Visitor essay by Larry Hamlin
The L A Occasions revealed an article revealing that the Authorities of California had modified its designation of “clear vitality” apparently to bolster its political affect on the U.N. local weather convention (COP28 cabal) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which is now underway.
California Vitality Fee (CEC) Chairman David Hochschild is famous within the Occasions article as saying “About 60% of the state’s energy now comes from clear vitality sources.”
The state’s “clear vitality” designation change is demonstrated by evaluating the CEC Yr 2021 Complete System Electrical Era chart proven beneath (observe the yr 2021 chart with the road merchandise halfway down labelled “Complete Thermal and Non- Renewables” and the bottom-line merchandise labeled “Complete Renewables”) with this modified chart format supplied beneath for Yr 2022 Complete System Electrical Era.
The Yr 2021 chart percentages of “Complete Thermal and Non-Renewables” and “Complete Renewables” line-item entries for the Complete California Energy Combine column are 66.4% and 33.6% respectively.
Subsequently, California Yr 2021 Complete System Electrical Era consists of about 2/3rds Thermal and Non-Renewables and 1/third Renewables.
The CEC Chairman tells the L A Occasions that “clear vitality” is “about 60%” of the state’s energy now. How did this miraculous change happen to go from 33.6% “Complete Renewables” to “60% clear vitality” powering the state since 2021?
Now have a look at the Yr 2022 Complete System Electrical Era chart for what occurs to the Yr 2021-line entry designations of “Complete Thermal and Non-Renewables” and “Complete Renewables”.
Within the Yr 2022 chart the Yr 2021 prior line-item designations mentioned above now change into “Complete Thermal and Unspecified” and “Complete Non-GHG and Renewables” with the Complete California Energy Combine column totals now being 45.77% (Yr 2021 proportion was 66.4%) and 54.23% (Yr 2021 proportion was 33.6%) respectively for these newly invented classes.
This variation is completed by shifting the Nuclear and Giant Hydro technology assets from the “Thermal” bucket right into a newly designated “clear vitality” group by labelling these assets “Non-GHG” (GHG – Greenhouse Gases) technology after which plopping them into the “Renewables” bucket.
With out the addition of Nuclear and Giant Hydro being grouped with “Renewables” the Yr 2022 proportion of “Renewables” would have been 35.8% in comparison with 33.6% in Yr 2021 Complete System Electrical Era chart.
Keep in mind that California environmentalists have for many years been attempting to shut nuclear technology throughout the state in addition to attempting to take away dams everywhere in the state which might be related to massive hydro services.
Now these nuclear and enormous hydro technology assets that have been demonized prior to now by local weather alarmists and environmentalists are, with out fanfare or dialogue, grouped with different Renewable technology assets to pump up the state’s “clear vitality” claims clearly for functions related to the state’s COP28 political ambitions.
Even with this politically contrived “clear vitality” modified scheme CEC Chairman Hochschild additional exaggerates the state’s new “clear vitality” claims by bumping the 54.23% worth to “about 60%”. California politicians simply can’t appear to convey themselves to deal in vitality and emissions actuality.
The state’s vitality shenanigans as introduced within the Occasions article have solely begun to be uncovered. The L A Occasions article fails utterly to deal with the truth that electrical energy solely represents about 22% of California’s complete vitality use as documented by the Vitality Data Administration (EIA).
The L A Occasions article touts as important the position that California can play on this world U.N. local weather convention by noting the next hype:
“World leaders are gearing up for COP28, an annual U.N. local weather convention that can start this week in Dubai, and California is predicted to play a large position within the proceedings.”
“Representatives from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration will attend and converse on the Golden State’s progress towards clear vitality objectives, zero-emission autos and nature-based options, officers mentioned. California can even have interaction in continued diplomacy on the subnational degree after Newsom’s current journey to China, the place he engaged in local weather talks with native leaders.”
“Certainly, California officers have been emphatic that the state can get work completed in Dubai. As one of many world’s largest economies, California is already a worldwide chief in local weather coverage and has made nice strides towards decarbonization, with the present objective of reaching carbon neutrality by 2045.”
