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Look upon this list of things that The Science™ has officially pinned on the devil—errr, I mean “climate change”—and prepare to weep, deniers! by James Corbett | Sep 8, 2024 | Newsletter - https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-necessarily-incomplete-inarguably https://corbettreport.com/list-of-things-caused-by-climate-change/ The (Necessarily Incomplete, Inarguably Ridiculous) List of Things “Caused by Climate Change” In the modern era, when someone says, "The devil made me do it!" we recognize they're trying to deflect blame for their own rotten behaviour, and we rightly scoff at them. But how about if they use the 21st century equivalent of that rotten excuse: "Climate change made me do it!"? Sound ridiculous? Well, what if I were to tell you that climate change is causing Pakistani men to beat their wives? Or that the climate crisis can derail trains? Or that climate weirding is responsible for an uptick in child marriages in Pakistan? Or that increasing temperatures are turning lobsters into cannibals? Or that global warming can cause THE ENTIRE EARTH TO EXPLODE! Well, it can, and it does, and it is! Don't believe me? Look upon this list of things that The Science™ has officially pinned on the devil—errr, I mean "climate change"—and prepare to weep, deniers! THE WARMLIST In the year 2000, retired engineering professor John Brignell of the University of Southampton started a website called "Number Watch." He then posted the following explanation of the site's purpose: This site is devoted to the monitoring of the misleading numbers that rain down on us via the media. Whether they are generated by Single Issue Fanatics (SIFs), politicians, bureaucrats, quasi-scientists (junk, pseudo- or just bad), such numbers swamp the media, generating unnecessary alarm and panic. They are seized upon by media, hungry for eye-catching stories. There is a growing band of people whose livelihoods depend on creating and maintaining panic. There are also some who are trying to keep numbers away from your notice and others who hope that you will not make comparisons. Their stock in trade is the gratuitous lie. The aim here is to nail just a few of them. In fulfillment of that lofty goal, Brignell kept not only a running monthly blog of some of the worst abuses of statistics and numbers in the media at the time, but also a "Number of the Month." (For example, "40 million," the Number of the Month for October 2001, chosen in honor of the 40 million sheep that the UK government was prepared to slaughter in the name of the Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) scamdemic.) Take a look at the Wayback Machine capture of Brignell's site from 2003 and have a poke around. It's a refreshing reminder of what the weird, wacky world wide web used to look like before it became a homogenized blob of soulless corporate commercialism. In a further sign of just how much public discourse on these matters has changed over the years, consider that Number Watch—a site that would no doubt be subject to social media censorship and government sanction if it were around today for daring to question The Science™—was hailed by Science News in October 2005 as a recommended website. Whatever goodwill the greater scientific community held for Number Watch ended abruptly in 2006, however, when Brignell began compiling "The Warmlist." There, on his quaint old Web 1.0 site, in plain, unadorned HTML, Brignell began compiling "A complete list of things caused by global warming." The list, an aggreation of links to mainstream media articles purporting to report on events and phenomena that have been attributed to "global warming" and "climate change," speaks for itself: AIDS, Afghan poppies destroyed, African holocaust, aged deaths, poppies more potent, Africa devastated, Africa in conflict, African aid threatened, aggressive weeds, Air France crash, air pockets, air pressure changes, airport farewells virtual, airport malaria, Agulhas current, Alaskan towns slowly destroyed, Al Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped, allergy increase, allergy season longer, alligators in the Thames, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), anaphylactic reactions to bee stings, ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, animals shrink, Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk, anxiety treatment, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic ice melt faster, Arctic lakes disappear, Arctic tundra lost, Arctic warming (not), a rose by any other name smells of nothing, asteroid strike risk, asthma, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty, atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased, Baghdad snow, Bahrain under water, bananas grow, barbarisation, bats decline, beer and bread prices to soar, beer better, beer worse, beetle infestation, beef shortage, bet for $10,000, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billion homeless, billions face risk, billions of deaths, bird loss accelerating, bird populations dying, bird strikes, bird visitors drop, birds confused, birds decline (Wales), birds driven north, birds face longer migrations, birds on long migrations threatened, birds return early, birds shrink(Aus), birds shrink (USA), bittern boom ends, blackbirds stop singing, blackbirds threatened, Black Hawk down, blizzards, blood contaminated, blue mussels return, borders redrawn, bluetongue, brains shrink, brewers droop, bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain one big city, Britain Siberian, Britain's bananas, British monsoon, brothels struggle, brown Ireland, bubonic plague, Buddhist temple threatened, building collapse, building season extension, bushfires, butterflies move north, butterflies reeling, butterfly saved, carbon crimes, caribou decline, Cambodian sex trade fuelled, camel deaths, cancer, cancer deaths in England, cannibalism, cataracts, cats more amorous, caterpillar biomass shift, cave paintings threatened, chagas disease, childhood insomnia, children's mental health, chocolate shortage, Cholera, circumcision in decline, cirrus disappearance, civil unrest, cloud increase, clownfish get lost, coast beauty spots lost, cockroach migration, cod go south, coffee threatened, coffee berry borer, coffee berry disease, cold climate creatures survive, cold spells, cold spells (Australia), colder waters (Long Island), cold wave (India), cold weather (world), cold winters, computer models, conferences, conflict, conflict with Russia, consumers foot the bill, coral bleaching, coral fish suffer, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, coral reefs twilight, cost of trillions, cougar attacks, crabgrass menace, cradle of civilisation threatened, creatures move uphill, crime increase, crocodile sex, crocodiles driven from water, crops devastated, crop failures increase, cross-breeding, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, cryptococcal disease, curriculum change, cyclones (Australia), damselflies forced back to UK, danger to kid's health, Darfur, Dartford Warbler plague, daylight increase, deadly virus outbreaks, death rate increase (US), death rate drop, deaths to reach 6 million, decades of progress at risk, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, depression, desert advance, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, dig sites threatened, disasters, diseases move north, diving reefs closed, dog disease, dozen deadly diseases- or not, drought, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, dust doubles, earlier pollen season, Earth axis tilt, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth crumbling, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down, Earth spins faster, Earth to explode, earth upside down, earthquakes, earthquakes redux, El Niño intensification, end of the world as we know it, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, English