Man könnte den Eindruck gewinnen, die Bundestagswahl 2021 sei bereits gewesen und die frisch gekürte Kanzlerin-Kandidatin Annalena Baerbock müsse nur noch in ihr Amt eingeführt werden. So jedenfalls lesen sich Teile der Medien in diesen Tagen. Klimapolitik ist eines der Spezialthemen der Grünen Co-Chefin. Sie kennt sich darin aus, sollte man denken. Wir wollen hier gar nicht auf den Versprecher Kobalt – Kobold eingehen. Das kann möglicherweise im Eifer eines Interviews passieren. Auch die 9 Gigatonnen CO2, die jeder Bundesbürger laut ihr pro Jahr verursacht, vergessen wir lieber mal ganz schnell. Viel interessanter ist ein anderes Zitat, denn es zeigt, wie Grüne offenbar denken.
„An Tagen wie diesen, wo es grau ist, da haben wir viel weniger Erneuerbare Energien. Deswegen haben wir Speicher. Deswegen funktioniert das Netz als Speicher. Und das ist alles genau ausgerechnet.“
Es wäre gut möglich, dass die Ökonomin Claudia Kemfert das alles genau ausgerechnet hat. Ihre „Rechenfähigkeiten“ in Sachen Erneuerbare Energien hat sie ja bereits mehrfach unter Beweis gestellt und dabei einfach mal einige Hundert Milliarden vergessen. Und es könnte ebenfalls sein, dass Annalena Baerbock das tatsächlich glaubt, weil es ja genau ausgerechnet ist.
Fragt man einen technisch versierten Experten, dann wird der bei der Speicherfähigkeit eher mit dem Kopf schütteln. Das Netz speichert nichts, der Strom, der gebraucht wurde, diese Zeilen zu tippen, wurde genau in der Millisekunde produziert als er benötigt wurde. Vielleicht gelingt es Annalena Baerbock als mögliche Kanzlerin ja, die Gesetze der Physik und auch der Mathematik zu überwinden. Sollte das nicht der Fall sein, dann müssen nach wie vor fossile Brennstoffe ihren Beitrag leisten, wenn es Wind und Sonne mal wieder nicht machen. So wie am 20.04.2021 um 10:09. Da lieferten Wind und Sonne zu wenig. Kohle und Gas trugen die Hauptlast.
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Erst kürzlich berichteten wir von der Goldgräberstimmung in Texas in Sachen Windenergie. Michael Shellenberger beschreibt in Forbes, wie die Entwicklung in Texas gerade läuft. Er macht dazu eine interessante Rechnung auf. Um genügend Speicher nur für Texas zu haben, müsste die Jahresproduktion an Speichern aus der Tesla Fabrik in Nevada 46 Jahre nur für den US Bundesstaat reserviert werden. Von den Kosten dafür einmal ganz zu schweigen. Er rät übrigens dazu, die fossile Erzeugung von Strom winterfest zu machen. Im Anbetracht der propagierten Klimaerhitzung eine aberwitzige Entwicklung. Weiterlesen bei Forbes.
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Ausgezeichneter Gastkommentar von Rupert Pritzl und Fritz Söllner am 16.4.2021 in der NZZ:
Die derzeitige Klimapolitik ist Augenwischerei
Die Klimapolitik in Deutschland und Europa ist nicht nur ineffektiv, weil sie so gut wie keine Auswirkungen auf das Klima hat; sie ist auch ineffizient, weil sie höhere volkswirtschaftliche Kosten als nötig verursacht. Es braucht dringend eine sachliche Debatte ohne Moralismus.
Der Philosoph Hermann Lübbe warnte schon 1984 vor einer zunehmenden «Neigung, auf die Herausforderungen von Gegenwartsproblemen moralisierend zu reagieren».
Weiterlesen in der NZZ
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Wall Street Journal am 13.4.2021:
Climate Media vs. Climate Science
The good news is that scientists themselves have started to correct the record.
Joe Biden has put a presidential imprimatur on climate change being an existential threat, and he doesn’t mean in the Jean-Paul Sartre sense of man’s search for meaning in an uncomforting universe.
He means the end of humanity, a claim nowhere found in climate science.
This is odd because the real news today is elsewhere. Its movement may be ocean-liner-like, the news may be five years old before the New York Times notices it, but the climate community has been backing away from a worst-case scenario peddled to the public for years as “business as usual.”
A drumroll moment was Zeke Hausfather and Glen Peter’s 2020 article in the journal Nature partly headlined: “Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome.”
Weiterlesen im Wall Street Journal
Hierzu ein Tweet von Roger Pielke Jr:
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Tagesspiegel im Juli 2020:
„Sie werden den Klimawandel verbieten“: Satiriker Sonneborn lästert im EU-Parlament über Merkel
Der Europaabgeordnete Martin Sonneborn macht sich über die deutsche EU-Ratspräsidentschaft lustig. Merkel bekommt ihr Fett weg – und der HSV.
