The Cost of Net Zero

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    There's been a lot of sloppy advocacy of moving toward net zero carbon emissions. Such advocacy is irresponsible and, if implemented, would have calamitous consequences.

    Feasibility for achieving a net zero economy for the U.S. by 2050

    Posted on March 4, 2023 by curryja | 41 comments
    By Michael J. Kelly

    I imagine that I have been appointed the first CEO of a new agency set up by the Federal Government of the United States of America with the explicit goal of actually delivering a Net Zero CO2 Emissions Economy by 2050. My first task is to scope the project and to estimate the assets required to succeed. This is the result of that exercise, and includes a discussion of some consequences that flow from the scale and timescale for meeting the target.

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    The cost to 2050 will comfortably exceed $12T (trillion) for electrification projects and $35T for improving the energy efficiency of buildings, a work-force comparable in size to the health sector will be required for 30 years, including a doubling of the present number of electrical engineers, and the bill of specialist materials is of a size that for the USA alone is several times the global annual production of many key minerals. On the manpower front one will have to rely on the domestic workforce, as everywhere else in the world is working towards the same target. If they were not so working, the value of the USA-specific target is moot. The scale of this project suggests that a war footing and a command economy will be essential, as major cuts to other favoured forms of expenditure, such as health, education and defence, will be needed. Without a detailed roadmap, as exemplified by the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors that drove the electronics revolution after 1980, the target is simply unattainable.
     
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    Nice piece although written without knowing that net zero is technically impossible. I left a comment to that effect.
     
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    Sounds like a ton of government welfare for liberal type companies willing to "be part of the solution". Not a peep about what the impact of all this spending would actually achieve. Of course, global adoption principally negates the efforts advanced in the agenda. But who cares, all that government graft to all those loyal donors.....
     
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    “A Cleverly Staged Hoax.” …Former German TV Meteorologist Slams “Climate Hysteria”
    By P Gosselin on 23. September 2023

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    German meteorologist Thomas Globig. Screenshot AUF1

    While the system media conjure up the allegedly impending climate catastrophe from morning to night, Austrian alternative media AUF1 reveals the system behind the propaganda.

    Hat-tip: PI here

    Five top-class studio guests discuss the question: “Deindustrialization, car bans, CO2 dictatorship: Where is the climate hysteria leading?”

    In the process, they reveal what is really behind the climate hysteria: a cleverly staged hoax, behind which lie tangible political and economic interests of the globalists.

    Thomas Globig was a meteorologist at Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) for 20 years. During the premiere broadcast of the new show “Lagebesprechung AUF1,” the meteorologist expressed his critical views on climate hysteria for the first time on television. In the round, Globig explains how weather is misused it for scaremongering.

    “In 1911, there were temperatures of 38 degrees and more in Germany. Nobody called for a heat lockdown then. The high temperatures have always been there,” Globig says.

    Today, satellites measure ground temperatures from space. “Of course, the ground temperature is much higher when the sun is beating down on it. Weather stations, on the other hand, are mounted two meters above the ground. As a result, significant deviations are possible.”

    CO2 is part of the earth and nature

    Historian Dr. Holger Thuß is president of the “European Institute for Climate & Energy” (EIKE), which fundamentally questions the thesis of man-made climate change. He is convinced that nature alone is responsible for global climate change. “CO2 is nothing harmful, but belongs to the earth and to our solar system. When politicians fight against CO2, they are actually fighting against nature.”

    “Orchestrated scare tactic”

    Economist Dr. Eike Hamer von Valtier is a board member at the Mittelstandsinstitut Niedersachsen (Medium Size Companies Institute, Lower Saxony) and editor of “Wirtschaft aktuell” (Business Today), the renowned information letter on the background of politics and economics.

    He sees the climate hysteria as an orchestrated scare tactic, behind which lie tangible power interests of global networks: “As always, it’s about power and money.” The CO2 trick is ultimately intended to create planned economic structures like those in the Soviet Union, which are intended to guarantee the globalist circles total control and thus the retention of power.

    AUF1 journalist Kornelia Kirchweger, former press officer at the Austrian Federal Chancellery, tells how state officials there are “brought into line.” A longtime observer of international climate change propaganda, she says politicians today only live in a bubble: “They don’t care about the people.”
     
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