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Thursday, May 11, 2023 4:34 AM

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In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived

About 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway are battery-powered. As a result, the air is cleaner, the streets are quieter and the grid hasn’t collapsed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230510155707/https://www.nytimes.com/202
3/05/08/business/energy-environment/norway-electric-vehicles.html


The Times piece tackles other related subjects as well: the reordering of auto dealerships to accommodate EV sales, the increasing demands on Norway’s power grid (no, it has not collapsed), battery recycling, and the expectation that the country will end the sales of internal combustion engine cars by 2025. The piece is a useful preview of what may soon be encountered in the US.

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Friday, May 12, 2023 3:00 PM

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Sen. Manchin attacked EPA’s new rules. They could cost him millions.

The West Virginia senator accused the Biden administration of killing coal plants. One, in particular, has helped enrich him.

When Sen. Joe Manchin upbraided EPA on Wednesday for requiring power plants to reduce their carbon emissions, he didn’t mention that the agency’s rules could threaten his personal income.

The West Virginia Democrat vowed to oppose President Joe Biden’s EPA nominees because the agency’s rules being proposed Thursday could push coal- and gas-fired power plants “out of existence,” he said.

The risk to one plant, in particular, could jeopardize a lucrative source of money for Manchin. His family business Enersystems Inc. delivers waste coal to the Grant Town power plant, a financially struggling coal facility near Manchin’s hometown that he has spent much of his political career protecting.

The Grant Town plant has repeatedly threatened to shut down. Now, with the release of EPA rules that are expected to push many power plants into installing expensive technology to capture their carbon emissions before the pollution escapes into the sky, the plant faces an increasingly troubled future. Many coal plants might shut down rather than comply with the stringent new climate rules.

“This is going to make it harder for them to stay around. You won’t find written anywhere in the rule that this is supposed to be putting coal plants out of business, but just do the math,” said Brian Murray, director of the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability at Duke University.

Last year, Manchin earned $537,000 from Enersystems, according to financial disclosure records he filed with the Senate. He has been paid more than $5 million by the company since being elected to the Senate in 2010. The Grant Town plant is the main facility to receive coal from Manchin’s family business. Enersystems is now run by Manchin’s son, Joe Manchin IV.

Spokespeople for Manchin and Grant Town did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/11/manchin-epa-new-rules-biden-0
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Sunday, May 14, 2023 10:09 AM

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023 6:24 AM

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Last year, the world built more new solar capacity than every other power source combined.

Solar is now growing much faster than any other energy technology in history. How fast? Fast enough to completely displace fossil fuels from the entire global economy before 2050.

The rise and rise of cheap solar is our best hope for rapidly mitigating climate change.

Total solar capacity tipped over 1 terawatt (1,000 gigawatts) for the first time last year. The sector is growing at around 20% a year. If this continues, we’ll hit 6 terawatts around 2031. In capacity terms, that would be larger than the combined total of coal, gas, nuclear and hydro.





To run our homes, industries and vehicles with electricity, we’ll need to double electricity production. Why not more? Because electricity is usually much more efficient at producing an energy outcome. For example, 85% of the petrol you put into your car is wasted as heat.

In countries with a significant chemical industry, electricity production might need to triple.

If these trends continue, by mid-century we will be in a very different – and better – energy world.

Long term, there are practically no constraints on vast deployment of solar.

The sun will shine for billions more years. Raw materials for solar panels are abundant – silicon from sand and common metals like steel. There are no toxic metals or no critical materials like cobalt in them, and they are highly recyclable. Energy storage is now a solved problem.

More at https://theconversation.com/despairing-about-climate-change-these-4-ch
arts-on-the-unstoppable-growth-of-solar-may-change-your-mind-204901


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Sunday, May 28, 2023 8:48 AM

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Drastic climate action is the best course for economic growth, new study finds

For decades, many economists’ analyses seemed to justify inaction on weaning the economy from fossil fuels, saying the astronomical cost of such rapid transformation would strangle economic growth. These experts were heeded over scientists who warned that acting too slowly would court climate catastrophe.

But in recent years, more economists have begun to agree that the short-term costs of aggressive action are not as high as once thought, while the long-term costs of inaction are much steeper.

The learning-by-doing principle accounts for the fact that as many new technologies are increasingly deployed, their costs fall. As companies and workers become more efficient and productive, curbing climate change becomes less costly. This is evident in the rapidly falling costs of solar panels, wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. A study published last year found that learning by doing will help determine how quickly humanity succeeds in slowing global warming.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/04/drastic-climate-action-is-t
he-best-course-for-economic-growth-new-study-finds
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Thursday, June 1, 2023 3:42 AM

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Well, DUH!
Making artificial meat make as much sense as making artificial photosynthesizers.

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Carbon Footprint Of Lab-Grown Beef "Orders Of Magnitude" Worse Than Traditionally Raised: Study

A new study from the University of California, Davis, has found that lab-grown, or "cultivated" meat's environmental impact is likely to be "orders of magnitude" higher than retail beef based on current and near-term production methods.

The preprint study, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.21.537778v1.full which has yet to undergo peer review, concludes that the energy needed and greenhouse gasses emitted during all stages of production of lab-grown meat is far greater than traditionally raised beef.

Researchers conducted a life-cycle assessment of the energy needed and greenhouse gases emitted in all stages of production and compared that with beef. One of the current challenges with lab-grown meat is the use of highly refined or purified growth media, the ingredients needed to help animal cells multiply. Currently, this method is similar to the biotechnology used to make pharmaceuticals. This sets up a critical question for cultured meat production: Is it a pharmaceutical product or a food product? -UC Davis

"If companies are having to purify growth media to pharmaceutical levels, it uses more resources, which then increases global warming potential," according to lead author and doctoral graduate Derrick Risner, of the US Davis Department of Food Science and Technology. "If this product continues to be produced using the “pharma” approach, it’s going to be worse for the environment and more expensive than conventional beef production."

The scientists considered the 'global warming potential' to be the carbon dioxide equivalents emitted for each kilogram of meat produced - and found that the global warming potential of lab-based meat using these purified media is up to 25 times greater than the average for retail beef.

One of the goals of the industry is to eventually create lab-grown meat using primarily food-grade ingredients or cultures without the use of expensive and energy-intensive pharmaceutical grade ingredients and processes.

Under that scenario, researchers found cultured meat is much more environmentally competitive, but with a wide range. Cultured meat’s global warming potential could be between 80% lower to 26% above that of conventional beef production, they calculate. While these results are more promising, the leap from “pharma to food” still represents a significant technical challenge for system scale-up.

“Our findings suggest that cultured meat is not inherently better for the environment than conventional beef. It’s not a panacea,” said corresponding author Edward Spang, an associate professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology. “It’s possible we could reduce its environmental impact in the future, but it will require significant technical advancement to simultaneously increase the performance and decrease the cost of the cell culture media.”

Even the most efficient beef production systems reviewed in the study outperform cultured meat across all scenarios (both food and pharma), suggesting that investments to advance more climate-friendly beef production may yield greater reductions in emissions more quickly than investments in cultured meat.


MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lab-grown-meats-carbon-footprint-l
ikely-orders-magnitude-worse-retail-beef-study


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Thursday, June 1, 2023 8:38 AM

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The mere idea of "cultured" meat makes me vomit a little in my mouth.

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Friday, June 9, 2023 9:05 AM

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Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change. But soon will they forget.

Recent polls have shown that Americans are connecting these dots. The Pew Research Center reported last year that among people who experienced events like heat waves, drought, and wildfires, more than 80 percent said climate change played a role. However, there was a big gap between Republicans and Democrats, with Democrats more likely to report a larger role for climate change.



https://www.vox.com/climate/23754580/wildfire-smoke-air-quality-canada
-new-york-washington-climate-change-opinion


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Friday, June 9, 2023 9:13 AM

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LOL

That graph doesn't say what vox is telling you it says.

All that's telling you is where Democrats tend to live vs. where Republicans tend to live.

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Friday, June 9, 2023 9:49 AM

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LOL

That graph doesn't say what vox is telling you it says.

All that's telling you is where Democrats tend to live vs. where Republicans tend to live.

What it tells you is that 99% of the human race goes through life unconscious of what is going on because their memories are very short. The long-dead inhabitants of Easter Island, for one example, could not remember from one decade to the next how their island was changing as they cut down and burned every tree. Eventually, having wiped out the trees, the leftover humans successfully exterminated themselves, at least on that island. Now humans setting all the fuel they can find on fire and, if they keep going in the same direction, humans will turn the whole Earth into one enormous Easter Island.

Obviously, there is ALWAYS someone to gainsay the story of Easter Island, adding so much irrelevant nuisance that they miss the meaning, just like the original Easter Island inhabitants convinced themselves that they were doing fine, never better, couldn't improve anything, etc., exactly the same as Trumptards, but so slowly dying that they don't realize what they are doing to themselves.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rethinking-easter-islands-h
istoric-collapse
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Sunday, June 18, 2023 10:14 PM

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Inside the unexpectedly wild landmark Montana youth climate trial by Karin Kirk, June 15, 2023

Young people are attempting to hold their state accountable for fossil fuel expansion.

The case, Held v. Montana, pits a group of 16 young plaintiffs against the state of Montana. The youth argue that the state’s unabated pursuit of fossil fuel extraction is violating their constitutional rights to a clean and healthful environment.

Their argument draws on an unusual feature of Montana’s constitution. Written in 1972, it reads: “The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.”

In fact, the right to a clean and healthful environment is spelled out twice in the constitution, and it’s listed first among Montanans’ inalienable rights.

Montana’s constitution is part of why this is the first of several youth climate lawsuits to make it to trial in the U.S.

Montana attempted several times to have the case dismissed.

The trial is being closely watched by climate advocates across the U.S. because it has the potential to establish a precedent that future cases could build upon. If Judge Kathy Seely finds that Montana’s fossil fuel activities violate the state constitution, then the state may have to reconsider its all-in approach toward fossil fuels — though it’s uncertain how that would play out.

More at https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/06/inside-the-unexpectedly-wil
d-landmark-montana-youth-climate-trial
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Sunday, June 18, 2023 11:17 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Their argument draws on an unusual feature of Montana’s constitution. Written in 1972, it reads: “The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.”



They were talking about not littering, doucebag.

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The trial is being closely watched by climate advocates across the U.S. because


... they are lunatics and idiots.

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If Judge Kathy Seely finds that Montana’s fossil fuel activities violate the state constitution, then the state may have to reconsider its all-in approach toward fossil fuels — though it’s uncertain how that would play out.


No it's not. You'll have to burn coal to power your cars because electricity isn't magic, and the good people of Montana will be paying a buck per kWh.



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Monday, June 19, 2023 3:41 AM

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No it's not. You'll have to burn coal to power your cars because electricity isn't magic, and the good people of Montana will be paying a buck per kWh.

NorthWestern Energy CEO Brian Bird acknowledged in 2023: “I may be the only CEO in the utility industry adding coal to his portfolio.”

All-in on fossil fuels

Montana has never denied a fossil fuel permit, whether for extraction, transportation, or burning of fossil fuels. In a 2022 debate, then-candidate Ryan Zinke, now a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, proudly said he wanted no part of the clean energy transition. Montana Sen. Steve Daines has received well over $1 million in campaign donations from the fossil fuel industry and routinely characterizes efforts to decarbonize energy as an “attack on American energy.” During this winter’s legislative session, state lawmakers tried to ban the teaching of scientific theories in K-12 education and passed new laws that block cities from making their own policies that would encourage non-fossil sources of energy.

The primary defense from the state thus far is that its emissions are “too minuscule to make any difference.” Stermitz called Montana a spectator in the realm of global climate change, adding “there is absolutely nothing Montana does or could do” to reach the plaintiffs’ goal of reducing carbon pollution in the atmosphere to safe levels.

“Would an oil refinery upwind of Glacier National Park, by itself, affect the rate of glacier loss?” Stermitz asked in cross-examination of glacier researcher Dan Fagre.

Similar lines of questioning followed each expert testimony. What would be the impact of one state’s emissions on a problem of global proportions? If Montana stopped burning coal, could the effect be measured in snowpack, wildfire smoke, or drought? Can a specific state policy be directly linked to the harm of an individual child in the state? If there is no measurable, specific impact, then perhaps the state has no responsibility for the peril of its children.

Then again, the same argument could be made for any large-scale problem. If any single actor is insufficient to move the needle, then perhaps all actors are free from responsibility. It’s the very reasoning that has led the world into crisis in the first place.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/06/inside-the-unexpectedly-wil
d-landmark-montana-youth-climate-trial
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Monday, June 19, 2023 9:17 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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proudly said he wanted no part of the clean energy transition.



Because "clean" energy is a fallacy in a world with 8 Billion people and growing, you dolt.

And a very expensive one at that.



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Tuesday, June 20, 2023 7:51 PM

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Groundbreaking youth-led climate trial comes to an end in Montana

Ruling could take weeks to emerge in trial for Held v Montana, which is the first constitutional climate trial in US history

A groundbreaking climate trial came to an early close on Tuesday as lawyers on each side presented a very different picture of who can be held responsible for the climate crisis.

Attorneys representing the lawsuit’s young challengers said Montana officials and agencies must be held accountable for exacerbating the crisis, and thereby violating the plaintiffs’ state constitutional rights. But the defense argued that climate change is a global problem. Let the Chinese fix the problem since they are bigger CO2 polluters than Montana. The Chinese said they would gladly fix it, but only if Montana pays for the fix. Montana refused.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/20/held-v-montana-climate
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023 8:10 PM

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Originally posted by second:
proudly said he wanted no part of the clean energy transition.



Because "clean" energy is a fallacy in a world with 8 Billion people and growing, you dolt.

And a very expensive one at that.

