The World Economic Forum & Davos - Setting the agenda on fossil fuels, global regulations, etc.

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All those at DAVOS are self Absorbed Assclown’s that think they should run the world and the United States of America should pay for it! They want a one world set of Agencies that all countries will report to and no country can defy! This will not pass here in the United States, Us Americans will never give control of our freedom to outsiders! If they want to see tens of millions of pissed off American’s coming after them, Bring It! They can fuck up the rest of the world but it will not happen here in the United States! When these so called elitist think they above everyone else and can’t be touched, They will learn a powerful lesson when they are tracked down! Let them fuck up the rest of the world, We The People will not stand for it!

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On 10/8/2020 at 3:53 PM, 0R0 said:

Sustainable development is what gives the Davos crowd more money. And their lackeys in governments and international orgs. more power.

Otherwise indistinguishable from any familiar boondoggle like the "Big Dig"

There is no such thing as sustainable development. Some development has a cleaner footprint than others. The idea is to have a sustainable future with less death from pollution. The reality is only a drop in consumption can achieve sustainability. Like a big drop in population.

Edited January 18, 2021 by Boat

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1 hour ago, RichieRich216 said:

All those at DAVOS are self Absorbed Assclown’s that think they should run the world and the United States of America should pay for it! They want a one world set of Agencies that all countries will report to and no country can defy! This will not pass here in the United States, Us Americans will never give control of our freedom to outsiders! If they want to see tens of millions of pissed off American’s coming after them, Bring It! They can fuck up the rest of the world but it will not happen here in the United States! When these so called elitist think they above everyone else and can’t be touched, They will learn a powerful lesson when they are tracked down! Let them fuck up the rest of the world, We The People will not stand for it!

Unfortunately, it is already happening.  Everything that you do online or with your phone or with social media is being catalogued.  We are "tax cattle" in the U.S., and our data is the new oil.  The lockdown and mask mandates were just a "test" to see how Americans would respond to authoritarian dictates.  It is here now, the New World Order.  Things are not going back to the way they were a year ago.  Never.  Americans were asleep and got hooked into the marketing trends and manipulations of the big corporations / elite.  Wait until you see what is coming...it ain't pretty.

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1 hour ago, Boat said:

The reality is only a drop in consumption can achieve sustainability. Like a big drop in population.

I guess that you never did watch that documentary "Why Big Oil Conquered the World".  You sound like Bill Gates, Prince Philip or Ted Turner when you bring up population.   The world is on a natural trend to max at 9 billion people with most developed countries having a current decline in population growth...that is the facts.  Boat please watch that documentary.

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7 hours ago, Boat said:

There is no such thing as sustainable development. Some development has a cleaner footprint than others. The idea is to have a sustainable future with less death from pollution. The reality is only a drop in consumption can achieve sustainability. Like a big drop in population.

5 hours ago, Tom Nolan said:

I guess that you never did watch that documentary "Why Big Oil Conquered the World".  You sound like Bill Gates, Prince Philip or Ted Turner when you bring up population.   The world is on a natural trend to max at 9 billion people with most developed countries having a current decline in population growth...that is the facts.  Boat please watch that documentary.

The notion of an infinitely growing population is nonsense. On a consumption weighted basis the global population is shrinking now that China has turned over. .OECD+China are in an inverted demography. They can consume more per capita as their need for investment is largely for new tech and products as extensive growth is well behind them. Thus each new generation requires no new schools, no new university classrooms or dorms, no new office space, no new housing other than replacement.The number of first car purchases is dropping every year in aggregate. 

The emerging economies might have a chance for improvement, but those that remain in the emergent camp are there because they are impossible to develop profitably with technology available heretofore. Hopefully modern Solar and Wind will help. But the amount of infrastructure investment necessary is not at all economically justified  in most cases even with negative real interest rates. 

The current projections from the authors of empty planet don't get to 8 Tril humans ever. 

There is no need for population reduction to achieve any goal. Fighting for survival is a noble goal, Gates and co.suggestions of culling humanity are deranged musings of eugenicists. Even if solutions are not found, you don't  kill people off preemptively. 

