
Energy Shocks was written to provide a straightforward understanding of how energy and carbon dioxide work, to dispel the misrepresentations of the climate alarmism and green energy transition agendas and to provide context to appreciate how energy and carbon dioxide relate to other key issues that affect our world.
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Each of the three sections within Energy Shocks can be considered to be an independent book, and can be read as such. Each section has consequential, independent conclusions. The first section focuses on energy. The second section focuses on science. The third section focuses on controversial political, economic and societal themes that i) contradict the mainstream narratives of recent decades, and that ii) are sure to become the dominant narratives over the decades ahead as truth displaces deceit on matters of energy and climate.
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The conclusion of the first section of Energy Shocks is that there is no green energy transition[1]: Without fossil fuels, namely, coal, oil and natural gas, the human population of 8.2 billion would precipitously perish, mainly through starvation: There are no technologies today or technologies being developed with near-term commercial prospects that have any scope of changing that reality. However, the broader underlying purpose of the first section of Energy Shocks is to provide an understanding of how energy really works. That involves looking at humanity’s use of energy from pre-historic times up until the present. In many respects, the story of humanity is the story of our use of energy – big changes to how we have used energy have always changed the course of human history. The section also provides a comprehensive overview of each form of energy inclusive of the alternatives to fossil fuels.
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In the second section, Energy Shocks makes the point that the most important discoveries ever made relating to carbon dioxide were not made by John Tyndall in 1859 when he determined that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas: The most important discoveries ever made relating to carbon dioxide were made between 2016 and 2019. For reference, satellites, such as NASA’s Terra satellite, which was launched in 1999, have only recently been in orbit long enough to provide us with the shocking realities of how our Earth is actually changing over the decades due to increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the consumption of fossil fuels. Specifically, in 2016, a team of thirty-two scientists from globally recognized institutions discovered that increasing the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the most significant driver of increased plant growth on our Earth.[2] In 2018, a team of seven scientists, including several from NASA itself, published a report, based on satellite data, indicating that “contrary to the prevailing view” forests are growing (net of losses) at a staggering rate of 2.0% per decade.[3] In 2019, a team of fifteen scientists from globally recognized institutions determined, based on observations from NASA’s Terra satellite, that the green leaf covered area of the Earth is increasing at a staggering rate of 2.3% per decade.[4] The second section of Energy Shocks concludes, based on a growing body of evidence, that carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere directly regulate the amount the vegetation – life – on Earth.
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The third section of Energy Shocks consists of twenty independent themes that give context to understand energy, carbon dioxide, global warming and the energy transition. The section assesses how the West’s green energy and anti-fossil fuel agendas encouraged the outbreak of wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. The section assesses the implications of the changing economic landscape on the outlook for green energy. Critically, the implications of how energy policy affects agricultural yields is developed while explaining why it has been hazardous to ignore that consideration in the promotion of the green energy transition. US energy politics are elaborated in addition to providing an outlook on how we can expect US energy policy to evolve in the future. The section assesses the energy policies of the UK and the EU, concluding that both the UK and the EU are at risk of collapsing into de-industrialized states and impoverishment, in a context where Russian fossil fuel imports, not green energy, continue to provide Europe with its existential needs in energy.[5] In this section we will also assess the environmental impacts of our energy choices. Themes related to philosophy, psychology and sociology are also elaborated.
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The essential concluding point is that when understood as a whole, the climate alarmism and the energy transition agendas are not only futile, but sinister and deceitful.[6]* Energy Shocks argues that the real underlying intention of the climate alarmism and the energy transition agendas is to subvert the essential beliefs and values of Western Civilization in favor of the imposition by our authorities of a new spirituality and belief system. In that vein, it is notable that after decades of painstaking advances to manipulate our beliefs and values through the climate alarmism and the green energy agendas, in 2024, Justin Welby**, head of the Church of England, announced the ultimate perversion of Western values and beliefs by declaring outright that “God is green”.[7] His statement will represent the apogee of the predatory social and political agenda to promote climate alarmism and the energy transition – an agenda that is now, inevitably and necessarily, collapsing faster than a house of cards.
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The deceitful narratives of the climate alarmism and energy transition agendas have been significantly advanced by the seeming confounding complexity of the interrelationships between energy and climate. For that reason, Energy Shocks assesses the entirety of the issue wholistically.
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Energy Shocks provides sufficient depth of analysis for experts while attempting to be imminently readable by non-experts. Although Energy Shocks is intended to provide a wholistic perspective, readers are also invited to read Energy Shocks according to their interests.
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Finally and critically, Energy Shocks was also written to provide an understanding of the extraordinary capacity for energy to make our world a better place if we have the freedom to unleash its full potential.
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*Chris Wright is the nominee for the US Secretary of Energy, Head of the US Department of Energy and Member of Cabinet of the US Administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
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[1] Let’s be honest – Chris Wright – YouTube video – 18 January 2023; and
Closing Remark of Chris Wright, Q2 2024 Results of Liberty Energy – Liberty Energy – 18 July 2024
[2] Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds – NASA – https://www.nasa.gov – Accessed: March 2021; and
Greening of the Earth and its Drivers – Zaichun Zhu and 31 additional authors – Nature Climate Change – 25 April 2016
[3] Global land change from 1982 to 2016 – Xiao-Peng Song, Matthew C. Hansen, Stephen V. Stehman, Peter V. Potapov, Alexandra Tyukavina, Eric F. Vermote & John R. Townshend – Nature – 8 August 2018
[4] China and India Lead the Way in Greening – Abby Tabor – NASA Earth Observatory – https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov – Accessed: March 2021; and
China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management – Chi Chen, Taejin Park, Xuhui Wang, Shilong Piao, Baodong Xu, Rajiv K. Chaturvedi, Richard Fuchs, Victor Brovkin, Philippe Ciais, Rasmus Fensholt, Hans Tømmervik, Govindasamy Bala, Zaichun Zhu, Ramakrishna R. Nemani & Ranga B. Myneni – Nature Sustainability – 11 February 2019
[5] EU imports record volumes of liquefied natural gas from Russia – Alice Hancock and Shotaro Tani – Financial Times – 30 August 2023
[6] Net Zero Is “Sinister”, Says Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick Chris Wright – Richard Eldred – The Daily Sceptic – 17 November 2024
[7] Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby: God is green, and denying climate change is anti-Christian – The Independent – 22 September 2024
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**Justin Welby resigned on 12 November 2024 due to his involvement with a pedophilia cover-up scandal within the Church of England;
Justin Welby urged to resign in solidarity with C of E abuse victims, Victim of serial abuser John Smyth joins calls for archbishop of Canterbury to quit as 10,000 people sign petition – Jamie Grierson – The Guardian – 12 November 2024; and
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigns over Church abuse scandal – Matt Spivey – BBC – 12 November 2024