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Global warming on hold - Old Man Winter to unleash 1-2 punch of snow, Arctic cold in northeastern US

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A PG&E spokesperson clarifies California's commitment to renewable energy

Report: It’s not climate change to blame for California’s fires and blackouts. It’s Democrats

From a report at the link below:

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his political allies claim climate change is driving California’s increasingly intense and deadly wildfires.

That’s nearly true. Climate change assumptions drive the state’s energy and environmental policies. This has resulted in people being killed in terrible wildfires, electrical blackouts to millions of people causing $5 billion so far in lost economic activity, all while diverting limited resources to a fool’s errand.

For instance, California’s large and heavily regulated public utilities—PG&E, SDG&E, and SCE—prioritize wind and solar power, leaving little for powerline maintenance and upgrades. Simply put, the utilities are doing exactly what the regulators tell them to do. They make money for their investors on wind and solar; they don’t on powerline maintenance.

Examining California’s determined push to decarbonize its economy shows a policy unsupported by logic, and shaky on fact.

Full report here.

Bitter cold and snow in Denver

Don’t leave your dog outside in the snow .

Report: Bankrupt PG&E says it may have sparked latest Northern California fire

California electricity provider Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said on Monday that its equipment may have sparked two fires in the San Francisco Bay area over the weekend.

The fires destroyed a tennis club and forced the evacuation of Lafayette, a town about 22 miles east of San Francisco. According to PG&E, which filed for bankruptcy in January, firefighters believe one fire started after contact between a communication line and a power line belonging to the company.

A PG&E worker found a fallen telephone pole and transformer at the scene of the second fire, and the company is looking into the possibility that the transformer ignited the blaze.

PG&E equipment has been blamed for five of the ten most destructive fires in California since 2015. This includes the Camp Fire of November 2018, which destroyed the town of Paradise and killed 85 people, the deadliest wildfire in California history.

Meanwhile, PG&E said on Thursday that a transmission tower in Sonoma County in northern California malfunctioned minutes before a fire broke out in the area that has led to the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people.

Full report here.

Nights in California are dark except where fires rage

California Fire Drill .

California turns the power off shutting down electric cars

Climate flashback: In 1978 Mr. Spock warned us another Ice Age would be here by now.

Below is a a one minute Ice Age Scare video narrated by Leonard Nimoy in 1979 when ‘global cooling’ fit the liberal scientific narrative.

Nimoy, who was Star Trek’s Mr. Spock, was hired by climate alamists to do the video 69 years ago.

They have long since stopped trying to scare us with global cooling. Now it’s non-stop global warming.

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Report: 500 Scientists write to U.N.: ‘There is NO climate emergency’

More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a “European Climate Declaration” to the Secretary-General of the United Nations asking for a long-overdue, high-level, open debate on climate change.

The scientists underscored the importance of not rushing into enormously expensive climate action before fully ascertaining the facts.

It has not been that long since the ‘coming ice age’ scare that was politically rather then scientifically driven and was proven to be blatantly false.

Of course we need to protect the planet but must we panic when politicians and pseudo scientists fly around in carbon belching jets telling us to stop using plastic straws and cut down on toilet paper or the world will end in 12 years?

How long before left-wing politicians demand that Detroit build cars that run on carrot juice?

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Electric-Car owners shocked by California blackouts

From a report at the link below:

Everybody knows that electric cars are going to save the planet from climate change ... or something. Unlike regular cars, which run on gasoline and make all the polar bears cry as they sink into the sea, electric cars are powered by... um... magic? Mjölnir, the hammer of Thor? That must be how it works, or else owning an electric car would impose some sort of cost to the environment. And that can't be, or those guys wouldn't be so insufferably smug.

You know those intentional blackouts they're having in California to reduce the risk of wildfires? Well, guess what happens now?

Weeks can be a long wait if you’re looking at a Model 3 in your garage with a drained battery, no electrical power to charge it, and the closest grocery store with power is 80 miles away.

After the power has been out for a few days you look in your refrigerator and pick out some food that is the least spoiled and wonder why you emptied a savings account for that Tesla pitched to you by a smooth talking guy wearing a polka dot bow tie.

As you look around the neighborhood watching the gas powered cars go by you wonder how many polkadot bow ties that Tesla salesman can buy with the commission he made on your electric car purchase.

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