Willis Eschenbach
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🧵I write about climate science, politics, international affairs, and a host of other subjects. Links in bio.
Best thing about writing for the web?
People who can show me where I'm wrong. It saves me the endless time I'd otherwise waste following blind alleys and wrong ideas.
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@DanPriceSeattle
Per your link, the project has cost $9.4 million. How's this a $590K "savings to taxpayers"? That's an $8.8 million loss.
Also, it's amazing what success you can report when your article only mentions the successes, not the people who spent it on hookers and blow …
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@DD_Geopolitics
She was far and away the biggest cringe of the Olympics. I felt sorry for every Aussie.
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Look, folks. Hate to burst the bubble, but the whole renewable madness is nothing but a green fantasy. We've spent TRILLIONS on it, and here's what we've achieved.
Sadly, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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People keep claiming that CO2 levels are the "highest in history" and that they are an "existential crisis".
Madness.
We are at the very lowest CO2 levels in history. Modern organisms, including mammals, evolved when CO2 levels were much higher than today.
Relax.
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@BeckettUnite
Howard, I must confess, I used to care about the Palestinians … but I no longer give a fµ¢k about them.
Palestinians are the only people on Earth who feel entitled to declare war on their neighbor repeatedly, reject offers of statehood, receive billions in aid, waste it all on
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Per Bloomberg, over the last 19 years, the world wasted $6.6 TRILLION on wind and solar. In exchange, we got intermittent, unreliable electricity.
For the same price, we could have built 660 reliable constant one-gigawatt nuclear plants at current prices …
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Can anyone name another "vaccine" where you need three-four shots per year and you can still both get and spread the disease?
I'll wait ...
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PS–I'm 3X vaccinated ... not going for
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@davidhogg111
When I was in high school, every deer season one pickup truck in four in the HS parking lot had a gun in the rear window rack. Not loaded, but bullets in the glove box. Dozens of guns at the HS.
And guess what?
NOBODY GOT SHOT.
The problem is the humans, not the guns.
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For all you good folks that think that electric cars with lithium batteries are going to get cheaper ... bad news on that front.
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There's a lot of misunderstanding these days about the nature of science.
The most crucial insight is that science is not a "thing". It is a process, and it works as follows:
• Someone makes a falsifiable claim about how the world works. They back the claim up with
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Name ONE "catastrophic impact" shown to be due to the ±1°C warming of the last century.
I'll wait ...
In the meantime, you still run an airline burning millions of gallons of fossil fuel every year, right? So you make billions out of emitting CO2?
Asking for a friend ...
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The window of opportunity for humanity to avert the most catastrophic impacts of global warming is closing. I applaud students for reminding us what’s at stake - their future, and the future of humanity
#schoolstrike4climate
#FridaysForFuture
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I'm a data guy, and my joy and skill is turning numbers not just into graphs so we can understand them, but into works of art.
I got to thinking about the endless "ARCTIC SEA ICE IS DISAPPEARING EVERYONE PANIC" hype, so today I looked at the data.
Here's what I found.
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Fun EV fact. To match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in 12 hours, an EV charging station requires 600 50-kW chargers at an estimated cost of $24 million and a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid.
For. Each. Filling. Station. In. America.
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@thatdayin1992
Civilians my ass. Those pagers were given by Iran to Hezbollah, it wasn't some random attack.
You know, a random attack like say Hezbollah blindly firing over 6,000 missiles and rockets at Israel since October 7th … funny how you forgot to mention that …
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Noted climate experts Steven Colbert and Jane Fonda claimed that we have only 10 years left to prevent "catastrophe".
Al Gore was unhappy with the news, telling reporters "They stole that line from me, I've been saying it for over thirty years now!"
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@AliMilaniUK
"Islamophobia" is just a scare word to discourage people from looking hard at Islam.
A "phobia" is an unreasonable fear of something that's not frightening. I don't have that. I have a reasonable and historically justified fear of Islam. Here's why.
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Sorry, Elon, but that's simply not true. Here's the history of CO2, and the world has done very well at levels you incorrectly think are dangerous.
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@Rothmus
A CO2 tax, properly applied, would change the tragedy of the commons that is the steadily rising CO2 ppm level. If we’re going to tax anything, then we should prioritize taxing the potentially bad over the potentially good, as we do with alcohol & cigarettes over vegetables &
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@HumzaYousaf
Humza, a question for you.
