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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/climate-emergency-fund-extremist-protest-groups-hollywood-biden

A little-known climate change advocacy organization heavily funded by celebrities and influential left-leaning foundations has been quietly dishing out grants to various activist groups deploying unorthodox and extremist methods across the world to protest fossil fuels, documents reveal.

Anti-fossil fuels groups have been ramping up protests in the United States and overseas as part of a coordinated campaign to bring awareness to climate change by vandalizing fine art, blocking major roads, and even gluing themselves to sports cars. Many of these activist hubs are being bankrolled by Climate Emergency Fund, a Beverly Hills-based charity linked to Hollywood celebrities and top liberal nonprofit organizations aiming to shape the Democratic Party's agenda, according to tax forms and other documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner. ...

And, unlike the typical run-of-the-mill charity, CEF boasts a star-studded cohort of financial backers and board members, including Rory Kennedy, daughter of the late senator Robert F. Kennedy, Aileen Getty, the billionaire philanthropist and heiress of the Getty family fortune earned in the petroleum industry, and even Hollywood's Adam McKay, who pledged it $4 million in September 2022 and directed the 2021 climate allegory film Don't Look Up.

CEF celebrity funders also include Jeremy Strong, who plays Kendall Roy in the HBO TV series Succession, comedian Chelsea Handler, actor and Silicon Valley star Thomas Middleditch, and Abigail Disney, daughter of ex-Disney executive Roy E. Disney, according to CEF's annual 2022 report.

Patrick says

Anti-fossil fuels groups have been ramping up protests in the United States and overseas as part of a coordinated campaign to bring awareness to climate change by vandalizing fine art, blocking major roads, and even gluing themselves to sports cars.

Funny how they never bother harassing the big carbon footprint private jets.

Fear Porn from the National Weather Service. When the thermometer hit's the nineties it all turns red. On the plus side, it's a nice weekend to go sailing.

Low risk of getting hot in the Bay Area, but it looks like @mell will have a nice weekend.

Patrick says

Isn't it dumbfounding that corporate news retains ANY credibility at this point? I can't figure out why people still refer to it at all.

They are obviously willing to be, let's be generous, incorrect and they don't correct their "mistakes".

The simplest form of propaganda is just to repeat something over and over and over again, regardless of whether it's true or not. I would expect this to work to a point but it's been working for 35 years.

When we first started out this this climate hysteria in the 1980's (I know there was some in the 70's) I remember thinking "well, they couldn't be lying if they are, it will be found out in time, and will absolutely destroy the credibility of media and government institutions" - well it did, for me. Why is everybody else so slow?

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-5-14-biden-federal-government-goes-full-suicide-bomber-against-america

Biden Federal Government Goes Full Suicide Bomber Against America
May 14, 2023/ Francis Menton

From his first days in office, President Biden has promised — threatened — to activate the administrative state at every level to address and solve the “climate crisis.” In the orthodoxy of the Biden/Democrat climate cult, this is to be accomplished by reducing U.S. carbon emissions into the atmosphere.

Now, even if you believe that a little more CO2 in the atmosphere is some kind of a problem (it isn’t), there is nothing that the United States can do to have any meaningful impact on that situation, given that countries with populations a large multiple of ours (China, India, Africa) are building coal-fired power plants as fast as they can. Even if we closed our economy entirely and reduced ourselves to eating grass and bugs, the effect on the climate would be zilch.

Meanwhile we have waited through the first two plus years of Bidenism to find out exactly what punishments the administrative state has in mind for us for our sins of prosperity and enjoyment of life. In the last few weeks, we have learned at least part of the answer, in the form of a series of gigantic new regulatory proposals emanating from EPA and other agencies. The answer is, the federal government will become a suicide bomber seeking to blow up and destroy the American economy and the well-being of the American people. ...

Put it all together, and the term “war against the economy” no longer does justice to what is going on. This is a full-blown attack by suicide bombers. They are so crazed with the righteousness of their cause that they couldn’t care less about the destruction and devastation they might cause to the innocent people around them, let alone even about their own death. Who ever thought our federal government would get into such a role?

Patrick says

This isn't drawn on a linear scale. The X-scale seems arbitrary. Can you get the original data to create the graph?

