GREEN NEW DEAL = BLIZZARD OF LIES

[Ecocharger + 1,383]

12 hours ago, Rob Plant said:

A new report published by the Rocky Mountain Institute has forecast that wind and solar energy will produce more than 33% of total energy in the world by 2030 compared to just 12% currently

"Exponential growth of clean energy is an unstoppable force. The benefit of rapid renewable deployment is greater energy security and independence, plus long-term energy price deflation because this is a manufactured technology - the more you install the cheaper it gets," RMI said.

The report concludes the COP28 goal for renewable power, which seeks to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030, is achievable as long as adequate grid investment, streamlined permitting and investments into greater storage are made.

Why China’s Clean Energy Companies Are Blowing Everyone Else Away | OilPrice.com

Looks like your favourite renewables are coming to a State near you very soon!

a 21% increase in 6.1/3 years is pretty damn amazing growth!

The problem with wind and sun power is....it sometimes rains and clouds over, or the sun goes down, or the wind stops blowing.

The result is tragedy. Fossil fuels are easy to transport and are reliable at all times.

Edited September 7, 2023 by Ecocharger

[TailingsPond + 497]

39 minutes ago, Ecocharger said:

The problem with wind and sun power is....it sometimes rains and clouds over, or the sun goes down, or the wind stops blowing.

Versus the many problems with oil, I will take a rare brownout... compare that to explosions, intentional toxic emissions, unintentional toxic emissions (spills), political / war interests. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-Mégantic_rail_disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo_River_oil_spill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Refinery_explosion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_war

the list goes on forever.

 

Edited September 8, 2023 by TailingsPond

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/science/as-climate-experts-warn-of-looming-catastrophe-past-bad-predictions-hurt-their-message-5148630?utm_medium=FactsMatter&utm_source=YouTube&utm_campaign=Climate&utm_content=03-30-2023

 

ENVIRONMENT

As Climate Experts Warn of Looming Catastrophe, Past Bad Predictions Hurt Their Message

A glacier is seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft above Ellesmere Island, Canada, on March 29, 2017. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

By Petr Svab

3/25/2023

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Humanity only has a few years to act before the world may irreversibly plunge into an environmental catastrophe of global proportions, climate experts warned in a recent report. Their calls are muffled, however, by a ballast of dozens of past dramatic predictions that have failed to pan out.

Environmental experts have been predicting upcoming doom for many decades. Most, though not all, of the prognostications involve climatic cataclysm that appears to be just around the corner, only to fizzle out as the deadline approaches.

As the failed predictions pile up, climate experts appear to be more cautious in making their predictions too specific. The current general consensus among climate change proponents is that extreme weather events, such as droughts and storms, will become more prevalent or intense.

The recently released short-form report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that unless carbon emissions are cut drastically and promptly, the planet will warm roughly an additional 1.1-2.4 degrees Celsius by 2100 (pdf). That would lead to “high” or “very high” risk of wildfire damage, permafrost degradation, biodiversity loss, dryland water scarcity, and tree mortality on the land, and loss of warm-water corals in the sea. Most of the severe risks are asserted with moderate or low confidence, meaning that underlying evidence is lacking or inconclusive.

The full IPCC report hasn’t been released yet.

One of the most famous climate experts, Michael Mann, criticized the IPCC for being “overly conservative” in predicting catastrophic consequences of climate change, “including ice sheet collapse, sea level rise, and the rise in extreme weather events,” Inside Climate News reported.

But it’s been exactly these kinds of bold predictions that have undermined experts’ credibility in the past.

Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg has collected some such failed predictions in his book, “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet.” Geologist and electrical engineer Tony Heller, who frequently criticizes what he considers fraud in current mainstream climate research, has made it a recurring theme of his climate science blog to point out failed and dubious predictions.

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Examples are plentiful, stretching far into the past:

December 1939

“All the glaciers in Eastern Greenland are rapidly melting,” the Harrisburg [Pennsylvania] Sunday Courier reported.

“It may without exaggeration be said that the glaciers—like those in Norway—face the possibility of a catastrophic collapse,” the paper quoted Prof. Hans Ahlmann, a Swedish geologist, saying from a report to the Geographical Society after his Arctic expedition.

In fact, arctic ice was seen receding since 1918, according to a 1923 New York Time article.

“Last Winter, oceans did not freeze over even on the north coast of Spitzbergen,” article said.

By comparison, this winter, sea ice did reach the shore of Spitzbergen, though in low concentrations.

Back then, however, the meltdown seemed nowhere near done.

May 1947

“The possibility of a prodigious rise in the surface of the ocean with resultant widespread inundation, arising from an Arctic climate phenomenon[,] was discussed yesterday by Dr. Hans Ahlmann, a noted Swedish geophysicist at the University of California Geophysical Institute,” an article in The West Australian read.

“The Arctic change is so serious that I hope an international agency can speedily be formed to study the conditions on a global basis,” Ahlmann said.

February 1952

“The glaciers of Norway and Alaska are only half the size they were 50 years ago,” said Dr. William Carlson, an Arctic expert, according to a newswire run by The Cairns Post in Australia.

March 1955

“There are now six million square miles of ice in the Arctic. There once were 12 million square miles,” said Arctic explorer Adm. Donald McMillan, according to Rochester, New York’s Democrat and Chronicle.

October 1958

“Some scientists estimate that the polar ice pack is 40 percent thinner and 12 percent less in area than it was a half-century ago, and that even within the lifetime of our children, the Arctic Ocean may open, enabling ships to sail over the North Pole,” The New York Times reported, noting that the Arctic ice sheet was about 7 feet thick at the time. Currently, the ice is about 7 feet thick, too.

