The purpose of banning fossil fuels has always been to prevent economic development and industrialisation in developing countries, and to destroy industries in developed countries. This campaign emerged in the 1970s from The Club of Rome and UN Environment Programme founders' Malthusian and anti-humanity ideology, supported by massive funding from global billionaires. Of course, governments know the people need energy for their domestic, transport and employment so busily set up alternative energy systems - wind and solar. These cannot function without huge financial support which is met by subsidies, which are paid for by customers via their utiity bills, which is why utility bills increase. Once the underlying ideology is exposed and governments refuse to support it, fossil fuels will be used again - as they are in India and China. Carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels does not cause global warming or climate change. It is bogus and a lie to claim that it does.
Thank you for adding to information about the ever increasing cost of energy due to wind and solar, which comes to us thanks to the Green religion.
Small statistical suggestion. When you include a trend line for a scatterplot, particularly a time series, include the formula, linear, exponential or whatever. This allows people like myself to project future points (even points beyond reasonable extrapolation, ha ha).
As per your suggestion for trends, I am sceptical… I usually discourage they use. Please see the paper:
T. Iliopoulou, and D. Koutsoyiannis, Projecting the future of rainfall extremes: better classic than trendy, Journal of Hydrology, 588, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125005, 2020, https://www.itia.ntua.gr/2045/
The epigram in this paper may provide the explanation why I discourage the use of trends for predictions:
“A trend is a trend is a trend / But the question is, will it bend? /
Will it alter its course / Through some unforeseen force /
And come to a premature end?”
(Sir Alec Cairncross, 1969, signing as “Stein Age Forecaster”)
I think, unlike the declining Western countries, India and China care for their peoples and are in a phase of increasing prosperity.
On the other hand, they do not generate intellectual advances that could counter Western ideologies. So, the Western narratives prevail even in these countries.
We badly need intellectual progress, which I can hardly see anywhere in the world.
The purpose of banning fossil fuels has always been to prevent economic development and industrialisation in developing countries, and to destroy industries in developed countries. This campaign emerged in the 1970s from The Club of Rome and UN Environment Programme founders' Malthusian and anti-humanity ideology, supported by massive funding from global billionaires. Of course, governments know the people need energy for their domestic, transport and employment so busily set up alternative energy systems - wind and solar. These cannot function without huge financial support which is met by subsidies, which are paid for by customers via their utiity bills, which is why utility bills increase. Once the underlying ideology is exposed and governments refuse to support it, fossil fuels will be used again - as they are in India and China. Carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels does not cause global warming or climate change. It is bogus and a lie to claim that it does.
Thank you for adding to information about the ever increasing cost of energy due to wind and solar, which comes to us thanks to the Green religion.
Small statistical suggestion. When you include a trend line for a scatterplot, particularly a time series, include the formula, linear, exponential or whatever. This allows people like myself to project future points (even points beyond reasonable extrapolation, ha ha).
Bill, thanks for your comment https://climath.substack.com/p/energy-prices-in-greece-in-the-last/comment/79385674
As per your suggestion for trends, I am sceptical… I usually discourage they use. Please see the paper:
T. Iliopoulou, and D. Koutsoyiannis, Projecting the future of rainfall extremes: better classic than trendy, Journal of Hydrology, 588, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125005, 2020, https://www.itia.ntua.gr/2045/
The epigram in this paper may provide the explanation why I discourage the use of trends for predictions:
“A trend is a trend is a trend / But the question is, will it bend? /
Will it alter its course / Through some unforeseen force /
And come to a premature end?”
(Sir Alec Cairncross, 1969, signing as “Stein Age Forecaster”)
Thanks for your insights, Ariane! (Referring to your comment https://climath.substack.com/p/energy-prices-in-greece-in-the-last/comment/79384168).
I think, unlike the declining Western countries, India and China care for their peoples and are in a phase of increasing prosperity.
On the other hand, they do not generate intellectual advances that could counter Western ideologies. So, the Western narratives prevail even in these countries.
We badly need intellectual progress, which I can hardly see anywhere in the world.