Nothing but failure is possible if you do nothing. You have bragged for years about doing nothing, 6ix, so your attitude that clean energy is a fallacy can become the only reality. Other countries are not plagued by loafers like you:

China’s Wind and Solar Are Now Almost Enough to Power Every Home. Wind and solar output jumped 21% last year to 1,190 terawatt-hours of electricity. That’s not far off total residential power consumption of 1,340 terawatt-hours.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-14/china-s-wind-and-so
lar-are-now-almost-enough-to-power-every-home


China is set to have 3,300GW of solar and wind in place by 2030, smashing by almost three times its own renewable energy goal for the end of the decade

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/china-to-hit-3-3tw-of-w
ind-and-solar-by-2030-on-road-to-energy-self-sufficiency-goldman-sachs/2-1-1430327


China builds vast solar, wind power parks in deserts

With 2,600 to 3,400 annual sunshine hours, Inner Mongolia ranks second only to Tibet Autonomous Region in the country in solar energy resources. Solar energy has emerged as a primary focus for driving the region's energy transformation in the latest round of the energy revolution.

The region has attracted leading photovoltaic manufacturing enterprises such as GCL Technology Holdings Limited, Tongwei Co., Ltd., TCL Zhonghuan Renewable Energy Technology Co., Ltd., Risen Energy Co., Ltd. and LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. to shape up the whole industrial chain.

https://english.news.cn/20230404/4abc952dbcfb4b5a8f76fa3a197a0da2/c.ht
ml


6ix, you and your Trumptards are an affliction, a time-wasting degenerate disease in the US.

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023 10:42 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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6ix, you and your Trumptards are an affliction, a time-wasting degenerate disease in the US.



Right back at you, boy.



P.S. China had zero Covid too, and they didn't unleash it from a lab.

If you believe one lie from China, you have to believe them all. You don't get to pick and choose.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2023 7:15 AM

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Originally posted by second:
6ix, you and your Trumptards are an affliction, a time-wasting degenerate disease in the US.



Right back at you, boy.



P.S. China had zero Covid too, and they didn't unleash it from a lab.

If you believe one lie from China, you have to believe them all. You don't get to pick and choose.

Where I live, in Republican-controlled Texas, the rich are Democrats and the poor are Republicans. My East Texas relatives are all poor, lazy, and stupid, but every one of them denies that simple truth. Instead, they see their problems (so many problems with alcohol, family, money, children, job, cultural) as not being their own fault, but caused by Democrats. My East Texas relatives are all Trumptards and they are all burdened by problems they caused for themselves, but which they think Democrats caused.

In contrast, my immediate family, father, mother, two sisters, moved to Pasadena Texas, worked at Burger King, and got rich. Their family lives are problem free. There was also the thing about going to college and becoming a school teacher, a nurse, and an engineer. My Trumptard relatives think that there was some kind of cheating going on to explain why the non-Trumptards prospered while they did not. The reality is very simple: Trumptards are poor because they won't do what they should do to correct their lives and grow wealthy. And they fooled themselves into believing climate change is a hoax.

Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. What does this mean for the nation’s political-economic divide?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/11/09/biden-voting-coun
ties-equal-70-of-americas-economy-what-does-this-mean-for-the-nations-political-economic-divide
/

Affluent Americans used to vote for Republican politicians. Now they vote for Democrats.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/artic
le/polarization-of-the-rich-the-new-democratic-allegiance-of-affluent-americans-and-the-politics-of-redistribution/E18D7DAE3A1EF35BA5BC54DE799F291B


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Wednesday, June 21, 2023 10:18 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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In contrast, my immediate family, father, mother, two sisters, moved to Pasadena Texas, worked at Burger King, and got rich. Their family lives are problem free.



You're even younger than I thought. The naivety of that statement puts you at around 13 years old.

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Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy.


Not "Biden*" voting counties. Democrat owned counties that include non-Democrat voting suburbs that surround the crime ridden, Democrat infested large cities.

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Affluent Americans used to vote for Republican politicians. Now they vote for Democrats.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/artic
le/polarization-of-the-rich-the-new-democratic-allegiance-of-affluent-americans-and-the-politics-of-redistribution/E18D7DAE3A1EF35BA5BC54DE799F291B



Affluent WHITE Americans.

Democrats used to be against war, government invasion of privacy and large corporations too. Now you're sucking the dicks of neo-cons and warmongers, and running defense for Disney.

Guess we know what happened now, don't we?

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Wednesday, June 21, 2023 11:15 AM

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Originally posted by second:
In contrast, my immediate family, father, mother, two sisters, moved to Pasadena Texas, worked at Burger King, and got rich. Their family lives are problem free.



You're even younger than I thought. The naivety of that statement puts you at around 13 years old.

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Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy.


Not "Biden*" voting counties. Democrat owned counties that include non-Democrat voting suburbs that surround the crime ridden, Democrat infested large cities.

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Affluent Americans used to vote for Republican politicians. Now they vote for Democrats.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/artic
le/polarization-of-the-rich-the-new-democratic-allegiance-of-affluent-americans-and-the-politics-of-redistribution/E18D7DAE3A1EF35BA5BC54DE799F291B



Affluent WHITE Americans.

Democrats used to be against war, government invasion of privacy and large corporations too. Now you're sucking the dicks of neo-cons and warmongers, and running defense for Disney.

Guess we know what happened now, don't we?





Also...

Wall Street Sours on America’s Downtowns

The pessimism from investors who bet on office buildings and mass transit can be seen in market signals that are flashing red

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cities-real-estate-bonds-taxes-c6736f8b?m
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Investors are paying less for bonds linked to New York subways and buses. Downtown-focused real-estate investment trusts trade at less than half their prepandemic levels. Bondholders are demanding extra interest to hold office-building debt.

Downtowns have been a mother lode for American cities over the years, providing billions of dollars in tax revenue along with their distinctive skylines. In turn, investors who bet on downtown office towers, or on the trains and buses delivering workers to them, could generally trust they held a winning hand.

Now, with white-collar workers spending more time in their home offices, a phenomenon that shows few signs of ending, investments linked to downtowns are trading at falling prices in volatile markets.

“You could see this as a slow-motion change or as the beginning of a slow-moving train wreck,” said Richard Ciccarone, president emeritus of Merritt Research Services, a municipal credit-analysis firm. “I hope it’s not a train wreck, but it could be.”

Investors’ dimming view of downtowns isn’t good news for cities’ finances, nor for their residents. It puts under strain some of city governments’ traditional ways of extracting wealth: collecting property taxes on office buildings, taxes on wages earned within city limits, and fares from office workers’ commutes.

Residents of some cities are bracing for austerity. Many New York library branches expect to close an additional day each week under cuts proposed as the city faces rising labor costs and budget gaps projected to reach $7 billion in 2027. From New York to Chicago to San Francisco, residents and visitors complain about empty downtown streets and transit stops that have become way stations for the mentally ill and homeless.




How long do you think that is going to be true given the current economic conditions that your party is responsible for?



