climate hoax – DS https://www.anglinarchive.com Daily Stormer Historical Archive Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.17 https://www.anglinarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/cropped-favicon-32x32.png climate hoax – DS https://www.anglinarchive.com 32 32 UK: Old Women Spray Paint Darwin’s Grave to Defeat Climate Change https://www.anglinarchive.com/2025/01/14/uk-old-women-spray-paint-darwins-grave-to-defeat-climate-change/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, white women are so moral.

It’s very astonishing how moral they are, because they believe everything the TV says they should believe, and then they make sure everyone sees how hard they believe the TV.

The desecrate graves to make sure everyone can see their morality.

Heroes.

Reuters:

Climate activists from Just Stop Oil painted over the grave of British naturalist Charles Darwin at London’s Westminster Abbey on Monday.

Two activists entered Westminster Abbey – Britain’s site for royal weddings, coronations, burials and a major tourist attraction – on Monday morning and used spray chalk on Darwin’s grave, the campaign group said in a statement.

The activists wrote “1.5 is dead” in orange over the surface of the white marble gravestone – a reference to recent news that global temperatures in 2024 had exceeded 1.5 Celsius above the pre-industrial era for the first time.

“We have passed the 1.5 degree threshold that was supposed to keep us safe,” one of the activists said. “Darwin would be turning in his grave to know we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction.”

Darwin, best known for his theory of evolution by natural selection, died in 1882. He is buried in Westminster Abbey’s Scientists’ Corner, where Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking are also buried.

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London’s Metropolitan Police said two women had been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage at Westminster Abbey and taken to a central London police station.

Just Stop Oil activists have staged a number of high-profile protests in Britain including by disrupting sports and theatre events, painting over the U.S. embassy building in London and throwing soup at Van Gogh paintings.

These are very interesting women.

They believe the best things, just like the TV said they should, and the world needs to stand in awe of their morals.

Doomed, I tell ya

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Montana: State Supreme Court Invents “Right to Stable Climate” https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/12/20/montana-state-supreme-court-invents-right-to-stable-climate/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Teenagers apparently think it is very fashionable to be engaged in chronic nagging.

That is the result of the liberation of women and the feminization of everything: nagging is the new cool, because everything is centered on women, and nagging is the favorite activity of all women.

Reuters:

Montana’s top court ruled on Wednesday the state’s constitution guarantees a right to a stable climate and invalidates laws barring regulators from considering the effects of greenhouse-gas emissions when permitting fossil-fuel projects.

The Montana Supreme Court upheld a landmark trial court decision in favor of 16 young people who said their health and futures were being jeopardized by climate change that the state aggravates through its permitting of energy projects.

The 6-1 decision, the first of its kind by a U.S. state supreme court, came in the first lawsuit to go to trial nationwide by young environmental activists challenging state and federal policies they say are exacerbating climate change.

Chase Scheuer, a spokesperson for Republican Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, in a statement called the ruling “disappointing, but not surprising.”

“The majority of the state Supreme Court justices yet again ruled in favor of their ideologically aligned allies and ignored the fact that Montana has no power to impact the climate,” Scheuer said.

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Wednesday’s ruling rejected Republican-led Montana’s bid to overturn District Court Judge Kathy Seeley’s 2023 decision that said the young people had a right to a clean and healthful environment under a 1972 amendment to Montana’s constitution that required the state to protect and improve the environment.


I bet this could apply to all the poisonous shit that’s in all the food and water and air everywhere, including Montana, but ain’t nobody got time for that

“Montana’s right to a clean and healthful environment and environmental life support system includes a stable climate system,” Chief Justice Mike McGrath wrote for the majority.

The state had argued the young people lacked legal standing to challenge the restrictions on agencies’ ability to consider greenhouse gas emissions when issuing permits. But McGrath said they proved they had “a sufficient personal stake in their inalienable right to a clean and healthful environment.”

He said the young people had shown that climate change was harming Montana’s environmental life support system and “drastically” altering its water systems, air quality, glaciers and forests by increasing temperatures as well as leading to droughts, wildfires and extreme weather events.

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Nate Bellinger, a lawyer for the plaintiffs at the nonprofit Our Children’s Trust, in a statement said the ruling “affirmed the constitutional rights of youth to a safe and livable climate, confirming that the future of our children cannot be sacrificed for fossil fuel interests.”