The Koran authorizes Muslim men to keep female prisoners of war as sex slaves to rape at will. Boko Haram, ISIS, Hamas, and other orthodox Muslim groups practice that evil.
How do you explain your support of that to the women in your life?
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@Remroum
Remi, there are literally hundreds of thousands of people worldwide using the same brand of pagers.
Israel planted explosives in a group of pagers given by Iran to Hezbollah.
If Doctors are using those specific pagers, they're part of Hezbollah.
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Suppose everyone on the planet upped stakes and moved 120 miles (200 km) towards the equator.
At that point, on average everyone would be living in a place that is ~ 1.5°C warmer than their previous home.
Can anyone tell me why this would be an "existential crisis"?
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@DavidPepper
You ask, Why is climate unpredictable but eclipses are predictable?
Umm … because climate is an unimaginably complex multiply coupled chaotic system which is inherently unpredictable, and astronomy is simple Newtonian mechanics?
But I suspect you knew that …
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Are all British cops this dumb, or are you special?
When someone blocks the road in the US, we ARREST THEM, we don't conspire with them in road closures.
Must be something in the tea water, but between grooming, "hate speech", and this madness, you're losing all respect.
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We are using emergency police powers to close two city centre roads.
An organisation known as Extinction Rebellion Cambridge have begun a week long protest and set up a base at the roundabout on Trumpington Road intersecting with The Fen Causeway.
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In which I demonstrate that the iconic "hockeystick" climate graph is a totally fallacious artifact of bad math.
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Man, this is insane. A Delaware judge just ruled that despite it being approved of by 73% of the stockholders, Elon Musk's pay package was too big.
That's not the crazy part. The judge ruled that Elon should get NO PAY FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS!!!
It's getting clear that the US
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For those who need convincing we should follow Greta, consider her mom's claim:
"Greta is able to see what other people cannot see. She can see carbon dioxide with the naked eye. She sees how it flows out of chimneys and changes the atmosphere in a landfill."
Yowza!
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If electric vehicles are as wonderful as they say, why is the gov't reaching into my wallet to PAY RICH PEOPLE TO BUY THEM?
And when did we vote to let the EPA decide what kind of cars we can drive?
Vote the damn Democrats out, root and branch.
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When Michael Mann & his cohorts were making these predictions in the spring, I was laughing.
Why?
Because they use models that always predict that disaster is one decade away …
They predicted 33 named Atlantic cyclones (hurricanes). So far?
Seven
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@GadSaad
As usual, my friend, you cut to the chase in the most expeditious and genteel manner … and if anyone is wondering what he's referring to, here are the receipts.
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Idiocy. First, they say no fossil fuel cars after 2035. In the US we drive 3.2 trillion miles per year. Electric cars use ~0.3 kwh/mile. We'll need to build a 1 GW nuclear plant every three weeks starting tomorrow JUST for the extra electricity to charge the cards.
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@cipola6672
@DanPriceSeattle
Say what? If you are spending $9+ million, you don't get to claim a half-million in benefits to the taxpayer is a "saving".
As to math, I was selected for the Nation Science Foundation summer math institute because of my outstanding math abilities … nice try, though.
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@swilkinsonbc
Gosh, Sarah, maybe next time they shouldn't team up with people who invade their neighbor's house, rape his wife until her pelvis breaks then burn her alive, abduct his infant and grandmother as hostages, kill him and the kids, kidnap the daughter to be a sex slave … and then
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Here's a very earnest, very concerned scientist assuring us in 2018 that there will be no permanent sea ice in the Arctic by 2022, none, zero … how many times do these serial failed doomcasters need to crash and burn before people wise up?
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@Hamza_a96
You don't get it, Hamza. We no longer care. Your Palestinian blind savage animalistic violence over 75 years has worn us out.
Maybe next time don't support people who invade their neighbor's house, rape his wife until her pelvis breaks then burn her alive, abduct his infant and
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To replace the UK's current fossil fuel consumption of 1.7 PWh/year by 2050, y'all will have to site, approve, and build a 1 gigawatt nuclear plant every month 'til then. That's 346 power plants. You can add renewables if you want, but you'll still need the nukes for backup.