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Trump goes crazy:

“Driven by his ridiculous regulations, electric cars will kill more than half of U.S. auto jobs and decimate the suppliers that they decimated already — decimate the suppliers and it’s going to decimate your jobs and it’s going to decimate more than anybody else, the state of Michigan,” he added. “It’s is going to be decimation it’s going to be at a level that that people can’t even imagine.”

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In contrast, my immediate family, father, mother, two sisters, moved to Pasadena Texas, worked at Burger King, and got rich. Their family lives are problem free.



You're even younger than I thought. The naivety of that statement puts you at around 13 years old.

Carbon dioxide is one of those limits to the freedom of Trumptards to do whatever they please.

There is a concept called negative liberty that Trumptards live by to their sorrow. They don't recognize the limits on what they can do and the results are very sad for them. Obesity and drunkenness because they won't recognize that they can't eat and drink whatever pleases them. Bankruptcy because they won't align their spending with their income. Divorce because they won't stay within the limits of marriage. Mental illness because they think they can have it all. Do Trumptards stay within limits once they hit the fences that limit them? No! Instead, they blame Democrats for the existence of limits. Trumptards want to tear down the fences, but Democrats didn't erect those fences and cliff edges and danger zones. The limits were always there before there were people. Carbon dioxide is one of those always there limits to the freedom of Trumptards to do whatever they please. Biology is another of those always there limits that Trumptards keep crashing into and ruining their health then not comprehending what they did wrong as they grow fatter, drunker, and more drug-addicted until their stupidity kills the Trumptards.

Negative liberty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty

6ix, because you will miss the point, people who recognize where the limits are will prosper. Those who won't pay attention to limits because limits mean they don't have enough liberty to satisfy their enormous egos, will not prosper.

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In contrast, my immediate family, father, mother, two sisters, moved to Pasadena Texas, worked at Burger King, and got rich. Their family lives are problem free.



You're even younger than I thought. The naivety of that statement puts you at around 13 years old.

Carbon dioxide is one of those limits to the freedom of Trumptards to do whatever they please.

There is a concept called negative liberty that Trumptards live by to their sorrow. They don't recognize the limits on what they can do and the results are very sad for them. Obesity and drunkenness because they won't recognize that they can't eat and drink whatever pleases them. Bankruptcy because they won't align their spending with their income. Divorce because they won't stay within the limits of marriage. Mental illness because they think they can have it all. Do Trumptards stay within limits once they hit the fences that limit them? No! Instead, they blame Democrats for the existence of limits. Trumptards want to tear down the fences, but Democrats didn't erect those fences and cliff edges and danger zones. The limits were always there before there were people. Carbon dioxide is one of those always there limits to the freedom of Trumptards to do whatever they please. Biology is another of those always there limits that Trumptards keep crashing into and ruining their health then not comprehending what they did wrong as they grow fatter, drunker, and more drug-addicted until their stupidity kills the Trumptards.

Negative liberty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty

6ix, because you will miss the point, people who recognize where the limits are will prosper. Those who won't pay attention to limits because limits mean they don't have enough liberty to satisfy their enormous egos, will not prosper.

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LOL, yup.

There aren't any democrats who are overweight, or drink too much, or ever got a divorce, or ever went bankrupt, or ever had any mental illness of any kind.

You're an idiot and a liar.



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LOL, yup.

There aren't any democrats who are overweight, or drink too much, or ever got a divorce, or ever went bankrupt, or ever had any mental illness of any kind.

You're an idiot and a liar.

You don't have to be Trumptard to be a big fat failure in America. Failure isn't a complicated or uncommon phenomenon in that country. It is a personal choice, the same as how much you eat, drink, or smoke. Smokers like 6ix are a special kind of failure because every pack of cigarettes tells them the simple truth: that tobacco will kill you, but people who are failures in life will keep on smoking. They will also falsely claim that electric cars are, indirectly, coal-burning cars because the Trumptards are reassuring themselves they are successes. Trump tells his Trumptards that they are huge successes, which gets their votes for him.

Donald Trump Goes on Bizarre Rant Against Electric Cars
https://futurism.com/donald-trump-bizarre-rant-electric-cars

Donald Trump goes on a nonsensical rant about electric cars: ‘We need to get rid of them’
https://electrek.co/2022/09/05/donald-trump-nonsensical-rant-electric-
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Let’s stop selling dictators the rope with which they hang people: our neighbours – and ultimately us. And if there’s one base element that powers Putin’s claims to invincibility, it’s reliance on fossil fuels. The battle against Putin is also the battle against climate crisis. As Prof Alexander Etkind lays out in his new book, Russia Against Modernity, Putin’s economy has been up to two-thirds dependent on oil and gas exports, largely to Europe, and crucially through pipelines that cross Ukraine.

Etkind argues that Putin launched his invasion in part to control this flow. Moreover, he wanted to destabilise Europe, flooding it with refugees and instilling so much chaos and fear that Europe would be forced to abandon plans for net zero carbon emissions by 2050. As so often in the course of this war, Putin’s aims have backfired. The invasion has led to a decrease in dependence on Russian energy. Putin’s aura of fossil-fuelled invincibility has been shaken, but we are only part of the way there. Faster decarbonisation is the most sustainable way to not only undermine Putin, but also to limit the opportunity for future Russian leaders and other resource-rich authoritarians to wage aggressive wars.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/26/yevgeny-prigozhi
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LOL, yup.

There aren't any democrats who are overweight, or drink too much, or ever got a divorce, or ever went bankrupt, or ever had any mental illness of any kind.

You're an idiot and a liar.

You don't have to be Trumptard



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Idiot and a liar.

6ix, you are fat, drunk and stupid. That is no way to go through life.

6ix attends college without graduating. I wonder what happened?



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June Extremes Suggest Parts of the Climate System Are Reaching Tipping Points

Research shows heat domes, wildfires and vanishing polar ice are the symptoms; unabated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause.

By Bob Berwyn, July 4, 2023

Earth’s critical reflective polar ice caps are at their lowest extent on record in the satellite era, with the sea ice around Antarctica at a record-low extent by far, spurring worried scientists to share dramatic charts of the missing ice repeatedly. In the Arctic, the month ended with the Greenland Ice Sheet experiencing one of the largest June melt events ever recorded, and with scientists reporting that June 2023 was the hottest June ever measured . . .

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global cimate shift is happening

unfortunately TPTB 'Great Resetters', who would force deprivation on the world that they themselves would never have to experience (what? give up private jets, hand-raised beef steak, joyrides in space, and MIC/finance super-profits?) and 'extinction rebellion' whackos gave the concept a bad name.