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3 minute video - Many famous people are mentioned here...

The Rise of Eugenics - Why Big Oil Conquered The World

 

Boat, I encourage you to watch "Why Big Oil Conquered the World" for this New Biden Agenda, this "Great Reset" eugenics mindset that people are only commodities to be exploited and controlled through a Technocracy.. 

If you watch "How Big Oil Conquered the World" you will discover how Big Oil intentionally destroyed Mass Transit and alternative fuels for automobiles, and how they manipulated the entire educational system and how Big Oil helped to install income tax, The Federal Reserve private banking structure, and how Big Oil brought about the medical system which is Pharma based, rather than healthy natural based.

https://www.corbettreport.com/bigoil/

 

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UAE Oil Major Turns To Hydrogen

By Irina Slav - Jan 18, 2021, 9:00 AM CST

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Fuel-Cells/UAE-Oil-Major-Turns-To-Hydrogen.html

Adnoc, the Abu Dhabi state oil company, Adu Dhabi Investment Holding, and Mubadala Investment Co., two state investment funds, have teamed up in an Abu Dhabi Hydrogen Alliance to develop hydrogen production and export capabilities, joining a growing number of businesses betting on hydrogen, Argus reports citing Emirati media.

Bloomberg reports Adnoc and Mubadala will produce hydrogen both from natural gas—blue hydrogen—and from renewable energy—green hydrogen—and export it globally. The move reflects the growing prominence of hydrogen as a member of the world's future energy mix even though the production of green hydrogen—the ultimate goal of agenda setters—is still a lot more expensive than green or grey hydrogen, produced from natural gas and coal.

"While we explore green hydrogen opportunities through the Alliance, Adnoc will place special emphasis on pursuing blue hydrogen projects by expanding on its existing hydrogen capacity, leveraging its significant gas reserves and best-in-class infrastructure, as well as its extensive customer relationships to help advance the hydrogen industry, both domestically and internationally," Argus quoted Adnoc's chief executive, Sultan Al-Jaber as saying.

The fact that it's a major oil producer that is betting on hydrogen is telling. In this respect, Abu Dhabi follows in the footsteps of the UAE's bigger ally, Saudi Arabia, which last year unveiled what should become the world's largest green hydrogen project. The facility, which will also produce ammonia, will be worth $5 billion, and be powered by a 4-GW combination of wind and solar farms in the NEOM smart city—the Kingdom's most ambitious economic transformation effort so far.

According to Bloomberg, like Saudi Arabia, the UAE is well positioned to benefit from its natural gas reserves, which it can use to produce blue hydrogen, and its location in a region with abundant sunshine, which means serious solar power potential to use to produce green hydrogen.

Adnoc is already producing hydrogen, at about 300,000 tons annually. It uses the chemical in its downstream operations, Bloomberg notes. The company now plans to boost this output to mover 500,000 tons annually

By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com

 

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Tom Nolan:  The following article has significance.  Central Banks buying "Green" Bonds.  Important article.

Why The Green Bond Market Is So Popular In 2021

By Irina Slav - Jan 18, 2021, 3:00 PM CST

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Why-The-Green-Bond-Market-Is-So-Popular-In-2021.html

Green bond issuance last year hit a record—the pandemic couldn’t stop the surge in investor appetite for anything related to renewable energy and environmental responsibility. This year, this new market is set for even stronger growth as energy sustainability becomes the theme of the decade. Last year, total sustainable debt hit a record high of $732.1 billion, BloombergNEF reported earlier this month. This was up by 29 percent on the year despite the pandemic or maybe because of it: the pandemic proved an opportunity for some governments to reinforce and strengthen their commitments to their green agenda.

Take the European Union, for example. The EU already had ambitious green energy goals before the pandemic ravaged its economy. But instead of worrying how it would juggle these goals with the billions of euros in relief and recovery programs it needed, the EU is tying the two together. Member states will only receive relief funds if they pledge to invest a substantial portion of it in green technology.

