By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~

Farmers and ranchers who assume that their main job is to produce food to feed hungry people stand corrected. John Kerry, the Biden administration’s special envoy on climate, wants to enlist them in the global struggle to combat the “climate crisis.”

“A lot of people have no clue that agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emission in the world,” Kerry said during his May 17 keynote address at the Department of Agriculture’s AIM Climate Summit. “We can’t get to net-zero, we can’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us here understand the depths of this mission.”

“Food systems themselves contribute a significant amount of emissions just in the way we do the things we’ve been doing,” he continued. “With a growing population on the planet – we’ve just crossed the threshold of…

Death and taxes are certainties, so is the fact that power prices soon rocket out-of-control, once your power needs depend on the weather. Ireland is no exception. More than €1.3 billion in subsidies has been thrown at wind power outfits in less than a decade, and with little to shown in return – unless, of course, the object was driving the cost of power into orbit. In which case the Irish have succeeded, with the latest bids for offshore wind power contracts hitting prices close to €150 per megawatt hour, three times the rates prevailing in neighbouring Scotland, and streets ahead of those elsewhere in Europe.

Mirin De Barra has the story below.

Ryan’s Much-Heralded Wind Energy Would be World’s Most Expensive at First Auction
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Mirin De Barra
8 May 2023

Last year, to great razzmatazz, Minister Eamon Ryan announced that opportunities to generate energy from Ireland’s wind was…