Ocasio-Cortez, Markey reintroduce Green New Deal resolution: ‘We need bold big climate action’
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This has pretty much been the playbook for as long as I can remember... and here we go again.
Step 1 - create or exaggerate an imminent disaster and convince everyone we're doomed if we don't act.
Step 2 - write legislation that they pretend is based on addressing said imminent danger so more people will support it, even though most will have no idea what the legislation is.
Step 3 - demonize those who don't as anti science, anti environment, unpatriotic, racist etc...
Step 4 - bribe enough of congres so it passes eventually
Step 5 - everyone in on the front end of the multi trillion dollar legislation
gets filthy rich, including the politicians who supported it.
Nevermind the imminent danger is rarely truly fixed, we just move on to the next big thing. BAU
Step 1 - create or exaggerate an imminent disaster and convince everyone we're doomed if we don't act.
Step 2 - write legislation that they pretend is based on addressing said imminent danger so more people will support it, even though most will have no idea what the legislation is.
Step 3 - demonize those who don't as anti science, anti environment, unpatriotic, racist etc...
Step 4 - bribe enough of congres so it passes eventually
Step 5 - everyone in on the front end of the multi trillion dollar legislation
gets filthy rich, including the politicians who supported it.
Nevermind the imminent danger is rarely truly fixed, we just move on to the next big thing. BAU
You forgot, "take picture crying next to fence".
No...it was brought up in negotiations over the IRA...and parts of it were incorporated. Once again...it's called "governing".
Speaking of delusional...
I want you to imagine a pot big enough to hold the entire atmosphere of the Earth. Put that pot on a REALLY big stove. Turn on the heat. Now, imagine just how much energy is required to warm that atmosphere soup a measly three degrees.
For the record, it's roughly 15 exajoules...or 15,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That amount of energy would run the entire United States energy grid for the next...twelve million years. That energy goes into, among other things, weather. It's what's causing massive droughts...torrential rainfalls...record-breaking heat waves...record-breaking cold snaps...energy is everything.
If you recognize that the climate is changing because the atmosphere is warming...well, we've only warmed it by about half that amount so far...it's going to get much worse. If you refuse to recognize that basic fact...*shrug*
Yes we know you're a useful tool to spread what is described in step 1.
Now please explain to us all in detail how the green new deal will reverse all of this. *shrug*
The really sad thing is that it's full of really good, logical stuff that would benefit America in the long run. But...party of no.
Again, people are actually AGAINST this stuff. We just aren't allowed to take care of each other in this nation. Insanity.
I am not really fully aware of what is in it, my understanding is that it's mostly guidelines anyway.
The problem I have is why put forward bills that have no hope of passing?
It doesn't take that long to read. 95% of Republican voters haven't read it. Yet they hate it...because they are told to. There's nothing scary in it...but we can't tax the top 10% to pay for it to benefit future generations apparently. Stupid stupid nation.
Why would panels damaged in a storm make it a scam?
It’s not just solar. “The same problem is looming for other renewable-energy technologies,” they write. For example, barring a major increase in processing capability, experts expect that more than 720,000 tons worth of gargantuan wind turbine blades will end up in U.S. landfills over the next 20 years. According to prevailing estimates, only five percent of electric-vehicle batteries are currently recycled – a lag that automakers are racing to rectify as sales figures for electric cars continue to rise as much as 40% year-on-year.”
But the toxic nature of solar panels makes their environmental impacts worse than just the quantity of waste. Solar panels are delicate and break easily. When they do, they instantly become hazardous, and classified as such, due to their heavy metal contents. Hence, they are classified as hazardous waste. The authors note that this classification carries with it a string of expensive restrictions — hazardous waste can only be transported at designated times and via select routes, etc.”
Beyond the shocking nature of the finding itself is what it says about the integrity and credibility of IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency. It is an intergovernmental organization like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, funded by taxpayers from the developed nations of Europe, North America, and Asia, and expected to provide objective information. Instead, it employed unrealistic assumptions to produce results more supportive of solar panels.
