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Section 4: President & Congress Subject: Hushed-up fossil fuel QUESTIONS Msg# 1194145
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Here's another topic, with a big connection to nature itself that deserves much more attention than the media has been featuring. Its called -- planting a trillion new trees.
Report titled: Planting 1.2 Trillion Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions, Scientists Find, Feb. 2019 Click Here. Two prominent studies published in 2013 and 2016 have earlier pointed out how increasing CO2 levels have produced growing amounts of greening of the globe's forests Image Title: CO2 is greening dry regions
Image Title: CO2 is making Earth greener  School kids, of course, are aware how plants absorb CO2 and release oxygen, while growing their stems & branches as well as producing fruits, vegetables & lumber, etc. Besides sequestering (storing) quantities of CO2, studies have shown how plants and trees can thrive on lower amounts of water. Among these gains are significant increases in the crop yields needed to feed the globe's growing populations. Folks might wonder why there's not broad support among officials. Are the govt & media afraid of recognizing the 90% public polling supporting such plans? The efforts to add up to 1.2 trillion trees have received some “favorable words” but there’s been lack of follow thru on those pledges. In 2020 Trump pledged US support for the trillion trees initiative at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Click Here But the congress has, so far, been unsuccessful in passing related legislation, as proposed by GOP members, and certain scientists. Yet the World Economic Forum, three years later, is still promoting this project. Here’s their 2023 report Click Here Quotes: "Trees also sequester carbon. . . along with mangroves, peatlands, wetlands and other ecosystems, forests have the potential to sequester enough carbon to bring our emissions reductions one-third of the way to our interim 2030 targets . . . Sadly, wide scale degradation and loss of forests is hindering the ability for trees to do their part in carbon sequestration. Seems that Biden is so intense against oil and gas and favoring EV's he won't use this nature-based approach. Could it be that Joe's hate for anything Trump liked is driving Biden's policies?? |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Mark (& ALL) Here's another example you're not likely to hear from the media. There's been several reports of how household electric costs are being pushed higher, by the additions of renewables like wind and solar. And their purpose is to show that when all costs are considered in the analysis the answer is YES -- household electric bills are being driven higher by wind & solar. Here's a chart from the earlier, 2018 report: Image Title: Renewable power= high cost  Reliance on renewable energy sources has almost tripled people's energy costs in Germany & Denmark and about doubled in Australia, Italy, Spain, etc.
In addition to charts, there's reports and lectures analyzing how the indirect costs of renewables have been ignored by the warmists –thus substantially understating the renewables costs. A first example in one state, Texas, needed to double it transmission costs when recently adding solar & wind projects. Those costs grew by $9 billion. Next example is the variability factor. When the wind power in Texas has dropped from one day’s 48% down to 14%, it becomes necessary to ramp up the back up fossil generators to stabilize against grid failure, again at added cost.
Another report explained in this way:. In order to reduce bills, a new wind or solar project would have to force an old one to be retired— otherwise there are two sets of costs to cover. But with wind & solar power, you can’t let anything generators leave the market, because of interruptions, when no winds are blowing, no sun from cloud obstruction, or during the night hours A recent update of the 2018 chart confirms that the same rising cost pattern is still occurring.  Chart shows countries with the highest household electric bills are Denmark-(DNK), Germany-(DEU) & Great Britain-(GBR) with electric costs between $0.48 /kwh and $0.54 /kwh. Quite a difference compared to our Maryland rates of $0.16 /kwh. In those high cost nations wind & solar are generating from 10% to 24% of supply. Yet those renewables here are generating only about 3% of our power needs. Also there's high electric bills showing up for countries like Italy (ITL), Belgium (BEL) Spain (ESP), etc. with about 7% to 15% renewables This recent chart from Feb 2023 affirms the same cost patterns of an earlier 2018 analysis -- Renewable energy is pushing electric rates very high, even doubling and tripling them. Source: WUWT, Dr. Mike Jonas Click Here The chart, and its earlier companion, both debunk the frequent claims by warming activists that wind & solar are lowering household electric bills. They are not. Those false claims come using incomplete data, by ignoring total household bills, and looking only at a fraction of wind or solar costs. Sorry warming activists. You claims of Wind and solar being cheaper are now proven wrong. |