USA solutions are obvious:

give up regime changes and wars of aggression (cloaked as 'fighting for democracy/ R2P/ < insert your favorite cause here >'. imagine the fuel and production savings!

improve forestry practices to require selective thinning, prescribed burns, and in-situ pyrolization, preventing catastrophic wildfires (one bad forest fire year in CA undid eighteen years of 'decarbonization'!)

change agricultural practices to increase soil carbon including cover cropping, and incentivize farmers for it

intensively manage grazing to improve pastureland and soil retention

ban private jets, and raise air fare for all classes of passengers to reduce air travel

set a hard limit on passenger vehicle weights and per mile emissions

switch to nat gas fuel where possible, including internal combustion engines

install solar panels in 'sunshine' states. require energy conservation in building repairs, renovation and new construction

revitalize train transportation for cargo, and mass transit for commuting including 'land ferries' and trolley cars for high-density urban areas.

commit to environmental remediation of degraded areas

improve electric grid transmission efficiency in areas where it falls belows 97 pct, and improve grid capacity to accommodate electric vehicles

abroad, encourage girl's basic education, which reliably leads to lower birth rates

*****

yanno i'm sure i missed a few big ones.

what this will require is not 'sacrifice' by the 'useless eaters' but investment which will create jobs, and will reduce profit. but let the wealthy chip in on this cause, tho, eh?






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global climate shift is happening

unfortunately TPTB 'Great Resetters', who would force deprivation on the world that they themselves would never have to experience (what? give up private jets

ban private jets, and raise air fare for all classes of passengers to reduce air travel

Technically, switching fuels would fix the problem, but then that brings another problem that is totally political. Why pay more for jet fuel when climate change is a Chinese hoax? https://www.google.com/search?q=climate+change+is+a+Chinese+hoax

Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) cost: Currently, SAFs are more expensive than traditional jet fuel. Estimates range from 2x for some waste-based sources to 6-10x for synthetic fuels using carbon capture from the atmosphere. This is mainly due to the small production runs.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Sustainable+Aviation+Fuel+%28SAF%29+co
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“In 2022, SAF prices continue to price at least three times higher than those for conventional petroleum jet fuel,” Argus Media's Burke says. Argus assessed SAF at US$3,530.57/ tonne on 12 August compared to the conventional jet fuel price of US$1,114.50/tonne.

https://issuu.com/quartzbusinessmedia/docs/ofi_nov.dec_2022/s/17240005

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you must love your private jet, SECOND!

one problem with jets, and all combustion, but especially with combusion of heavier fuels like diesel and jet fuel (and trees): not only do they create CO2, a greenhouse gas, they also create fine carbon particles. these paticles spread across the globe and blanket everything, including icefields everywhere, and greatly accelerate melting, lowering the earth's albedo and setting yet another warming process in motion. if the covid lockdown taught us anything, it's that you don't HAVE to jet of to 'meetings' here and there. air travel is, for the most part, unnecessary.

i have yet to see 'sustainable' anything. alot of things that claim to be 'sustainable' are either direct scams (like the various 'carbon reduction' schemes offered for carbon trading that don't exist) don't reduce net greenhouse gases (like 'lab grown' meat') or have other negative environmental effects (like overusing fertilizer, causing massive runoffs and lake dieoffs to grow corn for ethanol)

on a related note, we need to stop using so much plastic bc we now live in the 'plasticene' era


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on a related note, we need to stop using so much plastic bc we now live in the 'plasticene' era

Industry switched from glass bottles to plastic because it was cheaper. Airplanes will not switch from fossil fuels to hydrogen and synthetic fuels made with atmospheric carbon because it is cheaper to not change. Being a cheapskate will end with us dead. The opposition claims that since climate change is a Chinese hoax, there is no reason to be other than a cheapskate.

https://www.google.com/search?q=climate+change+is+a+Chinese+hoax

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on a related note, we need to stop using so much plastic bc we now live in the 'plasticene' era

Industry switched from glass bottles to plastic because it was cheaper. Airplanes will not switch from fossil fuels to hydrogen and synthetic fuels made with atmospheric carbon because it is cheaper to not change. Being a cheapskate will end with us dead. The opposition claims that since climate change is a Chinese hoax, there is no reason to be other than a cheapskate.

https://www.google.com/search?q=climate+change+is+a+Chinese+hoax

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Yeah, capitalism sucks, doesn't it?


Drawing a parallel with Covid: real problem, nefarious"solutions".

We can't trust business IR our government to solve anything without using the issue to try to screw us over.

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Yeah, capitalism sucks, doesn't it?

This is also Capitalism, but there are anti-monopoly laws that could, over the objections of Congressmen from a particular political party, forcefully beat back the Capitalist ethic:
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The multibillion-dollar private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe took less than a year to create, from scratch, Colorado’s biggest and most prominent anesthesiology practice. The financiers created a company, U.S. Anesthesia Partners, which in 2015 bought the largest anesthesiology group in the Denver region. Then it bought the next largest. Then it bought a few more....The Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to prevent unfair business practices, questioned the company’s growth but did not stop it. The company raised prices for its services — one by nearly 30 percent in its first year in Colorado — and continued raising them for several years, according to interviews and confidential company documents obtained by The Washington Post.
https://jabberwocking.com/how-to-build-a-monopoly-in-less-than-a-year/

It is imaginable that the FTC could brutally beat sense into some Capitalists over price-gouging monopolies. It is less imaginable that Congress would give the EPA the new power to brutally beat sense into Capitalists over fuels and plastics. Why is it less imaginable? Because Climate Change is a Chinese Hoax according to many in Congress.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Climate+Change+is+a+Chinese+Hoax

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Capitalists hate anything that cuts into their profits, like competition. They try to eliminate competition wherever it rears its ugly head.

The other thing they hate is actual... yanno.. manufacturing. If rate of return is the only metric, then financialism is more profitable.

So capitalism inevitably ends in monopoly financialism. If money didn't corrupt the media and politics, maybe there would be some redress, but right now America is in the grip of an oligarchy.

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Capitalists hate anything that cuts into their profits, like competition. They try to eliminate competition wherever it rears its ugly head.

The other thing they hate is actual... yanno.. manufacturing. If rate of return is the only metric, then financialism is more profitable.

So capitalism inevitably ends in monopoly financialism. If money didn't corrupt the media and politics, maybe there would be some redress, but right now America is in the grip of an oligarchy.

The way to stop Capitalists from murdering everybody is to kick their asses. For one famous example that I picked because it is so disgusting:
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The first widespread public attention to the unsafe practices of the meatpacking industry came in 1898, when the press reported that Armour & Co., had supplied tons of rotten canned beef to the U.S. Army in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The meat had been packed in tins along with a visible layer of boric acid, which was thought to act as a preservative and was used to mask the stench of the rotten meat. Troops who consumed the meat fell ill, becoming unfit for combat, and some died. Roosevelt, who served in Cuba as a colonel, testified in 1899 that he would have eaten his old hat as soon as eat what he called “embalmed beef.”

