“South Africa exceeds local weather goal as energy cuts lower emissions” – “Unintended… energy plant failures cut back industrial exercise” – Do you agree?
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Bloomberg: South Africa is well ahead of its target in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. … Periodic outages at the coal-fired power plants that provide more than 80% of South Africa’s electricity mean less carbon dioxide is being pumped into the atmosphere and daily rotational shutdowns of more than 10 hours a day further limit emissions from factories.
“It’s unintentional,” said Crispian Olver, executive director of South Africa’s Presidential Climate Commission, in an interview in Johannesburg on Monday. “We expect to be well within range” to meet the 2030 target, he said. …”It is very difficult to recommend closing power plants in the middle of an energy crisis.”
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Flashback 2011: We’re all North Koreans now: ‘Era of always-on electricity at home is coming to an end, says UK energy secretary’ – ‘Families would have to get used to using electricity only when it’s available’
The Swiss president warns the nation to prepare for power shortages lasting weeks or months
Major UK newspaper touts ‘return of rationing’ to ‘fix global warming’ – ‘creating a shortage of fossil fuels’
By: Admin – Climate Depot May 16, 2023 1:03 pm
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-15/south-africa-beats-climate-goal-as-blackouts-slash-emissions#xj4y7vzkg?leadSource=uverify%20wall
South Africa surpasses climate target as power outages cut emissions
- South Africa’s emissions are falling and are above the 2025 target
- Power plant failures affect industrial activity
By Antony Sguazzin
May 15, 2023 at 10:10 am EDT
South Africa is well ahead of its target in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Emissions of climate-warming gases from the world’s fourteenth-largest emitter are already declining, although its nationally determined contribution, a target approved by Cabinet in 2021, forecasts a decline only from 2025 onwards.
Periodic outages at the coal-fired power plants that provide more than 80% of South Africa’s electricity mean less carbon dioxide is being pumped into the atmosphere, and daily rotation shutdowns of more than 10 hours a day further limit emissions from factories.
“It’s unintentional,” said Crispian Olver, executive director of South Africa’s Presidential Climate Commission, in an interview in Johannesburg on Monday. “We expect to be well within range” to meet the 2030 target, he said.
South Africa aims to reduce its emissions to between 350 and 420 megatons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030, surpassing the target set in 2015 of emitting between 398 and 614 megatons by that date. The 2021 target was key in enabling South Africa to secure $8.5 billion in climate finance commitments from some of the world’s richest nations.
If the closure dates of some coal-fired power plants are pushed back, it will have little impact on emissions as they produce little electricity anyway, he said.
Keeping them open for another year or two “is neither here nor there,” Olver said in a previous webinar. “It is very difficult to recommend closing power plants in the midst of an energy crisis.”
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Flashback: Rutgers U. Professor: “To save the climate, abandon demand for constant electricity” – David McDermott Hughes, Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and author of “Energy without Conscience”: “Let’s here for a Eating a cold dinner for a while and there. Continuity costs too much. Climate change is killing, and vulnerable people first. Intermittency saves lives, saving vulnerable people first. Let the pause take its place in the ongoing climate activism… What is true in the pandemic is true – and also with desperate urgency – in the climate crisis. We can live with some disruption and rationing – at least until batteries and other forms of energy storage are ready for use everywhere.”
Flashback 2011: We’re all North Koreans now: ‘Era of always-on electricity at home is coming to an end, says UK energy secretary’ – ‘Families would have to get used to using electricity only when it’s available’
The Daily Telegraph – March 2, 2011: “The era of always-on electricity at home is coming to an end, says UK energy secretary”
Excerpt: “The days of permanently available electricity could be coming to an end,” said the head of the power grid yesterday. Families need to get used to using electricity only when it’s available, not all the time, said Steve Holliday, National Grid’s chief executive. Mr Holliday was faced with the question of how the country could “keep the lights on” when it became more dependent on wind turbines as gas supplies dwindled. The electricity provided by wind farms will increase six-fold by 2020, but critics say they only produce on windy days.
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“We will change our own behavior and consume it when it is available and cheap.”
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The Swiss president warns the nation to prepare for power shortages lasting weeks or months
Major UK newspaper touts ‘return of rationing’ to ‘fix global warming’ – ‘creating a shortage of fossil fuels’
Britain’s The Times published one of the craziest bits of climate change gibberish on February 20 in an article entitled “How to tackle global warming?” Bring back rationing, say scientists.” The first sentence of the article was riddled with mind-melting nonsense: “WWII-style rationing of petrol, household energy and meat could help fight climate change, British scientists have recommended.”
The newspaper quoted “researchers” – whose names it only names at the end of the article – from the University of Leeds, who published climate propaganda disguised as analysis in the journal Ethics, Policy & Environment. The Times cited the study, which also suggested giving citizens a “carbon allowance” and creating a “fossil fuel shortage.” …
What the Times was selling, of course, was massive government intervention. “The researchers argue that as a first step governments should regulate sectors such as the oil industry by ‘banning or restricting’ imports of fossil fuels in certain areas.” Indeed, the Times said: “[t]This would lead to a shortage of fossil fuels, and then rationing would be introduced to “manage the shortage,” they explain.”
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