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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>March</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ disappointed, but we are not surprised ]</i><br>
<b>The U.S. has never produced more energy than it does today</b><br>
Oil, gas, and renewables are all growing.<br>
by KARIN KIRK<br>
MARCH 6, 2024<br>
U.S. energy production is going gangbusters.<br>
<br>
Despite persistent false claims that the Biden administration is
waging an “unprecedented assault” on American energy, the U.S. is
producing energy at a pace never seen before and from a broad mix of
sources and locations throughout the country. In fact, the data
illustrates that we’re experiencing an unprecedented renaissance of
American energy production and innovation.<br>
<br>
The chart below is interactive – hover over the lines to see the
details.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T01.02#/?f=M&start=200211&end=202310&charted=1-2-3-6-13">https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T01.02#/?f=M&start=200211&end=202310&charted=1-2-3-6-13</a><br>
This graph shows primary energy production data from the Energy
Information Administration. For fossil fuels, "primary energy
production" is the energy content in the coal, oil, or gas that’s
extracted. For nuclear and renewables, it’s the amount of
electricity generated. Note that this is not the same as energy
consumed; it’s simply the energy produced.<br>
<br>
The production of oil, methane gas (commonly called “natural” gas),
and renewables is growing. Nuclear power is holding fairly steady,
and the only source of energy that has declined significantly is
coal.<br>
<br>
The largest sources of energy production in the U.S. are oil and
gas. Extraction of these fuels began to surge around 2007 when the
development of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, gave rise to the
shale oil boom. Oil and gas production continues to set records,
even while U.S. consumption of oil is declining and methane gas
consumption is not increasing at anywhere near the rate of
production. The end result is that the U.S. is exporting more of
these fuels than ever.<br>
<br>
<b>Renewables count for more than they appear.</b><br>
Renewables may look small on the graph above, but the more accurate
interpretation is that fossil fuels appear much larger than the
useful energy they provide. Burning fossil fuels in power plants or
internal combustion engines is highly inefficient. The majority of
energy in every barrel of oil and rail car of coal ends up as wasted
heat. <br>
Renewables don’t need to transform heat into electricity, so they
avoid the energy losses that are inherent in burning fuels to create
electricity. The upshot is that every unit of wind, hydro, or solar
will replace double or triple that amount of fossil fuels.<br>
<br>
Energy savings are an added benefit of switching to renewables, as
is illustrated in the chart below. For more details, see the
accompanying story, The little-known, massive advantage that
renewables hold over coal.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/03/the-u-s-has-never-produced-more-energy-than-it-does-today/">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/03/the-u-s-has-never-produced-more-energy-than-it-does-today/</a><br>
<p>- -</p>
<p><i>[ Beckwith reads the research paper - presumably all fossil
fuel will be combusted ]</i><br>
<b>The Inexorable Rise of Fossil Fuel Production Despite Empty
Promises</b><br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Mar 7, 2024<br>
Despite promises to reduce fossil fuel production, the inexorable
rise continues.<br>
<br>
I chat about a so-called “Production Gap” UNEP (United Nations
Environmental Program) report that was published for the last COP
climate conference.<br>
<br>
“The Production Gap Report — first launched in 2019 — tracks the
discrepancy between governments’ planned fossil fuel production
and global production levels consistent with limiting warming to
1.5°C (there already) or 2°C (there in 15 years). (My comments in
brackets).”<br>
<br>
“The 2023 Production Gap Report: “Phasing down or phasing up? Top
fossil fuel producers plan even more extraction despite climate
promises” finds that governments plan to produce around 110%
more fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting
warming to 1.5°C, and 69% more than would be consistent with 2°C.<br>
<br>
“The Report provides newly expanded country profiles for 20 major
fossil-fuel-producing countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China,
Colombia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Mexico,
Nigeria, Norway, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia,
South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of
America. These profiles show that most of these governments
continue to provide significant policy and financial support for
fossil fuel production.<br>
<br>
“We cannot address climate catastrophe without tackling its root
