UN Admits Paris Accord Will Never Work


The latest on the global warming front is a UN report on the “emissions gap” that admits the Paris Accord would never work. The UN has admitted that the environmentalists have made dire forecasts that assumed whatever trend was in motion would remain in motion. They ignored all other evidence and cycles. Even if every country did 100% of the UN mandates, the Paris agreement will provide only a third of the cuts in greenhouse gas that environmentalists claim are needed to prevent catastrophic warming. The assumption is cycles do not exist and only humans are responsible for everything. They admit that even if every country involved in those accords complied with their pledges between now and 2030, temperatures would still rise by 3 degrees celsius by 2100. The goal of the Paris agreement was to keep the global temperature increase to under 2 degrees.

This is the problem when they make such bogus forecasts to try to scare people into their way of thinking. They want to end industrialization, prevent driving, flying, and watching TV because creating electricity is a problem. Kill all the cows and anything else that eat grass (which may include vegetarians) and go back to just hunting and gathering. However, they also want us to eat things raw and not cook because fires also create CO2.

 

Setting the Train Track on Fire


 

So much for Global Warming. We really need to prepare for what happens if we continue down this path of colder winters. The ground freezes and it can freeze even down two-feet. That means good luck on growing anything. It has been so cold, that even the rails for trains broke in three different places between Baltimore and Washington on Thursday. So even trains were delayed or canceled as Amtrak did for trains passing through Chicago.

It has been so cold, the tracks freeze and the only way to switch tracks is to set them on fire. Of course, the tracks themselves were not truly burning. They are made out of steel. The fires in Chicago on the tracks this week show flames smoldering in patches of melted snow around the tracks. The photos look wild and dangerous as if it were some apocalyptic image. The steel does not actually burn of melt. The flames simply keep the ice off the tracks at junctions where they need to switch tracks for trains passing through.

It is time to start SERIOUS investigation into climate change and knock off this global warming nonsense which has been an excuse to raise taxes. A few more years of cold weather like this and you will see severe shortages in food being to emerge for 2024. The previous lowest temperature in all of Chicago history was 27 degrees below zero, which was a record set on January 20th, 1985.  This past week almost broken that record reaching 23 degrees. But the wind-chill factor was certain far worse.

The Problem with Cold & Electric Cars


Everyone who ran out and bought an electric car has suddenly discovered that when it gets cold, the battery will lose on average 20-25% of its charge. The idea that electric cars will replace fossil fuels is really a dream. That will work in warm territories, but when it gets cold, they will require more energy production to service them. This comes at a time when power plants also have increased demand to keep people warm. Even a heat-pump, which runs on electric, will stop putting out heat when the temperature drops to 40 degrees F or lower.

If we are indeed going to move to electric cars, then with a new cold-age/ice age approaching, the need to generate more power in winter will present problems nobody considered on the planning board