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May’s Global Temperature coldest in 9 years
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That is what we like to call weather. Global warming is global. Hot spells in a region are just that, hot spells in a region. Here is some regional cold to offset your heat https://nypost.com/2022/06/19/northeast-sees-record-low-temperatures-on-fathers-day/ -
Let me break it down for you Sunshine 1. There will be no great energy transition. Fossil fuels provided around 85% of global energy needs, about the same as a decade ago and will continue to dominate for the next several decades. (Actually the amount of FF has increased in absolute terms as the deployment renewables have not kept pace with increased demand.) 2. The largest contribution of renewables is from hydro and the burning of bio-mass, wind and solar are far behind (I doubt most folks wouldn’t consider burning down forests to be ‘good for the planet’) 3. Atmospheric levels of CO2 will continue to increase in spite of the trillions wasted to prevent it. I’ll save the best for last 4. It’s going to be all right. No need for breathless clutching of pearls, bed wetting nor setting one’s hair alight. Relax, take a deep breath and have the courage to do nothing. I will let you get back to your Juneteenth celebration.
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Facts are not straw men.
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So you’ve got nothing. (Other that your prediction that EVs will overtake IC vehicles in four (now three years))
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What is even less ambiguous and even more clear is greater than, less than and equal to. I’ll start. Greater than: Food production, polar bear population Less than: Global deaths from climate related disasters, EF3 and greater tornadoes Equal to: Historical natural variability of floods, droughts, wildfires and hurricanes See! It’s easy. Now you try. But if you can’t, show me your numbers.
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I’ll let you choose your own definition of catastrophic. I will even help you out. cat·a·stroph·ic /ˌkadəˈsträfik/ Learn to pronounce adjective involving or causing sudden great damage
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OK there Captain Pedantic, try this on for size. Where is the “overwhelming scientific evidence” for catastrophic man made global warming? Or, do you agree with me that there is no such evidence?
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No I am asking YOU a simple question. Show me the “overwhelming scientific evidence” of catastrophic man made global warming. It’s funny how CAGW is real, it is devastating and yet it is invisible
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Sooo….you’ve got nothing….got it.
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Maybe you can provide some evidence of unprecedented disaster at the hands of AGW. If the evidence is “overwhelming” it should be easy to find.
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What ‘evidence’? Are you taking about the unprecedented number of floods droughts hurricanes and wildfires? Or how the Arctic is ice free, how Glacier National park has no glaciers? Snow cap gone on Mt. Kilimanjaro? Polar bear extinction? Maldives and Bangladesh under water? Failed predictions do not constitute overwhelming scientific evidence. To paraphrase Richard Feynman, “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are, it does matter if it supports a political agenda, it doesn’t matter if 97% of your palls agree with you, it doesn’t matter if it fulfills a deep psychological need, if it doesn't agree with observation it’s wrong.” The only thing heating up is the rhetoric.
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Except none of that is true (other than the Biden increased gas prices part)
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I’d settle for fertilizer.
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Except that’s not true China, India, Japan, Germany, France, Italy to name a few all have lower inflation. https://www.axios.com/2022/06/13/inflation-rates-around-world-us-china-eu-japan
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Bidenflation is costing American families an extra $460 every month. Oil and gas companies do their best to power the country and you think they are the villain?
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Pretty much the whole of the Democrat caucus. They have tried to choke the life out of the oil and gas industries for years. Now that they are feeling the political pain of their policies, they try to divert the blame with baseless claims of price gouging and collusion.
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Only for a few more months. The midterms will take care of that.
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It’s not all gloom and doom guys, you have to look at the good stuff too. The SC is getting ready to make it easier for citizens to protect themselves and it looks like they will brush back an overreaching EPA with a new ruling on CO2.
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Inflation, crime, fentanyl overdose, border, economy….I’d say it’s fair, balanced and more importantly, accurate.
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More good stuff https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2022/06/17/the-democrats-capricious-energy-policy-has-been-a-disaster-n2608886 “Energy policy can't be capriciously implemented and then abandoned every time the Democrats' poll numbers flail. This is just a little taste of the Green New Deal. There is no sentient being that could accept the notion that Democrats are the party that is in favor of abundant fossil fuels. Hopefully, the price -- even in small measure -- for their green policies is so politically severe that they will moderate. Because we all have unattainable dreams.”
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https://the-pipeline.org/bidens-bottomless-energy-foolishness/ Key takeaways: *Oil production and refining margins are at or slightly below average for all American manufacturing industries (so much for that leftie talking point) *Biden’s grasp of the oil and gas industry is as simplistic and confused as every other aspect of his doddering administration. *Biden said he’d halt further oil and gas production on public land, while encouraging Wall Street to cut off capital to the industry. *Every government investigation of high gas prices since the 1970s has failed to find any evidence of price fixing or collusion in the oil industry, because there isn’t any. *The dramatic revolution in domestic oil and gas production that began about 15 years ago falsified two of liberalism’s most persistent clichés—that we had reached “peak oil,” and that the U.S. couldn’t “drill our way” to energy independence. Have a great Juneteenth weekend
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Apple’s profit margin is about double that of Exxon, and government make more off a gallon of gas than the oil companies yet I don’t hear you complain about that.
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Then why are they doing it? Presumably they are rational actors with the same access to the information you are citing, what is their motivation? FWIW I am agnostic with regard to coal, for me it is just a rational decision based on economics.
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Coal use up. Full stop. I hope that clears up your confusion.