[…] Zu anderen Prioritäten Merkels für die deutsche EU-Ratspräsidentschaft sagte er: „Sie werden den Klimawandel verbieten und die Chinesen bewegen, uns künftig etwas leiser auszulachen.“ Und die Migration werde Merkel bewältigen, indem sie sicherstelle, „dass die Gemeinheiten dort geschehen, wo sie nicht so auffallen“.
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The Epoch Times im Juli 2020:
Bjorn Lomborg’s ‘False Alarm’ Brings Reason to Climate Change Debate
No matter your predispositions regarding the climate change issue, you’re sure to find something alarmingly objectionable about skeptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg’s latest work, “False Alarm.”
That’s precisely what makes this book so important.
In a world where hyperbole and hysteria continue to displace reasoned discourse, Lomborg offers cogent, thoughtful arguments in an attempt to return perspective and reason to the climate change discussion. He does so by using science and economics as those disciplines should be used: as broad floodlights illuminating all facets of an issue, not as laser pointers focused only on the data that support a cherished thesis.
The subtitle to “False Alarm” is “How climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet.” As subtitles go, that’s a bit clunkier than most, but it’s a fair summation of what follows.
Weiterlesen in The Epoch Times
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Youtube:
In The Tank (Ep250) – Apocalypse Never with Michael Shellenberger
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WUWT im Juni 2020: Veganer heizen dem Klimawandel ein, zerstören den brasilianischen Wald:
Study: Demand for Vegan Soy Driving Climate Change, Brazilian Habitat Destruction
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Heartland am 25. Juni 2020:
Another Giant of Science Has Passed
Dennis Avery, coauthor of Unstoppable Global Warming – Every 1,500 Years, has died.
Another giant of science, history and scholarship has left our world. Dennis T. Avery died June 21 at age 83. With the passing of this “gifted scholar and communicator, the world became a less interesting place,” former Heartland Institute president and CEO Joe Bast commented.
Avery’s career was indeed remarkable for its breadth and depth. Born in 1936 in Lansing, Michigan, he earned degrees in journalism and economics from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin, then worked for a variety of federal government agencies before retiring in 1989 as Senior Agricultural Analyst for the U.S. State Department. Among his many other awards and honors, he received the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement in 1983.
After moving to northwestern Virginia in 1990, he launched the Center for Global Food Issues and began his international consulting, lecturing and writing career. His farming operations practiced no-till agriculture, which utilizes biotech seeds and herbicides to help preserve soil structure and organisms, moisture, organic matter and nutrients, thereby improving drainage and soil biodiversity, while reducing erosion. Avery practiced and studied what he wrote about in his books and articles.
His 1995 book Saving the Planet with Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental Triumph of High-Yield Farming was used in classrooms throughout the world. His 2007 New York Times bestseller, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years (coauthored by S. Fred Singer) became “the Bible of the fast-growing ‘global warming skeptics’ movement,” Bast said. (Dr. Singer died in April 2020 at 95.) Avery’s last manuscript, Climate and Collapse, will be published posthumously.
For many years he monitored developments in world food production, farm product demand, the safety and security of food supplies, and the sustainability of world agriculture. As a staff member of the President’s National Advisory Commission on Food and Fiber, he wrote the Commission’s landmark report, Food and Fiber for the Future. He traveled widely as a speaker, testified before Congress, appeared on many radio and television news programs, and was often quoted in publications like Time magazine, The Washington Post and The Farm Journal.
Dennis was a frequent speaker at climate change conferences hosted by The Heartland Institute (available on YouTube), contributed to the Climate Change Reconsidered series produced by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), and traveled to Katowice, Poland to join other scholars in presenting contrarian, real-world opinions on climate change at the United Nations 24th Conference of the Parties (COP-24) in December 2018.
Countless people read his informative and entertaining articles on energy, environmental and agricultural issues, and on climate changes throughout history, as warmer periods helped civilizations to flourish, while little ice ages and droughts caused many to disappear.
I was honored to edit and distribute some of his columns, and delighted to hoist occasional beers with him while we discussed these topics and the sad decline of civil, civilized discourse and debate over them in recent years. As Joe Bast observed, “In an age when angry exchanges between partisans get much more attention than scholarship and debate, Dennis maintained a dignified but not silent presence. He was a true gentleman and scholar, willing to calmly and patiently explain complex issues, even as others tried to shout down or cancel opposing views” – or even prosecute and jail anyone presenting those views.
My family and I spent a glorious day on his farm, feeding and enjoying the animals, savoring a delicious dinner prepared by his delightful wife and Center for Global Food Issues associate Anne, and chatting on into the night about multiple topics. His friends remember him as “inquisitive, articulate, energetic, humble and well informed” – as much as for his “ready smile and quick dry wit.” Dennis was admired and loved by his family and his many colleagues and friends around the United States and world. He revered history and conducted lengthy, painstaking research in search of the truth on every topic he addressed, even when truth was uncomfortable.
Dennis is survived by his wife Anne, sons Adam and Alex, daughter Amy, stepson Kevin, brother Lawrence, sister Carol, and five grandchildren. A celebration of his life will be held at a later date. Memorials may be given to Covenant Presbyterian Church (2001 North Coalter Street, Staunton, VA 24401) or a charity of choice in his name.
We will all miss him, but his amazing legacy will live on.