What does it even mean that you would have a “right” to a certain kind of weather pattern?

That’s like saying “I have a right to no volcanic eruptions.”

The government is obsessed with issuing “rights” to various groups, as the flipside of a “right” is that the government now has godlike powers to bestow things on people.

Corporations are allowed to seep poisonous chemicals into your groundwater, and you have no recourse. But the government will change the weather for you so you don’t get swamp-ass.

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Global Warmers Sentenced for Throwing Red Powder on US Constitution https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/11/29/global-warmers-sentenced-for-throwing-red-powder-on-us-constitution/ Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Constitution won’t mean shit in 30 years when eating meat and using electricity makes the weather hotter and everyone has swamp-ass.

Your religion, your beliefs, your family – none of it will matter when you’re all sweaty and sticky in 30 years.

Fox News:

A pair of climate activists who vandalized the National Archives Rotunda back in February when they dumped red powder on the encasement protecting the U.S. Constitution have learned their fate.

Donald Zepeda, 35, of Maryland, and Jackson Green, 27, of Utah, were sentenced to 24 months in prison and 18 months, respectively, in the Feb. 14, 2024, attack on the U.S. Constitution housed at the National Archives in Washington D.C., U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David Geist of the Washington Field Office Criminal and Cyber Division announced on Monday.

Zepeda pleaded guilty on Aug. 15 to felony destruction of property for dumping a fine red powder over a display case containing the U.S. Constitution in the Rotunda of the Archives building.

The cost of cleaning up after the stunt, which was intended to draw attention to climate change, exceeded $58,000, officials said.

 

The vandalism also closed the Rotunda for four days, preventing students, visitors, and D.C. residents from visiting.

Green also pleaded guilty on Aug. 13 to felony destruction of property for the red powder attack on the U.S. Constitution and, in addition, pleaded guilty to one count of injury to a National Gallery of Art exhibit for his Nov. 14, 2023, defacement of a memorial to Black Civil War soldiers, Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial (1900).

Zepeda and Green were also ordered to serve 24 months of supervised release and to each pay $58,600 in restitution. They were also ordered to do community service, which must include cleaning up graffiti. Both were banned from D.C. and all museums across the U.S.

Green had been charged in the assault on the Shaw Memorial only 13 days prior to joining Zepeda in the defacement of the Archives.

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The group issued a statement following the sentencing stating they anticipated the sentence to be “harsh.”

“Despite lack of evidence that any damage was done, both Green and Zepeda were charged with felony destruction of government property,” the group wrote in a statement on their website. “The tempera paint powder was selected because it would do no harm, and indeed no powder entered the case.”

Maybe in prison, they will finally get laid.


“We did it, bruh! We saved the weather!”

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Maine Becomes Newest State to Sue Oil Companies Over Global Warming https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/11/28/maine-becomes-newest-state-to-sue-oil-companies-over-global-warming/ Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Oil companies secretly believed in global warming this whole time.

I don’t believe in it, and most people do not believe in it, because there is no evidence and it’s retarded on its face. Plus there is actually serious proof that these warmers get together and lie.

But for some reason, the people working at the oil companies all believed in global warming and then said they didn’t.

The Hill:

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) this week announced a lawsuit against major oil companies and their top lobbying group, alleging they knowingly concealed the role of fossil fuels in climate change for decades.

Frey said Tuesday that defendants in the lawsuit include Exxon, Shell, Chevron, BP, Sunoco, and the American Petroleum Institute (API). In a nearly 200-page complaint, the state alleges the companies contributed to Maine’s financial liability by concealing knowledge of the link as far back as the 1960s.

“For over half a century, these companies chose to fuel profits instead of following their science to prevent what are now likely irreversible, catastrophic climate effects,” Frey said in a statement. “In so doing, they burdened the State and our citizens with the consequences of their greed and deception.”


Aaron Frey

The state said it is seeking a jury trial and damages compensating the state for both future mitigation efforts and the costs of earlier impacts.

Maine is the ninth state to sue to hold oil companies responsible for the effects of climate change, none of which have gone to trial. A separate coalition of Republican attorneys general has called on the Supreme Court to bar lawsuits from five of those states, arguing they rely on powers the states do not have.

The Pine Tree State has seen a number of extreme weather events in recent years in particular, with Sen. Susan Collins (R) saying at a Senate hearing last week that recent storms “took out about 50 percent of our fishing infrastructure in our state.”

