Climate Change is real.
Javea is a pretty enough town on Spain’s Costa Blanca, two hundred clicks of mostly waveless Med coastline in the south-east of Spain.
Real famous, too, as a joint where old Brits and Germans come to die in the sun, bickering with their spouses, complaining about tourists in summer and copulating like toads in sex clubs where the red vinyl is rarely hosed down.
The sorta place you wouldn’t normally hear about or or want to visit.
That changed yesterday when Storm Gloria, a monster low, brought “twenty-two-foot waves” to the coastline, lighting up the town’s popular Arenal beach, and bringing out some of Europe’s best big-wave surfers.
Surf Lakes, a wave pool in central Queensland, is monitoring the situation carefully in case it needs to revise its promise of “eight-foot” waves to “twenty-plus.”
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I must start measuring my cock in Spanish inches
Let me know if you need s hand!
Tell me more about the sex clubs…
Unwashed red vinyl. What more do you need to know?
“Surfers on Javea’s Arenal beach……..” – surfers would be a very loose term for what they actually doing no???
That’s 8 meters Spanish.
8 meters Irish
Was a small dick joke
Nah, I’m a vag man.
But those surf lake waves were measured scientifically using a relatively common unit of measure on the part of the wave that you ride (wave face). Cant blame surf lakes for being sensible and honest in doing that can we? We should be thanking them for trying to get rid of wave size estimation corruption.
I agree with you but am concerned that BG is being overrun with politically aware sea life. Can you, SCS, confirm that you are not working with Universally Adored Dolphin, to take over these pages?
Boys, we are going to have to go next level here because I suspect these two will take to waterboarding like ducks.
Oooh you savage beast Dezza! Those hicks up there must be bleeding.
is climate change a hoax or a myth?
It’s a business. Green technologies receive government grants in the U.S.. How do you think a putz like AL Gore went from a personal wealth of 5-10 million to over $300 million today. The green movement is but another cash grab scheme by “environmentalists” cashing in on taxpayer $’s.
Oil isn’t a fucking business?
That wasn’t the question. Don’t change the subject.
You bet oil is a business. And people want the U.S. out of the middle east, U.S. oil independence will make that happen. People want energy to pivot away from oil quicker than it can happen. Not because of the U.S., it has more to do with third world countries that cannot escape the third world status without development, and that requires petroleum. Whether you like it or not, oil is here to stay. Green technology is big business, and takes energy to make, usually. Usually in the form of oil.
Hey man don’t think about it
Just get a no coal sticker and put it on your car.
If everyone did this we could end the disaster of not having every car with a no coal sticker.
I’m on a one day sabbatical and am not going to upvote any of your posts as I don’t want you to get the wrong idea.
p.s. I preferred you in a bikini
I’ll survive.
For a while.
I’ll give you a tip mate, as I work in the oil game.
US oil dependence is going to be a thing of the past within about 3 years. The clowns in shale oil have fucked it up chasing production. Now we see onshore rig counts dropping month after month because the Bakken and Permian basins are drilled out. And you get 50-70% depletion yoy with those shale wells.
Within 3 years us production is going to crater (from an impressive 13 mbbl/d).
That’s going to fuck your oil dependence unless everyone starts driving hybrids.
ah the surfacing of one of putin’s bitches
Keyboard warrior. You’d never say that to my face.
If green tech is a such a great business than how come the savvy businessmen and venture capitalists are failing to capitalize?
They have.
https://www.google.com/amp/…
I’m glad I live in the same state as two of the three financiers listed, they’ll save me for sure!
It kind of contradicts your original statement though.
That description would work for any type of industry that can benefit from government subsidies? So it’s a moot point.
What’s the total amount of fossil fuel subsidies the US gov pays v renewables, out of interest?
Re: subsidies – That’ll take a bit of research, so let me get back to you on that.
Don’t bother. WTf’s link just proved what you said. I don’t think he read the whole thing!
Yeah, I did skim the table and made a mistake there. Either way, we have spent far more on FF than anything else, although it was tipping in the right direction.
re GND: no doubt that wording is in there, that’s not what I am saying. I just see no way that part of it would ever comes to pass.
Here ya go – https://www.eia.gov/analysi… – but since the #’s don’t fit the argument, it’s all part of some ‘deep state’ lie… (insert rolly eyes emoji)
lol… it’s almost like the coal oil and gas industries are geared solely towards getting fat off government subsidies 😱
Yeah, and our gov’t propaganda network aka fox news continues to provide false talking points to scare everyone. you can see it here in these very comments. Like GND really is going to mean you can’t drive down the coast? C’mon man, that fucking ridiculous.
facebook is another huge source of propaganda – people my age actually get their news from their FB feed and much of it is pure garbage. Those that follow both are the most uniformed yet surest people walking the planet.