cause: fossil fuel dependence. COP28 must send a clear signal that
the fossil fuel age is out of gas — that its end is inevitable. We
need credible commitments to ramp up renewables, phase out fossil
fuels, and boost energy efficiency, while ensuring a just,
equitable transition’’ said UN Secretary-General António
Guterres.”<br>
<br>
Report Summary:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.unep.org/resources/production-gap-report-2023">https://www.unep.org/resources/production-gap-report-2023</a><br>
<br>
Executive Summary: “The Production Gap — Phasing down or phasing
up? Top fossil fuel producers plan even more extraction despite
climate promises”: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://productiongap.org/">https://productiongap.org/</a><br>
<br>
Detailed Report PDF of 126 pages:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://productiongap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/PGR2023_web_rev.pdf">https://productiongap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/PGR2023_web_rev.pdf</a><br>
<br>
“Governments, in aggregate, still plan to produce more than double
the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with
limiting warming to 1.5°C. The persistence of the global
production gap puts a well-managed and equitable energy transition
at risk.”<br>
<br>
“Taken together, government plans and projections would lead to an
increase in global coal production until 2030, and in global oil
and gas production until at least 2050. This conflicts with
government commitments under the Paris Agreement, and clashes with
expectations that global demand for coal, oil, and gas will peak
within this decade even without new policies.”<br>
<br>
“Governments play a central role in setting the direction of
future fossil fuel production. State-owned entities control half
of global production for oil and gas and over half for coal.
Governments’ existing targets, policies, and support for fossil
fuel production help to influence, legitimize, and enable
continued investments in domestic and international fossil fuel
projects, which are undermining the transition to renewable energy
and global climate mitigation efforts.<br>
At the same time, many fossil fuel projects planned and under
development are now at risk of becoming stranded assets as the
world decarbonizes and global demand for coal, oil, and gas are
expected to peak and decline within this decade, even without
additional policies.”<br>
<br>
“Given risks and uncertainties of CCS and CDR, countries should
aim for a near total phase-out of coal production and use by 2040
and a combined reduction in oil and gas production and use by
three-quarters by 2050 from 2020 levels, at a minimum. The
potential failure of these measures to become sufficiently viable
at scale, the non-climatic near-term harms of fossil fuels, and
other lines of evidence, call for an even more rapid global
phase-out of all fossil fuels.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF4sUtYERZc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF4sUtYERZc</a></p>
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</p>
<br>
<i>[ Hostile persuasion in local governments - Peter Sinclair
reports - 11 min video]</i><br>
<b>Farmers Getting Threats, Intimidation and Abuse for Siting Clean
Energy</b><br>
greenmanbucket<br>
Mar 8, 2024<br>
<blockquote>... the crazy thing was if you went around the county it
was the same dozen<br>
or two dozen people that would go to every single Township board
meeting and<br>
try and intimidate it didn't matter if they lived in the township
or not and<br>
you saw the same people going to all these meetings all the time
same people<br>
it was predictable they're yelling and and saying horrible things
to people and<br>
how horrible our Township officials are there'd be probably 40 50
people there.<br>
A lot of them from different townships different counties at first
there was<br>
like six or eight people from the township that were truly
anti-wind to the point of being<br>
it controlled their life I mean this is all they think about these<br>
<br>
um either National groups or state level groups that come in and
help these<br>
Advocates organize and they have a template and all the signs look
the same<br>
all the signs that they put up on the roadside and all the
websites look the<br>
same and they're the same stock photos of a wind turbine on fire
that have been<br>
used hundreds and hundreds of times over they're the same debunked
theories and<br>
debunked studies from years ago if you look at the things that are
being<br>
presented on our community<br>
<br>
you'll see those same exact tactics whether it's in Ohio or
Indiana or wherever you're<br>
talking about same exact information being shared Facebook to
Facebook same<br>
stuff being shared at township meetings<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_O28q1URH8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_O28q1URH8</a><br>
<p><br>
</p>
<br>
