I enjoy a good fact and providing transparency as much as anyone else. However, after watching a trade association campaign designed to educate a wider audience about the gas industry, I find myself agreeing with this lady. She is a former trade association lead who's tried it all in terms of attempting to inject rational discussion into this increasingly war like debate over our energy future. And throwing verbal rocks at each other simply isn't doing any good in terms of forging consensus or some sort of common ground into the argument. So, is the messaging really that oil and gas will be "clean(?), abundant, and affordable" into the far distant future, and the past couple years of massive heat waves are transient, so quit pressuring the industry to reduce emissions and clean up after ourselves? Or, what? https://energythinks.substack.com/p/the-moment-the-offense-myth If the Net Zero campaign were to stop advertising itself tomorrow, what would our next move be?
Ask the WEF. The pandemic faded and that control button became less useful, but at about the same time, its members started yanking on the climate change lever. The media made this transition laughably simple to spot. When they develop another tool for soft management of the great unwashed, you'll have your answer.
Well done Irina! The (in Seine) Games' organisers would have achieved a far greater reduction in carbon dioxide emissions if they'd allowed meat eating, air conditioners and so on, but instead insisted on athletes, officials and spectators, walking, cycling, or sailing there - great for fitness too :)
"Doubled in size", the mantra of every government in the Western world and their associated international cheerleading squads. How about did more work with less staff? The way the rest of the world who bankrolls these clowns has to work right now.
Interesting article. I think 2018 is about when I noticed the shift in Birol's presentations:
"In 2018, Birol pivoted after the release of a special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which made it clear that the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C was in danger. ...
“I had a meeting with my colleagues and I told them we needed to come up with a road map for how to transform the energy sector to be in line with 1.5C,” Birol says."
So he's trying to transform the energy sector to be in line with 1.5C, but at the same time, claims:
"Birol and his staff reject any notion that the agency is anything other than a neutral observer of the data. “I think to say the IEA is political has a political motivation behind it because we are number driven,” says Birol. "
How is pushing the energy sector to a goal not a political motivation? He seems to have drunk the Kool Aid in 2018.
Your description Irina is but a snapshot of what living conditions will be like as we enter the period of “The Great Simplification” as we approach the post carbon pulse (that’s the end of economical flammable fossils) and a globally heating world. For those that are mentally prepared, physically organised, living in a geologically selected sustainable food forest community it will be hard but survivable, but a new way of life. For many others they’ll have to face the horrors of civilisational collapse coupled with extreme unpredictable weather, unbearable temperatures and ecological systems breakdown. For a not so faraway story from what I’ve briefly described read Kurt Dahl’s “ An American Famine — A Rosetta Stone for the coming collapse” taking a quote from it “Hell is the truth seen too late” - Thomas Hobbes😱🤔
“ By the same token, a recent Wall Street Journal report attributed the fact that Californians pay the highest electricity prices in the country besides Hawaii to climate change. It’s not the mad dash to build as much solar as there’s space available. It’s not the equally mad dash to turn all Californians into EV drivers. No. It’s climate change:”. Irina, I live deep in the heart of Southern Taxifornia and I also work in the Renewables Market. It’s interesting that all along until now and maybe still Renewables was pushed as cheap green power. The truth is that as more Renewables are added to the grid, think 100s of MWs of Wind, Solar and BESS most all located hundreds of miles from the load centers my residential power prices increase and increase. It’s even more interesting that local roof based solar is discouraged by acts of politicians. Roof top solar installed on all Taxifornia roof tops with battery back up would lead to more jobs, more tax revenue and a more stable grid and cheaper local residential power prices. But local roof tops can’t pay off the politicians like those that build the large remote located sites. If the politicians made it with credits so attractive to have roof top solar it would unleash an amazingly good build out and produce much more benefit than those remote larger facilities. But that would make too much sense and our woke left politicians are not driven by common sense.
How many Woke categories can we outline in one short paragraph Phred?
From the linked WSJ piece:
"In affluent Marin County just north of San Francisco, Ron Werthmann, a wine marketer, said soaring gas and electric bills at his 1,875-square-foot home “scared” him and his husband into installing solar and batteries recently, despite the steep outlay—more than $50,000—and cut in rooftop incentives. Last year, the couple paid more than $6,700 for utilities, more than double the $3,200 they paid in 2019."
I used to read the WSJ for its excellence in journalism, and require students read it for the same reasons. NO MORE! This newspaper has become another USA Today copycat at best, a whoring propagandist rag at worse.
These propagandists are shameless, but your efforts to spread the news of their deceitful tactics are much in need. The average person needs to know these things.
"With the extra money, the IEA has more than doubled in size. “When I took over, we were slightly more than 200 people. Now, with the same core budget, we are more than 420 people,” says Birol.”
What was it that silly conspiracy theorists like to say? Oh, right. Follow the money."
Fatih, the grift that keeps on grifting. Great column, thanks!
Have you ever seen a poor organised religion?
Thank you for exposing the corruption. Net zero is a get rich scheme for its promoters.
The admit it openly and see nothing wrong with it.
The is a fantastic panel discussion with Neil Atkinson (former IEA) about the IEA climate change spin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvClb1vk74&list=LL&index=15&t=13599s timestamp(1:28:18)
Irina, I'm sure your readers will agree that this is a 2-Gold Medal post! THANKS 🤘😎🤘
Thank you, Karloff. Fun was had writing it. :)
Bravo 👏👏🥇
The world is awash with folks who'd rather be deceived than admit they've been deceived.
that is so true
Indeed. Admitting to being wrong is scarier than everything else.
