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Not when you consider who is funding many of the protests against pipelines.
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The time has come when we don't need fancy colleges with big campus's. Most classes could be watched on a computer screen...only the top professors in each subject need be hired. Some classes could be held in a workshop when needed. The big problem would be having football and basketball games.
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Climate change!......the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
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My only condition would be that the business include in all receipts and invoices how much the costs of such installation affected the price of a customer’s purchase. Give the consumer the opportunity to decide if they want to spend 50 cents more for their Big Mac or bag of Walmart hair curlers in order to live green. It's easy to get people to support clean energy when they think there’s no additional cost.
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The sports mention is a bigger deal than many want to admit, as so many schools serve as de facto developmental programs for pro sports leagues, with the often tenuous "student athlete" tales being spun to support it.
Job givers LOL, maybe that's a form of guillotine avoidance.
Like any new tech there’s the adoption curve to consider, too, and regardless of the benefits not everyone will jump onboard right away.
When it comes to clean tech, I think the key is making sure the early adopters are motivated enough to take action in order to pave way for the early majority.
Part of the problem is that there is not a lot of scale in many of these technolgies yet. Solar panels on roofs of every big box store sounds logical but who will make them all? The government here backed a Daewoo wind turbine manufacturing plant and it went bust, leaving the govt holding the bag of course, because they couldn't sell the things. I guess the ones made in China were a lot cheaper.
How about a $2/gallon federal gas tax in the US? Great for the environment but what would that do to the economy? Up here the feds are trying to do something similar and using the proceeds in part for enviro projects along with income redistribution. Somehow I don't think that will be an economically efficient process.
None of this stuff is easy.
ETA: All that said, I can see my next vehicle in a few years time being electric. It would suit my usage pattern well and as we have seen they can actually outperform many gasoline vehicles, so no issue there. It really is just a question of cost.
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And where we are losing focus is what is happening in Africa and to a lesser extent in South America. China is resource hungry and in exchange for oil, gas, wood and other minerals it is helping Africa industrialize at a pace that strains the continent's ecosystem.
Wind, sun and sea water are limitless sources of energy. Life on earth, however, requires a balance between economic development and the sustainability of natural resources. Global warming or global change is our problem and as such it is all our responsibility to remedy our present and past misdeeds.
Yes, even though it was months later and it would be hard to prove who screwed up the repair because the dishwasher had to be repaired twice within a month for the same problem, the second time by Sears, I figured it had to be the first guy, so I called Sears to let them know not to EVER send out the bozo repair place again. They said they would make a note of it but who knows if I had to call Sears again that they might send out one of their own bozo's. Again, do you really know if "the guy" you call knows what he is doing? In any case, you the consumer, will pay the price if he doesn't. I just cringe anytime I have to have something done under warranty. I'm at the point in my life where I'd rather break something twice trying to repair it than call someone once.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/24/how-china-used-more-cement-in-3-years-than-the-u-s-did-in-the-entire-20th-century/?utm_term=.5251addd638b
Also note that perhaps 3% of global carbon emissions comes from China's cement production facilities alone.
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It will turn out just fine? I’m sure most of the world thought World War II the apocalypse! WW2 racked up a total of approximately 82 M dead. It killed mostly “white people” with a much lesser % of “people of color” . (If that is still pc?)
Bullet trains? It’s already a reality! I posted that in one of the responses. The bullet trains are just not 150 paces from your house. You’ll have to probably fly or sail ( by so called fossil fuel’s, which is false) to Europe or Asia to get comparison rides. A reliable Alfa Romeo? Ah, ...no! They have always been made to BE UNreliable! Get over the reliable issue.😉😎 If you want reliable buy Lexus/Toyota. If they sell Alfa Romeo TO Toyota & IF they make it reliable, Alfa Romeo would then be sold to some entity like Fiat Chrysler/ George Soros corporation, so it can go back to being ...UNreliable!
If they really want to use less fossil fuels, nuclear energy is the way to go--it works for France.
France has 58 nuclear reactors operated by EDF, with a total capacity of 63.1 GWe. France's present electricity generation mix is a result of the French government deciding in 1974, just after the first oil shock, to expand rapidly the country's nuclear power capacity, using Westinghouse technology.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/france.aspx
The climate change "scientists" who came out of the woodwork were anyone from your local hairdressed to the meteorologist fresh out of radio/TV school to the expolitical hacks. True scientists were looking at the data collection, the misrepresentation of data by selective culling and timely cutoffs to make it work for the one side's goal. Many media groups and social groups banned or restricted the ability of the folks looking at the data and the methodology because they want the public to see and hear only the one side.
As for my background, most of the variation is due to the sun and its eleven-year cycle. The choice of how to measure the true "heat content" of the earth causes lots of disagreement because it can be varied to support one opinion.
The way to learn about a full subject like climate change is to hear both opinions. Some including social media won't air both sides for a real debate.
Meet the Press Won't Have Science Deniers
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/30/chuck-todd-climate-deniers-banned-meet-press/
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"A CBS News report Sunday discussing a climate change lawsuit neglected to disclose important facts about the case, namely the role one of its sources plays in the litigation.