In fact, earlier this month, the ECB went even further. The eurozone’s central bank was, at the start of this year, allowed by Brussels to buy ESG bonds in its asset purchase offensive aimed at propping up the zone’s ailing economy. This makes it the first central bank in the world to add ESG bonds to the range of assets eligible for purchase as part of quantitative easing efforts.

What are these ESG bonds, then? Environmental, social, and governance debt issued by companies could either be used to address social issues (social bonds), environmental issues (green bonds), or be used to target both social and environmental problems (sustainable bonds). Sustainable bond issuance last year shot up by 81 percent compared to 2019, according to BloombergNEF, eclipsed only by social bonds.

According to Reuters data, the issuance of bonds to fund sustainable projects rose twofold last year, to a record high of $544.3 billion. Together with loans for sustainable projects, the amount lent for sustainable projects hit $750 billion, the news agency reported last week, citing data from its service Refinitiv.

Related: Oil Prices Drop On Stronger Dollar, COVID Resurgence

There seems to be little doubt that the market for green debt is thriving. There is also little doubt as to the drivers behind this thriving. The EU is one example, but it is not the only one. U.S. president-elect Joe Biden’s pandemic recovery plan, worth $1.9 trillion, also ties the distribution of funds to renewable energy targets. Even the IMF’s chief recently named green projects crucial for the world’s recovery from the pandemic.

No wonder then that analysts expect the boom in green bond issuance to continue this year: Swedish bank SEB told the Financial Times it expected green bond issuance to hit $500 billion this year. That would compare to an estimated $270 billion in sales of green bonds last year. The EU alone will issue more than $270 billion in green bonds this year, the FT notes, as part of the loan part of its pandemic relief program, which is worth over $905 billion.

Given this growing interest in the green transition - growing so strongly that even Wall Street banks are now jumping on the green bandwagon - chances are we are about to see a true boom in green and sustainable bonds. But since this is not a perfect world, there are challenges.

The biggest of these were laid out back in 2018 by the World Bank’s Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction programs for Africa, Marcelo Giugale. Green bonds, Giugale noted, are not exactly cheaper than “normal” bonds. But they are fungible. That is, they could be used for a purpose different from the one stated as the purpose of their issuance. It is the latter that today seems to be of particular concern: the EU is now on a quest to regulate the nascent green debt market in order to make sure the money raised for sustainable projects is indeed used for sustainable projects.

“It is hard to overstate the impact that the regulations will have,” Thomas Tayler, senior manager at Aviva Investors’ Sustainable Finance Centre for Excellence, told the FT’s Siobhan Riding earlier this month. “It is going to change the way people run their businesses by putting sustainability right at the heart of the investment process.”

In other words, the regulation push will aim to make sure the money poured into green investments is indeed used for these investments. This will mean asset managers offering sustainable funds to investors will need to verify these funds are indeed sustainable, making a market that has been quite opaque so far rather more transparent. Regulation should also take care of concerns regarding “greenwashing” by companies without actual plans to become more sustainable but eager to improve their reputation.

The green debt market seems set to really flourish this year thanks to the rush to decarbonize economies and businesses. And maybe the best part in this rush is that now even big polluters can use green bonds to reduce their emissions: there is now a new type of green bonds that include a specific commitment by the issuer to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by a set amount by a certain date. This sort of commitment would likely make polluting issuers more credible in the eyes of bond buyers, expanding the green bond market further.

By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com

 

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20 hours ago, Tom Nolan said:

A New Topic Needed for Eco & Energy Conservation?

https://community.oilprice.com/topic/22336-a-new-topic-needed-for-eco-energy-conservation/

[The 5 minute Samsung video is a clever PR marketing approach towards the new ESG of the Global Great Reset trend.  ]

I am a Samsung fan and a fan of cardboard uses, including plastic formed in the same design. It and similar designs have long use potential and are self insulating. I think inexpensive homes could be built partially using their technology built into hard frames of various materials. It could even be made by the owners themselves with simple lessons and guidance. 

I do not think that styrofoam is easily recycled and is more of a pollutant. 

