It's Climate Change I tell'ya!! IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE!!

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Skyrocketing propane prices could mean trouble for some Canadians this winter

CANMORE, ALTA. -- Although plenty of attention has been given to the rising price of gasoline and natural gas, Canadian propane prices are also skyrocketing – a surge analysts say will have a big impact on rural Canadians this winter.

Propane, produced as a by-product of natural gas, has seen a dramatic price increase over the last three months, with prices in Edmonton, for example, soaring to US$1.40 per gallon from roughly US$0.25 per gallon, according to ATB Capital Markets.

With energy prices continuing to rise, consumers all over Canada will likely face higher heating costs this winter. While natural gas is the primary energy source for more than half of Canadian homes, nearly 1.4 million households rely on heating oil or other fuels, including propane, to heat their homes, especially those in rural areas.

“Propane is the main one for rural and off grid communities,” said Johnston. “It’s going to be much more expensive to fill those propane tanks this winter – and it’s not even cold yet.”
NG and Propane have sky rocketed the last 2 years using the drying crop propane shortage last year , winter before last it was $0.75/gallon or $750.00 to fill a 1000 gallon tank last year was $1200.00, this year was $1400.00 to fill the same tank
 
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GOLDSTEIN: Higher cost of living the goal of climate change policies
Author of the article:Lorrie Goldstein
Publishing date:Oct 23, 2021 • 8 hours ago • 3 minute read • 26 Comments
Steam and exhaust rise from different companies on a cold winter day on January 6, 2017 in Oberhausen, Germany.
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When the United Nations’ 26th giant, carbon-dioxide spewing conference on climate change begins next Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland, let’s be clear about its message.

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It will be that to save the planet from catastrophic warming, you will have to pay much more for driving your car, heating your home, buying your food and living your life than you already are.


That means the 4.4% hike in our cost of living in September compared to a year ago — the highest inflation rate in 18 years — and the fact we’re now paying 32.8% more for gasoline, 9.1% more for transportation, 4.8% more for housing and 3.9% for food — is just the beginning.

It’s chump change compared to what’s coming.

Increasing the cost of living so that we spend less money buying fewer goods and services created by fossil fuel energy is the goal of climate change policies.

It’s the reason, to cite one of many examples, for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s looming clean fuel standard, in effect a second carbon tax.

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Environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, author of Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All , described what is happening perfectly in a tweet this week, explaining how global climate change policies fuelled by climate hysteria have contributed to today’s fossil fuel energy shortage and high prices:

“Greta Thunberg said ‘I want you to panic’ and nations did. They over-invested in unreliable, weather-dependent energy sources & under-invested in reliable energy. Now, global energy shortages are forcing the poor to choose between food & electricity.”


The same national leaders attending the UN conference in Glasgow along with 20,000 hangers on — so much for their warnings about unnecessary travel in a pandemic — will denounce fossil fuel energy while scrambling to obtain it in the face of the global energy crunch.

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That’s because fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — do what wind and solar energy can’t — provide base load power to the electricity grid on demand.

As Shcllenberger explains:

“Overdependence on unreliable energies isn’t the only reason for energy shortages. Post-pandemic economic recovery resulted in higher energy demand. And too little natural gas stored on-site after a colder-than-expected winter played a role.

“But the heavy investment in unreliable renewables made energy supplies more vulnerable to a single commodity’s volatility. Today’s grids mean that high gas prices cause energy price spikes and a return to the dirtiest forms of electricity production, including diesel and coal.”


Ironically, Shellenberger notes, the reckless rush into wind and solar power because of climate alarmism is now increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

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“The return to coal was most dramatic in Germany. Electricity from wind was 20% lower in Germany in the first half of 2021 than the first half of 2020, resulting in a 24% higher use of fossil fuels and 28% greater emissions from electricity.

“Lack of wind in Britain led its grid operator to ask French electricity giant, Électricité de France, to restart a coal plant in Nottinghamshire … California requested permission from the federal government to violate air pollution regulations so diesel plants can operate.

“Germany, Sweden, the US and other nations replaced their nuclear plants with fossil fuels, contributing to global energy supply shortages.”

Absurdly, the message coming out of the UN climate summit will be that today’s high prices for fossil fuel energy prove we must convert to renewable energy faster, as opposed to the reality of the economic and environmental damage being caused by climate hysteria.

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WTF?

“The Length of the Height of the Recession of Water Is Longer than the Height of the Statute of Liberty” – Kamala Harris Makes Bizarre Claims About Climate Change
By Joe Hoft
Published October 25, 2021 at 6:57pm
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Last week I was at Lake Mead, in Nevada. I’m sure all of you know it, but to see it. I stood there with those incredible folks who work in that area and there’s a bathtub ring which is so clearly marked. It’s not even gradual. It’s not like there’s a slow fade. It’s so clearly marked, the distinction between where the water always was and where it is now.