By the 1960s, it appears that worries about a melting Arctic became not as immediate, only to be supplanted by other environmental concerns.

November 1967

“It is already too late for the world to avoid a long period of famine,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported, citing Paul Ehrlich’s prediction of famines by 1975.

Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist and author of “The Population Bomb,” proposed lacing staple foods and drinking water with sterilizing agents to cut the growing population of the United States, according to the report.

April 1970

“Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century,” The Boston Globe reported, saying that pollution expert James Lodge predicted that “air pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the new century.”

October 1970

Ehrlich went on to predict that America would be rationing water by 1974 and food by 1980, California’s Redlands Daily Facts reported.

July 1971

“The world could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age,” said atmospheric scientist S. I. Rasool of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Columbia University, The Washington Post reported.

January 1972

“We have 10 years to stop the catastrophe,” said Maurice Strong, then-U.N. environmental secretary, regarding world’s environmental problems, according to a Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

December 1972

Two Brown University geologists wrote a letter to President Richard Nixon, reporting that a conference attended by “42 top American and European investigators” concluded “a global deterioration of climate, by order of magnitude larger than any hitherto experienced by civilized mankind, is a very real possibility and indeed may be due very soon.”

“The present rate of cooling,” they said, “seems fast enough to bring glacial temperatures in about a century, if continuing at the present pace.”

January 1974

“Space satellites show new Ice Age coming fast,” The Guardian reported.

June 1974

“Another Ice Age?” a Time Magazine headline asked.

“Telltale signs are everywhere—from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest,” the article said.

January 1978

“An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere,” The New York Times reported.

A year later, the paper was reporting the opposite.

February 1979

“There is a real possibility that some people now in their infancy will live to a time when the ice at the North Pole will have melted, a change that would cause swift and perhaps catastrophic changes in climate,” The New York Times said.

May 1982

Mostafa Tolba, then-executive director of the U.N. environmental program, said that if the world didn’t change course, it would face “an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible, as any nuclear holocaust’’ by the year 2000, according to The New York Times.

September 1988

The small island nation of Maldives was threatened to be completely covered by “a gradual rise in average sea level” in 30 years, Agence France-Presse reported, noting that “the end of the Maldives and its people could come sooner if drinking water supplies dry up by 1992, as predicted.”

Tourists pose for pictures at the Velana International Airport in the Maldives on July 14, 2022. (AFP via Getty Images)

Maldives are still nowhere near under water. In fact, despite the COVID-19 pandemic’s decimation of tourism, the nation still attracts new developments. Just last week, Emirati development company awarded a $148 million contract to build 120 luxurious over-water and beachfront villas on Maledives’ South Male Atoll, Hotelier Maledives reported.

June 1989

“A senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000,” California’s San Jose Mercury News reported.

A snowman at the High Plains Bar and Restuarant at Dinner Plains at Mount Hotham, in Mount Hotham, Australia, on June 17, 2005. (Mark Dadswell/Getty Images).

“Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past,” The Independent wrote. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” said David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit of England's University of East Anglia, noting that within a few years, winter snowfall would become “a very rare and exciting event.”

While snow is rare in southern England, it still comes pretty much every winter.

December 2001

“The changes in climate could potentially extirpate the sugar maple industry in New England” within 20 years, according to George Hurtt, co-author of a 2001 global warming report commissioned by the U.S. Congress, according to Albuquerque Journal.

Today, New England still produces plenty of maple syrup.

February 2004

The Guardian reported on a secret Pentagon report that predicted climate change will lead to nuclear war, major European cities will sink into the ocean, and Britain would descend into “Siberian” climate by the year 2020.

January 2006

“Unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return,” The Associated Press wrote, paraphrasing Al Gore, a prominent global warming advocate.

November 2007

This year was the “defining moment” of the climate change fight, according to Rajendra Pachauri, then-head of the U.N. climate panel. “If there is no action before 2012, that’s too late,” the official said, according to The New York Times.

November 2007

“The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015—something that hasn’t happened in more than a million years,” Canada's Canwest News Service reported, paraphrasing polar researcher Louis Fortier.

December 2007

“Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?” said an Associated Press headline.

“At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012,” said Jay Zwally, a NASA climate scientist, according to the article.

December 2007

“Artic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’” the BBC reported.

"Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007," a researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, told the BBC.

"So given that fact, you can argue that maybe our projection of 2013 is already too conservative."

March 2008

“If Norway’s average temperature this year equals that in 2007, the ice cap in the Arctic will all melt away, which is highly possible judging from current conditions,” said Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, according to Xinhua, China’s official propaganda mouthpiece.

Norway’s average temperature did slightly increase from 2007 to 2008. The ice didn’t melt.

April 2008

“North Pole could be ice free in 2008,” reported New Scientist.

,” said David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, according to National Geographic News.June 2008“In five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of ice in the summer,” The Associated Pressreported, paraphrasing James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Sciences.December 2009[caption id="attachment_2737852" align="alignnone" width="600"]Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore makes a speech during the COP24 U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, on Dec. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

“The Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in summer as early as 2014,” Al Gore said, according to USA Today.

September 2012

“Enjoy snow now … by 2020, it’ll be gone,” The Australian reported. It still snows in Australia. Last year’s snowfall was, in fact, significantly above average.

July 2013

“Ice-free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe—scientist,” The Guardian reported.

February 2014

“The End of Snow?” asked a New York Times op-ed headline, talking about declining snowpack in Western United States. The past decade overall has marked no significant snowfall decline in the region.

