COP27 AGREEMENT IN 2022 TO CLOSE COAL MINES IN SOUTH AFRICA
(l to r) - John Kerry, USA, Rishi Sunak, UK, Emmanuel Macron, France, Ursula von der Leyen, European Union, Olaf Scholz, Germany, Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa at COP27 in Egypt in 2022. This photo is after signing an agreement to shut down South African coal mines in exchange for loans to build wind farms. Who will benefit from this anti-fossil fuels alarmism and forced switch to weak, variable, unreliable, not always available wind and solar energy? How many will suffer?
The southern hemisphere is over 80% ocean. South Africa is more than 4,000 miles away from Australia, India and Latin America. Claims of CO2 “pollution” threat from South African coal mines is a disgrace. If China were forcing the closing of these coal mines, it would not be tolerated.
Left: A map of the Southern Hemisphere. The 2022 UN IPPC COP27 agreement between the USA, UK, EU, France, and Germany on one side and South Africa on the other to close coal mines in exchange for financial support for wind farms was not a deal to save the world from supposed man-made catastrophic global warming from use of coal in electric generating plants.
It was a sellout by the president of South Africa to enrich his associates by building useless wind farms.
African despots betrayed fellow Africans in the slave trade with North and South, America for centuries. Cyril Ramaphosa’s betrayal of South African miners at COP 27 is not new behavior of some African leaders.
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PROFESSIONALS AND A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT WITH GOOD IDEAS ON ENERGY AND CLIMATE.
These professionals are selected because they have outstanding careers in science, engineering, government policy making, and communications with the public.
Emails from: allaboutenergy.net have articles about many more professionals.
Australia
Viv Forbes, business analyst and geologist
Poem: Freezing in Green Heaven
Let Them Eat Bugs
Witch-doctors should check climate change facts
Good Riddance to the Good Old Days
The Greatest Generation versus the Greenest Generation
Canada
Eric Jelinski, nuclear, chemical, mechanical engineer, soil & agriculture expert
Advisor about technical details and societal benefits of nuclear power. An expert on soil science, fertilizers and chemicals for pest control, and farm machinery design. With his background in engineering and science, he gives good explanations of what is happening with climate change. It is nearly entirely natural. Love CO2, the molecule of life.
Let’s be clear about oil
Land area required to generate electricity
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Man-made global warming, fossil fuels, nuclear power
What energy mix will North America have in 2100?
Some first steps to a sound energy program in North America
Summary of Canadian nuclear power program
Reprocessing Spent Nuclear Fuel
Regenerative Agriculture - A Discussion
Sherri Lange, wind energy technology and policy
She is an advisor on the problems and failures of wind energy. Climate change nuclear power advocate alarmists would be better off following Sherri Lange’s guidelines about CO2 being the molecule of life.
Ontario Wind Action
Wind Power Opposition: It’s a Conspiracy
NA-PAW announces appointment of CEO
Not in Their Minds: Denial in the Wind/Health Debate
The Thrill of Net Zero is Gone
Grassroots Rising Against Big Government Wind
Europe’s Wind Turbine Makers Face Massive Financial Collapse
U.S. Offshore Wind: Problems Aplenty
Infrasound: A Growing Liability for Wind Power
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Douglas Lightfoot - mechanical engineer, co-author, Gerald Ratzer, computer scientist
Douglas Lightfoot is an expert in energy and energy related technologies. Using thermodynamics related design charts, he and Gerald Ratzer show that carbon dioxide plays an unmeasurably small role in global warming.
Thermodynamic explanation of climate and CO2
The Sun Versus CO2 as the Cause of Climate Change Projected to 2050
Carbon Dioxide: “The Gas of Life”
Back radiation versus CO2 as the cause of climate change
An independent analysis of the sources of current and future world energy
Discussion on climate and carbon dioxide
Nuclear Fission Fuel is Inexhaustible
How Energy Makes a Difference
Energy Supply Plan
European Union
Samuel Furfari, energy policy consultant
A career as consultant to the European on energy policies. Use fossil fuels and nuclear power, use gasoline and diesel vehicles, not wind turbines and electric vehicles. Don’t use hydrogen manufactured from electrolysis of water - way too expensive.
Véhicules électriques - Pourquoi pas mais à condition d’avoir de l’électricité
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France
Agriculture et énergie
Le Troisième Mouvement Nucléaire De La Vivaldi
Joe Biden tells us anything
Il faut tenir compte du passé - Take the past into account
The hydrogen and wind illusion
Why is industrial hydrogen produced from natural gas and not by water electrolysis?