And the significance of that, of the contrast, just in the color is how quickly, this all changed so drastically. And they describe the length, of the height of the recession of water, it, it’s, is longer than the height of the Statute of Liberty. And this is just in the last 20 years.
And there you have it. Kamala Harris claims Lake Mead has lost water and the obvious answer she is trying to sell is climate change.

She fibbed on much but especially on her reference to the “last 20 years”. From 2011 to 2021 the population of just the metropolitan area of Las Vegas has grown by 40%, from 1,973,000 to 2,772,000, hence so much water consumption. Nevada also exports water and electrical power to other states, incl. California, Arizona, and some of Mexico.

This is insanity. Welcome to the communists’ next crisis.

 
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I think I just twigged on to the whole covid thing. Someone help me out here with the terminology cause I can't get the right name in my head. The covid thing was to cause a shutdown of the economy(which it did) in order to cause rampant inflation (which is now happening)so all the billions of borrowed money is paid off with inflated dollars. Pappa turdOWE tried this and caused the depression in the early 80s.
 

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WAKE-UP CALL: UN warns world set for 2.7C rise on today's emissions pledges
Author of the article:Reuters
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Publishing date:Oct 26, 2021 • 17 hours ago • 3 minute read • Join the conversation
A coal-burning power plant can be seen in the city of Baotou, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Oct. 31, 2010.
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LONDON — Current commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track for an average 2.7 degrees Celsius temperature rise this century, a United Nations report said on Tuesday, in another stark warning ahead of crunch climate talks.

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Governments will be in the spotlight at the COP26 conference next week to meet a deadline of this year to commit to more ambitious cut pledges, in what could be the last chance to put the world on track to limiting warming to below 2C above pre-industrial levels and ideally to 1.5C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).


As extreme weather events from wildfires to floods have hit countries around the world, a U.N. report in August warned that global warming due to greenhouse gas emissions could breach 1.5C in the next two decades.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday it was “touch and go” whether the most important round of U.N. talks since the Paris Agreement in 2015 will secure the agreements needed to tackle climate change.

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And the U.N. World Meteorological Organization said ahead of the two-week event that begins in Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday that greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is “way off track” in capping rising temperatures.

The annual “emissions gap” report by the United Nations’ Environment Programme (UNEP), which measures the gap between anticipated emissions and those consistent with limiting the temperature rise this century as agreed in the Paris accord, said updated pledges only reduce forecast 2030 emissions by an additional 7.5%, compared to the previous commitments.


If continued throughout this century, this would lead to warming of 2.7C, slightly less than the 3C UNEP forecast in its last report. A 30% cut is needed to limit warming to 2C and a 55% cut is needed to limit to 1.5C.

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It said current commitments to net zero could limit warming to around 2.2C by the end of the century, but 2030 pledges so far do not put major emitters on a clear path to this.

As a group, G20 countries, which represent 80% of global emissions, are not on track to achieve their original or new 2030 pledges.

“If there is no meaningful reduction of emissions in the next decade, we will have lost forever the possibility to reach 1.5 degrees,” U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres told a press briefing.

“It is absolutely essential that all G20 countries present before Glasgow or in Glasgow (pledges) that are compatible with 1.5C,” he added.


Latest U.N. data shows 143 countries, accounting for around 57% of global emissions, have submitted new or updated emissions cut plans ahead of COP26 and their total emissions are estimated to be around 9% of 2010 levels by 2030 if implemented fully.

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But if all pledges by 192 countries under the Paris Agreement are taken together, an increase of around 16% in global emissions is expected by 2030 compared to 2010, which would lead to warming of around 2.7C.

China and India, which are together responsible for around 30% of global emissions, have not yet made enhanced pledges.

Over the last 11 years, policies have been put in place which will lower annual emissions by 11 gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2 equivalent by 2030, compared to what would have happened without these policies, the report said.


However, fossil fuel production is not slowing at the rate needed, with major economies set to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than is consistent with meeting climate goals.

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“On current progress, we’ll close the 2030 emissions gap sometime in the 2080s,” Myles Allen, professor of geosystem science at the University of Oxford, who was not involved in the report, said.

By 2030, to reach the 1.5C limit, annual greenhouse gas emissions need to fall by an extra 28 Gt, or be halved from current levels of nearly 60 Gt, over and above what is promised in updated pledges and other 2030 commitments, UNEP said.

For the 2C limit, an additional 13 Gt cut in annual emissions is needed by 2030.

“We have eight years to make the plans, put in place the policies, implement them and ultimately deliver the cuts,” UNEP executive director Inger Andersen said.

“The clock is ticking loudly.”
 
