Top Ten Reasons Climate Change is a Hoax

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By Elmer Beauregard

The Senate voted this week on whether Climate Change is real or a hoax, I think it’s a hoax and here’s why.

I’m sure you’ve heard in the news that 2014 was supposed to be the hottest year ever. If it actually was “hottest year ever” you’d think all the terrible calamities that are supposed to happen would be happening now but instead the opposite is happening.

1. Record Ice

In 2014 there was record sea ice in Antarctica  in fact a global warming expedition got stuck in it. Arctic sea ice has also made a nice comeback in 2014. The Great lakes had record ice Lake Superior only had 3 ice free months in 2014. You’d think that in the hottest year ever that ice would be melting like Al Gore said.

2. Record Snow

2014 saw record snowfall in many areas, remember when they said that global warming would cause snow to disappear and children won’t know what snow is.

3. Record Cold

In 2014 we saw all kinds of cold records remember the Polar Vortex? You’d think that we’d be breaking all kinds of heat records in “the hottest year ever”

4. Oceans Are Rising Much Less Than Predicted

Al Gore predicted that oceans would rise 20 feet by 2100, it looks like were on track for about a foot. 80% of the tide gauges show less rise than the official “global average”. Many tide gauges show no rise in sea level, and almost none show any acceleration over the past 20 years.

5. Polar Bears Are Thriving

You’d think that Polar Bears would really be in trouble in 2014 “the hottest year ever” but they are thriving.

6. Moose Are Making A Comeback

A few years ago the moose population in Minnesota dropped rapidly and they immediately blamed global warming, then they did a study and found out it was actually wolves that were killing the moose. Wolves have been taken off the endangered species list and are now endangering other species so they opened a wolf hunting season in Minnesota and the moose are coming back. It turns out it had nothing to do with global warming in fact the years when the moose population declined were some very cold ones.

7. 99% of Scientists don’t believe in Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming

You’ve probably heard over and over that 99% of scientist believe in global warming well the opposite is true. That talking point came from a study where only 75 scientists said they believe in global warming on the other hand over 31,000 scientists have signed a petition saying they don’t believe in Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming.

8. Nature produces much more CO2 than man

In 2014 NASA finally launched a satellite that measures CO2 levels around the globe. They assumed that most of the CO2 would be coming from the industrialized northern hemisphere but much to their surprise it was coming from the rainforests in South America, Africa and China.

9. It Isn’t Actually the Warmest Year.

If you look at the satellite data 2014 was not the warmest year ever in fact there has been no global warming for over 18 years. The Reason they can say it’s the warmest year is because they are using the ground weather station data which is heavily influenced by the Urban Heat Island effect, many of which are near pavement. Even still they had to cherry pick that data to get at the warmest year ever and it is only the warmest by only two-100ths of a degree within a dataset that has a variability of a half of a degree. The fact they they had to ignore accurate data and fudge sketchy data to push their agenda proves (IMHO) that climate change is a hoax.

10. The Hypocrisy of the Main Players

One of the main reasons you can tell that global warming is a hoax is that the main purveyors of global warming live lifestyles opposite of what they preach, they all own multiple large homes and yachts and they fly around the world in private jets pushing their propaganda. Not to mention some people such as Al Gore actually profit from Carbon Taxes and other green energy laws. If they actually believed what they preached they would be leading quite different lives.

2,542 Responses to Top Ten Reasons Climate Change is a Hoax

  1. Calvin Hollett May 28, 2016 at 12:50 am #

    Here in Dildo newfoundland, canada, situated in the north atlantic ocean, I was able to wear a pair of shorts one day this year,may 22. This week MAY 24,35,26 AND TODAY 27th, I’ve had to go back to winter pants, boots and parka. If this is global warming you can stick it up your ass.

  2. ssg Mac May 28, 2016 at 5:42 pm #

    Reason #11, Target’s 5 billion drop is not because of transgendered bathrooms, It’s caused by global warming.

  3. Stephen Kay May 28, 2016 at 7:05 pm #

    Global warming is an absolute fact; All vaccines are 100% safe and effective; The border is secure; All government agencies ( EPA, FDA, TSA, IRS, etc) always look out for our best interest, Prescription drugs are safe and effective; chemotherapy is the best and only treatment for cancer., etc……All bullshit statements uttered by the government who has not told the truth in decades…..Follow the money.

    • John July 23, 2016 at 12:54 am #

      Very true, especially the Chemo thing. My aunt and mom were killed by that stuff.

  4. Steve Weston May 29, 2016 at 4:04 pm #

    Farmers Almanac is a better predictor than anyone . Read it and learn..
    Grasshoppers.

  5. Rick R. May 29, 2016 at 8:43 pm #

    Anytime a person is paid to present “facts” for research money, they are literally bought and paid for. They must keep presenting “evidence” and “conjecture” to keep the grant money, celebrity status, book sales, lectures, and documentaries to survive. If they fail, they fail professionally and, as the boy who cried wolf, no one will listen to them and their previous supporters have moved on to another trendy topic leaving them out in the cold.

  6. cv66airdale May 30, 2016 at 2:22 pm #

    China is your proof that global warming is a control scheme. All of these Politicians that push GW also support Nafta, and other unconstitutional “Free trade agreements, that send our production jobs to 3rd world nations that couldn’t give a shit about GW. Do some research into China’s massive pollution problems, then ask your reps why our government is on both sides of the global warming coin.

  7. cv66airdale May 30, 2016 at 2:29 pm #

    Al Gore, as we all know was Bill Clinton’s VP, when Clinton signed Nafta into law. If you remember, as many times we see Obama on the golf course, Bill, and Killary Clinton spent the same amount of time in China swinging deals with the Reds. The Clinton’s sold MERVE technology to China, witch is a military super computer tech that allows a nation to launch nuclear weapons from anywhere in the world. That’s the real reason for his Impeachment, Monica Lewinsky was just a bread and circus cover up for the real crime.

  8. climatechangeisreal June 1, 2016 at 12:04 am #

    Climate Change is real. There is irrefutable evidence against it.
    1) Yes there was record ice in Antarctica. However, this goes against the general shrinkage of ice throughout the world.
    http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum/
    2)Climate Change doesn’t just call for global warming, it calls for more extreme weather events, including snow.
    http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
    3) Same argument as 2, but using polar vortex.
    4)Oceans are still rising at historically high levels, threatening to disrupt life for coastal cities and several pacific islands.
    5)Polar Bears are only increasing in a small part of the Arctic
    http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/status-and-threats/polar-bear-status-report
    6)Doesn’t have to do with climate whatsoever, so is irrelevant to the topic of climate change
    7)This isn’t true. 97% of scientists believe in climate change, the percentage doesn’t denote whether or not they think it is human induced. There are other theories of Climate Change
    http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/reprint/seven_theories.pdf
    https://www.wunderground.com/resources/climate/928.asp
    8)Yes, China is a huge pollutant of CO2.
    http://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/136/
    9)2014 has been the warmest year ON-RECORD, as in since 1880s. Most people realize this and know that 2014 isn’t the warmest year EVER.

    • Matthew Adams June 10, 2016 at 1:50 am #

      Thank you

  9. MiKe June 1, 2016 at 1:08 am #

    Hate to tell you, but one year of weather doesn’t prove sh@t. If you can give me trends that show a decrease in temperature, then we can talk. But you can’t, can you?

  10. John M. Zeigler June 3, 2016 at 4:16 pm #

    I would like global warming scientists to explain the global warming that occurred beween 800 and 1400 AD and ensuing 200 year cooling period that followed. There were no cars, trucks or factories polluting the air back then. The world’s population wasn’t anywhere near what it is today. Oh BTW, CO2 is good, it’s plant food. Plants take in CO2 and give off our life need, oxygen. More CO2 means more and lusher plantlife which means more oxygen for humans and animals to breath. It’s a symbiotic relationship.

  11. Wonderous Derp June 8, 2016 at 9:13 pm #

    ok. so, i researched global warming lots of times before. and i found that earth climate is actually getting COLDER. photochemical smog is being released by many factories, which is basically ozone. ozone ABSORBS heat.

    • Matthew Adams June 10, 2016 at 1:49 am #

      Ozone absorbs radiation, which may help in terms of preventing climate change, but the photochemical smog is the product of the reaction of sunlight and ozone, effectively turning ozone into smog, meaning there is less ozone to help in the prevention of climate change.

  12. Erustus Kirwa June 9, 2016 at 9:31 am #

    It is unfortunate that a prospective USA President,ONE A mR dONALD tRUMP , is buying this cheap propaganda!

    • Matthew Adams June 10, 2016 at 1:49 am #

      It’s unfortunate that Donald Trump exists.

  13. Matthew Adams June 9, 2016 at 11:32 pm #

    You people at globalclimatesscam are stuck up pricks with no care for anything else in this world. You want to just keep living you high rich life with no care to anyone or anything else in the world. You want to live believing that capitalism is the best way of life and that nothing could stop you from living in your fancy palaces. Scientists no for sure that climate change is real – go to NASA, National Ice and Snow Data Center, etc. You think that there is nothing wrong with you killing off all this world, or that you want to live in complete ignorance to he bad parts of this world, and thinking that because you are a rich stuck up prick, nothing could possibly happen to you. Welcome to the real world. There is no realistic evidence that climate change isn’t real, and plenty saying that it is. Wake up from your idiocy.

    • The Irishman June 11, 2016 at 4:03 am #

      Wow… this one’s waterlogged w koolaid & sweating out the food-coloring! o.O

  14. GraceA June 14, 2016 at 4:46 pm #

    You’re all idiots. All you Donald Trump supporters ignoring the real science behind Climate Change. You’re all probably happy about the alleged “thriving polar bears” because that way you get to enact your precious second amendment and shoot up some polar bears with an AK-47.

  15. sweetqueen777 June 19, 2016 at 8:23 pm #

    I agree wholeheartedly. We have SERIOUS problems invthis country, of an IMMEDIATE and URGENT nature. Climate Change MIGHT BE a problem in about 200 years. We will all kill EACH OTHER before that ever happens. What a CROCK. PLANTS Create Oxygen, which we nreathe. We expell CO2, whivh the plants need. The BEST thing we can do is STOP cutting down the trees. Recycle as much as we can, and fix things instead of throwing everything away

  16. Deb Ashlynn June 21, 2016 at 3:19 pm #

    Let me explain it to you in words you can understand. When global warming occurs the world first gets a ton more water before it dries up. When the Ice caps melt this causes more water, in the form of more snow and rain. This will only last until the caps melt completely and since it is too warm for them to refreeze the water we do have will then dry up. So at first it will seem like we have an abundance of water and then we turn into Venus or other rock like planet in our solar system. WE need to stop using fossil fuels and go green. We have the technology so there’s on reason to continue to damage our home Most scientists now know that this is occurring so for you to site that 99 percent of scientists don’t believe it is occurring is erroneous. And the scientists know more than you on the matter

  17. Cheyenne Kid June 22, 2016 at 6:57 am #

    Mistrix, you are a toad, a toad is someone who keeps on posting trying to dominate the issue. The earth has gone through several natural shifts of climate change. It is natural and a lot of your data and statements are not backed up except by what you think is so important to say, over and over, and over ……………again!

    • Mistrix July 3, 2016 at 1:17 am #

      Toad. Lol. That’s cute, haven’t heard that one before.

      I have made a lot of replies on this article. Made some a year ago or so, and i continue to get a reply in my inbox every few days too so it just goes on and on… lol

      Sorry if I hogged up all of the comments! 🙂

  18. Rochelle Weinbaum June 26, 2016 at 6:39 pm #

    Ya nie panimayu (paniMAyu) fsie echi viesh-chi (VIESH-chi) (Russian); English translation: I do not understand all these things.

  19. iquack June 28, 2016 at 6:49 pm #

    Of course, man-caused climate change alarmism is a hoax. Democrats need a cause; a reason to hike taxes and increase their control over us with onerous regulations. Follow the money to phony “scientists” who feed off taxpayer largess.

  20. MIKE BOATRIGHT June 29, 2016 at 2:50 pm #

    What are your sources elmer b?

  21. Tom Baker July 1, 2016 at 5:10 pm #

    Bingo!

  22. Ridwan Shahid July 9, 2016 at 2:03 am #

    My professor told me that increasing temperatures would increase water evaporation near the equator. The water vapour will be carried out to the poles and cause more precipitation and more snow. This would cause cooler air to flow away from the poles, cooling the Earth. So perhaps we won’t really be seeing a continuous rise in global temperature.

    However, this might mean that the Earth would cool significantly and less hot air and water will rise from the Equator. That may prevent further cooling. The Earth might have a buffer here. I’m not too sure though. And I don’t know how strong this buffer is. I think scientists should investigate.

  23. Mistrix July 10, 2016 at 3:52 am #

    So, Elmer Beauregard, do you get any money from political groups or oil companies? Just curious who funds your articles.

  24. Whyatt Yescarri July 17, 2016 at 9:29 pm #

    It would be wonderful if global warming is not happening, since it would have a significant negative impact on many of the earth’s inhabitants in terms of geographical, lifestyle, economic, health and other potential changes. Some would benefit; but rising sea levels, overall weather pattern changes and severe weather events and their associated impacts are projected to significantly increase as part of most of those GW models– and is generally not good for most countries and their people. If it doesn’t happen, then short to long term lifestyles and planning of all types can proceed as usual, which would be a lot better for most of us than the alternative, based on what’s projected to happen. However, the truth is where I wish to get to, regardless of the potential impact.

    I have done a fair amount of reading and watching of videos on both sides of the argument (several hundred hours so far), and during my research related to this subject I have found quite a range of quality in terms of the application of both logic and research approaches, as well as data-driven support for the arguments associated with them. Although most articles, journals, books, sites and videos have some amount of erroneous/invalid assertions, logic and conclusions; based on my research to date, the following is one of the compilations that appears to be among the most well-supported by available data. https://www.skepticalscience.com

    In addition to researching the validity and accuracy of data and assertions, I have tried to always consider the sources and any associated biases, agendas and such. I have found that over time there is an increasing amount of poorly supported thinking and reasoning, often based more on emotional reactions than data and science based reasoning. I have tried to eschew that kind of “thinking” whenever possible. Similarly, although I often see a lot more emotional response and ad hominem attacks than support for a given position, this is too important to me (and I’d assume most others), to simply vent in the form of poorly supported emotionally-driven arguments.

    So, given where I am at with my research, I would like to get the input from people here who have become more/better educated than I am on this subject, to help determine any erroneous thinking and assertions. As noted, the following provides a useful summary that mirrors much of what I have found to date, although it does not provide the full spectrum of rigorous mathematical support and extensive data sets, as do some of the peer reviewed resources I have studied. However, I believe it provides an efficient summary for discussion.

    I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide any well-supported research, data and associated resources that contradict those provided on that site. Similarly, any better/useful compilations would also be appreciated.

    Thanks for any clarifications and input on this subject.

  25. Olivier Girardot July 19, 2016 at 12:48 pm #

    Basically 1,2 and 3 are exactly the same point.

  26. Vincent Bryson July 21, 2016 at 11:18 pm #

    So how does Carbon/Oxygen/Oxygen interfere with the bonding of Oxygen/oxygen/oxygen (I wrote it out for you).
    C-O-O and O-O-O
    So am I to believe that it is possible for CO2 to interfere with the bonding of O3 ?!
    I am being told that that diatomic oxygen contain the properties to prevent Triatomic oxygen from bonding just because this diatomic oxygen contains a Carbon?????!!!!
    Carbon – the 6th most common element on Earth. It’s everywhere in Universe.
    No ONE has an issue with less pollution but come on man! Really?!

  27. George July 21, 2016 at 11:55 pm #

    The controversy is within bad administrations feeding politicians phoney facts and them going along with it . It makes money for state, provincial and federal coffers . Yes we have real facts , that they don’t want to have a look at . The infamous Sierra Nevada Club propagated , a lot of wolf implants from Canada into the United States much to negative impact to wildlife in general . The Sierra Nevada Club , does pay for cattle taken down , quenching some problems from farmers and ranchers . But their not paying monetary compensation for wildlife (moose, etc.) . The Yellowstone wolf project , has now turned into a disaster . They have way too too much money…..so the taxpayer should get all their money , just to justify things , and shut down their formats in implementing any federal policy , because of too much money . We all know of the record cold weather , showing the governments inability to admit to superior reality and truths ……but the most troubling is that the Federal Governments on both sides of the border are not being held accountable for these blatant superior realities and lawsuits that should going , to force them to shut down bad administrations and their form of policy . We know their ethics , principles , and mores , definitely are questionable , and should be taken down asap .

  28. John July 23, 2016 at 1:01 am #

    Check these out:

    http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/pangburn.html

    http://globalclimatedrivers.blogspot.com

    The analysis is done by Dan Pangburn, who is a licensed mechanical engineer. In his research, he has found that fossil fuel burning has no significant affect on climate sensitivity.

    Also, here’s another site that’s against the Global Warming “scam”:

    http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com

  29. Vincent Slater July 23, 2016 at 8:15 pm #

    Yaeh TRUMP will bring this GW SCAM down…go TRUMP!!!

  30. raymondschep July 26, 2016 at 12:50 am #

    All living things need oxygen to survive. Even plants need oxygen. However, plants that contain chlorophyll have a unique capability.When the sun shines on them they can take up carbon dioxide and convert it to carbohydrates (food) and oxygen. We are all taught this in grade school. At night plants go back to respiration and consume oxygen. If we stopped putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the plants ran out of carbon dioxide to use, then guess what. No more oxygen would be produced and it would be the end of life on earth. This is not speculation it is cold hard biological scinece. This just goes to show how absolutely stupid, idiotic, moronic and insane those are that oppose the release for carbon dioxide to the atmosphere due to some stupid unproven speculation called global warming.

    • raymondschep July 26, 2016 at 12:57 am #

      And another thing. If carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere should rise, it would accelerate the growth of plants because they have more carbon dioxide for photosynthesis. Therefore the more cabon dioxide released into the air, the more would be consumed by plants.

  31. Sayan July 26, 2016 at 5:04 am #

    Given how I figured out that the moon landing was a hoax, I would not be surprised if global warming was a hoax.

  32. equaltemp August 2, 2016 at 11:25 pm #

    The mere fact that this topic continues to be a heated debate raises doubts about its validity.

  33. Dennis August 3, 2016 at 8:11 am #

    Did anyone notice that half of the “reference” links in this article are 404 pages?

  34. TJ2000 August 4, 2016 at 6:27 am #

    Considering that even if “Global Warming” was true – It measured (as someone else mentioned) at 0.005% CO2 gain; It hardly constitutes any valid concern. Same nut-jobs conspiring to make 0.00001% arsenic labelled “poisonous” while bottled water contains 0.01% arsenic. A valuable lesson in common-sense is — “the dose makes the poison”. Any non-substantial evidence being made so largely publicized is always the symptom of an ulterior motive.

  35. valluri August 7, 2016 at 4:47 pm #

    Then why the fuck record deaths for record rise in summer temperatures in India .author was paid

  36. John Smith August 9, 2016 at 5:56 am #

    This is funny.

  37. Sanne August 10, 2016 at 12:47 pm #

    This website is filled with complete bollocks, I never saw so much bulls**t.

  38. none ya August 16, 2016 at 10:26 pm #

    oh my god, do you people actually believe this? “moose are making a comeback” LOL someone tell me this is a joke. As if nobody could come up with reason other than Minnesota moose number going up? I don’t know whats worse, this article or everyone who thinks it’s legitimate.

  39. trumped August 17, 2016 at 5:32 pm #

    I had this scientific study write-up on my computer but the page from which I had downloaded it is down now. The paper gives proof that climate change is NOT real. Let’s shove this in liberals’ faces! They say there’s a scientific consensus, but here is proof otherwise! Link: https://to.ly/YHWS

  40. SuzanneSmith August 18, 2016 at 3:29 am #

    NOAA said July/16 marks the 15th month in a row in which global heat records have been broken. That continues the longest streak of record-breaking temperatures since reporting began. This site is immoral at best, criminal at worst.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/july-2016-hottest-month_us_57b219b4e4b007c36e4fb557?section=&

  41. John Hinman August 25, 2016 at 2:14 pm #

    This was a scam put together by Al Gore for one reason (GREED) he saw a way to make money if he could push the idea, and it worked. People have joined the money Train and keep pushing the Hoax.

  42. charmer063 August 28, 2016 at 12:52 am #

    Climate change is REAL! It happens every year and it’s called: Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring. It’s all about controlling resources and ultimately controlling man. All these sheeple and Algorians need to think for THEMSELVES. I too was on that green bandwagon but had to write a paper for one of my classes on the warming. Needless to say, I’ve changed my position and am sorry I took for granted someone’s claim “just because” of who they were

    • R. Kooi June 1, 2018 at 2:19 pm #

      If you want to discuss
      “controlling resources and ultimately controlling man”
      you must discuss
      who is controlling those resources Today ! ?
      you must discuss
      who is controlling those men Today ! ?

      6.5%
      of the entire WORLD’S GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT today is funneled directly to the 4000+ families that control/own the Fossil Fuel industry and subordinated industries!
      .
      TODAY !
      in the form of SUBSIDIES, SUPPORTS, TRAINING WAGES and JOB TRAINING, SWEET HEART TAX DEALS, INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION and ALL MAINTENANCE…etc.

      Paul Ryan admitted, August 2016, that by the end of THAT year, the US will have supplied over $1,000,000,000,000 (TRILLION) just in supports and subsidies

      ((( Did you see the interview on FOX BUSINESS….Petroleum Industry whining about the HIGHEST CORP. TAX in the WORLD !
      …..what they never mentioned in the hour long interview
      …. NOT 1 Corporation has EVER paid that rate
      …..most pay 4%….some as high as 20%
      ……much of those taxes are deferred with weak pay back procedures.)))
      .
      Those supports do not even touch the PROFIT MARGINS of these major player corporations.
      and
      IF ANY nation objects, the US Military is always on standby, as well as the world’s assorted militaries.
      .
      DO you really think our current objections to IRAN and the NUCLEAR DEAL is really about Nuclear Weapons do you??

      It is about THEIR ability to say NO to US demands.
      They had a properly fairly elected leader in the 50’s….
      An Election we taught them and encouraged them to run.
      That leader advocated greater control of OIL…and WE KILLED HIM !

      • Sergio Casselli October 26, 2018 at 8:25 pm #

        Anybody who wants to charge me for using the air, should be shot… I’m tired of paying taxes for everything, and then some. Now, you want me to pay a carbon tax? are you f@$%*& out of your mind? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNxNgfVzAvo

        • R. Kooi October 28, 2018 at 2:02 am #

          Taxes are the same or less for folks in the Middle Income tiers.
          The Republican Carbon TAX system is revenue NEUTRAL with Criminal Penalties for failure to refund all funds collected to the tax payers

          • Sterling Mossed December 1, 2018 at 10:25 pm #

            Tell that to THE FRENCH!!
            Why are they rioting in the STREETS?
            TAX on DIESEL FUEL!!

          • R. Kooi March 3, 2019 at 3:59 pm #

            Kindly keep your mouth shut if you know nothing about what you are mouthing !

            This is a very typical French demonstrations.
            ..ABOUT the power of the FEW FINANCIALLY WELL OFF having

            TOO MUCH POWER and

            TOO LITTLE PAID TO SUPPORT THE STATE.

            TRUMP BETTER BEWARE OF THIS ATTITUDE!

            TRUMP Came to office Promising alternately
            a 35% Middle Class Tax Cut
            a 30% Middle Class Tax Cut
            a 10% across the board Tax Cut

            and he gave “US”:
            1/3 of the Middle Class actually get a tax increase from eliminated deductions,
            The rest of the Middle Class got a few hundred dollars…but only for a few years…since the AUTOMATICALLY END.
            .

            The TOP 1% get PERMANENT nearly 83%

            (nearly $2 TRILLION) in Tax Cuts)….in addition to all those they got permanently during the Bush Admin.
            The REST of the cuts go permanently to the International Conglomerates….owned largely by the TOP %…
            .
            Remember Trump telling us that his tax plan would not benefit himself….??
            .

            Days after he signed the bill….
            He gave a VERY BRIEF SPEECH to his fellow Billionaires in Mar A Logo…..
            “You ALL just got a whole lot Richer ”
            .
            He got a standing ovation….were you there, applauding!

          • E;f March 5, 2019 at 10:34 am #

            It must be really hard to be a Liberal when the real world disappoints you so much.

          • R. Kooi March 13, 2019 at 1:36 pm #

            AUH2O forever!

            Never that Pinnacle of Corruption, the Swamp you voted into the White House.

          • Kenneth Clark March 14, 2019 at 12:40 am #

            In no way, shape or form can he compare to the evil of the Clinton Mafia Family. Just isn’t possible.

          • R. Kooi March 14, 2019 at 2:53 pm #

            SOOO YOU repeatedly claim…and cleverly phrase and always fail to prove with not a scintilla of evidence.

          • Kenneth Clark March 14, 2019 at 11:57 pm #

            Dead bodies of Clinton Associates all around, flights to the pervert island, rapes and abuse of young female subordinates, white water, selling diluted HIV drugs to third world countries, bypassing government rules and regulations in regard to government documentation and sending it to whomever including a pervert. Pushing the sale of Uranium to a country they know is the enemy, but I guess the “Easy” button fixed all that. The list is so long, it’s impractical and lunacy to not know the Clintons are anything less than a truly criminal family.

          • R. Kooi March 16, 2019 at 1:48 am #

            MORE CLAIMS with absolutely NO EVIDENCE….just a long diversion riddled with asinine assertions.

          • Kenneth Clark March 16, 2019 at 3:38 am #

            Oh… the evidence is there. You simply refuse to acknowledge it, to you own detriment. Just because you choose to ignore does not make it go away or not true.
            Just like this Chicken Little…”The sky is falling” climate theory you disingenuously promote. Until you take in and understand the entire report, you stand before the mirror as a fool.

          • R. Kooi March 16, 2019 at 1:17 pm #

            MORE CLAIMS and NO PROOF!

            TYPICAL…..long on MOUTH, SHORT on substance.

            Remember years of House Republicans, thousands of TV and Radio interviews…promising to lock em up !

            Slam dunk…they are sooooo guilty.

            and 10 vicious REPUBLICAN INVESTIGATIONS

            (lasting years)

            The Tax Payers got stiffed….$100,000,000
            and

            NO TRUTH TO IT.…insufficient EVIDENCE to gain an indictment on any charge,

            no matter how trivial in ANY JURISDICTION in the country !

            ————-
            ADD to that 4 DOJ and FBI investigations, run by Republicans…and again $75,000,000 p.ssed away…and not one charge, no matter how trivial in ANY jurisdiction in the nation.

          • R. Kooi July 14, 2019 at 12:40 pm #

            MORE CLAIMS and never any links to prove yourself!
            ————————————————————————-
            1.

            https://www.dw.com/image/43195385_401.png
            2.

            http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BJUR1nKMgBk/USPIxmj8-1I/AAAAAAAABWw/T3PjApeg3Cs/s1600/MUNICHRE.png

          • R. Kooi March 26, 2019 at 7:12 pm #

            Prove it….talk is cheap…YOU PRESENT NO EVIDENCE on all of the sheer BULL SHYTE COMMENTS YOU MAKE !!

          • Kenneth Clark July 13, 2019 at 2:55 pm #

            Wonder who Clinton’s party buddy Epstien, is gonna implicate to save his posterior this time. WooooHooo, already saw where Billy boy is putting up the defences.

          • R. Kooi July 13, 2019 at 10:26 pm #

            Aangirfan: TRUMP, BOYS, EPSTEIN – Blogger

            https://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2017/07/trump-boys-epstein.html

            Jul 07, 2017 · Trump, Arif, Sater, Milo, Epstein…and pedophilia. Allegedly, “Milo resigned to protect Steve Bannon and Donald trump. “Milo attracted young confused boys for the sexual gratification of Donald trump and Steve bannon and once his statements on pedophilia were made public it became too dangerous for them to continue associating with milo.
            ————————————————————-
            Jeffrey Epstein Met One Of His Underage Victims Via Trump …

            https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/jeffrey-epstein-met-one-of-his

            Nov 29, 2018 · Donald Trump (L), Jeffrey Epstein (R) by JakeThomas. … Epstein also had access to young girls via his relationship to a New York City modeling agency, Roberts said. Epstein, who was close to Les Wexner, the owner of Victoria’s Secret, often talked about his connections to people in the modeling, fashion and acting industries, Roberts told ..

          • Kenneth Clark July 14, 2019 at 2:30 am #

            You are so easy to read…
            I knew it might take a day or so but you would come up with all you could locate to defend your prince, Slick Willie.
            Citing all if the progressive liberal trash you could regurgitate.
            Wow, just how deep have you been sucked into the vacuum of socialist destruction.

          • R. Kooi July 14, 2019 at 12:34 pm #

            AUH2O forever!

            Never a CLINTON or a TRUMP FAN!

            The point you should be making is why you are SOOOO BUSY whining about CLINTON….while Good Old Donald TRUMP is in office and behaving as obscenely as ever !
            —————————————————————————-
            Sexual-Assault Allegations

            Where and when: Various, 1970s-2005

            The dirt:

            Even before the release of a 2005 video in which he boasted about sexually assaulting women—“Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything,” he said, as well as “I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything”—there’s a long line of allegations against Trump. Jill Harth says Trump assaulted her in the 1990s. Trump’s ex-wife Ivana Trump once suggested he had raped her, though she has since recanted her story. Former Miss Utah Temple Taggart said he kissed her on the lips inappropriately. But since the release, more women have come forward. Two told The New York Times that Trump had assaulted them, one saying he tried to put his hand up her skirt on a flight in the 1970s and another saying he forcibly kissed her. A Florida woman says Trump groped her. A former People reporter recounted an alleged assault at his Mar-a-Lago debate, and says he told her, “You know we’re going to have an affair, don’t you?” Several former teen pageant contestants said Trump walked in on them while they were naked or partially dressed.

            The upshot:

            Trump denies all of the allegations. In the sexual-assault cases, Trump faces the difficulty that he in some cases bragged openly about just the behavior of which he has accused—whether grabbing or forcibly kissing. Trump has demanded a retraction from the Times, and has threatened to sue several outlets. The paper, in a letter, refused. A woman who brought a rape case against Trump (twice) withdrew her suit in November, but in January, Summer Zervos sued Trump for defamation, after he labeled her claims of sexual assault false.

          • Kenneth Clark July 14, 2019 at 1:49 pm #

            The crimes of Bill and Hill make Epstien look like a rookie.

            The only real differences between Bill & Hill and Bonnie & Clyde are Bill & Hill took it international. Wonder when the people will awaken and send the Marshall after them. It’s is way over due.

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 9:43 pm #

            What a ridiculous comment.
            YEAR AND YEARS of investigations have proved you DEAD wrong.

          • DLong69 October 23, 2019 at 6:25 am #

            Climate Change deniers are more about placing blame and demonizing their fellow Americans, bashing Al Gore and Democrats and anyone else the right-wing GOP – bought and paid for by the Koch Bros and fossil fuel corporations — lie and lie and lie about. Ignoring scientific data that proves Climate Change is real, caused by carbon emissions since the beginning of the Industrial age. Oceans are becoming more acidic, fish will become affordable for only the rich very soon, permafrost is melting, glaciers are disappearing, the poles are melting ice in never seen before amounts, animal species are dying off and still they deny deny deny. Your children and grand-children will curse you for not stepping up to help save their future. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a1f4c82d37fb495b78975c1813f96b4b38aabdd441786b65dbec588cc111b601.jpg

          • Kenneth Clark March 16, 2019 at 6:18 pm #

            Need to check your “Facts” aka fake news. Hillary Clinton actually started the Obama Birther scheme to try and help herself at the voting poles and discredit (although it wouldn’t have taken much) Obama’s rising popularity among the MSM.

            You are just flat out wrong. You have succumbed to the poison of MSLSD and the Communist News Network. You don’t think for yourself or research the garbage they spew at you. You simply swallow and proselytize their dogma.

          • R. Kooi March 17, 2019 at 2:22 am #

            No Kenny Dear….YOU NEED TO CHECK YOUR FACTS.

            Factcheck.org

            FALSE

            Though it’s true that the specific allegation that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. first reared its head during the 2008 presidential race, rumblings about Obama’s “otherness” had been percolating since long before that.

            In 2004,

            a political gadfly named Andy Martin issued a press release calling Barack Obama a “complete fraud” who had “misrepresented his heritage” in his memoir, Dreams From My Father, and “is a Muslim who has concealed his religion.”

            The theme was pushed further in December 2006 by conservative columnist Debbie Schlussel, who published an article entitled “Barack Hussein Obama: Once a Muslim, Always a Muslim,” which stated that “Obama has a ‘born-again’ affinity for the nation of his Muslim father, Kenya.”

            In March 2007, Clinton campaign strategist Mark Penn proposed attacking Obama on the basis of his “lack of American roots.” And, in December 2007, a Clinton volunteer county coordinator in Iowa was fired for forwarding an e-mail making the by-then familiar claim that Obama is a Muslim.

          • Iva Bigun March 27, 2019 at 6:59 pm #

            The fact that you believe in Factcheck.org is hilarious. Do you also cite CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, and the Washington Post as truthful sources?

          • R. Kooi March 27, 2019 at 7:57 pm #

            The Annenberg Foundation has a truly WIDE range of associations from Richard M. Nixon to Obama.

            I have yet to find a major conflict in FactCheck.org…despite your lazy effort to refute what I say by disputing FactCheck.org.
            not by coming up with any facts.

          • Iva Bigun March 27, 2019 at 8:45 pm #

            It’s common knowledge (which excludes you of course) that your source for “fact checking” is a liberal rag….aka CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, Wash Post. You can’t find anything to refute them because you’re a brainwashed libtard/marxist moron

          • R. Kooi March 27, 2019 at 11:59 pm #

            Prove it

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 1:29 am #

            Your pat answer. You prove they’re factual.

