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This is an excellent and eye opening summation that deserves more traction. Sharing.

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Brilliant and many thanks ! New paper on climate emergency hoax -

''If in fact ‘the science is settled’, it seems to be much more settled in the fact that there is no particular correlation between CO 2 level and the earth’s temperature.''

https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jsd/article/view/0/47745

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This is the only argument required - "2.3 There is no “Climate Emergency”. Much like the fact that for the majority of people there is no risk from COVID so there is simply no need for them to even consider the "vaccine", there is no need for anyone to consider anything else about net zero if there is no anthropogenic impact on climate?

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Wow. I have to wonder whether a disclaimer as to your financing is needed (please take that as a compliment btw)

It is also a reflection on the IEE, an Institution that should have led the takedown of Net Zero, but didn't.

A minor contribution I can make is to highlight the timescales to be considered. IF, by some magical process, nuclear fusion became viable today, as one way out of the quandry, then, say five years for a pilot plant, ten years for the first at scale, thirty years to make a difference, with money and resources we do not have, and a political will that is AWOL.

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Excellent piece John.

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May 12, 2023·edited May 12, 2023

I sometimes think there is massive potential in installing rows of solar panels along and over motorways, by the hard shoulders, along the central reservation, or even roofing over the entire motorway with reinforced netting or a system of struts and using the entire surface for solar panels. The area covered would be huge, literally hundreds of square miles for the latter panel roof system I would have thought. Also, this setup would be fairly secure, easy to upgrade, and presumably not that hard to connect to the grid. Like any solution though, it obviously wouldn't be cheap!

It would be more practical if the motorway roof solar "panels" could actually be made of flexible material such as a thin layer embedded in something like clear nylon strips, so those over a motorway could be rolled up, or reefed in some way like sails, in the event of high winds or snow etc.

On my blog I mention another idea, FWIW, or supposition more like, that in a hundred years ICE vehicles will still be going strong and using hydrocarbons produced ab initio from solar power collected by huge tankers at sea, surrounded by vast floating mats of solar panels: https://highranges.com/

(Another article there shows images of what William the Conqueror and his immediate successors very likely looked like, although that is off-topic here!)

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"non-thermal renewables"? what on this planet is that? is "thermal renewables" the same as gas engines? or heat from inside the earth?

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Apr 29, 2023·edited Apr 29, 2023

Hi John, I want to ask, do you think that we have an infinite source of hydrocarbons to use for fuel?

If not how soon should we prepare for them to run out?

However, If you think we won't run out of coal and gas and oil, is there any data to back up this position?

PS, I agree there is no global warming or climate emergency.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

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