists just won’t give up, will they? I wonder if the UK Guardian, which published this, realizes that a Green New Deal would restrict their ability to use fossil fuels to gather and disseminate the news? Or that solar and wind wouldn’t be able to power their operations? Since they are also against nuclear, will they hand-crank the servers? How about the two writers? Do they realize how much a GND will restrict their own lives and take their money?

Climate crisis will deepen the pandemic. A green stimulus plan can tackle both

The Covid-19 epidemic is ravaging our tattered healthcare system and shredding our economy. In the past month, over 22 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits, compounding the fear that unemployment could breach 32% absent massive public action. This is an unmitigated human disaster, recalling the horrors of the Great Depression. And it gets worse. We’re also facing the climate emergency. Immediate relief is necessary – but not sufficient. To tackle all these crises at once, we need a Green Stimulus that creates jobs and lifts up communities in ways that also slash carbon pollution, increase resiliency, and develop a just, modern economy.

The world economy right now looks like a world with a GND. Why have Warmists not made their own lives carbon neutral if they really believe?

Climate change is about to supercharge the coronavirus emergency. In April, California’s wildfire season will start. Restrictions on work caused by the pandemic will make it harder for firefighters to conduct controlled burns that steer fires – and smoke – from homes. Californians’ lungs could face Covid-19 and unusually intense smoke at the same time. A third of the country also faces serious flood risk through the spring. And in summer and fall, forecasters predict “above average probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the continental United States”. We’re already seeing this catastrophic convergence elsewhere: In Ecuador, a muted government response to flooding in indigenous communities, for fear of spreading the virus; in Fiji, devastated by Cyclone Harold this week, 19 confirmed coronavirus cases are casting doubt on how to rebuild.

Hurricanes have always happened. Some periods are up, some are down. Nothing out of the ordinary. Funny, though, because Warmists did dismiss the long periods between landfalling hurricanes, both major and minor, as an aberration. Or blamed it on ‘climate change.’ Most of the wildfires were caused by humans, either by accident or on purpose. Not a tiny uptick in CO2.

Here in the US, green stimulus is easily the best way to create good jobs through public investment. According to a 2011 World Bank study, $1m invested in the oil and gas in the United States creates just five jobs, compared to 17 jobs per million dollars invested in energy-saving building retrofits, 22 jobs for mass transit, 13 for wind, and 14 for solar. Kammen’s research and that of other institutes all concur that investment in a modern green economy is a more efficient job creator than the fossil sector.

In other words, those jobs do not pay as well.

For these reasons, we recently joined nine other experts in social and climate policy to write a letter to Congress outlining a menu of policy options for a Green Stimulus. Our proposals span eight sectors of the economy. But fundamentally, a Green Stimulus is about mobilizing massive public funds – say, $2tn to start – in specific green investments to create high-quality jobs and improve the quality of life, especially in low-income communities, communities of color, and indigenous communities, which have suffered the most disinvestment and pollution in recent decades.

It’s almost like this is really about controlling people, not science.

• Daniel Aldana Cohen is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsvylania, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and a senior fellow at Data for Progress @aldatweets
• Daniel Kammen is professor at the University of California, Berkeley, coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and former Science Envoy for the United States Department of State @dan_kammen

So both have a vested interest in keeping this scam going. Surprise?

Read: You Know What Can Solve The Pandemic? A Green New Deal »

You have to wonder if the climate cultists really think about what they write, because it really doesn’t look good. Or, do they just not care and this is what they really want?

Video: In New York’s Empty Streets, Lessons for Climate Change in the Response to Covid-19

The world is reeling from yet another week of the coronavirus pandemic, with death counts rising, economies spiraling downward and half the global population under orders to stay at home.

But there are also lessons from the response to Covid-19 that can be applied to the climate crisis, and opportunities for cities to take the policies implemented to deal with the pandemic and apply them to their efforts to slow climate change. (snip)

One similarity, Gerrard notes, is the way in which both climate change and Covid-19 disproportionately affect low income and marginalized communities. New York City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, who serves the Lower East Side community of Manhattan, agreed. “When you think about our historically marginalized, disenfranchised communities,” she said, “I think that you will see how those inequities [have] really been brought to light” by weather events related to climate change and by the Covid-19 pandemic. (snip)

Many U.S. cities and states have enacted climate change initiatives, particularly since President Trump decided to pull out of the Paris Agreement in 2017. Perhaps the most ambitious of these plans is in New York City, currently the epicenter of the U.S. Covid-19 outbreak. Amy Turner, a fellow at the Cities Climate Law Initiative at Columbia University, helps cities achieve their climate goals. She sees “an opportunity to marry some of the elements of climate policy and Covid policy, as we think about our response to both crises.” Turner cites increasing bicycle infrastructure, tackling building efficiency and increasing public transportation as some of these opportunities.

Councilwoman Rivera sees possibilities for transportation changes to increase bus ridership, and the opening up of green spaces. “When it comes to climate change, and to how things are changing and affecting us, we know as a coastline community that we’re going to continue to be affected,” she said. “But I really want to see investment in some of these communities to change things once and for all.”

So, let’s see, the climate cultists are thrilled that the streets are empty, poor folks are out of work (as are middle class folks), they’re shuttered in their homes by government edict, they’re threatened with fines and jail if they leave their homes, they want to force people (meaning the peasants) to ride bikes and take buses, limit their movement, and generally have their lives controlled by Government.

Interestingly, why do all these Democratic Party run cities have such inequality, so many marginalized and low income communities?

Read: NYC’s Empty Streets Are A Lesson For ‘Climate Change’ »