IRENA acted like an industry association rather than as a public interest one. IRENA, noted the HBR reporters, “describes a billion-dollar opportunity for recapture of valuable materials rather than a dire threat.” IRENA almost certainly knew better. For decades, consumers in Germany, California, Japan and other major member nations of IRENA, have been replacing solar panels just 10 or 15 years old. But IRENA hadn’t even modeled solar panel replacements in those time frames. (Forbes)
But the toxic nature of solar panels makes their environmental impacts worse than just the quantity of waste. Solar panels are delicate and break easily. When they do, they instantly become hazardous, and classified as such, due to their heavy metal contents. Hence, they are classified as hazardous waste. The authors note that this classification carries with it a string of expensive restrictions — hazardous waste can only be transported at designated times and via select routes, etc.”
Beyond the shocking nature of the finding itself is what it says about the integrity and credibility of IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency. It is an intergovernmental organization like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, funded by taxpayers from the developed nations of Europe, North America, and Asia, and expected to provide objective information. Instead, it employed unrealistic assumptions to produce results more supportive of solar panels.
IRENA acted like an industry association rather than as a public interest one. IRENA, noted the HBR reporters, “describes a billion-dollar opportunity for recapture of valuable materials rather than a dire threat.” IRENA almost certainly knew better. For decades, consumers in Germany, California, Japan and other major member nations of IRENA, have been replacing solar panels just 10 or 15 years old. But IRENA hadn’t even modeled solar panel replacements in those time frames. (Forbes)
Weird that I cannot find a single mainstream media source for this: only rightwing garbage.
Large hailstorms in the Boulder area (which are frequent) have only taken out 1% or less of the panels at NCAR. So, seems like we may be seeing a massive propaganda campaign here...
Morons.
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Second, since almost all freight train companies operate in California, they would all be forced to start contributing almost a billion dollars a year to the mandatory transition fund. Since 40% of all long-haul freight traffic is delivered by train, this would mean immediate price increases for almost all consumers. Finally, since an operative commercially available prototype does not exist, every train company would face regulatory uncertainty as the 2030 and 2035 fleet mandates kicked in.
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The damage from California’s freight rail regulation would be immediate and devastating. First, trains do not switch when crossing state borders, so train fleets would be forced to update their entire fleet to make sure they complied with the ban on engines older than 23 years now.
Second, since almost all freight train companies operate in California, they would all be forced to start contributing almost a billion dollars a year to the mandatory transition fund. Since 40% of all long-haul freight traffic is delivered by train, this would mean immediate price increases for almost all consumers. Finally, since an operative commercially available prototype does not exist, every train company would face regulatory uncertainty as the 2030 and 2035 fleet mandates kicked in.
Is Biden Set to Mandate Electric Trains? - Committee To Unleash Prosperity
The EV mandate disaster was set in motion back in the Obama Administration when he granted California a waiver to set its own fuel economy…
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Morons.
The damage from California’s freight rail regulation would be immediate and devastating. First, trains do not switch when crossing state borders, so train fleets would be forced to update their entire fleet to make sure they complied with the ban on engines older than 23 years now.
Second, since almost all freight train companies operate in California, they would all be forced to start contributing almost a billion dollars a year to the mandatory transition fund. Since 40% of all long-haul freight traffic is delivered by train, this would mean immediate price increases for almost all consumers. Finally, since an operative commercially available prototype does not exist, every train company would face regulatory uncertainty as the 2030 and 2035 fleet mandates kicked in.
Is Biden Set to Mandate Electric Trains? - Committee To Unleash Prosperity
The EV mandate disaster was set in motion back in the Obama Administration when he granted California a waiver to set its own fuel economy…
Man, you guys sure LOVE your rightwing propaganda websites!!!!