villages lost, equality threatened, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing, eutrophication, everyplace hit hardest, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (apes, human, civilisation, koalas, lizards, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, penguins, pikas, polar bears, possums, walrus, tigers, toads, turtles, pandas, penguins, plants, ladybirds, rhinoceros, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, mountain species, not polar bears, barrier reef, leaches, salamanders, tropical insects, flowers) experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, fading fall foliage, famine, farmers benefit, farmers go under, farm output boost, farming soil decline, fashion disaster, fever, figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza, fires fanned in Nepal, fish bigger, fish catches drop, fish downsize, fish deaf, fish feminised, fish get lost, fish head north, fish lopsided, fish shrinking, fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, flesh eating disease, flies on Everest, flood patterns change, floods, floods of beaches and cities, flood of migrants, flood preparation for crisis, flora dispersed, Florida economic decline, flowers in peril, flowers wilt, flying squirrels move up, fog increase in San Francisco, fog decrease in San Francisco, food poisoning, food prices rise, food prices soar, food production increased, food safety affected, food security threat (SA), football team migration, forest decline, forest expansion, foundations threatened, foundations increase grants, frog with extra heads, frosts, frostbite, frost damage increased, fungi fruitful, fungi invasion, fungi rot the world, games change, Garden of Eden wilts, geese decline in Hampshire, genetic changes, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, geysers imperiled, giant icebergs (Australia), giant icebergs (Arctic), giant oysters invade, giant pythons invade, giant squid migrate, gingerbread houses collapse, glacial earthquakes, glacial retreat, glacier grows (California), glaciers on Snowden, glacier wrapped, glass melts, global cooling, glowing clouds, golf course to drown, golf Masters wrecked, grain output drop (China), grain output stagnating (India), grandstanding, grasslands wetter, gravity shift, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, great tits cope, greening of the North, Grey whales lose weight, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, haggis threatened, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, health affected, health of children harmed, health risks, health risks (even more), heart deaths, heart disease, heart attacks and strokes (Australia), heat waves, hedgehogs bald, hibernation affected, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, homeless 50 million, home runs, hornets, human development faces unprecedented reversal, human fertility reduced, human health risk, human race oblivion, human rights violations, hurricanes, hurricane reduction, hurricanes fewer, hurricanes more intense, hurricanes not, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, hyphthermia deaths, ice age, ice hockey extinct, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, icebergs, ice sheet tipping point, illegal immigration, illness and death, inclement weather, India drowning, infrastructure failure (Canada), indigestion, industry threatened, infectious diseases, inflation in China, insect explosion, insect invasion, insurance premium rises, Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, invasion of alien worms, invasion of Antarctic aliens, invasion of Asian carp, invasion of cane toads, invasion of caterpillars, invasion of cats, invasion of crabgrass, invasion of herons, invasion of jellyfish, invasion of king crabs, invasion of lampreys, invasion of midges, invasion of pine beetles, invasion of rats (China), invasion of slugs, island disappears, islands sinking, Italy robbed of pasta, itchier poison ivy, Japan's cherry blossom threatened, jellyfish explosion, jets fall from sky, Kew Gardens taxed, kidney stones, killer cornflakes, killing us, kitten boom, koalas leaves inedible, koalas under threat, krill decline, lake empties, lake shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, large trees decline, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful, lawyers' income increased (surprise surprise!), lawyers want more, legionnaires' surge, lives lost, lizards super intelligent, lives saved, lobsters grow, Loch Ness monster dead, locust plagues suppressed, low oxygen zones threaten sea life, lush growth in rain forests, Lyme disease, Major vegetation shifts, Malaria, Malaria decline, malnutrition, mammoth dung melt, mammoth ivory bonanza, manatees battle, mango harvest fails, Maple production advanced, Maple syrup shortage, marmots fatter, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, Meaching (end of the world), Meat eating to stop, Mediterranean rises, megacryometeors, Melanoma, Melanoma decline, mental health decline, mental illness, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, methane runaway, melting permafrost, Mexican climate migrant flood, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration, migratory birds huge losses, microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, milk production lost, minorities hit, monkeys at risk, monkeys on the move, Mont Blanc grows, monuments imperiled, moose dying, more bad air days, more research needed, mortality increased, mosquitoes adapting, mountain (Everest) shrinking, mountaineers fears, mountains break up, mountains green and flowering, mountains taller, mortality lower, Mubarak fall, murder rate increase, musk ox decline, Myanmar cyclone, narwhals at risk, narwhals suffocate, National Parks damaged, National security implications, native wildlife overwhelmed, natural disasters quadruple, neurological diseases, new islands, next ice age, NFL threatened, Nile delta damaged, noctilucent clouds, no effect in India, Northwest Passage opened, nuclear plants bloom, oaks dying, oaks move north, obesity, oblivion, ocean acidification, ocean acidification faster, ocean dead spots, ocean dead zones unleashed, ocean deserts expand, ocean salt extremes, ocean oxygen crisis, ocean waves speed up, Olympic Games to end, opera house to be destroyed, outdoor hockey threatened, owls turn brown, oxygen depletion zones, oyster herpes, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, peat bogs problem, peat bogs no problem, penguin chicks frozen, penguin chicks smaller, penguins in the dark, penguin populations devastated, penguins replaced by jellyfish, penguins sex lives affected, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, pets in danger, phenology shifts, pines decline, pirate population decrease, pirates run rampant, plankton blooms, plankton plummeting, plankton wiped out, plants lose protein, plants march north, plants move uphill, polar bears aggressive, polar bears cannibalistic, polar bears deaf, polar bears drowning, polar bears fewer cubs, polar tours scrapped, pollination halved, porpoise astray, profits collapse, psychiatric illness, psychological effects, puffin decline, pushes poor women into prostitution, rabid bats, radars taken out, rail network threatened, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rainforest destruction, rape wave, refugees, reindeer endangered, reindeer larger, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, respiratory diseases worsen, rice less fragrant, rice production fall, rice threatened, rice yields crash, rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war, river flow impacted, river rerouted, rivers raised, road accidents, roads wear out, robins rampant, rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, rooftop bars, Ross river disease, Russia under pressure, salinity reduction, salinity increase, Salmonella, salmon stronger, sardine run unpredictable, satellites