I had to look up ESG, a fancy name for recycling IMHO. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/environmental-social-and-governance-esg-criteria.asp

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20 hours ago, RichieRich216 said:

All those at DAVOS are self Absorbed Assclown’s that think they should run the world and the United States of America should pay for it! They want a one world set of Agencies that all countries will report to and no country can defy! This will not pass here in the United States, Us Americans will never give control of our freedom to outsiders! If they want to see tens of millions of pissed off American’s coming after them, Bring It! They can fuck up the rest of the world but it will not happen here in the United States! When these so called elitist think they above everyone else and can’t be touched, They will learn a powerful lesson when they are tracked down! Let them fuck up the rest of the world, We The People will not stand for it!

I think we just handed our ass to China through the hands of the Democrats an RINOS along with election cheating. Chinese money has been supporting them for a long time. Add censorship, the deep state, crony capitalists, "educators", government unions, etc., etc. We have a last chance to take back the congress in two years though. We may never have another Republican conservative president though. 

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7 hours ago, Tom Nolan said:

UAE Oil Major Turns To Hydrogen

By Irina Slav - Jan 18, 2021, 9:00 AM CST

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Fuel-Cells/UAE-Oil-Major-Turns-To-Hydrogen.html

Adnoc, the Abu Dhabi state oil company, Adu Dhabi Investment Holding, and Mubadala Investment Co., two state investment funds, have teamed up in an Abu Dhabi Hydrogen Alliance to develop hydrogen production and export capabilities, joining a growing number of businesses betting on hydrogen, Argus reports citing Emirati media.

Bloomberg reports Adnoc and Mubadala will produce hydrogen both from natural gas—blue hydrogen—and from renewable energy—green hydrogen—and export it globally. The move reflects the growing prominence of hydrogen as a member of the world's future energy mix even though the production of green hydrogen—the ultimate goal of agenda setters—is still a lot more expensive than green or grey hydrogen, produced from natural gas and coal.

"While we explore green hydrogen opportunities through the Alliance, Adnoc will place special emphasis on pursuing blue hydrogen projects by expanding on its existing hydrogen capacity, leveraging its significant gas reserves and best-in-class infrastructure, as well as its extensive customer relationships to help advance the hydrogen industry, both domestically and internationally," Argus quoted Adnoc's chief executive, Sultan Al-Jaber as saying.

The fact that it's a major oil producer that is betting on hydrogen is telling. In this respect, Abu Dhabi follows in the footsteps of the UAE's bigger ally, Saudi Arabia, which last year unveiled what should become the world's largest green hydrogen project. The facility, which will also produce ammonia, will be worth $5 billion, and be powered by a 4-GW combination of wind and solar farms in the NEOM smart city—the Kingdom's most ambitious economic transformation effort so far.

According to Bloomberg, like Saudi Arabia, the UAE is well positioned to benefit from its natural gas reserves, which it can use to produce blue hydrogen, and its location in a region with abundant sunshine, which means serious solar power potential to use to produce green hydrogen.

Adnoc is already producing hydrogen, at about 300,000 tons annually. It uses the chemical in its downstream operations, Bloomberg notes. The company now plans to boost this output to mover 500,000 tons annually

By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com

 

For me, hydrogen would have to cost about the same as natural gas to be a superior fuel. I am all for biogas as a greener gas. I do not buy into global warming but we should reduce lost methane from human causes. Lost methane is actually a very large process in nature, it comes from the land and sea except in permanently iced over areas. 

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On 1/7/2021 at 12:18 PM, specinho said:

was in a course "chemistry and energy on global scale"...... Not sure if this info is correct but...........

amount of carbon dioxide in the air and infrared trappers

 

discussion posted by Sarahpecinho

 

quote:" And that occurred just as CO2 hit about 260 parts per million. Now, as we'll see in just a moment, if we look at the situation today, the CO2 concentration is about 406 parts per million."

