Mann: "The greatest threat to meaningful climate action today is no longer denial, but despair and doomism..." #OurFragileMoment
— Tom Nelson (@tan123) October 3, 2023
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Michael Mann Scam Update 10-3-2023
Monday, October 2, 2023
Read: The dangerous delusion of a global transition to “just electricity”
By Ronald Stein
The dangerous delusion of a global transition to “just electricity”
The dangerous delusion of a global transition to “just electricity”
Occasional electricity from renewables cannot run modern civilizations’ households, businesses, hospitals, militaries, space programs, jets, and cruise ships, and no products and fuels are now based on crude oil!
The silence is deafening from billionaires like Bill Gates, John Kerry,Mark Zuckerberg, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, President Biden, and the media that continues to refrain from asking a John Stossel-styled “give-me-a-break” question: Can you imagine our world without jets, airports, merchant ships, cruise liners, militaries, hospitals, social media communications, space programs, and toilets?
Michael Mann Scam Update 10-2-2023
Is Mann now positioning himself for the time when this global warming panic is completely dead?: "Earth’s temperature today is about 60°F. Current policies alone, even without additional climate action, are projected to warm the planet at most about 5°F. That still places global…
— Tom Nelson (@tan123) October 2, 2023
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Michael Mann Scam Update 10-1-2023
Oct 10: "Join us as Dr. Michael E. Mann discusses his extraordinary new book, Our Fragile Moment, with Climate Action Now President Tim Guinee. The book aims to help readers appreciate the gravity of the unfolding climate crisis while emboldening them to act before it truly…
— Tom Nelson (@tan123) October 1, 2023
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Read: Catastrophizing every weather event is the new normal of climate alarmists
By Dr. Matthew Wielicki
Catastrophizing every weather event is the new normal of climate alarmists.
The 7 inches of rain that fell in NYC is not evidence of climate change... nor was the 8 inches that fell in 1882 at ~290ppm of atmospheric CO2.
Catastrophizing every weather event is the new normal of climate alarmists.
The 7 inches of rain that fell in NYC is not evidence of climate change... nor was the 8 inches that fell in 1882 at ~290ppm of atmospheric CO2.
"In summary, the constant catastrophizing of completely natural weather events is a tool used by climate alarmists to instill irrational fear in the public. The fact is that the 7 inches of rain that fell in NYC in September of 2023 is not evidence of climate change… nor was the 8 inches that fell in 1882."
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Michael Mann Scam Update 9-16-2023
I show that @MichaelEMann is a fraud, and his response is to block me and tell even more lies.#ClimateScam https://t.co/M3DiZm5rGI pic.twitter.com/xnzwaxOPG0
— Tony Heller (@TonyClimate) September 17, 2023
Friday, September 15, 2023
Read: West Texas city becomes dumping ground for discarded wind turbine blades
West Texas city becomes dumping ground for discarded wind turbine blades
West Texas city becomes dumping ground for used wind turbine blades
A West Texas town has become a dumping spot for thousands of old wind turbine blades.
It started in 2017 when a stack of blades was placed in the town of Sweetwater, about 45 minutes from Abilene. Each blade is 150 to 200 feet long — longer than the wing of a Southwest Airlines jetliner — cut into thirds and stacked haphazardly on top of and next to its counterparts.
Six years later, the still-growing stacks of blades cover more than 30 acres on the west side of town. Another wind turbine graveyard south of town takes up about 10 more acres.
Washington state-based Global Fiberglass Solutions is behind the situation. It’s been buying old turbine blades from energy companies and depositing 80% of them in Sweetwater. The industrial waste recycling company was founded in 2009 to address what it said was a lack of sustainable alternatives for nondegradable fiberglass.
“Together with Composite Material & Engineering Center at Washington State University, we developed patented process for recycling fiberglass composites,” the company says on its website.
It has said it hopes to shred the blades and use the materials in other industries from railroads to flooring. But it has reportedly struggled to secure funding to buy the equipment needed to do that, resulting in the piles of blades lying idle in West Texas.
Residents of Sweetwater, a city of nearly 11,000 people in Nolan County, say the stacks of blades pose a threat to children playing nearby and those bold enough to explore the makeshift maze. Stagnant pools of water inside the blades provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes, they say, and rattlesnakes find comfort under the shadows the tall piles cast.
Outsiders could argue the wind turbine blade is one of the unofficial symbols of Sweetwater, because the surrounding county produces more wind energy than almost anywhere else on the planet. Since the late 1990s, the town’s wind energy industry has fueled the local economy with turbine-related jobs and a boom for landowners whose properties host them. Even the welcome sign greeting drivers into the town is printed on a wind turbine blade.
As environmentally friendly wind energy is, decommissioned wind turbine blades are not. Burning a wind turbine blade emits pollutants. A diamond-encrusted industrial saw is allegedly needed to cut through the fiberglass that makes up a wind turbine blade. If left alone, the blade’s fiber-enforced plastic will never break down.
West Texas city becomes dumping ground for used wind turbine blades
Sana Ameer, Staff writer, San Antonio Express-News
Sep. 15, 2023
Sep. 15, 2023
A West Texas town has become a dumping spot for thousands of old wind turbine blades.
It started in 2017 when a stack of blades was placed in the town of Sweetwater, about 45 minutes from Abilene. Each blade is 150 to 200 feet long — longer than the wing of a Southwest Airlines jetliner — cut into thirds and stacked haphazardly on top of and next to its counterparts.
Six years later, the still-growing stacks of blades cover more than 30 acres on the west side of town. Another wind turbine graveyard south of town takes up about 10 more acres.
Washington state-based Global Fiberglass Solutions is behind the situation. It’s been buying old turbine blades from energy companies and depositing 80% of them in Sweetwater. The industrial waste recycling company was founded in 2009 to address what it said was a lack of sustainable alternatives for nondegradable fiberglass.
“Together with Composite Material & Engineering Center at Washington State University, we developed patented process for recycling fiberglass composites,” the company says on its website.
It has said it hopes to shred the blades and use the materials in other industries from railroads to flooring. But it has reportedly struggled to secure funding to buy the equipment needed to do that, resulting in the piles of blades lying idle in West Texas.
Residents of Sweetwater, a city of nearly 11,000 people in Nolan County, say the stacks of blades pose a threat to children playing nearby and those bold enough to explore the makeshift maze. Stagnant pools of water inside the blades provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes, they say, and rattlesnakes find comfort under the shadows the tall piles cast.
Outsiders could argue the wind turbine blade is one of the unofficial symbols of Sweetwater, because the surrounding county produces more wind energy than almost anywhere else on the planet. Since the late 1990s, the town’s wind energy industry has fueled the local economy with turbine-related jobs and a boom for landowners whose properties host them. Even the welcome sign greeting drivers into the town is printed on a wind turbine blade.
As environmentally friendly wind energy is, decommissioned wind turbine blades are not. Burning a wind turbine blade emits pollutants. A diamond-encrusted industrial saw is allegedly needed to cut through the fiberglass that makes up a wind turbine blade. If left alone, the blade’s fiber-enforced plastic will never break down.
Originally published here:
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/sweetwater-west-texas-used-wind-turbine-blades-18368919.php
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