Man, this has been some week, hasn’t it? In with the good air, out with the bad. In with the good air, out with the bad.
The attempted assassination of Trump, RNC convention, and accelerating decline of Biden dominated our news cycle, and rightfully so. Rarely has so much history converged all at once. While all that took our attention, however, a lot of climate stuff happened that escaped notice.
This week, we have some hilarious failures of wind power, more hilarious failures of EVs, a bit of confusion as to what global warming causes—and what it doesn’t, confusion regarding the goals of dam removal, and an attempt to save Puerto Rico with solar panels.
There’s even some good news this week, as a huge cold front has made summer downright mild across much of the United States. Somehow that failed to make headlines.
Here we go.
Wind Farms Don’t Care About the Climate
This might become another weekly feature—the more we see wind power farms online, the worse they perform. In our first item, an offshore wind project had a catastrophic failure that closed local beaches in Massachusetts. Nantucket had to close several beaches due to shards of non-biodegradable fiberglass washing ashore. Apparently one of the offshore turbines fell apart, possibly due to a lightning strike.
In another instance, a Colorado resident noticed something wrong this week while driving through Wyoming:
He reports, once again, a big thunderstorm had just rolled through.
These things don’t stand a chance of fixing our weather if they can’t stand up to the weather.
This Week in Imploding EV Markets
Not to be outdone, the electric vehicle (EV) news is just as weird this week.
First, an Oregon-based company that makes something called an FUV has gone belly up in a big way. What, you ask, is an FUV? Well, according to Arcimoto, it’s a Fun Utility Vehicle! It’s a three-wheeled scooter-like electric vehicle. At the height of the EV boom, during the early days of the Biden spend-a-thon in 2021, Arcimoto had a market cap of $1.2 billion. Today, however, that has evaporated. As of this week, their stock is completely worthless.
Meanwhile, even the envirowackos aren’t buying EVs’ BS.
Hey, at least it wasn’t priceless artwork this time. No word, however, on their attempts to glue themselves to the cybertrucks.
Climate Change Causes Earthquakes, But Not The Disappearance of Islands
Scientists now claim that glacial melt will cause more earthquakes.
That’s it. That’s the story.
What else could one possibly add to that?
Meanwhile, global warming failed to cause the Maldive islands to disappear. In fact, they’re growing.
Only in 2024 could we come to the simultaneous conclusions that global warming causes earthquakes, but doesn’t make islands succumb to rising seas. What’s next, a cold front caused by global warming?
More On Klamath River Dam Removal
The removal of dams on the Klamath River in Southern Oregon and Northern California has caused an ecological disaster, one that we’ve covered several times here at Restoration News. The whole idea was sold to the public as a way to return the river to its natural state. They call it “re-wilding” the river. The theory says declining fish populations will naturally rebound once all the artificial barriers are removed.
Now, scientists have begun to study whether it will work.
Shouldn’t they have done that BEFORE they removed the dams?
Saving Puerto Rico’s Troubled Grid With Solar Panels
Puerto Rico suffers from chronic infrastructure problems, resulting from the corruptions rampant in its territorial government. Apparently its Electric Power Authority has run up a $9 billion debt which it cannot pay back. So naturally, when a hurricane struck in 2017 and caused outages across the island, Democrats and the media blamed Donald Trump.
So, new administration, new solutions, right? Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-Nutjob) now serves as the Secretary of Energy in Joe Biden’s flailing administration. She arrived in Puerto Rico this week to announce they’ve solved all of the island’s problems with its electrical grid, by allocating $325 million for solar panels and battery storage. The Department of Energy also announced an $861 million loan guarantee to build two solar farms.
Never mind the eleven vulnerable power substations, transmission lines that have yet to be rebuilt, or the failed mega transformer project. Infrastructure doesn’t matter when solar saves the day, or so Granholm seems to think.
And now for some good news . . .
Global Cooling Alert
The popular social media weather account, Mike’s Weather Page, reported about “Christmas in July” this week. A cold front will envelop most of the central and eastern United States, producing unseasonably mild to cool temperatures. This will keep global warming at bay for a week or two!
