brenthutch

Maybe NASA could redirect the funds going to generating climate change propaganda and DEI initiatives and fund good old fashioned space programs https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-nasa-launches-new-mission-planet-woke https://nypost.com/2021/06/18/nasas-mission-equity-ripped-as-critical-space-theory/ “critical space theory” LOL

Go Strong Woman go!

No, I would give parents vouchers so they could send their kids to a school of their choosing. BTW I voted for a tax increase (local) to pay for our new high school even though my kids go to private schools.

Climate change ranks #17 in national issues. Hardly a priority and CNBC seems to agree. BTW California’s CO2 emissions rose 1.8% in 2022 and is projected to rise an additional .5% in 2023 according to the EIA. This despite spending billions and crushing consumers with the highest electricity rates in the US.

Global coal use is at an all time high and growing. India and China are building hundreds of new coal plants. CO2 emissions are rising. Demand for EVs is slackening. Globally the increase in renewables isn’t even enough to keep up with increased demand let alone reducing fossil fuel consumption.

Many if not most consider climate change to be a concern yet hardly anyone wants to do anything about it especially if it involves personal sacrifice. From a business perspective climate change is looking like a loser, no wonder CNBC is dropping its climate desk.

You are correct, the link I posted referred to “young people” I conflated that with the overall population. My mistake, good catch Sir.

Can you point me to the post where I said that? While it is true that a certain percentage of the population (aka Democrats) will buy into the Chicken Little narrative of catastrophic man-made global warming, that number will likely decline as more folks realize the astronomical cost and the immeasurably small impact of CO2 mitigation schemes.

Both. The scare tactic is what some are selling but fewer and fewer people are buying. A trend that is sure to accelerate as the costs and futility become more apparent. https://climatechangedispatch.com/highest-court-forces-german-govt-to-tell-voters-the-true-costs-of-net-zero/

“The Great Miramichi fire, which destroyed forests and devastated communities across northern New Brunswick in 1825, was the largest and one of the most deadly wildfires in North American history. The Saguenay and Ottawa Valley fires in 1870 could have been just as deadly when they forced the evacuations of several thousand people. The capital city would have burned down that summer had it not been for a quick-thinking engineer who ordered the gates of the St. Louis dam on the Rideau Canal to be breached so that it would flood city streets. Seventeen villages were levelled in Wisconsin the following year, killing between 1,200 and 1,500 people. In 1881, the Michigan’s Thumb fires burned 1,480 barns, 1,521 houses and 51 schools, while killing 283 people and injuring many others. Smoke from those fires coloured the sky over Toronto.“ Canadian wildfires are nothing new. Phil you seem to have a habit of blaming everything on climate change. Currently no meteorological phenomena outside the range of natural variability. The IPCC concurs

Really? Show us the evidence. The IPCC doesn’t agree with that assertion.

Horses mouth “For 13 years running, I have continued a tradition with and for myself where I pick a country I have never been to before and travel there alone on my birthday. Being alone in a new country forces me into an immediately new perspective from which to consider the world and my place in it. Inevitably, things happen on these trips that I could never have anticipated. This year, on Tuesday night of my solo birthday trip in Istanbul, I got an urgent message from my editor’s boss that he needed to speak with me. As part of wider newsroom headcount reductions, there would no longer be any staff at CNBC dedicated to covering climate, this boss said. The climate desk at CNBC was being dismantled and my position covering climate tech and innovation was being eliminated, this boss told me.“ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7132409726738276355/

Aren’t they required by statute to do so? Biden gets credit for just following the law?

Apparently pandering in climate porn doesn’t get the eyeballs it used to. Another sign that the tide is turning.

Then why is Trump ahead in a rematch with Biden in the polls?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/climate/biden-drilling-federal-lands.html raising prices to drill hardly helps lower prices

That production is largely on private land, Biden has said his goal is to stop fossil fuels BTW gas prices are still above what they were during the Trump administration. If I am wrong, I would love for you to point out the Biden policies that have encouraged fossil fuel production

The average American has seen their real wages reduced by about 4%. When the question asked is “are you better off now than at the start of Biden’s presidency”, the answer for most Americans is no. That simple fact is reflected in Biden’s poll numbers.

Being ranked #2 in government services provided per dollar, Florida is looking pretty good. As bad as you think you have it, it could be much, much much worse…you could be living in California

No wonder they are leaving, California ranks number one in taxation but a lowly 35 in services provided https://www.accountingtoday.com/list/20-states-with-the-worst-taxpayer-roi OTOH, Texas and Florida rank #5 and #2 respectively for taxpayers getting the most bang for their buck https://www.accountingtoday.com/list/20-best-states-for-taxpayer-roi

I would rather spend the money educating children

Good point. There is nothing more pressing than getting some dirt from Mars

Just like Renewables the idea is much better than the reality. https://climatechangedispatch.com/why-the-esg-craze-is-fading-on-wall-street/ “The third quarter was the first time more sustainable funds liquidated or removed ESG criteria from their investment practices than were added,according to Morningstar.” Before y’all get your panties in a bunch over a “denier” link, the original article was in the WSJ but it is paywalled

Little known fact, half of the population has a below average IQ. I say a pox on both their houses. This election is like being a passenger on the Titanic, heading for disaster and realizing it yet unable to do anything about it BTW he was so popular he lost the House of Representatives with a booming economy, lost the general election and than pissed away the Senate by way of a temper tantrum.

Trump is a blow hard populist who tells the rabble what they want to hear