July 2017

After then-U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the U.N. Paris Climate Agreement, physicist Stephen Hawking said, according to BBC: “We are close to the tipping point, where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees [Celsius] and raining sulfuric acid.”

August 2017

“Snowy retreat: Climate change puts Australia’s ski industry on a downhill slope,” The Sydney Morning Herald reported. It’s been snowing quite as usual in Australia in recent years, weather data indicates.

January 2018

"The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero," said James Anderson, a Harvard University professor of atmospheric chemistry, according to Forbes.

Elementary, high school and college students gather in front of the Parliament building in Oslo on March 22, 2019, to rally for the climate and against politicians who they dont think are doing enough to halt climate change. (TOM HANSEN/AFP/Getty Images)

July 2020

“The end of snow,” said an Australian Geographic headline. “Could a warming climate be putting Australia’s magnificent alpine landscapes at risk?”

There was no particular lack of snow in Australia in either 2021 or 2022.

December 2021

The Los Angeles Times ran a story headlined, “A ‘no snow’ California could come sooner than you think.”

A few weeks later, the UC Berkely Central Sierra Snow Lab announced that California just had the snowiest December on record.

August 2022

“The End of Snow Threatens to Upend 76 Million American Lives,” Bloomberg reported, referring to predictions of snow disappearance in the western United States.

A few months later, Sierra Nevada mountains would see its second snowiest winter on record.

March 2023

“Arctic ice has seen an ‘irreversible’ thinning since 2007, study says,” The Washington Post reported.

The ice hasn’t thinned much over the past decade.

Since 1979, the summer minima have seen a record low every 5-7 years. Since 2012, however, there has been no new record, the data shows.

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As Trump characterized them : perennial prophets of doom. There is no climate catastrophe or emergency. CO2 is in fact the molecule of life. Atmospheric fertilization due to increased CO2 has led to a greening of the earth. These ‘sky is falling’ chicken littles have been wrong literally 100% of the time, starting with Paul Erlich’s Population Bomb in 1968. They are wrong now. Their fear based lies are the weapon the WEF is using to take the rest of our freedoms and soon, our property. Welcome to The Great Reset.

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2 hours ago, notsonice said:

nope... But I do hate losers, such as yourself, who think they are smart enough to tell others how to think.

 

2 hours ago, notsonice said:

nope... But I do hate losers, such as yourself, who think they are smart enough to tell others how to think.

Too bad you are unable to come up with any decent arguments. All you can do is make stupid insults. 

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5 minutes ago, Ron Wagner said:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/science/as-climate-experts-warn-of-looming-catastrophe-past-bad-predictions-hurt-their-message-5148630?utm_medium=FactsMatter&utm_source=YouTube&utm_campaign=Climate&utm_content=03-30-2023

 

ENVIRONMENT

As Climate Experts Warn of Looming Catastrophe, Past Bad Predictions Hurt Their Message

A glacier is seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft above Ellesmere Island, Canada, on March 29, 2017. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

By Petr Svab

3/25/2023

Updated:

3/29/2023

 

Print

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0:00

 

 

 

 

 

Humanity only has a few years to act before the world may irreversibly plunge into an environmental catastrophe of global proportions, climate experts warned in a recent report. Their calls are muffled, however, by a ballast of dozens of past dramatic predictions that have failed to pan out.

Environmental experts have been predicting upcoming doom for many decades. Most, though not all, of the prognostications involve climatic cataclysm that appears to be just around the corner, only to fizzle out as the deadline approaches.

As the failed predictions pile up, climate experts appear to be more cautious in making their predictions too specific. The current general consensus among climate change proponents is that extreme weather events, such as droughts and storms, will become more prevalent or intense.

The recently released short-form report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that unless carbon emissions are cut drastically and promptly, the planet will warm roughly an additional 1.1-2.4 degrees Celsius by 2100 (pdf). That would lead to “high” or “very high” risk of wildfire damage, permafrost degradation, biodiversity loss, dryland water scarcity, and tree mortality on the land, and loss of warm-water corals in the sea. Most of the severe risks are asserted with moderate or low confidence, meaning that underlying evidence is lacking or inconclusive.

The full IPCC report hasn’t been released yet.

One of the most famous climate experts, Michael Mann, criticized the IPCC for being “overly conservative” in predicting catastrophic consequences of climate change, “including ice sheet collapse, sea level rise, and the rise in extreme weather events,” Inside Climate News reported.

But it’s been exactly these kinds of bold predictions that have undermined experts’ credibility in the past.

Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg has collected some such failed predictions in his book, “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet.” Geologist and electrical engineer Tony Heller, who frequently criticizes what he considers fraud in current mainstream climate research, has made it a recurring theme of his climate science blog to point out failed and dubious predictions.

Advertisement - Story continues below

Examples are plentiful, stretching far into the past:

December 1939

“All the glaciers in Eastern Greenland are rapidly melting,” the Harrisburg [Pennsylvania] Sunday Courier reported.

“It may without exaggeration be said that the glaciers—like those in Norway—face the possibility of a catastrophic collapse,” the paper quoted Prof. Hans Ahlmann, a Swedish geologist, saying from a report to the Geographical Society after his Arctic expedition.

In fact, arctic ice was seen receding since 1918, according to a 1923 New York Time article.

“Last Winter, oceans did not freeze over even on the north coast of Spitzbergen,” article said.

By comparison, this winter, sea ice did reach the shore of Spitzbergen, though in low concentrations.

Back then, however, the meltdown seemed nowhere near done.