Why don’t they sue the companies putting PFAS and pesticides in the groundwater? No one even doubts that these things are both real and very dangerous, and those polluters face no consequences.

Maybe it’s because government people aren’t all invested in alternatives to PFAS and pesticides?

This video is 5 years old, but everything is still valid today

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Germany: Electric Car Owners Increasingly Switching Back to Normal Cars https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/10/16/germany-electric-car-owners-increasingly-switching-back-to-normal-cars/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Electric cars are an interesting novelty, but they’re not a serious replacement for real cars. They are not actually cars, but throwaway electronics, like phones and laptops. Everything is grotesque plastic, and cheap.

The ownership experience is not good. Things break all the time and none of it can be fixed by anyone except the makers of the cars. No one was begging for these machines, they were forced on people through mass-marketing campaigns.

Breitbart:

Never mind persuading the public to buy electric vehicles, an emerging challenge for the green energy reset in Germany is getting them to keep them, with a soaring number of EV owners switching back to internal combustion.

One in three electric vehicle owners switched back to gasoline or diesel cars this year, data from Germany’s largest car insurer states, a growing trend suggesting even those who took the leap aren’t finding the new technology as suitable for their lifestyles as hoped. As stated, the abolition of the electric car subsidy encouraging new purchases with a hefty €4,500 to €6,000 ($4,900, $6,500) taxpayer-funded discount continues to be felt.

Germany plans to abolish the sale of almost all new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles by 2035, but has a long way to go in the next decade to square this with the public, a report on new data in Die Welt finds. While a survey that 29 per cent of Germans would only ever consider an electric car if forced by law and only 18 per cent say they would consider an electric for their next car purchase, actual observed behaviour is more instructive.

Just 3.6 per cent of ICE drivers made the switch to electric in Germany this year, it is stated, with electric vehicles accounting for 2.9 per cent of vehicles on the country’s roads. Yet at the same time, 34 per cent of electric car owners switched back to ICE so far this year.

This is a figure that has risen year-on-year all this decade, with the switch-back rate to gasoline now double the 14 per cent observed in 2021. As observed in the German press: “Apparently, electric cars cannot convince many owners to stick with this form of propulsion in the long term.”

Earlier data reported on earlier this year stated demand for electric vehicles was falling across the continent, with demand in Germany falling nearly 29 per cent.

It might feel really great to imagine you’re going to change the weather, to solve the swamp ass crisis by turning the earth into a solid sheet of ice.

But a year with one of these cars will turn you into a global warming denier.

China is making some good ones, and they are getting better, but China has a very different society, where things just tend to work better. China is primarily introducing EVs based on price point: they are significantly cheaper than normal cars, so people who might not even own a car otherwise can afford them.

It’s a much different strategy than bullying the population with global warming gibberish.

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Oregon: County Sues State’s Biggest Gas Company for “Climate Deception” https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/10/11/oregon-county-sues-states-biggest-gas-company-for-climate-deception/ Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

They don’t even put the term “climate deception” in quotation marks.

As if this is an established term which we all understand.

The Guardian:

Oregon’s most populous county has sued the state’s biggest gas provider for allegedly sowing climate doubt, marking the first time a utility has faced charges of climate deception.

Last year, Multnomah county sued 17 fossil fuel companies and interest groups for allegedly deceiving the public about the climate crisis. The lawsuit came two years after a record-shattering heat dome killed 69 people across the county.

Video from a year ago, when the lawsuit against the other companies started

Research shows the climate crisis greatly exacerbated the 2021 temperature surge. Oil and gas companies, which fuel global warming, should pay climate damages, the lawsuit argues.

Should companies that install windmills and solar panels pay for the caused by the rare earth minerals they’re dumping in the groundwater across the entire country though?

On Monday, the county announced that it has amended its complaint to include the gas utility NW Natural, Oregon’s oldest and largest fossil fuel company.

“NW Natural engaged in an enterprise of misrepresentation about the effects its products would have on the climate,” the amended litigation says.

NW Natural is responsible for some 9% of Oregon’s carbon dioxide emissions, the lawsuit alleges, arguing that it has also disseminated misinformation about the climate dangers of gas.