I don't believe we're destroying the world by increasing CO2 in the atmosphere (anymore, I did up until about 2003 or so), but I believe this is also deceptive.

Perhaps high concentrations of CO2 makes us all retarded?

This is something to consider for all the wind-power fans (no pun intended)

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/true-cost-energy-generated-wind-turbines
> A 2018 study found that wind power can impact the climate by altering the atmospheric boundary layer. “We find that generating today’s US electricity demand with wind power would warm Continental US surface temperatures by 0.24 degrees Celsius,” it said.

richwicks says

Perhaps high concentrations of CO2 makes us all retarded?

I know you are making a joke here, but I want to point out that the makers of misleading charts are not "retarded," the makers believe their target audience is.

apex says

A 2018 study found that wind power can impact the climate by altering the atmospheric boundary layer.

Scale, buddy. That is like saying a gnat landing on a wrecking ball will affect the trajectory. Also, that wind either turns a turbine or it dissipates against other air, surface, or mountains.

richwicks says

"This isn't drawn on a linear scale. The X-scale seems arbitrary. Can you get the original data to create the graph?"

See




richwicks says

"I don't believe we're destroying the world by increasing CO2 in the atmosphere... "

True!

CO2 is life! Without CO2 there is no photosynthesis, there are no plants, no animals and no life on othis planet! In addition, humans are exhaling 4 to 5% CO2 which is 50,000 ppm CO2. So the notion that CO2 is pollution is bunk.

"They wouldn't think twice..."



From: https://twitter.com/theheadsaregone/status/1663461009430835200?ref_src=patrick.net

https://notthebee.com/article/these-climate-crazies-crashed-a-swedish-dance-show-and-got-instant-justice-from-the-camera-guy-

Climate crazies crashed a Swedish dance show and got instant justice from the camera guy.

Question: How much is 1.3% of 3% of 0.04%?

The_Deplorable says

"Question: How much is 1.3% of 3% of 0.04%?"

In other words what is the Australian contribution to the 400 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere?

Answer:

1. "CO2 is 400 ppm of the atmosphere." That is over the whole world.

2. "Human beings create only 3% of this 400 ppm over the whole world.

Or 400 ppm x 3/100 = 12 ppm. So 12 ppm of the 400 ppm comes from human beings.

So "Human beings create only 12 ppm of this 400 ppm over the whole world. And this includes all the coal-fired power plants in China, India, Germany, Russia, the US etc. 12 ppm CO2 from all human acivity including pigs, sheep, cows - and this includes cow farts.

3. And Australia is responsible for 1.3% of the 12 ppm.

Or 12 ppm x 1.3/100 = 0.16 ppm

So Australia contributes 0.16 ppm to the 12 ppm CO2 that is attributed to humanity.

In other words, if Australia shuts down everything, nobody will notice! The CO2 in the atmosphere will remain at 400 ppm.

... but they can buy carbon offsets from a reputable dealer in Shanghai.

Didn't they do something with C14 in tree rings and confirm that less than 10% of the CO2 emitted since the 1700s is of human origin?

Good point that I hadn't considered: the "global" in "global warming" is perhaps an indication that of impending global control by the oligarchy.

Spock Predicts Ice Age

Onvacation says

Spock Predicts Ice Age

This is from "In Search Of - The Coming Ice Age" Season 2, Episode 23.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of..._(TV_series)

Hey, think it's great having a very good memory? It sucks. I remember what was said, NOBODY else does and I'm crazy to think that was EVER said!!!

Early fear porn.

https://slaynews.com/news/ireland-slaughter-200000-healthy-cows-fight-global-warming/

Ireland to Slaughter 200,000 Healthy Cows to Fight ‘Global Warming’

Patrick says

Ireland to Slaughter 200,000 Healthy Cows to Fight ‘Global Warming’

Big deal, the WEF is going for the slaughter of 7,500,000,000 humans.

Seems "green" companies are using their fake environmentalism to steal farmers property:
https://realrawnews.info/land-grab-and-environmental-deception-the-dark-side-of-green-energy-in-the-american-midwes/3093/

Also, I was reading up on solar farms recently related to our move back to the desert, and apparently they use quite a bit of water to keep the panels clean. Saw some articles about a community protesting them somewhere east of LA a few years back.