May 1947

“The possibility of a prodigious rise in the surface of the ocean with resultant widespread inundation, arising from an Arctic climate phenomenon[,] was discussed yesterday by Dr. Hans Ahlmann, a noted Swedish geophysicist at the University of California Geophysical Institute,” an article in The West Australian read.

“The Arctic change is so serious that I hope an international agency can speedily be formed to study the conditions on a global basis,” Ahlmann said.

February 1952

“The glaciers of Norway and Alaska are only half the size they were 50 years ago,” said Dr. William Carlson, an Arctic expert, according to a newswire run by The Cairns Post in Australia.

March 1955

“There are now six million square miles of ice in the Arctic. There once were 12 million square miles,” said Arctic explorer Adm. Donald McMillan, according to Rochester, New York’s Democrat and Chronicle.

October 1958

“Some scientists estimate that the polar ice pack is 40 percent thinner and 12 percent less in area than it was a half-century ago, and that even within the lifetime of our children, the Arctic Ocean may open, enabling ships to sail over the North Pole,” The New York Times reported, noting that the Arctic ice sheet was about 7 feet thick at the time. Currently, the ice is about 7 feet thick, too.

By the 1960s, it appears that worries about a melting Arctic became not as immediate, only to be supplanted by other environmental concerns.

November 1967

“It is already too late for the world to avoid a long period of famine,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported, citing Paul Ehrlich’s prediction of famines by 1975.

Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist and author of “The Population Bomb,” proposed lacing staple foods and drinking water with sterilizing agents to cut the growing population of the United States, according to the report.

April 1970

“Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century,” The Boston Globe reported, saying that pollution expert James Lodge predicted that “air pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the new century.”

October 1970

Ehrlich went on to predict that America would be rationing water by 1974 and food by 1980, California’s Redlands Daily Facts reported.

July 1971

“The world could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age,” said atmospheric scientist S. I. Rasool of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Columbia University, The Washington Post reported.

January 1972

“We have 10 years to stop the catastrophe,” said Maurice Strong, then-U.N. environmental secretary, regarding world’s environmental problems, according to a Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

December 1972

Two Brown University geologists wrote a letter to President Richard Nixon, reporting that a conference attended by “42 top American and European investigators” concluded “a global deterioration of climate, by order of magnitude larger than any hitherto experienced by civilized mankind, is a very real possibility and indeed may be due very soon.”

“The present rate of cooling,” they said, “seems fast enough to bring glacial temperatures in about a century, if continuing at the present pace.”

January 1974

“Space satellites show new Ice Age coming fast,” The Guardian reported.

June 1974

“Another Ice Age?” a Time Magazine headline asked.

“Telltale signs are everywhere—from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest,” the article said.

January 1978

“An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere,” The New York Times reported.

A year later, the paper was reporting the opposite.

February 1979

“There is a real possibility that some people now in their infancy will live to a time when the ice at the North Pole will have melted, a change that would cause swift and perhaps catastrophic changes in climate,” The New York Times said.

May 1982

Mostafa Tolba, then-executive director of the U.N. environmental program, said that if the world didn’t change course, it would face “an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible, as any nuclear holocaust’’ by the year 2000, according to The New York Times.

September 1988

The small island nation of Maldives was threatened to be completely covered by “a gradual rise in average sea level” in 30 years, Agence France-Presse reported, noting that “the end of the Maldives and its people could come sooner if drinking water supplies dry up by 1992, as predicted.”

Tourists pose for pictures at the Velana International Airport in the Maldives on July 14, 2022. (AFP via Getty Images)

Maldives are still nowhere near under water. In fact, despite the COVID-19 pandemic’s decimation of tourism, the nation still attracts new developments. Just last week, Emirati development company awarded a $148 million contract to build 120 luxurious over-water and beachfront villas on Maledives’ South Male Atoll, Hotelier Maledives reported.

June 1989

“A senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000,” California’s San Jose Mercury News reported.

A snowman at the High Plains Bar and Restuarant at Dinner Plains at Mount Hotham, in Mount Hotham, Australia, on June 17, 2005. (Mark Dadswell/Getty Images).

“Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past,” The Independent wrote. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” said David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit of England's University of East Anglia, noting that within a few years, winter snowfall would become “a very rare and exciting event.”

While snow is rare in southern England, it still comes pretty much every winter.

December 2001

“The changes in climate could potentially extirpate the sugar maple industry in New England” within 20 years, according to George Hurtt, co-author of a 2001 global warming report commissioned by the U.S. Congress, according to Albuquerque Journal.

Today, New England still produces plenty of maple syrup.

February 2004

The Guardian reported on a secret Pentagon report that predicted climate change will lead to nuclear war, major European cities will sink into the ocean, and Britain would descend into “Siberian” climate by the year 2020.

January 2006

“Unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return,” The Associated Press wrote, paraphrasing Al Gore, a prominent global warming advocate.

November 2007

This year was the “defining moment” of the climate change fight, according to Rajendra Pachauri, then-head of the U.N. climate panel. “If there is no action before 2012, that’s too late,” the official said, according to The New York Times.

November 2007

“The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015—something that hasn’t happened in more than a million years,” Canada's Canwest News Service reported, paraphrasing polar researcher Louis Fortier.

December 2007

“Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?” said an Associated Press headline.

“At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012,” said Jay Zwally, a NASA climate scientist, according to the article.

December 2007

“Artic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’” the BBC reported.

"Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007," a researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, told the BBC.

"So given that fact, you can argue that maybe our projection of 2013 is already too conservative."

March 2008

“If Norway’s average temperature this year equals that in 2007, the ice cap in the Arctic will all melt away, which is highly possible judging from current conditions,” said Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, according to Xinhua, China’s official propaganda mouthpiece.

