David Greenman

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The world's clean energy transition represents a colossal expansion of the world's mining industry.

To catch a diffuse energy source like sunlight or wind needs an unprecedented volume of physical machinery. A single solar farm requires roughly 30 times more total metal infrastructure than a conventional gas plant. We aren't moving away from mining; we're swapping enormous oceanic drilling rigs for vast open-cut metal mines.

The demand for heavy mining and rare earths is just as compelling as the downstream e-waste crisis, but the numbers are even more staggering. While solar cells rely heavily on high-purity silicon, silver, and copper, the broader 'green infrastructure' ecosystem demands far more.

The EV motors, wind turbines and massive national grids required to tie intermittent solar together are entirely dependent on an unprecedented surge in heavy mining and rare earth extraction.

This physical mining demand has simply exploded with the shift from conventional fossil fuel energy generation to wind and solar. Because wind and sunshine are so diluted and diffused, harvesting them requires a massive physical footprint, necessitating endless extra acres of complex machinery.

This translates into heavily vandalised landscapes and grotesque coastal settings. According to the IEA, replacing them world's fossil-fuel system with renewables increases the total volume of materials requiring extraction and handling by a factor of 10.

Solar alone is exceptionally copper-intensive, using roughly 850 kg per megawatt for intricate grid connections, inverters and cabling. Renewable energy is projected to drive 45% of total global copper demand by 2030. Yet, developing a new major copper mine takes an average of 16 years from initial discovery to first production.

The world faces a massive demand spike for a metal where the supply chain is notoriously slow, costly, and inflexible.

Solar panels don't use much in the way of rare earths, but wind turbines and the electric vehicle motors that back up the low-carbon shift are hungry for permanent magnets made from neodymium, praseodymium and dysprosium. Processing these elements involves intensive chemical leaching that produces vast amounts of toxic and radioactive wastewater.

Compounding the problem, China controls roughly 60–70% of the extraction and up to 90% of the refining for these specific elements.

This has created a massive geopolitical bottleneck.

Image: this massive chasm is the Bingham Canyon Mine (also called the Kennecott Copper Mine) just outside Salt Lake City, Utah. It is one of the largest man-made excavations on Earth and the deepest open-pit mine in the world, stretching 4 kilometres wide and more than a kilometre deep.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Since April 2020, the United States has spent $1.5 trillion on wind and solar.

All that money for just 17% of the nation's energy mix.

For the same cost, America could have built around 40 nuclear power plants. They'd run for 80 years, not 15 or 20 like wind and solar, and would generate at least three times more power each year.

That's the real cost of believing the climate fantasy - enormous waste, destabilized grids, and spiraling energy costs.

[Krisztina Maria @KrisztinaMaria]

For a while now I have been writing in English on X - and I have recently started doing the same on my biggest platform Facebook.

Not because I have abandoned my Danish voice. But because what is happening in Europe is not a Danish problem. It is not a French problem. It is not a Swedish, German or British problem.

It is our problem. All of us. At the same time.

And you cannot fight a war that crosses every border by only speaking to the people on your own street.

This is not an “us” question. It is a “we” question.

The same forces are at work across the entire Western world.

The same ideology expanding into the same institutions. The same political establishment looking the other way. The same media calling those who speak up racists, extremists, hatemongers.

The same silencing. In every language.

And behind all of it - something that goes deeper than politics. Deeper than immigration statistics and election results and EU directives.

Because what we are really facing is a spiritual battle.

A civilization that has cut itself off from its own roots.

That removed God from the public square and replaced Him with the state, the screen and the self.

That dismantled the family, dissolved the distinction between man and woman, and told an entire generation that freedom means having no obligations to anything larger than yourself.

A civilization that weakened itself from within - and is now surprised to find itself vulnerable from without.

The forces moving against the West are not only political. They are spiritual. And they will not be defeated by politics alone.

That is why I write. In English. To whoever will listen.

Because the people who understand what is at stake need to find each other - across languages, across borders, across the noise.

We are more than we know. And we are needed.❤️‍🔥🪽✝️

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Evidence from around the world shows that past climates were significantly warmer than today.

2,000 years ago, forests thrived in parts of Alaska that are now treeless tundra.

6,000 years ago, trees grew high in Austria's Alps and Montana's mountains, elevations that are too cold for forests now.

These finds point to a period known as the Holocene Thermal Maximum, when global temperatures were naturally higher without any influence from human CO2.

Earth's climate has always changed, and it was warmer even in the recent past.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Human CO₂ emissions are only a tiny perturbation set against the size and scale of Earth's oceans.