accelerate, Schmallenberg virus, school closures, sea level rise, sea level rise faster, sea snot, seals mating more, seismic activity, sewer bills rise, severe thunderstorms, sex change, sexual dysfunction, sexual promiscuity, shark attacks, sharks booming, sharks hybridise, sharks moving north, sheep change colour, sheep shrink, shop closures, short-nosed dogs endangered, shrimp sex problems, shrinking ponds, shrinking sheep, shrinking shrine, Sidney Opera House wiped out, ski resorts threatened, slavery, skinks impacted, slow death, smaller brains, smog, snowfall decrease, snowfall increase, snowfall heavy, snow thicker, soaring food prices, societal collapse, soil change, soil subsidence, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, soybean crop to drop, space junk increase, space problem, spectacular orchids, spider danger in UK, spider bites to increase, spiders getting bigger, spiders invade Scotland, squid aggressive giants, squid larger, squid population explosion, squid tamed, squirrels reproduce earlier, starfish sperm eaten by parasites, stingray invasion, storm damage costs rise, storms wetter, stratospheric cooling, street crime to increase, subsidence, suicide, sunset displaced, swordfish in the Baltic, Tabasco tragedy, taxes, tea flavour change, tectonic plate movement, teenage prostitution, terrorists (India), thatched cottages at risk, threat to peace, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tigers eat people, tigers drown, tomatoes rot, tornado outbreak, tourism increase, toxic bacteria, toxic seaweed, trade barriers, trade winds weakened, traffic jams, transport snarl, transportation threatened, tree foliage increase (UK), tree growth slowed, tree growth faster, trees grow too fast, trees in trouble, trees less colourful, trees more colourful, trees lush, trees on Antarctica, treelines change, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, truffle shortage, truffles down, truffles increase, turtles crash, turtle feminised, turtles lay earlier, UFO sightings, UK coastal impact, UK Katrina, vampire bats, Venice flooded, volcanic eruptions, volcanoes awakened in Iceland, walnuts threatened, walrus pups orphaned, walrus stampede, walruses come ashore, wars over water, wars sparked, wars threaten billions, wasps, water bills double, water shortage to increase vegetarianism, wave of natural disasters, waves bigger, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, weather patterns last longer, Western aid cancelled out, West Nile fever, whale beachings, whales lose weight, whales move north, whales wiped out, wheat rust in Syria, wheat yields crushed in Australia, wild boars thrive, wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced, winds stronger, winds weaker, wine - Australian baked, wine industry damage (California), wine industry disaster (US), wine - more English, wine - no more French , wine - England too hot, wine - German boon, wine passé (Napa), wine - Scotland best, wine stronger, winters in Britain colder, winter in Britain dead, witchcraft executions, wolverine decline, wolverines vanish, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, women cheat on vacation, workers laid off, World at war, World War 4, Yellow fever, zebra mussel threat, zoonotic diseases. Brignell's only editorial comment was the tagline at the end of the list: "and all on 0.006 deg C per year!" Not only is it self-evidently ridiculous that so many disparate phenomena have been traced back to a humanly imperceptible degree of temperature variation and nonsensical that so much government funding has been awarded to any researcher claiming to link yet another phenomenon to "global warming," but many of the individual entries (UFO sightings? traffic jams? amorous cats? women cheating on vacation?) are themselves absurd. "Global warming made me do it!" Suffice it to say, Brignell did not win himself any friends among the The Science™ crowd for his efforts. Instead, he transformed overnight from the celebrated creator of Number Watch to a "crank" whose critiques of the global warming religion (and other pseudoscientific innumeracy) are best dismissed. But if you think The Warmlist represents the nadir of the pseudoscientific woo the climate charlatans are promoting, then you haven't seen The Contradictions List! THE CONTRADICTIONS LIST Long-time viewers of The Corbett Report will remember my video, "Climate Change is Unfalsifiable Woo-Woo Pseudoscience," in which I eviscerate the climate cult by demonstrating the contradictions that crop up when literally everything in the world is blamed on the "climate change" bogeyman. To wit: One of the giants in the history of the philosophy of science, Karl Popper, once famously observed that a theory that explains everything explains nothing. And, to be sure, the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change appears to explain everything. After all, we all know that climate change makes for shorter winters . . . except for when it makes for harsher winters. And climate change means less snow . . . except for when climate change means more snow. And climate change causes droughts in California and floods in Texas and Oklahoma, and generally makes wet places wetter and dry places drier, except when it makes wet places drier and dry places wetter. And climate change causes more hurricanes at the same time as it causes fewer hurricanes. Climate change causes more rain, but less water? . . . And less rain, but more water? Climate change decreases the spread of malaria at the same time as it increases the spread of malaria. (But don’t worry! The Terminator himself advises us not to listen to those climate change cynics, hey guys?) Do I need to go on? Oh, OK. Climate change makes San Francisco foggier. / Climate change makes San Francisco less foggy. Climate change causes duller autumn leaves. / Climate change causes more colourful autumn leaves. Climate change makes for less salty seas. / Climate change makes for saltier seas. Climate change causes the polar ice caps to melt. / Climate change causes the polar ice caps to freeze. Climate change makes the earth hotter, unless the earth isn’t getting hotter, in which case climate change can explain that, too! Well, as it turns out, I'm not the only one who has recognized this particular problem with the global warming cult's junk science argument. Back in 2011, Watts Up With That ran an article, "The big self parodying 'climate change blame' list," that assembles a similar list of completely contradictory claims that have been explained by way of "climate change." Amazon dry season greener / Amazon dry season browner Avalanches may increase / Avalanches may decrease – wet snow more though [?] Bird migrations longer / Bird migrations shorter / Bird migrations out of fashion Boreal forest fires may increase / Boreal forest fires may continue decreasing Chinese locusts swarm when warmer / Chinese locusts swarm when cooler Columbia spotted frogs decline / Columbia spotted frogs thrive in warming world Coral island atolls to sink [?] / /Coral island atolls to rise [? – ?] Earth’s rotation to slow down / Earth’s rotation to speed up East Africa to get less rain / East Africa to get more rain – pdf Great Lakes less snow / Great Lakes more snow Gulf stream slows down / Gulf stream speeds up a little Indian monsoons to be drier / Indian monsoons to be wetter Indian rice yields to decrease – full paper / Indian rice yields to increase Latin American forests may decline / Latin American forests have thrived in warmer world with more co2! Leaf area index reduced [1990s] / Leaf area index increased [1981-2006] Malaria may increase / Malaria may continue decreasing Malaria in Burundi to increase / Malaria in Burundi to decrease [?] North Atlantic cod to decline / North Atlantic cod to thrive North Atlantic cyclone frequency to increase / North Atlantic cyclone frequency to decrease – full pdf North Atlantic Ocean less salty / North