See, it’s really bad when Islamists attack, but, way worse when it increases the carbon footprint of shipping. Yes, this is what the Cult of Climastrology is really worried about
The Climate Impact of Avoiding the Panama and Suez Canals
For a preview of what a hotter, more geopolitically unstable future might look like, you don’t have to go much further than the world’s shipping lanes—the daily commute for most of our consumer goods, from solar panels to electric car batteries, refrigerators and sneakers. Drought exacerbated by climate change in Central America has reduced traffic through the Panama Canal by 40%. Shipping through the Suez Canal, linking Europe to Asia, has also come to a near standstill as Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen escalate attacks on Red Sea cargo ships in what they say is a protest against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
And, of course, the problems are caused because you won’t switch to an EV, or, better, just take public transportation
There are alternatives of course. Shippers with New York-bound goods from the Chinese port of Shanghai can dock in Los Angeles and truck their wares across the U.S. instead. And cargo ships plying the Europe-Asia route through the Suez Canal can take the long way around Africa. Those alternatives are often slower—adding up to 15 days on some Europe-Asia routes—and more expensive. But the bigger long-term cost comes in the form of increased planet-warming carbon emissions.
This really just excuses the actions of the Islamic extremists operating in the Middle East, the role of bad actor Iran, in favor of it’s all the Fault of a small increase in the global temperature since 1850.
Here’s what they don’t tell you
While wind and solar are often promoted as the cheapest form of energy, there are large costs that go into making them reliable. Since they both depend on the right weather conditions to produce power, they require a lot of infrastructure, including storage and transmission lines, both of which add costs to wind and solar energy.
Grid expert Lee Cordner illustrated these costs by calculating what it would cost to replace a 100 megawatt natural gas-fired power plant with a solar and battery facility. While the natural gas plant costs $125 million and uses about $10 million in fuel per year, the wind and battery system would cost approximately $2 billion and have to be replaced every 10 to 20 years.</em>
H…. 2% a year my cold ass.
It’s already noon, and the temperature is stil in single digits? What’s up with that? I want my global warming!
Check out the wind pattern. Still coming from the north.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-88.13,34.42,1024/loc=-85.582,33.354
Dana,
14F here already, expected to reach 18F!!
Low 50s expected later this week.
Did you know that Arctic warming contributes to our cold snaps in the Heartland? Bear with us. A “warm” Arctic is relative to the typical brutal cold there this time of year, but the warming permits a breakdown of the “Polar Vortex”, an atmospheric phenomenon that allows Arctic cold to trundle its way here in the winter! Dammit. But it’s not new.
Anyway, these subzero mornings here in middle America in winter do not argue against global warming (except in the conservative mindhive). The execrable Jim Imhofe used to bring snowballs to the Senate in the winter as evidence that there was no warming!
Yes-1974 “Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds-the so called circumpolar vortex that sweep from west to east around both poles”.