4.9. Rogue Policies “None of the world’s challenges loom as large as climate change”, the United Nations chief told a major climate action summit on Tuesday, reiterating his belief that “global warming poses an existential threat to humanity”. SecretaryGeneral António Guterres (UN News, 2018) “On peut dire que la lutte contre le changement climatique est contraire aux libertés individuelles et donc sans doute avec la démocratie.” “It can be said that the fight against climate change is contrary to individual liberties and therefore undoubtedly to democracy.” François-Marie Bréon (Coulaud, 2018). Unfortunately for these climate-extremists: «The Kyoto Treaty, based on assertions that mankind’s generation of carbon dioxide will cause global warming, is an example of such a foolish and damaging thing. There is no surer way to build a powerful bureaucratic empire in a democracy than to promote a supposed peril and then staff up a huge organization to combat it». (Happer, 2003) Questioned by Ball (2014) Will nuclear energy be part of the future, despite the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan? “A lot of investment in green technology has been a giant scam, if well intentioned" James Lovelock “By extension, GCMs are not fit for the purpose of justifying political policies to fundamentally alter world social, economic and energy systems. It is this application of climate model results that fuels the vociferousness of the debate surrounding climate models” (Curry, 2017) Despite trillions of dollars in squandered subsidies, “green energy” has increased from 1% in 2008 to only 5% of global primary energy in 2019 as per Looney (2020) and observing Table 1., p. 4 of that report, giving “Fuel shares of primary energy and contributions to growth in 2019” fossil fuels provide 84.3% of global primary energy, essentially unchanged in decades, and unlikely to change in decades to come with Oil (33.1%), Gas (24.2%), Coal (27.0%), Hydroelectric (6.4%) and Nuclear (4.3%). This, despite the fact that it be touted that the share of renewables in power generation increased from 9.3% to 10.4% in 2019-2020, surpassing nuclear for the first time while coal’s share of generation fell 1.5 percentage points to 36.4%, the lowest since 1985. “Green energy” schemes are not green and produce little useful, i.e. dispatchable energy, because they require almost 100% conventional backup from fossil fuels, nuclear or hydroelectric when the wind does not blow and the Sun does not shine. Dispatchable generation refers to sources of electricity that can be dispatched on demand at the request of power grid operators, according to market needs. Dispatchable generators can adjust their power output according to an order and to the market needs. Non-dispatchable renewable energy sources such as wind power and solar photovoltaic (PV) power cannot be controlled by operators as they depend by definition on unreliable sources, the wind and the Sun. Intermittent energy from wind and / or solar generation cannot supply the electric grid with reliable, uninterrupted power, as stated with an euphemism by Bazilian et al. (2004) “Wind’s inherent intermittency and unpredictability make its increased penetration into the electricity network an area requiring significant further analysis”. There is no widely-available, cost-effective means of solving the fatal flaw of intermittency in grid-scale wind and solar power generation, see the Wind Report by Teyssen and Fuchs (2005) and for example, analyzing the week 2026 Dec 2005, Figure 6 of their report illustrates that “Whilst wind power feed-in at 9.15am on Christmas Eve reached its maximum for the year at 6,024MW, it fell to below 2,000MW within only 10 hours, a difference of over 4,000MW. This corresponds to the capacity of 8 x 500MW coal fired power station blocks. ” and Fig. 7 of the same report is even more destructive of all illusions as it asserts “The more wind power capacity is in the grid, the lower the percentage of traditional generation it can replace. As a result, the relative contribution of wind power to the guaranteed capacity of our supply system up to the year 2020 will fall continuously to around 4%. In concrete terms, this means that in 2020, with a forecast wind power capacity of over 48,000MW (Source: dena grid study), 2,000MW of traditional power production can be replaced by these wind farms”. Eliminate fossil fuels tomorrow as radical green activists insist, and almost everyone in the developed world would be dead in a few months from starvation. Would the climate reverse to its mean, as most natural systems tend to do as they are self-regulated otherwise they would have diverged long ago, and temperature unfortunately start cooling, then foolish politicians would have brewed the perfect storm. They have adopted dysfunctional climate-and-energy policies to “fight global warming” and have crippled energy systems with
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