 

Pardon me for being alerted......... According to google......... By volume, the dry air in Earth's atmosphere is about 78.09 percent nitrogen, 20.95 percent oxygen, and 0.93 percent argon. A brew of trace gases accounts for the other 0.03 percent, including the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone. Oct 2019 https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2915/the-atmosphere-getting-a-handle-on-carbon-dioxide/#:~:text=By%20volume%2C%20the%20dry%20air,methane%2C%20nitrous%20oxide%20and%20ozone.

 

So, we have 0.03% of CO2 in the air at the beginning. Now the amount of CO2 has doubled, we might still have 0.03% of CO2 in the air?? Compared to exhale air of mankind during respiration, CO2 comprises 4% of total gas involved. Eerrr......... where would this be leading us?? Cut back human respiration and the number of people that respires??

 

Infrared trappers In order to progress with the discussion, we might need to define "heat trapper"........ To trap heat, an element would need to have an entity called heat capacity.

 

The specific heat capacity of water is 4,200 Joules per kilogram per degree Celsius (J/kg°C). This means that it takes 4,200 J to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1°C.

 

Specific heat capacity - Energy and heating - AQA - GCSE ...www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › guides › revisio

 

How much energy does it take to raise 1 kg of CO2 by 1°C?? This will determine how much energy CO2 can trap in the air and its significance?? If data is available for methane and other gases, it would be really helpful to give a clearer picture, no??

 

Therefore, we might be in a false panic condition to mend the wrong thing in the wrong direction in haste.......... or no??

In addition, might have posted this somewhere but here.........

Sustainable energy

 

Q: why are forms of sustainable energy not so widely used even though we know the environmental impacts that other forms of energy cause?

 

A:

 

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In order to build the ground of mutual understanding, sustainable energy that you were pointing at might mean renewable energy? If so, forms of renewable energy would be: hydro, solar, wind, wave, biomass

 

We might have been given a skewed conception of data presentation may be to promote one technology over others. Hydropower has been the most widely used renewable energy worldwide. It contributes 60% to 90% of energy for many countries worldwide. Average usages would also be 30% to 50% of hydropower in most countries (except may be the middle east where they might not have rivers
List of countries without rivers - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_countries_without_rivers).

 

Therefore, in addition to solar, wind, wave etc, the total percentage of renewable energy used in the world could have been 60% to 70% and fossil fuel 30 to 40%............. An underrepresented value due to misconception or misinformation provided............

 

 

So........ are we ready to make a call to use fossil fuel sustainably by

1. disallowing redundant factories of low quality. This reduces wastage of products that can not be sold, in addition to wastage of fuel......

2. imposing vasectomy onto countries or ethnics with the fastest population increasing rate. This reduces the need for natural resources, space,  food, aids etc etc......

3. reducing hastily planned constructions especially high rises of low occupancy rate ( average occupancy rate is 10 to 20% per building of height 15 to 20 stories tall) ; roads and highways without drainage holes. This reduces wastage and unwanted consequences like flood, traffic congestion, micro or local climate change etc...

4. revoking pension scheme and hiring rate for majority low performing government officers. This reduces number of redundant personnel that complicate procedures or reduce the efficiency of work. It also reduces number of transport in used on the road and hence usages on fuel plus reduces severity of road congestion.

5. etc (please feel free to add some more, shall you are in the mood...............)😏

So, what happens if their investors end up losing money or making lousy returns? All of a sudden ESG becomes a bad name. I am for it if it can compete and help pollution problems but it may not compete financially. 

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19 hours ago, ronwagn said:

I am a Samsung fan and a fan of cardboard uses, including plastic formed in the same design. It and similar designs have long use potential and are self insulating. I think inexpensive homes could be built partially using their technology built into hard frames of various materials. It could even be made by the owners themselves with simple lessons and guidance. 

I do not think that styrofoam is easily recycled and is more of a pollutant. 

I had to look up ESG, a fancy name for recycling IMHO. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/environmental-social-and-governance-esg-criteria.asp

I am a real proponent of true non-toxic and environmentally friendly viable (profitable), non-deceptive endeavors.  My degree is "Environmental Sciences".