Hydrogen strategy to nowhere
Michel Gay, aviator, environmentalist, nuclear energy advocate
His career was in supersonic aviation. In retirement, he dedicates his time to education about the environment, actual climate change, and nuclear versus wind power.
The great swindle of the wind turbine
The disaster of the European energy policy
Articles on Contrepoints - 2014
Articles on Contrepoints - 2015
Articles on Contrepoints - 2016
Articles on Contrepoints - 2017
Articles on Contrepoints - 2018
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Articles on Contrepoints - 2019
Nucléaire une chance pour notre avenir
Nuclear power is the future of ecological transition
Origine du dogme antinucléaire
Thorium, miracle énergétique
Germany
Bernd Fleischmann, physicist
Why the climate is changing (short version)
Errors of the Geenhouse Theory
Fakten zu Klimawandel und Energiewende
Fukushima, the catastrophe caused by criminal negligence
Reinhard Storz, marine engineer
He grew up in WWII and post war Germany, received a good German technical school and university education. He was the responsible marine engineer on diesel powered ships. He received training for nuclear powered ships. Finally, he was the supervising engineer for a land based research nuclear reactor. In retirement, he is attending university classes as an auditing student and lecturer for many non-technical and technical subjects.
He is writing about his career experiences, observations of government decisions about energy and climate change, and the difficulties youth are having with the alarms that are being sounded. See the first article below where he asks: Why do young people in Germany glue their hands to street
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pavements because they think the world is coming to an end because of man-made carbon dioxide? The same questions are being asked across Europe, North America, and Australia. Who is causing these fears? Why?
Attempt to analyze the current discussion on climate protection in Germany
Why is energy important for life?
Power shortage, power surplus, milk lake and butter mountain
Was ist Energie? Geschichte der Energienutzung.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energie und Umwelt (AG E+U) - Die Realisten. Die Energiewende wird scheitern.
Energiespeicher Wasserstoff
Eiszeitlicher Klimawandel und dessen Auswirkungen auf die Pflanzen, Tiere und Menschen
Eiszeitlicher Klimawandel - Text
Nukleare Kohlevergasung in Zeiten knapper Energiereserven
Ökostrom für Bergisch Gladbach
Der Traum des Pharao als Rezept für die Lösung von Problemen bei der Energiewende
The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade (in German). Fossil fuels eliminated the commercial demand for slavery. Now politicians insist on getting rid of fossil fuels.
Gibt es Möglichkeiten die Gefahren von Atommüll zu reduzieren?
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India
Helmut Ullmann, radiochemist
The greenhouse effect - a molecular analysis
Greenhouse Earth - thermodynamic analysis
Uli Weber, geophysicist
Weissagungen des Papst Flüsterers
What is climate actually?
Nudging for the future
Estimates for man-made global warming and need for global decarbonization
The decline of serious science means the end of industrial society
Die Welt vor der Dekarbonisierung retten
Wohin führt uns der aktuelle Zeitgeist?
Der menschengemachte Klimawandel ist eine naturreligion
Wenn der Klimablase schliesslich die Luft ausgeht
One of the world’s oldest civilizations. Home to the Hindu and Buddhist religions. The world’s largest democracy. Competes with China for the world’s most populous country. Like China, Europe, and North America, it needs fossil fuels and their by-products to have a vibrant economy. India could use mostly nuclear energy for generating electricity, if they develop thorium technology. But like the rest of the world, they have focused on Light Water Reactors because they are more advanced in development and have industry support.
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They have a lot of poverty but also tremendous potential. Havee excellent universities and students. Delicious foods. Located midway between China and Japan to the east, and the Arab countries and Europe in the west.
Peter Frankopan, a British historian at Oxford University, wrote: “The SILK ROADS - A New History of the World”. This book objectively describes good and bad systems of ruling, taxation, trade, economy and cultural exchange along the “Silk Roads” for more than 2000 years.
India has been one of the more peaceful countries. Generally not sought to build a global empire, not plundered resources in far away lands, not claimed superiority over other races or religions.
Vijay Jayaraj studied environmental science in the UK and is becoming one of the most important writers in India about energy, government policies, and the environment.