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Please beg, borrow, or steal a sense of proportion.
Per your alarmist article, Greenland is losing 264 gigatonnes of ice/year.
However, Greenland contains 2.8 MILLION gigatonnes of ice.
So at current melt rates it will all be melted in about ten thousand years … EVERYONE
This is the amount only Greenland is loosing water and ice per Hour! Believe or not. Billions of people near the third poles will never do ice management or cooling to save their rice 🌾 paddies from salty water. It is too complex and we overestimate the intelligence of our
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And if you think we can somehow get to "Net-Zero" by 2050 or some such date, think again. It's just another colossal waste of money designed to enrich the "green" pals of the people in power.
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First, science isn't decided by consensus. In 1947 the consensus was that the prefrontal lobotomy was such a valuable procedure that the inventor got a Nobel Prize for it that year …
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For forty years, we've been fighting this insane fight to lower temperature levels by reducing CO2.
For forty years, they've been telling us that Thermageddon™ is only five or ten years away.
Here are the less-than-impressive results.
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Reminder: Europe cannot afford to go against Russia in this war because of lack of oil and gas. It gambled on sun and wind and lost.
And Germany, stupidly, is closing 3 nuclear plants.
Might be time to drill, frack, and build nuclear.
Reminder: Russia can only afford to fight this war because of oil and gas.
It's biggest weapon against Europe is cutting off supplies of oil and gas.
Might be time to go renewable.
#StandWithUkraine
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@SophieMolly_SG
@minimaddii_
Sophie, if trans folk would do three simple things, you'd never have to worry about people hating on you:
1. Stop invading women's spaces. They don't want you there. LISTEN TO THEM.
2. Stop supporting the social, hormonal, and surgical interference with children, particularly
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I've been seeing people hyping graphs of the warming sea surface temperature and screaming "THERMAGEDDON IS HERE! EVERYONE PANIC!"
So I went and got the data that they used, from here:
I graphed it up in the normal manner. You can see the previous El
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Well, this may be what got me banned before, but I'll say it again.
There is no climate emergency.
The post below is fully cited and linked to the underlying science studies. I've posted it all over the web. Nobody's ever found a single error in it.
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On what planet is this remotely fair to females?
Anyone supporting this hates women, either secretly or openly.
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1 billion animals, 8.4 million hectares burned. That works out to about 120 animals per ha (50 per acre).
That's not the density of animals in the bush, that's the density of animals in the Sydney Tauronga Zoo.
Zoo animals: 4,000+
Land area: 28 hectares
Density: 119/ha
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Ecologists at the University of Sydney and WWF Australia estimate that a billion animals has died in Australia’s bushfires.
“Over a billion would be a very conservative figure,” says Chris Dickman from the University of Sydney.
#AustraliaFires
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Remember the "record heat" on the Greenland ice cap last month that had climate alarmists hyperventilating?
Ooops ... DMI now says it was NOT a 4.7° record—instead, it was -2°C.
Of course, nobody but DMI is publishing retractions ...
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@mynameisricktho
@BeckettUnite
Rick, 80% of the Palestinians recently polled said they support Hamas, and majorities approve of the 10/7 attacks.
"Despite the devastation, 57% of respondents in Gaza and 82% in the West Bank believe Hamas was correct in launching the October attack, the poll indicated.
Only
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@BlackRedGuard1
You are supporting the Houthis, who practice sex slavery.'
How do you explain that support of sex slavery to the women in your life?
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I keep reading people cheering for wind, solar, and all renewables, and claiming that we're moving rapidly towards Nut-Zero.
So I thought I'd download the data and see what's actually happening.
TL;DR Version: Nothing is happening.
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You'd need about 20,000 pounds of standard Tesla batteries to store the energy in a barrel of crude oil ... batteries are a long, long, long way from being useful in a modern electricity grid.
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Actual headline: Climate Models Wrong Again.
The Arctic warming, long blamed on CO2, started around 1900. This was well before CO2 rose enough to be a factor.
Our understanding of climate is in its infancy, & models predicting 2100 temps are a joke.
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@ShaykhSulaiman
To forget him I'd have to remember him first … hang on …
Oh, right. He was the poor man with profound mental problems who decided that not enough people had died in the war Hamas started, so he added one to that number …
OK. Now I can forget him.