The ad for Samsung is great PR, and is loaded with excellent ideas.  I am so glad that you posted it Ron!  And Samsung makes some great products.  However, they are playing on the recent new trend of ESG.  They could have done the cardboard bit years ago...it is not a new idea.  Of course, they don't mention the backdoor user tracking of their devices in order to monitor, collect data from its users, and then to distribute that data to others and/or censor access to alternative modalities. 

I think that we should be aware of marketing and PR like Bacon and Eggs for breakfast...

Why Do You Eat Bacon and Eggs?

https://www.corbettreport.com/why-do-you-eat-bacon-and-eggs/

(9 minutes)

 

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20 hours ago, ronwagn said:

I think we just handed our ass to China through the hands of the Democrats

CHINA

It should be noted that the Elite of the world (e.g. Rockefeller and his ilk) intentionally made China a super power.  The history is well documented. and there are some excellent books and documentaries on the subject.  It was and is part of the Global plan for a New World Order, now called "The Great Reset", a new Technocratic Global Control.  

China or Russia made out to be the boogeyman is part of the plan.

I'm not saying that China isn't a tyrannical regime.  It has a Technocratic Control over its populace...and it has achieved that through force.  The U.S. is already almost "there" under Technocratic Control, but everyone is doing it voluntarily...look at all the "Smart devices" and Social Media...Americans are volunteering to be under the Technocratic Regime.

Edited January 19, 2021 by Tom Nolan

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Bezos And Gates Backed Fund To Invest In Clean Energy Startups

By MINING.com - Jan 19, 2021, 10:00 AM CST

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Bezos-And-Gates-Backed-Fund-To-Invest-In-Clean-Energy-Startups.html

Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), the clean-tech fund backed by well-known billionaires including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg, has raised $1 billion for the second time in four years to help start-ups capable of drastically cutting global emissions.

Founded in 2016, the venture capital fund backed 45 emerging companies with its first billion and it is now planning to support between 40 and 50 emerging businesses.

While BEV’s scope is broad, it is mostly focused on “clean” products and technologies, such as greener steel and cement, long-haul transport and energy storage.

To be eligible for BEV’s money, a start-up needs to showcase a scientifically sound technology that has the potential to reduce annual global greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 500 million tonnes a year. Global emissions currently measure about 34 billion tonnes a year, partly thanks to curtailment of global economic activity and mobility in 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic.

Investors’ new favourite

Investment in green technologies has soared in the past two years. According to the latest PwC report on the matter, venture capital money flowing into start-ups that can help cut emissions hit $16 billion in 2019 from $400 million in 2013 — a 40-times increase.

BEV’s first billion was directed to companies developing complex technologies to support clean cobalt and lithium mining, electric aviation, hydropower turbines and, most recently, emissions-free steel.

 “We have built a great technical team and our ability to close a second fund is a testament to their good work,” Eric Toone, BEV’s technical lead, told Bloomberg News.

The fund has had some newsworthy wins. QuantumScape (NYSE: QS), which makes next-generation lithium-ion batteries, listed on the New York Stock Exchange in September. Its market capitalization is currently close to $20 billion, up from $3 billion, even though its batteries won’t be available before 2025. 

By Mining.com

 

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8 minutes ago, Tom Nolan said:

CHINA

It should be noted that the Elite of the world (e.g. Rockefeller and his ilk) intentionally made China a super power.  The history is well documented. and there are some excellent books and documentaries on the subject.  It was and is part of the Global plan for a New World Order, now called "The Great Reset", a new Technocratic Global Control.  

China or Russia made out to be the boogeyman is part of the plan.

I'm not saying that China isn't a tyrannical regime.  It has a Technocratic Control over its populace...and it has achieved that through force.  The U.S. is already almost "there" under Technocratic Control, but everyone is doing it voluntarily...look at all the "Smart devices" and Social Media...Americans are volunteering to be under the Technocratic Regime.

Even most of the people who voted for Biden have no idea what they are headed for under socialist leadership. It is not voluntary. Censorship, rigged elections, 90% media leftwing propaganda, etc. has led to the Biden win. The deep state federal government is now in technocratic control and for most it is involuntary. How involuntary will be found out in the next two years and by the next congressional election, if it is transparent and fair.  

