WHAT IS THE
GREEN NEW DEAL ?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s
former chief of staff
Saikat Chakarabarti
who masterminded that
Green New Deal
told Washington Gov.
Jay Inslee’s climate director
Sam Rickerts, that IT
"wasn’t originally
a climate thing at all."
According to a Washington Post
reporter who attended the meeting,
Chakarabarti then clarified,
"Do you guys think of it
as a climate thing?
Because we really
think of it as a how-do-you
-change-the-entire-economy thing."
MILD GLOBAL WARMING
HAS BEEN GOOD NEWS !
With no global temperature
measurements before 1979,
and almost no Southern
Hemisphere surface data
before the 1920s,
the world is claimed
to have warmed by only about
+1 degree Celsius since 1880.
( +1.8 degrees Fahrenheit )
But mild warming was great news
after the cold Little Ice Age centuries !
GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE,
per TIDE GAUGES,
IS NOT ACCELERATING
FROM MORE CO2 IN THE AIR:
NOAA’s coastal sea level data
has shown no acceleration
of sea level rise
since the late 1800s
Globally, seas continue
to rise at only seven inches
per century.
US HURRICANES:
ZERO MAJOR
STORMS HIT LAND
FOR A RECORD 12 YEARS,
FROM 2005 TO 2017:
US hurricane records,
dating back to 1851,
show 12 consecutive years
— from Oct. 24, 2005
(after Wilma)
until Aug. 25, 2017
(Harvey) —
was the longest period
on record when no moderate
or major ( Category 3-5 )
hurricane made landfall
in the continental
United States.
NO MAJOR
US TORNADOES
HIT IN 2018:
2018 set a record
as the first year on record
when no "violent"
( F4 & F5 )
tornado touched down
in the United States.
LONG TERM CLIMATE
PREDICTION IS IMPOSSIBLE:
From the IPCC’s 2001 report:
"In climate research and modeling,
we should recognize that we are dealing
with a coupled non-linear chaotic system,
and therefore that the long-term prediction
of future climate states is not possible."
GERMAN ELECTRICITY
COSTS A LOT MORE
DUE TO INCREASING
RENEWABLES USE:
Germany installed
a 15-fold increase in
wind and solar capacities
between 1999 and 2012 —
by 2013 the country had
more solar than
any other nation.
And 40 million
of their households
and industries
had an estimated
50% increase
in electricity costs.
German residents
currently pay
nearly three times
more for electricity
than we do
in the United States.
Up until 2008,
Germany’s grid
had never been
interrupted.
In 2012 there were
1,000 brownouts,
followed by
more than 2,500
in 2013.