Atlantic Ocean more salty Northern Hemisphere ice sheets to decline [? – ? – ?] / Northern Hemisphere ice sheets to grow [?] Plant methane emissions significant / Plant methane emissions insignificant Plants move uphill / Plants move downhill [?] Sahel to get less rain / Sahel to get more rain / Sahel may get more or less rain San Francisco less foggy / San Francisco more foggy Sea level rise accelerated / Sea level rise decelerated – full pdf Soil moisture less / Soil moisture more Squids get smaller / Squids get larger Stone age hunters may have triggered past warming [?] / Stone age hunters may have triggered past cooling Swiss mountain debris flow may increase / Swiss mountain debris flow may decrease / Swiss mountain debris flow may decrease then increase in volume UK may get more droughts / UK may get more rain Wind speed to go up [?] / Wind speed slows down [?] / Wind speed to speed up then slow down Winters maybe warmer [? – ?] / Winters maybe colder In other words, no matter what happens (wetter/drier, snowier/less snowy, large squids/small squids, earth rotation slowing or speeding up) it's ALL due to climate change. Everything. (You can't argue with that, can you, you science denier, you!) In fact, in the whole, vast world of scientific enterprise, there's only one category of phenomena that scientists are absolutely forbidden from attributing to climate change. . . . THE UPSHOT What if you could demonstrate that the almost-imperceptible rise in global average temperature that the earth has been experiencing since the end of the Little Ice Age is not only a completely natural phenomenon driven by solar forcing, Milankovitch cycles, volcanic activity and other non-anthropogenic causes, but is actually a beneficial phenomenon? Remarkably, that very idea has been repeatedly demonstrated in recent years . . . but you'd never know it from the nonstop doomscroll of fear porn that populates the newsfeeds of the mainstream popsci media. Take, for example, this chart, compiled by noted climate realist Björn Lomborg: The chart should be completely uncontroversial. It is sourced from a 2021 Lancet Planetary Health article examining deaths "associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures." It accurately conveys the fact that more people die of cold than die of heat each year, and that—even taking the attribution of these temperature-related deaths completely at face value—rising temperatures result in fewer deaths. Strangely, however, the authors of that Lancet study did not appreciate their data being framed in this way. Instead, they contributed toward an attack on Lomberg and his inferences, accusing him of "cherry-picking" data from their study and "misinterpreting" its meaning. We see a similar thing taking place every single time some piece of evidence emerges to challenge the hell-in-a-handbasket apocalyptic doom-mongering of the climate cultists. NASA itself can come out and tout a Nature Climate Change article confirming that the increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are in fact greening the earth, and NASA can then confirm that this greening is itself slowing global warming. But the fact checkers will never let good news get in the way of their scare story. OK, increasing carbon dioxide is greening the earth, the AFP Fact Checkers concede, but eventually these higher temperatures will have negative effects on vegetation. Trust us! Or remember when the Journal of Glaciology published a study on "Mass gains of the Antarctic ice sheet exceed losses," admitting that—contrary to the fear porn of the apocalypse-mongers—the Antarctic was actually gaining more mass from snowfall than it was losing to ice loss? And remember when the NASA doomsayers were able to transform this bad news into good news with a wave of their magic wand: "But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.” As I wrote at the time: You see, the same researchers who can’t even accurately say whether the Antarctic ice sheets are gaining or losing mass (let alone how much mass) are able to determine global sea level rise to within hundredths of a millimeter. No accuracy issues there, of course. So, you can continue worrying, I suppose. (Except for that pesky little Stanford study from September showing that previous models vastly overestimated future sea level rise.) Yes, it seems the one thing you're not allowed to say about this "global warming" bogeyman is that it could ever result in anything good for anyone, anywhere at any time. If and when you do dare say so, even if you're citing true and verifiable data, you will be dismissed just as quickly by the establishment and their media mouthpieces as are those political commentators who use true and accurate information to peddle their "malinformation" about the evils of the US/NATO/Israeli global empire. TRUST THE SCIENCE? So, where does all this leave us? Well, I guess we have two options. We can declare our cognitive sovereignty, assert our right to do our own research and refuse to be kowtowed into submission by the very scientific and technological elite that Eisenhower warned us about; or We can believe any old contradictory mystical woo-woo bull crap about the imminent, weather-induced destruction of the world that the establishment media and government-funded academics shovel in front of our faces. Given the scamdemic we have just lived through, it shouldn't be hard to determine the correct path here. But just in case you need any further convincing, consider the level of absolute nonsense now being openly promoted by the popsci media: 'Bad Omen': Ancient Pyramid in Mexico Collapses Into Pile of Rubble That's right, ScienceAlert.com has just published an article informing us that an ancient stone pyramid in Mexico has collapsed because the weather gods are angry. Specifically, the article cites "personnel from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History" (the "experts," obviously) who blame the collapse on "extreme weather events" and then quotes a random self-identified tribal member who's channeling his dead ancestors: According to Tariakuiri Alvarez, who identifies as a living member of the P'urhépecha tribe, his ancestors would have interpreted the crumbling of the pyramid at Ihuatzio as a "bad omen." In a recent Facebook post Alvarez said that before the arrival of foreign conquerors in Mexico, something similar happened, and it was because the gods were "displeased". And what should one do if one wants to atone for one's climate sins? Who can absolve you of your eco-transgressions against the weather gods? Why, an eco-chaplain, of course! Yes, the hard-hitting mockingbird repeaters at National Propaganda Radio helpfully inform us that a new clergy has emerged in recent years. Going by the name of "eco-chaplains," they are "a new kind of spiritual adviser rising among clergy trained in handling grief and other difficult emotions," although no one knows exactly how many such eco-chaplains exist or what they do, precisely. (Thanks, NPR!) One can only wonder when people will snap out of this madness. What will our grandchildren think when they look back at these times and see the idiocy that was so widely believed? I'm not holding my breath waiting for anyone to apologize for swallowing, regurgitating, amplifying or peddling this climate nonsense. But if we could at least get to the point where "Climate change made me do it!" is scorned in the same way as "The devil made me do it!" is today, I'd call that progress. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ END How & Why Big Oil Conquered The World with transcripts https://www.corbettreport.com/bigoil/ Episode 310 – How Big Oil Conquered The World – 12/28/2015 https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-310-rise-of-the-oiligarchs/ Episode 321 – Why Big Oil Conquered the World – 10/06/2017 https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-321-why-big-oil-conquered-the-world