I enjoy a good fact and providing transparency as much as anyone else. However, after watching a trade association campaign designed to educate a wider audience about the gas industry, I find myself agreeing with this lady. She is a former trade association lead who's tried it all in terms of attempting to inject rational discussion into this increasingly war like debate over our energy future. And throwing verbal rocks at each other simply isn't doing any good in terms of forging consensus or some sort of common ground into the argument. So, is the messaging really that oil and gas will be "clean(?), abundant, and affordable" into the far distant future, and the past couple years of massive heat waves are transient, so quit pressuring the industry to reduce emissions and clean up after ourselves? Or, what? https://energythinks.substack.com/p/the-moment-the-offense-myth If the Net Zero campaign were to stop advertising itself tomorrow, what would our next move be?
Ask the WEF. The pandemic faded and that control button became less useful, but at about the same time, its members started yanking on the climate change lever. The media made this transition laughably simple to spot. When they develop another tool for soft management of the great unwashed, you'll have your answer.
Very interesting perspective, thank you.
Acerbic wit combined with energy knowledge is what I rely on you for. Thanks again for putting the pieces together for me!
My pleasure!
Well done Irina! The (in Seine) Games' organisers would have achieved a far greater reduction in carbon dioxide emissions if they'd allowed meat eating, air conditioners and so on, but instead insisted on athletes, officials and spectators, walking, cycling, or sailing there - great for fitness too :)
"Doubled in size", the mantra of every government in the Western world and their associated international cheerleading squads. How about did more work with less staff? The way the rest of the world who bankrolls these clowns has to work right now.
Interesting article. I think 2018 is about when I noticed the shift in Birol's presentations:
"In 2018, Birol pivoted after the release of a special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which made it clear that the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C was in danger. ...
“I had a meeting with my colleagues and I told them we needed to come up with a road map for how to transform the energy sector to be in line with 1.5C,” Birol says."
So he's trying to transform the energy sector to be in line with 1.5C, but at the same time, claims:
"Birol and his staff reject any notion that the agency is anything other than a neutral observer of the data. “I think to say the IEA is political has a political motivation behind it because we are number driven,” says Birol. "
How is pushing the energy sector to a goal not a political motivation? He seems to have drunk the Kool Aid in 2018.
His audacity in talking about numbers is truly amazing.
Your description Irina is but a snapshot of what living conditions will be like as we enter the period of “The Great Simplification” as we approach the post carbon pulse (that’s the end of economical flammable fossils) and a globally heating world. For those that are mentally prepared, physically organised, living in a geologically selected sustainable food forest community it will be hard but survivable, but a new way of life. For many others they’ll have to face the horrors of civilisational collapse coupled with extreme unpredictable weather, unbearable temperatures and ecological systems breakdown. For a not so faraway story from what I’ve briefly described read Kurt Dahl’s “ An American Famine — A Rosetta Stone for the coming collapse” taking a quote from it “Hell is the truth seen too late” - Thomas Hobbes😱🤔
“ By the same token, a recent Wall Street Journal report attributed the fact that Californians pay the highest electricity prices in the country besides Hawaii to climate change. It’s not the mad dash to build as much solar as there’s space available. It’s not the equally mad dash to turn all Californians into EV drivers. No. It’s climate change:”. Irina, I live deep in the heart of Southern Taxifornia and I also work in the Renewables Market. It’s interesting that all along until now and maybe still Renewables was pushed as cheap green power. The truth is that as more Renewables are added to the grid, think 100s of MWs of Wind, Solar and BESS most all located hundreds of miles from the load centers my residential power prices increase and increase. It’s even more interesting that local roof based solar is discouraged by acts of politicians. Roof top solar installed on all Taxifornia roof tops with battery back up would lead to more jobs, more tax revenue and a more stable grid and cheaper local residential power prices. But local roof tops can’t pay off the politicians like those that build the large remote located sites. If the politicians made it with credits so attractive to have roof top solar it would unleash an amazingly good build out and produce much more benefit than those remote larger facilities. But that would make too much sense and our woke left politicians are not driven by common sense.
OMG!
How many Woke categories can we outline in one short paragraph Phred?
From the linked WSJ piece:
"In affluent Marin County just north of San Francisco, Ron Werthmann, a wine marketer, said soaring gas and electric bills at his 1,875-square-foot home “scared” him and his husband into installing solar and batteries recently, despite the steep outlay—more than $50,000—and cut in rooftop incentives. Last year, the couple paid more than $6,700 for utilities, more than double the $3,200 they paid in 2019."
I used to read the WSJ for its excellence in journalism, and require students read it for the same reasons. NO MORE! This newspaper has become another USA Today copycat at best, a whoring propagandist rag at worse.
Yes, the Werthmann story is heartbreaking, indeed, for more than one reason.
Excellent job, Ms. Slav, keep up the good work.
These propagandists are shameless, but your efforts to spread the news of their deceitful tactics are much in need. The average person needs to know these things.
"With the extra money, the IEA has more than doubled in size. “When I took over, we were slightly more than 200 people. Now, with the same core budget, we are more than 420 people,” says Birol.”
What was it that silly conspiracy theorists like to say? Oh, right. Follow the money."
Excellent!
Oh Fatih, how I have missed ye