And, when we drove east to Yuma recently I noticed more wind turbines, but less functioning ones. Those things will break for any reason, so while they've spent more money on them, the net output has probably decreased.

richwicks says

Patrick says

This isn't drawn on a linear scale. The X-scale seems arbitrary. Can you get the original data to create the graph?

I don't believe we're destroying the world by increasing CO2 in the atmosphere (anymore, I did up until about 2003 or so), but I believe this is also deceptive.

Perhaps high concentrations of CO2 makes us all retarded?

Ha, pretty funny. This was my field in a former life. The x-axis is a geologic time scale, with more granularity (spacing) given recent eras, which have more complete rock records.

Some of the best critiques of climate dogma come from geologists, from what I’ve seen. To throw a bone to climatologists, CO2 was lower than at present over the last million years. (CO2 could be measured directly from air inclusions within the Vostok ice core data, and over the last 800,000 years we’ve been in more ice ages than not.) However going back more than 1 million years into the paleo record, we find CO2 higher than at present, while planetary temperature estimates are not remarkably high. (These temperature estimates are based in part on reconstructions of global sea level.)

Milankovich in the 1970’s correlated the fluctuations in paleo-climate to three predictable planetary phenomena: the obliquity, eccentricity, and precession of earth over time. Each has a periodicity on the order of 24k, 40k, and 100k years (though don’t quote me on which is which; need to check). The paper on Milankovich cycles led to panic over “global cooling” in the 70’s. The cooling ideas have been forgotten, but Milankovich’s work is still widely accepted. Earth’s orbital and axis shifts correlate well with paleo-temperature data, and indeed seem to be the dominant force in Quaternary climate change.

There is also no support in the geologic record for CO2 leading global temperature increases. Interestingly, temperature leads CO2 temporally, even in the Vostok ice core data. A counter-intuitive observation, certainly, but more obvious when you consider that most planetary CO2 is dissolved in the ocean. As ocean temperature rises, dissolved gases (of all sorts) exsolve and return to the atmosphere.

Also at 400ppm, CO2 is a trace component, while tropospheric water vapor is a major greenhouse gas, varying between 1 and 4% of the lower atmosphere. (Most of the greenhouse effect occurs in the dense troposphere.) Molecule for molecule, H2O and CO2 are comparable in heat trapping ability (unlike CH4, which has 20x the heat trapping potential — but methane too is trace and quickly oxidizes to CO2).

On the other hand, I do suspect CO2 increases (as measured by the Keeling curve) are anthropogenic. We have an obvious source, and no new sinks.

CO2 is a great acidifier, even at 400 ppm (enough to bring unbuffered rainwater down from pH 7 to 5.2). I’d think that acidification of rain and ocean water are a greater concern than CO2’s impact on temperature.

goofus says

On the other hand, I do suspect CO2 increases (as measured by the Keeling curve) are anthropogenic. We have an obvious source, and no new sinks.

No new sinks? If you increase the CO2 in an environment the plants will grow faster. The only sink for CO2 that has ever existed is plants.

Patrick says

What rise in CO2? From trace element to slightly higher trace element? That is like expecting a winter glacial melt off because the temp increased from minus 174 Celsius to minus 173.5 Celsius.

Patrick says

Answer:

1. Gaia is not emitting radiation at the frequency which CO2 absorbs, namely 15 microns.

2. Therefore the amount CO2 in the atmosphere is irrelevant. In fact, during the Paleozoic, Gaia experienced an ice age for 40 million years at a 4,200 ppm CO2 level. And this did not prevent the ice age from happening.

3. Given that Gaia is roughly at 59°F then our planet is radiating unimpeded into space at 10 microns.

4. CO2 as a greenhouse gas is so irrelevant that IR Astronomy is alive and well on our planet. Gaia is emitting heat energy between 9 and 13 microns and it is doing so unimpeded by CO2.

5. If anything is warming our planet, it is water vapor and the fact that Gaia is over 70% oceans! And thank God for the oceans - and the resulting water vapor - because it is these oceans that are keeping our planet habitable!.