At least you can stop talking about all that strong demand now. You posted this ^^^ Please remember, you said demand was strong and growing so you are now disagreeing with your own predictions. Dish up the crow.

Tariffs reduce sales, if no American wanted to buy foreign made EVs there would be no reason to put a tariff on them. It's protectionism of US vehicle manufactures at the expense of the average Joe who has to pay double for a cheap EV. Simple.

Funny you like to think any twitch or hiccup in the e-revolution as a sign it is "over." Yet, oddly enough, it continues to this day. Year-over-year decrease is not a "twitch." Oil is now both short and long-term bearish. If you don't like the taste of crow don't be wrong so much. How is that OXY stock you praised doing? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=NYSE%3A+OXY Down 13.4% in last month. Down 20% in last year. That is an oil company, not an oil market price, investment in oil is down.

I mostly agree with that. However, adding hydrogen to natural gas distribution systems at even a low percentage can act as a powerful bridging technology. With such a vast pipeline network it takes a lot of hydrogen to replace even a small percentage of nat gas (if it were evenly mixed which I admit is not true). The hydrogen, in effect, acts as a chemical battery which can be turned back to electricity at a typical nat gas power plant. It's not perfect but it may have a place.

So now that some time has passed. OPEC+ has agreed to extend production cuts and price continues to fall. Now you say that will give the US more room for production, but at what price is exploration and expansion no longer viable for US producers? WTI is $67.51 Brent $70.99.... go figure why??? Eat some crow boys!

If EV sales are collapsing so bad, how come Uncle Sam has to slap a 100% tariff on them?

The local Chinese operative lost interest after Biden left the race? Did all green energy projects end? Are EVs still available for sale? Yep, "it's over" all right - over for the chump! Capitulation is a loss.

Yes, but that is a different kind of coal. Metallurgical coal is much different from the junk they burn in power plants. Charcoal for your BBQ is also different, as is activated carbon.

That bump was rather short lived. 76.98 WTI Brent 79.88. Price is lower than a year ago despite high inflation so the real value of oil has decreased even more than that. New inventory numbers came out and demand is clearly down and war tensions eased.

Machine learning enables viability of vertical-axis wind turbines Machine learning enables viability of vertical-axis wind turbines - EPFL Look away now Mark, more pesky tech!

A lot of material has come out since I past posted on electric vehicles last year when a host of car dealers wrote to President Biden asking for him to pause a government attempt to mandate such cars, all of it confirming that there is no immediate threat to the oil market from the rise of EVs. In that letter the dealers declared that EVs had their place but more time was needed for consumers to get use to the idea and in the meantime EVs were piling up on their lots. EV apologists at the time tried to brush this aside by claiming that the letter was signed "only" by 20 per cent or so of the total number of registered dealers or whatever (I didn't treat this with the contempt it deserved at the time but now I will say this Bwwwwwhahahahahah!) Anyway, here is video listing the various reasons that the growth of the EV market is slowing markedly. Here is another pointing to the problem of Ford dealers being unwilling to get into selling EVs in the first place. A major obstacle is the big upfront cost required to build charging stations on the lot and train staff in the cars. This also mentions the rather grim statistic that Ford is losing an estimated $US36,000 on each EV it sells. As the US Congress has now voted to block government efforts through the EPA to mandate EVs, the EV market will have to face the grim fact that consumers still, by and large, prefer gas/petrol cars and car makers are having real problems achieving the volumes that will help them reduce prices.

At the risk of annoying the many hydrogen-is-the-answer-to-everything brigade there has been further bad news on the hydrogen front. This is an article from the Australian Financial Review (down under Wall Street, my old newspaper). I can't link the article as it's behind a pay wall but I've cut and paste most of it. When Andrew Forrest says the sector is not growing as quickly as he hoped he probably means its been a disaster.... Big organisations like Fortescue, Cleanaway, Wesfarmers, Korea Zinc and the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria have been caught up in the collapse of the Australian division of a controversial US hydrogen vehicle manufacturer. Hyzon Motors aimed to become the Tesla of hydrogen trucks when it listed on Nasdaq in July 2021, but has since lost 99 per cent of its value and is now making a low-ball offer to acquire its failed Australian subsidiary out of administration. The collapse of Hyzon’s Australian subsidiary was triggered when the parent refused to extend financial support in July, and comes as the struggling US company is on track to exhaust its cash reserves within seven months at the current rate of spending. The demise of Hyzon Motors Australia is the latest setback for the struggling hydrogen sector and comes after Fortescue chairman and hydrogen enthusiast Andrew Forrest conceded in July that the sector would not grow as quickly as he originally hoped. It also comes after Fortescue-backed hydrogen plane developer Universal Hydrogen collapsed in the US in July after burning through almost $150 million of investor capital. Hyzon had delivered 10 hydrogen buses to Fortescue and was also working on hydrogen-powered rubbish trucks for Cleanaway when its Australian subsidiary was placed in administration on July 11. The subsidiary collapsed owing $29.9 million to its creditors, and the list of creditors included 45 local employees.

