Conspiracy Theory Climate Change

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But will they rejoice as the temperatures goes up? Don't think so.

Why not? Not only is CO2 plant food for them, it also helps them to retain water. It's why our commercial greenhouses operate at anywhere between 1000 - 2000ppm.

At the other end of the scale, all plants die at 150ppm.
 
Why not? Not only is CO2 plant food for them, it also helps them to retain water. It's why our commercial greenhouses operate at anywhere between 1000 - 2000ppm.

At the other end of the scale, all plants die at 150ppm.
So if you can transform every farm into large Greenhouse's then there should be no problem. It will only cost a few trillion dollars. When it is hot and does not rain, then we have drought and a lot of farms do not have access to water or state of the art irrigation systems. The hotter it gets, the worst it becomes.
 
So if you can transform every farm into large Greenhouse's then there should be no problem. It will only cost a few trillion dollars. When it is hot and does not rain, then we have drought and a lot of farms do not have access to water or state of the art irrigation systems. The hotter it gets, the worst it becomes.

So do you reject that periods of drought are caused by natural forces like what we have recently experienced on the east coast of Australia? How does your response relate to CO2?
 

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Brown Coal --Yallourn produces close to 1.4 Tonnes of C02 per KwH Loy Yang - 1.2
Black Coal -- Around 0.9
Crappy jet engines running on gas ( Jeeralang etc ) 0.8
Better gas stations 0.6 ( Newport ( half its planned size because the experts in the union decided it was bad for the environment ) and Mortlake ).
Efficient closed cycle gas turbines ( yeah they cost more ) 0.4 Tonnes per KwH.

If we all went out and bought Tesla's we would be burning coal to charge them.
We could do a lot worse than building some big gas stations to get us through the windless nights. We would reduce our greenhouse gas due to electricity by more than 60%.

That would put us in a good position to further reduce it by increasing renewables.
 

In 2000 New Zealand closed some of their Gas Turbine poser stations. These were stationary versions of the Jet Engines they used on DC10 aircraft in the 70s, units which probably emit as much CO2 as a modern black coal station. I understand that the power stations were closed due to environmental concerns. Well done New Zealand ......but......
You sold the turbines to Valley Power in Victoria, where they continue to contribute high levels of CO2 to the atmosphere contributing to GLOBAL warming.
THEN....
You had a drought and had power shortages due to not enough hydro.
and THEN
You built some power stations running on gas and diesel.
 
Late last year, for example, Xi committed China to “zero net emissions” by 2060. Yet the National People’s Congress has unveiled the approved new five-year plan of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. This plan includes the usual measures promoting renewable energy, but it does not cancel the commissioning of a single coal-fired power plant.

China, which accounts for nearly 30 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, almost twice the level of the US, and which is responsible for the vast majority of emissions growth over the past decade, has the biggest program of commissioning new coal-fired power stations of any nation in the world. It is also, through its Belt and Road Initiative, the biggest financier of coal-fired power stations and other greenhouse gas emitting projects.

The five-year plan explicitly recommits Beijing to the development of further coal-fired power stations and to coal use and mining generally. It promises continued reduction in energy intensity — that is, using less energy per unit of GDP. But China’s greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow in absolute terms.

This is utterly inconsistent with zero emissions by 2060. The only obligation the Paris Agreement imposes on China is that its emissions should peak by 2030. If Beijing continues on its current path, there is no chance at all that the world will reach its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. Beijing’s pro-climate change action platitudes are all but meaningless. So it’s wise to discount Chinese leaders’ emollient speeches at international conferences. On the other hand, it’s very important to pay close attention to what Chinese leaders say at home, especially to Communist Party audiences.


 

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