Vijay Jayaraj, energy and environmental policy advisor
Myths of Indian climate catastrophe
Mexico and South America Must Tap Fossil Fuels to Fight Poverty
Strange Agreements and Stranger Taxes” The UN Climate Drama
Four reasons alarmists are wrong on climate change
Coal Helps Developing Countries Fight Poverty and Disease
Understand the difference between pollution and climate change
Paris Climate Agreement - A fairy tales failure
Not for thee but for me
Why climate skepticism thrives
Beyond the Nobel Prize: The Rise of Nuclear-Powered India
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The world is transitioning to fossil fuels
The Netherlands
The Netherlands is an amazing country with wonderful brave seafarers and successful business people. Tremendous engineering accomplishments reclaiming land from the sea and many other fields. Excellent universities. Wonderful artists and museums. Produces the freshest food for Europe. Operates the world’s biggest flower auction. Flowers are flown in from around the world in the early morning, bid on, and flown out to successful bidder destinations in the matter of a few hours. One of the best countries for bicycle vacations. Like other countries in Europe, Australia, Canada and the United States, it is under pressure from man-made global warming alarmists and anti-fossil fuel activists to abandon modern living standards. Farmers are in revolt against false claims against their “supposed” causing “not-happening,” “man-made,” “catastrophic” climate change.
Kees le Pair, physicist - Netherlands
After opening this link, refresh the page and select English. Go to his biography. His accomplishments are more than many others. His humor in the details of his life are a breath of fresh air.
The Earthly Greenhouse Without Formulas
Radiation Balance And Transparent Medi - 2 Radiation and gas
Note about above link: Some find it difficult to understand how interaction of infrared radiation with 0.04% concentration of atmospheric CO2 causes significant global warming of the rest of the mass in the atmosphere, oceans and on land. Kees le Pair says: “His experiment raises doubt about the 342 Wm-2 back radiation from the atmosphere, which in climate science in 2018 is assumed to be rock solid.” Le Pair says, "It seems rather feather light.”
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Russian physicist, Habibullo Abdussamatov, points out : “Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the participation of Martians.” Click here to automatically download document with this quote.
Trends - Wealth Distribution - Consequences
Climate Change & Other Superstitions
Renewable Energy Supply, It is Possible
The Geotriad of our Earth’s greenhouse
Climate Research of System & Actors
Energy Transition
Complexity, Climate CO2 and Engineers
Climate, Energy & Survival
Hydrogen Is An Energy Gluster & A Poverty Sower
New Zealand
A verdant country. It should be obvious to every New Zealander that this small country, surrounded for hundreds/thousands of miles by oceans can not possibly contribute in any measurable way to supposed catastrophic man-made global warming. Yet their leader insists that the carbon dioxide they produce from use of fossil fuels causes catastrophic global warming. Which leaders are worse for their people?: China, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, USA, Europe, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations IPCC and COP.
Bryan Leyland, water power engineer
Actual temperature versus climate models
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End war on coal
No credible business plan for SMRs
Global Cooling
Energy Abundance
Nuclear safety, radiation, waste and reprocessing
Poland
Zbigniew Jaworowski, medical doctor (deceased)
Radiation Risk and Ethics
Japanese Nuclear Power And The Wrath Of Nature
Chernobyl, Nuclear Wastes And Nature
Nature Rules The Climate
‘Global Warming’ A Lie Aimed At Destroying Civilization
Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2
Russia
Habibullo Abdussamatov, solar physicist
Energy Imbalance Between the Earth and Space Controls the Climate
The New Little Ice Age Has Started
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The Sun Dictates the Climate
Bicentennial Decrease of the Total Solar Irradiance Leads to Unbalanced Thermal Budget of the Earth and the Little Ice Age
The Sun, Not People, Causes Global Warming
The Thermal Inertia Characteristics of the System
Ocean-Atmosphere
The sun controls the climate
Proof that a new ice age has already started is stronger than ever, and we couldn’t be less prepared
Entrevista con Habibullo Abdussamatov, director de Estudios Espaciales del Sector del Sol en el Observatorio de Pulkova
Sun Blamed for Warming of Earth and Other Worlds
South Africa
Cairns Bain, nuclear physics, coastal oceanography
Nuclear radiation in the world around us
Geert de Vries, physicist
Selling nuclear based on low CO2 footprint
CO2 alarm and nuclear power advocacy
Nuclear Energy, a solution for Africa
The sad status of nuclear power in the free world
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Electric vehicles and grid instability in South Africa
Mpiyakhe Dhlamini, data science researcher at Free Market Foundation
Let My people go: How Africa can save herself
Free women, free the economy
Rob Jeffrey, independent risk consultant
Energy security and sovereignty
Investment in South Africa by rebuilding energy confidence
South African Electricity and Economic Development
Nuclear energy vital for sustainable economy
Thyspunt nuclear build links to Eastern Cape economic development
Kelvin Kemm, nuclear physicist
CO2 hysteria
Leave climate change to scientists
Is CO2 from fossil fuels a pollutant? - What the extreme greens want.
