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  1. brenthutch
    I could really use some global warming right about now. We are expecting snow and temperatures in the twenties tonight. (And before some knucklehead can say “it’s just local weather, Europe and the U.K. are facing similar conditions) It is hard for me to believe two degrees of additional warmth will result in catastrophe. (Especially since it never has)
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    Why is warming bad?
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    It’s the A in AGW that I am not buying. And the notion that we can control the weather if we just had the right mix of solar panels and windmills is just folly.
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    And price, price, price and cold weather performance Look, if EVs were even nearly as good in reality as they are in your fantasies, we would all be driving them but we are not sooo..... BTW EVs are not new they have been around for more than a century.
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    More like name calling from the cheap seats. If you have something to say, say it, otherwise let’s just save the bandwidth.
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    Or as I like to say, fantasy v reality. BTW you obviously didn’t watch the video as all of those points were addressed. Also I’m not sure you aware of this but most of the electricity that powers EVs come from fossil fuels.
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    But you are ignoring the point; the storage landscape hasn’t changed a bit. Here is something from 2020 https://www.hagerty.com/media/maintenance-and-tech/problem-with-electric-cars-energy-density/
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    https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201208/backpage.cfm “Optimism had all but vanished this year at the fifth conference in the scalable-energy-storage series in Berkeley, California. The symposium announcement reads: “Although new electric vehicles with advanced lithium ion batteries are being introduced, further breakthroughs in scalable energy storage, beyond current state-of-the-art lithium ion batteries, are necessary before the full benefits of vehicle electrification can be realized.”
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    https://notrickszone.com/2019/12/17/attempts-to-use-electric-buses-in-germany-flop-many-disadvantages-short-service-life-no-real-progress/ tell that to the Germans
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    I am not antiEV per se. I am fine with a private company like UPS trying out EVs. I’m against this https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-electric-buses-20180520-story.html
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    Yet all of their sales combined didn’t equal one brand of pickup truck
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    Up 75% from not much is still not much.
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    Ok Mr. Pedantic BTW the irony of your “nobody is listening to your arguments” comment is not lost on me.
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    Oops! Wrong thread.
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    Nobody is buying that argument (or EVs for that matter). Here are the top 25 selling vehicles in 2019. Not an EV anywhere in sight.
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    https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcollins/2020/03/02/teslas-sales-fell-68-in-the-netherlands-and-92-in-norway-in-february/#365bffde1bf0 I compared it to the EV at the closest price point.
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    My Honda Acord coupe is less expensive and is much faster than a Chevy Bolt and I don't have to worry about range, recharging, or cold weather performance. You think that looking for a charging station and then waiting a half and hour+ to recharge is convenient?
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    Face palm... Why would anyone buy an EV when gas is so cheap and plentiful? The new reality is that, thanks to Yankee ingenuity, we have a centuries worth of oil and natural gas. Yes oil, gas and coal companies may go bankrupt, the rocks will not.
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    It says more about coal than it does about wind and solar. Coal plants are being replaced with natural gas, not wind and solar. Sorry for the bad news. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us.php Not to mention wind and solar account for less that one third of what is considered "renewable" almost half comes from burning garbage and wood. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/renewable-sources/
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    The record cold and snow in May, are getting in the way. It is hard to imagine the planet burning up when it is snowing in mid-spring and it is hard to justify the premium on EVs when gas is $1 a gallon. You guy are just pissed off because you know that I am right.
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    “the view that the Little Ice Age was a period of global glacier expansion beginning in the 13th century (or earlier) and reaching a maximum in 17the19th centuries is supported by our data.” before they simultaneously shrank, they simultaneously grew. Though I understand they are attributing the recent decline to AGW. That said, replacing a lifeless bulldozer of ice with a beautiful alpine meadow is ok in my book
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    Nothing is being done. CO2 levels are rising and will continue to rise, there is nothing you or I or the United States or the EU can do about it. That is just the cold hard facthttps://www.co2.earth/daily-co2 Even with the world economy crippled by COVID 19, CO2 levels are greater today than they were a year ago. China and India are building thousands of coal fired power plants and the US is just replacing coal with natural gas. The entire Western civilization could disappear overnight and CO2 will just continue to rise.
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    Northwest Passage opens? Open to dog sleds maybe. "The Northwest Passage is not expected to become a viable trans-Arctic route through 2020 " http://www.arctis-search.com/2020+Future+Scenario+for+the+Northwest+Passage
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    Projections are factual????