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Dems are out of control the inland sea came from the North




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WAKE-UP CALL: UN warns world set for 2.7C rise on today's emissions pledges
Author of the article:Reuters
Reuters
Nina Chestney
Publishing date:Oct 26, 2021 • 17 hours ago • 3 minute read • Join the conversation
A coal-burning power plant can be seen in the city of Baotou, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Oct. 31, 2010.
A coal-burning power plant can be seen in the city of Baotou, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Oct. 31, 2010. PHOTO BY DAVID GRAY /REUTERS / FILES
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LONDON — Current commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track for an average 2.7 degrees Celsius temperature rise this century, a United Nations report said on Tuesday, in another stark warning ahead of crunch climate talks.

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Governments will be in the spotlight at the COP26 conference next week to meet a deadline of this year to commit to more ambitious cut pledges, in what could be the last chance to put the world on track to limiting warming to below 2C above pre-industrial levels and ideally to 1.5C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).


As extreme weather events from wildfires to floods have hit countries around the world, a U.N. report in August warned that global warming due to greenhouse gas emissions could breach 1.5C in the next two decades.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday it was “touch and go” whether the most important round of U.N. talks since the Paris Agreement in 2015 will secure the agreements needed to tackle climate change.

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STORY CONTINUES BELOW

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And the U.N. World Meteorological Organization said ahead of the two-week event that begins in Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday that greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is “way off track” in capping rising temperatures.

The annual “emissions gap” report by the United Nations’ Environment Programme (UNEP), which measures the gap between anticipated emissions and those consistent with limiting the temperature rise this century as agreed in the Paris accord, said updated pledges only reduce forecast 2030 emissions by an additional 7.5%, compared to the previous commitments.


If continued throughout this century, this would lead to warming of 2.7C, slightly less than the 3C UNEP forecast in its last report. A 30% cut is needed to limit warming to 2C and a 55% cut is needed to limit to 1.5C.

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It said current commitments to net zero could limit warming to around 2.2C by the end of the century, but 2030 pledges so far do not put major emitters on a clear path to this.

As a group, G20 countries, which represent 80% of global emissions, are not on track to achieve their original or new 2030 pledges.

“If there is no meaningful reduction of emissions in the next decade, we will have lost forever the possibility to reach 1.5 degrees,” U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres told a press briefing.

“It is absolutely essential that all G20 countries present before Glasgow or in Glasgow (pledges) that are compatible with 1.5C,” he added.


Latest U.N. data shows 143 countries, accounting for around 57% of global emissions, have submitted new or updated emissions cut plans ahead of COP26 and their total emissions are estimated to be around 9% of 2010 levels by 2030 if implemented fully.

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But if all pledges by 192 countries under the Paris Agreement are taken together, an increase of around 16% in global emissions is expected by 2030 compared to 2010, which would lead to warming of around 2.7C.

China and India, which are together responsible for around 30% of global emissions, have not yet made enhanced pledges.

Over the last 11 years, policies have been put in place which will lower annual emissions by 11 gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2 equivalent by 2030, compared to what would have happened without these policies, the report said.


However, fossil fuel production is not slowing at the rate needed, with major economies set to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than is consistent with meeting climate goals.

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“On current progress, we’ll close the 2030 emissions gap sometime in the 2080s,” Myles Allen, professor of geosystem science at the University of Oxford, who was not involved in the report, said.

By 2030, to reach the 1.5C limit, annual greenhouse gas emissions need to fall by an extra 28 Gt, or be halved from current levels of nearly 60 Gt, over and above what is promised in updated pledges and other 2030 commitments, UNEP said.

For the 2C limit, an additional 13 Gt cut in annual emissions is needed by 2030.

“We have eight years to make the plans, put in place the policies, implement them and ultimately deliver the cuts,” UNEP executive director Inger Andersen said.

“The clock is ticking loudly.”
Yada yada l could maybe .
 

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Breitbart News has listed 41 predictions that Climate Change will cause that Al Gore (who should be in jail) & his cult have issued starting in the 1960's. Each and every one have failed to come to fruition. So if they've made these 50 predictions which have not come true, and not even CLOSE to becoming true, why the hell would ANYONE believe what they're saying now? It's simply unbelievable and people are setting themselves up for becoming poorer in the future.

It's all about money & power and nothing to do with Climate. Shame on people for falling for this as we'll all be paying the price for this fool heartedness.

"Why would any sane person listen to someone with a 0-41 record?" Breitbart News

Because as soon as anything notable happens the scientists immediately claim that it's just what they expected with CLIMATE CHANGE. But Wait! There's more.....
Presidentish 'LOL Eighty-One Million' is creating a new class of refugees to encourage. If you claim to be persecuted because of your climate beliefs you're in ! Really, I'm not kidding.
 

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Because as soon as anything notable happens the scientists immediately claim that it's just what they expected with CLIMATE CHANGE. But Wait! There's more.....
Presidentish 'LOL Eighty-One Million' is creating a new class of refugees to encourage. If you claim to be persecuted because of your climate beliefs you're in ! Really, I'm not kidding.
Good for the sand monkeys .
 
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