The L A Occasions article utterly fails to make any effort to deal with the vital and controlling points of worldwide vitality use and development, world emissions outcomes and development and reams of local weather science measured information that clearly display that there is no such thing as a local weather emergency.
The article utterly fails to even try to deal with the critically vital problems with how California matches into the worldwide vitality and local weather image and utterly ignores and conceals the truth that assessing world vitality use and emissions information is obligatory for successfully establishing vitality coverage determinations versus the articles ridiculous use of political hype for figuring out California’s vitality and local weather coverage actions and selections.
The Vitality Institute not too long ago launched its statistical evaluation of worldwide vitality use and emissions in June 2023 updating world vitality and emissions statistical information by means of yr 2022 as proven beneath.
Desk 1 introduced beneath exhibits the World’s CO2 emissions improve (measured in million metric tons) that occurred between yr 2021 and the brand new experiences yr 2022 up to date information in addition to the rise within the World’s vitality use (measured in exajoules) that occurred in 2022.
Desk 1 clearly exhibits that because the world’s world vitality use grew in 2022 so did the worlds ensuing CO2 emissions. Desk 1 establishes that the non-OECD growing nations led by China and India dominate all world vitality use and emissions as they’ve completed for almost 20 years.
Desk 1 signifies that in 2022 world CO2 emissions climbed by 321.9 MMT with the Non-OECD nations contributing 87.54% of that improve due to these nations consuming 61.16% of all world vitality use in yr 2022 whereas the remainder of the world’s nations accounted for less than 12.46% of the yr 2022 CO2 world emissions improve.
The OECD developed nations led by the U.S. and the EU have been utterly overwhelmed by the non-OECD nations in vitality use and ensuing emissions since 2005 as famous in Desk 1A proven beneath. The non-OECD nations utterly dominate and management world vitality use and CO2 emissions with these nations now accounting for 66.95% of all world CO2 emissions in yr 2022.
Whereas the U.S, EU and different OECD nations diminished CO2 emissions by over 2 billion metric tons between 2005 and 2022 the non-OECD nations vastly elevated CO2 emissions by over 8.2 billion metric tons throughout this era ensuing within the world’s emissions climbing by over 6.1 billion metric tons between 2005 and 2022.
The L A Occasions article incompetently conceals and doesn’t even try and determine that world vitality use and ensuing emissions are utterly dominated and managed by the world’s non-OECD growing nations which might be dedicated to continued use fossil fuels with precedence on use of extra coal as famous within the information beneath for India and China.
California’s CO2 emissions are trivially insignificant in comparison with the worldwide non-OECD nations emissions ranges with their large development utterly hid within the Time’s article political hype.
California’s complete CO2 equal emissions are proven beneath from the state web site. The states CO2 emissions characterize about 80.2% of the entire CO2 equal emissions as famous right here with the states complete CO2 emissions subsequently being solely about 296 MMT.
State emissions information exhibits that within the interval since 2005 California diminished its CO2 emissions by about 87 million metric tons whereas the world’s growing nations have been growing world emissions by over 8.2 billion metric tons (proven in Desk 1A) with the state’s politicians and local weather alarmist media idiotically and loudly proclaiming the state is “combating local weather change”.
California’s phony declare of “combating local weather change” is completely absurd as clearly demonstrated by the non-OECD nations elevated CO2 emissions since 2005 being almost 95 occasions larger than the states puny CO2 discount since 2005. The stupidity of the states “combating local weather change” hoax is obvious for all to see.
Moreover, the state has dedicated to much more vitality and local weather coverage world folly by continuing with a very irrelevant and massively wasteful internet zero politically contrived initiative to cut back its emissions by 85% no later than yr 2045 as proven beneath.
As Desk 1 above clearly exhibits the non-OECD nations elevated CO2 emissions between yr 2021 in yr 2022 by 281.8 MMT which in a single yr exceeded the complete current California CO2 emissions complete stock of 269 MMT with the state dedicated to spending many a whole lot of billions of {dollars} to cut back these emissions by 85% by no later than yr 2045.