          • R. Kooi March 16, 2019 at 1:08 pm #

            PROVE IT !

            Link to legit. source not your lying blogs.

          • R. Kooi March 16, 2019 at 1:26 pm #

            fake facts that Trump supporters believe are true

            1. Trump is a devoted Christian.

            The thrice-married, pu$$y-grabbing, Pedophile Epstein cavorting, Bill Clinton associating, TRUMP is actually quite the exemplary Christian, at least in the minds of his supporters.

            They are so convinced of this fake fact that they welcomed Trump at Jerry Fallwell’s Christian Liberty University this past weekend, where the president was given an honorary doctorate.

            2. The economy is improving because of Trump.

            If there’s anything Trump does better than filing for Chapter 11, it’s taking credit for things other people have done.

            Part-time First Lady Melania Trump stole a speech from Michelle Obama, so it only seems fitting that the Donald do it as well. Now, even though he hasn’t signed a single piece of economic legislation and all economic data is just a continuation of President Obama’s efforts, Trump seems to have no issue taking credit for all of the positive economic news. And despite the fact that Trump had been in office for a whopping two weeks, Fox News gave Trump full credit for a positive jobs report in January.

            3. ‘Millions voted illegally’ (without a single shred of proof).

            Not too long ago,

            a poll found that 55 percent of Trump supporters believe his daft conspiracy theory that the only reason he lost the popular vote is because “millions voted illegally” for Hillary Clinton. Ignorance is bliss, right?

            ((( across the entire nation…fewer that 5000 votes are being investigated…Except in REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED NORTH CAROLINA….where REPUBLICAN VOTER FRAUD WAS ADMITTED and IS BEING PRESECUTED )))

            4. Immigration is off the rails and illegal immigrants are all violent criminals.

            Trump played to the racist tendencies of working-class whites when he declared that Mexicans were criminals and rapists, except for some. He also took a page from Richard Nixon’s handbook and touted law and order for the silent majority. But here’s the thing for folks who reside in Realitytown, USA: net migration from Mexico is basically zero and stats show that undocumented immigrants are actually less likely to commit crimes than American citizens. But facts are not how you Make America Great Again!

            5. Trump should have the power to overturn judicial rulings.

            Utterly clueless when it comes to the U.S. Constitution (except for the Second Amendment), 51 percent of Trump supporters think the Executive Branch should have the power to overrule the Judicial Branch. This came after Trump was overruled in his efforts to impose a Muslim travel ban.

            6. Trumpcare is great while Obamacare is awful.

            Okay,

            this one is especially heinous. During Trump’s presidential campaign, he talked constantly about how easy it would be to gut Obamacare and impose a version of his own that would cover everyone.

            .
            Here are the facts:
            .

            Around 24 million people will lose their health insurance—many of them his most vocal supporters
            Premiums, especially for Americans 50 and older, will increase dramatically.
            States can opt-out of protecting people with pre-existing conditions.
            Coverage will get worse.
            Medicaid will be gutted.

            Trumpcare is stealing from the poor to give to the rich, but his supporters don’t mind being screwed by their dear leader.

            7. Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

            Ah yes, the birther question. The very thing that catapulted a washed-up reality TV host to political fame and fortune. Trump had been accusing President Obama of not being born in America for years, which seems to have resonated with his supporters: 59 percent of Trump supporters didn’t think Obama was born in the United States, while just a mere 23 percent said he was.

            8. There’s a war on gun owners.

            Despite the fact that gun ownership ballooned under President Obama and his sensible gun legislation failed miserably in the NRA-owned Republican Congress, Trump supporters believed there was a major “war” on guns. The biggest (and stupidest) conspiracy was the one involving Jade Helm, when right-wingers thought a military exercise was actually a secret ploy by Obama to declare martial law and seize all the guns.

            9. All the investigations into Trump’s ties to Russia are bogus.

            Despite the overwhelming amount of evidence that continues to pile up regarding Trump’s ties to Putin during the 2016 presidential campaign and beyond, his supporters will hear nothing of it. They love Russia and think CNN and every other major news outlet is fake news that hates America. Bear in mind, all of this seems to be leading up to impeachment. But yeah, nothing to see here.

            10. Trump is honest and trustworthy.

            This may be the greatest fake fact of fake facts: Trump is honest and trustworthy. Despite the fact that nearly everything that comes out of his mouth is a brazen lie that can be disproved in a New York minute, his supporters think he’s honest. That’s just a special kind of ignorance you can’t fix. While some of his supporters have since seen the light of day, a majority of them still trust him despite all the explanations of his lies the media makes.

            In short,

            it may just take Trump throwing puppies into a firepit for a majority of his supporters to recognize him for the lying con man that he is.

          • Iva Bigun March 27, 2019 at 6:56 pm #

            Geez, I came across this site, and just see you whining and whining. It’s obvious you’re a little gay guy, with an undersized penis that can’t satisfy his girlie boyfriends

          • R. Kooi March 27, 2019 at 7:48 pm #

            Leave it to you to pay SOOO much attention to my penis !

          • Iva Bigun March 27, 2019 at 8:46 pm #

            I check it out on Factcheck.org. It says you are gay, like girly men, have an undersized penis, are a marxist, and a vegetarian. I should have added whiney dope. Care to argue “gun control” and those scary “assault weapons” next?

          • waldon May 16, 2019 at 9:59 pm #

            It must suck to see all your fantasies fail. Trump is in because the Libs have failed big time. And I revel every day Trump is in the White House because it makes Libs like you hate your life.

          • R. Kooi July 13, 2019 at 10:29 pm #

            The Friendship Between Trump And A Billionaire Pedophile …

            https://dailycaller.com/2016/10/09/the-friendship-between-trump-and-a-billionaire

            While Donald Trump deals with the aftermath of lewd comments he made about women back in 2005, the public still has not gotten any real answers about at least another potentially problematic aspect of Trump’s history: his past friendship with billionaire and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 9:24 pm #

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSE-XoVKaXg

          • Sterling Mossed July 15, 2019 at 5:14 pm #

            (nearly $2 TRILLION) in Tax Cuts…
            HA HA HA…total of 1.5 Trillion OVER 10 YEARS TOTAL, BUT sure, Rich are getting MORE than the TOTAL…
            Unhinged!!

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 9:39 pm #

            Kindly note that YOU are getting virtually none of those cuts…nearly 1/2 of US MIDDLE CLASS and WORKING CLASS AMERICANS report a tax increase.

            Typical Trump … all done with smoke and mirrors…but he got his tax cut and IT IS PERMANENT!
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSE-XoVKaXg

          • Kenneth Clark August 29, 2019 at 2:40 am #

            He simply played the Obama card…
            “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” And “If you like your Insurance you can keep your Insurance.” But I will add that the Democrats in the House had much to do with the phase out of the tax cut for the middle class. They simple exempted themselves, as usual, since they fall into the upper 5% which get and keep their tax cuts.

          • Sterling Mossed July 15, 2019 at 5:16 pm #

            BUT PUTIN ,China, and other COAL/OIL Dictator’s CHEER you ON BRO!!
            CHINA is the left’s ROLE model for GREEN energy, BUT THEY MINE 10 TIMES the COAL the US does!!

          • Sterling Mossed July 15, 2019 at 5:21 pm #

            US life expectancy. before COAL
            37 years
            Now it is 75 years
            sure, Fossil Fuels are killing Humans off..

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 9:22 pm #

            Life Expectancy 150 years ago to today is hardly CAUSED by the use of Fossil Fuels… though they have helped.

            Like all things in human history…things work for a period of time and then better things come along.

            Horses and Buggies were wonderful in their day.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSE-XoVKaXg

          • Kenneth Clark August 21, 2019 at 11:57 am #

            What you left out was that the phasing out of the tax cut for the middle class was demanded by the Progressive Democrats in order for them to support the bill. You know all those Rich Progressives on Capitol Hill. Yep, they are the ones who also benefited greatly. But the problem was they did not want the middle class to enjoy what they and their wealthy chosen enjoy.

          • R. Kooi August 21, 2019 at 2:53 pm #

            What you left out was that you would lie to win YOUR ARGUMENT!
            YOU MISSED THE PART WHERE NO DEMOCRATS supported the bill!!

            Final Passage

            Final Senate approval of the tax bill

            Yes
            No

            Republicans
            51
            1

            Democrats
            0
            48

            Total

            51

            49

          • Kenneth Clark August 22, 2019 at 2:43 am #

            Did you forget about the House??? They must pass it too.

          • R. Kooi September 4, 2019 at 12:23 am #

            Trump needed a couple of votes.

          • Kenneth Clark August 24, 2019 at 2:32 pm #

            It takes more than just the Senate. The House holds the purse strings. So you are telling all that there was absolutely no Democrat support??? You are beyond anything a mental facility could do to help you except maybe a lobotomy and that is questionable.

          • R. Kooi August 21, 2019 at 3:38 pm #

            Not one vote from the Democratic Senators for that monstrosity…benefiting the International Corporations and the top 2%

          • Kenneth Clark August 29, 2019 at 2:35 am #

            But you conveniently leave it a critical part of the passage… the Democrat controlled house who passed it.

          • R. Kooi August 30, 2019 at 1:27 am #

            Yep…he got a few House Dems to vote with him…

            I am a Goldwater Conservative…not a Trumpanzee Ultra Nationalist Debt Queen.

          • Kenneth Clark September 3, 2019 at 10:48 pm #

            I don’t know where you can even lightly assume association of the term conservative. None of your posts I have read, which have been many, can in any way, shape or form be construed as conservative. Now if you mean conserve your dollars and take from everyone else, then you still are just a progressive, liberal Democrat of the Bernie and AOC following. Like them you want to keep yours and much of everyone else’s as well.

          • R. Kooi September 4, 2019 at 12:22 am #

            “It makes business sense, BIG Business has the Sense to GO Dependable & CHEAPER RENEWABLE ENERGY—-
            .
            As evidence of how renewables are cheaper, take, for example, Northern Indiana Public Service Co. Indiana is the nation’s third-largest consumer of coal, after Texas and Illinois, and NIPSCO got nearly all of its electricity from coal-fired plants as recently as 2010.
            .
            It’s now planning to shut down two of its three coal plants by 2028 and replace them with renewables.
            .
            “Cost-competitiveness that has been evolving in the market, pointing toward the need to accelerate the retirement of our coal-fired electric generation and replace it with lower-cost renewable sources,” it said.

            Similarly,

            American Electric Power Co., one of the nation’s largest consumers of coal, told regulators it wants to build 900 MW of wind and solar generation.
            .
            “These decisions are being driven by economics, where the utility is saying renewable energy is the least-cost and less-risk option to customers,” said Ben Inskeep, an analyst at EQ Research told E&E News.
            .
            And it’s not just utilities that are getting into the game.

            Corporate purchases of renewable energy have grown around the world, reaching 7.2 gigawatts in 2018 according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

            https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/14/renewables-are-the-cleanest-the-cheapest/
            **
            over view:
            https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/24/yay-coal-in-my-stocking-critiques-of-climate-action-amidst-moves-to-renewable-energy/
            **
            “A new report revels 42% of global coal capacity is currently unprofitable, and the United States could > > save $78 billion by closing coal-fired power plants in line climate goals.

            This industry-disrupting trend comes down to dollars and cents,
            as the cost of renewable energy plumets below fossil fuel generation.

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 3:03 pm #

            Killer Coal & Oil Billionaires are INTENT of KEEPING their
            Multi Trillion Dollar Cash Flow. AT YOUR EXPENSE & YOUR GRAND CHILDRENS’ Health.

            35-40 Years ago I audited an Agriculture Lecture at UW, Madison.
            The elderly Professor gave a 60 minute lecture that felt like hours.
            .
            Totally boring except for the last question, as I recall.
            .
            A Gal ask a question that half interested me

            …”ignoring the machinery, What one thing stands out in your mind as the most important change in farming in the last century.
            .
            He response was quick:

            ….”Climate.

            The 1st Hard Frost in the Fall of the year
            (the traditional END of the harvest season)
            is nearly a month LATER than it was a century ago.
            and
            similarly, the LAST Hard Frost in the Spring
            (the traditional start of the planting season)
            is a couple of weeks EARLIER than it was a century ago.
            .
            THIS longer growing season seems to be saving the Family Farm from extinction, because it has enabled, in most years, for that Farm Family to plant & Harvest a 2nd crop
            …increasing the profitability, the viability of the Family Farm in Wisconsin.
            .
            That Doesn’t sound too controversial does it ?
            .
            By the time that old timer got home,HIS ELDERLY WIFE had received

            DEATH THREATS
            and
            DEMANDS THAT HE RESIGN </u>
            for

            using a University Lecture to ” PREACH ABOUT POLITICAL ISSUES ” LIKE GLOBAL WARMING.
            .
            By the end of the week the UNIVERSITY and the Professor had received hundreds of letters & phone calls,
            demanding a RETRACTION and APOLOGY to the STUDENTS for his ideological rant.
            ..most demanding that he be fired !
            .

            By the end of the following week, he was forced to retire !
            There is not a scientist willing to speak on the Legitimate Threats of Climate Change who hasn’t been THREATENED WITH DEATH or BEATINGS.

            Or Subpoenaed and left sitting for days-on-end waiting to be questioned in Congressional hearings …Insulted at Republican congressional hearings
            …threatened at Republican Congressional hearings etc.
            THAT Is The Kind Of People YOU Are REPRESENTING!

            When The FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY is threatened with the LOSS of TRILLIONS of DOLLARS
            and

            the Forfeiture of ALL THAT POLITICAL POWER they have been accumulating since they won their 1st major subsidy in 1918 !

            YOU CAN DEPEND THAT THE FOSSILS WILL FIGHT BACK by any and all means.
            .
            THESE are, after all is said and done, the Great Grand Children of men who sent preteens and teenagers into deadly mines & tunnels because they didn’t have to dig as big a tunnel…saves money…adds to profit margins !…”

          • Sterling Mossed December 1, 2018 at 10:27 pm #

            California added gas tax for infrastructure….oops, now going to General fund!!

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 3:05 pm #

            So where is the TWO PARTY SYSTEM IN CA.?

            Oh yeah…the GOP has wandered off in obscure obscene race hating obscurity … a form of political suicide!

            AUH2O forever!

        • R. Kooi March 3, 2019 at 4:10 pm #

          1. Air
          Before the government began to rein in pollution from smokestacks and tailpipe, dense, dark and even choking smog was a frequent occurrence in American cities and towns.
          .
          In 1948,
          spectators at a football game in Donora, Pennsylvania couldn’t see the players or the ball because of smog from a nearby coal-fired zinc smelter; 20 people died.
          .
          In Los Angeles in the 1960s, smog often hid the mountains.
          .
          The Clean Air Act of 1970 gave EPA the authority to regulate harmful air pollutants.
          .
          One of the most dramatic success stories was lead, which was widely used in paint but also in gasoline to improve engine performance.
          .
          EPA estimated that more than 5,000 Americans were dying every year from heart disease linked to lead poisoning; many children were growing up with diminished IQ.
          .
          ** By 1974, the EPA began a phase out of lead from gasoline. The gradual effort took until 1995 to completely end the practice, but the result has been a measurable 75 percent drop in blood lead levels in the public.
          .
          Thanks to Clean Air Act rules,
          the levels of many other toxic substances in our air, such as mercury, benzene, and arsenic, have also dropped substantially.

          .
          A major update to the law in 1990 allowed EPA to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions from power plants, the main cause of acid rain. Life has begun to come back in acidified lakes in the Adirondacks.

          Complying with EPA’s air pollution rules has been costly
          —they’re the biggest burden the agency imposes on the economy.

          But the federal Office of Management and Budget, analyzing data collected from 2004 to 2014, estimates that the health and other benefits of the rules far exceeded the costs
          **
          The Cuyahoga River
          was once one of the most polluted rivers in the United States as represented by the multitude of times it has caught fire, a recorded number of thirteen starting in 1868.
          .
          The most potent blaze occurred in 1952 which caused over $1.3 million in damages however,
          the most fatal fire happened in 1912 with a documented five deaths. The 1969 fire, which did not incur maximum damages or fatally wound any citizen, was the most covered incident occuring on the river.
          This was in part because of the developing precedence that sanitation held over industrial actions; the United States was becoming more eco-aware.
          .
          Also, due to the shift from industry to technology, waste dumping to recycling Time Magazine produced an article about the incident. This brought mass amount of attention to the Cleveland area
          and added pressure for hygienic regulation.

          Inspired by the 1969 river fire,
          Congress was determined to resolve the issue of land pollution, not just in Cleveland, but throughout the United States.
          .
          The legislature passed the National Environment Protection Act (NEPA) which was signed into law on January 1, 1970. This act helped establish the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which would be given the duties to manage environmental risks and regulate various sanitary-specific policies.
          .
          One of the first legislations that the EPA put-forth was the Clean Water Act (1972), which mandated that all rivers throughout the United States be hygienic enough to safely allow mass amounts of swimmers and fish within the water by 1983. Since the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District has invested over $3.5 billion towards the purification of the river and the development of new sewer systems. There is a projection that over the next thirty years the city of Cleveland will further endow over $5 billion to the upkeep of the wastewater system.

          The river is now home to about sixty different species of fish, there has not been another river fire since 1969, and yearly new waste management programs develop to ensure the sanitation of Cleveland’s waterways….”

          • Iva Bigun March 27, 2019 at 6:38 pm #

            What do you make of the 800,000 year Vostok ice core data, showing cyclical changes on this planet (from Ice Age to Warming) on roughly a 110,000 year interval. How about the fact that same data shows about a 12,000 year LAG in CO2 vs temperature (meaning Temp drives CO2, NOT the other way around). What do you make of Milankovitch cycles, describing the cyclical changes in how this planet orbits around the Sun (our HEAT SOURCE)? Orbital eccentricity cycles are approximately 110,000 years (weird eh?), and they affect our proximity (distance for idiots like you) to that heat source. Earth’s inclination angles (affecting where on the planet it’s cold vs hot) also vary. You are not even 1/2 as smart as you think you are. You are a typical big government commie, thinking we need gov’ment and acedemics that profit from this hoax to “lead the way”. This planet’s cycles only allow life to exist at my lattitude on this planet about 15,000 out of every 110,000 years. The rest of that time it’s buried under 2 miles of ice (I live in the Great Lakes area….formed due to the warming period after the LAST Ice Age). You are a sheep, being led by idiots running your sick ideology.

          • R. Kooi March 27, 2019 at 8:09 pm #

            It shows just how scientifically ignorant YOU ARE !

            Those Ice Cores are part of Global Warming Science.

            1.

            Google the Milankovitch Cycles….it is Earth’s orbit pulling us away from the sun or toward the sun that triggers those cycles of Cooling and warming.

            It is at the start, for example, of the next inter-glacial warm period … that Earth’s orbit and Axial Tilt returns toward the sun…initiating warming…and releasing quantities of CO2…which jump starts the warming….

            THAT is the beginning and the ending of such a cycle is where CO2 lags… 200 year to 800 years out of tens of thousands of years.

            .

            LOOK:

            https://i0.wp.com/powerline.wpengine.com/ed-assets/2014/12/vostok_temperature_co2.png

            .

            CO2 & Temperature Marriage:https://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/zFacts-CO2-Temp.gif

          • Iva Bigun March 27, 2019 at 8:41 pm #

            You just repeated what I said. Climate Change is just the latest wordsmithing for Global Warming. It’s a scam, it’s natural cycles driven by our orbital cycles around the sun. Thanks for agreeing pencil dick

          • R. Kooi March 28, 2019 at 12:04 am #

            Alexander von Humboldt Coined and Defined Climate Change as a scientific concept during his speaking tour of S. America. It was decades later that Science definitively pointed at Global Warming.

            The Repopularizing of the Climate Change was Actually pushed by a Republican PR man.

            .

            The Sun has had diminishing output for 50 years or so….

            IT IS NOT THE SUN STUPID !

            .

            Solar Energy Output has Decreased over the recent decades, but Global Warming has Increased.
            Translation: It Is Not The Sun Causing ALL or ANY of this rapid Warming.
            https://static.skepticalscience.com/pics/TvsTSI.png
            .

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 1:28 am #

            Right. What size tin foil hat do you wear? I’ll get you a nice pink one

          • Iva Bigun March 27, 2019 at 9:29 pm #

            OK, so the thing that “triggers” the change is cycle is NOT CO2, since it lags temperature, therefore CO2 is NOT a driver of temperature change on this planet. The reverse is actually true….temperature rises (thanks to our relationship to the nuclear star) cause CO2 in ice form to be released by the world’s oceans. When temp declines, the oceans reabsorb it. Bottom line, temp drives CO2 levels, not the reverse as your ilk likes to parrot

          • R. Kooi March 27, 2019 at 11:56 pm #

            For 200 yrs to 800yrs the milankovitch cycles are triggers.

            for the other 95,000-110,000 years CARBON IS CLEARLY IN CONTROL…LOOK AT THE GRAPHS I gave you.

            This Holocene inter glacial warm period peaked 7,500 to 8,500 years ago….for the following 8,000 +- years temps were falling…Hell, much of the last 1,000 years is called the little ice age…and it was terminated by human activities.

            and temps leveled off and have been rising for centuries since.

            .

            With the knowledge that Human Industry/Agriculture were PUMPING over 100 times MORE CO2 (working with H2O in a multiplier effect)
            & other Greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than all Earth’s Volcanoes, combined, every year.

            The World’s Leading Scientific Minds & specifcally, virtually all of NASA LEADING SCIENTISTS,
            Challenged !
            Questioned ! !
            &
            Critiqued ! ! !
            the Effects of Greenhouse Gasses (specifically CO2/Water Vapor & their multiplier effect) on climate !

            In 1970,
            NASA launched the IRIS/satellite that Observed & Measured in detail the
            Escaping Infra Red THERMAL Energy spectra between 400 cm-1 to 1600 cm-1.
            .
            ( Google:—————> IRIS-Satellite Research)

            In 1996,
            the Japanese Space Agency launched the IMG/satellite which recorded similar observations.
            .
            (Google:—————> IMG-Satellite Research)
            .
            Both sets of data were compared to discern any changes in escaping
            .
            infra red thermal radiation over the 26 year period
            .
            (Google—————-> Harries Research Study, 2001).
            .
            They found a Dramatic DROP in Escaping (earth cooling) Infra Red THERMAL Radiation
            at the Precise wavelength bands that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) & methane (CH4) absorb energy !

            While ESCAPING Infra Red THERMAL Radiation is DECREASING.
            .
            ——————————> Green House Gases were INCREASING ! (hand in glove)

            The change in ESCAPING I.R. THERMAL radiation is consistent with theoretical expectations & Global Warming Science Predictions.
            .
            Research & Numerous Studies have found:
            .
            —–> “direct experimental empirical evidence for a significant increase in the Earth’s greenhouse effect”/GLOBAL Warming.
            .
            This result has been confirmed by NUMEROUS subsequent Research & Studies using more recent satellite data, Digital Balloon Launches,etc.
            .
            The 1970 & 1997 spectra were compared with additional satellite data
            .
            from the ———————> NASA AIRS satellite launched in 2003
            .
            ( Google———————-> Griggs Research Study 2004).
            .
            This analysis was extended to 2006
            .
            using data from the —–> AURA satellite launched in 2004
            .
            (Google:———————-> Chen 2007 research Study)
            .
            Both Research papers
            found the observed differences in CO2 bands matching the expected changes from rising carbon dioxide levels.
            .
            * AGAIN————————> We have empirical evidence that increased CO2 is causing an enhanced greenhouse effect. (Warming)
            .
            ** ALL, These research studies & papers found
            ———————————–> “direct experimental evidence for a significant increase in the Earth’s greenhouse effect” (Global Warming).
            .
            ((( If Infra Red THERMAL RADIANT Energy does not escape,
            it MUST THEN be retained in our Earth System as:
            .
            1. —–> rising temperatures,
            2. —–> warming rising seas,
            3. —–> melting Ice,
            along with acidification of oceans & human/animal blood levels)))

            These results has been confirmed by subsequent Research papers using data from later satellites.
            .
            Google this SOURCE:————————> (Griggs 2004 )
            Google this SOURCE:————————> ( Chen 2007 )
            .
            THIS research has been Peer Reviewed
            (adversary critiqued, red team/blue team)
            widely published & ————————–> replicated repeatedly.

            Humans are Dumping More than 100-to-120 Times more CO2 into Earth’s Atmosphere than ALL of the Volcanoes,
            combined.
            Year after Year.
            .
            AS SOLAR ACTIVITY HAS SLIGHTLY “ Decreased “ ———-> which should lead to cooling!
            but instead
            —————> TEMPERATURES ON EARTH HAVE “ DRAMATICALLY INCREASED “
            —————> As Greenhouse GAS LEVELS HAVE “ DRAMATICALLY INCREASED “
            .
            LOOK:
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_activity_and_climate#/media/File:Global_surface_temperature_(top,_blue)_and_the_Sun%27s_energy_received_at_the_top_of_Earth%27s_atmosphere_(red,_bottom)._Solar_energy_has_been_measured_by_satellites_since_1978.gif
            .
            Change in spectrum from 1970 to 1996 due to trace greenhouse gases.
            ‘Brightness temperature’ indicates equivalent blackbody temperature
            .
            Google this SOURCE:—————–> (Harries 2001).
            Peer reviewed, published & replicated.
            .
            When greenhouse gasses absorb Earth Emissions of infrared THERMAL radiation,
            that energy heats the atmosphere which in turn re-radiates
            infrared THERMAL radiation in all directions.
            .
            Much of it makes its way back to the earth.
            Hence we would expect to find more infrared Thermal radiation heading downwards.
            .
            Surface measurements from 1973 to 2008 find an increasing trend of downward infrared heat radiation returning to earth.
            .
            Google this SOURCE:——————–>(Wang Infra Red Heat 2009)
            .
            A regional study over the central Alps found that downward infrared THERMAL radiation is increasing due to the enhanced greenhouse effect.
            .
            Google this SOURCE:——————–>(Philipona 2004)
            .
            Peer reviewed, published & replicated.
            .
            Taking this a step further, an analysis of high resolution spectral data allowed scientists to quantitatively attribute the increase in downward radiation to each of several greenhouse gases.
            .
            Google this SOURCE:———————->(Evans 2006)
            Peer reviewed (red tea/ blue team critiqued) published and replicated.
            .
            The results lead the authors to conclude that
            .
            **** “this experimental data should effectively end the argument by skeptics
            that no experimental evidence exists for the causal connection between
            greenhouse gas increases in the atmosphere & global warming.”
            .
            Spectrum of the greenhouse radiation measured at the surface.
            Greenhouse effect from water vapor is filtered out, showing the contributions of other greenhouse gases.
            .
            Google this SOURCE:———————-> (Evans 2006)
            Peer Reviewed (red team blue team),widely published, & replicated.
            .
            The planet IS accumulating heat !

            NEW RESEARCH REPORT: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40641-016-0039-5

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 1:34 am #

            Look at record highs and lows by State. The 1930s had the most record highs, most record lows are post 1970. You rely on data from people enriching themselves from this hoax. Kinda like the Collusion hoax, that is about to boomerang and send Brobama people to prison for a failed coup attempt. Say bah little sheep.

          • R. Kooi March 28, 2019 at 1:39 am #

            Dear child…the USA is less than 2.5% of the entire globe.
            That is hardly a significant random sampling of the world.
            .
            Record High temperatures by themselves are meaningless.

            Record LOW temps are, by themselves, meaningless.

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 1:47 am #

            Right, temperature is different than climate when facts don’t line up. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a12582da52b619395b301022b98beaaa5d89828acc6d3a8e9824c4661ff1968d.jpg By the way, here’s what I see for Vostok data. CO2 is ALWAYS lagging temp. Perhaps you got one of those faked European datasheets that the Russians proved were lying about the hoax

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 1:55 am #

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7278100836262b45a19860ba1172a044d9c2c7069a271c866d0ecb9c2303a02b.jpg Here’s another chart. Since CO2 drives temperature in your eyes, where is the huge temperature spike over the last 50 years driven by a CO2 spike thru the roof?

          • R. Kooi March 28, 2019 at 3:33 pm #

            Your Graph CLEARLY shows that Temperatures have not been this hot in 130,000 years…at a time WE should be NATURALLY CYCLICALLY descending in temperatures !
            .
            Our sun’s output has declined during the 50 years that temps. on earth have been skyrocketing upward.
            Earth’s Orbit has pulled us away from the Sun.
            Earth’s Axial Tilt is away from the Sun.
            Those
            are Classic
            Causes of Cooling!

            http://www.ib.bioninja.com.au/_Media/vostok-data_med.jpeg

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 4:02 pm #

            We will be cooling at some point in the future, just as we always have. The point is, we haven’t hit previous highs yet, and should expect increase until we descend into the next cycle. You have no clue on sun output over the previous 800,000 years and therefore have no way to draw a direct correlation between it and Earth’s temp. Milankovich cycles deal with relative position to sun and those do show correlation to data.

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 4:10 pm #

            Weren’t we supposed to be underwater by now? Thought the Greenland was gonna be gone long ago. EVERY single prediction made by Climate Alarmists, based on ineffective modeling, has fallen by the wayside.

            Earth’s tilt is away from the Sun???? That depends on the hemisphere you’re in moron. It’s always titled toward the sun, what changes is the inclination angle over time. Our distance to the sun changes between elliptical and almost circular. We’re not moving “out” away from the sun, just only the path of the orbit is changing. Maybe you’re thinking of the moon’s orbit about the Earth.

            Also, there is plenty of evidence of sea level being MUCH higher in the past than it is today. We have some warming to do, and yeah, sea levels will rise. It’s not because of a trace element in the atmosphere.
            So how many trees did you plant to address this last year, and have you gotten rid of all your fossil fuel burning toys and appliances. I hope so, otherwise you’re a typical Marxist hypocrite

          • R. Kooi March 28, 2019 at 4:39 pm #

            Name Calling Ideological RAGS are hardly authoritative references….for someone like you who claims to be soooooooooooo well educated.

            The 2 Skeptical Scientists, who are the most CITED
            sources for CONTRARIAN / DENIALIST

            Paid-For-Opinion-Media.
            Daily Caller, Breitbart, National Review, New American etc.
            .
            YOUR FAVORITE SATELLITE/Climate SCIENTISTS
            Skeptics: Dr.Roy Spencer/ Dr.John Christy.
            .
            WHO popularized Sloganeering Anti-Global-Warming-by-Press-Release.
            AND
            INVENTED
            1st
            ( the “GLOBAL WARMING PAUSE”)
            2nd
            ( the “GLOBAL WARMING HIATUS”)
            3rd
            ( the “GLOBAL Cooling”)

            FROM THOSE LEADING CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTICS
            .
            After ALL of those Press Releases from Oil & Coal P.R. departments in the 1970’s proclaiming a mini ice age was around the corner !
            .

            …and then again in the ’80s, twice in the ’90s
            .
            Then, UAH’s Dr. Roy Spencer & Dr. John Christy
            —-BOTH having predicted that Global Warming would End around 2000,
            and then again…it would end with the solar minimum of 2007-2009
            and then again…it would end around 2015

            HOWEVER
            — THEY reported/admitted just a few months ago, that UAH data NOW confirms
            an
            “ UPWARD Global climate temperature trend every decade SINCE Nov.16, 1978
            ——–>40 years
            [of] +0.14+ C / decade [1/4F]/decade.”——-
            * * *
            1.
            THAT amounts to a rate of 1.4C / 100 years.
            2.

            temps.had risen 0.85 to 1.15C over the last century.
            3.
            THIS NEW CHRISTY RATE 1.4C / 100 years is a 20%+ increase in the rate of warming!
            4.

            Compare that to Geological History of Temperature Changes:
            a life threateningly rapid increase in historic temps averaged 1C in 7500 years which Led to large specie Die-Offs.

            ——–> 1.4 C by humans per 100 yrs
            ——–> 1.0 C historical norm 7500 yrs

            HUMANS are raising temperatures around the world 50-75 times FASTER than Plants & Animals are able to adapt to.
            * * * * * *
            Spencer & Christy
            .
            .ADMITTING for the FIRST TIME:
            1. NO PAUSE in Global Warming ! ….. NONE !
            2. NO HIATUS in Global Warming! …… NONE !
            3. Sure as hell, > NO COOLING ! ……….NONE !
            .
            Dr. SPENCER:
            “my UAH cohort & boss John Christy, who does the detailed matching between satellites,is pretty convinced that the RSS data is undergoing SPURIOUS COOLING because RSS is still using the old NOAA-15 satellite which has a decaying orbit…”
            .
            While every one else correct the errors in sat. data thru mathematics but they had accused others of manipulating data sooo…
            .
            Spencer & Christ found it ideologically convenient to allow the satellite decay inaccuracies

            to support their previous predictions FOR YEARS ! !

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 4:56 pm #

            You use information from people profitting on a hoax to prove the hoax. WHERE ARE THE PICTURES OF THE TREEs YOU PLANTED, YOUR SOLAR PANELS, YOUR WINDMILLS, YOUR CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GREEN ENERGY HOAX???? Instead, Marxists like you think they can use the force of government to make us all fall in line. I have news for you, the people are swallowing this hoax. When are you going to make the ultimate sacrifice, and rid the world of the carbon footprint you produce? It’s a TRACE ELEMENT fool, and has far less effect than water vapor. Do you want to rid the world of water vapor next? Why are you against the PROVEN ability for plants to flourish more, and provide food for the growing population (see link)? I personally CAN’T WAIT until you fools push this too far, it will come to an ugly end.