Norway’s average temperature did slightly increase from 2007 to 2008. The ice didn’t melt.

April 2008

“North Pole could be ice free in 2008,” reported New Scientist.

,” said David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, according to National Geographic News.June 2008“In five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of ice in the summer,” The Associated Pressreported, paraphrasing James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Sciences.December 2009[caption id="attachment_2737852" align="alignnone" width="600"]Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore makes a speech during the COP24 U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, on Dec. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

“The Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in summer as early as 2014,” Al Gore said, according to USA Today.

September 2012

“Enjoy snow now … by 2020, it’ll be gone,” The Australian reported. It still snows in Australia. Last year’s snowfall was, in fact, significantly above average.

July 2013

“Ice-free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe—scientist,” The Guardian reported.

February 2014

“The End of Snow?” asked a New York Times op-ed headline, talking about declining snowpack in Western United States. The past decade overall has marked no significant snowfall decline in the region.

July 2017

After then-U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the U.N. Paris Climate Agreement, physicist Stephen Hawking said, according to BBC: “We are close to the tipping point, where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees [Celsius] and raining sulfuric acid.”

August 2017

“Snowy retreat: Climate change puts Australia’s ski industry on a downhill slope,” The Sydney Morning Herald reported. It’s been snowing quite as usual in Australia in recent years, weather data indicates.

January 2018

"The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero," said James Anderson, a Harvard University professor of atmospheric chemistry, according to Forbes.

Elementary, high school and college students gather in front of the Parliament building in Oslo on March 22, 2019, to rally for the climate and against politicians who they dont think are doing enough to halt climate change. (TOM HANSEN/AFP/Getty Images)

July 2020

“The end of snow,” said an Australian Geographic headline. “Could a warming climate be putting Australia’s magnificent alpine landscapes at risk?”

There was no particular lack of snow in Australia in either 2021 or 2022.

December 2021

The Los Angeles Times ran a story headlined, “A ‘no snow’ California could come sooner than you think.”

A few weeks later, the UC Berkely Central Sierra Snow Lab announced that California just had the snowiest December on record.

August 2022

“The End of Snow Threatens to Upend 76 Million American Lives,” Bloomberg reported, referring to predictions of snow disappearance in the western United States.

A few months later, Sierra Nevada mountains would see its second snowiest winter on record.

March 2023

“Arctic ice has seen an ‘irreversible’ thinning since 2007, study says,” The Washington Post reported.

The ice hasn’t thinned much over the past decade.

Since 1979, the summer minima have seen a record low every 5-7 years. Since 2012, however, there has been no new record, the data shows.

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As Trump characterized them : perennial prophets of doom. There is no climate catastrophe or emergency. CO2 is in fact the molecule of life. Atmospheric fertilization due to increased CO2 has led to a greening of the earth. These ‘sky is falling’ chicken littles have been wrong literally 100% of the time, starting with Paul Erlich’s Population Bomb in 1968. They are wrong now. Their fear based lies are the weapon the WEF is using to take the rest of our freedoms and soon, our property. Welcome to The Great Reset.

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And we can expect more of the same nonsense from the usual sources. The IPCC is not interested in genuine science, just in creating unwarranted panic. 

Edited September 8, 2023 by Ecocharger

[TailingsPond + 497]

3 hours ago, Ron Wagner said:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/science/as-climate-experts-warn-of-looming-catastrophe-past-bad-predictions-hurt-their-message-5148630?utm_medium=FactsMatter&utm_source=YouTube&utm_campaign=Climate&utm_content=03-30-2023

 

Can you please stop copying and pasting large font text from other sources?  Ideally you would use your own thoughts and words.

The link is all you need.  By sidestepping the link to the source you are stealing income from the authors.  So if you like theepochtimes.com stop stealing their revenues.

Edited September 8, 2023 by TailingsPond

[Rob Plant + 2,648]

7 hours ago, Ecocharger said:

The problem with wind and sun power is....it sometimes rains and clouds over, or the sun goes down, or the wind stops blowing.

The result is tragedy. Fossil fuels are easy to transport and are reliable at all times.

Not entirely true Eco

Do solar panels work on cloudy days or at night?

Solar panels will generate electricity as long as there is sunlight for them to absorb. Here's how they function during periods of cloudy weather and at night. 

Cloudy weather

Solar panels will still generate electricity during cloudy weather, rain or any other period of indirect sunlight, just not as efficiently. Solar panels are most efficient in direct sunlight and will generate less electricity during cloudy conditions. If you live in an area with a lot of overcast days, your solar panels likely won't be performing at their best on a day-to-day basis. 

 

"Even on a very cloudy or rainy day, you'll get some electricity," Fenton said. "But on real cloudy days, you might only get half as much electricity as you would on a sunny day." 

https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/do-solar-panels-work-when-its-cloudy/

Again there are these things called batteries that store the excess from renewable energy sources!!!

[Ecocharger + 1,383]

21 minutes ago, Rob Plant said:

Not entirely true Eco

Do solar panels work on cloudy days or at night?

Solar panels will generate electricity as long as there is sunlight for them to absorb. Here's how they function during periods of cloudy weather and at night. 

Cloudy weather

Solar panels will still generate electricity during cloudy weather, rain or any other period of indirect sunlight, just not as efficiently. Solar panels are most efficient in direct sunlight and will generate less electricity during cloudy conditions. If you live in an area with a lot of overcast days, your solar panels likely won't be performing at their best on a day-to-day basis. 