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30 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

Even most of the people who voted for Biden have no idea what they are headed for under socialist leadership. It is not voluntary. Censorship, rigged elections, 90% media leftwing propaganda, etc. has led to the Biden win. The deep state federal government is now in technocratic control and for most it is involuntary. How involuntary will be found out in the next two years and by the next congressional election, if it is transparent and fair.  

Well...there are a lot of "volunteering ploys" which ALL Americans have succumbed to.

One easy example of how both parties fed the beast... All the smart devices, feeding the Big Tech Corporate Overlords by buying their products and lining up in the queue of public consumer activity.   All the social media, all the mainstream media, the stock market frenzy to buy FANGM type stocks, ...these were not fed just by the Biden gang.  Anyone who uses these Big Tech aspects is voluntarily asking to be spied on and monitored and manipulated.

But there is other stuff too where ALL Americans joined in with ASKING for the government to control them and to give them safety...  ...even with the 9/11 Event in 2001, Americans bought into a lie and asked for slavery in order to be safe.

This is not about any party.  Although, I do agree that the Biden camp is moving us more rapidly towards the New World Order.

Edited January 19, 2021 by Tom Nolan

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Why Oil Companies Can’t Replace Oil Profits With Renewable Profits

By Leonard Hyman & William Tilles - Jan 19, 2021, 2:00 PM CST

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Why-Oil-Companies-Cant-Replace-Oil-Profits-With-Renewable-Profits.html

Last week we argued in Oilprice.com (“Can Renewables Become As Profitable As Oil and Gas?”, January 5, 2021) that oil companies could not maintain their expected levels of profitability by investing massively in renewable energy companies. The reason? A mismatch between business and financial risk in these very different industries.

In financial theory, there are two related concepts of risk that determine the level of expected investor return: business risk (the inherent operating risk of a going concern) and financial risk (the degree of leverage or debt managements utilize in the company’s capital structure). There are two key things to consider here. First, there is typically an inverse relationship between business and financial risk. Stated simply, the higher the operating risk of a business the less debt it can afford to carry. The reverse is also true. Inherently low risk businesses like regulated utilities can carry a significant amount of leverage...

[ARTICLE CONTINUES with Graphs & examples - ENDING PARAGRAPH BELOW]

...Investors seeking income from renewables can find that now. New market technologies permit investors to create their own exchange traded funds, custom tailoring them to taste. They don’t need oil companies hoping to transform themselves especially if the transformation puts at risk existing sources of income. Oil companies face an enormous managerial dilemma and a real business question: can they decarbonize their industry without sacrificing investor returns? Right now we are not optimistic.

By Leonard Hyman and William Tilles for Oilprice.com

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https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1500-marc-morano-debunks-a-decade-of-climategate-lies/

Climategate Rebunked - Marc Morano on The Corbett Report

It’s been a decade since the leak of emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia exposed the lies, obfuscations and dirty tricks behind the climate change orthodoxy. But although the conversation has long since moved on, there’s still a lot we can learn from the lessons of “Climategate.” Joining us today to reflect on a decade of Climategate lies and where the debate stands today is Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com.

SHOW NOTES
Climategate coverage on The Corbett Report

ClimateDepot.com

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change

Don’t Let Media Whitewash Climategate! Read Chapter excerpt revealing the truth behind scandal 10 years later

Information Commissioner: Climategate Scientists Broke The Law

YAD06 – the Most Influential Tree in the World

Climategate is Still the Issue

The HARRY_READ_ME.txt file

Polar bear numbers not declining despite media headlines suggesting otherwise

UN Military Action to Enforce Climate Agenda? It May Happen, Says Academic

(48 MINUTES)

 

Part of this THREAD...

https://community.oilprice.com/topic/22378-exposing-a-decade-of-climategate-lies-–-december-2019/

 

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WATCH THE FULL DOCUMENTARY or READ THE TRANSCRIPTS with sourced links.  https://www.corbettreport.com/bigoil/

"...But perhaps the most remarkable thing about Strong, this ubiquitous figure of the 20th century environmental movement, was his background: a Rockefeller-connected millionaire from the Alberta oil patch who divided his time between environmental campaigning and running major oil companies..."

