Junk Science: The high priests of the climate change religion decree in a recipe for global poverty that renewable energy must generate most of the worlds electricity, with fossil fuels purged by the end of this century. In a report released in Copenhagen on Sunday that Secretary of State John Kerry has called another canary in a coal mine, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recycled its prophecies of doom. The document is titled Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. The synthesis refers to the reports being essentially the greatest hits of prior climate assessment reports that have been published since 1990, as if the falsehoods become truth in the retelling. These claims have been roundly and soundly debunked based on empirical evidence gathered by satellites and other actual observations, as well as the actual history of earths climate, not the edited version from climate zealots that ignores inconvenient truths such as the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period. The report, IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri said in a statement, demonstrates that we have the means to limit climate change. Pachauri did not fully explain his prior failed predictions, such as the report that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035, a call based on unsubstantiated student theses and anecdotes from a magazine for mountain climbers. Rather than a canary in a coal mine, this report is a talking parrot with a megaphone. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, the report claims, have led to atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide that are unprecedented in the last 800,000 years. The report says that so-called renewable energy sources such as wind and solar must become 80% of the power sector by 2050 or the world will face severe, pervasive and irreversible damage. Never mind that wind doesnt always blow and wind turbines carve up birds, including endangered species. Or that solar doesnt work all that well on cloudy days and requires immense amounts of sometimes-scarce water to clean the panel farms. The report states that fossil-fuel power generation without carbon capture and storage technology must be phased out almost entirely by 2100. Yet a paper published recently in the journal Global Environmental Change found that carbon dioxide emissions are essentially self-regulating and that after countries reach a higher GDP level, CO2 emissions either stabilize or even decline, without the need for carbon taxes or carbon capture technology. Here in the U.S., the fracking revolution has released from our vast shale formations vast natural-gas deposits that have done more to reduce carbon emissions than any IPCC report. Read More At Investors Business Daily: news.investors/ibd-editorials/110414-724922-ipcc-demands-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels.htm#ixzz3I94Fd1Tr Follow us: @IBDinvestors on Twitter | InvestorsBusinessDaily on Facebook
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 00:14:43 +0000