 

"Even on a very cloudy or rainy day, you'll get some electricity," Fenton said. "But on real cloudy days, you might only get half as much electricity as you would on a sunny day." 

https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/do-solar-panels-work-when-its-cloudy/

Again there are these things called batteries that store the excess from renewable energy sources!!!

That seems to support what I stated above. And those batteries are still a figment of someone's imagination. 

Edited September 8, 2023 by Ecocharger

[TailingsPond + 497]

Solar panels can actually make about 0.3% of their rated max during the night from moonlight and streetlights. 

I used a Texas instruments calculator for many years that ran off dim indoor light and a tiny solar panel. Old tech.

Edited September 8, 2023 by TailingsPond

[Rob Plant + 2,648]

10 minutes ago, Ecocharger said:

That seems to support what I stated above. And those batteries are still a figment of someone's imagination. 

No you said "when the sun goes down its cloudy or rainy then the result is tradgedy", I'm just showing you that they work when it is cloudy, rainy and batteries store energy for the night.

Also there are things called CSP plants that use molten salt which retains its heat extremely well and will power a steam turbine throughout the night from the sunlight from the day. Have you not heard of them??

https://www.brunel.net/en/blog/renewable-energy/concentrated-solar-power

[footeab@yahoo.com + 2,136]

On 9/3/2023 at 6:43 PM, Ron Wagner said:

The most likely proof of man caused climate change is the rising of ocean levels, not including earth subsidence.

Well, N. Canada/Scandinavia by themselves are responsible for 1/4 --> 1/3 of recorded sea level rise... 

Sea Level rise is the one of BIGGEST proofs AGAINST human caused global warming.  Its increase is linear.  Majority of glaciers rate of retreat has slowed, not sped up, and their fastest rate was at beginning of 20th century... Where were all the puffing CO2 back then...???  Nowhere to be found.  This indicates less rapid heating.   Human population and usage of CO2 puffing fuels is Asymptotic. 

To believe for even 1 second rising sea levels have anything to do with Human caused Global Warming.... sigh

[Ecocharger + 1,383]

9 hours ago, Rob Plant said:

No you said "when the sun goes down its cloudy or rainy then the result is tradgedy", I'm just showing you that they work when it is cloudy, rainy and batteries store energy for the night.

Also there are things called CSP plants that use molten salt which retains its heat extremely well and will power a steam turbine throughout the night from the sunlight from the day. Have you not heard of them??

https://www.brunel.net/en/blog/renewable-energy/concentrated-solar-power

Wind power is an endless quagmire of  huge government cash support which would bankrupt even the largest nations' national budgets.

This is a sewer for tax money to be wasted on.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/orsted-ceo-says-abandoning-us-wind-projects-real-option-bloomberg-news-2023-09-05/

"Denmark's Orsted (ORSTED.CO), the world's largest offshore wind farm developer, is prepared to walk away from projects in the U.S. unless the Biden administration guarantees more support, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing the company's CEO."

Edited September 8, 2023 by Ecocharger

[Ecocharger + 1,383]

American demand for oil and gasoline has skyrocketed putting upward pressure on oil prices. Those fossil fuel vehicles must be tearing up the highways, causing increased demand for asphalt, another oil-based product.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Oil-Markets-Tighten-On-Constant-Inventory-Draws.html

"...the fourth consecutive crude inventory draw in the United States combined with another week-on-week drop in gasoline stocks provided firm support for ICE Brent to stay around $90 per barrel. "

 

[Eyes Wide Open + 3,546]

22 minutes ago, Ecocharger said:

Denmark's Orsted (ORSTED.CO), the world's largest offshore wind farm developer, is prepared to walk away from projects in the U.S. unless the Biden administration guarantees more support, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing the company's CEO."

Oh damm it. What's a fella to do? Ahh coal/NG?...Ya don't say

Edited September 8, 2023 by Eyes Wide Open

[AlBub + 14]

17 hours ago, TailingsPond said:

Versus the many problems with oil, I will take a rare brownout... compare that to explosions, intentional toxic emissions, unintentional toxic emissions (spills), political / war interests. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-Mégantic_rail_disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo_River_oil_spill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Refinery_explosion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_war

the list goes on forever.

 

Fter doing away with oil and other so-called fossil fuels, you will deal with the "very often" black-out!

[AlBub + 14]

On 9/6/2023 at 11:00 PM, turbguy said:

Looks like wind and solar works for Texas, 24 hrs per day...requiring zero fuel, almost zero water, almost zero operational waste, and "less heads per MWh, too!

 

Watch ERCOT's "grid and market conditions" site a little closer. Three nights in a row last week wind was 6 to 7%. Pretty much every day, even wine wind are at full charge, it is still the gas at over 50% that keeps tings going. Solar and wind are extremely undependable, and user (that includes me) have been having to use electricity sparingly to avoid brown-outs quite often this summer. "Sparingly" means that it is hurting economic activity also.

I support having wind and solar, but to consider them reliable and dependable is just plain durn STUPID!.

[notsonice + 1,093]

1 hour ago, Eyes Wide Open said:

Oh damm it. What's a fella to do? Ahh coal/NG?...Ya don't say

Coal ??? making a comeback in the US?????.  

You need to sober up.........

Solar and Wind are gaining 2 % per year of the electric market.......

Coal is less than half or what it was .....

Enjoy reality the Green Agenda is creaming coal

 

so you keep living in your pipe dream

the rest of us know Coal is toast.....

Solar is ramping up and is expected to double installations this year in the US compared to last thanks to Sleepy Joe.........

and the best part Solar Panels made in America is now part of the equation

 

[Eyes Wide Open + 3,546]

1 hour ago, notsonice said:

Sleepy Joe

Days have come and gone. Next stop impeachment inquires...The End Is Near.