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What needs changing in Climate Change thinking?
Interview about nuclear power and nuclear
EIR interview with Kelvin Kemm
Power to change lives for better
Nuclear, coal, petrol
26 years of nuclear power in South Africa
Electricity in the realm of the lion king
Nuclear power is the only sensible way to go
The case for nuclear
Thorium - The other nuclear fuel
There was no Fukushima nuclear disaster
Can the world solve an energy problem, especially in Africa?
Greta Thunberg condemns world leaders
How Europe and the U.S. can best help other countries
Small Modular Reactors advance in the nuclear world
Nuclear Medicine - Saving Lives Internationally
Status of nuclear power and radioisotope production in South Africa as of June 2022
Andrew Kenny, nuclear engineer
Fallacies about nuclear, solar and wind
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The carbon dioxide cycle in living organisms, the atmosphere, oceans, and land
Perspective of climate change from South Africa
CO2 Deficit
Where is todays additional atmospheric carbon dioxide coming from?
No evidence for man made global warming
Belief in socialism in South Africa
What is nuclear power?
Nuclear power is sage, clean, economic, and sustainable
Nuclear is our most affordable energy
Decommissioning nuclear power plants
Low radiation doses
Philip Lloyd, chemical engineer
Nuclear Waste: Is it really a problem?
Summary of Paris COP21 Agreement
Cause of global warming remains unknown
Leon Louw, economist, Founder Free Market Foundation
CO2 hysteria
Seven myths debunked, including green power
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The incredible growth of the middle class
South African Energy Perspective
The rustle in the grass is not real
Linear No Threshold (LNT) Folly: An Economics Perspective on Nuclear Safety
Francois Mellet, electrical engineer
Nuclear Fuel, It’s Nature and Disposal
Knox Msebenzi, Managing Director of NIASA
Prospects of nuclear power generation in South Africa’s energy mix
Nuclear power for Africa
Temba Nolutshungu, Director of The Free Market Foundation
Stubborn allure of socialism despite its abject failures
Dawid Serfontein, nuclear engineer
Nuclear Power is more profitable than coal when funding model is correct
Uganda
Steven Lyazi, author (deceased)
Enemies of humanity
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The world needs more energy
When will Africa get healthy and prosperous?
What natural disasters should teach us
Unseeable starvation
Solar ovens and sustained poverty for Africa
UK - Portugal
Roger Higgs, geologist and Cap Allon, electroverse.info
33 Bullet Points Proving ‘Global Warming’ Is Caused By The Sun, Not CO2
Our models are Mickey-Mouse mockeries of the real world
USA
Meredith Angwin, physical chemist
Electricity explains the world
Shorting the grid
Energy supply in cold weather
Energy Northwest
Jay Lehr, groundwater scientist (deceased)
Wind and Solar add zero value to the grid
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The other side of the global warming story
Insignificance of man-made carbon dioxide
Can one ten thousandth of the atmosphere control the thermostat of the planet?
Where is the missing heat from man-made global warming coming from? Part 1
Fascinating variations - Weather (sort of) understandable - Part 2
Wind and solar are most environmentally destructive
11 Reasons Why Electric Cars Will Never Be The Thing
The Purposeful Impoverishment of African Nations
Howard Lowe, geologist
Forecasting climate change is a very complex process
Beyond Our Control: Debunking Man Made Global Warming
Oil Productive Capacity A Problem?
Is crude oil vital for our economy?
Historical phenomena prove climate is regulated by forces beyond man - Letter to John Kerry, U.S. Climate Change Ambassador
Wanda Munn, nuclear engineer
Conservation and Technology
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Fast Reactors
Challenges facing the future of nuclear energy in the USA
Ben Soon, senior high school student
Snow coverage changes over time.
Gary Young, mechanical engineer, new product development
Count the molecules, count the photons. More CO2 makes almost no difference.
Carbon dioxide and energy policy
Four essays on the madness of our times
Problems with people claiming fission and fusion nuclear power can solve supposed man-made global warming crisis
The innocence of carbon dioxide
For the love of trees
Radiation damage to people
A Galactic Visitors Essay, Part I - Earnings Return on Investment
A Galactic Visitors Essay, Part II - Mega Energy Centers
A Galactic Visitors Essay, Part III - Going to the Moon and Beyond
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