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 4:33 pm #

            Please pass along some pictures of the Trees you planted, the pretty Windmills located on your property, the Solar Panel bank that sustains your electricity needs, and some proof of all your own money that you’ve donated to support this hoax research. I would also hope you’re voluntarily contributing extra tax dollars to pay for the subsidies handed out to keep the “green energy” industry afloat.

            Personally, since I’m a Capitalist and you’re a Socialist, I’d rather gov’ment stay the hell out of it. No subsidies to buy electric cars, solar panels, further research into this hoax. Those that “believe” in this should “invest” their own money into it, then sell their goods on the open market. The problem is, they can’t sell it without subsidies. And yes I’m consistent, I also would provide no subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.

          • R. Kooi March 28, 2019 at 4:27 pm #

            CO2 is blue on this graph….temperature is red.

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 4:35 pm #

            No dipshit, read the legend on the graph.

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 1:49 am #

            Just the very idea that you think temp drives CO2 at the beginning and end of cycles, but not in between, tells me everything I need to know about you. I wonder what makes that magic driver-response relationship suddenly change? I wonder what color the sky is your world

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 12:40 pm #

            Here’s some more graphs for you to chew on.

            On this one, I put a best fit curve thru the high peaks of the previous 4 warming cycles. We are BELOW those highs, and should EXPECT warming to continue for some time. Eventually, the Ice Age will regrip Wisconsin.
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/594c2b2c7b83abe220b454a12a7bfabc13c57ea9b88b37bd9b16304da5e9ed53.jpg

            The next two graphs are just to show how foolish people can look at data and come up with the inane conclusion you did….about CO2 lagging at the begging and end of cycles, but not between. It’s all in how you scale the graph. You can shift datasets up.down on a graph, fooling those of less intelligence into thinking a driver/response relationship has “flipped” by some weird miracle. Initially, I gave you credit for being 1/2 as smart as you think you are, I’m dropping that down to a 1/4. You like to parrot what others say and source data from people creating this hoax. You have no critical thinking skills of your own.
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7a72bcd8900d390d26cb241dd0f2de935ac1b0df4b8a6ef014bfe8c512de5e82.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/513ffd1f0dcb7247d60a6de96dbcbebdf847eacac73be7a855c68d9d9b39175f.jpg

          • R. Kooi March 28, 2019 at 12:52 pm #

            Once again a little bit of knowledge can be tragically mistaken.

            Understood by all concerned,

            Ice cores are inaccurate for the latest 150 years…

            The Graph we have used here is accurate only thru about 1855 !

            Translation the VAST amount of HUMAN ACTIVITY DRIVEN Rising temperatures is not SHOWN on this graph.

            TACK THIS GRAPH onto the end of the one above:

            CO2 & Temperature Marriage:https://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/zFacts-CO2-Temp.gif

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 12:58 pm #

            Good grief you’re pathetic. I’m glad you’re gay and won’t produce offspring capable of falling so easily for other tinfoil hat wearing hoaxes. Let me guess, Trump colluded with Russia and does Putin’s bidding? Jussie and OJ are innocent and now will find the real killers and racist MAGA hat wearing attackers? Whenever something doesn’t agree with your preconceived notions, you find some BS curve from some BS website. CO2, 0.04% of the atmosphere, is causing global warming, right? Forget that water vapor much more abundant and natural has far greater impact. I hope you ride your bike back and forth to work. Again, I don’t see why people like you aren’t out planting trees somewhere. Instead, you THINK you are going to drive this Socialist agenda down everyone’s throat. I have news for you, you and your little girlie friends aren’t nearly man enough

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 1:09 pm #

            Where is the raw data that produced those curves in the 1880-1980 time frame? It’s not from ice cores, where it from? What we do know is Climate “Scientists” use their Climate Models to “fill in the blanks” for temperatures where they can’t record them. They fill in the blanks with data necessary to make the models work. I’ve dealt with FEA modeling for a long time. Even after 30 years, it still produced relatively useless results, especially in dynamic situations. They constantly use actual test data to “correct” their model, but after 30 years their model results still suck. Climate Models, seriously? People that can’t predict if it will rain or not 1 week from now? You put way to much belief in Climate Scientists, people that only exist if they keep this myth going. They produce NOTHING that can be sold on the open market, and only exist thanks to government grants. The same government types (Socialist/Commies like yourself) that want to control anything and everything that you do. It’s a hoax, just like Trump Russia Collusion (although this is about to turn and expose the Obama administration communist coup attempt)

          • R. Kooi March 28, 2019 at 1:16 pm #

            You clearly don’t have the training to understand the RAW data which is always published in international scientific journals…but here:

            Inquire:

            https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?as_sdt=0,5&hl=en&oq=global+&q=global+warming

            Temperature Adjustments,making a mountain out of a mole hill:
            https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-data-adjustments-affect-global-temperature-records
            ———————————————————————————–
            1965 projections of Warming:
            https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/05/scientists-warned-the-president-about-global-warming-50-years-ago-today#img-2
            —————————.
            Shell took 16 years to warn its shareholders about those risks.
            In 1988, the company’s confidential report “Greenhouse Effect” ESTABLISHED the relationship between its products and global warming and recognized the need for action.
            But it wasn’t until 2004 that Shell told its shareholders that the company’s “operations and earnings are subject to risks related to the impact of climate change.”
            *
            *
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBF6F4Bi6Sg
            *
            *
            “…refuse to call global warming “climate change” because that euphemism was RE-coined by GOP Word-Goblin of ANTI-TRUTH, ANTI-SCIENCE, Frank Luntz, …

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 1:21 pm #

            My training would blow you away pussboy. Right, we have raw data from 1880-1950 of temperatures ALL over the world, at various spots on the worlds oceans, etc. Their so-called “data” is data created via filling in the blanks.

          • R. Kooi March 28, 2019 at 1:22 pm #

            Raw data is always available for scientific critique and replication in scientific journals…….
            The Reason YOU never see it is because it is damn difficult to under stand without a working knowledge of the science involved…lots of big words….you know like with, holy cow, I mean man……3 or 4 syllables and stuff like that man!
            .
            Since YOU have obviously never even seen a scientific journal…why would I bother?

            And Right Wing NATIONALIST Web Sites have an ax to grind…so all of the successes with models, projections, experiments are never reported unless those sites can RIDICULE and PERVERT their results to be described as
            failures or fake.

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 1:50 pm #

            So how many trees have YOU planted so far this month precious? Did YOU ride your bike to work every day this month? Tell me what are YOU doing to reduce CO2, since YOU think it’s problematic? Don’t even try forcing YOUr beliefs down the throats of everyone else. You are a typical Marxist.

          • R. Kooi March 28, 2019 at 2:00 pm #

            DUMB ARS, I live in Wisconsin…the last 4 days are the 1st days of it really feeling like spring.

            Let alone having the frost out of the ground, so you can dig.

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 2:05 pm #

            So once it warms up, you’ll spend time planting trees and riding your bike to work? I bet not. Socialism is for the “people”, not the Socialist.

            How many did you plant last summer? You’re really worried about this based on your precious tirades, so I’m sure you’re actively involved in reducing the CO2 in the atmosphere. We need to reduce it from being a trace element to a lesser trace element.

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 2:24 pm #

            Since CO2 increase is directly related to population increase, it is evident that the graph below is also true. The way I see it, all we have to do is get rid of Liptards and that will save the world. Your ilk loves killing babies (60M in the last 40 years), perhaps you all could make the ultimate sacrifice to save the world. Either that, or try to force your views on the rest of us, and we’ll take care of it.
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/604ccfc927ba0df804cc5aa197575b976d5cb3cb42ccdfb54dbc725e4b34164f.jpg

          • R. Kooi March 28, 2019 at 4:24 pm #

            We are already above those peaks and heading higher.

            You see those graphs are accurate to about 1855.

            Sorry you are not as smart as you seem to think.

            The vast majority of Human stimulated / caused CO2 growth and temperature growth are not reflected in this graph.

          • Iva Bigun March 28, 2019 at 4:38 pm #

            Here you stated we were already above previous peaks, later I showed you we’re not, and you agreed. Why does your story change so much. Cornered and exposed as a prancing marxist?

          • Kenneth Clark March 29, 2019 at 12:11 am #

            Wow… all this warming and melting yet ships get stuck in ice that is not supposed to be there according to all of this “Scientific Data”.
            What happened? An extra NASA party and someone hit the wrong button on the keyboard?

          • R. Kooi March 29, 2019 at 12:23 am #

            Not one Scientific organization EVER said that the ICE in the Arctic would be gone in this short time. Centuries perhaps.

            AS USUAL, YOU LIE !

            Pick Shyte outa your ars and print it here!

            Alaska is baking in an exceptionally toasty March as steep …

            https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/03/28/alaska-is-baking

            Alaska, one of America’s fastest-warming states, … 2019. This warmth is right on the heels of a heat wave that set a number of all-time March warmth records in the region just over a week ago.

            Videos of alaska warming heatwave 2019

          • Kenneth Clark March 29, 2019 at 12:49 am #

            Do the boyscouts even collect the Washington Post for recycling any more??? I believe even the Fish Markets refuse to use it to wrap fish with.

            Let’s look at another region of the world. Why do you think Greenland and Iceland were named as they are by the Vikings? Could possibly be that Greenland was once green and Iceland once completely covered in that cold white stuff??? Was it the activity of these people by rowing their longboats that caused the massive melting of Iceland or were they hauling ice from there and carrying it to Greenland. Based upon the hypotheses you preach and worship human activity is THE cause of the effect.

          • R. Kooi March 29, 2019 at 11:41 am #

            In point of fact….The Vikings found Iceland and the Captain named it ICELAND because there IS and WAS a whole lotta ice

            …and when the Vikings attempted to round up families to Colonize ICELAND….guess what….few volunteered.

            So when Greenland was located…the Captain was not allowed to name it…..There was about as much GREEN on GREENLAND as there is today…..

            Greenland enabled Colonization with less coercion and fewer incentives.

            Human activity IS the Cause of Effect TODAY !

            ——————————————————————

            The 1948 Donora smog was a historic air inversion that resulted in a wall of smog that killed 20 people and caused respiratory problems for 6,000 people of the 14,000 population of Donora, Pennsylvania, a mill town on the Monongahela River

            ————————————————————————

            In 1952 London, 12,000 people died from smog — here’s why …

            https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16778604/london-great-smog

            Dec 16, 2017 · So when an anticyclone caused cold air to stagnate over London, the sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and smoke particles mounted — and ended up choking as many as 12,000 people to death.

        • R. Kooi March 29, 2019 at 12:19 am #

          Funny routine…nice contrast to your stupidity.

        • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 2:52 pm #

          +========================
          The Bipartisan Climate Solution:
          H.R. 763 https://citizensclimatelobb
          A Market-Based Bipartisan Climate Solution : H.R. 763: A POLICY FOR A HEALTHY, STABLE AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA

          =========================
          alternately we have:
          Scott Strough, Researcher in carbon farming as a climate change mitigation strategy
          **
          “There is no need to add additional taxes to combat climate change.
          The best bet is simply quit subsidizing those things causing AGW.

          ((world-wide, Fossil Fuels & industries
          SUCK UP 6.5% of GDP
          ..TRILLIONS in subsidies / supports (non taxable supports & subsidies)))

          In most cases the newer more modern energy and agricultural systems
          are more profitable and less damaging to the environment already.
          So there is no need to tax people to subsidize those things harming the environment,
          then taxing us again to penalize those same ones we just subsidized!
          A house divided against itself cannot stand. -Lincoln (paraphrasing the Bible)
          It is time for a strong political leader to take charge and end this deadlock.

          We could either reduce taxes and let the new technologies out compete the obsolete systems we depend on now, or we could keep taxes the same and simply redirect the subsidies we use for fossil fuels and destructive industrialized agriculture towards modern sustainable systems instead. The one thing that won’t work is keep the tax and spend schemes the Neo-Luddites have made for themselves now, and also add even more tax and spend schemes for their competing new technologies too! Yes that’s right, the top two causes for global warming are heavily subsidized.[1][2][3][4] It is literally insanity.
          in·san·i·ty
          in’san?de/
          noun
          the state of being seriously mentally ill;
          extreme foolishness or irrationality.
          We can reverse AGW though, and save money doing it. Here are three proposals. One made by me and two more similar ones. Here you can see how some might include a carbon market and ways we could do it without a carbon market. They are all workable. The main thing is that they are all stand alone solutions that have beneficial sides effects instead of detrimental side effects to the land and society. We should do them even if AGW wasn’t real. They would still be hugely beneficial all around. There is no negative down side. …
          Win/win for all.

          Credit: Joel Pett | USA Today
          1] Scott Strough’s answer to Can we reverse global warming?
          Executive summary:
          Yes we can reverse Global Warming.
          It does not require huge tax increases or overly expensive untested risky technologies.
          It will require a three pronged approach worldwide.

          1]
          Reduce fossil fuel use by replacing energy needs with as many feasible renewables as current technology allows.
          .
          ((solar & wind Cost less & are quicker to construct + + they produce FAR less expensive electricity than coal))
          .
          Change Agricultural methods to high yielding regenerative models of production made possible by recent biological & agricultural science advancements.
          Large scale ecosystem recovery projects similar to the Loess Plateau project, National Parks like Yellowstone etc. where appropriate and applicable.

          2]
          Project Drawdown
          The list is comprised primarily of “no regrets” solutions—actions that make sense to take regardless of their climate impact since they have intrinsic benefits to communities and economies. These initiatives improve lives, create jobs, restore the environment, enhance security, generate resilience, and advance human health.[5]

          3]
          Farming a climate change solution
          Farmers have a golden solution to global warming largely missed by climate change pundits, right beneath their feet. The innovative Australian Soil Carbon Accreditation Scheme is showing how incentive payments can be received by landholders for measurable increases in soil carbon that soaks up CO2 from the atmosphere. Financial incentives could help fund soil restoration efforts, which in turn bring the bonus of greater productivity, drought resilience and even rain. The action is deep underground.[6]

          Footnotes
          [1] The $200 Billion Fossil Fuel Subsidy You’ve Never Heard Of (USA)
          [2] Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year | John Abraham
          [3] Fossil Fuel Subsidies Top $450 Billion Annually, Study Says (USA w various costs,supports)
          [4] Milking taxpayers
          [5] Solutions | Drawdown
          [6] http://www.amazingcarbon.com/PDF

      • Sterling Mossed December 1, 2018 at 10:34 pm #

        Pre COAL, human life span was about 45 years
        After COAL, human life span is 78 YEARS…..
        OMG, COAL is killing us ALL!!

        • R. Kooi March 3, 2019 at 4:06 pm #

          Like COAL caused all of those scientific discoveries !

          “…The solar and wind industries are each creating permanent WELL PAYING jobs at a rate 12 times faster than that of the rest of the U.S. economy, according to a new report.
          The study, published by the (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that high paying solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20% annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011….”

          The Killer Coal Monopoly Sells you electricity at 5-7-9CENTS per KWH—-> & their price is going up
          .
          Clean & Dependable Solar & Wind sells it at 2-3-4 CENTS per KWH—–> Prices are FALLING !
          .
          Nuclear Electric Generation————–sells for 25 CENTS per KWH———–> Prices are climbing !
          .
          https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/09/uk-electricity-generation-falls-to-1994-levels-as-renewable-generation-soars/

          “It makes business sense !

          —-BIG Business Sense to GO Dependable & CHEAPER RENEWABLE ENERGY—-
          .
          As evidence of how renewables are cheaper, take for example,
          Northern Indiana Public Service Co. Indiana is the nation’s third-largest consumer of coal,
          after Texas and Illinois, and NIPSCO got nearly all of its electricity from coal-fired plants as recently as 2010.
          .
          It’s now planning to shut down two of its three coal plants by 2028 and replace them with renewables.
          .
          “Cost-competitiveness that has been evolving in the market,
          pointing toward the need to accelerate retirement of our coal-fired electric generation and replace it with lower-cost renewable sources,” it said.
          Similarly, American Electric Power Co., one of the nation’s largest consumers of coal, told regulators it wants to build 900 MW of wind and solar generation.
          .
          “These decisions are being driven by economics, where the utility is saying renewable energy is the least-cost and less-risk option to customers,” said Ben Inskeep, an analyst at EQ Research told E&E News.
          .
          And it’s not just utilities that are getting into the game. Corporate purchases of renewable energy have grown around the world, reaching 7.2 gigawatts in 2018 according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

          https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/14/renewables-are-the-cleanest-the-cheapest/

          • Jacob Jones April 1, 2019 at 9:36 am #

            government subsidies and liberal fear mongering wouldn’t be pushing funds in that direction…. artificially inflating those numbers right? Also they get big tax breaks which are winding down. Also tariffs have driven material prices up for manufacturing of these generators. That means prices going to go up. Not only that we cant just jump to these sources immediately without crashing.

            What about the fact that we get a lot of these materials from china? They don’t exactly have strict emission laws. So its a trade off. Less emissions here, for more there.

            Anyway im not saying shit on the environment….but we don’t need liberal communism to save our lives or we die in 12 years. Get real. You think all the advances we have made would be possible in a hardcore socialist state?

          • R. Kooi April 1, 2019 at 3:19 pm #

            ha ha ha
            The Single Most Heavily Subsidized/Supported Industries in the world and In the USA Alone, are the Fossil Fuel Industries…and they have been profitable every year…but on the public dole since 1918.

            Hundreds of Billions of Dollars…excluding the sweet heart Tax Deals they get, they get: free infrastructure construction, free infrastructure maintenance, fire, police, wage supports, even foreign aid bills that specifically mandate aid to nations as REIMBURSEMENT for THEIR Subsidies.

            Renewable Energy pays regular corporate tax rates
            but folks and small businesses that invest gain tax credits.

            All in All, Fossil Fuels are THE most heavily subsidized industries in the world.

            Just 18 years ago, their subsidies TOTALED 1% of the entire world’s GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT….in addition to profits.

            TODAY, 6.5% of the entire world’s GDP is sucked into the hands of a few thousand families ! !

            TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SUBSIDIES.

            All those political donations or bribes pay off !

          • willshell August 19, 2019 at 7:25 pm #

            Hey moron; where are your links and citations? Left wingers sling crap and hope some of it sticks. Blabbermouths like you are a dime a dozen, chicken littles marching to leftist hyperbole and character assassination. You are a troll, a socialist charlatan, a diseased hypocrite. F^ck you and your cult.

          • R. Kooi August 20, 2019 at 2:41 pm #

            Look are the previous comments…there are many links.

            “The United States, with its love of big cars, big houses and blasting air-conditioners, has contributed more than any other country to the atmospheric carbon dioxide that is scorching the planet.

            “In cumulative terms, we certainly own this problem more than anybody else does,” said David G. Victor, a longtime scholar of climate politics at the University of California, San Diego. Many argue that this obligates the United States to take ambitious action to slow global warming.

            But on Thursday, President Trump announced the United States would withdraw from a 195-nation agreement on climate change reached in Paris in 2015….”

          • willshell August 20, 2019 at 5:15 pm #

            I feel sorry for those that have been suckered into believing man made climate change is reality. For those deluded souls I suggest reading “Inconvenient Facts: The science that Al Gore doesn’t want you to know” by Gregory Wrightstone. It not only debunks the hoax and exposes the hoaxers, it gives references, citations and links to it’s material. But I don’t think you’re a deluded soul. You seem to be a left wing zealot, aware of the hoax, but part of the cabal of globalists determined to use a manufactured crisis to destroy the United States, it’s industry, it’s people and it’s wealth. You are transparent and disgusting. And being used.

          • R. Kooi August 20, 2019 at 5:28 pm #

            LOOK: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283975392/figure/fig2/AS:296598870478857@1447726089600/Annual-numbers-of-loss-relevant-natural-events-in-the-time-1980-to-2014-for-the-different.png

            Is it clear to you yet, that something is going on??

            My Grand Father was a farmer and often cited the fact that his growing season had significantly lengthened as has my cousin in central Illinois.

            But with the blessings of a longer growing season…has come a dramatic increase in unpredictable weather.

            https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/image_thumb60.png?w=950&h=619

          • willshell August 20, 2019 at 6:09 pm #

            Read the book. In 900 AD, there was no snow cover on Greenland, and they were growing grapes all over England. 400 years later it got cold, Vikings closed up shop in Greenland and people in Europe, who were used to warm weather for centuries, huddled in their homes to keep warm, along with rats and their fleas, then at least 25% of the population died from the Black Death. Now THAT’S climate change.

          • R. Kooi August 20, 2019 at 9:06 pm #

            I have been studying this subject since the 60s.

            Sadly you have no idea how truly ignorant you sound.

            The last time Greenland was ice free was 280,000 YEARS ago.

            It was a little warmer 985AD when Erik the Red Arrived within a few dozen miles of the ocean coast, and there was more farming then, than now…thanks to a very favorable ocean current…” They built manor houses and hundreds of farms; they imported stained glass; they raised sheep, goats and cattle; they traded furs, walrus-tusk ivory, live polar bears and other exotic arctic goods with Europe. “These guys were really out on the frontier,” ”

            “But eventually, the conventional narrative continues, they had problems. Overgrazing led to soil erosion. A lack of wood—Greenland has very few trees, mostly scrubby birch and willow in the southernmost fjords—prevented them from building new ships or repairing old ones. But the greatest challenge—and the coup de grâce
            —came when the climate began to cool, triggered by an event on the far side of the world.

            “In 1257, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Lombok erupted. Geologists rank it as the most powerful eruption of the last 7,000 years. Climate scientists have found its ashy signature in ice cores drilled in Antarctica and in Greenland’s vast ice sheet, which covers some 80 percent of the country. Sulfur ejected from the volcano into the stratosphere reflected solar energy back into space, cooling Earth’s climate
            ==================

            Grapes are Still Grown All over England and as far north as Scotland. (( one of hundreds of outright lies you read in Daily Caller, Breitbart, New American ))

            This Holocene inter-glacial warm period PEAKED in temperatures 6500 to 8000 years ago. Temps have been falling since then, with brief leveling off periods, followed by more falling temperatures.

            If you would like to know what caused this phenomenon …
            look up the Milankovitch Cycles…EARTHS primary Climate Forces.

          • willshell August 21, 2019 at 4:53 am #

            Maybe you need to study more. And in places other than those that support your leftist theories. Read the book I suggested? Didn’t think you would. I’ll ignore further replies until you do, snowflake.

          • R. Kooi August 26, 2019 at 6:58 pm #

            AuH2O forever.

          • R. Kooi August 27, 2019 at 5:29 pm #

            YOU mean the book your were quoting all those BULL SHHYTEE LIES FROM?????

          • Kenneth Clark August 29, 2019 at 2:12 am #

            Studying the subject since the 60’s???
            Under the influence of acid or some other psychedelic drug???
            Flash backs can kill dude.

          • R. Kooi August 30, 2019 at 1:28 am #

            Ha.

          • R. Kooi August 26, 2019 at 6:58 pm #

            The last time there was no snow/ice on Greenland was 280,000 years ago.

          • R. Kooi August 27, 2019 at 5:28 pm #

            They still grow grapes all over England and Scotland and on Greenland.

            The Vikings Closed up shop because of a Huge Volcanic eruption that dropped the temps and a change in ocean current cut back on fishing catches…which was their primary source of protein.

          • boys3rsk August 26, 2019 at 7:29 pm #

            Yes it is called the SEASONS. Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring. Been happening for MILLIONS of years. Only an IDIOT, communist, demoRAT thinks differently, Just like there are more than two GENDERS. lol

          • R. Kooi August 27, 2019 at 5:25 pm #

            Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring.

            Got it!

            and your tall tale about a hurricane drought which disproved Global Warming Science….https://static.skepticalscience.com/pics/NATS_frequency.gif

          • boys3rsk August 27, 2019 at 6:41 pm #

            That looks like the LIAR Michael Mann’s HOCKEY STICK LIE. lol. Never believe a communist, democrat’s figures. Like Michael Mann he fudges the numbers to get HIS results.

          • R. Kooi August 28, 2019 at 5:55 pm #

            34 separate peer-reviewed studies have verified Mann’s Graph…sorry you missed the headlines …all of them reading Daily Caller, Breitbart, New American, Twitchy etc.

          • boys3rsk August 28, 2019 at 8:42 pm #

            Michael Mann is a global warming CHARLATAN.He got money from Penn State for his so called “research,” WHICH HE lied about in all his findings. He just lost his court case on defamation, and now has to PAY for the other man’s legal fees. LOOK it up if you have the guts. Michael Mann like all global warming alarmists FUDGED his numbers, and got caught doing it, thus the legal battle,, which he LOST. YOU could be Michael Mann’s brother you lie so much. Semper Fi

          • R. Kooi August 29, 2019 at 1:53 am #

            Mann was a respected Prof. at Penn State…of course, he got paid.
            His findings and his data was all published in various scientific journals.
            His defamation CASE against Ball was tossed by the judge who SAID NO ADULT WOULD TAKE BALL’s CLAIMS SERIOUSLY!

          • boys3rsk August 29, 2019 at 12:21 pm #

            Respected? 90% of EAL scientists say there is no such thing a global WARMING. Just the communist ones , who have their hands in the pie. Mann is the typical communist so called “professor”, who LIED in his so called “hockey stick” junk science he presented. He LOST his defamation suit against Ball, and had to PAY Ball’s legal fees. You can spin it anyway you want, but a person, who pays the other person’s legal fees LOST the case. End of story. Mann is a JOKE like all you communist “global warming” idiots. Your dog won’t hunt anymore. Semper Fi

          • R. Kooi August 21, 2019 at 3:48 pm #

            and I feel sorry for you, being unable to understand REAL SCIENTIFIC STUDIES…and the ability to go outside and appreciate what is happening.

          • R. Kooi August 26, 2019 at 6:57 pm #

            AuH2O forever…since I led his local campaign so many years ago.

            You elected a Globalist to the White House…

          • Kenneth Clark August 21, 2019 at 11:44 am #

            Smart move by Mr. Trump. Why should we, the citizens of the US foot the bill any longer for a group of nations that, for the most part, would rather see us dead?

          • R. Kooi August 21, 2019 at 2:55 pm #

            Funny how they didn’t start feeling that way until TRUMP assumed office.
            HENCE,
            Trump was laughed at in the UN.
            Pence was GREETED with DEAD Silence, in POLAND!

          • Kenneth Clark August 24, 2019 at 2:40 pm #

            Do you really want to know why???
            It’s a real simple answer. It has to do with what ALL foreign countries want. They want US Dollars. They are not gonna get US Dollars and they are now pissed and in an “Oh Shit” moment wondering how they are gonna extort the US taxpayers to get what they want.
            You want to support them? Write a personal check and send it in. I promise they will not reject it and you have then put another ounce of fuel in their carbon foot print. Better yet, keep it at home and send it to Al Gore, bet he’ll put it to good use in one of his SUVs.

          • boys3rsk August 26, 2019 at 6:29 pm #

            Trump thinks of the UN like most Americans. It is a JOKE, and we need to get OUT of it.

          • R. Kooi August 24, 2019 at 3:33 pm #

            But Trumps unending support of Putin…that makes sense…the single most territorially aggressive nation on the planet??

            Date and Event —Nov. 9, 1989: Berlin Wall falls.
            —June 1991: Yeltsin wins first ever Russian presidential election.
            —March 1997: Yeltsin appoints Boris Nemtsov first deputy Prime Minister.
            —July 1998: Putin is appointed head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). ((replaces the KGB))
            —Nov. 20, 1998: Galina Starovoitova, a prominent liberal member of Russia’s Parliament, is shot to death in her St. Petersburg apartment.
            —Sept.-Oct. 1999: Putin sends Russian troops back into Chechnya in the wake of a series of bomb explosions in Russia which are blamed on Chechen extremists.
            —Dec. 31, 1999: Yeltsin resigns, Putin becomes acting President.
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            —May 12, 2000: Igor Domnikov, a newspaper special-projects editor who reported on corruption in the Russian oil industry, is hit in the head and left lying unconscious in a pool of blood in his apartment building.
            —July 26, 2000: Sergey Novikov, owner of an independent radio station that often criticized the provincial government, is shot four times in his apartment building in Smolensk
            —Sept. 21, 2000: Iskandar Khatloni, a reporter for the Tajik-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, is attacked in his apartment by an ax-wielding assailant.
            —Oct. 3, 2000: Sergey Ivanov, director of an independent television company, is shot five times in the head and chest in front of his apartment building.
            —Nov. 21, 2000: Adam Tepsurgayev, a cameraman who covered the Chechen war, is shot dead.
            —April 29, 2002: Valery Ivanov, editor-in-chief of a newspaper that exposed government corruption, is shot eight times in the head at point-blank range outside of his home.
            —Aug. 21, 2002: Vladimir Golovlyov, a leader of the Liberal Russia faction in the lower house of Parliament, is shot dead in Moscow.
            —April 17, 2003: Sergei Yushenkov, a member of the lower house of Russia’s Parliament and an outspoken critic of Putin, is shot to death outside of his Moscow apartment.
            —June 2003: Russian Government cites financial reasons for axing last remaining nationwide independent TV channel.
            —July 3, 2003: Yuri Shchekochikhin, a vocal opposition journalist, dies after falling ill with a mysterious disease. —June 19, 2004: Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, is shot dead in his home in St. Petersburg.
            —July 9, 2004: Paul Klebnikov, the first editor of Forbes magazine’s Russian edition, is shot dead as he leaves his Moscow office.
            —Sept. 14, 2006: Andrei Kozlov, the First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank who shut down banks accused of corruption, dies after he was shot outside of a Moscow sports arena.
            —Oct. 7, 2006: Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist and fierce critic of the Kremlin, is shot and killed in her Moscow apartment building.
            —Nov. 23, 2006: Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer who was critical of Putin, died after being poisoned with radioactive polonium-210.
            —March 2, 2007: Ivan Safronov, a journalist who embarrassed the country’s military establishment with a series of exclusive stories, is found dead outside of his home.
            —July 15, 2007: Marina Pisareva, deputy head of Bertelsmann AG’s Russian publishinghouse, is found stabbed to death in her home west of Moscow.
            —Aug. 2008: Russia invades Georgia; Medvedev signs an order recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the two breakaway regions in Georgia.
            —Aug. 31, 2008: Magomed Yevloyev, owner of a popular news site that reported on human rights, dies from a gunshot wound to the head sustained while in police custody.
            —Nov. 2008: Russian Parliament votes overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would extend the next President’s term of office from 4 to 6 years.
            —Jan. 19, 2009: Stanslav Markelov, a human rights lawyer, and Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student, are shot dead midday on a busy Moscow street.
            —April 2009: Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, an editor at the newspaper Corruption and Crime, is beaten outside of his home; he passed away from his injuries weeks later.
            —July 15, 2009: Natalia Estemirova, a prominent human rights journalist, is abducted from her home in Chechnya and shot dead.
            —Nov. 16, 2009: Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who was jailed in revenge for his uncovering of massive tax fraud, dies in prison; Olga Kotovskaya, a TV journalist who critically reported on government leaders, dies after falling from a window.
            —Dec. 15, 2011: Gadzhimurad Kamalov, founder and publisher of a Dagestani newspaper known for its editorial independence, is gunned down outside of his office.
            And YOU question whether TRUMP is compromised by his stunts in a 5 STAR Russian Hotel in 2013 ?

            2013 several Russian Agents are observed trying to TURN Carter Page into a Russian Asset!
            Think HD VIDEO OF A GOLDEN Pee SHOWER !

          • Kenneth Clark August 24, 2019 at 6:52 pm #

            Short answer…
            This has NOTHING to do with Putin or any other country on this planet other than monetary support from US Taxpayers in order to fund other country’s politicians. It was a smart move on Trump’s part. We should not be funding the UN either.

            …did I just see your head explode😐

          • R. Kooi August 26, 2019 at 6:50 pm #

            Did you miss the headlines?
            .
            The Fossil Fuel Industry has been on the government dole, corporate welfare, since 1918!
            …and their political donations have increased more rapidly than the size of their Supports/Subsidies/Wage Supports/Sweetheart tax deals/tax deferrals/even foreign aid as a reimbursement for the subsidies other nations are required to pay out industries…
            —–
            Paul Ryan, August 2016, gave a lengthy Lamentation over the FACT that those US Supports/Subsidies would surpass

            $1 Trillion by the end of 2016.
            —–
            19 years ago, world subsidies/supports totaled 1% of world GDP. TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS into the hands of the world’s DEEP STATE Fossil Fuel Billionaires and their bankers.

            Last year, world subsidies/supports skyrocketed to 6.5% of world GDP! Many Trillions of dollars.
            .
            “we should not be funding the UN” ? ? ?

            What the hell are you talking about. THEIR TALKING POINTS

          • Kenneth Clark September 3, 2019 at 10:52 pm #

            …and wind and solar have been on the government dole since their inception and are still far more expensive than natural gas produced electricity. But, you have your head crammed so far up Al Gore, Bernie and the rest of the socialist fools rears that you are now forced to follow along.

          • R. Kooi September 4, 2019 at 12:19 am #

            The Fossil Fuel Deep State Industries are by far the most heavily Supported/Subsidized industries on the planet…bar none. Not only profitable but, by hook or by crook, The SUCKED UP, thru generous political donations/bribes…over 1% of world GDP in SUBSIDIES/SUPPORTS….TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

            LAST YEAR that Percentage has skyrocketed to 6.5% of world GDP…many trillions of dollars.

            Green Subsidies/supports/ freebies in the US is measured in a few billion dollars.

            And in spite of The Fossils Dogged Determination…Solar and Wind have helped control and reduce Electric rates in all competitive markets…
            .
            Over just the past six years, the cost of solar energy has dropped dramatically, to the point where it is now even cheaper than wind power in emerging markets.
            This may be largely due to rising investments in solar over the last few years.

