Energy 108, On mandatory solar roof in California

I saw this news from LA Times two weeks ago, discussed by WUWT.

California heads toward requiring solar panels on all new houses

By ANDREW KHOURI  MAY 08, 2018 | 4:55 PM 

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-solar-panels-homes-20180508-story.html

California to force new home owners to buy solar panels

Anthony Watts / 9, 2018

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/09/california-to-force-new-home-owners-to-buy-solar-panels/

What political socialism cannot achieve in America in terms of more command and control, ecological socialism can. Bonker, a proposal that ALL new houses in California must have solar roof, that means all new houses must cut and kill all nearby tall trees. Because solar hates shades -- from clouds, rains and tall trees. Shades automatically reduce the efficiency of solar.

Most environmentalists say, "Plant trees to save the planet." Solar developers and advocates say, "Remove/kill all nearby trees to save the planet."

Green, trees -- people can see birds, butterflies, squirrels, etc hopping/flying from branch to branch, or tree to tree. Solar has little or zero tolerance for tall trees with tall, wide shades. Solar is fake "green."

A solid anti-fossil fuel believer Filipino friend living in California, Joe Real, commented in my fb wall that "You have a twisted sense of logic my friend! Ha ha ha ha. Solar panels are twenty times more efficient than trees at capturing the energy of the sun! Basic Scientific Fact!"

It's good he confirmed it, that solar is fake green. That to get energy efficient solar, one must cut if not kill all nearby tall trees. Since he hates fossil fuels, from California to Manila or other far away cities in the planet, he and his fellow anti-oil campaigners and lobbyists should be riding solar planes or planes using water, or uber-kites, uber-brooms, any flying object that does not use fossil fuel.

Solar in desert may be understandable. But in this proposed CA new law, solar roof for ALL new houses will be mandatory. All the fakes and hypocrisy of the "greenies" or watermelon (green outside, red inside) and ecological socialist movement.

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See also:

Energy 105, When both world oil prices and domestic oil taxes are rising, January 14, 2018 

Energy 106, US oil output now 10+ mbpd, February 08, 2018 

Energy 107, Avoiding brownouts due to gensets, not solar battery, 2018

Climate Tricks 34: Watermelon Movement, Green Outside, Red Inside

 The People’s Climate March in NYC last September 21, 2014, has further shown that the climate alarmism movement is a watermelon movement. Green outside, red inside. Well, at least some of these groups are more frank, more honest of what they really want, global ecological and economic socialism. Modernization and cheaper energy by capitalism is evil. Governments and the UN should keep expanding and regulate everything. 

Source: WUWT,  ‘Paid volunteers’ forthe NYC climate march, September 21, 2014

And more frank calls, "Capitalism destroys the planet. We need revolution, nothing less". Among the planet saviours in the NY "climate march". wow. See more photos of the planet saviours.

Source: CFACT, Climate craziness descends on NYC, September 21, 2014

In Manila that day, a photo from ANC tweet, below. I zoomed in on the photo, some plackards say, "Capitalism is killing the planet", "Shift to Renewable Energy", "Remember Yolanda victims, ACT NOW." The climate alarmism movement is often driven by anti-capitalism sentiment and deep desire for socialism and dictatorship. The ecological dictators will dictate what power plant can be put up and which ones to over-tax or outrightly kill. They will dictate how much carbon and environmental taxes to collect, dictate how much subsidy crony energy plants will get from taxpayers, and so on.

Source: “Police block activists trying to approach US Embassy in Manila”, Sept. 22, 2014,

https://twitter.com/ANCALERTS/status/514264186742784000/photo/1

CFACT made a follow up article on that Climate March. It noted,

"National Geographic summed up the March this way: “Despite all the enthusiasm displayed in New York and elsewhere on a muggy September Sunday, public opinion polls consistently show that climate change is not a high priority for most Americans.”

Americans are smarter than the collection of anti-capitalism satellite groups think. They’ve seen through the rhetoric and realize, as the Climate March made clear: it is not about Climate Change, it is about system change."

Source: People’s climatemarch wants to change the system, not the weather, October 1, 2014 

World reknown climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer, made an observation a few days before that march. He wrote, 10 Ways To TellTuesday’s UN Climate Summit Isn’t About Climate, 

1. There is no way with current technology to get beyond 15%-20% renewable energy in the next 20 years or so….and even that will be exceedingly expensive. No matter how much you care about where your energy originates, physics and economics trump emotions.

2. The UN doesn’t care that global warming stopped 17 years ago. It doesn’t matter. Full steam ahead.

3. The UN’s own climate models have grossly over-forecast warming. Doesn’t matter. Full steam ahead.

4. Scientists and politicians have had to resort to blaming severe weather events on climate change. Like, we never had severe weather before? Really? (Oh, BTW, severe weather hasn’t gotten worse.)

5. The UN Climate Summit participants’ “carbon footprints” far exceed those of normal people…and they don’t care. Flying jets all over the world, traveling and dining in style, and telling a billion poor they can’t have inexpensive electricity? That’s the moral high ground?

6. Leonardo DiCaprio, UN’s Messenger of Peace. Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize and crony capitalist. ‘Nuff said.

7. The leaders of Australia, China, India, Canada, and Germany are opting out of Tuesday’s meeting. They have real problems to attend to, not manufactured ones.

8. A UN official admitted the climate goal was wealth redistribution. Naomi Klein has admitted what Obama, Kerry, and Clinton won’t admit: it’s about stopping Capitalism. Unless you are a crony capitalist friend getting green energy subsidies.

9. What they can’t admit is that global greening and increasing global crop productivity is the result of us putting some of that CO2 back where it was in the first place – in the atmosphere. I’m still predicting some day we will realize more CO2 is a good thing.

10. The UN’s climate reports exaggerate and misrepresent the science.

Ahhh, watermelons. Lots of them.

Meanwhile, Dr. Steven Koonin, former professor of theoretical physics and provost at Caltech, currently the Director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University, wrote this article at WSJ last September 19, 2014.

"My training as a computational physicist—together with a 40-year career of scientific research, advising and management in academia, government and the private sector—has afforded me an extended, up-close perspective on climate science.

"The crucial scientific question for policy isn't whether the climate is changing. That is a settled matter: The climate has always changed and always will. Geological and historical records show the occurrence of major climate shifts, sometimes over only a few decades...."

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See also::

Climate Tricks 30: On the term "CC Denial/Denier", May 06, 2014

Climate Tricks 31: High Intolerance by the Alarmist Camp, May 14, 2014
Climate Tricks 32: Yeb Sano and CCC to Save the Arctic, September 16, 2014
Climate Tricks 33: UN Fooling Government Leaders to Accept Expensive Energy, September 25, 2014