Have you read the green new deal? It says clearly non essential individual means of transportation will be replaced by mass transit. That means joy riding to the beach. It is ridiculous and its the kind of things that if we’re not careful, will become reality. Maybe you agree with the extreme measures it calls for but don’t pretend they aren’t extreme.
Did you read everything in your link to energy subsidies? Im afraid you were wrong. Thats ok and I wont make broad assumptions about your ideologies or where you get your news from. Stereotyping everyone who Isnt in lock step with how you think or what the far left has prescribed adds nothing to the conversation and only dilutes whatever point you’re trying to make.
https://www.gp.org/gnd_full
From the Green New Deal website:
Going to 100% clean energy by 2030 means reducing energy demand as much as possible. This will require energy conservation and efficiency; replacing non-essential individual means of transport with high-quality and modern mass transit; and eliminating the use of fossil-based fertilizers and pesticides. Along with these steps it will be necessary to electrify everything else, including transport, heating, etc. Many current proposals by the state and federal government to move to renewables only address the existing electrical system, which accounts for only about 1/3 of the carbon footprint.
You just confirmed what Otto said.
According to your link:
“Most current federal subsidies support developing renewable energy supplies (primarily biofuels, wind, and solar) and reducing energy consumption through energy efficiency. In FY 2016, nearly half (45%) of federal energy subsidies were associated with renewable energy, and 42% were associated with energy end
uses. Table 4 shows a more detailed distribution of renewable energy-related federal support.”
Also, if you recall, the federal government started the 30% tax credit program (not a deduction) in 2005 for residential and commercial solar installations. It basically kickstarted the whole solar industry, a 10,000% increase! Im not arguing its a bad thing but your argument that non renewables subsidies are the only subsidies passed out by the federal government is incorrect.
Oh yeah, lets not forget all the other government backed programs, PACE, offering low interest loans for energy efficient upgrades- HERO program, ygrene, C-PACE, etc.
Politically its cashing in freedoms for a bigger nanny state. The act of cruising the coastline hunting for surf In your car will be banned according to Green New Deal:
“replacing non-essential individual means of transport with high-quality and modern mass transit”
It’s a Chinese conspiracy theory. Have you not listened to the big Orange one. That’s also why they heavily invest in renewables and are starting to phase out single use plastics. You know, to confuse us about their true motives. Like Satan did by hiding those dinosaur bones. It’s pretty clear ones you put 2 and 5 together.
In other news… Channel Islands blatantly ripping off my design with their Fish Beard. It was a concept I came up with in November 2018. They are now claiming Parker Coffin came up with. Absolute bullshit. Never paid me. Bunch of cunts mate.
CI, lost, and Tomo all released “new” fishes in the same week. Who’s next, Wavestorm?
Fuck those cunts. I’m going back to riding 6’3” 18” 1/4 2” 3/8 glass slippers out at 2ft Jan Juc and cutting shit cunts in half.
That’s next but I think CI is waiting until 2021 to rerelease that model rebadged as the Pencilneckbeard.
Mid lengths… “for the discerning VAL who can’t hang ten…”
That’s nice for the fishes …….. catch and release . The only new fish I am looking forward to seeing are in the mangroves at high tide .
CI have never been the same since Kelly left. Wait… maybe I got that backwards.
Jesus christ that looks like North Narrabeen in the 1992 Coke contest.
Did you win?
Fuck no! The infamous Shane Herring win over Kelly. You can search it on Youtube. Never has an event win been so overrated.
Would have been even more overrated had the child , who was to become the GOAT won ?
I’m serious Bicko! Go check it out. Compare it to the great events before and after it occurred. Think about the people who pumped up Shane’s tyres over it and how that all turned out. They didn’t know a god damn thing about it. It was the beginning for one grommet and the beginning of the end for another, and it was two foot Alley mush.
Yeah but wouldn’t that have been Kelly’s bread and butter back then? East Coast Florida slop machine training.
And won on sub 18” wide equipment …… amazing ?
No no no, you’ve got this all wrong. It’s meant to say 20, 2 foot waves
No no no, that’s ridiculous. It’s half man, half pig, half pig. It’s Manbearpig.
More like 22 one foot high waves.