Showing posts with label 2050. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2050. Show all posts

Friday, September 23, 2011

More Than a Decade of Renewable Energy Political Waste, Fraud, and Corruption



Rev 03 Dec 2011

Solyndra is a bankrupt U.S. solar panel company that raised the finance wave of "renewable" energy (i.e., solar photo voltaic, wind, and corn-ethanol).  Government loans/grants, utility company costs, utility payments, and huge subsides fund “renewable” energy.  Solyndra is the tip of a melting iceberg of many tens of billions of US dollars involved in U.S. and international political waste, fraud, and corruption.   

Friday, September 23, 2011, within a U.S. House meeting concerning the government’s Solyndra government loan, Republicans asked such questions as when taxpayers might expect to get their $535 million back, and after several minutes of such questions Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, said badgering witnesses who are taking the fifth amounts to prosecutorial misconduct.  The hearing ended shortly thereafter.  Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is to manage the Solyndra discussions.  For more concerning Solyndra see "In Rush to Assist a Solar Company, U.S. Missed Signs,” NY Times, September 22, 2011.   

President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore created the concept of “renewable” energy during the 1990s.  From 2000 to president, the U.S. left-Democrat communist political base and anti nuclear movement promoted “renewable” energy as a replacement for coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy.

For more than a decade, many tens of billions of US dollars were committed to government “renewable” energy projects.  In 2009, President Obama phased out the U.S. nuclear energy sector with his control of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and closure of Yucca Mountain repository.  The German government collation followed Obama’s example with its legislated shutdown of the nuclear energy sector and a stated commitment to national “renewable” energy.     

Due to unsolvable technical reasons, the problem with “renewable” energy is that it does not work and never has worked.  If sold on the stock market, “renewable” energy is political junk stock.

Not everything President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore did to gloss over global warming temperate increase works.  That is, “renewable” energy solar and wind does not produce electrical energy for the national grid while corn-ethanol for cars destroys the riparian ways with hypoxia loads, depletes limited capacity ground water aquifers, emits greenhouse gases during manufacturing/distribution, and inflates U.S. and global food costs.   

The U.S. House Republicans’ enquire into “renewable” energy is not limited to just Solyndra.  Republicans also must look at the many tens of billions of U.S. “renewable” dollars of waste, fraud, and corruption involving national and international energy politics.  The Euro-U.S. Neo Communist movement is the “grassroots” promoter of “renewable” energy.  The products of “renewable” energy exist because of political promotion, but there is no functional need for “renewable” energy.    

The original statements about “renewable” energies were that they would reduce global warming greenhouse gases.  However, the promotion of “renewable” energy has not reduced greenhouse gases but has stopped the expansions of nuclear energy.  Without nuclear energy, there is no stopping of global warming temperature increase.  Earth’s temperature shall exceed +6 °C above preindustrial temperature prior to 2099.

Mother Nature has given us the last warming.  Spend money wisely now on effective global warming mitigation.

To avoid greater dangerous global warming:

With the 2010 understanding of global warming, while not fully considering increasing atmospheric methane (CH4) considerations, to have any reasonable 75% chance of keeping the global warming temperature rise below +2 °C — global carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) need to peak global greenhouse gas equivalent emissions (CO2-eq) by 2015-2020, and fall at least 16% worldwide by 2030 (based on 1990 levels). Additional global human and natural greenhouse gas emission-reductions are necessary beyond 2050 towards a zero carbon economy by the end of the century. To remain below a +1.5 °C threshold requires greater earlier reductions of human global carbon dioxide emissions.
  
No national leader has attempted to establish a viable national response plan to counter global warming temperature increase.  No nation maintains a viable organization to respond to global warming temperature increase.

The November 2012 election determines the fate of human races.  Be prepared.

Thursday, September 01, 2011

Methane - The Driving Force of Global Warming


By David G. Eselius

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), in accordance with the Global Change Research Act of 1990, is conducting the National Climate Assessment (NCA) that evaluates, integrates and interprets the findings of the $2.6 billion USGCRP assessments every four years.

The Act requires a report to the President and the Congress. Previous assessments were completed in 2000 and 2009.  Final reports are available on the USGCRP website. Reference: USGCRP website LINK: http://www.globalchange.gov/  

In reviewing Assessment "Global Climate Change Impacts in the US" (2009) it appears that there is inadequate reporting of the 650,000 years of interglacial period that is the foundation of Earth's existing climate system, and post 1750 Industrial Age global warming temperature change.  Reference: USGCRP "Global Climate Change Impacts in the US” (2009) LINK: http://www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/assessment/previous-assessments/global-climate-change-impacts-in-the-us-2009  

Interglacial and global temperature-regulation reference information is available at Blogger Global Warming 2050-2099:

● Blogger "Obama’s Global Warming Briefing - Preindustrial Age," AUGUST 29, 2011
● Blogger "Obama’s Global Warming Briefing 1750-2099," AUGUST 31, 2011

A key finding within USGCRP assessment is that global climate change has increased over the past 50 years. Reported is that this observed change is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases.  

In fact, human-induced greenhouse gas emissions are a significant forcing gas that exceeded a temperature “tripping” point for emissions of methane (CH4).  Nether the less, regulating post 1750 Industrial Age human-induced greenhouse gas emissions is the only global temperature regulation technique that can help reduce global warming temperature increase.   

Methane (CH4), and to a lesser extent carbon dioxide (CO2), is the gas that regulates global warming.  

Natural Temperature Regulation - Natural release of stored methane is the driving force of interglacial temperature periods.  Earth’s cycle of temperatures occur about every 100,000 years for more than 20 million years.  Reference: “650,000 year CO2, NH4, and Temperature” graph LINK: http://www.realclimate.org/epica.jpg%20%20

Current ice-core methane content is well above the normal temperature cycle.  Methane (CH4) is now at ~1,790 ppb and is 156% greater than 650,000 years of historic interglacial CH4 peak levels of 700 ppb and with 350 ppb at interglacial low periods.  Current ice-core carbon dioxide (CO2) level is only 40% greater than 650,000 years of historic high CO2 peak levels of 280 ppm. Methane has a global warming potential (GWP) that is 72 times grater than that of carbon dioxide.

There are vast (or huge) stores of methane in the oceans and North/South Polar Regions that are part of global interglacial carbon-cycle sinks and sources.   

This change of methane’s global warming roll to that of primary global warming temperature-regulation gas identifies methane as a major component of global warming (aka, climate change).