(5 minute video)

Big Oil "Environmentalism" - Why Big Oil Conquered The World

https://youtu.be/M9rPTE9qbwM

 

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On 1/8/2021 at 4:07 AM, 0R0 said:

ESG was a reliable indicator of corporate performance in the past, as it indicated a commitment to meritocracy (i.e. resulting in diversity) good relationships with the communities they operate in (social) and a fair board structure that allows for flatter compensation curves and broader distribution of control to shareholders.

In the current environment, the cart has been flipped in front of the horse .......... In  short, it is creating an unsustainable  bubble inherent in the selection criteria for ESG investing funds/managers. That will end terribly when the discrepancy of weak financial performance and elevated valuation manifests in investors fleeing the sector classification.

The weak performance is guaranteed by the loading of return free costs for social and environmental purposes, and non meritocratic selection of executives and advisers for the purpose of achieving diversity at the expense of competence.

Excellent observations!! 👏👏👏

 

On 1/18/2021 at 11:23 AM, RichieRich216 said:

All those at DAVOS are self Absorbed Assclown’s that think they should run the world and the United States of America should pay for it! They want a one world set of Agencies that all countries will report to and no country can defy! This will not pass here in the United States, Us Americans will never give control of our freedom to outsiders!

It might be started off as kind intention to help who can not do what they have done........... (kindly refer to page 3, story of " Repeat what I say and do" by specinho to have an idea what might have happened along the way...)

But....... your result of election has just been altered so blatantly........... in the eyes of the world ............ And part of the opening speech of your new president is on upholding democracy...... how irony........

 

On 1/19/2021 at 8:13 AM, ronwagn said:

So, what happens if their investors end up losing money or making lousy returns? All of a sudden ESG becomes a bad name. I am for it if it can compete and help pollution problems but it may not compete financially. 

 

According to a latest trend, making a return on investment is no longer the major concern of some fund managers....... Awareness generating programmes like "teaching those without much excess pennies, and largely on barter trade, the importance of having a bank account"; "investigating how the poor pay the debts"; "calling attention to climate change" etc etc are new favourites ...........

 

 

Edited January 21, 2021 by specinho

[Tom Nolan + 2,443]

"Uh oh. Top (former) UN Climate officials (Costa Rican diplomats with no scientific background) are "calculating" that if we don't stop emitting carbon dioxide by 2020 the earth is doomed! That's right: three years left to save the planet! Or is that 50 days? 96 months? Or were we doomed 5 years ago? Or was that 17 years ago?..."

SHOCK UN WARNING: Only 3 YEARS Left to SAVE THE PLANET!!!

SHOW NOTES: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=23202

(13 minutes)

https://youtu.be/Rem0bPIXnVA

 

[Tom Nolan + 2,443]

"Dr. Judith Curry, climate scientist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, joins us once again today to discuss her comprehensive new report, "Climate Models for the layman." We discuss the history and purpose of climate modeling, their uncertainties, equilibrium climate sensitivity, and what we can or cannot learn from their study."

Climate Models for the Layman with Dr. Judith Curry

SHOW NOTES AND MP3 AUDIO: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=22123

(32 minutes)

https://youtu.be/SBjFjSZjv6w

 

[Tom Nolan + 2,443]

"Who controls the temperature datasets controls the past, and who controls the past controls the future. Welcome to the Orwellian world of temperature adjustments and climate alarmism. Sit up straight and buckle up tight, because this is consensus science as brought to you by Big Brother."

Orwell's Nightmare: Temperature Adjustments and Climate Change

(24 minutes)  -  SHOW NOTES: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=23211

https://youtu.be/tlnwhcO5NC0

 

 

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On 1/18/2021 at 1:24 AM, Tom Nolan said:

Whats Wrong With Wind and Solar  - Video from Prager University

don't panic....... I have an idea or two on functioning technologies to boil water for energy............   😈