The canned meat scandal prompted Thomas F. Dolan, a former superintendent for Armour & Co., to sign an affidavit noting the ineffectiveness of government inspectors and stating that the company’s common practice was to pack and sell “carrion.” The New York Journal published Dolan’s statement on March 4, 1899. The Senate then formed the Pure-Food Investigating Committee, which held hearings in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York City from 1899 to 1900. The committee declared such common meat preservatives as borax, salicylic acid, and formaldehyde to be “unwholesome.” The press also reported from the committee’s hearings that some of the nation’s food supply was adulterated—made impure by the addition of foreign or inferior substances. These concerns were in addition to the health problems posed by the packaging of substandard or condemned meat products.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Meat-Inspection-Act

Signym, there was an 8-year gap between testimony about rotten meat and making a law against selling such meat. Was there a justification for the long delay? Obviously, everybody has got to eat, so we cannot forbid embalmed beef! So far there has been about a 40-year gap between testimony that CO2 will kill us all and making a law forbidding it. The same kind of justification is used as was with the embalmed beef, everybody needs energy, so we cannot forbid burning coal, oil, gasoline, jet fuel.



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Biden’s hydrogen bombshell leaves Europe in the dust

The EU is investing billions into becoming a green energy superpower. But Washington’s Inflation Reduction Act means it’s the U.S. reaping the rewards.

Nel is one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of electrolyzers for hydrogen production, and its Michigan gigafactory will be one of the largest in the world.

By Gabriel Gavin and Ben Lefebvre

07/05/2023 04:30 AM EDT
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/biden-hydrogen-europe-0010402
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European leaders have devoted tens of billions of dollars toward encouraging production of hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel that advocates say will create jobs and help fight climate change.

But now, many of those jobs will be going to the United States instead.

The clean energy subsidies that undergird President Joe Biden’s climate agenda have just prompted one Norwegian manufacturer to choose Michigan, not Europe, as the site of a nearly $500 million factory that will produce the equipment needed to extract hydrogen from water. And other European-based companies are being tempted to follow suit, people involved in the continent’s hydrogen efforts say — making the universe’s most abundant substance the latest focus of the transatlantic trade battle on green energy.

The Norwegian firm, Nel, announced its decision in May, nine months after Congress approved Biden’s flagship climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. The move takes 500 new jobs to the other side of the Atlantic, despite the European Union’s efforts to position itself as the obvious place for clean tech investment.

Gas grab riles Europeans

“There’s not one single driver behind the decision to put it in the U.S.,” Nel CEO Håkon Volldal told POLITICO, pointing to the benefit of being close to customers and partners like General Motors, as well as the financial benefits of the IRA, the Biden-era CHIPS and Science Act that provides funding for technology development, and Michigan’s own grants for green tech.

“If you take the IRA and the CHIPS Act together, we’re talking about more than $400 billion,” Volldal said. “On top of that, you have subsidies for renewable power and so on. Europe is dwarfed by the numbers we see in the U.S.”

The global hydrogen industry was valued at more than $155 billion last year, and the EU plans to produce and import a total of 20 million tons of renewable hydrogen a year by 2030. Supporters say this will help replace natural gas, powering vehicles and generating electricity.

Now, though, the U.S. has its sights set on overtaking Europe when it comes to both hydrogen and the electrolyzers that extract it. The IRA introduced a $3-per-kilogram subsidy for green hydrogen and tens of billions of dollars in loans and other incentives for international investors to put money into the industry.

“A year ago, the EU clearly had the yellow jersey,” Volldal said, referring to the garment that the fastest cyclist wears in the Tour de France. “Now the U.S. has it.”

Jorgo Chatzimarkakis agrees. As the CEO of Hydrogen Europe, he’s one of the continent’s most influential lobbyists, having helped secure industry handouts worth billions of dollars. “We have a very robust framework in the EU, but we fail to attract our own companies because it’s all too complex,” he said. “We have ambitious targets, but we don’t have simple and efficient instruments to incentivize businesses.

“In their typical bureaucratic way, the Europeans will kill this business,” Chatzimarkakis said.

That leaves those who’ve helped launch the industry at risk of losing out, Chatzimarkakis added.

“Dung beetles spend hours rolling up balls of dung to attract females,” he said. “But there are some very smart dung beetles that just sit by the side and watch while others do hard work. Then they shoot in, take the dung ball, take the girl and run away with everything. That’s Joe Biden.”

Much more at https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/biden-hydrogen-europe-0010402
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Thursday, July 6, 2023 8:15 AM

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Earth sees third straight hottest day on record, though it's unofficial

July 6, 2023 / 5:45 AM / CBS/AP

Earth's average temperature remained at a record high Wednesday after two days in which the planet reached unofficial records. It's the latest marker in a series of climate-change-driven extremes.

The average global temperature was 62.9 degrees, according to the University of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer, a tool that uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world's condition. That matched a record set Tuesday and came after a previous record of 62.6 degrees was set Monday.

Not only that but last month was the world's hottest June since records have been kept, the European Union's climate monitoring service said, according to Agence France-Presse. "The month was the warmest June globally ... exceeding June 2019 -- the previous record -- by a substantial margin," the EU monitor said in a statement from its C3S climate unit.

Scientists have warned for months that 2023 could see record heat as human-caused climate change, driven largely by the burning of fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil, warmed the atmosphere.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-hottest-days-third-straight/

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Thursday, July 6, 2023 8:54 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Capitalists hate anything that cuts into their profits, like competition. They try to eliminate competition wherever it rears its ugly head.

The other thing they hate is actual... yanno.. manufacturing. If rate of return is the only metric, then financialism is more profitable.

So capitalism inevitably ends in monopoly financialism. If money didn't corrupt the media and politics, maybe there would be some redress, but right now America is in the grip of an oligarchy.

SECOND : The way to stop Capitalists from murdering everybody is to kick their asses. For one famous example that I picked because it is so disgusting:
Quote:

The first widespread public attention to the unsafe practices of the meatpacking industry came in 1898, when the press reported that Armour & Co., had supplied tons of rotten canned beef to the U.S. Army in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The meat had been packed in tins along with a visible layer of boric acid, which was thought to act as a preservative and was used to mask the stench of the rotten meat. Troops who consumed the meat fell ill, becoming unfit for combat, and some died....

Signym, there was an 8-year gap between testimony about rotten meat and making a law against selling such meat. Was there a justification for the long delay? Obviously, everybody has got to eat, so we cannot forbid embalmed beef! So far there has been about a 40-year gap between testimony that CO2 will kill us all and making a law forbidding it. The same kind of justification is used as was with the embalmed beef, everybody needs energy, so we cannot forbid burning coal, oil, gasoline, jet fuel.



what part of 'we are in the grip of an oligarchy' did you not understand?

your precious DNC torpedoed the EU's transition to lower greenhouse gas emissions ... and in fact created one of the largest single-event emissions of greenhouse gases, ever - by blowing up their nat gas pipeline and wasting tons of fuel and manufacturing emissions on a pointless proxy war in a(nother) corrupt nation.

and it's certainly no benefit to fighting climate change if the USA attains top-dog status in hydrogen production if THE WORLD needs to be on the same path ... altho it certainly benefits the capitalists who've cornered that particular niche

Ukraine war threatens climate targets
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-war-threatens-climate-targets/a-62185483

Climate change: Ukraine war prompts fossil fuel 'gold rush' - report
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61723252

US Military Pollution: The World’s Biggest Climate Change Enabler
https://earth.org/us-military-pollution/

Ukraine War’s Latest Victim? The Fight Against Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/26/world/europe/g7-summit-ukraine-war-
climate-change.html



as long as you maintain goals that are mutally exclusive (i.e warmomgering v fighting climate change; supporting the DNC v solving america's problems; expecting progress from monopolism ) you'll continue to torture logic and objectivity trying to rationlize irrationality.



