Weekly clippings #11 - failed predictions, cold deaths, ESG dustbin

 The lineup today seems especially powerful and interesting to me. In the category of science, we see that Canada’s official climate predictions have all been wrong (in the same direction) and that cold kills ten times more than heat, which people who promote fear of warming are generally ignorant of or deliberately avoid.  In the category of investment and economics we see the fallacies of wind and solar being cheap, how ESG metrics are ridiculous, and how net zero policies are perpetuating poverty for hundreds of millions in Africa – is this something we want to be known for? In the absurdity category – well, these usually speak for themselves but the first one is a classic case of hypocrisy in climate politics.

Canada’s 2001 climate predictions revisited. The predictions weren’t just wrong, they were all wrong in the same direction. For six major predictions every one was wrong.

Excess mortality attributed to heat and cold: a health impact assessment study in 854 cities in Europe  Ten times more European deaths per year are attributed to cold weather than to hot weather. In this article the scale for heat deaths was manipulated to make it look similar to cold. What are they afraid of - the truth?

How these oil and gas players are undermining climate action in Canada  

ESG is finally going into the corporate dustbin where it belongs  The list of ESG failures is growing while ESG language is disappearing from corporate boardrooms. One of the dumbest and most expensive social trends in modern history just came and went. Unfortunately, as with supporters of communism, the supporters of ESG think it just hasn’t been done right yet. They will rebrand the concept and try to push it through elsewhere.

ESG is on its way out — now that investors have been forced to wise up Survey data from RBC Capital Markets finds that 56% of sustainable-fund debuts have re-labeled their products “thematic” rather than “ESG.” The ESG literature, like the metrics themselves, was all noise, no signal. Stern finance professor Aswath Damodaran took one look at ESG and mocked it as a “goodness gravy train.” His sentiments were widely shared around serious, results-oriented investment professionals. But the marketing departments could not help themselves, and so we got years of well-funded ESG pumping.

ESG Disclosures and the Decision to Go Public

Glowing example of sanity One facility, albeit with eight reactors, that could power 4.8 million homes. So for any other global warmists looking to save the planet and their own minds, we ask: How many wind turbines or solar panels over how large an area would it take to do the same?