            Now, there is electricity being produced in Chile for $29.10 per megawatt-hour–under half the price of power produced by coal.

            “Renewables are robustly entering the era of undercutting” energy made by fossil fuels, Bloomberg New Energy Finance chairman Michael Liebreich wrote this week.

            This is great news for developing nations, which do not generally have the kind of infrastructure that developed countries have dedicated to fossil fuels already in place. As they build their energy infrastructure, it will make sense to go with cheaper, renewable options, more so than it does for a country like the United States to abandon our formidable fossil-fuel based infrastructure.

            Source: Bloomberg / 2016
            .
            H.R. 763: A POLICY FOR A HEALTHY, STABLE AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA

          • boys3rsk August 26, 2019 at 6:28 pm #

            Hey buddy President Trump like MOST Americans doesn’t believe in your MAN made global warming. It is a SCAM.

          • R. Kooi August 26, 2019 at 6:55 pm #

            Nearly 80% of Republicans understand the threat of Global Warming and SUPPORT increased spending on renewable energy.

          • boys3rsk August 26, 2019 at 7:04 pm #

            Another LIE by a communist, democrat. Most Americans don’t believe in the SCAM of “global warming.” Before this we had global COOLING, then CLIMATE CHANGE. Every few years you communists just change the name. It doesn’t matter, because for MILLIONS of years the climate has changed. It is called summer, fall, winter, and spring. Just like the communist demoRATS say there are more than one gender, when we have had two genders since Adam, and Eve. Liberalism has always been a MENTAL disorder, and YOU have a bad case. Semper Fi

          • R. Kooi August 27, 2019 at 5:31 pm #

            See how far from reality you have slipped!

            CLIMATE CHANGE OPINIONS REBOUND AMONG REPUBLICAN …

            https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/news-events/climate-change-opinions-rebound

            May 08, 2018 · Generating renewable energy on public land (86% support), including 91% of Democrats, 82% of Independents, and

            81% of Republicans. Providing tax rebates to people who purchase energy-efficient vehicles or solar panels (85% support), including 91% of Democrats, 82% of Independents, and

            77% of Republicans (+6 points since Fall 2017).

          • Kenneth Clark August 29, 2019 at 2:24 am #

            80% of Republicans and 100% of liberal democrats support increased spending in any situation where they stand to gain from their personal investments in any politically motivated and created crisis. Why do you think any politician would stay 40 years where they will not personally benefit and refuse to impose term limits to quell their crooked deals that place them among the 1%.
            SIC already crying for a raise, Bernie Sanders never held a job before politics… he’s a multi millionaire now.
            Obama came into the presidency worth under 500 grand (due largely to his time in Congress) and right NOW he’s purchasing a 15 million dollar home in Martha’s Vineyard. The Clintons have amassed 100s of millions on the backs of the taxpayers. Pelosi was caught so many time with her honey hands in the treasury that a “Pelosi Clause” was passed to stop her. 95+% of the politicians from local to Federal have, including your pal Al Gore, have and still use their positions for personal enrichment. That is what they are about. Nothing more and nothing less.

          • Kenneth Clark August 19, 2019 at 9:24 pm #

            Actually, the single most subsidized industry in the Nation is…. wait for it… could you guess….
            It’s Liberal DEMOCRAT Politicians. They will cry and cry theres just nit enough money, raise taxes, blow it and cry to raise them more with absolutely nothing actually being done to benefit the people. If they spent half the time working that they do investigating manufactured “problems”, they might just realize how full of crap they are.

          • R. Kooi August 19, 2019 at 10:40 pm #

            AuH2O forever!!

          • Kenneth Clark August 19, 2019 at 10:58 pm #

            Just remember… any thing you think the government “gives”, it WILL take away. Liberals have proven this over and over again.

          • R. Kooi August 19, 2019 at 11:35 pm #

            We are talking about climate change caused by Global Warming…which has been researched for over 220 years.

            Alexander von Humboldt DEFINED “Climate Change” in 1799, precisely as it is used TODAY.
            Thomas Jefferson and John Adams discussed climate change from 1799 to 1804.

          • boys3rsk August 26, 2019 at 6:26 pm #

            Biggest SCAM since “o’bamacare. Let me guess YOU are a communist, liberal. democrat? Go push the “global warming” SCAM somewhere else. No one on here believes you. You must be related to the SCAM ARTIST Michael Mann, who just lost his lawsuit in the defamation suit, and has to pay for the other person’r lawyers. Al Gore must be your hero.

          • Kenneth Clark June 25, 2019 at 1:46 am #

            Here in this part of the US, your “Clean, dependable” wind generated power sells at wholesale for 10 or more cents per Kwh. Traditional power generation sells for 3 to 4 cents per Kwh wholesale. Reality is far different from your pipe dream.

            Government controlled power generation, such as TVA, does however sell for 25+ cents per Kwh with no other source allowed to compete… a little socialism for ya there. You seem to dream about getting told how many sheets of TP you are allowed to use when wiping your posterior.

            I know, I know… I didn’t cite any Mother Earth or progressive articles for your pleasure… I only cited real world facts therefore you will readily reject the truth.

          • R. Kooi June 25, 2019 at 4:51 pm #

            Considering killer coal has spent hundreds of millions on donations to political campaigns….rest assured that is the case in more locales than just yours…HUGE OBSTACLES have been raised to prevent Solar & Wind from completely eliminating COAL ELECTRIC and the thousands of TOXIC WASTE DUMPS.
            .
            Despite the FACT that Coal Subsidies have been increased.
            .
            If you knew something about the TVA, you would make a statement quite soooo foolish.
            .

            Tennessee Valley Authority – Wikipedia

            en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority

            “The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation &flood control on the Tennessee river, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly desastated by the Great Depression.”

            ((( YOU haven’t cited any authority or source…you have just been ventilating your ideological religious zeal )))

            .

          • Kenneth Clark July 13, 2019 at 2:29 pm #

            Grew up there, Lived there… done that. I know TVA. I know about TVA and I know that the Federal Government will never deregulate such a money generator fir them. They can, and do manipulate delivery to “justify” rate increases by stating there is not enough to go around. The old and worn “Supply and Demand” argument. Hiw do I know this??? I have many friends who are engineers and technicians at TVA and they are restricted from increasing generation to more than 45% of capacity at any hydro generation plant.
            Power from TVA was, 10 years ago, at .25+ per kWh. What more do you need than reality. My family lives there. They are charged much more now. The power in the area my family lives is hydro. No coal, some nuclear.
            My home in Texas, I pay 8.4 cents per Kwh. My manufacturing business, I pay 3.7 cents per Kwh with my current contracts. Natural gas generated power and deregulated. Now that “renewable” wind turbine is beginning to come on line, new rates are skyrocketing. Just spoke to my broker this week. Due directly to the “Renewable Wind Turbine Power” coming on line, rates will double at minimum.
            You can read all of the “Stats” and research papers you want. You can site all of the pie in the sky claims you want. It is not real.
            I have stated reality. There are no better citations than reality.

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 2:50 pm #

            Again, no links, no sources, just YOUR BILE and OPINIONS.

            “I have stated reality” and we being morons on a scale unknown, should believe YOU ? ? ? ? ?

          • R. Kooi August 19, 2019 at 10:46 pm #

            LINKS PLEASE!

            The likelihood is that before TVA they didn’t get electricity.

          • Kenneth Clark August 19, 2019 at 10:56 pm #

            You don’t get links to mine or my family’s power bills.

            No one in that area had power before TVA.

          • R. Kooi August 19, 2019 at 11:36 pm #

            And you cannot find ANY reports to verify your particularly ODD fantasy?????

          • R. Kooi August 19, 2019 at 10:51 pm #

            H.R. 763: A POLICY FOR A HEALTHY, STABLE AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA
            =====================

            “…The solar and wind industries are each creating permanent WELL PAYING jobs at a rate 12 times faster than that of the rest of the U.S. economy, according to a new report.
            The study, published by the (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that high paying solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20% annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011….”

            7 Republican Led States have 30% to 50% of the energy from RENEWABLE & DEPENDABLE SOLAR AND WIND…rave about well paying jobs & increased tax base.
            .
            “In April, green energy provided more electricity than coal-fired power plants in the United States. Although coal will likely still dominate over renewable energy throughout the rest of this year, this situation was unthinkable only five years ago. The trend seems clear: renewable energy is growing faster than forecasted and is bound to overtake coal for good…” May 3, 2019

            The Killer Coal Monoply Sells you electrcity at 5-7-9CENTS per KWH
            —-> & their price is going up, Subsidies are rising as well.
            Clean & Dependable Solar & Wind sells it at 2-3-4 CENTS per KWH
            ——> Prices are FALLING ! Subsidies are FALLING

            Natural Gas, which still produces CO2 —-2-4-5 CENTS per kwh
            —> Static prices but subsidies are rising.
            .
            Nuclear Electric Generation————–sells for 25 CENTS per KWH——> Prices are climbing !
            https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/09/uk-electricity-generation-falls-to-1994-levels-as-renewable-generation-soars/

          • Kenneth Clark August 21, 2019 at 11:39 am #

            H.R. 763: A Policy for Healthy, Stable and Prosperous POLITICIANS in America.

            …that is what the real title of this Bill is.

          • R. Kooi August 21, 2019 at 2:56 pm #

            If they are not supportive of the Deep State Fossil Fuel Industrialists and their bankers…those politicians are not prosperous!

          • Kenneth Clark August 24, 2019 at 2:29 pm #

            Really!!!! So which politician in Washington DC is not prosperous???
            Which state politician is not properous???

          • alice September 19, 2019 at 1:16 pm #

            this back and forth is hopeless….I have the final answer that global warming is a hoax….comrade Obama just paid $14 million dollars for beachfront property and is laughing at all the gullible clamate change freaks as he sits looking at his ocean view….

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 12:13 am #

            Many Many of the TVA activities are NOT ABLE TO PRODUCE A PROFIT.

            TVA DOES NOT SELL ELECTRICITY AT 25 CENTS / KWH.

            TVA production of electricity is hated by Privately owned electric manufacturers because it does not produce a profit and there for undercuts private industry.

            “The most controversial activity of the TVA is the production and sale of electric power, which has been resisted by privately owned power companies. The TVA contracts with municipalities and cooperatives to supply wholesale power for distribution and has joined with them in purchasing the facilities of privately owned electric-utility companies in the region. These purchases have established an integrated power service area in which the TVA is the sole supplier of power. The TVA power system, which includes more than 50 dams, as well as coal-fired thermal plants and operable nuclear plants, possesses a huge generating capacity. Power is sold in bulk, about half to federal agencies and half to large industries and locally owned municipal and cooperative distribution systems; and electric rates in the Tennessee River valley are among the lowest in the nation. Because of critics’ claims that the low rates are made possible by the TVA’s tax exemption and lack of obligation to show a profit on its operations

          • Kenneth Clark July 15, 2019 at 12:31 am #

            TVA is a government monopoly in a region of many poor. You claim the progressives are for the poor and yet Obama refused to sell TVA and deregulate so the poor could have a choice.
            If this isn’t a mark of what will happen with healthcare and transportation under the rule of your communistic gods, you will never see the light.
            My grandfather owned land in Southeast Tennessee when TVA came through wanting to erect power poles across his land. He asked what they had paid his neighbors to do the same and he was told 0, nada, nothing. But, he being a good neighbor was told by others they had received $1.00 per pole from TVA.
            I don’t care what your article states that you pulled from the TVA site. It is a blatant lie. You forget, or as your Democrat brothers and sisters, just don’t give a crap. I know people who work for TVA. They work in various capacities and not one has ever said anything outside of how much money TVA profits from their monopoly.
            Read all you want, believe what your told to believe. I don’t care. I know the truth. You try to cover the truth because you refuse to open your eyes and like a good comrade, try to debunk truth as ignorance and stupidity of those presenting the truth to you.
            One day you will awaken, but it then will be far too late. They will have already turned the gas on.

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 12:45 am #

            The ” LEAST EXPENSIVE ”

            source of energy to BUILD is SOLAR & WIND/ KWH
            .

            The ” LEAST EXPENSIVE ”

            source of energy to PRODUCE is SOLAR & WIND / KWH
            .
            The QUICKEST source of energy to construct

            is SOLAR AND WIND.
            .
            Guess What Solar & Wind generated electricity is nearly limitless,
            &
            they do not require dangerous mining, Toxic Waste Dumps (coal has 1000’s in 47 states) leaching those toxins into drinking water aquifers or nearby creeks !
            .
            1.
            Solar & Wind do not produce “HUGELY” NEGATIVE Health Effects (like Black Lung) ( AMA: US alone, coal electric generates 1 (ONE) million new cases of asthma per year, with tens of billions spent to treat asthma treatment & 23 deaths per 100,000 each year.
            .
            & https://asthma.net/basics/statistics/
            .
            “Asthma Statistics.
            COAL ELECTRIC Power CREATES 1 MILLION NEW CASES of ASTHMA PER YEAR .
            Asthma is a common lung disease. United States: about 25.7 million people have asthma, including seven million children.
            439,000 people are hospitalized…about 3,400 people die from asthma each year in the United States.”
            .
            2.
            Solar & Wind do not require trucking millions of tons of COAL to electric generation sites
            (with all the TOXIC pollution blown off transport & spills that occur during transport.
            .
            3.
            Solar & Wind do not require trucking millions of tons of TOXIC WASTE to thousands of open air holding ponds and pits.
            There are an estimated 2000 open air, largely unsupervised open air toxic coal ash waste sites in 47 states
            ….and everyone that has been researched, so far, is
            1. LEACHING toxic waste into ground water aquifers
            2. LEAKING toxic waste into creeks and rivers
            3. Occasionally massively spill into farmland, rivers and school yards
            NUCLEAR ELECTRIC RUNS—25 CENTS PER KWH
            Killer Coal Electric runs————5-7-9 CENTS PER KWH
            And as their electric rates have steadily risen over the last decade, SO HAVE THEIR DEMANDS for INCREASED SUBSIDIES/SUPPORTS.
            Solar/ Wind Electric runs———–2-3-4 CENTS PER KWH
            And as their Electric rates have steadily fallen, So has their needs for any subsidies.

          • Kenneth Clark July 15, 2019 at 1:10 am #

            2, 3, 4 cent per Kwh…. What alternative universe do you reside in. They may eventually want it to sell for these amount but as I told you in an earlier post on this subject, wind generated power is just coming on line here. They are everywhere and I do mean everywhere.
            In speaking with my electric broker for my business, power rates will at least double due directly to “renewable” (wind generated) power. This was a conversation just last week. Not 3 months ago or a year ago.
            I currently (that means today) pay 3.7 cents per Kwh. That is what I pay. This power is natural gas generated power. Now due to federal mandates, rules and regulations requiring “Renewable” power utilization, my power rate that I will pay will be will be 7.4 cents per Kwh and quite possibly more.
            So, get your calculator out, or take your shoes off so you can count your toes and tell me which is more economical. The numbers do not lie. Articles and marketers do.
            What about “real” is it that you do not get? Geesh!!!

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 1:39 am #

            Once again…no references and no links JUST YOUR STATEMENTS and all nonsense.

            There are 7 Republican Governors that are praising Solar and Wind Energy for holding down the RISE of Electric Rates in Coal Electric Monopoly locales.

            Praising the Investments in the State.

            Praising the numerous well paying jobs Solar and Wind have brought to their states.

            Praising the additional investments they have brought with them.

            ——————————————————————————-

            “…The solar and wind industries are each creating permanent WELL PAYING jobs at a rate 12 times faster than that of the rest of the U.S. economy, according to a new report.

            The study, published by the (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that high paying solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20% annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011….”

            7 Republican Led States have 30% to 50% of the energy from RENEWABLE & DEPENDABLE SOLAR AND WIND…rave about well paying jobs & increased tax base.

            .

            “In April, green energy provided more electricity than coal-fired power plants in the United States. Although coal will likely still dominate over renewable energy throughout the rest of this year, this situation was unthinkable only five years ago. The trend seems clear: renewable energy is growing faster than fore casted and is bound to overtake coal for good…” May 3, 2019

            The Killer Coal Monopoly Sells you electricity at

            —> 5-7-9CENTS per KWH

            —> & their price is going up, Subsidies are rising as well.

            .

            Clean & Dependable Solar & Wind sells it at

            —-> 2-3-4 CENTS per KWH

            —-> Prices are FALLING !

            —-> Subsidies are FALLING as well.

            .

            Natural Gas, which still produces CO2 (but less)—2-4-5 CENTS per KWH—> Static prices but subsidies are rising.

            .

            Nuclear Electric Generation————–sells for 25 CENTS per KWH——> Prices are climbing !

            https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/09/uk-electricity-generation-falls-to-1994-levels-as-renewable-generation-soars/

            ——————————————————————————–

            BIG Business has the Sense to GO Dependable & CHEAPER RENEWABLE ENERGY—-
            .
            As evidence of how renewables are cheaper, take for example, Northern Indiana Public Service Co. Indiana is the nation’s third-largest consumer of coal,
            after Texas and Illinois, and NIPSCO got nearly all of its electricity from coal-fired plants as recently as 2010.
            .
            It’s now planning to shut down two of its three coal plants by 2028 and replace them with renewables.
            .
            “Cost-competitiveness that has been evolving in the market,
            pointing toward the need to accelerate retirement of our coal-fired electric generation and replace it with lower-cost renewable sources,” it said.
            Similarly, American Electric Power Co., one of the nation’s largest consumers of coal, told regulators it wants to build 900 MW of wind and solar generation.
            .
            These decisions are being driven by economics, where the utility is saying renewable energy is the least-cost and less-risk option to customers,” said Ben Inskeep, an analyst at EQ Research told E&E News.
            .
            And it’s not just utilities that are getting into the game. Corporate purchases of renewable energy have grown around the world, reaching 7.2 gigawatts in 2018 according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

            https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/14/renewables-are-the-cleanest-the-cheapest/
            **
            over view: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/24/yay-coal-in-my-stocking-critiques-of-climate-action-amidst-moves-to-renewable-energy/

          • MAD DOG August 17, 2019 at 12:27 am #

            you need to look up the “actual” cost of building wind and solar generators. Also, the rare earth ingredient that is necessary to build these comes mostly from china, and is very expensive. Also on going cost of maint. for these systems precludes any amortization of cost.

          • R. Kooi August 17, 2019 at 1:50 pm #

            Wind and Solar have greater maintenance freedom than Killer COAL Electric Generation.

            And by the Way, WIND and SOLAR do not create hundreds of open pool toxic Coal Ash Waste Dumps across the country….
            ——-
            Every year in EACH of the nation’s CLEANEST Killer Coal ELECTRIC GENERATION plants produce 140 million tons of HIGHLY TOXIC COAL ASH WASTE / Year
            ——> the toxic by-product that is left over after the coal is burned and Smoke is Scrubbed.
            .
            THE CLEANEST COAL Electric PLANT still produces MILLIONS of Tons of TOXIC Coal Ash / year.

            Rare Earth minerals are expensive…but are in far greater use in Computers, Cell Phones etc…Wind/Solar are the tiniest of percentages of Rare Earth Used.

            And when you get done with your Ideological blather
            ….remember that Congressman Paul Ryan delivered a lengthy Lamentation in August, 2016 about the FACT that by that years end, the Fossil Fuel Industries will have passed a dubious threshold.
            ((( and every year since, even during the Trump admin.)))

            …they will have sucked up over $1 TRILLION in Supports, Subsidies, Sweet-heart Tax Breaks, Tax Deferrals, Wage Supports, free infra structure construction and free maintenance, foreign aid designed to Re-Imburse nations that subsidize our Fossil Fuel Industries, etc.

          • R. Kooi August 19, 2019 at 11:03 pm #

            Your Computer has more RARE EARTH Minerals than a wind turbine!
            ======
            The ” LEAST EXPENSIVE ” source of energy to BUILD is SOLAR & WIND/ KWH
            .

            The ” LEAST EXPENSIVE ” source of energy to PRODUCE is SOLAR & WIND / KWH
            .
            The QUICKEST source of energy to construct is SOLAR AND WIND.
            .
            Guess What Solar & Wind generated electricity is nearly limitless,
            &
            they do not require dangerous mining,
            Toxic Waste Dumps (coal has 1000’s in 47 states)
            leaching those toxins into drinking water aquaifers or nearby creeks !
            .
            1.
            Solar & Wind do NOT produce “HUGELY” NEGATIVE Health Effects
            (like Black Lung) ( AMA: US alone, coal electric generates 1 (ONE) million new cases of asthma per year, with tens of billions spent to treat asthma treatment & 23 deaths per 100,000 each year.
            .
            & https://asthma.net/basics/statistics/
            .
            “Asthma Statistics.
            COAL ELECTRIC Power CREATES 1 MILLION NEW CASES of ASTHMA PER YEAR .
            Asthma is a common lung disease. United States: about 25.7 million people have asthma, including seven million children. 439,000 people are hospitalized…about 3,400 people die from asthma each year in the United States.”
            .
            2.
            Solar & Wind do not require trucking millions of tons of COAL to electric generation sites
            (with all the TOXIC pollution blown off transport & spills that occurr during transport.
            .
            3.
            Solar & Wind do not require trucking millions of tons of TOXIC WASTE to thousands of open air holding ponds and pits.

            There are (600 confirmed) an estimated 2000 open air, largely unsupervised toxic coal ash waste sites in 47 states
            ….and everyone that has been researched, so far, is
            1. LEACHING toxic waste into ground water aquifers
            2. LEAKING toxic waste into creeks and rivers
            3. Occasionally massively spill into farmland, rivers and school yards
            NUCLEAR ELECTRIC RUNS 25 CENTS PER KWH
            Killer Coal Electric runs——— 5-7-9 CENTS PER KWH
            And as their electric rates have steadily risen over the last decade, SO HAVE THEIR DEMANDS for INCREASED SUBSIDIES/SUPPORTS.
            =====================================================

            Solar/ Wind Electric runs———2-3-4 CENTS PER KWH
            And as their Electric rates have steadily fallen, So has their needs for any subsidies.

          • boys3rsk August 26, 2019 at 6:21 pm #

            You like all environmental NUTS are out in left field. Wind energy is more expensive than fossil fuel energy. You need to look it up, instead of all your long winded answers that are a bunch of LIES

          • R. Kooi August 28, 2019 at 6:03 pm #

            You mean my”long-winded answers” which are direct quotes from experts…which just happen to disagree with all of your absurd opinions.

          • Six Zero September 6, 2019 at 6:21 pm #

            Anyone who responds in such broken sentences and random caps should immediately be ignored.

            Typical leftist nut, acting out on a keyboard the way the rest of them do out in the street screaming about being offended and how Trump is mean and other such nonsense…

            Well, here are some irrefutable facts for you:

            1. Trump is your president.

            2. There are two genders.

            3. Global warming is bullshit.

            4. You are an imbecile.

            5. It makes me happy to watch libtards cry.

          • R. Kooi August 20, 2019 at 2:39 pm #

            I have sourced my information…you are the source of YOUR OPINIONS / WET-DREAMS!

          • R. Kooi August 27, 2019 at 12:03 am #

            1.
            The ” LEAST EXPENSIVE ” source of energy to BUILD is SOLAR & WIND/ KWH
            2.
            The ” LEAST EXPENSIVE ” source of energy to PRODUCE is SOLAR & WIND / KWH
            3.
            The QUICKEST source of energy to construct is SOLAR AND WIND.
            4.
            Guess What Solar & Wind generated electricity is nearly limitless,
            5.
            they do not require dangerous mining,

            Toxic Waste Dumps (coal has 1000’s in 47 states)

            leaching those toxins into drinking water aquifers &/or nearby creeks !
            =====================================================
            1.
            Solar & Wind do not produce “HUGELY” NEGATIVE Health Effects
            (like Black Lung) ( AMA: US alone, coal electric generates 1 (ONE) million new cases of asthma per year,
            with tens of billions spent to treat asthma treatment & 23 deaths per 100,000 each year.
            .
            & https://asthma.net/basics/statistics/
            .
            “Asthma Statistics.
            COAL ELECTRIC Power CREATES 1 MILLION NEW CASES of ASTHMA PER YEAR .
            Asthma is a common lung disease. United States: about 25.7 million people have asthma, including seven million children.
            439,000 people are hospitalized…about 3,400 people die from asthma each year in the United States.”
            .
            2.
            Solar & Wind do not require trucking millions of tons of COAL to electric generation sites
            (with all the TOXIC pollution blown off transport & spills that occur during transport.
            .
            3.
            Solar & Wind do not require trucking millions of tons of TOXIC WASTE to thousands of open air holding ponds and pits.
            There are an estimated 2000 open air, largely unsupervised open air toxic coal ash waste sites in 47 states
            ….and everyone that has been researched, so far, is
            1. LEACHING toxic waste into ground water aquifers
            2. LEAKING toxic waste into creeks and rivers
            3. Occasionally massively spill into farmland, rivers and school yards
            NUCLEAR ELECTRIC RUNS 25 CENTS PER KWH
            Killer Coal Electric runs—– 5-7-9 CENTS PER KWH
            And as their electric rates have steadily risen over the last decade, SO HAVE THEIR DEMANDS for INCREASED SUBSIDIES/SUPPORTS.
            Solar/ Wind Electric runs——2-3-4 CENTS PER KWH
            And as their Electric rates have steadily fallen, So has their needs for any subsidies.S

          • Kenneth Clark August 19, 2019 at 11:34 pm #

            So what happens to all of the Toxic Cobalt used in the Lithium storage Batteries? How many toxic dumps of cobalt will there be?

          • R. Kooi August 20, 2019 at 2:49 pm #

            The Power Grid in the USA, according to grid engineers, as plenty of storage (non battery) for the foreseeable future…and has been increasing private investment by 174% per year.
            !

            The USE of Cobalt in renewable energy fields is less than the TOXIC WASTE OF JUST 1 killer COAL ELECTRIC PLANT

            Lithium Batteries are not in widespread use in the Renewable Energy Industrial Plants.

            “Cobalt Statistics and Information

            Cobalt (Co) is a metal used in numerous diverse commercial, industrial, and military applications, many of which are strategic and critical. On a global basis, the leading use of cobalt is in rechargeable battery electrodes, Superalloys, which are used to make parts for gas turbine engines, are another major use for cobalt. Cobalt is also used to make airbags in automobiles; catalysts for the petroleum and chemical industries; cemented carbides (also called hardmetals) and diamond tools; corrosion- and wear-resistant alloys; drying agents for paints, varnishes, and inks; dyes and pigments; ground coats for porcelain enamels; high-speed steels; magnetic recording media; magnets; and steel-belted radial tire

          • Kenneth Clark August 21, 2019 at 11:35 am #

            I am well aware of the uses for cobalt. But that does not lessen it’s toxicity in the batteries used for storage. Yes, the system may now have some storage capacity. However, it will run out and that is why storage battery manufacturers are warring over cobalt and lithium to build the storage capacity.

            I suppose its cool to endanger children who are forced to mine these minerals. The respiratory and other disease caused by cobalt. Risking the spontaneous combustion and toxic gasses. But hey… Big Al says it’s the future so all this and more is pushed by the wayside for profits over human lives and safety. Sounds like the Progressive Democrats have taken slavery to a new level that their ancestors of the South had never imagined.
            …hypocrite much???
            Why don’t you try removing your lips from the exhaust pipe of Big Al’s mighty gas guzzling SUV and convince him first. You know example goes a lot farther than rhetoric and BS.

          • R. Kooi August 21, 2019 at 4:12 pm #

            YOU are using a Computer, dumb ars! and I’ll bet that is a cell phone in YOUR pocket.

          • R. Kooi August 21, 2019 at 3:37 pm #

            Kindly talk to the cell phone Mfgs. and computer Mfgs. etc.
            .
            Electrical Energy Storage (EES) refers to the process of converting electrical energy into a stored form that can later be converted back into electrical energy when needed.1 Batteries are the principal devices used for EES. The first battery—called Volta’s cell—was developed in 1800 and the first U.S. large-scale energy storage facility was the Rocky River Pumped Storage plant in 1929, on the Housatonic River in Connecticut.2,3 Research in energy storage has increased dramatically, especially after the first U.S. oil crisis in the 1970s, and with advancements in the cost and performance of rechargeable batteries.2,4 The impact energy storage can have on the current and future energy grid are substantial.5 • EES systems are often expressed by rated power in megawatts (MW) and energy storage capacity in megawatt-hours (MWh): the maximum charge/discharge power and the amount of energy capable of being stored, respectively.6 • As of June 2018, the U.S. had over 25.2 GW of rated power in energy storage compared to 1,082 GW of total in service installed generation capacity.7,8 Globally, installed energy storage totaled 175.8 GW.7 • 2.5% of delivered electric power in the U.S. is cycled through a storage facility. For comparison, 10% of delivered power in Europe and 15% of delivered power in Japan are cycled through energy storage facilities.9 • Globally, 1,361 energy storage projects were operational in 2018, with 18 projects under construction. 41% of operational projects and 33% of projects under construction are located in the U.S.7 • California leads the U.S. in energy storage with 220 operational projects (4.2 GW), followed by Virginia and South Carolina.7 • U.S. energy storage projects increased by 174% from 2013 to 2018.7,10 Deployed Technologies Several EES technologies are in research phases, but four storage technology types are considered deployed: Pumped Hydroelectric Storage (PHS), Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES), Advanced Battery Energy Storage (ABES), and Flywheel Energy Storage (FES). Thermal Energy Storage (TES) is also considered deployed.10 PHS and CAES are large-scale technologies capable of discharge times of tens of hours but are geographically limited.10 ABES and FES have lower power and shorter discharge times (from seconds to 6 hours) but are often not limited by geography. FES also suffers from short durations of storing energy (without significant self-discharge).10 Pumped Hydroelectric Storage (PHS) • PHS systems generate electricity by pumping water from a low to a high reservoir, releasing the water from the higher reservoir through a hydroelectric turbine when electricity is needed.10 • 94% of U.S. energy storage is from PHS, equating to 23.6 GW as of June 2018.7,12 • PHS plants have long lifetimes (50-60 years) and operate at 76-85% efficiency.10 Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) • CAES captures and stores compressed air in an underground cavern. To create electricity, the pressurized air is heated and expanded in an expansion turbine, driving a generator.12,13 • As of June 2018, there are 4 operating CAES systems in the U.S. with a combined rated power of 0.114 GW.7 • Existing CAES plants are based on the diabatic method, where the compression of the combustion air is separate from the gas turbine. The diabatic method can generate 3 times the output for every natural gas input, reduce CO2 emissions by 40-60%, and enable plant efficiencies of 42-55%.13 Advanced Battery Energy Storage (ABES) • ABES stores electrical energy in the form of chemical energy, which is then converted back into electricity when needed.14 • Batteries contain two electrodes (anode and cathode), two terminals composed of different chemicals, and the electrolyte that separates the terminals.2,14 The electrolyte enables the flow of ions between the two electrodes and external wires to allow for electrical charge to flow.14 • The U.S. has several operational battery-related energy storage projects based on lead-acid, lithium-ion, nickel-based, sodium-based, and flow batteries.7 These batteries account for 0.75 GW of rated power in 2018 and have efficiencies between 60-95%.7,15 Maturity of Energy Storage Technologies10 U.S. Grid-Connected Energy Storage Projects by State7 Characteristics of Energy Storage Technologies11 Deployed Demonstration Early Stage Technologies Pumped Hydro Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) Batteries (NaA, Li-ion, Pb-Acid) Advanced Pb-acid and Flow Batteries Synthetic Natural Gas Hydrogen Adiabatic CAES Electrochemical Capacitors Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) Flywheels Storage technologies in the early stages of research, and that will likely not be commercially available in 3-5 years, have been omitted.
            Cite as: Center for Sustainable Systems, University of Michigan. 2018. “U.S. Grid Energy Storage Factsheet.” Pub. No. CSS15-17. August 2018
            Flywheel Energy Storage (FES) • FES is mainly used for power management rather than longer-term energy storage. FES systems store electric energy via kinetic energy by spinning a rotor in a frictionless enclosure.16 The rotor is sped up or down to shift energy to or from the grid, which steadies the power supply.10 • There are two categories of FES: low-speed and high-speed. These systems rotate at rates up to 10,000 and 100,000 RPM (rotations per minute), respectively, and are best used for high power/low energy applications.16 • In 2018, flywheels accounted for 0.058 GW of rated power in the U.S. and have efficiencies between 85-87%.7,15

          • boys3rsk August 26, 2019 at 6:22 pm #

            Why don’t you write a LONGER response. IDIOT.

          • R. Kooi August 26, 2019 at 7:02 pm #

            Cause I didn’t think anyone feeble brained enough to believe the Deep State Billionaire Fossil Fuel Industrialists and their bankers, probably not be intelligent enough to click a link.

          • Joshua Flack September 1, 2019 at 10:59 pm #

            Seems ok on paper, thought you’re missing stuff
            every year 573,000 birds and 888,000 bats are killed by wind turbines
            I’m vouching for fusion
            Source: https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wsb.260

            Also to produce wind turbines itll need the amount of energy equivalent to the energy it will produce during its lifetime
            How do you think that energy is obtained

          • R. Kooi September 1, 2019 at 11:36 pm #

            YOUR COMMENT IS based on A BLOG with a singular political AX to grind!

            “In simplest terms,
            habitat destruction reduces the population by reducing the available resources, denying birds the chance to reproduce, and effectively putting a cap on the population size.

            .
            The problems outlined below are serious threats and are implicated in the declines of many species. They should be addressed.
            .
            Collisions
            Window strikes – estimated to kill 97 to 976 million birds/year – Millions of houses and buildings,
            .
            Communication towers – estimates of bird kills are impossible to make because of the lack of data, but totals could easily be over 5 million birds/year, and possibly as many as 50 million.
            .
            Electrocutions kill tens of thousands of birds per year. This occurs mainly when large birds such as raptors make contact between a live electrical wire and a ground such as a pole. .