 

Loaded liberals are paying MILLIONS for 'golden visas' to other countries because they're scared of a Trump-led civil war in 2024: Wealthy wokes plan their escape... but why didn't they go in 2016?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11185623/Libs-scared-paying-millions-second-citizenship-possibility-Trumps-White-House-return.html

Edited September 8, 2023 by Eyes Wide Open

[turbguy + 1,413]

2 hours ago, AlBub said:

Watch ERCOT's "grid and market conditions" site a little closer. Three nights in a row last week wind was 6 to 7%. Pretty much every day, even wine wind are at full charge, it is still the gas at over 50% that keeps tings going. Solar and wind are extremely undependable, and user (that includes me) have been having to use electricity sparingly to avoid brown-outs quite often this summer. "Sparingly" means that it is hurting economic activity also.

I support having wind and solar, but to consider them reliable and dependable is just plain durn STUPID!.

You do realize that, even in the minimum conditions, wind a solar in Texas produces about the same as FIVE large nuclear units running pedal to the metal, no?  And that wind and solar output RELIABLY matches predictions, no?  Even during the February, 2021 event!

The USA has had sporadic difficulty with "grid stability" since the time of Westinghouse (and Edison), particularly during extreme weather conditions.  You want 100% reliable electric power to supply 100% of electric demand, 100% of the time?  THAT ain't gonna happen.

• In February 2021, a winter storm caused widespread power outages across Texas. The outages affected over 4 million customers and lasted for several days.
• In June 2022, a heat wave caused power outages in several parts of Texas. The outages affected over 100,000 customers and lasted for several hours.
• In 2023, persistent heat waves required ERCOT to issue public warnings to reduce demand.  They probably will do that again, TODAY.

Just consider the displacement of fuel consumption, alone, that those sources reliably provide.

Are there issues to contend with?  Sure!  There's not enough wind and solar, coupled with storage, to displace all fossil or nuclear generation.  That requires back-up supply availability.  Texas has begun to increase demand response, build more transmission, increase the reserve margin. Texas could do more, such as increase interchange capability with the SWPP.

Nat gas, Nuclear, and Coal generation is gonna be with ERCOT (and the USA) for quite a while, as long as the fuel can be processed and delivered reliably during extreme weather conditions.

Edited September 8, 2023 by turbguy

[Ecocharger + 1,383]

37 minutes ago, turbguy said:

You do realize that, even in the minimum conditions, wind a solar in Texas produces about the same as FIVE large nuclear units running pedal to the metal, no?  And that wind and solar output RELIABLY matches predictions, no?  Even during the February, 2021 event!

The USA has had sporadic difficulty with "grid stability" since the time of Westinghouse (and Edison), particularly during extreme weather conditions.  You want 100% reliable electric power to supply 100% of electric demand, 100% of the time?  THAT ain't gonna happen.

• In February 2021, a winter storm caused widespread power outages across Texas. The outages affected over 4 million customers and lasted for several days.
• In June 2022, a heat wave caused power outages in several parts of Texas. The outages affected over 100,000 customers and lasted for several hours.
• In 2023, persistent heat waves required ERCOT to issue public warnings to reduce demand.  They probably will do that again, TODAY.

Just consider the displacement of fuel consumption, alone, that those sources reliably provide.

Are there issues to contend with?  Sure!  There's not enough wind and solar, coupled with storage, to displace all fossil or nuclear generation.  That requires back-up supply availability.  Texas has begun to increase demand response, build more transmission, increase the reserve margin. Texas could do more, such as increase interchange capability with the SWPP.

Nat gas, Nuclear, and Coal generation is gonna be with ERCOT (and the USA) for quite a while, as long as the fuel can be processed and delivered reliably during extreme weather conditions.

Yes, I agree with you that electrical power is unreliable.

[turbguy + 1,413]

1 hour ago, Ecocharger said:

Yes, I agree with you that electrical power is unreliable.

So was Nat Gas, in Texas, in February 2021.

The in 2021 (2022 stats isn't available yet) US national average for electrical outage hours in the Northeast is 3.5 hours, while the national average for electrical outage hours in the Southeast is 10.5 hours. The Northeast has a more reliable grid than the Southeast, which is why the average outage hours are lower in the Northeast.

So, "99.998% available" can be improved upon, for sure.  But, not by much...

Edited September 8, 2023 by turbguy

[notsonice + 1,093]

1 hour ago, Eyes Wide Open said:

Days have come and gone. Next stop impeachment inquires...The End Is Near.

 

Loaded liberals are paying MILLIONS for 'golden visas' to other countries because they're scared of a Trump-led civil war in 2024: Wealthy wokes plan their escape... but why didn't they go in 2016?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11185623/Libs-scared-paying-millions-second-citizenship-possibility-Trumps-White-House-return.html

The End Is Near. ?????? ok chicken little ....do not look up because the sky is falling

Hunter Biden ...........still no charges as the special counsel has well.....a couple of tax violations....5 years investigating ...

good luck with your inquiry.........

now how many felonies has Trump been indicted on.......??????

in the meantime....your standard bearer Lindsey is running from the State of Georgia today....looks like the common voter...thinks he is a crook.....

Now how many of Trumps Base were convicted for crimes against the good ole USA??????

all of the felonies......oh my..... guess Trump and his pals really are enemies of Democracy and the USA

Tax crimes....do you have anything of substance or are you just crying again because your pal Wiess found nothing?????

