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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Wind Energy

Climate deniers and renewable energy skeptics frequently point out that wind and solar have their own carbon footprints, and that these numbers are either totally unknown or astronomically high.

The first part of this is true, to be sure.  There is no such thing as a free lunch, as people have been saying since the early 2oth Century, when saloons were offering customers free lunches, on the hope that they’d wash them down with a couple of beers at five cents each.

The second part of the claim is totally untrue.  There have been dozens of extremely detailed studies conducted on the subject, as presented in this article by the good people at Yale Climate Connections.  Natural gas carries a CO2-equivant number of about 30 times that of wind; coal is about 60 times, the combustion of which emits heavy metals and radioactive isotopes that are extremely toxic.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Regarding the indictment against the Trump Organization and its CFO, a reader notes: It’s a corporation. Anyway, it’s a flimsy charge. Everyone does this kind of thing. They need better charges.

As much as I want to see the justice system crush Trump like a grape, I think I speak for all like-minded people in saying that I hope he doesn’t go down for something like income tax evasion or something that many decent people have done. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Fossil Fuels

As presented in the article linked here, a senior ExxonMobil lobbyist has been captured on camera claiming that the oil giant is waging a secret war on climate change legislation. The covert recordings was filmed by Greenpeace UK. 

Did anyone think this wasn’t happening? Who on Earth believed that Exxon was peacefully accepting legislation that would help transition the world away from oil? (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From The Atlantic:

A Republican state senator who chairs the Oversight Committee, had released a report detailing his eight-month-long investigation into the legitimacy of the 2020 election. The stakes could hardly have been higher. Against a backdrop of confusion and suspicion and frightening civic friction—with Trump claiming he’d been cheated out of victory, and anecdotes about fraud coursing through every corner of the state—McBroom had led an exhaustive probe of Michigan’s electoral integrity. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The civilization is doing a terrible job with respect to plastic waste.

Some people remain unaware of the issue, and most of the people who understand it are unwilling to alter their lifestyles accordingly.

Compounding the problem is that the corporate world has no compunction about shoving it down our throats; they’re ramping up the use of plastic rather than finding substitutes. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Hard to come across something like this and not laugh.

I like the subtlety.

Seriously, Roger doesn’t need assertiveness training, does he?

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics, Uncategorized

I had a sad realization during a phone call with my mom the other day.  She’s a lifelong conservative, sharp as a tack at 95, and unsurprisingly, a Fox News devotee.  Occasionally the topic turns to politics, and I love the opportunity to ask her what’s on her mind.

Fortunately, she’s concluded, as have so many other educated Republicans, that the GOP needs to cut its connections to Trump.  We didn’t cover it directly, but she seems to have also accepted that the election was not rigged.

All that’s good, but it’s not the end of the discussion.  That’s the realization: there is no end to the discussion. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Reader and climate skeptic Jim Kalergis writes:

I spent well over 100 hours studying “climate change” and came away with this: There’s science, and there’s SCIENCE. Climate Science is where the medical profession was back in the good old days of the leaches and blood-letting. Anybody who tells you they have a sufficient understanding of the forces responsible for climate to predict future climate is pissing on your leg and and looking for another billion in government grants. Climate science is so corrupted by politicians, click hungry media, and special interest groups, that it shouldn’t be given much weight in making policy decisions. It’s a huge mistake to shut down communication on a subject with ad hominem attacks, refusals to hear all arguments, threats to one’s livelihood, etc. The answer is always more communication, not less.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If it seems that all the news in today’s world is bad, check this out.  Apparently, the U.S. Justice Department isn’t enabling a certain political party to create and enforce voter suppression laws.

Apparently the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution have meaning, at least for now.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I happen to be closely connected to one of our nation’s top epidemiologists, and I can assure readers that the benefits of the vaccines outweigh the risks by several orders of magnitude.

What Johnson is doing here is among the most disgusting things ever to be witnessed in this formerly great land.  There doesn’t seem to be a single element of American life that this criminal isn’t actively trying to destroy.

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