            Cars may kill 60 million birds per year. .

            Wind turbines may kill 33,000 birds per year, and, as in the case of electrocutions, these birds tend to be large and scarce (e.g. raptors).
            The recent surge of interest in wind power has heightened concerns
            .
            Poisoning
            Pesticides may kill 72 million birds per year or possibly many more. The sub lethal effects of pesticides may also make the birds more susceptible to predators or unable to reproduce, essentially killing them. A New York study in 2000 found that common “over-the-counter” pesticides were responsible.
            .
            Oil spills kill hundreds of thousands of birds a year or more..
            .
            Oil and wastewater pits may kill up to 2 million birds per year.
            .
            Lead poisoning – kills unknown numbers of birds each year, but Bellrose (many years ago) estimated that about 4% of the waterfowl population dies annually due to lead poisoning, and the California Condor recovery team stated that lead poisoning was the primary cause of the condor population decline over the last 50 years.
            .
            Pollution – Acid rain has been linked to calcium problems.
            .
            Predation
            Hunting – as a point of reference the carefully-managed annual waterfowl hunt kills about 15 million birds a year in North America.
            .
            Domestic and Feral Cats – may kill 500 million birds per year or more.
            .
            By-catch – Tens to hundreds of thousands of seabirds are caught each year in nets and on hooks intended for fish.
            .
            The BirdLife International site (an excellent source of global bird conservation information) has detailed information about the albatross declines here .

          • Six Zero September 6, 2019 at 6:23 pm #

            LMFAO, this assclown has to vote up all his own comments…

            HAHA.

          • R. Kooi September 6, 2019 at 6:44 pm #

            THAT is all you have to say… a comment about a totally meaningless vote???

            WOW!
            I guess I finally got a subject you can understand…totally meaningless!

          • rbiermann September 27, 2019 at 7:39 pm #

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/182d96ee2f36202dbffb6a25da6bd926c4c99e07bcf1d76af1f34882e0b60aa9.jpg

            The concept of net energy must be applied to renewable sources of energy, such as windmills and photovoltaics. A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of coking coal and 300 tonnes of iron ore, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons. The question is: how long must a windmill generate energy before it creates more energy than it took to build it? At a good wind site, the energy payback day could be in three years or less; in a poor location, energy payback may be never. That is, a windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 1:31 am #

            All kinds of assertions and no links, no references.
            ALL

            Nonsense.

          • Kenneth Clark July 15, 2019 at 1:41 am #

            Nonsense is taking the word of someone with no real experience in the subject and counting it as 100% accurate a factful.
            To reject fact presented by those with actual experience in the subject is pure stupidity. Ignorance no longer plays a part as an attempt to educate has been rejected. It is the true definition of a Good Comrade in the communist realm.

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 2:47 pm #

            Nonsense is taking the word of someone with no real experience” … LIKE LISTENING TO YOU, for example!

            Since my comments are largely CUT ‘N PASTE from real pros…unlike the menapausal minded you.
            ——————————————————–
            “The idea that humans can change and are in fact changing the climate of our planet has developed gradually over more than a hundred years.

            A fringe idea

            in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,

            it is close to a well-established scientific consensus at the turn of the twenty-first century.

            The history of this development is grippingly told in a small book, The Discovery of Global Warming,by science historian Spencer Weart.

            During the course of this history, the initially outlandish concept of human-caused global warming has won over practically every skeptical climatologist who has cared to look dis-passionately at the evidence.

            ….The rate of this warming (which is important for the ability of ecosystems to cope) is also highly unusual and unprecedented probably for an even longer time.

            The last major global warming trend occurred when the last great Ice Age ended between 15,000 and 10,000 years ago: this was a warming of about 5°C over 5,000 years, that is, a rate of only 0.1°C per century.

            The expected magnitude and rate of planetary warming is highly likely to come with major risks and impacts in terms of sea level rise (Pliocene sea level was 25–35 meters higher than now due to smaller Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets), extreme events (for example, hurricane activity is expected to increase in a warmer climate), and ecosystem loss.53

            The second part of this paper examined the evidence for the current warming of the planet and discussed what is known about its causes. This part showed that global warming is already a measured and well-established fact, not a theory.

            Many different lines of evidence consistently show that most of the observed warming of the past fifty years was caused by human activity.

            Above all,
            this warming is exactly what would be expected given the anthropogenic rise in green house gases, and no viable alternative explanation for this warming has been proposed in the scientific literature.

            Taken together, the very strong evidence, accumulated from thousands of independent studies, has over the past decades convinced virtually every climatologist around the world (many of whom were initially quite skeptical,

            including myself ) that anthropogenic global warming is a reality with which we need to deal with,

            https://www.dw.com/image/43195385_401.png

          • rbiermann September 27, 2019 at 7:35 pm #

            I am old enough to remember the first Earth Day in 1970. remember it well, and also I remember all the dire predictions that never happened. We were told in 1990, that by the year 2000 that BILLIONS of people would be DEAD and entire continents would be GONE. We were told that the sea level would substantially rise where we live in Florida. That was supposed to be 9 years ago. It didn’t happen. I’ve been hearing we only have 10 years left for 47 years.

          • R. Kooi September 30, 2019 at 2:18 pm #

            Your statement doesn’t even remotely reflect the truth.
            Provide a link that quotes a Scientific organization that said “by the year 2000 that billions of people would be dead” “entire continents would be gone”
            YOU LIE!!!
            The TRUTH:
            Central estimates of all IPCC Temperature projections in years, were and are still accurate & within the projected ‘envelope,’ .
            __________________________________________________________
            http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/independent-satellite-data-verifies-reality-of-global-warming/article/547843
            _________________________________________________________
            https://www.quora.com/How-accurate-were-the-climate-models-and-scientists-of-the-70s-80s-and-90s-at-predicting-the-world-temperature-trends-of-today/answer/Anton-Carver
            ___________________________________________________
            Moreover,
            “I add, there “Was and Is a long track-record ” in the ” scientific literature ” of successful projections/predictions by climate models.
            .
            It was collected and documented by Barton Paul Levenson, I quoted Barton as follows below .
            .
            “Global Warming Science & Climate Models have successfully predicted for over 60 YEARS!
            .
            See the 1958 & 1965 AAAS & Presidential Advisory Councils Research Reports & Warnings on Global Warming which causes Climate Change.
            1.
            That the globe would warm, .
            .
            ((directly counter to the Mini ICE Age myth perpetuated by the Skeptic/Fossil Fuel Industrialists
            —a mini ice age PREDICTED in the ’70s, & again in the 80’s, ’90’s, 2007-2009, 2015, 2016 and now again in 2020,
            we will be up to our assets in that mini ice age in 2020))
            and
            2. about how fast it would warm,
            and
            3. about how much it would warm.
            .
            http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6242/1469
            .
            4. That the troposphere would warm
            and
            5. The stratosphere would cool.
            .
            (( http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadat/images/update_images/global_upper_air.png ))
            .
            (( not one SKEPTIC has offered any full scientific explanation for this GLOBAL WARMING SCIENCE PROOF ))
            .
            6. That nighttime temperatures would increase more than daytime temperatures.
            .
            (( https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/climate-change-rule-thumb-cold-things-warming-faster-warm-things ))
            .
            7. That winter temperatures would increase more than summer temperatures.
            .
            (( After all of the SUB ZERO temps this year, Wisconsin meteorologists pooled their data and found nite time winter cold temps have WARMED 10 degrees of the last 40 years))
            .
            8. Polar amplification (greater temperature increase as you move toward the poles).
            .
            Arctic amplification | National Snow and Ice Data Center
            .
            (( https://nsidc.org/about/monthlyhighlights/2009/09/arctic-amplification ))
            .
            9. That the Arctic would warm faster than the Antarctic.
            .
            Arctic melt versus Antarctic freeze: Is Antarctica warming …
            https://nsidc.org/…/11/arctic-melt-versus-antarctic-freeze-antarctica-warming-or-not
            .
            10. The magnitude (0.3 K) and duration (two years) of the cooling from the Mt. Pinatubo eruption.
            .
            11. They made a retrodiction for Last Glacial Maximum sea surface temperatures which was inconsistent with the paleo evidence, and better paleo evidence showed the models were right.
            .
            12. They predicted a trend significantly different and differently signed from UAH satellite temperatures, and then a bug was found in the satellite data.
            .
            13. The amount of water vapor feedback due to ENSO.
            .
            14. The response of southern ocean winds to the ozone hole.
            .
            15. The expansion of the Hadley cells.
            .
            16. The poleward movement of storm tracks.
            .
            17. The rising of the tropopause and the effective radiating altitude.
            .
            18. The clear sky super greenhouse effect from increased water vapor in the tropics.
            .
            19. The near constancy of relative humidity on global average.
            .
            20. That coastal upwelling of ocean water would increase.
            .
            ———–> Broecker is probably best-known for popularizing the term “global warming” through his 1975 paper
            . “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” ”
            ———–> “Climate Change” as used today, was first researched & defined by Alexander von Humboldt in 1799, while on a worldwide lecture tour in Venezuela.
            .
            ————> Spot On Accurate Projections of Threatening Climate Changes from Human Triggered Global Warming.
            .
            ————> https://www.nrdc.org/stories/global-warming-101#warming https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Global_Temperature_Anomaly.svg https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
            .
            ———————-> The planet IS accumulating heat !
            ———————-> http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/independent-satellite-data-verifies-reality-of-global-warming/article/547843

          • Kenneth Clark October 1, 2019 at 9:53 pm #

            Yeah “Global Warming”… tell that to Montana that just received 48+ inches of snow in this last weekend of SEPTEMBER 2019.

          • R. Kooi October 2, 2019 at 12:18 pm #

            6 Dozen record high temperatures across 45% of the nation…versus your bs about high altitude snows in Montana.

            Are you grasping for something intelligent to say? Keep Looking cause that line is BS.
            .
            http://jalac.kyxar.fr/ANG/CATASTROPHES0007.gif

          • Kenneth Clark October 2, 2019 at 12:33 pm #

            Not just Montana… no grasping here, just fact without all the hyper cut and paste to try to make an argument that doesn’t exist.

          • R. Kooi October 2, 2019 at 12:36 pm #

            I cut n paste from experts to assure accuracy…sorry you don’t have any respect for accuracy and truth.

            You are the one talking about 1 storm and exaggerating the importance to the world.
            IF YOU HAD THAT STORM ENTIRELY ACROSS THE USA!
            …you would still be talking ONLY ABOUT 2 . 5% of the world’s surface.
            A TRULY TINY RANDOM SAMPLING…making you a laughing stock.

          • Kenneth Clark October 12, 2019 at 11:15 pm #

            Bwahahahahaha!!!!
            …and Denver went from the 80’s to 13 overnight. Last night, 10-12-2019

          • R. Kooi October 13, 2019 at 2:56 pm #

            Gosh, and I bet you think that is relevant ???

            No wonder you are laughing, ignorance is bliss!

          • Kenneth Clark October 13, 2019 at 3:14 pm #

            …and 31°F deeeeep into central Texas on Saturday morning 10/12/2019. I had to remove frost from my windshield… Hell of a “Global Warming” trend… wouldn’t ya say???
            Looks like the fourth “Climate Change” event of the year, aka Autumn, is right on schedule… give or take a day or two.

          • R. Kooi October 13, 2019 at 3:43 pm #

            We are in the northern hemisphere and we get colder in winter…LAST YEAR, with all of the Sub Zero Temps we had in Wisconsin and the midwest … Wisconsin Meteorologists pooled all of their digital measurements over the last 40 years…and, as predicted by Global Warming Scientists, WINTER TEMPERATURE AVERAGE LOW TEMPS have warmed 10 F over those 40 years!

            Global Warming Science has never predicted that cold weather would disappear by a date certain in 2019, for example.

            Quite the contrary… they predicted that weather patterns would become a lot more tumultuous and less predictable.
            .
            1st look:
            https://static.skepticalscience.com/pics/NATS_frequency.gif
            ——
            Now look:
            https://mrgeogwagg.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/hazard-trends.jpg?w=840

            ——
            Now look:
            https://www.globalchange.gov/sites/globalchange/files/styles/resource_image/http/data.globalchange.gov/assets/22/05/f91f3e0f9de762a469592dc44804/CS_global_temp_and_co2_1880-2012_V3.png?itok=_eLJDZSz

          • Kenneth Clark October 13, 2019 at 4:08 pm #

            Oh yeah Meteorologists…
            These are the folks that literally go outside everyday, look at the sky and say…”Looks like 20% Chance of rain today Joe… what a ya think? Ah, lets go with 25 to be in the safe side Ralph.” Go back inside and broadcast 25% rain for the day, and been doing it the exact same way for the past 58 freaking years. Now that is some accurate data… oh, and if they happen to guess it right 50% of the time they get a promotion to “Climatologist”. Then you get to guess at world weather, write your guesses down and become a “Revered and Published Scientist” that people like you believe and then scream “The sky is falling”. The sky isn’t falling, they just misguessed it again and it’s actually raining.

          • Tj November 9, 2019 at 3:35 pm #

            Oooh My….EXPERTS!!!! I’m shaking in my bootees! Please see “Trust Us We’re Experts” by Sheldon Rampton…..and “Science For Sale” by David L Lewis (OH SORRY he only has a Phd so is disqualified from holding any opinion or truth about anything under the sun (OH SORRY best not mention THE SUN!} . Remember the tobacco experts? Thalidomide Experts? DDT Experts? Then of course the Replication Crisis in Science….and the career enhancing scientific fraud epidemic. Move along, nothing to see hear………

          • R. Kooi November 9, 2019 at 4:00 pm #

            Well, you can certainly shake in your bootees…just as long as you don’t get your Tighty Whities in a Knot!!

            The Sun has been the center of Global Warming Science for centuries! Solar output decreases at the same time CO2 Raises World Temperatures…who’lda thought it?

            https://ourchangingclimate.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/temp_co2_tsi_stacked.png
            ——————-
            Tobacco Does CAUSE a wide variety of human ailments.
            12 Diseases Caused by Smoking | Infographic
            https://www.unitypoint.org/livewell/article.aspx?id=17ace3fc-fb01-45c3-8617-1beb81404fc4
            ______________
            Thalidomide Does Damage to Pregnant women. Researchers discover precisely how thalidomide causes …
            https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110419111503.htm
            Apr 19, 2011 · Researchers discover precisely how thalidomide causes birth defects.
            ________________
            DDT
            Pesticides linked to 9 diseases | NaturalHealth365
            https://www.naturalhealth365.com/pesticides-toxic-chemicals-1868-html

            Part of the time consuming, detailed requirements In Science is the Experiments, publication and Peer Review, and Replication process…then more questions and experiments, publications and Peer Review/Replication.

            It is not perfect, but 200 years has remarkably strengthened Global Warming Science.

          • Tj November 9, 2019 at 6:13 pm #

            Fraud is rampant in (ahem sorry if I laugh) Science. Peer reviews? Hand picked screening process with competitors to the proposer who have conflicts of interest. (oops ! Conflicts of Interest! sorry, should have whispered that bit.) 200 years of Eminence Based (say no more they’ll kill your career)) ‘science’. Place a link or source after everything you say…. always looks good…….pseudo intellectual fraud. Just what the tobacco scientists did for 50 years. Doctors favourite cigarette is Camels! Science? Yaaaawwnnnn…….

          • R. Kooi November 9, 2019 at 10:14 pm #

            THERE are precious few REAL examples of that occurring…since the work still has to be published & then the results have to be duplicated and THOSE results published.
            The clearest and most direct route to Fame and Publication is to FIND ANY ONE OF THOSE CASES YOU TALK ABOUT…DAMN FEW TO BE FOUND!!!
            YOU ARE JUST ALL ABOUT TALK and NO FACTS and NO STATS.
            Yaaaaawwwwnnnn!!!!!
            .
            With the understanding that Human Industry/Agriculture were PUMPING over 100 times MORE CO2 (working with H2O in a multiplier effect) & 2 Dz. other Greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than all Earth’s Volcanoes, combined, every year.
            .
            The World’s Leading Scientific Minds & specifcally, virtually all of NASA SCIENTISTS,
            Challenged
            Questioned
            &
            Critiqued the Effects of Greenhouse Gasses on climate for decades!
            .
            ((( http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/independent-satellite-data-verifies-reality-of-global-warming/article/547843 )))
            .
            In 1970,
            NASA launched the IRIS/satellite that Observed & Measured in detail the Escaping Infra Red THERMAL Low-Energy Radiation spectra between 400 cm-1 to 1600 cm-1.
            .
            ( Google:> IRIS-Satellite Research)
            In 1996,
            the Japanese Space Agency launched the IMG/satellite which recorded similar observations.
            .
            (Google:.> IMG-Satellite Research)
            .
            Both sets of data were compared to discern any changes in escaping
            .
            infra red thermal radiation over the 26 year period
            .
            (Google.> Harries Research Study, 2001).
            .
            They found a Dramatic DROP in Escaping (earth cooling) Infra Red THERMAL Radiation
            at the Precise wavelength bands that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) & methane (CH4) absorb energy !
            While ESCAPING Infra Red THERMAL Radiation is DECREASING.
            Green House Gases were INCREASING ! (hand in glove)
            .
            The change in ESCAPING I.R. THERMAL radiation is consistent with theoretical expectations & Global Warming Science Predictions.
            .
            Research & Numerous Studies have found:
            .
            ——————-> “direct experimental empirical evidence for a significant increase in the Earth’s greenhouse effect”/GLOBAL Warming.
            .
            This result has been confirmed by NUMEROUS subsequent Research & Studies using more recent satellite data, Digital Balloon Launches,etc.
            .
            The 1970 & 1997 spectra were compared with additional satellite data
            .
            from the > NASA AIRS satellite launched in 2003
            .
            ( Google > Griggs Research Study 2004).
            .
            This analysis was extended to 2006
            .
            using data from the —–> AURA-Satellite launched in 2004
            .
            (Google: > Chen 2007 research Study)
            .
            The researchers found the observed differences in CO2 bands matching the expected changes from rising carbon dioxide levels.
            .
            * AGAIN > We have empirical evidence that increased CO2 is causing an enhanced greenhouse effect. (Warming)
            .
            ** ALL, These research studies & papers found
            > “direct experimental evidence for a significant increase in the Earth’s greenhouse effect” (Global Warming).
            .
            If Infra Red THERMAL RADIANT Energy does not escape, it MUST THEN be retained in our Earth System as:
            1. —–> raising temperatures,
            2. —–> warming rising seas,
            3. —–> melting Ice,
            along with acidification of oceans & human/animal blood levels)))
            These results has been confirmed by subsequent Research papers using data from later satellites.
            .
            Google this SOURCE: > (Griggs 2004 )
            Google this SOURCE: > ( Chen 2007 )
            .
            THIS research has been Peer Reviewed
            (adversary critiqued, red team/blue team)
            widely published & replicated repeatedly.
            Humans are Dumping More than 100-to-120 Times more CO2 into Earth’s Atmosphere than ALL of the Volcanoes,
            combined. Year after Year.
            .
            AS SOLAR ACTIVITY HAS
            ————> Decreased, Which should lead to Dramatic Cooling!
            ……but instead
            ————> Temperatures on Earth have “Dramatically Increased“
            ————> As Greenhouse Gasses have “Dramatically Increased

            https://citizensclimatelobby.org/energy-innovation-and-carbon-dividend-act/
            .
            LOOK:
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_activity_and_climate#/media/File:Global_surface_temperature_(top,_blue)_and_the_Sun%27s_energy_received_at_the_top_of_Earth%27s_atmosphere_(red,_bottom)._Solar_energy_has_been_measured_by_satellites_since_1978.gif

          • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 9:41 pm #

            and you still are lying…makes you a true TRUMPANZEE !

          • R. Kooi August 20, 2019 at 3:26 pm #

            Comrade Kenny!!

            http://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/uploads/0.13794800_1447845747_figure-1.jpg

          • R. Kooi August 26, 2019 at 11:56 pm #

            again you present no facts…just your nonsense.

          • R. Kooi August 19, 2019 at 11:07 pm #

            I can find nothing that verifies YOUR WHOPPER of a story!!!

          • R. Kooi August 20, 2019 at 3:28 pm #

            Comrade Kenny!
            https://rachelsquirrel.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/disasters2.png?w=1020

          • Sanity&Reason September 22, 2019 at 7:16 am #

            Dang, my graph didn’t appear. Will work on that

          • R. Kooi September 22, 2019 at 2:54 pm #

            Here’s one … maybe you’ll like it?!

            https://assets.weforum.org/editor/HzdTFkYeIxZYeCuSZHwc2dX2gaIb4laFapBlkBn9d38.PNG

            notice that the world NATURAL DISASTERS rise at the approx same rate as CO2 and World Temps

          • Sanity&Reason September 23, 2019 at 4:44 am #

            I guess anyone can make a graph.. Is this in Germany, only? How far back does your data go? 1980 is not far enough. In the USA, we have data that goes back to the early 1900’s. We had some HORRIBLE disasters in the early 1900’s and dotted here and there throughout over 100 years. Our disasters have gone up and down with no regard whatsoever to CO2.

          • R. Kooi September 23, 2019 at 2:43 pm #

            The REASON 1980 is a starting point on a few graphs…it is the first full year of confirmed satellite climate Temperature readings…and Science generally requires long term studies … 30, 50, 100 years and longer.

            Natural Disasters have been increasing along with world temperatures.

            https://sciblogs.co.nz/app/uploads/2010/09/1a_view1.jpg

            https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-be4978f05ba7364246efa2ab2f2669fe

          • Liberty Dankmeme September 23, 2019 at 9:47 pm #

            think it might be the same number of events but now there are just more people in the way of those events? this fear mongering is getting us no where

          • R. Kooi September 24, 2019 at 6:14 pm #

            Of course not, once you start down the Sophistry path of Denial and Obfuscation…there is no hope.

            —-

            There actually were 150 Glaciers in Montana’s Glacier State Park when it was voted a National Park.

            Today the are 26…with 2 of them only a few acres in size.

            https://mrgeogwagg.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/hazard-trends.jpg

            .

            https://archive.epa.gov/epa/sites/production/files/2017-01/cs_global_temp_and_co2_1880-2012_v3_1.png

          • Liberty Dankmeme September 24, 2019 at 10:44 pm #

            you pump out really nice graphs – the problem is none of them are accurate … they have all been altered to push your commie agenda

          • R. Kooi September 25, 2019 at 4:56 pm #

            And In all the world, the only source for truth is YOU and the DONALD.

            ALL HAIL El DUCHE’!

          • R. Kooi December 12, 2019 at 11:32 pm #

            That is simply not true!
            …if it were true the Fossil Fuel Billionaires would spend part of the billions of dollars they spend defeating legit. science…on simply comparing hundreds and hundreds of RECORDS of locales, from shipping companies, Airlines, ETC. ETC. to defeat all of these scientific studies (thousands of them) worldwide.
            The Truth Be known?
            ….All Scientific Records from over 40,000 digital Ground Stations, ALL satellite temp. and local records are in rough agreement about sky rocketing toxic Greenhouse Gases, sky rocketing temperatures, vastly increasing numbers of Storms & tumultuous Weather events.

          • Sterling Mossed February 25, 2020 at 6:58 pm #

            vastly increasing numbers of Storms & tumultuous Weather events.??????
            2018 Was the quietest Tornado season in HISTORY!

          • R. Kooi February 25, 2020 at 7:29 pm #

            YOU ARE
            FOOLISHLY
            REFERENCING
            1 type of storm,
            in just 1 country!
            ——————–and you only mention 2018??? Hmm??

            .
            ((the US is a tiny 2.5% of the Earth’s Surface, not a big enough random sampling! ))
            .
            …..WE WERE TALKING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING!
            .
            Do you notice a trend?
            https://static.secure.website/wscfus/8154141/3694935/us-extreme-to-2015-noaa.png
            .
            http://climatestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/tornado-
            .
            counts-0112-2012.png
            .
            .
            .https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/freshwateralliance/pages/2272/meta_images/original/Floods_on_the_rise_infographic.png?1536248761

          • Sterling Mossed February 26, 2020 at 1:32 pm #

            Does SOROS pay a salary?
            W-2 or 1099?

          • R. Kooi February 26, 2020 at 3:16 pm #

            Good Question…and how much do the Russians pay you???
            .= = = = = = =
            Trump will build a wall in Ireland to protect his golf course
            http://www.businessinsider.com › trump-doonbeg-ireland-permission-to-bui…
            Dec 22, 2017 – Trump will build a wall in Ireland to protect his golf course from climate … rising sea levels and extreme weather as its reason to build the wall, …

            But the routine study for a sea wall NY/NJ is dead !

            • The details: The agency “has been overseeing a six-year, $19 million analysis of what steps New York and New Jersey residents living along the Atlantic Ocean’s coast can take to avert the kind of damage that Hurricane Sandy wreaked in 2012,” they write. On Friday, it announced the “indefinite postponement” of a planned public meeting because the study “did not receive federal appropriation funding” in the agency’s work plan for this year. No other details were provided about why the agency chose not to fund the effort.
            • What Trump said: After the New York Times reported about the possibility of a sea wall last month, Trump tweeted calling it was a “costly, foolish & environmentally unfriendly idea that, when needed, probably won’t work anyway.”

          • R. Kooi February 26, 2020 at 3:17 pm #

            These are published in peer reviewed journals and REPLICATED.

          • rbiermann September 27, 2019 at 7:28 pm #

            Who was measuring this in 1880?

          • R. Kooi December 12, 2019 at 11:22 pm #

            Every City had records.
            Every Shipping Company had Records.
            Every Military Unit had Records.
            Are you realllllllly that DENSE?

          • Stefan Gendron February 13, 2020 at 2:05 am #

            There used to be 5000 feet of ice over the Midwest dummy. The earth has been warming ever since the last ice age. All your science stats have been altered to try to sell global warming and plenty of scientists have proven it’s a hoax. Fossil fuels have been the greatest advancement of society in the history of earth. 1000s of products are created from fossil fuels without it the earth is going to see a contraction of the population as it cannot be supported without the fossil fuel industry. About 5 million farmers produce the food for over 300 million Americans you won’t do that without the fuel to run the tractors or the fertilizer created from the fossil fuels. You want to live in a green energy world try Venezuela they have seen their power plants shut off, water plants shut down and you can try dumpster diving for food but no one throws food in the trash anymore since there is no food left to throw away.

          • R. Kooi February 13, 2020 at 2:35 am #

            You are talking about the last glaciation.

            We are still in an ICE AGE.

            “There is no need to add additional taxes to combat climate change.
            The best bet is simply quit subsidizing those things causing AGW.
            .
            World-wide,
            Fossil Fuels & industries suck up subsidy Dollars.
            SUCK UP 6.5% of GDP … TRILLIONS of DOLLARS in subsidies / supports
            (non taxable supports & subsidies!)

            In most cases the newer more modern energy and agricultural systems are more profitable and less damaging to the environment already.
            So there is no need to tax people to subsidize those things harming the environment,
            then taxing us again to penalize those same ones we just subsidized!
            A house divided against itself cannot stand. -Lincoln (paraphrasing the Bible)
            It is time for a strong political leader to take charge and end this deadlock.

            We could either reduce taxes and let the new technologies out compete the obsolete systems we depend on now,
            or we could keep taxes the same and simply redirect the subsidies we use for fossil fuels and destructive industrialized agriculture
            towards modern sustainable systems instead. The one thing that won’t work is keep the
            tax and spend schemes the Neo-Luddites have made for themselves now,
            and also add even more tax and spend schemes for their competing new technologies too!
            Yes that’s right, the top two causes for global warming are heavily subsidized.[1][2][3][4] It is literally insanity.

            Michael Barnard, Low-carbon Innovation Strategist

            What’s emerging is the following:

            Electrify everything. Convert all energy services to work directly from electricity instead of fossil fuels. Transportation, industry and agriculture. All of it. All gas appliances must go. All road transport must be electric. Most trains and a lot of planes must shift to electric. All heat from electricity. The USA throws away two thirds of all primary energy, mostly in the form of waste heat from fossil fuels used in inherently inefficient combustion processes. We only have to replace a third of the actual primary energy we use today to maintain our lifestyle and economy.
            Overbuild renewable generation. All other forms of generation with the exception of nuclear were overbuilt, so we’ll do the same with wind and solar, and they are really cheap, so that’s not that expensive. After all, $3 trillion USD would provide all primary energy for everything the US does.
            Build continent-scale electrical grids and markets, and improve existing ones. HVDC became much more viable with high-speed hybrid circuit breakers in 2011, and is an essential technology for long-distance, low-loss electrical transmission.
            Build a fair amount of hydro storage, and some other storage. While storage of electricity is an overstated concern given over built renewables and continent-scale grids, some is still required. Pumped hydro resource potential is far greater than the need, is efficient and uses very stable, known technologies. Shifting existing hydro-electric dams to be passive, on-demand storage as opposed to baseload is also key. Fast response grid storage can be provided by existing lithium ion technologies, as Tesla has proven in California and Australia. By 2050, we’ll have roughy 20 TWh of batteries on wheels in US cars alone, available both for demand management to reduce peak demand, soak up excess generation and to provide vehicle-to-grid electricity as needed.
            Plant a lot of trees. We have cut down about 50% of the six trillion trees that used to grow on earth. Planting a trillion trees would buy us a lot of time as they sucked about a ton of CO2 from the atmosphere per tree over 40 years.
            Change agricultural practices. High-tillage agriculture is a process that keep releasing carbon captured by the soil back into the atmosphere. Switching to low-tillage would buy us a lot of time as the CO2 captured by farmland would stay in the soil a lot longer, and some of it would be permanently sequestered.
            Fix concrete. 8% of global CO2 emissions come from making Portland cement. It’s absolutely critical to urban densification and industry, so we won’t stop making it. But it’s a huge source of CO2, about half from the energy and half from CO2 that bakes off limestone as it’s turned into quicklime. Electrifying that energy flow helps a lot, but capturing that CO2 is one of the few places where mechanical carbon capture makes sense.
            Price carbon aggressively. The simplest way to get a lot of people and industries to shift away from emitting lots of CO2 is to make it expensive. That’s what carbon taxes do.
            Shut down coal and gas generation aggressively. Getting rid of coal is already happening, but it’s by far the biggest single source of CO2 emissions. Aggressive actions to eliminate burning coal are needed. For gas, the question is how few gas plants can we build, how many of them can we run on biologically sourced methane and how fast can we shut them down.
            Stop financing and subsidies for fossil fuel exploration, extraction and use. The USA alone spends tens of billions annually on subsidies of various kinds for the fossil fuel industry, and hasn’t done a thing about it since committing to eliminate them in 2009. The G7 and G20 have committed to eliminating subsidies, but progress has been very slow. The World Bank continues to finance coal, oil and gas projects, despite commitments to end them.
            Eliminate HFCs in refrigeration. The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer targets the unforeseen side effects of displacing ozone-depleting CFCs with high-greenhouse gas HFCs. Project Drawdown puts this at #1 on its ranked list of solutions by cost vs benefit. The USA has not ratified this Amendment, although 65 other countries have.

            There are some mildly controversial things left out of this list.

            Nuclear power is too slow to build and too expensive. That’s empirical reality, not an advocacy statement. The conditions for rapid build don’t exist. And we need a lot of clean electricity very quickly. Nuclear need not apply. Keep existing nuclear going, don’t stop new nuclear build out in China, pretty much the only place building new generation capacity, but don’t expect it to be more than a rounding error in a few decades. New nuclear technologies are decades from commercial deployment at any scale, and we have technologies that are reliable, predictable, cheap and fast to build, so there will be nothing for them to do once they actually make it out of R&D.
            Mechanical carbon capture and sequestration is a mostly dead end. This is an overhyped figleaf for the fossil fuel industry. Virtually every CCS site is actually an enhanced oil recovery site which recovers oil that couldn’t be pumped out, typically enough that 2–3 times more CO2 is generated from the oil than was put underground. Exceptions are natural gas wells with too high a concentration of CO2, leading to 25 times the emissions once the natural gas is burned. Expensive, unscalable, wasteful. As stated, it might be useful for concrete.
            Air-to-fuel technologies are dead ends. Solutions such as Carbon Engineering’s direct air capture with hydrogen electrolysis to create synthetic fuels is a broken model. It’s vastly more expensive and higher CO2 emitting than electrification or biological pathway fuel synthesis. Any money spent on this would have vastly better results if spent on renewables instead. It’s not an either-or, but in this case policy makers should ignore this and governments shouldn’t fund it.
            The military is a hard problem. They require vast amounts of high energy fuel in places with no electrical supply chain often for months at a time. The US military is considered by many to be the single largest CO2 emitting organization in the world. However, eliminating global fossil fuel strategic military actions — which describes virtually everything done in the Middle East for the last 100 years — will diminish the need for the US military substantially. A great deal of their current emissions, which hopefully will start coming to light once the US signs the Paris Accord either in 2021 or 2025 once Trump is gone, are related to the ongoing Middle Eastern deployments. There’s only so much we can do for biofuels, but to be clear, the world has been in a period of diminishing military conflict since the end of WWII. Globalization may have downsides, but the ties of trade and treaties which bind countries together have been highly effective in allowing diplomacy pathways to work, and making the military option increasingly difficult to consider.

            Where statements diverge from the above, question what lobbying groups are involved, where revenue will be lost or gained and in general what the motivations of the people or organizations involved are. This is all empirically grounded analysis. It’s not rocket science. We have the solutions. We just need the will to execute, which is being sapped by the losers in this necessary transformation, dominantly the fossil fuel industry.