The oceans contain 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere—and they actively pump CO₂ downwards into the depths, via a naturally occurring biological pump.

This begins when phytoplankton fix CO₂ at the surface via photosynthesis. A gossamer cloud of marine snow and sinking particles sequester CO₂ molecules into the ocean depths, where they remain for centuries or millennia.

No one knows how much carbon the oceans are capable of storing. But they are a vast storehouse, containing at least 86% of the entire available carbon reservoir; while the atmosphere holds roughly only 1-2%. This imbalance raises questions about CO₂ being the 'control knob' for the climate change agenda.

Those behind the urgent climate crisis only measure CO₂ in the Earth's atmosphere while ignoring the 98% of the global system that lies below in the deep oceans. Nature has kept the Earth's biosphere in balance for hundreds of millions of years.

Why assume our political agendas can override physics?

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

There is no climate emergency on the horizon.

It’s time for the UN to end these endless propaganda wars. The cheap, reliable energy that built the modern world is being systematically dismantled. At the same time, massive, deliberate migration shifts are straining the very foundations of Western culture.

Resources are being diverted from national stability into costly, intermittent energy replacements - a fracture that is driving half the world's population toward deepening poverty and hunger.

The UN has traded conflict resolution for global wealth redistribution. So much for saving the planet. #ClimateNuance #EnergySecurity #TheGreatReset"

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Between 2007 and 2012, scientists drilled deep into Greenland's ice as part of the NEEM project to uncover the climate story of the last interglacial around 125,000 years ago.

What they found puts today's climate panic into perspective.

Back then, Greenland was around 8C warmer than today. Sea levels were 4 to 8 meters higher.

Yet the planet didn't collapse and Greenland didn't melt. There were no tipping points and no mass extinctions. The planet was far warmer and life flourished.

So when activists claim that 2C of modern warming spells "catastrophe", the ice, the data and the history all say otherwise.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In 2004, the BBC warned the Maldives were "soon to be uninhabitable," claiming sea levels were rising 0.9 cm per year and that 80% of the islands could vanish within a century.

More than two decades later though, reality says otherwise.

The Maldives haven't sunk, they've exploded with growth: 12 new airports, expanded international terminals, record tourism of over 2 million visitors a year, and more than 170 resorts, with 7 added in 2024.

Instead of disappearing under the waves, this so-called "paradise in peril" has shown no statistically significant sea level rise since the 1980s, according to satellite data.

Here we have another 'climate catastrophe' headline completely undone by time.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Whatever human society does now & in the future it will make no difference at all. The climate record shows that earth follows a natural trajectory regardless of what any species will or will not do. Hysteria over carbon dioxide, a trace gas, has no basis in science or reality.

[David Greenman @David1Gr]

The Greatest Politician we have ever had, if only we could reincarnate him today.

[Andreas Koureas FRAS FRSA 🇬🇧🎗️ @AndreasKoureas_]

Nobel Prize for Literature; fought in five campaigns in four continents; escaped a prisoner of war camp; crossed No-Man’s Land 30+ times in WW1; a historian, a bricklayer & artist,

Led the campaign of resistance in the world’s darkest hour.

The greatest man of the 20th century.

[David Greenman @David1Gr]

@AndreasKoureas_ As the Great man said…. Never Never Surrender….and KBO, you are absolutely on point and have the support of all who respect this Great Leader.

[Britain First @BFirstParty]

Share if you think St George’s Day should be a public holiday!

[David Greenman @David1Gr]

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[Britain First @BFirstParty]

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[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will be remembered as a stalwart of our times. She provided inspiring leadership to her nation and people. She personified dignity and decency in public life. Pained by her demise. My thoughts are with her family and people of UK in this sad hour.

[David Greenman @David1Gr]

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[Royal Central Insights @Coronation2023]

The Queen has now reigned for 70 years. She is the only British Monarch to reach that milestone. The #PlatinumJubilee of Elizabeth II has begun.

[Priti Patel MP @pritipatel]

Today marks 57 years since the death of Sir Winston Churchill, to whom we owe so much. A great British hero. 🇬🇧

[Save/PreserveScampton e: [email protected] @SaveScampton]

Come on let's get our quest #Trending to Preserve #RAFScampton from being sold off for housing etc and destroying this historic base where the #Dambusters flew from. Follow and RT us, this year the year of decision. We need YOUR SUPPORT to make it an active working museum base.

[Roger Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 MBGA @rogerpickerin13]

Teach this in History class