Well it sounds like a loser to me. I saw a hydrogen auto at the Pan Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1965. I was more impressed with the Wagoneer. It is still on the market today, though probably not for long as it is owned by Stellantis. Why do you think it is coming online so long. Natural gas has been used in vehicles since WW!. Today there are pipelines all over the world with natural gas and CNG can be easily transported by ships, trains, and trucks.

It is really stupid to go hydrogen when natural gas is far cheaper, is nearly as clean, and is already established as a dependable fuel, which is safer than hydrogen. It has fueling networks in many countries and is easily transportable by pipeline or truck, ship, rail, etc. when in the form of CNG.

Pesky EVs....looks like sales did not collapse https://cnevpost.com/2024/09/11/china-nev-retail-214000-in-sept-1-8-2024/ China NEV retail at 214,000 in Sept 1-8, up 11% from same period last month Lei Kang Sep 11, 2024 18:36 GMT+8 55 percent now was 53 in August...... by the end of the year 65% and the end of 2025.....85% then the exporting on a massive scale takes place Oil is doomed no more growth....$100 oil ??????not in 2025 or 2026

WTI $65.70 that is some twitch! If eco actually had investments he would be caring about this.

An economist should know what support and resistance levels are... this is a pattern not a twitch.

WTI $66.02 That is a pretty big "twitch!" Put some salt and pepper on your crow to help it go down.

I do not comment on every twitch in the market price of oil????????? Demand for oil is hot and getting hotter.???????? You posted, Standard Chartered, the Brent rally is sustainable well past $90/bbl.????? were you long on Oil on July 3???? you are the King of Oil ,with your statement, that Demand for oil is hot and getting hotter..... how could you go wrong????? And you have a degree in Economics????????.........you must make a fortune as an oil analyst....pumping oil ..... is it in economics that they teach you that when demand gets hotter the price goes up and when demand cools off the price falls???? it has been 2 months since you tried selling Demand for oil is hot and getting hotter. Yep I checked your words...you did state Oil Brent went from $86 to $71 and a little in change in 2 months ....not a day to day fluctuation or a twitch. You must of made a fortune with your forecast....ha ha ha BRENT CRUDE •11 mins 71.14 -0.70 -0.97% If you hang out long enough you will get your $90 Brent......... When do you think it will hit $90????? Q3 is almost over..... as your fellow Luddite thinks right after the election in the 4th quarter, the price will shoot right back up????? Then again your fellow Luddite is a moron. And I actually think he is smarter than you. PS the US GDP is still expanding at over 2 percent annually adjusted for inflation and in China it is at over 4 percent.......so demand should be hot and getting hotter............oh wait ...........Oil demand is going in the opposite direction.........and at the same time Total global energy demand is hot and getting hotter...... The Green Agenda............it is not against the expanding use of Energy ...........it is all about using Cleaner energies than Coal or Oil The Green agenda is hot and getting hotter.....enjoy https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow Latest estimate: 2.5 percent -- September 09, 2024 The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2024 is 2.5 percent on September 9, up from 2.1 percent on September 4. After recent releases from the US Census Bureau, the Institute for Supply Management, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, the nowcasts of third-quarter real personal consumption expenditures growth and third-quarter real gross private domestic investment growth increased from 3.2 percent and 0.0 percent, respectively, to 3.5 percent and 1.2 percent, while the nowcast of the contribution of the change in real net exports to third-quarter real GDP growth decreased from -0.37 percentage points to -0.40 percentage points.

I do not comment on every twitch in the market price of oil...I have better things to do than that.

You are fluctuating with every twitch in the market price. Relax, this will be a long ride. The world is on the cusp of recession, interest rates remain high, the percentage of Chinese vehicles on fossil fuel is over 96%. The day-to-day fluctuations of the market react to every possible impact.

"We" are not presuming that - you are. Oil does not come from obese dinosaurs... We will never run out of oil, its use will be essentially discontinued long before that is a risk. Remember there was a time that whale oil was considered essential, and horses ruled the roads; now whale oil is pretty much illegal and horses are pets.

I notice that the SOR volumes were (and still are) on the uptick, day by day. Hmmm.... Looks like the plan to release and refill is "working". Add to that: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Energy-Transition-Is-Slowing-Its-Oil-Demand-Growth.html CHINA seems to be leading the world into a new paradigm.

Actually, coal is NOT used to make iron (steel's main component). Coal IS used to make coke, transformed in a coke oven, typically at temperatures over 2000 ⁰F. Coke is used to make iron. BTW, I recommend you keep a FAR distance from a coke oven. Those ovens' emissions are REALLY nasty! Coke ovens emit a variety of pollutants, including: Particulate matter (PM): These are tiny particles that can be inhaled and cause respiratory problems. Sulfur oxides (SOx): Sulfur compounds that contribute to acid rain and air pollution. Nitrogen oxides (NOx): Nitrogen compounds that contribute to air pollution and acid rain. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs): Organic compounds that can contribute to air pollution and smog. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): Organic compounds that are known carcinogens. Greenhouse gases: Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), which contribute to climate change. To reduce emissions from coke ovens, modern plants often incorporate pollution control technologies such as: Dry scrubbing: This process removes sulfur oxides from flue gas by reacting them with a dry sorbent. Selective catalytic reduction (SCR): This process reduces nitrogen oxides by reacting them with anhydrous ammonia (!) in the presence of a catalyst. Wet scrubbing: This process removes particulate matter and other pollutants from flue gas by washing it with a liquid scrubber. Similar, if not identical technologies are used at coal-fired power plants.

Thank you for sharing. If, in the 80', breaking even is about $15, selling price let's assume to be around $30, and if one barrel of oil has ~ 159 liters, then: Liter oil = $30/159L = ~ $0.20/L. The earliest price i could recall was in late 90s. It was around rm 1.05, ~ $ 0.30/L. With subsidy given by the government, the price should be cheaper than that. The costs of operation outside of own country, taking risk in tumultuous water, should not be put forward onto the consumers but born by the government itself, right? If it is privately owned, should be the responsibility of the person in charged, yes? You might have used two different category of things in your comparison. One is non perishable i.e. fossil fuel, another is perishable i.e. milk, mp3. When non perishable goods become scarce, the price will rise. While perishable goods will have reduced value. Lowering oil price to buy votes is possible. If recall correctly, there was an order to release oil barrels reserved for emergency, despite opposition. It was as if described by old-R, ' making ruling party looks like they are saving the middleclass...' If democracy is about controlled win, nothing would be impossible...