            Credit: Joel Pett | USA Today
            1] Scott Strough’s answer to Can we reverse global warming?
            Executive summary:
            Yes we can reverse Global Warming.
            It does not require huge tax increases or overly expensive untested risky technologies.
            It will require a three pronged approach worldwide.

            1]
            Reduce fossil fuel use by replacing energy needs with as many feasible renewables as current technology allows.
            .
            ((solar & wind Cost less & are quicker to construct + + they produce FAR less expensive electricity than coal))
            .
            Change Agricultural methods to high yielding regenerative models of production made possible by recent biological & agricultural science advancements.
            Large scale ecosystem recovery projects similar to the Loess Plateau project, National Parks like Yellowstone etc. where appropriate and applicable.

            2]
            Project Drawdown
            The list is comprised primarily of “no regrets” solutions—actions that make sense to take regardless of their climate impact since they have intrinsic benefits to communities and economies. These initiatives improve lives, create jobs, restore the environment, enhance security, generate resilience, and advance human health.[5]

            3]
            Farming a climate change solution
            Farmers have a golden solution to global warming largely missed by climate change pundits, right beneath their feet. The innovative Australian Soil Carbon Accreditation Scheme is showing how incentive payments can be received by landholders for measurable increases in soil carbon that soaks up CO2 from the atmosphere. Financial incentives could help fund soil restoration efforts, which in turn bring the bonus of greater productivity, drought resilience and even rain. The action is deep underground.[6]

            Footnotes
            [1] The $200 Billion Fossil Fuel Subsidy You’ve Never Heard Of (USA)
            [2] Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year | John Abraham
            [3] Fossil Fuel Subsidies Top $450 Billion Annually, Study Says (USA w various costs,supports)
            [4] Milking taxpayers
            [5] Solutions | Drawdown
            [6] http://www.amazingcarbon.com/PDF

          • R. Kooi February 13, 2020 at 2:11 pm #

            This Holocene Inter glacial Warm Period PEAKED about 8,000 years ago….PEAKED…as in its warmest series of temps.
            Sorry you missed the headlines!!
            .
            https://betternature.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/holocent.jpg

          • R. Kooi December 12, 2019 at 11:21 pm #

            The number of people is irrelevant…it is the VASTLY INCREASED NUMBER of EVENTS.

          • R. Kooi September 25, 2019 at 4:47 pm #

            And YOU being a primary critique of Main Stream Media…until you can’t find anyone that agrees with your own asinine opinions…then you go right to MSM !

            LOL!

          • Sanity&Reason September 25, 2019 at 5:02 pm #

            Oh gol darney, yah got me again! Ohkee, guess I’ll just figger I’m wrong cuz you said so.

          • R. Kooi September 25, 2019 at 5:43 pm #

            As well you should!

            although I am Not the “CHOSEN ONE”

            Like your proclaimed Godsend, TRUMP!

            2 minutes ago

            “During Fox News host Shep Smith’s Tuesday show, Judge Andrew
            Napolitano explained that President Donald Trump admitted to a crime on
            camera and that crime is an impeachable one.

            “It is a crime for the president to solicit aid for his campaign from a foreign government,” said Napolitano.

            “So, that to which the president has admitted is in and of itself a crime?” Smith asked.

            “Yes, it is the same crime for which the Trump Organization was investigated by Bob Mueller, who decided not to seek an indictment because there wasn’t enough evidence,” Napolitano agreed.

            “Well, no, he said he didn’t seek an indictment because he wasn’t
            charged because of the DOJ rule that said, ‘you can lay it out, but you
            can’t charge,’” Smith corrected.”

          • R. Kooi September 28, 2019 at 6:40 pm #

            If you notrice I extensively QUOTE directly (cut n paste ) from authorities/experts…rather than make shytte Up Like YOU DO and El Duche’ Trump Does all the time!!!

          • Kenneth Clark September 28, 2019 at 7:43 pm #

            You “QUOTE” nothing. You simply cut and paste thinking your argument is made for you when you have no argument to begin with.

          • R. Kooi September 30, 2019 at 12:59 pm #

            I present data…YOU just make ridiculous comments and a parade of quibbling.

          • Ray Butler November 24, 2019 at 2:35 pm #

            You’ve done NOTHING but parrot what your puppeteers feed you. NO original thought, NO facts, just utter hatred being spewed from your 12 yr old suckhole. Get back to us in 10 years, & PLEASE save a screenshot of this discussion. I dare ya.

          • R. Kooi November 24, 2019 at 4:49 pm #

            And again you have nothing to say on topic…just asinine accusations and childish name calling….all the qualifications to be a Trumpanzee!!

          • Ray Butler November 24, 2019 at 11:06 pm #

            Save a screenshot of this & get back to me in 10 years, ignorant gullible fool. Gives ya time to grow up too.

          • R. Kooi November 26, 2019 at 5:32 pm #

            Again you have nothing on topic to say!!
            ZERO!
            ZILTCH!

          • Sanity&Reason September 26, 2019 at 12:47 am #

            MSM… Main Stream Media.

          • Kenneth Clark September 26, 2019 at 1:12 am #

            Surely you don’t subscribe to soap operas like MSLSD and the Communist News Network. I thought you were “Hard Core”…
            Oooppps, my bad. You just copy and paste with no mind of your own. Kind of like a repeater antenna that is repeating a bad signal not even knowing you are.

          • R. Kooi September 28, 2019 at 6:42 pm #

            AuH2O forever!
            Never the THUG and Deep State Swamp Creature YOU voted into the White House…to drive up national debt and give tax relief to the top 2%!

          • R. Kooi September 28, 2019 at 6:45 pm #

            THAT is a newspaper headline…the SAME newspapers you tell everyone lie about the issues YOU CARE ABOUT….ya know…like The Deep STATE TRUMP ADMIN????

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSE-XoVKa

          • HANDONE October 12, 2019 at 9:43 pm #

            Well let me tell you something. You need to go to the LIBRARY of Congress & read about our American Corrupted history. Democrates are the KKK if you know what that stands for Des. voted for Slavery that is why they was a civil war, just like the one brewing now, because of the Dam Demoncrats! The read about the history of our YELLOW NEWS MEDIA. The same one;s today spreading false lies & propaganda. The Republicians voted to abolish slavery they also voted for blacks to be able to vote. But the Dems prolonged that for over 20 yrs. You want proof then read the history of America, World Governments, Socialism & Communism. Then go to your BIBLE online & ask what does the bible say about world order, that United Nations, News Media, The rich Elite globalist, big corp. & the Democrats are pushing. IT SAYS THEY ARE EVIL & will usher in the Ant-Christ

          • R. Kooi October 13, 2019 at 3:51 pm #

            You have to go back 150 years to find why you hate the party you hate today????

            DAM: a blockage of water
            DAMN: an exclamation

          • Kenneth Clark October 13, 2019 at 4:43 pm #

            Yep, History shows that the Republicans freed slaves… remember President Lincoln??? Yeah, he was and is still Republican. The Democrats are still up to their same old antics to try and keep all people under their thumb. Now their mantra is “Everything for free”. Look at California and the heavy government thumb of the Democrats. People they don’t care about (Northern California and for the most part conservative) are experiencing full black outs in electrical power and can do nothing about it. All because the all knowing Dems gave all of the control to their crooked buddies at PP&E.
            Just imagine the hell their will be to pay for the rural Americans (absolute Red) should Democrats gain power of Congress and the White House again. They will make what Marx did look like child’s play.

          • R. Kooi September 28, 2019 at 7:00 pm #

            As a March newsletter sent out by the European Energy Forum (EEF) details, Moore was invited as the main speaker at the dinner hosted by EURACOAL on …

            Patrick Moore vs. Patrick Moore on Climate Change …

            https://polluterwatch.org/blog/patrick-moore-versus-patrick-moore-scientist-climate

            Mar 12, 2019 · Patrick Moore is a lobbyist and public relations consultant. Mr. Moore touts his Ph.D in Ecology, although it appears that Moore has never published any scientific research in an independent science journal. Mr. Moore is known for dismissing the science of climate change, but he was not always a climate change denier. This post assembles a long …

            =============================================

            Remember the Hurricane Drought that these Coal/Oil charlatans were Declaring a few months ago…which they claimed PROVED the Global Warming Science and their Predictions of increasing storms indicated that Global Warming Science was fake??

            Well, the research Is in…take a look:

            https://skepticalscience.com/pics/NATS_frequency.gif

            and

            http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LxP7reoxsEk/UJLWP7RqqgI/AAAAAAAAA38/yOAeaGbWuBI/s1600/HurrNat.png

          • Sanity&Reason September 24, 2019 at 10:49 pm #

            You need to get out of the echo chamber. You are being used, tricked and treated like a mushroom- fed dung and kept in the dark.

          • R. Kooi September 25, 2019 at 4:46 pm #

            Keen intellectual discussion of your depth and breadth of understanding about science.

          • Sanity&Reason September 25, 2019 at 5:03 pm #

            You’re quite energetic this mornin’! I’m still workin on my 2nd cup of coffee.

          • R. Kooi September 25, 2019 at 5:20 pm #

            The Dog needed a walk at 5:30 AM

          • Dave Kilgore September 26, 2019 at 3:52 pm #

            Records have only been kept in the US since 1850, so who is to say warmer temps didn’t exist before? The reason there is an uptick in natural disasters is because we have more technology to detect and track them and more people living in affected areas. If we had the same technology and same populations in the 1700’s, I’m sure the numbers would be comparable. It’s convenient to only use numbers from a certain timeframe in order to advance a narrative.

          • R. Kooi September 26, 2019 at 4:52 pm #

            Well first we have wide temperature data from the end of the 1700s…a good scatter of records going back a couple of centuries further.

            We have Pristine Ice Core Data going back 800,000 years.

            Checking with human temperature measures and over a dozen proxy measures that This Holocene Inter glacial Warm Period PEAKED in temperatures between 6500 and 8000 years ago.

            Temps have been falling in spits and spurts since then.

            The Reason anyone remembers the Medieval Warm Period…is not because it was SO warm in Europe and the Medit. Sea…and part of the N. Atlantic….but RATHER it is remembered because it was such a welcomed relief from falling temps and cold Winters!

            http://www.realclimate.org/images//Marcott.png

          • rbiermann September 27, 2019 at 7:29 pm #

            How did they get those temperature readings?

          • R. Kooi September 28, 2019 at 6:59 pm #

            SEE THOSE LABELS????????????????????

          • R. Kooi September 28, 2019 at 7:17 pm #

            Since records began’: a brief guide to who’s taking the …

            https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/climatechange/2009/03/since_records_began_a_brief_gu.html

            Mar 30, 2009 · But whose records and when did they begin? The oldest ongoing instrumental record of temperature in the world is the Central England Temperature record , started in 1659.
            ——
            Alexander von Humboldt, world renown thinker & scientist coined and defined “CLIMATE CHANGE” in 1799.
            Thomas Jefferson and John Adams discussed climate changes from 1799 thru 1804!
            ——
            Natural Disasters are human disasters and reported in News and Science Papers.
            NOT dependent upon technology…the speed of the reports is the only thing depending upon technology.

          • R. Kooi December 12, 2019 at 11:43 pm #

            What an absurd comment.
            Military units around the world Keep Records of weather events including temps. for centuries and centuries.
            Local Governments do
            Farm Bureaus do
            etc.

            You are grasping at straws in a desperate effort to disprove what is glaringly obvious right at the end of your nose.
            .
            It is not “WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE ATMOSPHERE IS CO2” that should have meaning for you.
            It is WHAT CO2 and the nearly 2 dz. other greenhouse gasses DO in Our atmosphere.
            The Goldilocks Levels for humans, of CO2 are 180ppm to 300ppm!
            Our physiology is dependent upon those levels of CO2.
            1. Human Industry/Agriculture have DRIVEN CO2 to over 415ppm.
            2. Hydrogen Cyanide Kills at 130ppm.
            3. Polonium Kills at 1 Trillionth of THAT ppm rate.
            .
            You see, no matter how small!
            .
            The amount of CO2, It is WHAT CO2 and nearly 2 Dz. other greenhouse gasses DO in Our Atmosphere.
            .
            For TENS of million of years, Life on Earth has PROSPERED WITHIN THESE atmospheric GAS Levels——-> 180ppm to 300ppm.

            Human’s (even our ancient human ancestors) were created & evolved entirely at those levels of atmospheric gasses!
            Our Entire physiology is dependent upon those Goldilocks Levels of gasses———> 180ppm to 300ppm!

            I can think of no compelling reason to argue with tens of millions of years of success !

            1. I can think of no compelling reason to experiment with all life on earth without random long-term medical studies to determine the final outcome of such an experiment!

            Shell and Exxon’s secret 1980s climate change warnings | Benjamin Franta

            —-> CO2 has beneficially enabled life on Earth.

            (holding infra-red heat, warming the planet so life may proliferate)( & has some fertilizer effect)

            (without CO2 + other Green House gases, Earth would be a Cold ROCK 0 degrees F.)

            This is the story of a little is good but a lot is deadly…consider Aspirin, for example. 1 Aspirin breaks a fevor or a headache, a entire bottle may well kill you.

            The Goldilocks Level for humans of atmospheric CO2 has always been between 180ppm & 300ppm!
            OUR ENTIRE PHYSIOLOGY IS BASED ON THOSE NUMBERS 180ppm to 300ppm.

            We have no idea what increasing those gasses in our atmosphere will do to our grand Children’s DNA. We have NEVER existed outside of these levels of atmospheric gasses.
            .
            Every Year a human has walked on Earth (hundreds of thousands of years)
            CO2 & other Gasses have ALWAYS been between 180ppm and 300ppm.

            2.
            CO2 has boosted plant life on Earth provided the required Nutrients, Minerals & H2O increase in the exact proportion.
            Pernicious Invasive Species of weeds thrive with increased CO2, seemingly with any mix of nutrients, minerals & H2O.

            BUT
            Coincidentally, as CO2 levels have increased, Nutrient values of Grains/Crops the world has grown dependent upon, have FALLEN at a Faster Rate !
            1.
            LESS Iron
            2.
            LESS Protein
            3.
            LESS Zinc
            4.
            LESS Copper
            5.
            LESS Magnesium
            6.
            LESS Calcium…..IN all of the Staple Grains that the world’s population has become dependent upon !

            “….In 2004, a landmark study of fruits and vegetables found that everything from protein to calcium, iron and vitamin C had declined significantly across most garden crops since 1950….”

            So you see,
            CO2 has some current benefits & some Immediate Challenges to human well being !

            Climate Change:
            Plants Choke on too Much Carbon.
            Carbohydrate content increases…anyone out there with Diabetes?

            3.
            CO2 Kills!

            CO2 is a pollutant.
            ALL ANIMALS ON EARTH EXHALE CO2 to dispose of this Poisonous waste-product, JUST LIKE pee and poop!
            Who proposes that we relish Pee or Poop like they say “CO2 is the GAS OF LIFE”?

            It kills, since it IS a poison
            It kills, since it IS an asphyxiant
            (heavier than air, it smothers life) (the higher the level of CO2, the lower the level of Oxygen)

            EVERY LARGE Building ON EARTH is MANDATED TO HAVE A Fresh Air re-circulation system! In order to fight the VERY HARMFUL effects of CO2 settling in basements and SEALED ROOMS…lethargy, sleepiness, dizzy spells, falls, fainting, severe headaches & Worse.

            THINK!
            AS atmospheric CO2 levels increase, so does the THREAT of CO2 in basements, closed rooms, in protected valleys/glades.
            Humans were created and evolved entirly in the Gas Levels of 180ppm to 300ppm! OUR entire physiology is based on THOSE numbers…180ppm-300ppm.
            There have been no long term studies to determine the effects of dramatically higher CO2 & other Gas Levels on HUMAN DNA/Disease resistance etc.

            “Police: Carbon dioxide led to death in McDonald’s bathroom. STORY HIGHLIGHTS: The carbon dioxide built up to toxic levels in the bathroom An 80-year-old woman died after the incident September 7, lethal dose of carbon dioxide, authorities said Wednesday….”

            CO2 is heavier than air, so the concentration near the floor will be much higher,” as well as protected glades, basements and sealed rooms.

            “Higher Concentrations of CO2 in the Atmosphere increases incidents of threatening concentrations at ground levels and basements…”

            “One person,
            recounting the fate of eight men and one woman who walked into a basement area where the gas had accumulated, said they “fell down DEAD as if they had been shot.”

            EVERY large building on EARTH has Fresh Air Re-Circulation Systems in order to fight off the Negative effects of CO2 build up!
            …the higher concentrations of CO2 & other atmospheric gasses increase the threat from CO2 build up in buildings, basements, sealed rooms and protected glades.”

            https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ask-the-experts-does-rising-co2-benefit-plants1/
            .
            “Examples:
            The plague of diseased livestock: Heat waves can make people ill, & they do the same to livestock such as dairy cows. During a recent heat wave in California, cattle died at such rates that they overwhelmed local capacity for disposing of the carcasses.

            The plagues of insects:
            In a warmer climate, insect pests, weeds, and agricultural diseases will have the chance to invade territory that previously was too cold for them.

            The plague of extreme weather:
            Scientists expect that as the climate changes, farmers will contend with intensifying floods, broader drought footprints, increasing storms.
            https://www.dw.com/image/43195385_401.png
            http://www.lewisu.edu/experts/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Disaster.jpg

            CO2 effect on vertebrates——-Vic / November 21, 2016

            Ocean acidification’s other evil twin – Blood acidification.

            Going from 280 to over 415 ppm CO2 we’ve increased the pH of our blood by 0.1
            (equivalent to an increase in acidity of 30%).

            There has Been NO LONG TERM MEDICAL STUDIES about the harm we are doing to our health and our grand childrens’ DNA!

          • Kenneth Clark December 13, 2019 at 1:49 am #

            The one statement you make concerning the nutrient levels of crops falling as a result of higher Co2 is absolutely and unequivocally false.
            It is a direct result of the creation of genetic modification and hybrid strain creation to speed grow crops that have caused drastic nutrient level drops in food crops.
            Do you realize that due to the crossbreeding of corn and the genetic modifications of it have rendered true corn extinct. Corn today in no way shape or form resembles real corn from 100 years ago nor does it have 1/10th of the nutrition level. It has been crossbred to produce sugars. Nothing more nothing less.
            True corn no longer exists on this planet.
            Thus the fact that you’re wrong assumption of this area of your cut and paste bonanza above, renders all you have cut and pasted useless and of no factual content.

          • R. Kooi December 13, 2019 at 4:29 pm #

            Those hybridized crops are hardly a drop in the bucket….plus the Research Clearly was comparing apples to apples!

            The same crops with radically increased CO2 as those without the radically increased CO2.

            You Mean ‘true corn’——-maize?
            “Corn, (Zea mays), also called Indian corn or maize, cereal plant of the grass family (Poaceae) and its edible grain. The domesticated crop originated in the Americas and is one of the most widely distributed of the world’s food crops.Nov 26, 2019
            Corn | History, Cultivation, Uses, & Description | Britannica
            https://www.britannica.com › plant › corn-plant “

          • Kenneth Clark December 17, 2019 at 11:16 pm #

            I am far more familiar with corn and may other food crops than you may know. Your first statement of the modified crops being “a drop in the bucket” for nutritional drops is nothing short of a joke. Every vegetable, every “processed” food stuffs that pass you lips , as well as the billions of other people, is modified to the point that it required 3 to 4 times the amount, at minimum, of the food to have not even 80% of the nutritional value of its original ancestor. It has little to nothing to do with your Co2 obsurd claim.
            One ear of Corn or maize that was consumed during the time of the Aztecs had far more nutritional value than 10 currently grown and sent all over the planet due directly to genetic modification alone.
            Study a little. It may help you actually learn something other than cut & paste to be nothing more than a useful idiot to your masters.

          • R. Kooi December 18, 2019 at 12:32 am #

            We are talking about RAW harvested food grains
            (grown under current farming methods v. those grown with dramatically higher atmospheric CO2) which are the staple of the world’s nutrition….not your cute little dance off into LA LA LAND!
            .
            CO2 dramatically decreased nutrition.
            …………………………………………………………………………………………..
            ENVIRONMENT
            Here’s Why Plants Aren’t Just Growing Faster With All The CO2 in The Atmosphere
            SEBASTIAN LEUZINGER, THE CONVERSATION 19 OCT 2019
            —————————————————————————————
            Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is warming our climate, but it also affects plants directly.

            A tree planted in the 1850s will have seen its diet (in terms of atmospheric carbon dioxide) double from its early days to the middle of our century. More CO2 generally leads to higher rates of photosynthesis and less water consumption in plants.

            So, at first sight,
            it seems that CO2 can only be beneficial for our plants.

            But things are a lot more complex than that.
            Higher levels of photosynthesis don’t necessarily lead to more biomass production, let alone to more carbon dioxide sequestration.

            At night,
            plants release CO2 just like animals or humans, and if those respiration rates increase simultaneously, the turnover of carbon increases, but the carbon stock doesn’t.

            You can think of this like a bank account – if you earn more but also spend more, you’re not becoming any richer.

            Even if plants grow more and faster,
            some studies show there is a risk for them to have shorter lifespans. This again can have negative effects on the carbon locked away in biomass and soils.

            In fact,
            fast-growing trees (e.g. plantation forests) store a lot less carbon per surface area than old, undisturbed forests that show very little growth.

            Another example shows that plants in the deep shade may profit from higher levels of CO2, leading to more vigorous growth of vines, faster turnover, and, again, less carbon stored per surface area.
            .
            Water savings

            The effect of CO2 on the amount of water plants use may be more important than the primary effect on photosynthesis. Plants tend to close their leaf pores slightly under elevated levels of CO2, leading to water savings.

            In certain (dry) areas, this may indeed lead to more plant growth.

            But again,
            things are much more complex and we don’t always see positive responses.

            Research we published in Nature, Plants this year on grasslands around the globe showed that while dry sites can profit from more CO₂, there are complex interactions with rainfall.

            Depending on when the rain falls, some sites show zero or even negative effects in terms of biomass production.

            Currently,
            a net amount of three gigatons of carbon are thought to be removed from the atmosphere by plants every year. This stands against over 11 gigatons of human-induced release of CO2.

            It is also unclear what fraction of the three gigatons plants are taking up due to rising levels of CO2.

            In summary,
            rising CO2 is certainly not bad for plants, and if we restored forested land at a global scale, we could help capture additional atmospheric carbon dioxide.

            But such simulations are optimistic and rely on conversion of much needed agricultural land to forests.

            Reductions in our emissions are unavoidable, and we have very strong evidence that plants alone will not be able to solve our CO2 problem.

            Sebastian Leuzinger, Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology.

          • Kenneth Clark December 18, 2019 at 3:02 am #

            Yep we are talking RAW, and in addition to the much, much lower nutritional content due directly to “science” crossbreeding and modification for speed growth, if left unreserved for 12 hours an additional 50% of nutrients dissipate from the RAW foods. Therefore, due to the substantial loss of nutrients due to speed growth and the delays in preservation of these foods, is your direct results of Low nutritional values and cause of overweight and obese humans due to the body requiring more nutrients to survive and overeating to satisfy the demand if nutrients.

            Have you looked at the end grain is a 2X4 at your local building supply? Have you noticed the distance between the grain in the wood. Did you realize these same doped growth techniques are used to speed grow trees used for lumber which dramatically weekend the structural integrity of the wood. Compare the same type of 2X4 to an “Old Growth” tree of the same genus, there is no comparison to the structural strength of the Old Growth (non-enhanced) to the enhanced (speed grown) tree. This is not the to your “The sky is falling” hypothese, it is due directly to “scientific” intervention in manipulating nature. I can show you structures built with old growth 2X4s on 30″ centers that have been in existence for 75+ years and also show you structures built with “speed grown” lumber on 16″ centers from the same genus of tree that are falling apart after 8 to 10 years. Your manufactured crisis fails.

          • R. Kooi December 18, 2019 at 2:58 pm #

            ALL of that diversion may be true,——–> exaggerated for your political arguments!
            …the fact remains that the Constantly Rising CO2 in the atmosphere is damaging nutrition.
            .
            Direct human health risks of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide!
            .
            Environmental toxins impair immune system over multiple generations
            Posted: 02 Oct 2019 11:42 AM PDT
            New Solid Research shows that
            Maternal exposure to a common and ubiquitous form of industrial pollution can harm the immune system
            of offspring
            and
            that this injury is PASSED ALONG
            to subsequent generations, weakening the body’s defenses against infections such as the influenza virus, Colds, Flu’s…and suspected in many more health issues…Asthma, Auto-Immune diseases, mental retardation etc.
            .
            “CO2 Health Impacts in Confined Indoor Spaces
            A considerable amount of recent literature worldwide has documented CO2 impacts in classrooms from kindergartens to universities
            (Bako-Biro et al 2011;
            Widory and Javoy 2003;
            Kukadia et al. 2005;
            Dijken et al. 5 2005;
            Branco et al. 2015;
            Heudorf et al. 2009;
            Santamouris et al. 2008;
            Ferreira and Cardoso 2014;
            Gaihre et al. 2014;
            Jurado, et al. 2014;
            Lee and Chang 2000;
            Muscatiello et al 2015; /
            Carreiro-Martins et al. 2014).
            .
            Most agree levels of CO2 in 20-50% of classrooms commonly exceed 1,000 ppm and are often as high as 6,000 ppm for extended periods. Recorded impacts on health are of a minor nature but include sneezing, rales, wheezing, rhinitis, and asthma
            (Carreiro-Martins et al. 2014;
            Ferreira and Cardoso 2014).
            .
            Other symptoms; i.e. cough, headache, and irritation of mucous membranes, were also identified
            (Ferreira and Cardoso 2014).
            .
            Lack of concentration was associated with CO2 levels above 1,000 ppm.
            Gaihre et al. (2014) show some neuro-physiologic symptoms (i.e., headache, fatigue, difficulty concentrating) at CO2 levels greater than 1,000 ppm (Muscatiello et al. 2015).”
            .
            “In workplaces such as offices, high CO2 level impacts show a range of health effects similar to classrooms, depending on the number or density of workers and the types of ventilation systems
            (Lu et al. 2015; Tsai et al. 2012,
            Seppanen et al. 1999).
            .
            Such studies make a link between CO2 levels in offices and Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) with workers complaining of headaches, dizziness, fatigue, respiratory tract symptoms, eye symptoms, nasal and mucous membrane symptoms
            (Seppanen et al. 1999;
            Lu et al. 2015; Tsai et al. 2012;
            Vehviläinen et al. 2016).
            Seppanen et al. (1999).”
            .
            .
            .
            Unless you ARE a turnip,
            Kindly be advised that for tens of millions-upon-millions of years, all LIFE on Planet Earth has thrived on atmospheric CO2 & GH Gas levels working in a multiplier affect with water vapour at GOLDILOCKS LEVELS between 180ppm & 300ppm.
            .
            THRIVED!
            For Many Millions of years…why on god’s green earth would YOU be arguing with millions of years of SUCCESS!
            HUMAN SUCCESS.
            TURNIPS SUCCESS.
            Why Argue FOR these drastic ABNORMAL INCREASES in GHG…unless your intent is to continue the MULTI TRILLION DOLLAR CASH FLOW to the DEEP STATE Fossil Industrialist
            and their bankers.
            Those CO2 numbers (( 180ppm–300ppm )) are the Goldilocks levels for all mankind !
            At those Goldilocks levels,
            Mankind was created, evolved and, according to the Biblical Imperative, became Fruitful and Multiplied.

          • R. Kooi February 26, 2020 at 3:19 pm #

            40 years!
            Other data extends back 140 years…shows an even greater increase in Natural Disasters.

          • R. Kooi September 25, 2019 at 4:48 pm #

            Well, what did you expect when you pull crap out of your ars.

          • Sanity&Reason September 25, 2019 at 5:00 pm #

            Oh right yah, ya got me there, didn’t ya? Just breathe in and out and you’ll see how you’ve been hoodwinked. It’s actually very sad, on top of being incredibly criminal.

          • R. Kooi September 25, 2019 at 5:22 pm #

            2 minutes ago
            “Fox News host Shep Smith’s Tuesday show, Judge Andrew Napolitano explained that President Donald Trump admitted to a crime on camera and that crime is an impeachable one.
            “It is a crime for the president to solicit aid for his campaign from a foreign government,” said Napolitano.
            “So, that to which the president has admitted is in and of itself a crime?” Smith asked.
            “Yes,
            it is the same crime for which the Trump Organization was investigated by Bob Mueller, who decided not to seek an indictment because there wasn’t enough evidence,” Napolitano agreed.
            “Well, no, he said he didn’t seek an indictment because he wasn’t charged because of the DOJ rule that said, ‘you can lay it out, but you
            can’t charge,’” Smith corrected.”

          • R. Kooi December 12, 2019 at 11:20 pm #

            YOU? Had a Legit. Graph?

          • R. Kooi February 26, 2020 at 3:20 pm #

            You didn’t include a link…where is the link?

          • R. Kooi August 26, 2019 at 6:59 pm #

            And that is YOUR LIE!

          • boys3rsk August 26, 2019 at 6:17 pm #

            Another communist LIE. The wind energy costs more to operate . It is another SCAM by the communist, democrats. Wind energy costs more than fossil fuel energy. Look it up.

          • R. Kooi August 28, 2019 at 6:05 pm #

            Wind and Solar Electric has increased 100 fold since 2000!

            Renewable Energy Surges to 18% of U.S. Power Mix | Fortune

            https://fortune.com/2018/02/18/renewable-energy-us-power-mix

            Solar and wind projects made up roughly 62% of new power construction in 2017, as their cost continues to plummet.

            Author: David Z. Morris

            U.S. Reports a Major Milestone in Wind and Solar Power …

          • Mike N August 28, 2019 at 5:24 pm #

            Solar and wind are so inefficient that they could not survive on their own without massive subsidies.

          • R. Kooi August 28, 2019 at 6:24 pm #

            The most heavily Subsidized & Supported Industry in the world today…is the Fossil Fuel Industries and the Billionaires that own them.
            .
            “…The solar and wind industries are each creating permanent WELL PAYING jobs at a rate 12 times faster than that of the rest of the U.S. economy, according to a new report.
            The study, published by the (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that high paying solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20% annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011….”

            7 Republican Led States have 30% to 50% of the energy from RENEWABLE & DEPENDABLE SOLAR AND WIND…rave about well paying jobs & increased tax base.
            .
            “In April, green energy provided more electricity than coal-fired power plants in the United States. Although coal will likely still dominate over renewable energy throughout the rest of this year, this situation was unthinkable only five years ago. The trend seems clear: renewable energy is growing faster than forecasted and is bound to overtake coal for good…” May 3, 2019

            The Killer Coal Monoply Sells you electricity at —5-7-9CENTS per KWH—-> & their price is going up, Subsidies are rising as well.
            Clean & Dependable Solar & Wind sells it at —- 2-3-4 CENTS per KWH—> Prices are FALLING ! Subsidies are FALLING as well.
            Natural Gas, which still produces CO2 (but less)—2-4-5 CENTS per KWH—> Static prices but subsidies are rising.
            .
            Nuclear Electric Generation————– sells for 25 CENTS per KWH——> Prices are climbing!
            https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/09/uk-electricity-generation-falls-to-1994-levels-as-renewable-generation-soars/

          • Mike N August 29, 2019 at 12:33 am #

            All subsidies should be removed and let the market decide the most cost efficient.

          • R. Kooi August 29, 2019 at 1:46 am #

            There ARE CLEAR NATIONAL PRIORITIES that the NATION requires and must then encourage.
            Just like the Eisenhower National Hwy program.

          • Mike N August 29, 2019 at 3:57 am #

            Sorry, but I am not a believer of man’s affect on global warming. So far models have not proven to be accurate. There are too many other factors that affect the climate.

          • R. Kooi August 30, 2019 at 1:14 am #

            When you get all of your information from OPINION MEDIA like Daily Caller, Breitbart, New American etc…you will never find ALL OF THE SUCCESSFUL MODELS CURRENTLY BEING USED AROUND THE WORLD!!!

            Central estimates of all IPCC Temperature projections in years, were and are still accurate & within the projected ‘envelope,’ .

            ___________________________

            http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/independent-satellite-data-verifies-reality-of-global-warming/article/547843

            ___________________________

            Moreover,

            “I add, there “Was and Is a long track-record ” in the ” scientific literature ” of successful projections/predictions by climate models.

            .

            It was collected and documented by Barton Paul Levenson, I quoted Barton as follows below.

            .

            “Global Warming Science & Climate Models have successfully predicted for over 60 YEARS!

            .

            See the 1958 & 1965 AAAS & Presidential Advisory Councils Research Reports & Warnings on Global Warming which causes Climate Change.

            1.

            That the globe would warm

            .

            ((directly counter to the Mini ICE Age myth perpetuated by the Skeptic/Fossil Fuel Industrialists

            —a mini ice age PREDICTED in the ’70s, & again in the ’80s, ’90s, 2007-2009, 2015, 2016, 2018. and now again in 2020,

            we will be up to our assets in that mini ice age in 2020))

            and

            2. about how fast it would warm,

            and

            3. about how much it would warm.

            .

            http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6242/1469

            .

            4. That the troposphere would warm

            and

            5. The stratosphere would cool.

            .

            (( http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadat/images/update_images/global_upper_air.png ))

            .

            (( not one SKEPTIC has offered any full scientific explanation for this GLOBAL WARMING SCIENCE PROOF ))

            .

            6. That nighttime temperature would increase more than daytime temperatures.

            .

            (( https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/climate-change-rule-thumb-cold-things-warming-faster-warm-things ))

            .

            7. That winter temperatures would increase more than summer temperatures.

            .

            (( After all of the SUB ZERO temps this year, Wisconsin meteorologists pooled their data and found nite time winter cold temps have WARMED 10 degrees of the last 40 years))

            .

            8. Polar amplification (greater temperature increase as you move toward the poles).

            .