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The county’s move could open the door for more litigation against utilities, said Alyssa Johl, vice-president of legal and general counsel at the Center for Climate Integrity, which tracks and supports climate deception lawsuits.

Rofl.

“Gas utilities have been significant players in the historic and ongoing deception campaigns to mislead the public about the dangers of fossil fuels,” she said.

Though NW Natural has touted its commitment to a “carbon neutral future”, the company “has not implemented any operational changes that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Oregon”, the lawsuit says. It also accuses the company of “astroturfing” community support for gas.

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The amended complaint also names the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine – a non-profit that environmentalists have long said spreads climate denial – marking the first such suit against the group.

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Multnomah county is one of two dozen cities, counties and states across the US that have filed charges of climate deception against the fossil fuel industry. It seeks $50bn in damages from the 2021 heat dome and additional $1.5bn for future climate damages.

Based on this logic, Daily Stormer could be sued for denying global warming.

Apparently “climate deception” is an established crime now.

This is what happens when women get bored: they find some Jewish program to establish tyrannical global government and become fixated on enforcing the rules.

Women are obsessed with rule-lawyering. They use it to dominate people. We all saw this during the virus hoax with these women and their mask agenda.

FACT: No heatwaves ever happened before the invention of cow farts

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Anal Pope Appoints Anal Militant as Cardinal https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/10/10/anal-pope-appoints-anal-militant-as-cardinal/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This man is a total homosexual extremist.

This is the absolute direction of the Vatican: complete rectum ruin.

Breitbart:

Pope Francis has announced his intention to make 21 new cardinals on December 8, among whom is the pro-LGBT Dominican friar Timothy Radcliffe.

In 2023, the pontiff chose the woke friar to open the Vatican Synod on Synodality, who began his words by confessing, “I am old, white, a Westerner, and a man! I don’t know which is worse.”

“All of these aspects of my identity limit my understanding, so I ask for your forgiveness for the inadequacy of my words.” said Father Radcliffe, a leader of the Church’s progressive wing for decades, who was largely sidelined during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II but has found new life under Francis.


Timothy Radcliffe

Preaching to the synod participants, the former head of the Dominican order described what he sees as the dismal state of the world due to climate change and immigration.

“The future looks grim,” he declared. “Ecological catastrophe threatens the destruction of our home. Wildfires and floods have devoured the world this summer. Small islands begin to disappear under the sea.”

“Millions of people are on the road fleeing from poverty and violence,” he continued. “Hundreds have drowned in the Mediterranean not far from here.”

“Many parents refuse to bring children into a world that appears doomed,” he said. “In China, young people wear T-shirts saying, ‘We are the last generation.’”

The preacher went on to suggest that in the face of the divine, where one stands on doctrinal matters is of little importance.

“If we are truly on the way to the Kingdom, does it really matter whether you align yourselves with so-called traditionalists or progressives?” he asked.

Father Radcliffe has been a vocal supporter of progressive causes for decades, often lending his voice to the lobby to rehabilitate gay sex, insisting there is always time for future “evolution” on Catholic moral teaching, which has made him a darling of the LGBT lobby.

“The question always put is: is the Church’s teaching going to change? That’s not the issue,” Radcliffe said last year in relation to the Church’s moral stance against gay sex. “The issue is, will we love and welcome our fellow human beings?”

“If there are evolutions to happen, they will happen,” he added, “but you don’t start off by asking what changes have to be made.”

Radcliffe has publicly opposed the Church’s ban on admitting men with homosexual tendencies into seminaries to become priests.

In an interview with the London Times in 2005, Radcliffe argued that while “homophobia or misogyny” should be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, his homosexuality should not.

“I have no doubt that God does call homosexuals to the priesthood, and they are among the most dedicated and impressive priests I have met,” he stated.

In a 2006 address to the Los Angeles Religious Education Conference, Radcliffe called on the Church to “stand with” gay people.

“We must accompany them as they discern what this means, letting our images be stretched open,” he exhorted. “This means watching ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ reading gay novels, living with our gay friends and listening with them as they listen to the Lord.”

In 2013, Father Radcliffe argued that gay sex can be “Eucharistic,” expressive of Christ’s self-gift in Holy Communion.

We cannot begin with the question of whether gay sex is permitted or forbidden!, he stated. “We must ask what it means, and how far it is Eucharistic.”