The state’s proposed internet zero initiative is ridiculous as a result of the states objectives of lowering CO2 emissions by a very insignificant few hundred million metric tons by 2045 are utterly overwhelmed by the non-OECD nations current, dominate and rising 22.78 billion metric tons per yr of CO2 emissions that can proceed to develop at yearly charges that exceed California’s total present CO2 emissions stock.
Moreover, Desk 1A clearly establishes that the worlds non-OECD nations took full management of future world vitality use and emissions development almost 20 years in the past with the OECD nations turning into nothing however irrelevant spectators in future vitality use and emissions outcomes.
The L A Occasions article is poor in addressing related vitality and science local weather associated information and utterly ignores the absurdity of the state’s massively costly, trivial, and utterly meaningless position in having any consequential end result on world vitality use and emissions. This unescapable local weather and vitality actuality is additional addressed in extra information mentioned beneath.
Desk 2 exposes the ineptness of the Occasions article by establishing that world vitality use and emissions actuality is pushed by fossil fuels which proceed to vastly dominate world vitality use whereas local weather alarmists incompetently hype internet zero schemes costing globally trillions of {dollars} which have resulted in solely small quantities of worldwide vitality use from unreliable, pricey, and politically mandated photo voltaic and wind.
Larger emissions and decrease effectivity coal gas is the first gas utilized by each China, India, and the Non-OECD nations to fulfill their 2022 vitality wants with China additional growing its use and share of worldwide coal to 54.75% whereas the non-OECD nations have been additional growing their use and share of worldwide coal to 82.1%.
China elevated coal gas use by 59.4% between 2005 and 2022 whereas the non-OECD nations elevated coal gas use by 61.81% throughout this similar interval.
China and the non-OECD nations have informed the Democrat’s local weather alarmist gadfly John Kerry to “take a hike” concerning fossil gas emission reductions at his most up-to-date failed mission as famous within the article beneath.
U.S. use of coal gas declined to solely 6.1% of worldwide coal use in 2022 (a discount of 56.8% from 2005 to 2022) whereas growing use of upper effectivity, decrease price, and decrease emissions pure fuel by over 48% between 2005 and 2022 regardless of incompetent efforts by Democrat politicians to cripple use of U.S. pure fuel whereas mandating use of unreliable and high-cost wind and photo voltaic.
Desk 3 gives yr 2021 complete vitality use and CO2 emissions information for California exposing and demonstrating how ridiculously insignificant the state’s position is on the worldwide stage and the way extremely over-hyped California politicians propaganda is concerning the states politically contrived internet zero marketing campaign and their utterly incompetent claims of the state “combating local weather change”.
Desk 4 gives information clearly demonstrating that California like the remainder of the world, even after a long time of incompetent politically mandated use of wind and photo voltaic, depends closely upon using fossil fuels to fulfill its vitality wants and that the local weather alarmist contrived “internet zero wind and photo voltaic contribution” stays extraordinarily modest. The Occasions article fails to deal with that California makes use of fossil fuels (pure fuel, petroleum, and coal) for almost 74% of its complete vitality wants.
The L A Occasions article fails to supply any information or evaluation that current the insignificant position of California’s vitality and emissions on the worldwide stage or the truth that California closely relies upon and depends upon fossil fuels for the good majority of its vitality regardless of the states massively costly and over-hyped emissions discount and internet zero Democratic Occasion-political propaganda of the previous 20 years.
The L A Occasions article additionally utterly fails to deal with the huge price will increase, notably in retail electrical energy costs, that California’s absurd vitality and local weather insurance policies have created for California electrical energy costs which at the moment are the best within the continental U.S. and greater than twice as pricey as the opposite western U.S. states as clearly described in the article proven beneath that exposes the state’s vitality coverage failures and incompetence.
