As media outlets frame the upcoming US election as a showdown on
climate, Net Zero projects falter in Europe and US Inflation Reduction Act projects
stall, says Friends of Science Society. Ironically, NATO has made
climate front and centre in their spring 2024 report and seems more
focused on battling climate disinformation instead of wartime
defense of NATO partners.
CALGARY,
Alberta, Aug. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As the
US "Climate Election" looms, the Financial Times reported on
Aug. 11, 2024, that delays have hit
40% of Biden's major Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) projects, many
of them climate related, says Friends of Science. Reportedly, some
$84 bn of the $400 bn IRA projects, are stalling out over lack
of market demand or election uncertainty as climate hawks and
energy security champions square off.
According to Lomborg (2016) the US climate
target under the Paris Treaty … [if met]…global average
temperatures as of 2100 would be reduced by 0.031° C compared to if
the US did nothing.
According to journos at Covering Climate Now, the US Democrat's
VP Kamala Harris/Governor Tim Walz
ticket is positioned as climate-friendly. Reuters perspective of
Feb. 2024 was that a win for
Republican Donald Trump would undo
much of the Biden admin's climate policy.
In a recent Fraser Institute report, author and economist
Ross McKitrick references a Bjorn
Lomborg analysis of US greenhouse gas reduction targets and their
likely impact on reducing global warming: "According to Lomborg
(2016) the US climate target under the Paris Treaty … [if
met]…global average temperatures as of 2100 would be reduced by
0.031° C compared to if the US did nothing. Prorating this by the
size of Canada's proposed emission
reduction we find the global average temperature would be reduced
by 0.007° C (seven thousandths of a degree Celsius) as of 2100
compared to the case if Canada
does nothing"
The UN "People's Climate Vote 2024" survey from June of 73,000
people in 77 countries claims that "80 per cent – or four out of
five - people globally want their governments to take stronger
action to tackle the climate crisis."
Friends of Science Society notes that the UN survey questions on
pages 19 and 20, conflate extreme weather with climate and only ask
for emotional responses, rather than evaluating empirical evidence.
Climate change is measured over 30, 50, 100-year and millennial
cycles; it is not evidenced by a spate of extreme weather
events.
In Canada, the Globe and Mail
published an op-ed by pollster Nik
Nanos on Aug. 10, 2024, which
showed a waning public interest in the Net Zero transition. "As
more and more Canadians feel crushed by the rising cost of things
such as housing, groceries and energy, interest in greening their
lives is weakening…. the percentage of Canadians who are confident
that we will reach our net-zero goal is a paltry 2 per cent."
Robert Lyman, retired energy
economist, wrote a report on the costs of Canada's climate policies and cited a survey
published in Nature, February 2024,
found that people would be willing to spend less than 1% of their
income to support climate initiatives. One per cent of average
Canadian income for climate change would be $431. Canadian climate measures from 2020-2030
are ~$476 billion, or $11,900 per resident of Canada; roughly $2,800 per household per year.
Friends of Science Society points out that survey questions
should include "How much are you willing to pay for or sacrifice
for climate action?" Friends of Science review of "Getting to Net
Zero" forecasts decades of degrowth and poverty.
While most citizens in the NATO countries assume that NATO is
most concerned with wartime defense of their nations, the 2024
"NATO Climate Change and Security Impact Assessment" seems obsessed
with climate change. On page 27, they dedicate a section to "Energy
Transition and Climate-related Disinformation," claiming that
Kremlin-backed actors push climate change denialism. In fact, in
Germany, it was Kremlin-backed
green activists who encouraged Germany's heavy reliance on Russian oil and
gas and the closure of reliable nuclear facilities, as Drieu
Godefridi, author of "The Green Reich" reported in 2022.
Russia's position on climate
change seems unchanged since its 2004 position on Kyoto, forerunner to the Paris Agreement.
Russian climate models, which use a small warming factor for
carbon dioxide concentration, consistently closely parallel
observed temperatures, compared to Western climate models which use
a higher warming response rate for carbon dioxide, and which
project a 'hothouse' future.
Wars cannot be won on wind and solar power; ample energy
security is key to a strong economy, good healthcare, jobs and
national defense, says Friends of Science Society.
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