            Arctic amplification | National Snow and Ice Data Center

            .

            (( https://nsidc.org/about/monthlyhighlights/2009/09/arctic-amplification ))

            .

            9. That the Arctic would warm faster than the Antarctic.

            .

            Arctic melt versus Antarctic freeze: Is Antarctica warming …

            https://nsidc.org/…/11/arctic-melt-versus-antarctic-freeze-antarctica-warming-or-not

            .

            10. The magnitude (0.3 K) and duration (two years) of the cooling from the Mt. Pinatubo eruption.

            .

            11. They made a retrodiction for Last Glacial Maximum sea surface temperatures which was inconsistent with the paleo evidence, and better paleo evidence showed the models were right.

            .

            12. They predicted a trend significantly different and differently signed from UAH satellite temperatures, and then a bug was found in the satellite data.

            .

            13. The amount of water vapor feedback due to ENSO.

            .

            14. The response of southern ocean winds to the ozone hole.

            .

            15. The expansion of the Hadley cells.

            .

            16. The poleward movement of storm tracks.

            .

            17. The rising of the tropopause and the effective radiating altitude.

            .

            18. The clear sky super greenhouse effect from increased water vapor in the tropics.

            .

            19. The near constancy of relative humidity on a global average.

            .

            20. That coastal upwelling of ocean water would increase.

            .

            ———–> Broecker is probably best known for popularizing the term “global warming” through his 1975 paper

            . “Climatic

            Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” ”

            ———–> “Climate Change” as used today, was first researched & defined by Alexander von Humboldt in 1799, while on a world wide lecture tour in Venezuela.

            .

            ————> Spot On Accurate Projections of Threatening Climate Changes from Human Triggered Global Warming.

            .

            Models v. Observations
            http://davidappell.blogspot.com/2017/01/how-are-climate-models-doing-with.html
            Active Graph: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46384067

            .

          • Mike N August 30, 2019 at 3:25 am #

            IPCC has an agenda. Models are made by input from people that want certain results. What happened to Gore’s predictions. When you start worrying about cow flatulence a reasonable person would have to question the validity of man made global warming. There are to many natural causes such as the sun. I believe in the balance of nature. Man does not have the ability to influence that balance. I like to apply logic to what I read. I did a lot of research on global warming and even attended a seminar last night and cannot be convinced that man has more influence than nature.

          • R. Kooi August 30, 2019 at 2:32 pm #

            1.

            IPCC does no research!

            2.

            Gore is not involved with the scientific community…he is a failed politician and a successful venture capitalist..and he gives a fair number of speeches…he donates the speaking fees to Global Warming Activists.

            3.

            Solar Energy Output has Decreased over

            decades, but Global Warming has Increased.

            Translation: It Is Not The Sun Causing ALL of this rapid Warming.

            https://static.skepticalscience.com/pics/TvsTSI.png

            ====================================================================================

            Against ACTIVE Graphs: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46384067

            http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/600px-Temp-sunspot-co2.svg.png

            .

            Even though solar thermal energy has decreased a bit over the last 40+ years….Global Warming and CO2 are SO STRONG, that temperatures have actually increased at a faster rate!

            ———————————————————————————————————-

            Some say humans are insignificant?

            MAN MADE !
            ACID RAIN killed off huge swaths of Forests & Fields of grain.
            ,(1st Documented In Germany, but severely affecting nations around the world),
            infra structure,
            Farmlands and many Rivers and creeks around the world !
            .
            “…Acid rain is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it possesses elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH).
            .
            It has harmful effects on plants, aquatic creatures, & infrastructure.
            .
            Mainstream Science determined through
            Examination,
            Laboratory Experiments,
            Scientific Technology,
            Peer Review,
            Publication &
            Replication
            ((repeatability)):
            .
            Acid rain
            is caused by MAN MADE emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, etc.which react with the water molecules in the atmosphere to produce acids.”
            .
            Centuries of Human Industry DUMPING TOXIC Gasses & Chemicals into our atmosphere.
            .
            Vast Majority sourced to Human Heavy Industry and COAL ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION.
            .
            A very Conservative President with allied world leaders took concerted action and ended this assault on our planet.
            .
            Other Chemicals were later banned as additional contributors to the damage done to Earth.
            1.
            HUMANS Cause damage to EARTH.
            2.
            HUMANS Can CORRECT those damages to EARTH.
            *
            ” Smog Deaths In 1948 Led To Clean Air Laws : NPR

            https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103359330

            Apr 22, 2009 – The mill town of Donora, Pa., seen Jan. 1, 1948. On Oct. 27 of that year, a smoky, lethal smog killed 20 people. The air was polluted by local steel plants, railroad yards and zinc works.
            **
            MAN MADE
            .Ozone Hole
            .Ozone Depletion
            Near epidemics of Skin Cancers around the world were examined by Main Steam Science, Laboratory experiments,Scientific Technology, Peer Review, Publication, Replication:

            Ozone is a highly atmospheric Gas reactive molecule that contains three oxygen atoms. It is constantly being formed & broken down in the high atmosphere,
            6.2 to 31 miles (10 to 50 kilometers) above Earth, in the region called the stratosphere.
            .
            The Ozone layer has deteriorating due to the release of industrial pollution containing the chemicals chlorine and bromine.
            .
            Centuries of Massive Human Industry DUMPING TOXIC Gasses & Chemicals into our atmosphere.
            .
            Such deterioration allows large amounts of ultraviolet B rays to reach Earth, which can cause skin cancer and cataracts in humans and harm animals as well.

            A Truly Conservative President, along with world leaders, took decisive & Affordable Action to fight for Earth.

            Some additional threats to our climate / atmosphere have been added & proven successful.

            Google the Montreal Protocols.
            Thanks to this UNITED Effort….the latest studies indicate a 20%+ healing of Ozone depletion and a reduction of Skin Cancers increase.
            .
            NOW you see that humans damage the atmosphere & climate.
            NOW you see humans can repair the damage we do to the atmosphere & climate.

            But Wait, THOUSANDS OF NEW CHEMICALS, untested by the EPA, are released into our atmosphere and AGAIN, the OZONE CHALLENGE and the THREAT of Cancers is growing again.
            **
            **
            “The Great Smog of 1952 – History in the THE MASS KILLER SMOG !

            http://www.history.com/news/the-killer-fog-that-blanketed-london-60-years-ago

            “Dec 6, 2012 – In the Great Smog of 1952, the city of London was brought to a standstill by a dense blanket of TOXIC smog that reduced visibility to a few feet.
            … The “Big Smoke” was the worst air pollution crisis in European history, killing an estimated 8,000 to 12,000 people.

            THAT was 7 decades ago…The Cost Of Doing nothing about Global Warming & Climate Change:

            https://hbr.org/2017/06/if-you-think-fighting-climate-change-will-be-expensive-calculate-the-cost-of-letting-it-happen

          • R. Kooi August 30, 2019 at 4:03 pm #

            Hey Mike N

            We shown to commune with the earth and all the creatures there in.

            Job 12:7-10

            ESV / 178 helpful votes
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            “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;

            the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or

            the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and

            the fish of the sea will declare to you.

            Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?
            In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

          • Kenneth Clark August 30, 2019 at 7:48 pm #

            Wow!!!!
            You are actually scraping the metal off the barrel bottom…
            …a Progressive Liberal copying and pasting the Holy Bible. What for that lightening…

          • Mike N August 31, 2019 at 1:46 pm #

            So what are you trying to say? I believe that God is in control. I don’t believe that man is significant to make a dent in the climate. There are too many natural events that are much more significant.

          • R. Kooi August 31, 2019 at 2:15 pm #

            So, We can freely choose to Sin and Damage God’s creation
            …but GOD IS IN CHARGE AND WANTS IT TO HAPPEN?

            Some say humans are insignificant?

            MAN-MADE! ACID RAIN killed off huge swaths of Forests & Fields of grain.
            ————–>> 1st Documented In Germany, but severely affecting nations around the world!
            infrastructure, Farmlands and many Rivers and creeks around the world!
            .
            “…Acid rain is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it possesses elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH).
            .
            It has harmful effects on plants, aquatic creatures, & infrastructure.
            Mainstream Science determined through
            Examination,
            Laboratory Experiments,
            Scientific Technology,
            Peer Review,
            Publication &
            Replication.
            .
            Acid rain is caused by MMAN-MADE emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, etc. which react with the water molecules in the atmosphere to produce acids.”
            .
            Centuries of Human Industry DUMPING TOXIC Gasses & Chemicals into our atmosphere.
            Vast Majority sourced to Human Heavy Industry and COAL ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION.
            .
            An ULTRA Conservative President with allied world leaders took concerted action and ended this assault on our planet…banning use of specific target chemicals/gasses by specific industries.
            .
            Other Chemicals were later banned as additional contributors to the damage done to Earth.
            1.
            HUMANS CAN Cause damage to EARTH.
            2.
            HUMANS Can CORRECT those damages to EARTH.
            *
            ” Smog Deaths In 1948 Led To Clean Air Laws: NPR
            https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103359330
            .Apr 22, 2009

            – The mill town of Donora, Pa., seen Jan. 1, 1948. On Oct. 27 of that year, a smoky, lethal smog killed 20 people. The air was polluted by local steel plants, railroad yards, & zinc works.
            **
            MAN-MADE
            Ozone Hole
            Ozone Depletion
            Near epidemics of Skin Cancers around the world were examined by Main Steam Science, Laboratory experiments, Scientific Technology, Peer Review, Publication, Replication:

            Ozone is a highly atmospheric Gas reactive molecule that contains three oxygen atoms. It is constantly being formed & broken down in the high atmosphere, 6.2 to 31 miles (10 to 50 kilometers) above Earth, in the region called the stratosphere.
            .
            The Ozone layer has deteriorated due to the release of industrial pollution containing the chemicals chlorine and bromine.
            .
            Centuries of Massive Human Industry DUMPING TOXIC Gasses & Chemicals into our atmosphere.
            .
            Such deterioration allows large amounts of ultraviolet-B rays to reach Earth, which can cause skin cancer and cataracts in humans and harm animals as well.

            A Truly Conservative President, along with world leaders, took decisive & Affordable Action to fight for Earth.

            Some additional threats to our climate/atmosphere have been added & proven successful.

            Google the Montreal Protocols!
            .Thanks to this UNITED Effort….the latest studies indicate a 20%+ healing of Ozone depletion and a reduction of Skin Cancers increase.
            .
            NOW you see that humans damage the atmosphere & climate.
            NOW you see humans can repair the damage we do to the atmosphere & climate.

            But Wait, THOUSANDS OF NEW CHEMICALS, untested by the EPA, are released into our atmosphere and AGAIN, the OZONE CHALLENGE and the THREAT of Cancers is growing again.
            .
            “The Great Smog of 1952 – History in the MASS KILLER SMOG!
            .
            http://www.history.com/news/the-killer-fog-that-blanketed-london-60-years-ago

            “Dec 6, 2012 – In the Great Smog of 1952, the city of London was brought to a standstill by a dense blanket of TOXIC smog that reduced visibility to a few feet … The “Big Smoke” was the worst air pollution crisis in European history, killing an estimated 8,000 to 12,000 people.

          • Mike N August 31, 2019 at 2:23 pm #

            You’re being ridiculous. Certainly man could set off nuclear bombs and destroy the earth. You have to give man some credit for their survival.

          • R. Kooi August 31, 2019 at 2:16 pm #

            God is in control…so you are FREE to behave in any way you wish?

          • R. Kooi August 28, 2019 at 6:25 pm #

            “It makes business sense,
            BIG Business has the Sense to GO Dependable & CHEAPER RENEWABLE ENERGY—-
            .
            As evidence of how renewables are cheaper, take for example,
            Northern Indiana Public Service Co. Indiana is the nation’s third-largest consumer of coal,
            after Texas and Illinois, and NIPSCO got nearly all of its electricity from coal-fired plants as recently as 2010.
            .
            It’s now planning to shut down two of its three coal plants by 2028 and replace them with renewables.
            .
            “Cost-competitiveness that has been evolving in the market,
            pointing toward the need to accelerate retirement of our coal-fired electric generation and replace it with lower-cost renewable sources,” it said.
            Similarly, American Electric Power Co., one of the nation’s largest consumers of coal, told regulators it wants to build 900 MW of wind and solar generation.
            .
            “These decisions are being driven by economics, where the utility is saying renewable energy is the least-cost and less-risk option to customers,” said Ben Inskeep, an analyst at EQ Research told E&E News.
            .
            And it’s not just utilities that are getting into the game.
            Corporate purchases of renewable energy have grown around the world, reaching 7.2 gigawatts in 2018 according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

            https://cleantechnica.com/2018/12/14/renewables-are-the-cleanest-the-cheapest/

          • R. Kooi August 30, 2019 at 1:21 am #

            Dear Mike…The most heavily subsidized energy on the planet is Fossil Fuels.

            Trillions of dollars every year around the world are dumped on those Deep State Industrialists as supports and subsidies.

            Paul Ryan in his lengthy lamentation, August 2016, bemoaned the FACT that by years end, the USA would go over the $1 TRILLION mark in Supports/Subsidies/Freebies/free infrastructure construction and maintenance etc….even a foreign aid program designed to reimburse those nations for the subsidies they pay our firms.

            ———————————————–

            “…The solar and wind industries are each creating permanent WELL PAYING jobs at a rate 12 times faster than that of the rest of the U.S. economy, according to a new report.
            The study, published by the (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that high paying solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20% annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011….”

            7 Republican Led States have 30% to 50% of the energy from RENEWABLE & DEPENDABLE SOLAR AND WIND…rave about well paying jobs & increased tax base.
            .
            “In April, green energy provided more electricity than coal-fired power plants in the United States. Although coal will likely still dominate over renewable energy throughout the rest of this year, this situation was unthinkable only five years ago. The trend seems clear: renewable energy is growing faster than forecasted and is bound to overtake coal for good…” May 3, 2019

            The Killer Coal Monoply Sells you electricity at —5-7-9CENTS per KWH
            —-> & their price is going up, Subsidies are rising as well.

            Clean & Dependable Solar & Wind sells it at —- 2-3-4 CENTS per KWH
            —> Prices are FALLING! Subsidies are FALLING as well.

            Natural Gas, which still produces CO2 (but less)—2-4-5 CENTS per KWH
            —> Static prices but subsidies are rising.
            .
            Nuclear Electric Generation————– sells for 25 CENTS per KWH——> Prices are climbing!
            https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/09/uk-electricity-generation-falls-to-1994-levels-as-renewable-generation-soars/

          • Mike N August 30, 2019 at 3:15 am #

            I have invested in oil wells and have not see much benefit other than some tax write offs.

        • R. Kooi March 5, 2019 at 11:37 am #

          DUMB COMMENT !

          • Stefan Gendron February 13, 2020 at 1:53 am #

            Your comment is dumb it has been proven by scientists that fossil fuels have increased life expectancy and also the amount of life that can be supported. Try living in Alberta when the weather is 30 below zero on average thru January with frozen windmills.

          • R. Kooi February 13, 2020 at 2:12 am #

            Energy has improved lives and lengths of life .
            Fossil Fuels are, by far, the single most SUBSIDIZED and SUPPORTED Energy source worldwide.

            Today we have options…and I have seen many many Wind Turbines near my cousins house outside Fairbanks…it is a lot colder there over longer periods of time.

            So kindly don’t lie to me about frozen windmills.
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        • R. Kooi June 25, 2019 at 1:34 pm #

          Human life span has doubled…which has not a damn thing to do with coal, but has everything to do with technological & scientific discoveries…yes coal largely provided electricity…long term, how ever caused as many problems as it contributed to advancement.

          ——————

          Dumping Toxic Waste is the Cheapest Waste Disposal method. Every year in EACH of the nation’s CLEANEST Killer Coal ELECTRIC GENERATION plants produce

          140 million tons of HIGHLY TOXIC COAL ASH WASTE / Year ——> the toxic by-product that is left over after the coal is burned and Smoke is Scrubbed.

          .

          THE CLEANEST COAL PLANT still produces MILLIONS of Tons of TOXIC Coal Ash / year.

          .

          All that ash has to go somewhere, so it’s dumped in the backyards of power plants across the nation —into earth lined open-air ponds/pits / precarious surface-waste pools.

          1000’s of them in 47 states…91% leaching toxins into our drinking water aquifers.
          .

          Coal ash pollution/toxic waste contains high levels of toxic heavy metals such as
          arsenic,
          lead,
          selenium,
          lithium,
          other
          cancer-causing agents.
          .
          The public health hazards & environmental threats to nearby communities from unsafe coal ash dumping have been known for many DECADES, including increased risk of cancer, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, birth defects, reproductive failure,

          ((((asthma (1 million new cases/yr.) with hundreds of deaths and tens of billions of medical treatments))), and other illnesses.
          .
          Coal ash is not subject to federal supervision, and state laws governing coal combustion waste disposal are weak or nonexistent.

        • R. Kooi August 19, 2019 at 11:09 pm #

          PRE modern science life expectancy was well short of your statement.
          POST modern science life expectancy has been expanding, whether or not Coal or Oil or Hydro, or Nuclear were used for energy!!.

        • R. Kooi September 22, 2019 at 4:23 pm #

          How did coal INVENT antibiotics??
          or even the Aspirin?

          • Sterling Mossed February 13, 2020 at 2:09 pm #

            Knock Knock
            Industrial Revolution, Mass Production of thing like Aspirin and Antibiotics.
            And I was talking early fossil fuel.
            How do those Aspirin and others get to you?
            Trucks and you and your car, not your Horse and Buggy!!
            Can you imagine the Horse excrement in LA Metro, if there were 25,000,000 Horses??
            A Scene worse than Liberal San Fran!

          • R. Kooi February 13, 2020 at 2:51 pm #

            “The UAH’s Dr. Roy Spencer & Dr. John Christy?
            —Both leading deniers?
            —Both having predicted that Global Warming would End
            around 2000 as the Earth would return to its falling temps, as we enter the next Glaciation.
            .
            —reported just a few months ago, that the UAH data
            shows A “Global Temperature/Climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978 [of] +0.14C [0.22+F]
            ——————-> every decade” since then! ——-> (no Pause in Warming? not even a slow down?)
            .
            THAT is 1.4C per century!
            ——————-> FAR HIGHER THAN ANY STATISTICAL Varient.
            In Geologic History, a truly rapid rise in temps was
            5C over 5000 years! (( —> 0.1C per century ))
            versus human caused
            temperature rise of over ((1.4C in 100 years! ))
            ((We are driving temps 14 times FASTER than normal))
            .
            Temperatures have been increasing all along !
            1.
            NO Global Warming PAUSE ! —–> NONE !
            2.
            NO Global WarmingHIATUS ! —–> NONE !
            3.
            sure as hell, –NO COOLING ! —–> NONE !
            .
            SKEPTIC Dr.Roy SPENCER:
            “my UAH cohort & boss John Christy, who does the detailed matching
            between satellites, is pretty convinced that the RSS data is undergoing
            ” SPURIOUS COOLING ” because RSS is still using the old NOAA-15
            satellite which has a decaying orbit…”
            ..
            Spencer & Christy found it ” ideologically convenient ” to allow the
            decay inaccuracies to support their previous fallacious predictions.
            .
            So
            2014 was the hottest temperatures ever recorded
            until
            2015 was the hottest temperatures ever recorded
            until
            2016 was the hottest temperatures ever recorded
            and
            2017 was the hottest 2nd to 2016 !
            2018 just snuggled in between these 2
            2019 has snuggled in next to 2016…
            and
            Wait for it…they are STILL predicting an ICE AGE…just 50 or 60 years late!
            .
            WE HAVE THE HOTTEST 5 YEARS in thousands of years!
            **********************************
            “A Maddening Corrupting Influence of Commerce & Capitalism and ANTI INTELLECTUALISM!”
            upon the The SEARCH for TRUTH:
            .
            Coal:——————-19th century best available tech
            ==========================================
            Oil / nuclear: ——–20th century best available tech
            ==========================================
            Wind and Solar: —21st century best available tech
            ===========================================

          • R. Kooi February 14, 2020 at 3:07 pm #

            And Coal/Wood/OIl were energy sources we needed then…
            Coal for Heat / Energy………..19th and 20th Century Technology
            Oil/Nuclear for Heat/Energy…..later 20th Century Technology
            now we have:
            Solar Wind for Heat/Energy…..21st Century Technology
            And
            Solar and Wind are FAR LESS Expensive and getting even less expensive.
            .
            Coal & OIl are More Expensive and getting more expensive with increasing demands for higher and higher subsidies/supports.

          • Sterling Mossed February 13, 2020 at 2:14 pm #

            And of course concrete, a LOT of CO2 there, but then you have hospitals. And the real reason our life expectancy has increased dramatically, is death at Birth, both Mother and Baby, and child survival from 1 -12. A lot of that from increased hygiene and available medicine, again dependent on FF for trans
            And what would pump all the water from LV to LA here, Solar?
            Actually it’s Hydro, but many on the left are against any new Dams so….

          • R. Kooi February 13, 2020 at 2:44 pm #

            A Market-Based Bipartisan Climate Solution : H.R. 763: A POLICY FOR A HEALTHY, STABLE AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA

            =========================
            “There is no need to add additional taxes to combat climate change.
            The best bet is simply quit subsidizing those things causing AGW.
            .
            World-wide,
            Fossil Fuels & industries suck up subsidy Dollars.
            SUCK UP 6.5% of GDP … TRILLIONS of DOLLARS in subsidies / supports
            (non taxable supports & subsidies!)

            In most cases the newer more modern energy and agricultural systems are more profitable and less damaging to the environment already.
            So there is no need to tax people to subsidize those things harming the environment,
            then taxing us again to penalize those same ones we just subsidized!
            A house divided against itself cannot stand. -Lincoln (paraphrasing the Bible)
            It is time for a strong political leader to take charge and end this deadlock.

            We could either reduce taxes and let the new technologies out compete the obsolete systems we depend on now,
            or we could keep taxes the same and simply redirect the subsidies we use for fossil fuels and destructive industrialized agriculture
            towards modern sustainable systems instead. The one thing that won’t work is keep the
            tax and spend schemes the Neo-Luddites have made for themselves now,
            and also add even more tax and spend schemes for their competing new technologies too!
            Yes that’s right, the top two causes for global warming are heavily subsidized.[1][2][3][4] It is literally insanity.

            Michael Barnard, Low-carbon Innovation Strategist

            What’s emerging is the following:

            Electrify everything. Convert all energy services to work directly from electricity instead of fossil fuels. Transportation, industry and agriculture. All of it. All gas appliances must go. All road transport must be electric. Most trains and a lot of planes must shift to electric. All heat from electricity. The USA throws away two thirds of all primary energy, mostly in the form of waste heat from fossil fuels used in inherently inefficient combustion processes. We only have to replace a third of the actual primary energy we use today to maintain our lifestyle and economy.
            Overbuild renewable generation. All other forms of generation with the exception of nuclear were overbuilt, so we’ll do the same with wind and solar, and they are really cheap, so that’s not that expensive. After all, $3 trillion USD would provide all primary energy for everything the US does.
            Build continent-scale electrical grids and markets, and improve existing ones. HVDC became much more viable with high-speed hybrid circuit breakers in 2011, and is an essential technology for long-distance, low-loss electrical transmission.
            Build a fair amount of hydro storage, and some other storage. While storage of electricity is an overstated concern given over built renewables and continent-scale grids, some is still required. Pumped hydro resource potential is far greater than the need, is efficient and uses very stable, known technologies. Shifting existing hydro-electric dams to be passive, on-demand storage as opposed to baseload is also key. Fast response grid storage can be provided by existing lithium ion technologies, as Tesla has proven in California and Australia. By 2050, we’ll have roughy 20 TWh of batteries on wheels in US cars alone, available both for demand management to reduce peak demand, soak up excess generation and to provide vehicle-to-grid electricity as needed.
            Plant a lot of trees. We have cut down about 50% of the six trillion trees that used to grow on earth. Planting a trillion trees would buy us a lot of time as they sucked about a ton of CO2 from the atmosphere per tree over 40 years.
            Change agricultural practices. High-tillage agriculture is a process that keep releasing carbon captured by the soil back into the atmosphere. Switching to low-tillage would buy us a lot of time as the CO2 captured by farmland would stay in the soil a lot longer, and some of it would be permanently sequestered.
            Fix concrete. 8% of global CO2 emissions come from making Portland cement. It’s absolutely critical to urban densification and industry, so we won’t stop making it. But it’s a huge source of CO2, about half from the energy and half from CO2 that bakes off limestone as it’s turned into quicklime. Electrifying that energy flow helps a lot, but capturing that CO2 is one of the few places where mechanical carbon capture makes sense.
            Price carbon aggressively. The simplest way to get a lot of people and industries to shift away from emitting lots of CO2 is to make it expensive. That’s what carbon taxes do.
            Shut down coal and gas generation aggressively. Getting rid of coal is already happening, but it’s by far the biggest single source of CO2 emissions. Aggressive actions to eliminate burning coal are needed. For gas, the question is how few gas plants can we build, how many of them can we run on biologically sourced methane and how fast can we shut them down.
            Stop financing and subsidies for fossil fuel exploration, extraction and use. The USA alone spends tens of billions annually on subsidies of various kinds for the fossil fuel industry, and hasn’t done a thing about it since committing to eliminate them in 2009. The G7 and G20 have committed to eliminating subsidies, but progress has been very slow. The World Bank continues to finance coal, oil and gas projects, despite commitments to end them.
            Eliminate HFCs in refrigeration. The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer targets the unforeseen side effects of displacing ozone-depleting CFCs with high-greenhouse gas HFCs. Project Drawdown puts this at #1 on its ranked list of solutions by cost vs benefit. The USA has not ratified this Amendment, although 65 other countries have.

            There are some mildly controversial things left out of this list.

            Nuclear power is too slow to build and too expensive. That’s empirical reality, not an advocacy statement. The conditions for rapid build don’t exist. And we need a lot of clean electricity very quickly. Nuclear need not apply. Keep existing nuclear going, don’t stop new nuclear build out in China, pretty much the only place building new generation capacity, but don’t expect it to be more than a rounding error in a few decades. New nuclear technologies are decades from commercial deployment at any scale, and we have technologies that are reliable, predictable, cheap and fast to build, so there will be nothing for them to do once they actually make it out of R&D.
            Mechanical carbon capture and sequestration is a mostly dead end. This is an overhyped figleaf for the fossil fuel industry. Virtually every CCS site is actually an enhanced oil recovery site which recovers oil that couldn’t be pumped out, typically enough that 2–3 times more CO2 is generated from the oil than was put underground. Exceptions are natural gas wells with too high a concentration of CO2, leading to 25 times the emissions once the natural gas is burned. Expensive, unscalable, wasteful. As stated, it might be useful for concrete.
            Air-to-fuel technologies are dead ends. Solutions such as Carbon Engineering’s direct air capture with hydrogen electrolysis to create synthetic fuels is a broken model. It’s vastly more expensive and higher CO2 emitting than electrification or biological pathway fuel synthesis. Any money spent on this would have vastly better results if spent on renewables instead. It’s not an either-or, but in this case policy makers should ignore this and governments shouldn’t fund it.
            The military is a hard problem. They require vast amounts of high energy fuel in places with no electrical supply chain often for months at a time. The US military is considered by many to be the single largest CO2 emitting organization in the world. However, eliminating global fossil fuel strategic military actions — which describes virtually everything done in the Middle East for the last 100 years — will diminish the need for the US military substantially. A great deal of their current emissions, which hopefully will start coming to light once the US signs the Paris Accord either in 2021 or 2025 once Trump is gone, are related to the ongoing Middle Eastern deployments. There’s only so much we can do for biofuels, but to be clear, the world has been in a period of diminishing military conflict since the end of WWII. Globalization may have downsides, but the ties of trade and treaties which bind countries together have been highly effective in allowing diplomacy pathways to work, and making the military option increasingly difficult to consider.

            Where statements diverge from the above, question what lobbying groups are involved, where revenue will be lost or gained and in general what the motivations of the people or organizations involved are. This is all empirically grounded analysis. It’s not rocket science. We have the solutions. We just need the will to execute, which is being sapped by the losers in this necessary transformation, dominantly the fossil fuel industry.


            Credit: Joel Pett | USA Today
            1] Scott Strough’s answer to Can we reverse global warming?
            Executive summary:
            Yes we can reverse Global Warming.
            It does not require huge tax increases or overly expensive untested risky technologies.
            It will require a three pronged approach worldwide.

            1]
            Reduce fossil fuel use by replacing energy needs with as many feasible renewables as current technology allows.
            .
            ((solar & wind Cost less & are quicker to construct + + they produce FAR less expensive electricity than coal))
            .
            Change Agricultural methods to high yielding regenerative models of production made possible by recent biological & agricultural science advancements.
            Large scale ecosystem recovery projects similar to the Loess Plateau project, National Parks like Yellowstone etc. where appropriate and applicable.

            2]
            Project Drawdown
            The list is comprised primarily of “no regrets” solutions—actions that make sense to take regardless of their climate impact since they have intrinsic benefits to communities and economies. These initiatives improve lives, create jobs, restore the environment, enhance security, generate resilience, and advance human health.[5]

            3]
            Farming a climate change solution
            Farmers have a golden solution to global warming largely missed by climate change pundits, right beneath their feet. The innovative Australian Soil Carbon Accreditation Scheme is showing how incentive payments can be received by landholders for measurable increases in soil carbon that soaks up CO2 from the atmosphere. Financial incentives could help fund soil restoration efforts, which in turn bring the bonus of greater productivity, drought resilience and even rain. The action is deep underground.[6]

            Footnotes
            [1] The $200 Billion Fossil Fuel Subsidy You’ve Never Heard Of (USA)
            [2] Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year | John Abraham
            [3] Fossil Fuel Subsidies Top $450 Billion Annually, Study Says (USA w various costs,supports)
            [4] Milking taxpayers
            [5] Solutions | Drawdown
            [6] http://www.amazingcarbon.com/PDF

          • R. Kooi February 13, 2020 at 2:50 pm #

            Obfuscations…not REAL concerns.
            All very surmountable issues.

            Versus, what you choose to ignore:

            https://rampages.us/goldstein2014/wp-content/uploads/sites/316/2014/11/graphie.png

          • R. Kooi February 14, 2020 at 2:23 pm #

            Dependent upon Energy and Wealth.

            Coal for Heat / Energy………..19th and 20th Century Technology
            Oil/Nuclear for Heat/Energy…..later 20th Century Technology
            Solar Wind for Heat/Energy…..21st Century Technology

          • Sterling Mossed February 26, 2020 at 1:28 pm #

            Climate Change…Fuzzy words
            Science does not use a lot of fuzzy words.
            Scientist’s don’t need PR people to “fluff” their graphs of Evidence
            Not the way real Science works…

          • R. Kooi February 26, 2020 at 3:23 pm #

            “Climate Change” was coined in 1799 by Alexander von Humboldt and he defined it precisely as used today.
            It wasn’t until the late 1800’s that science tied Climate Change to its cause…GLOBAL WARMING.

            NO FLUFF…just the facts….from about 250 years of science/research and thinking.

          • Sterling Mossed February 26, 2020 at 1:29 pm #

            Here,have some fun…
            Relax,listen to Mayor Rudy….America’s Mayor…

            https://rudygiulianics.com/podcast/

          • R. Kooi February 26, 2020 at 3:21 pm #

            The Crook operating in Ukraine?

        • R. Kooi February 13, 2020 at 1:59 am #

          The reality is that at one time we had NO CHOICE but to be dependent upon fossil Fuels.
          TODAY, we have many options!
          ————————————–
          http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/02/25/co2-greenhouse-effect-increase/
          .
          “Is CO2 harmful to humans?
          (( YES! as well as the nearly 2 Dz. other Toxic Green House Gasses ))
          “Yes!”
          It is increasingly apparent to every researcher and medical care provider.
          .
          “Most people don’t realize that CO2 is a highly toxic substance that has associated
          (along with CH4 and NO) during the five mass extinctions of the past.
          “The key question is NOT simply whether CO2 is toxic to humans
          (as well as plants & animals, in general)
          but also the ” rate of change in atmospheric CO2 ” is also toxic….”
          ==================================================
          The Republican Party has become the Apologists for the Energy Industries Callous TOXIC Waste Dumping into our atmosphere and our neighborhoods!
          .
          The Health Warnings about Dramatically HIGHER Atmospheric levels of toxic CO2, continue to rise as CO2 ((& nearly 2DZ other toxic gasses))
          RISE TO ABNORMALLY high LEVELS, at an ABNORMALLY HIGHER RATE OF INCREASE,
          which in turn, raises the already elevated concentrations of CO2 & other atmospheric gasses in closed rooms, buildings and basements!
          ..
          ——-> We are the Canaries in the Mine Shaft:
          .
          “Growing evidence suggests that environmentally relevant elevations in CO2 … poses direct risks for human health”
          […]
          This early solid evidence indicates potential health risks at CO2 exposures as low as 1,000 ppm—a threshold that is already exceeded in many (most) indoor environments with increased room occupancy and reduced building ventilation rates, and equivalent to some estimates for urban outdoor air concentrations before 2100.
          “Continuous exposure to increased atmospheric CO2 could be an overlooked stressor of the modern and/or future environment”
          .
          https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0323-1
          .
          Direct human health risks of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide!
          .
          Environmental toxins impair immune system over MULTIPLE GENERATIONS.
          Posted: 02 Oct 2019 11:42 AM PDT
          New Solid Research shows that Maternal exposure to a common and ubiquitous form of industrial pollution can harm the immune system of offspring and that this injury is PASSED ALONG to subsequent generations, weakening the body’s defenses against infections such as the influenza virus, Colds, Flu’s.
          .
          “CO2 Health Impacts in Confined Indoor Spaces
          A considerable amount of recent literature worldwide has documented CO2 impacts in classrooms from kindergartens to universities
          (Bako-Biro et al 2011;
          Widory and Javoy 2003;
          Kukadia et al. 2005;
          Dijken et al. 5 2005;
          Branco et al. 2015;
          Heudorf et al. 2009;
          Santamouris et al. 2008;
          Ferreira and Cardoso 2014;
          Gaihre et al. 2014;
          Jurado, et al. 2014;
          Lee and Chang 2000;
          Muscatiello et al 2015; /
          Carreiro-Martins et al. 2014).
          .
          Most agree levels of CO2 in 20-50% of classrooms commonly exceed 1,000 ppm
          and are often as high as 6,000 ppm for extended periods.
          Recorded impacts for healthy individuals: sneezing, rales, wheezing, rhinitis, headaches, lethargy, lighted Headedness, and asthma
          (Carreiro-Martins et al. 2014;
          Ferreira and Cardoso 2014).
          .
          Additional symptoms; i.e. cough, headache, and irritation of mucous membranes, were also identified
          (Ferreira and Cardoso 2014).
          .
          Lack of concentration was associated with CO2 levels above 1,000 ppm.
          Gaihre et al. (2014) show some neuro-physiologic symptoms (i.e., headache, fatigue, difficulty concentrating) at CO2 levels greater than 1,000 ppm (Muscatiello et al. 2015).”
          .
          “In workplaces such as offices, high CO2 level impacts show a range of health effects similar to classrooms, depending on the number or density of workers and the types of ventilation systems
          (Lu et al. 2015; Tsai et al. 2012,
          Seppanen et al. 1999).
          .
          Such studies make a link between CO2 levels in offices and Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) with workers complaining of headaches, dizziness, fatigue, respiratory tract symptoms, eye symptoms, nasal and mucous membrane symptoms
          (Seppanen et al. 1999;
          Lu et al. 2015; Tsai et al. 2012;
          Vehviläinen et al. 2016).
          Seppanen et al. (1999).”
          .
          Unless you ARE a turnip,
          Kindly be advised that for millions-upon-millions of years, all LIFE on Planet Earth has thrived on atmospheric CO2 & GH Gas levels working in a multiplier effect with water vapour at GOLDILOCKS LEVELS between 180ppm & 300ppm.