What goes down, will go back up...guaranteed. But for me is slightly helpful with my fuel bill. Gas is at 3.69 diesel 3.74. Many states will be lower as taxes on fuel in Illinois are high. WTI at todays drilling costs, could go as low as 45 a bbl. That is the last 8 to 10 years break even. Many thousands of well still producing from the 60's thru the 80's break even is 8 dollars in the 60's to 15 in the 80's. Greed is very prevalent through-out all mining and oil world wide. I mean what I say, it may be at 67 and change but my guess politics is somewhat involved to make the ruling party look like they are "saving the middleclass'' and when the election is over, back to 80+ a barrel. So let's not barbeque the crow just yet.

Always wrong.

they are proposing to put H2 in high quantities into town gas systems???? who is they???? Mark, no is proposing this....Your posts are that of a Drama Queen in a quest to stop something that is not even being proposed. You post no proposals (try posting real links to real proposals , not requotes from other Drama Queens that also do not link to anything real) You constantly post made up scenarios with nothing to back yourself up such as Renewables are certainly cheaper on a straight cost comparison but not if you put them into a grid. Then they become very, very expensive - not so much the power they generate but all the extra stuff that has to be done to run the grid around them. My power is now over 20 percent renewables and my power bill is the same it was over 10 years ago ( when inflation is factored in it is 30 percent less) I now have a night time rate that also is lower than any rate I had available for the past 10 years. Maybe if you would post some real numbers and facts, someone might take you seriously. As you keep posting the same garbage without any facts or real links to real information you lose all credibility.

when you get beyond a mixture of 10-20 per cent by volume (far less by energy contribution) then the enginers have to totally redesign and rebuild the pipeline and replace all the gas fittings???? no one is proposing putting hydrogen into existing nat gas pipelines above 20 percent ....... The main uses of Green Hydrogen will be used in industrial processes IE to make ammonia to then make fertilizer, in steelmaking and chemical processes ( to replace the production of grey hydrogen) and a 20 percent replacement of methane According to available data, the global hydrogen production today is approximately 75 million metric tons of pure hydrogen per year, with an additional 45 million metric tons produced as part of a gas mixture, totaling around 120 million metric tons annually and finally production of green hydrogen from renewables at the sites of existing gas fired power plants and storing enough hydrogen (like a days worth) to run the plants during peak demands.... it seems that the more renewables there are on a grid around the world the more expensive the electricity????????? thanks for trying to BS us again......reality today is Solar and Wind power does not cause electricity to become more expensive states including South Dakota, Montana, Iowa and four others as having high levels of renewables but cheaper power prices......??????? Mark my bet is you have never lived in or been in any of these states , because if you did you would know they have the cheapest power prices in the US https://www.energybot.com/electricity-rates/

Tell me more about that strong oil demand Ecocharger. WTI $70.50 Brent $73.96 Any day now!

Rob - instead of growling at me and quoting totally meaningless statistics - H2 is used extensively in industrial projects, I'm talking about its use in transport and power for which is it clearly completely unsuited - why don't you invest in the sector? You'll lose your money then have to take a second job and won't have time to for these posts. Better yet, join a university and teach students about the benefits of H2. You won't have to worry about reality. I've picked apart your 'statistics' before and made no impression. When H2 starts playing an actual, appreciable role in energy and transport then you can talk about people keeping an open mind. At present it has no role, nor is it likely to despite your statistics.

Ahhh... Travel between Cheyenne and Laramie. If you want pavement, you are gonna travel on a section I-80 for part of the way (unless you wanna use a county dirt road or two-track and navigate the cattle guards).

pesky solar panels....coal is doomed Warp News 🌅 Wind and solar energy surpass coal power in China China's combined capacity for wind and solar power has for the first time exceeded coal. Solar energy is expected to surpass coal as China's... . 4 days ago Reuters China to continue with low-carbon reforms, energy regulator says China will keep phasing out fossil fuels and reforming its electricity system, the energy regulator said on Thursday, issuing a white paper... . 1 day ago

They know. Thankfully coal mostly kills the people near by - the toxic waste doesn't travel that far. CO2 is global but that won't kill you.

Oh right ... okay, my apologies. Probably we should leave it at that...

Like any cockroach the cult is scurrying into the shadows... "Any day now" they will return victorious! haha!

"Behind a paywall" means the authors want to get paid for their work. You should respect that as you consider yourself an author. As for the article so what? Lots of startups fail in all industries. Lots of technologies fail on the first attempts. If failures stopped people from trying we would not have airplanes.