<i>[ a wise explanation of the energy economy and AI - We are
playing a Zero Sum Great Game - a 2006 analysis still applies ]</i><br>
<b>"Peak Oil, AI, and the Straw" | Frankly 56</b><br>
Nate Hagens<br>
Mar 8, 2024<br>
<br>
In this Frankly, Nate shares his perspective on the new all-time
high in oil production in the context of AI’s growing influence in
the financial markets and technology space. While ‘all liquids’ just
hit an all time high, the varying categories of what is considered
oil obfuscates a long plateau that is starting to decline. However,
given AI’s expanding reach, it may not only invent ways of getting a
higher percentage of Original Oil In Place to our economies, but
also increase demand for energy worldwide. In similar fashion to
shale fracking, MMT, and debt, AI will increasingly widen the
resource extraction/ecosystem damage “straw”. Artificial
intelligence is potentially a wonderful tool, but it is lower down
the hierarchy than money/power maximization and thus will
accelerate, not diminish climate change and other environmental
damages. Can we resist the cleverness of AI and its ability to drain
sources to the very last drop to instead navigate the road to the
Great Simplification with wisdom? <br>
<br>
For Show Notes and More:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/56-peak-oil-ai-and-the-straw">https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/56-peak-oil-ai-and-the-straw</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxqxq4sUfh8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxqxq4sUfh8</a><br>
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<p><br>
</p>
<i>[ Johns Hopkins University - The Bologna Institute for Policy
Research (BIPR) is the research division ] </i><br>
<b>The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War</b><br>
JHU BIPR<br>
Feb 19, 2024<br>
Neta C. Crawford, Montague Burton Chair in International Relations,
Oxford University<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dxanSOZQN4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dxanSOZQN4</a><br>
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<i>[ Yes global warming will affect airline travel - this is an
early and rare mention of a difficult landing ]</i><br>
<b>We Must Land NOW!! The Incredible Story of Singapore Airlines
Flight 319</b><br>
Mentour Pilot<br>
Nov 11, 2023<br>
I have no doubt that at some point you have all been sitting in the
departure lounge looking out at terrible weather and wishing that it
to go away before it’s your turn to take to the skys. Flying in bad
weather is never fun but when it passes, can make our flight so much
more enjoyable However, what do you do when that weather you’re
flying through is actually chasing your aircraft, wherever you go
and refuses to let you land!? Let’s find out...<br>
- -<br>
The final report came to the conclusion that the incident happened
due to poor weather and the pilot's preference to land at their
destination airport<br>
rather than diverting earlier. Interestingly enough, this is the
first report I have ever read that gives direct reference<br>
to the impact of climate change and the more intense storms it's
giving rise to which is also impacting the pilot's decision-making.<br>
Singapore Airlines included this incident in their pilot-training
programs in several ways and that, together with better briefing
material<br>
and more emphasis on fuel planning was enough for the investigators
to not issue any further recommendations<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXG4qoI4TA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXG4qoI4TA</a><br>
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<i>[ needing radical transformation ]</i><br>
<b>Why We Need a World Without Cars</b><br>
Our Changing Climate<br>
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at
the future of transportation. Specifically, I uncover why we need a
world without cars. Instead, we need a future of dense
interconnected public transit that is anti-racist, anti-ableist, and
anti-capitalist. A transportation system that prioritizes people
through pedestrian, bike, and public transit-centered design.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpo1iiuSumM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpo1iiuSumM</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> <b>March 9, 2017: In an appearance
on CNBC, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt denies human-caused
climate change. </b><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/epa-chief-scott-pruitt.html">http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/epa-chief-scott-pruitt.html</a> <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thinkprogress.org/epa-head-falsely-claims-carbon-emissions-arent-the-cause-of-global-warming-262bd9b0937e#.oaigkdwq0">https://thinkprogress.org/epa-head-falsely-claims-carbon-emissions-arent-the-cause-of-global-warming-262bd9b0937e#.oaigkdwq0</a>
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