California’s ill-conceived vitality and local weather Democrat pushed legislative schemes have resulted in California’s 2021 common retail electrical energy value now turning into, for the primary time ever, the best within the continental United States at 19.65 cents per kilowatt hour having grown by an element of two.246 (124.6%) for the reason that 1999 common value of 8.75 cents per kilowatt hour.
In the course of the 1999 to 2021 interval EIA information exhibits that the typical retail electrical energy value for the U.S. grew by 4.46 cents per kilowatt hour (from 6.64 cents per kilowatt hour in 1999 to 11.10 cents per kilowatt hour in 2021) whereas California’s common retail electrical energy value climbed by 10.9 cents per kilowatt hour (19.65 versus 8.75) greater than twice the U.S. value improve.
The ten different states that make up the continental western U.S. area have a yr 2021 common retail electrical energy value of solely 9.19 cents per kilowatt hour verses California’s 2021 report excessive common retail electrical energy value of 19.65 cents per kilowatt hour.
Extremely, California’s yr 2021 common retail electrical energy value is now an element of two.14 (114%) larger than the typical of the opposite 10 western continental U.S. states.
In yr 1999 California’s common retail electrical energy value was solely about 72% larger (8.75 cents per kilowatt hour versus 5.08 cents per kilowatt hour for the opposite 10 western states) than the typical of the opposite western area states.
The massive change with California’s common retail electrical energy value now greater than double that of the opposite 10 western states common retail electrical energy value has negatively impacted and been economically damaging to California with this end result occurring due to the Democrats incompetently crafted vitality and local weather coverage laws.
The L A Occasions article reiterates the meaningless local weather alarmist propaganda marketing campaign slogan addressing the worldwide common temperature anomaly end result within the 2023 El Niño yr as being the “hottest ever recorded” (proven beneath) with out ever specifically offering what that “hottest ever recorded” temperature is and whereas falsely blaming nebulous “local weather change” as being accountable for the 2023 world common temperature anomaly spike.
“In a yr anticipated to sure be the hottest ever recorded attributable to local weather change, holding the convention within the Dubai sends blended indicators, mentioned Cara Horowitz, government director of the Emmett Institute on Local weather Change and the Setting at UCLA, who might be attending the proceedings.”
The 2023 EL Nino world occasion represents a naturally occurring local weather end result (prior world El Nino’s occurred in 1998 and 2016) a local weather science indisputable fact that the Occasions conceals regardless that these occasions all the time produce important temperature spikes that abate after the El Niño occasion subsides.
International and regional temperature anomaly tendencies don’t represent a “local weather emergency” as falsely claimed by local weather alarmists and their media advocates.
Whereas the worldwide common temperature anomaly represents a calculated world common worth that isn’t relevant to any particular location on earth there may be appreciable particular and relevant temperature and local weather information accessible for the U.S. (in addition to many world areas) and its states by means of NOAA information measurements – measured information that’s by no means addressed by the Occasions as a result of it contradicts the Occasions local weather alarmist propaganda claims.
NOAA’s measurement of the utmost temperature anomaly pattern throughout the Continental U.S. utilizing its most dependable and up to date measurement system (the USCRN system that started working in 2005) exhibits no growing most temperature anomaly pattern throughout the U.S. by means of October 2023 as proven beneath regardless of all of the current local weather alarmist media flawed and phony hype on the contrary and the continuing El Nino world local weather occasion.
NOAA’s most absolute temperatures throughout the contiguous U.S. by means of October 2023 we see that the October 2023 temperature is way beneath the best ever which occurred in 1963.
NOAA’s most summer season absolute temperatures throughout the contiguous U.S. once more we see that the summer season of 2023 was removed from the best ever which occurred within the “mud bowl period” of the Thirties lengthy earlier than the origins of the local weather alarmist propaganda campaigns.
NOAA’s most yr so far absolute temperatures throughout the contiguous U.S. once more we see that the yr so far temperatures of 2023 are removed from the best which occurred over ten years in the past.
The L A Occasions article is stuffed with hand waving local weather alarmist politically contrived propaganda claims and assertions which might be unsupported by properly set up and extensively accessible vitality and local weather science measured information.