“Certainly it can be generous, vulnerable, tender, mutual and non-violent. So in many ways, I would think that it can be expressive of Christ’s self-gift,” he said.

There is no end in sight for the anal oblivion pushed by the Catholic Church, and yet there appears to be no plan by traditional Catholics to push back against this Anal Holocaust that the Pope is intent on inflicting on the free people of the world.

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Illinois: Governor Mandates Climate Hoax Indoctrination for All K-12 Students https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/10/10/illinois-governor-mandates-climate-hoax-indoctrination-for-all-k-12-students/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000
Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker. The “J.B.” stands for “Jew Blimp.”

Pritzker is not just Jew, he is ultra-beast Jew.

Of course he is obsessed with global warming. All Jews and women are obsessed with global warming. No one else believes in it.

Life Site News:

Starting in fall 2026, indoctrination into climate activism will become an official part of every public school curriculum in Illinois, according to a bill signed in August by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

HB4895 states that, starting in the school 2026-2027 school year, “every public school shall provide instruction on climate change, which shall include, but not be limited to, identifying the environmental and ecological impacts of climate change on individuals and communities and evaluating solutions for addressing and mitigating the impact of climate change and shall be in alignment with State learning standards, as appropriate.”

“The State Board of Education shall, subject to appropriation, prepare and make available multi-disciplinary instructional resources and professional learning opportunities for educators that may be used to meet the requirements of this subsection,” the bill adds.


This kike and his family are also the main promoters of trannyism

The University of Illinois student newspaper The Daily Illi reports that the bill was the work of a young climate activist, University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences freshman Grace Brady, and Democratic state Rep. Janet Yang Rohr. Celebrating the bill’s passage, Brady said openly it was a “big step for creating more advocacy and student agency around climate change.”

“Thanks to Governor Pritzker and my colleagues in the General Assembly, Illinois will soon offer fact-based coursework and teacher preparation programs on the history and future of climate change,” Rohr added.

These Jews have buried all discussion of whether or not global warming is real. They now say that it’s a settled fact, which gives them an absolute right to do whatever they want to you in the name of preventing swamp-ass and turning the earth into a solid sheet of ice.

Related, totally real news

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Global Warmers Call for Reducing Population Through Women’s Rights and Education https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/10/09/global-warmers-call-for-reducing-population-through-womens-rights-and-education/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

These people never bothered to provide any evidence global warming war real. Nothing has changed in this goofy movement since Al Gore won an Academy Award and a Nobel Peace Prize for telling people New York City would be under water by 2013.

Global warming is a complete hoax, and anyone who knows anything is aware of that. The hoax has been so thoroughly debunked that there is no reason to even talk about it at this point.

However, due to a stupid, vaginal, emotionalized campaign to tell people they are good people if they believe in this dumb hoax, many people apparently do believe in it, and they can just keep pushing it further and further. They’ve of course backed off of the “cities will be underwater” bullshit, because that was ruled too stupid. But now they say any change in weather is caused by this fake thing, and are recently arguing for an incoming “societal collapse.”

Their solutions are all related to social engineering. If they actually believed carbon dioxide was a threat, they could just build nuclear power plants to power Chinese EVs and be done with it. Of course, that would only take a decade or so, and then they wouldn’t have any reason to push for all of these social engineering agendas.

The Guardian:

Many of the Earth’s “vital signs” have hit record extremes, indicating that “the future of humanity hangs in the balance”, a group of the world’s most senior climate experts has said.

More and more scientists are now looking into the possibility of societal collapse, said the report, which assessed 35 vital signs in 2023 and found that 25 were worse than ever recorded, including carbon dioxide levels and human population. This indicates a “critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis”, they said.

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Global heating is driving increasingly deadly extreme weather across the world, they said, including hurricanes in the US and 50C heatwaves in India, with billions of people now exposed to extreme heat.

The scientists said their goal was “to provide clear, evidence-based insights that inspire informed and bold responses from citizens to researchers and world leaders – we just want to act truthfully and tell it like it is”. Decisive, fast action was imperative, they said, to limit human suffering, including slashing fossil fuel burning and methane emissions, cutting overconsumption and waste by the rich, and encouraging a switch towards plant-based foods.