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Folks seem concerned about the speed of the CO2 level rise, saying plants and animals "won't have time to adjust" …
CO2 levels are currently rising by ~0.003 ppmv/day.
In a sealed greenhouse, levels often go as low as 200 ppmv due to plant respiration. So the greenhouse owner
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Free advice for Australians:
Cool weather + fuel + arsonists = fire.
Hot weather + no fuel + arsonists = no fire.
You can do something about fuel & arsonists.
You can't do anything about the weather. If you cut CO2 emissions to zero, the year 2050 MIGHT be 0.05°C cooler.
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@SpaceKarenSuxDX
@Martina
@Bakari_Sellers
Mildred, the fastest women's tennis serve on record is 220 km/hr.
Men's speeds don't even get recorded unless they're over 220 km/hr. The 50th fastest man serves at 230 km/hr.
The idea that they should play against each other simply means women will never win again.
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@AdameMedia
The kid who was taught by his parents and society to hate and kill Jews is the victim in that photo …
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For a while I was analyzing COVID data ... here's an example of why I quit.
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Germany bought into the renewable energy scam bigtime. Guess what? Now they're having to ration energy.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. The idea that we can power the world on sun and wind is a lethal deception.
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I see that
@elonmusk
supports a carbon tax. He's not wrong about much, but in this case, he's 100% off the rails.
The Canadians tried it. It's failed miserably. Here are my posts on the subject of taxing energy. First, the temperature change.
Part 1
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@fliceverett
He absolutely spoke for me. Stopping ambulances from getting to hospitals, cops from getting to crimes in progress, and fire trucks from getting to burning homes is a DANGEROUS CRIME, and they deserve all they got.
Here's what the Judge said.
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Before you believe the crazy forecasts of the climate "experts", consider the following ...
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… but of course, due to mass manufacture, we'd likely be able to build many more nuclear plants for the same $$.
Anyone worried about CO2 who is not supporting nuclear power is either a fool, a liar, or in the pocket of the renewables industry.
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Until climate scientists can explain:
• Why the earth was warmer during the Roman & Medieval periods
• Why the earth cooled to the Little Ice Age
• Why it didn't continue to cool into glaciation
• Why it started warming after the LIA
... I'm not believing much they say.
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The world has been MUCH warmer before, with MUCH higher CO2 levels. The idea that the current slight warming and CO2 increase will lead to an "irreversible climate breakdown" doesn't even pass the laugh test. Been there, done that, no breakdown.
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The global sea surface temperature and air temperature is two-tenths of one degree C warmer than a few years ago, and you are "terrified"???
You cannot even feel two-tenths of one degree. If you didn't have these graphs, you'd never know it had changed. Stop being a drama queen.
These might be the most terrifying graphs I have seen in my 20+years as a climate activist.
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Quick course in historical reality.
When you lose a war, you often lose land. Ask Mexico. Ask Germany. Ask Paraguay about the War of the Triple Alliance. Ask countries throughout history. Lose the war, lose the land.
And the winner of the war can do whatever they want in their
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Germany is the canary in the renewable energy coal mine, and it's falling over.
To no sane person's surprise, endlessly pushing renewables has driven German energy prices through the roof, and is destroying their economy.
Duh.
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Ireland is totally losing the plot.
• Each cow puts out ~ 100kg of methane (CH4)/year
• 200,000 cows = 20,000 tonnes CH4/yr
• 2.75 megatonnes CH4 = one part per billion (ppb) in atmosphere
• Irish cows = 0.007 ppb/year
• Current CH4 = 1921 ppb
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For those good folks who think that CO2 levels hitting 500 ppmv is an "existential threat" that will lead to the end of the human race, here's a historical look at CO2 levels along with the dates of the emergence of various life forms.
Seasons greetings to all,
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So ... you say that the last time CO2 levels were this high, there were forests in Antarctica.
And this time there are miles of ice in Antarctica.
Kinda tells you something about how much CO2 actually affects the temperature, no? ...
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The last time CO2 levels were this high, there were forests in
#Antarctica
- "It tells you where we're heading if we don't get serious about addressing
#climatechange
" -
@mjsiegert
@vandeflierdt
speak to
@BBCAmos
about the
#Pliocene
epoch
#RmetS
@RMetS
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Hot in the Australian desert = dangerous climate change trumpeted around the planet.