UCLA law professor Ann Carlson appeared in a “60 Minutes” report as an expert observing the validity of a climate lawsuit holding the U.S. government responsible for the oil industry’s alleged contributions to global warming. CBS’ Steve Kroft failed to mention in his report the issue Carlson’s history of working on climate litigation holding oil companies responsible for climate change.
"Kroft instead painted her as a neutral observer with knowledge about the ins and outs related to how such a case might effect the U.S. Constitution."
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/04/climate-change-lawsuits-oil/
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailyherald.com/amp-article/20190304/news/190309733/
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Many of the old departments are spending their time trying to politically indoctrinate students. That is an observation from The OSU over 4.5 years of exposure to them with our son who graduated a couple back. Save the money spent and put it into more research and technological departments.
In many cases students in Ohio are better off taking classes from vocation ed schools that coordinate with 2-year colleges or a few 4-year colleges to give a head start on a trade/technical degree. Bypass the basketweaving and other stuff.
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So when you hear propaganda like: 97% of the scientists AGREE that climate change IS the reality, the reality is many of those have been cowed into that mantra, to as fantail would say, avoid the guillotines. Me?... burning @ the stakes (with the proper off setting carbon bonfire credits.) 🤑😜
I am not so much disagreeing with the man-made climate change argument, but I do tend to take "science" and "experts" with several large grains of salt when those are cited as the reason we should take some course of action. My reasoning is having to deal with numerous Public Health "experts" and "scientists" in my former work. Seldom have I seen such patently transparent twisting of numbers to suit an agenda. They checked their unbiased credentials at the door and put on an activist suit. Public Health seems to have adopted an "ends justifies the means" philosophy and with that their credibility has taken a huge drop among those who look past the headlines and at the underlying numbers. Not saying that is happening on CC but it would not shock me at all.
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Next up, I'll ask my 8 year old niece why the fintail's turn signals are being quirky.
I'd be interested to see a list, with credible sources, of the claimed indoctrination. Some programs may have views that upset the easily offended, but chances are, the students who choose those programs already had similar sympathies, and are not taken aback by it. Nothing in the world is politically neutral, including the STEM that many like to preach.
I agree a 2 year degree moving on to 4 or more, or a good trade can be a much better route these days. And at least here on the informal best coast, the name of the school granting one's degree is of minor importance, you won't be penalized for going to a state school. I know people are much more into it as you hit the other coast.
Many of the climate debate experts remind me of those various experts who are hired by lawyers to help prosecute or defend their clients. Each side being experts in their field, but willing to have very diverse opinions as long as they get paid enough. Plus they're willing to testify for either side.
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That argument has veered into conspiracy theories, which is not a scientific argument to contest the data. That's a political argument, once again.
But I agree, if anyone can explain the unprecedented, a-historical rapidity of climate change in 2019, and destruction of reefs, the melting of glaciers, the increased severity of weather, the overall warming of the earth year by year---well, man, have at it. Let's see your data and let's all shake it and see how it holds up.
Conspiracy theories are a very weak rebuttal.
Local TV channel meteorologists are wrong a good % of the time! Nobody has ever done an expose’ of “collusion”, how wrong they & each are & the percentages and the underlying misinterpreting of data, if you will. Keep in mind the data is/has been a while massaged through sophisticated and expensive high speed computers. The connection here is very easy to see.
Another example, how many meteorologists had predicted 406 in of snow at this time of the season ? https://www.skiheavenly.com/the-mountain/mountain-conditions/snow-and-weather-report.aspx
Indeed one of our top politico’s former Governor Jerry Brown predicted DEEP global warming drought. So if that wasn’t bad enough, he declared that no new reservoirs would be built. This of course sent & will continue to send trillions and I mean trillions of gallons of water, not used to the sea.
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GOOD snow CUT job! How big was the snow plow?
I get my driveway done and they will stop 1 foot from garage doors, which leaves us 1 foot of snow sometimes up to 3 feet high to shovel. But the rest of it they do quite nicely.
just had an interesting piece on the local news. Apparently Volvo will be implementing governers on all their cars next year, capping them at 112. Kinda defeats the purpose of the Polestar tune models! Pretty sure that will be plenty for me, though might hurt sales in Germany.
nothing to do with economy. It is for safety. Though if you are already over 110, what the heck, might as well keep going!
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Maybe Volvo wants to save money on tires? 112 mph does sound suspiciously like a convenient number.
I cleaned it myself with my little Honda HS720.
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If there's a problem, the market will find a better way and a solution. More electric vehicles, although they use fossil fuels from the electric platns.
It's my opinion, opinion folks, that the GM settlement a few years back with the government inplementing a plan the government wanted which kept the party-friendly unions in charge of GM with stock and in control of the labors costs at the plants is the reason that GM has closed some plants in the US. The political involvement actually kept a realistic cost solution from being a part of GM's renewal. Add the soft market for sedans... And voila: plants close. Jobs gone.
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