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The researchers said global heating was part of a wider crisis, which included pollution, the destruction of nature and rising economic inequality: “Climate change is a glaring symptom of a deeper systemic issue: ecological overshoot, [which] is an inherently unstable state that cannot persist indefinitely. As the risk of Earth’s climate system switching to a catastrophic state rises, more and more scientists have begun to research the possibility of societal collapse. Even in the absence of global collapse, climate change could cause many millions of additional deaths by 2050. We need bold, transformative change.”

Among the policies the scientists recommend for rapid adoption are gradually reducing the human population through empowering education and rights for girls and women, protecting restoring, or rewilding ecosystems, and integrating climate change education into global curriculums to boost awareness and action.

You see? They will admit that women’s rights destroys the birthrate when they are arguing for purposefully destroying the birthrate.

However, when countries like South Korea or Hungary are trying to increase the birthrate, all of the sudden it’s an economic issue, and the government just needs to throw free money at stupid whores to get them to reproduce.

Let that sink in: these people admit that women’s rights destroys birthrates.

It’s not a theory. Everyone knows this.

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UK Shuts Down Its Last Remaining Coal Power Plant https://www.anglinarchive.com/2024/10/02/uk-shuts-down-its-last-remaining-coal-power-plant/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Well, this will change the weather for sure.

AP:

Britain’s last coal-fired power plant is closing on Monday, ending 142 years of coal-generated electricity in the nation that sparked the Industrial Revolution.

The Ratcliffe-on-Soar station in central England is finishing its final shift at midnight after more than half a century of turning coal into power. The U.K. government hailed the closure as a milestone in efforts to generate all of Britain’s energy from renewable sources by 2030.

Plant manager Peter O’Grady said it was “an emotional day.”

“When I started my career 36 years ago, none of us imaged a future without coal generation in our lifetimes,” he said.

The shutdown makes Britain the first country from the Group of Seven major economies to phase out coal — though some other European nations, including Sweden and Belgium, got there sooner.

Owner Uniper says many of the 170 remaining employees will stay on during a two-year decommissioning process.

Energy Minister Michael Shanks said the plant’s closure “marks the end of an era and coal workers can be rightly proud of their work powering our country for over 140 years. We owe generations a debt of gratitude as a country.”

“The era of coal might be ending, but a new age of good energy jobs for our country is just beginning,” he said.


The new age looks very grim so far

The world’s first coal-fired electricity plant, Thomas Edison’s Edison Electric Light Station, opened in London in 1882.

Ratcliffe-on-Soar, which opened in 1967, is a landmark whose eight concrete cooling towers and 199-meter (650-foot) chimney are seen by millions of people a year as they drive past on the M1 highway or speed by on trains.

In 1990 coal provided about 80% of Britain’s electricity. By 2012 it had fallen to 39%, and by 2023 it stood at just 1%, according to figures from the National Grid. More than half of Britain’s electricity now comes from renewable sources such as wind and solar power, and the rest from natural gas and nuclear energy.

“Ten years ago, coal was the leading source of this country’s power — generating a third of our electricity,” said Dhara Vyas, deputy chief executive of trade body Energy U.K.

“So, to get to this point just a decade later, with coal’s contribution replaced by clean and low carbon sources, is an incredible achievement,” Vyas said. “As we aim for further ambitious targets in the energy transition, it’s worth remembering that few back then thought such a change at such a pace was possible.”

Coal has fueled civil strife as well as powering the country. Tens of thousands of miners walked out in 1984 over plans by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government to close more than 20 coal pits. The strike lasted a year, divided communities and saw widespread violence as police clashed with pickets. The miners’ eventual defeat helped break the power of Britain’s trade unions and hasten the end of the mining industry and the communities that relied on it.

Coal remains a combustible issue. Plans to open Britain’s first new coal mine in 30 years in northwest England divided residents, with some welcoming the promise of well-paid jobs and others opposing the pollution and carbon emissions it would bring. On Sept. 13 the High Court struck down planning permission for the mine that had been granted by the previous Conservative government in 2022.

Another chapter in Britain’s carbon-burning industrial heritage ends Monday with the closure of the last blast furnace at one of the world’s biggest steelworks, in Port Talbot, Wales.

Almost 2,000 jobs are being lost with the shutdown at the plant, owned by India’s Tata Steel. Tata plans to replace the blast furnace, which runs on the coal derivative coke, with a cleaner electric furnace that will emit less carbon and require fewer workers.

Stupid like a fox.

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