 

now back to the GREEN NEW DEAL it is now fast tracking thanks to Sleepy Joe

[notsonice + 1,093]

Back to the GREEN NEW DEAL

attaboy Sleepy Joe....Coal is Toast...in ten more years in the US do not expect any Coal fired plants to fire up much

then next up Nat Gas........the new plants being built today.... just replacements for old Nat gas fired boilers that were coal conversions.........

 

Writing is on the wall.......

CLEAN TECHNICA

 

U.S. Solar Installations in 2023 Expected to Exceed 30 GW for First Time in History

By

Guest Contributor

 

WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. solar industry expects to add a record 32 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in 2023, a 52% increase from 2022, according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight Q3 2023 report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie.

The solar market has been hampered in recent years by supply chain challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and exacerbated by restrictive trade policy. These challenges are beginning to abate, and as policies in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) take hold, Wood Mackenzie expects total operating solar capacity to grow from 153 GW today to 375 GW by 2028.

“The United States is now a dominant player in the global clean energy economy, and states like Florida, Texas, Ohio, and Georgia are at the forefront of this job growth and economic prosperity,” said SEIA president and CEO Abigail Ross Hopper. “The solar and storage industry is delivering abundant clean energy that is generating tens of billions of dollars of private investment, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.”

A surge of new domestic manufacturing investments is also expected to improve supply conditions over the next few years. If these factory announcements materialize, by 2026 U.S. solar module manufacturing output will be ten times greater than it is today.

The utility-scale and residential solar markets led the way with new capacity additions in Q2, growing by 3.3 GW and 1.8 GW, respectively. This marks the largest quarter of growth for the residential solar market in history as customers in California rushed to install solar before changes to net metering rules took effect.

“In the year since its passage, the IRA has undoubtedly caused a wave of optimism across the solar industry. Announcements for domestic module manufacturing have exploded, promising more stable solar module supply in the future,” said Michelle Davis, Head of Global Solar at Wood Mackenzie. “Now the challenge becomes implementation — the industry is waiting for clarity on several IRA provisions before moving forward with solar investments.”

The commercial solar market declined in Q2 primarily due to project interconnection backlogs and a hesitancy to move forward with projects before having full clarity on the IRA’s tax credit adders. Despite these challenges, increasing energy prices in certain states is driving demand in the commercial solar market, and the sector is expected to grow by 11% in 2023.

Florida continues to dominate the 2023 state solar rankings, installing 2.5 GW of new capacity in the first half of this year. This is 52% more than the next highest state of California, and already more solar capacity than Florida has ever installed in a single year.

Learn more at seia.org/smi.

[turbguy + 1,413]

42 minutes ago, notsonice said:

Back to the GREEN NEW DEAL

attaboy Sleepy Joe....Coal is Toast...in ten more years in the US do not expect any Coal fired plants to fire up much

then next up Nat Gas........the new plants being built today.... just replacements for old Nat gas fired boilers that were coal conversions.........

 

Writing is on the wall.......

CLEAN TECHNICA

 

U.S. Solar Installations in 2023 Expected to Exceed 30 GW for First Time in History

By

Guest Contributor

 

WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. solar industry expects to add a record 32 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in 2023, a 52% increase from 2022, according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight Q3 2023 report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie.

The solar market has been hampered in recent years by supply chain challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and exacerbated by restrictive trade policy. These challenges are beginning to abate, and as policies in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) take hold, Wood Mackenzie expects total operating solar capacity to grow from 153 GW today to 375 GW by 2028.

“The United States is now a dominant player in the global clean energy economy, and states like Florida, Texas, Ohio, and Georgia are at the forefront of this job growth and economic prosperity,” said SEIA president and CEO Abigail Ross Hopper. “The solar and storage industry is delivering abundant clean energy that is generating tens of billions of dollars of private investment, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.”

A surge of new domestic manufacturing investments is also expected to improve supply conditions over the next few years. If these factory announcements materialize, by 2026 U.S. solar module manufacturing output will be ten times greater than it is today.

The utility-scale and residential solar markets led the way with new capacity additions in Q2, growing by 3.3 GW and 1.8 GW, respectively. This marks the largest quarter of growth for the residential solar market in history as customers in California rushed to install solar before changes to net metering rules took effect.

“In the year since its passage, the IRA has undoubtedly caused a wave of optimism across the solar industry. Announcements for domestic module manufacturing have exploded, promising more stable solar module supply in the future,” said Michelle Davis, Head of Global Solar at Wood Mackenzie. “Now the challenge becomes implementation — the industry is waiting for clarity on several IRA provisions before moving forward with solar investments.”

The commercial solar market declined in Q2 primarily due to project interconnection backlogs and a hesitancy to move forward with projects before having full clarity on the IRA’s tax credit adders. Despite these challenges, increasing energy prices in certain states is driving demand in the commercial solar market, and the sector is expected to grow by 11% in 2023.

Florida continues to dominate the 2023 state solar rankings, installing 2.5 GW of new capacity in the first half of this year. This is 52% more than the next highest state of California, and already more solar capacity than Florida has ever installed in a single year.

Learn more at seia.org/smi.

While all that above is of interest, it might help to include RETIREMENTS of generation into the mix, all by nameplate capacity in MW or GW.

[footeab@yahoo.com + 2,136]

Hrmm, something to do with hurricanes and trees....   Just like the PNW 

EDIT: Only difference PNW calls them Pineapple expresses.  PNW has averaged 100+mph winds over 5 times a year on the coast for instance.  ~75mph inland.  SE USA also has FAST growing trees so clearing lines requires more $$$/mile than NE etc. 

Edited September 8, 2023 by footeab@yahoo.com