CNBC on UN IPCC's third installment "now or never" report of the current sixth assessment cycle today:
It has been feared that Russia’s unprovoked onslaught in Ukraine may eclipse the findings, despite the fact that the report could be the last comprehensive assessment of climate science while there is still time to secure a liveable future.
Drudge right now:
The story oddly mentions the dispute without elaborating.
IPCC scientists also repeated calls for a substantial reduction in
fossil fuel use to curb global heating, now at 1.1 degrees Celsius above
pre-industrial levels. ...
“Climate change is the result of more than a century of unsustainable energy and land use, lifestyles and patterns of consumption and production,” the IPCC’s Skea said. “This report shows how taking action now can move us towards a fairer, more sustainable world.”
What these liars won't tell you is that it was MUCH warmer on Planet Earth in the Late Bronze Age, during the period of the Roman Republic and Empire, and in Medieval times than it is today. Ancient warming made human civilization flourish, and the warming wasn't caused by humans using "fossil fuels", nor has using fossil fuels returned global temperatures to anything like they were in antiquity.
Holocene warming peaked long ago and is trending lower even as human civilization has flourished, and staying alive in future will depend on STAYING WARM and growing enough food to support the increased population, which means developing and using every energy resource at our disposal.
Hans-Werner Sinn, here:
To cushion the twin phaseout of coal and nuclear, and to close supply
gaps during the long transition to renewable energy, Germany decided to
build a large number of additional gas-fired power plants. Even
immediately before Russian forces invaded Ukraine, policymakers assumed
that the gas for these facilities would always come from Russia, which
supplied more than half of Germany’s needs. ...
Germany’s pledge to abandon coal and nuclear, the very energy sources
that would have given it a degree of self-sufficiency and autonomy, has
thus placed the country in great danger. Not so long ago, Germany was
the world’s second-largest lignite producer, after China. And it easily
could have procured the tiny amount of uranium needed to run its nuclear
power plants, and stored it domestically for many years. ...
Despite the fact that turbines and photovoltaic panels now dot much of the landscape, in 2021 the share of wind and solar power in Germany’s total final energy consumption, which includes heating, industrial processing, and traffic, was a meager 6.7 per cent. And while wind and solar generated 29 per cent of the country’s electricity output, electricity itself accounted for only about a fifth of its final energy consumption. Germany would not have come close to achieving energy autonomy even if the renewables sector had expanded at twice the speed that it did. ...
If Germany suddenly halted Russian gas imports, gas-based residential heating systems, on which half the German population, approximately 40 million people, rely, and industrial processes that rely heavily on gas imports would break down before replacement energy became available. The government would be unlikely to survive the resulting economic chaos, public uproar, and outrage should gas become unavailable or heating costs rise dramatically. In fact, the likely scale of domestic disruption would call into question the cohesion of the Western response to the Ukraine war.
Assiduously avoided here in "The Cult of Adam Tooze":
Another model Tooze said he looks to in his role as public intellectual is that of his maternal grandparents. “Leading synthesizers of global data on childhood nutrition,” Peggy and Arthur Wynn published research on poverty and family policy and together wrote a pseudonymous book attacking Tory business connections called England’s Money Lords. (Arthur was also, for a time, a Soviet-spy recruiter at Oxford.) They continued their work into their 90s. Arthur died over his word processor one night after Peggy had gone to bed; he was making a list of things to do.
The 2-year pays more than the 10-year. The spread is 0.06.
The idea is that ten-year money will return less over the next two years than the two-year money, so who in his right mind would tie up his money for ten years?
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CNN -- The House has voted with a slim bipartisan majority to federally decriminalize marijuana.
Average per annum return of 4.77% has been 26% off the long term historical return from 1871 and over 61% off the immediately preceding 21.5 years beginning in February 1979. The Great Reagan Bull didn't even begin until 1982.
The secular bear continues.
Meanwhile Russia continues to sell natural gas which Europe desperately requires, and Putin continues to rake in the dough he needs to continue the war and undergird his regime.
The headline is purely for Russian public consumption.
Putin signs order demanding gas payments in roubles from Friday :
The decree Putin signed on Thursday authorises the state-controlled Gazprombank to open foreign currency and rouble accounts for gas purchases. European buyers would pay in foreign currency and then authorise Gazprombank to make the conversion into roubles, which would then be used to formally purchase the gas.
“Caitlyn’s story is an inspiration to us all,” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott said in announcing the hire. “She is a trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community and her illustrious career spans a variety of fields that will be a tremendous asset for our audience.”
More.
He doesn't need the money.
This is simply more libertarianism normalizing perversion in order to co-opt conservatism.
Same as Glenn Beck, Matt Walsh, Dennis Prager, et alia normalizing "conservative" homo Dave Rubin or Pete Bootyjudge's "husband". Let's throw Stephen L. Miller in for good measure, even if he thinks it matters that he won't go as far as saying with the trans nuts that some men can get pregnant. Not one of us.
At the moment, only one of Russia's five largest banks, VTB, has been cut off from SWIFT and subjected to full blocking sanctions, said Fishman, who is now adjunct professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University.
The Oscars have no standards anymore.
1) threatened to respond "in kind" if Russia uses chemical or biological weapons;
2) told members of the 82nd Airborne they're about to deploy to Ukraine ("when you’re there, you’re going to see women, young people standing in the middle, in the front of a damn tank saying 'I’m not leaving.'");
3) specifically called for regime change in Russia (“For god’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”).
We're not supposed even to possess chemical and biological weapons.
Russia has stated NATO intervention in Ukraine is a cause for war with NATO.
Making removal of Putin the NATO objective is the existential threat Putin also says is a cause for war.
At least in 1984 when Ronald Reagan quipped in a sound check, "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.", he was only joking.
The Reagan joke was deliberately leaked to embarrass him, which it did. But today's White House scrambles to correct all these Biden statements because none of them are jokes.
Joe Biden is the loose cannon on the ship of state.
And they used to call this guy a dunce.