WTI at 74.00 ....testing the last lowpoint for the year set in Feb of 2024 at $72 plus change .....big question will a floor be set at $73...with the super weak economic report out of China and the falling imports of crude into China and the peak summer driving/travel season over................... $73 will be tested very soon and if the price drops to less than $72.50 there is no stopping the fall until WTI is under 70 and Brent under $73..... Brent is leading the charge downward tonight..............market is open in China right now and no buyers are steeping forward to stop the decline. last other big low in the past year WTI at 68.61 on Dec 12 The bears are taking charge and short sellers have control of the near term market This is even at a time when interest rates are about to drop in the US which should be bullish for crude...........US stock markets are testing new record highs............ why buy oil today when you can get it in 2025 for $5 bucks less Crude is getting creamed by the lack of China demand.... Pesky EVs Ecochump ???? where are you .......you keep yelling Demand is strong and getting stronger.....Pure BS gas at the pump a gift to Harris under $3 in my hood...Inflation today in the US ?????? the worry is deflation in the commodities sectors SEP 2024 CLU4 OPT 74.00 -0.37 (-0.50%) - 74.34 74.38 74.00 44 19:17:03 CT 19 Aug 2024 OCT 2024 CLV4 OPT 73.41 -0.25 (-0.34%) - 73.74 73.80 73.32 9,364 21:14:56 CT 19 Aug 2024 NOV 2024 CLX4 OPT 72.79 -0.20 (-0.27%) - 73.11 73.13 72.69 2,737 21:14:30 CT 19 Aug 2024 DEC 2024 CLZ4 OPT 72.29 -0.19 (-0.26%) - 72.61 72.62 72.19 2,811 21:14:33 CT 19 Aug 2024 JAN 2025 CLF5 OPT 71.91 -0.16 (-0.22%) - 72.20 72.21 71.79 1,687 21:14:25 CT 19 Aug 2024 FEB 2025 CLG5 OPT 71.72 UNCH (UNCH) - 71.83 71.83 71.47 934 21:08:53 CT 19 Aug 2024 MAR 2025 CLH5 OPT 71.54 +0.13 (+0.18%) - 71.49 71.54 71.17 1,558 21:14:22 CT 19 Aug 2024 APR 2025 CLJ5 OPT 70.93 -0.19 (-0.27%) - 71.13 71.23 70.93 297 21:13:01 CT 19 Aug 2024 MAY 2025 CLK5 OPT - - - - - - 308 21:04:08 CT 19 Aug 2024 JUN 2025 CLM5 OPT 70.40 -0.14 (-0.20%) - 70.64 70.66 70.29 1,113 21:14:22 CT 19 Aug 2024 JUL 2025 CLN5 OPT - - - - - - 49 20:59:07 CT 19 Aug 2024 AUG 2025 CLQ5 OPT - - - - - - 55 20:02:02 CT 19 Aug 2024 SEP 2025 CLU5 OPT 69.82 +0.10 (+0.14%) - 69.60 69.82 69.60 173 21:04:08 CT 19 Aug 2024 OCT 2025 CLV5 OPT - - - - - - 42 20:02:02 CT 19 Aug 2024 NOV 2025 CLX5 OPT - - - - - - 26 21:01:35 CT 19 Aug 2024 DEC 2025 CLZ5 OPT 68.90 -0.13 (-0.19%) - 69.15 69.15 68.84 702 21:14:22 CT 19 Aug 2024

WTI dropping fast. $74.35 Tell me more about that strong demand Ecocharger. LOL

"Oil price" does not have to mean pro-oil, it is, wait for it... about the price of oil. You can make money going bearish on oil. There are literally thousands of orphan wells around here. https://www.orphanwell.ca/inventory-accross-alberta

What are you saying? You believe the writer of this actually knows what she is talking about? Same with the Zombie Well writer, from Mexico. Neither have experience in well plugging and exaggerating amount is useless. Sorry, not buying their propaganda!! Stories are getting more liberal for an agenda of less fossil energy. The site Literally is OILPRICE.com. Shheeeeesh

Just pointing out there are alternatives and the steel companies are under big pressure to reduce their Co2 footprint. The coal industry isnt dead but it is certainly dying in the Western world ,just look at the % mix of powergen and coal's declining numbers.

A used-up wind turbine is much easier to clean up than a well site. Just saying. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Thousands-of-Abandoned-Oil-Wells-Plague-Texas-Landscape.html

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Newest IEA chart shows oil demand in the 1st and 2nd quarters were lower than 2023 average demand China's demand is less in this July compared to last July..... and the IEA is thinking the 3rd quarter will see a boom in demand of 1 MBPD?????? reality IEAs 2024 forecast is a bust on every level 104 MBPD in the third quarter???? IEA needs to ban drug use by its analysts maybe IEA should read the news and look at the real numbers for a change pesky EV sales in China S&P Global Oil demand seeing 'major deceleration' led by China: IEA The world is seeing a major deceleration in oil demand growth led by China, with inventories set to rise next year even if OPEC+ were to... . 2 days ago

You just never learn from reliable sources. You are just unable to state the facts. China's energy use is primarily from coal, oil, and renewable sources: Coal In 2021, coal accounted for 60.6% of China's total energy supply, and in 2023, it was the primary energy fuel, accounting for 91.9 exajoules. Coal is also the main source of electricity in China, accounting for 62% of electricity generation in 2021. Coal is a major contributor to China's greenhouse gas emissions. Oil In 2021, oil accounted for 18.1% of China's total energy supply, and in 2023, it accounted for less than 20% of the country's total energy consumption. Renewable sources In 2023, China's primary energy consumption from renewable sources was 16.1 exajoules, up from 13.4 exajoules in 2022. In the first quarter of 2023, China generated 594.7 TWh of electricity from renewable sources, which was an 11.4% increase from the previous year. This included 342.2 TWh of wind and solar power, which was a 27.8% increase from the previous year. By the end of 2023, China had a total installed electric generation capacity of 2.92 TW, with 1.26 TW coming from renewable sources.

It would take much more than 3 days. The first Gulf war with Iraq over Kuwait was over 6 months. The second war with Iraq took almost 9 years. I know Iran is not Iraq but it is what we have to compare to.

China calls an electric vehicle, anything with 4 wheels and a battery. Nowhere else describes a golf cart + battery as an electric vehicle; China does. No one wants a tiny death trap vehicle: No ONE, yet EV forces vehicles to be made tiny by and large. No ONE wants a vehicle requiring an hour to "fuel" under OPTIMAL circumstances, let alone if someone is filling the stall and you have to WAIT. NO ONE. No ONE wants a vehicle which if you drive over debris and get a small hole in the undercarriage is totaled: NO ONE No ONE wants a vehicle where half its range is lost due to cold weather: NO ONE No ONE wants a vehicle when the battery dies YOU get locked in: NO ONE <<Cough Tesla trash>> No ONE wants a vehicle they have to use a damned PHONE/AP to pay for your charging: NO ONE No ONE wants a vehicle you cannot replace parts and keep it running:NO ONE No ONE with a functioning brain wants a vehicle which becomes a lump of lead when the power goes out due to natural disaster or in the case of Ukraine: A war: NO ONE, yet that is EXACTLY what will happen if vehicles go electric: One EMP and you have to surrender autmoatically. You do not need a nuclear bomb for an EMP attack either, yet this is where our religious political whore overlorrds are taking us.