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Thursday, July 6, 2023 12:24 PM

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as long as you maintain goals that are mutally exclusive (i.e warmomgering v fighting climate change; supporting the DNC v solving america's problems; expecting progress from monopolism ) you'll continue to torture logic and objectivity trying to rationlize irrationality.

Let me pick one of your complaints about me: Warmonger. The Russians have murdered 4 million Ukrainians and made very believable plans to nuke the US to death. If the Ukrainians continue a war with the Russians, this is positively good. If Ukrainians win, even better. Based on my knowledge of the sad lives of East Texans who have ever said a kind word about Trump or Putin, I can make predictions about you without ever knowing you. Signym, your opinions are worthless, the same as those East Texans' opinions. I'd wish you well, but reality will deny you that because of what you do and what you believe is factual/ethical/attainable, just as reality brutally manhandles those East Texans because they stubbornly misunderstand the obvious reality all around them, including their strong yet false belief that Climate Change is a Chinese Hoax.

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Thursday, July 6, 2023 3:59 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

as long as you maintain goals that are mutally exclusive (i.e warmomgering v fighting climate change; supporting the DNC v solving america's problems; expecting progress from monopolism ) you'll continue to torture logic and objectivity trying to rationlize irrationality.

SECOND: Let me pick one of your complaints about me: Warmonger. The Russians have murdered 4 million Ukrainians...


HEY, Nazis killed 6 million Jews, a million other Europeans and 25 million Russians.
I have an idea! Let's go kill us some Germans!


Or here's another one: Americans killed an estimated 9-15 million natives in the course of N America's conquest. Let's kill us some Americans!


Yanno, you can't redress historic injustices. The individuals responsible for them ARE DEAD. And most definitely, you can't achieve peace thru war, unless you want to kill everyone and achieve the peace of a graveyard.

WE destroyed nations, rampaging across the globe from Indochina and the Pacific to the Mideast, Africa, and Central and South America, killing millions. Maybe a hundred million. And I don't mean in the long-distant past. It was about "fighting communism" or " the drug war" or "WMD!" or "global war on of terror" (with attendant torture, black sites, extraordinary rendition, and the Constitution -shredding "Patriot Act"), "Assad gassed his own people!/ R2P/freedom!/democracy!" etc etc. If you're not a warmonger, were you objecting then, when it might have done something, to our "wars of choice?"

Bc, really, it was all just about the petrodollar, the unipolar moment, and global domination!
Ukraine is just another one of our proxy wars toward the destruction of Russia, and the EU is just another economic battlefield. And Taiwan could be the proxy battlefield against China.

So, back to the issue at hand: you can't be a warmonger and say you're fighting global climate change, and you can't expect progress from monopolies and oligarchs.

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Friday, July 7, 2023 7:45 AM

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So, back to the issue at hand: you can't be a warmonger and say you're fighting global climate change, and you can't expect progress from monopolies and oligarchs.

A quibble over the words "fighting global climate change". There is nothing to fight. For example, you don't "fight" obesity by attacking McDonald's for selling french fries. Instead, you live on a diet. You eat less. You don't drink McDonald's milkshakes. And at the end of the process, when you have digested a small, not large, amount of McDonald's food, you don't dump your waste onto the street. Instead, use a toilet. The fossil fuel industry, unlike McDonald's, does NOT HAVE THE EQUIVALENT OF A TOILET FOR WASTE CO2! We are being buried alive under trillions of tons of CO2, a million times more waste than all the fully digested french fries eaten and excreted by humans.

If only CO2 waste was solid it would make a pile bigger and heavier than all the mountain ranges on Earth. It would be so very obvious that man has taken the biggest bowel movement the Earth has ever known. It is a huge mess that needs to be cleaned up before landslides of CO2 waste bury all civilization.

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Toyota Is Right: We Need More Hybrid Cars and Fewer EVs. Here’s Why

The auto industry is going all-in on EVs, but a more effective way to lower emissions quickly is staring us in the face.

by James Gilboy| PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2023 1:30 PM EDT

https://www.thedrive.com/features/toyota-is-right-we-need-more-hybrid-
cars-and-fewer-evs-heres-why


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Friday, July 7, 2023 8:11 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

1) HEY, Nazis killed 6 million Jews, a million other Europeans and 25 million Russians.
I have an idea! Let's go kill us some Germans!


2) Or here's another one: Americans killed an estimated 9-15 million natives in the course of N America's conquest. Let's kill us some Americans!


3) Yanno, you can't redress historic injustices. The individuals responsible for them ARE DEAD. And most definitely, you can't achieve peace thru war, unless you want to kill everyone and achieve the peace of a graveyard.

1) Germany already received its punishment when 7 million Germans were killed.

2) What killed 90% of Native Americans?
They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans.

3) During the Civil War, the Confederates, unlike the Germans, did NOT receive the death sentences they earned. Seven million dead Confederates would be approximately the right price for them to pay. Instead, slave-owning President Andrew Johnson pardoned the Confederates because he and they were on the same side. This is the real reason why Critical Race Theory is attacked by Neo-Confederates. CRT is a reminder the old Confederates did NOT pay even 1% of what they should have paid for all the destruction the Confederates caused. At the very least, there should not be any schools in the US named after General Robert E Lee or any other Confederate.

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Friday, July 7, 2023 11:53 AM

SIGNYM

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

1) HEY, Nazis killed 6 million Jews, a million other Europeans and 25 million Russians.
I have an idea! Let's go kill us some Germans!


2) Or here's another one: Americans killed an estimated 9-15 million natives in the course of N America's conquest. Let's kill us some Americans!


3) Yanno, you can't redress historic injustices. The individuals responsible for them ARE DEAD. And most definitely, you can't achieve peace thru war, unless you want to kill everyone and achieve the peace of a graveyard.

SECOND: 1) Germany already received its punishment when 7 million Germans were killed.

And even more Russians were killed. So what?
Justice doesn't work that way.

Quote:

SECOND: 2) What killed 90% of Native Americans?
They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans.

Disease acquired while soldiers, colonists and settlers stole their land by force of arms and broke treaty after treaty. "Not one inch westward" or its equivalent was in quite a few of those treaties. It was genocide SECOND. And that injustice can't be redressed bc those responsible ARE DEAD.

Quote:

SECOND: 3) During the Civil War, the Confederates, unlike the Germans, did NOT receive the death sentences they earned. Seven million dead Confederates
would be approximately the right price for them*

*Commanding officers and polticians? Soldiers? Slave owners? All white adults? All white children?

