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    So is a generator
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    Where did the power to change the battery come from? Are you claiming that batteries actually produce power?
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    “EV's/PHEV's/hybrids can help with this directly by being alternative power sources” Batteries are not a power source they are merely a store of power. Fossil fuel generators are an actual source of power. To be fair wind and solar are also a source of power, albeit intermittent and unreliable.
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    “Troubled EV startup Fisker cut more jobs this week, workers say on social media” “Tesla to cut 601 jobs in the Bay Area, sign of more troubles for the EV maker”
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    “After years of political consensus on the transition to cleaner energy, a ‘greenlash’ began bubbling up as prices rose and right-wing candidates gained ground.” looks like the Europeans are starting to wake up. Just as I predicted.
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    Geothermal is insignificant. One or two or even a hundred geothermal wells pale in comparison to the thousands of fracking wells in Pennsylvania. As one of your fellow lefties put it “quantity has a quality all its own”
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    Trump

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    Not gloating, I’m shocked. I thought Silicon Valley leaned left.
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    https://www.sciencealert.com/a-vast-untapped-source-of-lithium-has-just-been-found-in-the-us Faustian bargain time for environmentalists
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    Trump

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    Raises 12 million dollars in Nancy Pelosi’s district in one night
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    “On June 30, 1989, the Associated Press squeezed decimation into a tight, 11-year window, with an ominous article, “Rising Seas Could Obliterate Nations,” containing a jaw-dropping opener: “A senior UN environmental official (Noel Brown) says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.” Global warming catastrophe is always just around the corner yet never seems to get here.
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    About the same as it has been since records began to be made. The graph looks the same if one looks at the last two hundred years. The massive acceleration due to human induced CO2 has yet to manifest. Yes the planet has warmed, glaciers have melted and sea levels have risen, just as they have done since the end of the last ice age.
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    I am a logistics champion, diesel powered ships, trains and trucks can get the food where it needs to be. Cyber Trucks and solar panels just won’t cut it. I will admit, I am a bit slow so could you explain just how climate change is currently causing world hunger?
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    So…you got nothing
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    I’m sure it does
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    What would those other indicators be? Certainly it would not be floods, droughts, tornadoes, tropical cyclones, wildfire or accelerated sea level rise as NOAA has said none of those have been observed outside the range of natural variability. Do we really want to tank the world’s economy to save an equatorial glacier?
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    Just produced a record amount of food Throughout this year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has been issuing reports on the global cereal production status, with a particular focus on supply and demand. As of October 6, 2023, FAO revealed that, compared to their previous projections, global cereal production had increased by around 3.8 million metric tons, totaling 2,819 million metric tons. This marks a 0.9% uptick in production.
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    If the world followed California’s example, CO2 emissions would more than double, as global per capita emissions are less than five tons per year.
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    What my example demonstrates is that Ethiopia has an exponentially lower CO2 footprint than California. If lowering CO2 is the goal Ethiopia is the model, not California. This of course reveals the ludicrously of the “net-zero” concept and why it is doomed to failure.
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    No, the social cost of CO2 is negative. When one balances the costs of increasing rates of hurricanes, floods, droughts and wildfires (that would be Zero when adjusted for inflation and development by the way) against the benefits of cheaper and more reliable energy with the additional benefit of longer growing seasons and greater crop yields, just why in the hell would we be wanting to reduce CO2?
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    Female education is only part of the equation, development is the other. As we all know as a population develops and becomes more affluent its carbon footprint skyrockets. So don’t pin you hopes of CO2 reduction on population stabilization/decline. U.S per capita CO2 per year = 15+ tons (Even super green California is 10+ tons) Ethiopia 0.10 tons
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    Nothing as ludicrous as: EVs will outsell ICE vehicles, global warming poses an existential threat, we are running out of fossil fuels, overpopulation is a problem, wind and solar can replace fossil fuels, renewables are cheaper, science is done by consensus and greatly increasing the money supply is not inflationary. These are just a few examples of of the nonsense promulgated by some of the lefties on this forum.
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    No different than the recent record cold in Antarctica. “Vostok mean temperature for November 2023 is -45.4°c, which is the same as 1983 and the coldest November mean since records began in 1958.”
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    I’ll trade a patch of snow and ice for record food production, but that’s just me. I would rather feed the hungry than gaze upon an alpine iceberg. Obviously Kallend disagrees. “NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, US — Global grain production is expected to reach a record 2.307 billion tonnes in 2023-24, mostly due to a solid rebound in corn output, the International Grains Council (IGC) said at its 59th council session convened in New Orleans, Louisiana, US, on Jan. 24.”
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    And that is why you can’t wrap your brain around the fact that EV adaptation isn’t going the way you had hoped.
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    Uh guys… I provided the link. Let’s lay off the personal insults. It just reveals insecurity.