1 year of excessive spending undoes 18 years of savings.

That's an analogy for what the research report from UCLA says.

One of the corollaries of this report is that we cannot solve the CO2 problem by reducing emissions. There's simply too much CO2 being generated through processes that we cannot control; brush and forest fires being one example of this in CA.

Despite the fact that nobody wants to talk about it, we already know (since probably 2010~2014) that we cannot stop the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration using renewable energy. We also know that a full transition to electric vehicles on top of that isn't going to achieve that goal at all.

It's impossible. And by that I mean:

If you do the math and honestly look at the science, the numbers say we can't do it.

Why?

Well, this article exposes just one aspect of this. When one season of forest/brush fires negates 18 years of savings, the numbers tell a story of futility. Add to this multiple years, when the savings-vs-fire emissions is anywhere in the 1-to-1 to 18-to-1 (or more) range, and the reality of this story is quite clear.

There are places on this planet where underground coal fires have been burning continuously for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. One good volcano eruption likely negates decades of CO2 emission reductions. Etc.

I have been talking about this for years. We are being sold a fantasy by those who are making billions with this stuff and the puppet-masters who use it for political gain. The tragedy here is that we are not discussing what we should really be doing because they are keeping us focused on false narratives and non-solutions.

We need to start talking about reality and leave fantasies behind. Climate change is a real problem. Fantasies are not going to address any of it.

What's the solution?

That is an incredibly difficult question to answer. There might be no answer, or one that is measured in tens or hundreds of human generations. We won't know until we stop with the bullshit.

What's the bullshit?

That we can fix this in ten, twenty or fifty years. That's crazy. 2050? Give me a break!

The idea that solar, wind and EV's are going to save the world. That's beyond self evident to anyone who can step away from the mass indoctrination and actually engage in critical thinking. Start with 1.4 billion cars in the world and do the math from there. Not just power requirements. No. Start with the math related to replacing every single one of them with a newly manufactured EV. Then look at lifetime maintenance and power requirements. I would be surprised if anyone with a reasonable command of math and physics doesn't come to the conclusion that the entire cult surrounding renewables and EV's is nothing less than demented. The numbers, the math, the science, tells the story.

If twelve months of unavoidable fires wipes out 18 years of savings, the conclusion is obvious to a high school kid with a calculator.

That's not to say we should not clean up our act. The point is that we need to stop with this save-the-world with EV's and renewables narrative so we can focus on finding real solutions.

What's interesting to me about this UCLA report is that the truth is slowly starting to leak out of the scientific community. Given that your career can be completely ruined and research grants can evaporate if you don't sign-on to the cult, it is quite ballsy for anyone in academia to come out and say the equivalent of "Excuse me, something is wrong with the math". The thing is, at some point the math starts to override the fantasies. It has a way to get out. Galileo was right. And, despite the fact that they threw him in prison (home confinement) for the rest of his life, the truth got out. Sadly that kind of thing happens in science. It's happening now. The good news is it seems the cracks are starting to become visible and the truth will eventually get out. I just hope we don't cause irreparable damage before it does.

When twelve months of fires negates nearly two decades of savings, people truly need to start asking some very serious questions.