Snow in the Saudi Desert = not even news.
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Twenty years I've been fighting this lunacy, and we're finally WINNING!
"… belief in humans causing all or most climate change had slumped in America to 49% from the 60% level recorded just five years ago"
People are wising up to the
#climatescam
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The fuel prices are up because of the insane war on CO2 that YOU ARE PUSHING!
• YOU have pushed to increase energy prices.
• YOU have pushed a carbon tax.
• YOU have pushed to "phase out the fossil fuel industry".
• YOU have said "if we don't stop producing fossil fuels we
SHOCKING: 6.5 MILLION households will be living in fuel poverty this month as energy bills go up AGAIN by 5%.
At the same time, big oil companies are giving RECORD payouts to shareholders.
Does this seem fair to you?
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This is total hogwash. Fifty percent of the emissions come from just China, India, Russia, Africa, Indonesia, and Brazil. These make up 61% of the population, not 10%, and are among the poorest.
This is just
@ProfMarkMaslin
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A couple decades ago, the Feds destroyed the logging industry in California to try to save the spotted owl.
Not only did it not work, but another owl species moved in and is displacing the spotted owl. So now, the Feds plan to shoot HALF A MILLION barred owls, to "save" the
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@TaisonBell
OK, here's your "full explanation".
They were breaking the law so the cops arrested them.
Glad I could help.
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These days, the easiest way to tell what is true is simply to look at what Facebook or Youtube censors.
For example, after being up for a couple of days, Climate : The Movie is no longer accessible on YouTube.
Thanks,
@elonmusk
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For all you good folks endlessly telling me that we need to depend on "peer-reviewed science" like that was some ironclad guarantee of accuracy, neutrality, and inerrancy ... not true in the slightest. Half the studies can't even be replicated.
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@Cobratate
@padzer78
Andrew, the Qur'an specifically says that Muslim men may keep female prisoners of war as sex slaves to rape at will.
On what planet is that "affording them rights"?
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@McFaul
@KamalaHarris
Near as I can tell, Kamala has no "moral obligation" to do anything simply because she has no morals of any kind and will do whatever it takes to win, moral or not.
Michael thinks this raw unconstrained desire for power at any cost is a good thing.
Sane people disagree.
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@BigMeanInternet
"People who want to exterminate you"? Get real. IF Israel wanted to exterminate all of Gazans they could have done it in the first month of the war.
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@PamelaGeller
Thanks, Pamela, for all the work you do.
Here's a tour through the heart of the beast.
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@anyonewantchips
Seriously? You write about gun mass killings and are so uninformed that you don't know that NOT ONE OF THEM WAS COMMITTED WITH AN AK-47?
You might want to do your homework first …
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Sit this one out. Permanently. You've already done enough damage. You're sitting on a HUGE energy resource and you'd rather destroy your own economy and put your country into hock to your enemies than to man up, stand up, and face reality.
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Thanks, Richard. Let me start by saying that the IPCC is a governmental organization charged with finding out how much CO2 is dangerous … NOT whether it's a danger. That was assumed. Bad scientists, no cookies.
It has wandered a LONG way from science and deep into advocacy.
@WEschenbach
No Willis, I’m an IPCC lead author and we do not say that. Many extremes actually are increasing.
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There have been several warm and cold periods in the last 2,000 years. No one knows why it cooled after the Roman Warm Period, then warmed to the peak of the Medieval WP around 1000 AD, then cooled to the bottom of the Little Ice Age around 1700 AD. No. One. Knows.
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Here's a protip, Mustafa.
Maybe next time don't invade your neighbor's house, rape his wife until her pelvis breaks then burn her alive, abduct his infant and grandmother as hostages, kill him and the kids, kidnap the daughter to be a sex slave to be raped at will … and then
The unimaginable Israeli destruction of Gaza
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First, they lose the scientific argument. Then they lose the political argument.
Then they lose their minds ...
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@bf_nagy
Solarcycle charges $18 per panel to recycle them. Obviously, the materials they get do NOT pay recycling costs.
They also say "Solar panels are retiring faster than previous research anticipated." Um … there's a clue in there, folks.
Here are a couple of quotes from the CEO:
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