US continues to go forward

[Big Huck]

Human Emissions have influence. I think if you score 1-10 on influence with (1) being natural evolution of climate and nothing to be concerned about and (10) the world ends in five years, we are probably sitting at a 4. It's an issue, but people are raking in $$$$ over exploiting it so it's presented as even a bigger issue.

I believe we are all under one roof and only global change will have an impact.

Believe it or not we're actually still IN an ice age. But there are heating and cooling periods within each ice age and we're currently in one of those heating periods. Wild to think about.

 

[Donnyboy]

Just curious. What do you think should be done to combat climate change, or do you disagree that it is influenced by human emissions? How do we get there from here or is it a doesn't matter?

That's a big question with a bigger response. I'll try to be as short as I can cause I know I'm long winded.

There have never been 8 billion large animals on Earth that burned things.....that has to impact the environment......to what extent I'm not sure I would bet the under instead of the over though from an emissions perspective alone.....I actually think we are doing more harm from a water aspect. On the 1-10 scale above I'm a touch lower than 4 but wouldn't fuss with that number. If you say 6 or more you can't do the math to really talk about it.

We need to be pursuing technologies that can actually work. Renewables have a couple of issues....the weather, physics, and the rotation of the Earth those are tough to avoid. We should have gone with the best way to produce the energy we need with the best overall outcome.....not just built for the sake of building because it doesn't use fire....so we need to stop throwing money at that immediately. There may be a carbonless future someday but we are going backwards now and it's because of the renewable boom. And I don't mean like "oh we missed 20 years to be really researching safe nukes or something new".....I'm saying today we have a less reliable grid and are building dirtier less efficient plants because we wasted years and billions on something anyone that knows the basics knew would never work in the name of being green. We have made carbon the enemy and simultaneously not done a whole lot about the amount we produce while also ignoring every other aspect of the environment. There hasn't really been a lot of real science involved in the path we have taken. We need to go nuke, combined cycle, simple cycle emergency/recovery generators.....less carbon, less footprint, most reliable. We need to put the billions of dollars we have wasted on renewables into something that has a real future.

 

[Rob B.]

 

[Stillwater Townie]

So how long, if ever, before arrests are made over issuing fraudulent Social Security numbers as well as for human trafficking? Human trafficking is a worse thing. Remember the constant chants to lock up Hilliary Clinton? But they never did. It will be interesting to see if anybody is forced to quit just over SignalGate. I won't be surprised is there is not.

As for requiring voter ID, it's an issue Democrats shouldn't disagree with.

 

[Fl_Poke]

Musk, Trump and thier cash payouts were completely rejected in Wisconsin.

Both Florida races tonight were won by the Republicans. Both won by around 14 points. In November the districts were won by over 30 points.

Things are chang8ng for the good.

 

[mugatu]

That's a big question with a bigger response. I'll try to be as short as I can cause I know I'm long winded.

There have never been 8 billion large animals on Earth that burned things.....that has to impact the environment......to what extent I'm not sure I would bet the under instead of the over though from an emissions perspective alone.....I actually think we are doing more harm from a water aspect. On the 1-10 scale above I'm a touch lower than 4 but wouldn't fuss with that number. If you say 6 or more you can't do the math to really talk about it.

We need to be pursuing technologies that can actually work. Renewables have a couple of issues....the weather, physics, and the rotation of the Earth those are tough to avoid. We should have gone with the best way to produce the energy we need with the best overall outcome.....not just built for the sake of building because it doesn't use fire....so we need to stop throwing money at that immediately. There may be a carbonless future someday but we are going backwards now and it's because of the renewable boom. And I don't mean like "oh we missed 20 years to be really researching safe nukes or something new".....I'm saying today we have a less reliable grid and are building dirtier less efficient plants because we wasted years and billions on something anyone that knows the basics knew would never work in the name of being green. We have made carbon the enemy and simultaneously not done a whole lot about the amount we produce while also ignoring every other aspect of the environment. There hasn't really been a lot of real science involved in the path we have taken. We need to go nuke, combined cycle, simple cycle emergency/recovery generators.....less carbon, less footprint, most reliable. We need to put the billions of dollars we have wasted on renewables into something that has a real future.

Coal-fired power plant, now retired, to become massive gas-powered campus for AI, data centers

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