Quote:

to pay. Instead, slave-owning President Andrew Johnson pardoned the Confederates because he and they were on the same side. This is the real reason why Critical Race Theory is attacked by Neo-Confederates.
All dogs are animals. Not all animals are dogs. Critical race theory may be attacked by neo-Confederates, but not everyone who attacks CRT is a neo-Confederate.

Quote:

CRT is a reminder the old Confederates did NOT pay even 1% of what they* should have paid for all the destruction the Confederates caused.
Yanno, the Confederate Army killed a lot of whites, too. Bc as I recall, the northern army was white.

First of all, I noticed that you avoided our recent "wars of choice".. wars for which many responsible individuals are still alive and can still be held accountable. When justice is possible, you avoid it.

For some strange reason, you prefer collective guilt and collective punishment (which, BTW is a war crime) and call for genocide (another war crime) to "redress" historic crimes. Thinking of people as categories and calling for categorical punishement is the same as saying all blacks are violent and all Muslims are jihadist. Worse, you want to punish entire categorie for historic wrongs. You still seem to think that "justice" can be reached for wrongs committed generations ago.

It can't. The best anyone can do is pursue punishment for the guilty who are still alive, and avoid perpetuating injustice in the future

BTW, CRT is an issue bc prejudice is still alive and well in the USA, which can't be fixed by privilege for blacks and prejudice against other races, it can only be fixed by equality of opportunity and blind justice/blind meritocracy.

Also... JOBS would really help.


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Thursday, July 13, 2023 8:33 AM

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Antarctic ice levels undergo ‘massive decrease’, data shows

https://www.reuters.com/world/antarctic-ice-levels-undergo-massive-dec
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DAILY SCIENCE

The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act is bigger and more far-reaching than you think

In the most extensive analysis to date, researchers ran nine different models to estimate the IRA’s impacts on the U.S. energy system and economy.

By Sarah DeWeerdt, July 11, 2023

Landmark climate legislation passed in the United States in 2022 could nearly halve the U.S. economy’s overall emissions compared to 2005 levels by 2035, according to a new analysis. But on its own, it still won’t be sufficient to meet the country’s pledges under the Paris Agreement.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is possibly the most significant piece of U.S. climate legislation yet. Its provisions include tax credits for clean energy, energy storage, and carbon capture; measures to promote energy efficiency, reduce methane emissions, develop domestic supply chains, and ensure environmental justice; and many others.

In fact, the IRA is so big and complex that its effects on the energy system and economy can’t simply be totted up but instead must be analyzed using powerful computer models. In the new study, the most extensive effort yet to get a handle on the legislation’s impact, researchers used nine different models to estimate the likely impacts of the IRA’s most important provisions.

The models varied in their scope (six encompassed the entire U.S. energy system while the remaining three only included the electricity sector) and level of detail. Some of the models were used to inform discussion prior to the IRA’s passage, and others were added new for this analysis. The researchers analyzed the similarities and differences between the predictions of the different models, and compared them to a hypothetical scenario in which the IRA had not been passed.

By 2035, overall emissions of the U.S. economy are likely to be 43 to 48% lower than they were in 2005, the researchers report in the journal Science. Without the IRA, emissions would be 27-35% below 2005 levels, they calculated. This is one of several findings that indicate the IRA is likely to accelerate existing trends in the economy. In short, the green transition is already happening, but the IRA speeds it along.

The models show that on average, nearly two-thirds of the emissions reductions come from the power sector. Electricity emissions will fall to an average of 68% below 2005 levels in 2030, and 87% below 2005 levels by 2035. Without the IRA, power sector emissions would fall by only about half of 2005 levels by 2035.

The IRA will spur lots of solar and wind power development. On average, the models indicate that solar and wind generating capacity will grow by 58 gigawatts per year from 2021 through 2035 – more than twice the growth rate without the legislation, and greater than the record installation of 33 gigawatts in 2021.

The IRA will also reduce transportation-related emissions by encouraging adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). The models predict on average that EVs will make up 41% of all cars and light trucks sold in 2030, compared to 31% in the scenario without the IRA and way up from 7% of all sales in 2022.

The reduction in fossil fuel use means that American households and businesses will spend more on electricity, but less on energy overall. Households could pay $13 to $190 less for energy per year by 2030 and $73 to $370 less by 2035, compared to the scenario without the IRA, the researchers found.

Like most other nations, the United States has made pledges to reduce carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement’s goal to hold global warming to 2 °C. But also like most other nations, the country is not on track to fulfill these promises.

The United States has set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2030. Without the IRA, the country will fall short of that goal by 1.0 to 1.6 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide per year, according to the analysis. The IRA narrows this emissions gap to 0.5 to 1.1 gigatonnes per year.

“Although IRA accelerates decarbonization, including beyond 2030, no models indicate that the 2030 U.S. climate target would be met with IRA alone,” the researchers write – an indication of just how much work remains to be done.

Source: Bistline J. et al. “Emissions and energy impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act.” Science 2023.

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/07/the-u-s-inflation-reducti
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Thursday, July 13, 2023 1:25 PM

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end the war in ukraine

eliminate pentagon's overseas presence

eliminate private jets

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The Rocky Mountain Institute released a report today forecasting that solar and wind are growing so fast and getting so cheap that they're now on track to produce 30% of all electricity by 2030 and upwards of 70-85% by 2050:


If we can do this, we'd be at net zero emissions by 2050, and RMI thinks it's well within reason. That's still not enough to rein in global warming completely, since there's more to emissions than just electricity, but it would certainly be a start.

https://jabberwocking.com/net-zero-by-2050/
https://rmi.org/press-release/renewable-energy-deployment-puts-global-
power-system-on-track-for-ambitious-net-zero-pathway
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Why Exxon Mobil is spending $4.9 billion on a company that pumps carbon dioxide back into the earth

Exxon Mobil this week announced plans to acquire oil producer Denbury. Denbury also has a business of capturing carbon-dioxide emissions.

Some of that captured CO2 could be put to use by other industries, including makers of fertilizers and other chemicals. Most of the captured carbon dioxide will likely be stored underground, however.

The IEA estimates that if the world achieves net-zero emissions by 2050, less than 5% of the carbon captured would be used, while the rest would need to be stored.

Transporting CO2 requires pipelines, and Denbury has 1,300 miles of carbon dioxide pipelines; much of its network spans Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. Denbury also already has 10 sites where it stores carbon.

The purchase would help Exxon go deeper into this business.

The deal with Denbury is one of several carbon-capture and storage deals Exxon has made in less than a year, including a plan to capture, transport, and store carbon emissions from a steelmaking plant in Louisiana by 2026.

Exxon has carbon-capture and storage facilities in the US, Qatar, and Australia, and at least 10 more have been announced around the world.

The IEA said that even if all the planned sites come online by 2030, the entire industry combined would only be capturing about one-third of the carbon dioxide needed to hit net-zero emissions by midcentury. – https://www.iea.org/energy-system/carbon-capture-utilisation-and-stora
ge


https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/why-exxon-mobil-is-spending-4-
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