GM announced that it has issued a recall on every single Chevy Bolt made to date due to the battery fire risk. The move comes after two previous recalls, which were aimed at specific models.
Green-Scam
Eco-hypocrisy is out of control
The eco-obsessed elite regularly embarrasses itself. In the past couple of weeks, we have been served up three separate helpings of green hypocrisy from celebrities and politicians.
We all know what Prince Harry thinks about the environment. He is a prominent campaigner for so-called climate justice. According to him, climate change is one of the ‘most pressing issues we are facing’.
Challenging UN, Study Finds Sun—not CO2—May Be Behind Global Warming
The sun and not human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) may be the main cause of warmer temperatures in recent decades, according to a new study with findings that sharply contradict the conclusions of the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The peer-reviewed paper, produced by a team of almost two dozen scientists from around the world, concluded that previous studies did not adequately consider the role of solar energy in explaining increased temperatures.
Can Americans pull the plug on petrol-powered cars?
US President Joe Biden wants Americans to switch to electric vehicles. Carmakers are on board – but are consumers willing to pull the plug on petrol?
Tom Beckett, a former truck and bus driver, says he’s driven at least two million miles in his lifetime, and he is all for burning less gasoline to protect the environment.
But like many Americans, he is “just not ready” to buy a low-emission electric car because of so-called range anxiety – the fear he won’t be able to go far enough on a single charge.
China cranks up carbon-intensive projects as climate crisis grows, research shows
SHANGHAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) – China announced scores of new carbon-intensive coal and steel projects in the first half of 2021, research showed on Friday just days after a key U.N. report urged immediate global action to curb use of fossil fuels and prevent runaway climate change.
The push comes as climate experts exhort governments around the world to take drastic action amid increasingly widespread extreme weather events, like deadly wildfires, drought and even central China’s highest rainfall in 1,000 years – events that experts say are directly linked to human impact on the environment via carbon emissions.
The big looming problem with old EVs: It’s really, really hard to change the battery
Even on a vehicle with only 150,000 km, battery replacement can be more expensive than the car’s value.
Progressives’ ‘Green Energy’ Boondoggle Based on Fantasy and Greed
Last Thursday Joe Biden posed for a photo op with representatives from automobile manufacturers. They gathered there to mark the Biden administration’s plan to raise the miles-per-gallon standard that gasoline powered vehicles must achieve––52 MPG by 2026. The compensation for automakers will comprise more regulatory credits for carmakers and subsidies for electric vehicle (EV) consumers, which will lead to higher prices for trucks and SUVs to offset their losses on EVs. This means consumers of those popular vehicles will be subsidizing EV drivers. And more taxpayer money will go to increasing available electricity, providing more and faster charging stations, and improving battery capacity.
Biden and Trudeau are Putin and Xi’s useful energy idiots
The Biden and Trudeau administrations should pause to reflect carefully on just how much rope Vladimir Putin and Chairman Xi have already sold them
By viewing the world chiefly through the dual lenses of carbon and climate, the Biden and Trudeau governments are missing the key foundations of global energy strategy: security and economic viability. Be assured, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping are not.
Shell-shocked: Could a Dutch court’s ruling on Shell’s emissions encourage similar cases in Canada?
If there’s any doubt about the extent to which societal and legal expectations regarding climate change are evolving, a Netherlands court’s ruling ordering Royal Dutch Shell Plc. to reduce the CO2 emissions of its 1,100 companies by 45 per cent as of 2030 from 2019 level should put the naysayers to rest.
“What you’ve got is a court interfering in the internal operations of a very big corporate target on the basis that the dangers of climate change outweigh the company’s commercial interests,” said Caroline Jageman, an energy and commercial lawyer at Jageman Law in Toronto.
In a New York minute.
John Kerry Family Jet Has Emitted 30 Times More Carbon In 2021 Than Average Vehicle Does In Year: Report
When is a climate czar not a climate czar? When it’s John Kerry.
The former Secretary of State and Democratic senator from Massachusetts was tapped to handle climate issues by President Joe Biden. But a new report says he might be doing more harm than good.
Climate racism isn’t real
Toxic air is colorblind
How many headlines have you seen about climate and environmental racism? So many you think of it as a real problem?
Now, how many articles have you actually read about climate racism? If you’ve read one, just one, then you already know it doesn’t exist. Once you get past the fear-mongering click bait and the SEO-friendly headlines, almost all reportage of climate racism dances around the real issue: wealth inequality.
Apocalypse porn
The green movement is a doomsday cult. Progressives should have nothing to do with it.
There’s a new trend online. Forget blacking out your Instagram page to show how much you care for black lives. Never mind bigging up your pronouns. That’s so last month. Right now it’s all about apocalypse porn. Across social media, the caring set are sharing images of the ‘hellfires’ in Greece and the aftermath of the floods in Europe and the wildfire currently raging in Northern California, all with the same message: this is climate change. This is the world our greedy, destructive species has created. This is the hell that awaits us all if we don’t stop taking cheap flights to Malaga and drinking from plastic straws. ‘Welcome to global warming!’, as one observer of the Greek fires quipped.
Rex Murphy: IPCC’s ridiculous code red for humanity is a declaration of defeat
The IPCC has gone code red for humanity. They have hit their loudest alarm bells. Wow. Grab your masks, and head for the exits. This is scary stuff. What dire happening could justify the IPCC reaching for the greatest alarm? There are only two possibilities.
Communist China’s Media avoids mentioning that China is by far the world’s biggest polluter in its coverage of ‘code red for humanity’ UN environment report
Chinese state media made no mention of the country’s huge carbon emissions or pledge to reach net-neutral a decade later than most of the world as the UN released its ‘code red’ climate report on Monday.
Outlets loyal to Beijing did cover the report, its warnings, and urged the need for ‘global action’ – but did not point out that China is by far the world’s largest carbon emitter and doesn’t intend to reduce its output at all until later this decade.
Also conspicuously absent from most Chinese reporting was mention of the 2050 net neutral emissions target that a vast majority of countries are committed to – perhaps to avoid comparison with Beijing’s target to be net neutral by 2060.
Meanwhile the Trudeau Liberals will make Canadian lives miserable with his vanity carbon tax, all so he can join the circle jerk with his globalist friends.
What the IPCC climate report doesn’t tell you
Humans have never been more safe from the impact of extreme weather than they are today.
Today, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first tranche of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). This report, focusing on the ‘physical science basis’ of climate change, will be followed by other reports on ‘adaptation and vulnerability’ and climate-change mitigation early next year. Meanwhile, the publication today has ignited predictably excited commentary from politicians, activists and environmental journalists, who all hope that AR6 will refocus world leaders’ attention on the upcoming COP26 climate meeting later this year.