      • Larry Wilson March 26, 2019 at 3:11 pm #

        we have invester in oil companies yes……like the Gore Family. Not to mention the private jets he flies on.. he does own one now, he rents them….https://www.realtimetrump.com/al-gore-busted-private-jet-use/

        • R. Kooi March 27, 2019 at 11:48 pm #

          Who cares.
          He is a failed politician and a successful venture capitalists.
          Just Like Trump…except TRUMP has his frivolous transport cost paid for by the Tax Payers.

          Far more, in 2 years, that Obama’s total Transport costs in 8 years…
          AND THEN
          All of those SS agents need to stay with the President on site of his properties.

    • BILL NYE NIGGA March 14, 2019 at 9:17 pm #

      WRONG U DUMBASS NIGGA STUPID ASS EGG HEAD CRUSTY DUSTY LOOKIN ASS NIGGA WIT YO STUPID ASS BOI LOOKIN ASS

      • Climate Change is Real March 27, 2019 at 4:06 pm #

        I completely concur.

    • R. Kooi March 28, 2019 at 12:05 am #

      You are a Flip Flopper

    • GOOSE June 5, 2019 at 5:11 am #

      taxing people over climate change will not stop climate change….

      • R. Kooi June 24, 2019 at 2:33 pm #

        NO TAX INCREASES on taxpayers.
        …just end the TRILLIONS IN SUBSIDIES, SUPPORTS, Free Bees to the Fossil Fuel Industries…

        LET The Deep State Billionaires sell their products for as long as the need is there.

        H.R. 763: A POLICY FOR A HEALTHY, STABLE AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA

        Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act – H.R. 763 …

        http://www.businessclimateleaders.org/eic

        • Billie Samuel Watkins Sr. December 11, 2019 at 3:45 pm #

          I’m just wondering about the so called subsidies you are talking about, you need to check out all the drilling and producing International. If we shut the Oil and Gas industry down in the States we’ll just be paying exorbitant import fees.

          • R. Kooi December 11, 2019 at 5:04 pm #

            A TRUE TRUMPANZEE TIRADE!
            …jumping for Tax & Subsidy Reforms….directly to DISASTERS AND DESTRUCTION and the
            END OF THE WORLD WE HAVE KNOWN…..
            .
            The WORLD’S economies/governments were paying back in 1999-2000 about 1% of World GDP
            to Profitable International/national Fossil Fuel Billionaire Industries.
            .
            Congressman Paul Ryan, in the fall of 2016, gave a lengthy lamentation over the FACT that by that year’s end, the USA would be subsidizing profitable Fossil Fuel Industries/Billionaires over
            $1 TRILLION DOLLARS—-free infrastructure construction/maintenance, training wages, police and fire services, sweetheart tax deals/deferrals, outright subsidies, free land, even foreign aid specifically designed to reimburse the subsidies OTHER nations pay to these Industries and billionaires
            and
            their BANKERS….the true deep state Globalists of this world.
            ——————————————————————————–
            “There is no need to add additional taxes to combat climate change. The best bet is simply quit subsidizing those things causing AGW.

            ((( World-wide, Fossil Fuels & industries suck up subsidy Dollars. SUCK UP 6.5% of GDP … TRILLIONS of DOLLARS in subsidies / supports (non taxable supports & subsidies)))

            In most cases the newer more modern energy and agricultural systems are more profitable and less damaging to the environment already.
            So there is no need to tax people to subsidize those things harming the environment, then taxing us again to penalize those same ones we just subsidized!
            A house divided against itself cannot stand. -Lincoln (paraphrasing the Bible) It is time for a strong political leader to take charge and end this deadlock.

            We could either reduce taxes and let the new technologies out compete the obsolete systems we depend on now, or we could keep taxes the same and simply redirect the subsidies we use for fossil fuels and destructive industrialized agriculture towards modern sustainable systems instead. The one thing that won’t work is keep the tax and spend schemes the Neo-Luddites have made for themselves now, and also add even more tax and spend schemes for their competing new technologies too! Yes that’s right, the top two causes for global warming are heavily subsidized.[1][2][3][4] It is literally insanity.

            Michael Barnard, Low-carbon Innovation Strategist

            What’s emerging is the following:

            Electrify everything. Convert all energy services to work directly from electricity instead of fossil fuels. Transportation, industry and agriculture. All of it. All gas appliances must go. All road transport must be electric. Most trains and a lot of planes must shift to electric. All heat from electricity. The USA throws away two thirds of all primary energy, mostly in the form of waste heat from fossil fuels used in inherently inefficient combustion processes. We only have to replace a third of the actual primary energy we use today to maintain our lifestyle and economy.
            Overbuild renewable generation. All other forms of generation with the exception of nuclear were overbuilt, so we’ll do the same with wind and solar, and they are really cheap, so that’s not that expensive. After all, $3 trillion USD would provide all primary energy for everything the US does.
            Build continent-scale electrical grids and markets, and improve existing ones. HVDC became much more viable with high-speed hybrid circuit breakers in 2011, and is an essential technology for long-distance, low-loss electrical transmission.
            Build a fair amount of hydro storage, and some other storage. While storage of electricity is an overstated concern given over built renewables and continent-scale grids, some is still required. Pumped hydro resource potential is far greater than the need, is efficient and uses very stable, known technologies. Shifting existing hydro-electric dams to be passive, on-demand storage as opposed to baseload is also key. Fast response grid storage can be provided by existing lithium ion technologies, as Tesla has proven in California and Australia. By 2050, we’ll have roughy 20 TWh of batteries on wheels in US cars alone, available both for demand management to reduce peak demand, soak up excess generation and to provide vehicle-to-grid electricity as needed.
            Plant a lot of trees. We have cut down about 50% of the six trillion trees that used to grow on earth. Planting a trillion trees would buy us a lot of time as they sucked about a ton of CO2 from the atmosphere per tree over 40 years.
            Change agricultural practices. High-tillage agriculture is a process that keep releasing carbon captured by the soil back into the atmosphere. Switching to low-tillage would buy us a lot of time as the CO2 captured by farmland would stay in the soil a lot longer, and some of it would be permanently sequestered.
            Fix concrete. 8% of global CO2 emissions come from making Portland cement. It’s absolutely critical to urban densification and industry, so we won’t stop making it. But it’s a huge source of CO2, about half from the energy and half from CO2 that bakes off limestone as it’s turned into quicklime. Electrifying that energy flow helps a lot, but capturing that CO2 is one of the few places where mechanical carbon capture makes sense.
            Price carbon aggressively. The simplest way to get a lot of people and industries to shift away from emitting lots of CO2 is to make it expensive. That’s what carbon taxes do.
            Shut down coal and gas generation aggressively. Getting rid of coal is already happening, but it’s by far the biggest single source of CO2 emissions. Aggressive actions to eliminate burning coal are needed. For gas, the question is how few gas plants can we build, how many of them can we run on biologically sourced methane and how fast can we shut them down.
            Stop financing and subsidies for fossil fuel exploration, extraction and use. The USA alone spends tens of billions annually on subsidies of various kinds for the fossil fuel industry, and hasn’t done a thing about it since committing to eliminate them in 2009. The G7 and G20 have committed to eliminating subsidies, but progress has been very slow. The World Bank continues to finance coal, oil and gas projects, despite commitments to end them.
            Eliminate HFCs in refrigeration. The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer targets the unforeseen side effects of displacing ozone-depleting CFCs with high-greenhouse gas HFCs. Project Drawdown puts this at #1 on its ranked list of solutions by cost vs benefit. The USA has not ratified this Amendment, although 65 other countries have.

            There are some mildly controversial things left out of this list.

            Nuclear power is too slow to build and too expensive. That’s empirical reality, not an advocacy statement. The conditions for rapid build don’t exist. And we need a lot of clean electricity very quickly. Nuclear need not apply. Keep existing nuclear going, don’t stop new nuclear build out in China, pretty much the only place building new generation capacity, but don’t expect it to be more than a rounding error in a few decades. New nuclear technologies are decades from commercial deployment at any scale, and we have technologies that are reliable, predictable, cheap and fast to build, so there will be nothing for them to do once they actually make it out of R&D.
            Mechanical carbon capture and sequestration is a mostly dead end. This is an overhyped figleaf for the fossil fuel industry. Virtually every CCS site is actually an enhanced oil recovery site which recovers oil that couldn’t be pumped out, typically enough that 2–3 times more CO2 is generated from the oil than was put underground. Exceptions are natural gas wells with too high a concentration of CO2, leading to 25 times the emissions once the natural gas is burned. Expensive, unscalable, wasteful. As stated, it might be useful for concrete.
            Air-to-fuel technologies are dead ends. Solutions such as Carbon Engineering’s direct air capture with hydrogen electrolysis to create synthetic fuels is a broken model. It’s vastly more expensive and higher CO2 emitting than electrification or biological pathway fuel synthesis. Any money spent on this would have vastly better results if spent on renewables instead. It’s not an either-or, but in this case policy makers should ignore this and governments shouldn’t fund it.
            The military is a hard problem. They require vast amounts of high energy fuel in places with no electrical supply chain often for months at a time. The US military is considered by many to be the single largest CO2 emitting organization in the world. However, eliminating global fossil fuel strategic military actions — which describes virtually everything done in the Middle East for the last 100 years — will diminish the need for the US military substantially. A great deal of their current emissions, which hopefully will start coming to light once the US signs the Paris Accord either in 2021 or 2025 once Trump is gone, are related to the ongoing Middle Eastern deployments. There’s only so much we can do for biofuels, but to be clear, the world has been in a period of diminishing military conflict since the end of WWII. Globalization may have downsides, but the ties of trade and treaties which bind countries together have been highly effective in allowing diplomacy pathways to work, and making the military option increasingly difficult to consider.

            Where statements diverge from the above, question what lobbying groups are involved, where revenue will be lost or gained and in general what the motivations of the people or organizations involved are. This is all empirically grounded analysis. It’s not rocket science. We have the solutions. We just need the will to execute, which is being sapped by the losers in this necessary transformation, dominantly the fossil fuel industry.


            Credit: Joel Pett | USA Today
            1] Scott Strough’s answer to Can we reverse global warming?
            Executive summary:
            Yes we can reverse Global Warming.
            It does not require huge tax increases or overly expensive untested risky technologies.
            It will require a three pronged approach worldwide.

            1]
            Reduce fossil fuel use by replacing energy needs with as many feasible renewables as current technology allows.
            .
            ((solar & wind Cost less & are quicker to construct + + they produce FAR less expensive electricity than coal))
            .
            Change Agricultural methods to high yielding regenerative models of production made possible by recent biological & agricultural science advancements.
            Large scale ecosystem recovery projects similar to the Loess Plateau project, National Parks like Yellowstone etc. where appropriate and applicable.

            2]
            Project Drawdown
            The list is comprised primarily of “no regrets” solutions—actions that make sense to take regardless of their climate impact since they have intrinsic benefits to communities and economies. These initiatives improve lives, create jobs, restore the environment, enhance security, generate resilience, and advance human health.[5]

            3]
            Farming a climate change solution
            Farmers have a golden solution to global warming largely missed by climate change pundits, right beneath their feet. The innovative Australian Soil Carbon Accreditation Scheme is showing how incentive payments can be received by landholders for measurable increases in soil carbon that soaks up CO2 from the atmosphere. Financial incentives could help fund soil restoration efforts, which in turn bring the bonus of greater productivity, drought resilience and even rain. The action is deep underground.[6]

            Footnotes
            [1] The $200 Billion Fossil Fuel Subsidy You’ve Never Heard Of (USA)
            [2] Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year | John Abraham
            [3] Fossil Fuel Subsidies Top $450 Billion Annually, Study Says (USA w various costs,supports)
            [4] Milking taxpayers
            [5] Solutions | Drawdown
            [6] http://www.amazingcarbon.com/PDF

          • R. Kooi December 11, 2019 at 6:07 pm #

            AuH2O CONSERVATIVE
            Today’s high pressure/efficient Toilets are the CLEANEST 1 Flush systems ever produced.
            If Trump is flushing 10-15 times…the dear boy is just living up to everyone’s expectations of a professional politician…his is FULL OF SHYTTE.

            “The President Has Toilet Problems

            President Donald J. Trump is having some toilet trouble—extremely normal toilet trouble that happens to all of us on a regular basis. Like how we sometimes have to flush 10-15 times before it all goes down, and that is totally due to wacko liberals demanding environmentally friendly toilets.”

      • R. Kooi September 22, 2019 at 4:25 pm #

        You are already being taxed…the MOST HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED industry in the world is ENERGY= COAL and OIL !

        6.5% of the entire world’s GDP is a giant subsidy to the profitable Deep State Fossil Energy Monopoly!!

        • Billie Samuel Watkins Sr. December 11, 2019 at 3:42 pm #

          Well here in Louisiana our leftist Governor, Taco Bel Edwards, has taxed the oil and gas industry out of the state. Just where is the subsidy here, eh?

          • R. Kooi December 11, 2019 at 5:55 pm #

            What a ridiculous comment…I just drove thru that, the most polluted state by Fossil Fuel Industries in the nation.

            And all of those truly UGLY sites!!

            And the SMELL…it smells like Trump !

          • Billie Samuel Watkins Sr. December 11, 2019 at 7:13 pm #

            Please state where all this pollution was at and quit posting these ridiculous lies.

          • R. Kooi December 11, 2019 at 7:27 pm #

            LOOK!
            and this is just 1 source reporting:
            .
            After Decades Of Air Pollution, A Louisiana Town … – NPR
            Mar 6, 2018 – Neighborhoods around a Louisiana chemical plant have the highest cancer … After Decades Of Air Pollution, A Louisiana Town Rebels Against A Chemical Giant …. the National Academies of Science is expected to release a report on … This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy …
            Missing: dump ‎| ‎Must include: ‎dump
            https://www.npr.org/
            https://www.npr.org/www.npr.org › templates › story › story › storyId=4841907

            Grappling with Pollutants in Lake Pontchartrain : NPR
            Sep 12, 2005 – Millions of gallons of waters are being pumped into Louisiana’s Lake … NPR’s Elizabeth Shogren has this report. … One is the former Agriculture Street Landfill in downtown New Orleans. … Johnson says EPA has not checked to see if toxic chemicals are leaching from the Superfund sites into the water.
            https://www.npr.org/
            https://www.npr.org/www.npr.org › 2013/05/30 › baton-rouge-s-corroded-overpolluting-nei…

            Baton Rouge’s Corroded, Overpolluting Neighbor … – NPR
            May 30, 2013 – This story is a follow-up to our series “Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected … Exxon says its pollution does not endanger the people living near the plant. …. Exxon Mobil Baton Rouge Facilities, 28.4 million, 3.6 million … In Louisiana, refineries and chemical plants reported releasing nearly 7 million …
            https://www.npr.org/
            https://www.npr.org/www.npr.org › series › poisoned-places-toxic-air-neglected-communities

            Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities : NPR
            Toxic air pollution, involving nearly 200 chemicals deemed so harmful to health Congress … Subscribe to Daily News Email … Kan., burn hazardous waste for fuel, causing anxiety for nearby residents despite assurances of regulators. …. facilities — like many others — are pumping out far more pollution than the law allows.
            Missing: Louisiana
            https://www.npr.org/
            https://www.npr.org/www.npr.org › sections › thesalt › 2017/08/03 › the-gulf-of-mexicos-de…

            The Gulf Of Mexico’s Dead Zone Is The Biggest Ever … – NPR

        • Cally December 16, 2019 at 4:43 am #

          Who are also now investing in renewable because of the subsidies. Everyone’s jumping on the climate change gravy train and guess who ultimately pays? You and me.

          • R. Kooi December 16, 2019 at 3:17 pm #

            Paul Ryan gave a lengthy lamentation about subsidies in August 2016—by that year’s end, the USA will have crossed the $1 TRILLION MARK in Supports/Subsidies to the profitable Fossil Fuel Industries, and their Deep State Bankers.
            .
            Subsidies on Renewable Industries are a tiny fraction of that amount…and the results are
            a 100 fold increase in electricity from Renewables since 2000…which are stabilizing or driving down electric rates where they are allowed to compete against the aged heavily subsidized Killer Coal.
            .
            7 RED states in the USA get 25% to 50% of their electricity from Dependable Renewables,
            …creating record high paying permanent jobs, increasing tax base, cutting and stabilizing Electric Rates while Coal Electric RATES & SUBSIDIES are increasing across the nation.
            .

          • R. Kooi December 16, 2019 at 3:17 pm #

            “Over just the past six years, the cost of solar energy has dropped dramatically, to the point where it is now even cheaper than wind power ….
            Now, there is electricity being produced … –under half the price of power produced by coal.”
            .
            “Renewables are robustly entering the era of undercutting,” energy made by fossil fuels, Bloomberg New Energy Finance chairman Michael Liebreich wrote this week.
            This is great news for developing nations, which do not generally have the kind of infrastructure that developed countries have dedicated to fossil fuels already in place. As they build their energy infrastructure, it will make sense to go with cheaper, renewable options, more so than it does for a country like the United States to abandon our formidable fossil-fuel-based infrastructure.
            Source: Bloomberg / 2016

          • R. Kooi February 1, 2020 at 12:18 am #

            Per Kilowatthour…the Fossils are many times more heavily subsidized.

          • azbull February 7, 2020 at 9:05 pm #

            That is why I love paying so little for fossil fuels. You can pretend windmills and solar will work.

          • R. Kooi February 8, 2020 at 2:16 pm #

            Coal Electric Rates are the highest in the nation…SORRY BABY!
            You must eat up everything the Mouth of Manhattan Lies about.
            Hail El Duche’ Trump.

          • R. Kooi February 7, 2020 at 4:20 pm #

            Sorry baby. 7 Republican governors rave about Solar and Wind energy….because they are producing PERMANENT, WELL PAYING JOBS ((at 12 times the rate of the national economy)), they are driving down Electric RATES or at least STABILIZING ELECTRIC RATES…all the while the Fossil Monopoly States are watching electric rate rise…and demands for additional subsidies increase as well.

        • James Pitts February 3, 2020 at 1:51 am #

          My God you’re an idiot.

          • R. Kooi February 3, 2020 at 2:08 pm #

            THAT is your answer??
            Name Calling like an 11 year-old!
            .
            Congressman Paul Ryan gave a lengthy lamentation in August 2016 that by year’s end, the US would pass a Record $1 TRILLION in Supports and Subsidies to The Fossil Fuel Industries…… Subsidies that started in 1918.

            The VAST majority of which were designed specifically for the Fossils and designed against any other industry’s Use.

            Even a Foreign Aid Program designed by the Fossils PR Departments to reimburse foreign nations for subsidies THEY give to our profitable Fossil Fuel Industries…and their globalist deep state bankers.

          • Kenneth Clark February 7, 2020 at 12:55 am #

            Just finished an interesting article.
            The Wind Turbine Blades (That can reach 180 ft. in length and 8 ft diameter at their mounting base) cannot be recycled. 10’s of thousand of these fiberglass blades must be cut into 3 sections with a special blade, loaded onto a flat bet tractor trailer and hauled to a grave in thousands of landfills across the nation.
            So much for your “Clean Energy” rant as being less expensive and environmentally safe.
            Oh and by the way… without oil these blades, critical to the operation of these turbines, would not exist.

          • R. Kooi February 7, 2020 at 1:50 am #

            Apparently you didn’t read the damn article…just glanced at the headlines.

            85% of the Entire Wind Turbine IS NOW being recycled.
            The Blades are being neatly lined up in dumps….while a new Company expands to recycle them…they are 100% fiber glass….there are lots of uses now that there are sufficient numbers in land fills to warrant the expansion.

            Since Wind Turbines are soooo long lived…it has taken time for there to be sufficient product in order to set up a business

          • Kenneth Clark February 8, 2020 at 8:05 pm #

            There are too many articles from real professionals that debunk your 90% recycled theory. People who are trying to deal with the problem of non-recyclable fiberglass blades reaching 300 ft. In length.
            There are ideas and theories being thrown around but when the rubber hits the road, it is far too expensive.

          • R. Kooi February 8, 2020 at 11:52 pm #

            I see you have listed links that support your ideological position!!
            Oh Wait!
            You Provide
            No links,
            No Proof,
            No Nothing.
            Ooooooooops!

          • R. Kooi February 9, 2020 at 3:26 pm #

            YEP!
            …I see all your footnotes .
            All those sources you reference!
            Yep!
            Recycling of wind turbine blades – Appropedia: The …
            https://www.appropedia.org/Recycling_of_wind_turbine_blades

          • Stefan Gendron February 13, 2020 at 1:50 am #

            I bet R.Kool retard won’t tell you how they were flying helicopters next to some of the wind turbines and using antifreeze to try to de-ice the blades. That’s really good for the environment having antifreeze spraying all over the place and yes those turbines use a lot of oil for lubrication and they do kill more birds than any coal or gas ever will.

          • R. Kooi February 13, 2020 at 2:16 am #

            Got a link to that tale?????

            Unless you are going back 40 years.
            Your Bird killing story is absolute fiction…
            First, it should be stated that the single most significant threat to bird populations is habitat destruction, in all of its forms and with all of its causes.

            The various causes of mortality outlined below kill individual birds directly, and can certainly have an adverse effect on population size, but can actually have a beneficial effect in some cases.
            Studies of hunting have documented that in certain cases killing small numbers of birds can improve the health and survival of the remaining birds. As long as the habitat is intact, the population has the potential to replace the lost birds.
            In simplest terms,
            habitat destruction reduces the population by reducing the available resources, denying birds the chance to reproduce, and effectively putting a cap on the population size.
            The problems outlined below are serious threats and are implicated in the declines of many species. They should be addressed.
            Collisions
            Window strikes – estimated to kill 97 to 97.6 million birds/year – Millions of houses and buildings,
            .
            Communication towers – estimates of bird kills are impossible to make because of the lack of data, but totals could easily be over 5 million birds/year, and possibly as many as 50 million.
            .
            Electrocutions kill tens of thousands of birds per year. This occurs mainly when large birds such as raptors make contact between a live electrical wire and a ground such as a pole. .

            Cars may kill 60 million birds per year. .

            Wind turbines may kill 33,000 birds per year, and, as in the case of electrocutions, these birds tend to be large and scarce (e.g. raptors).
            The recent surge of interest in wind power has heightened concerns
            .
            Poisoning
            Pesticides may kill 72 million birds per year or possibly many more. The sub lethal effects of pesticides may also make the birds more susceptible to predators or unable to reproduce, essentially killing them. A New York study in 2000 found that common “over-the-counter” pesticides were responsible.
            .
            Oil spills kill hundreds of thousands of birds a year or more..
            .
            Oil and wastewater pits may kill up to 2 million birds per year.
            .
            Lead poisoning – kills unknown numbers of birds each year, but Bellrose (many years ago) estimated that about 4% of the waterfowl population dies annually due to lead poisoning, and the California Condor recovery team stated that lead poisoning was the primary cause of the condor population decline over the last 50 years.
            .
            Pollution – Acid rain has been linked to calcium problems.
            .
            Predation
            Hunting – as a point of reference the carefully-managed annual waterfowl hunt kills about 15 million birds a year in North America.
            .
            Domestic and Feral Cats – may kill up to 100 million birds per year or more.
            .
            By-catch – Tens to hundreds of thousands of seabirds are caught each year in nets and on hooks intended for fish.
            .
            The BirdLife International site (an excellent source of global bird conservation information) has detailed information about the albatross declines here .

          • Stefan Gendron February 13, 2020 at 1:47 am #

            And they are killing birds by the thousands if not millions.

          • R. Kooi February 13, 2020 at 2:18 am #

            First, it should be stated that the single most significant threat to bird populations is habitat destruction, in all of its forms and with all of its causes.

            The various causes of mortality outlined below kill individual birds directly, and can certainly have an adverse effect on population size, but can actually have a beneficial effect in some cases.
            Studies of hunting have documented that in certain cases killing small numbers of birds can improve the health and survival of the remaining birds. As long as the habitat is intact, the population has the potential to replace the lost birds.
            In simplest terms,
            habitat destruction reduces the population by reducing the available resources, denying birds the chance to reproduce, and effectively putting a cap on the population size.
            The problems outlined below are serious threats and are implicated in the declines of many species. They should be addressed.
            Collisions
            Window strikes – estimated to kill 97 to 97.6 million birds/year – Millions of houses and buildings,
            .
            Communication towers – estimates of bird kills are impossible to make because of the lack of data, but totals could easily be over 5 million birds/year, and possibly as many as 50 million.
            .
            Electrocutions kill tens of thousands of birds per year. This occurs mainly when large birds such as raptors make contact between a live electrical wire and a ground such as a pole. .

            Cars may kill 60 million birds per year. .

            Wind turbines may kill 33,000 birds per year, and, as in the case of electrocutions, these birds tend to be large and scarce (e.g. raptors).
            The recent surge of interest in wind power has heightened concerns
            .
            Poisoning
            Pesticides may kill 72 million birds per year or possibly many more. The sub lethal effects of pesticides may also make the birds more susceptible to predators or unable to reproduce, essentially killing them. A New York study in 2000 found that common “over-the-counter” pesticides were responsible.
            .
            Oil spills kill hundreds of thousands of birds a year or more..
            .
            Oil and wastewater pits may kill up to 2 million birds per year.
            .
            Lead poisoning – kills unknown numbers of birds each year, but Bellrose (many years ago) estimated that about 4% of the waterfowl population dies annually due to lead poisoning, and the California Condor recovery team stated that lead poisoning was the primary cause of the condor population decline over the last 50 years.
            .
            Pollution – Acid rain has been linked to calcium problems.
            .
            Predation
            Hunting – as a point of reference the carefully-managed annual waterfowl hunt kills about 15 million birds a year in North America.
            .
            Domestic and Feral Cats – may kill up to 100 million birds per year or more.
            .
            By-catch – Tens to hundreds of thousands of seabirds are caught each year in nets and on hooks intended for fish.
            .
            The BirdLife International site (an excellent source of global bird conservation information) has detailed information about the albatross declines here .

          • R. Kooi February 9, 2020 at 3:15 pm #

            And You are the pitts looking in the bathroom mirror.

            During the time Global Temps have not only been rising but rising at a FASTER RATE OF INCREASE….Solar output is down!

            https://climate.nasa.gov/internal_resources/1819/

          • R. Kooi February 9, 2020 at 3:22 pm #

            “There is no need to add additional taxes to combat climate change.
            The best bet is simply quit subsidizing those things causing AGW.

            .
            World-wide,
            Fossil Fuels & industries suck up subsidy Dollars.
            SUCK UP 6.5% of GDP … TRILLIONS of DOLLARS in subsidies / supports
            (non taxable supports & subsidies.)


            In most cases the newer more modern energy and agricultural systems are more profitable and less damaging to the environment already.
            .
            So there is no need to tax people to subsidize those things harming the environment, then taxing us again to penalize those same ones we just subsidized!

            A house divided against itself cannot stand. -Lincoln (paraphrasing the Bible)
            It is time for a strong political leader to take charge and end this deadlock.

            We could either reduce taxes and let the new technologies out compete the obsolete systems we depend on now,
            or
            we could keep taxes the same and simply redirect the subsidies we use for fossil fuels and destructive industrialized agriculture
            towards modern sustainable systems instead. The one thing that won’t work is keep the tax and spend schemes the Neo-Luddites have made for themselves now, and also add even more tax and spend schemes for their competing new technologies too!
            Yes that’s right, the top two causes for global warming are heavily subsidized.[1][2][3][4] It is literally insanity.

            Michael Barnard, Low-carbon Innovation Strategist

          • Stefan Gendron February 13, 2020 at 1:45 am #

            Green energy is not cheaper Ontario and Europe have went green energy and prices have skyrocketed and reliability is down the drain. This guy is an idiot and/or liar pushing the BS green energy crap.

          • R. Kooi February 13, 2020 at 2:30 am #

            You purposely ignore all of the successful Green Energy programs in the USA…and run to Places where they purposely engaged in CRASH PROGRAMS which are ALWAYS more expensive.
            Plus, we are now on the winning edge of Solar and Wind Renewable Pricing.

            “A brief decade held considerable cost-efficiency gains in wind and solar.
            These sustainable technologies are now more cost-effective than any other power generation technologies in general,
            according to Lazard. ——–> Solar and wind technologies simply make more sense! (( Dollars & Sense! ))

            Further, this analysis excludes renewable subsidies while ignoring decades of
            Fossil Supports/Subsidies/Unique Sweetheart Tax Deals not available to other industries.
            Solar and wind aren’t just cost-effective when subsidized
            — they’re cost-effective when not subsidized despite more than a century of fossil fuel supports/subsidies…”
            ——————————————————–
            Solar and wind became cheaper than competing new-build power plants years ago.
            What the latest report shows is that they have actually gotten so cheap that they are
            now competing with existing coal and nuclear power plants. In other words, new wind and solar farms
            —–> are cheaper
            than continuing to get power from existing coal and nuclear power plants.

            ———————————————————-
            The Killer Coal Monopoly Sells you electricity at
            —->5-7-9 CENTS per KwH
            —-> & their price is going up, Subsidies are rising as well.
            ———————————————————–
            Clean & Dependable Solar & Wind sells it at
            —–> 2-3-4 CENTS per KWH
            —–> Prices are FALLING !
            —–> Subsidies are FALLING as well.
            ———————————————————–
            Natural Gas, which still produces CO2 (but less)
            —-> 2-4-5 CENTS per KWH
            —-> Static prices but subsidies are rising.

            https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/09/uk-electricity-generation-falls-to-1994-levels-as-renewable-generation-soars/

      • R. Kooi February 7, 2020 at 4:16 pm #

        The Republican Proposed Carbon Tax System has criminal penalties IF IT IS NOT REVENUE NEUTRAL.

    • R. Kooi July 15, 2019 at 1:53 am #

      Unless you are a turnip,
      Kindly be advised that for millions of years, all LIFE on Planet Earth thrived on atmospheric CO2 Gas levels between 180ppm & 300ppm.
      .
      THRIVED!
      for Million years!

      …why on god’s green earth would you be advocating arguing with millions of years of SUCCESS!

      .

      HUMAN SUCCESS!

      TURNIPS SUCCESS!

      .

      Those CO2 numbers are the Goldilocks levels for all mankind !
      At those levels,
      Mankind was Created, Evolved and, according to the Biblical Imperative, became Fruitful and Multiplied.
      .
      It is a shameful expression of man’s arrogance that we are Self Righteously changing those numbers upon which our Creation & OUR Entire Physiology are based.
      .
      CO2 levels higher than any point since the evolution of humans –
      https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/health/carbon-dioxide-world-intl/index.html
      May 13, 2019
      – There is more CO2 in the atmosphere today than any point since well before the evolution of humans

      ————————————————————————–
      THERE ARE NO LONG TERM STUDIES INDICATING the EFFICACY OF THIS high CO2 DRUG REGIMEN!

      .

      (the dramatically increased levels of CO2 & other Atmospheric gasses)
      FOR ALL HUMAN & ANIMAL LIFE ON THIS PLANET!
      .

      .
      AND why are we talking about THOSE CHANGING Numbers?
      So that a few thousand families linked to the ownership of The Fossil Fuel related Industries can BECOME EVEN RICHER & MORE POWERFUL & MORE ARROGANT?
      How Rich and How powerful is enough for them??
      … That we should RISK our Great Grandchildren just to enable their multi-trillion dollar cash FLOW ? ?
      .
      The Deep State Fossil Fuel Industry already leads us around the world into war after war after war!
      .
      How much more power must we cede to these amazingly self-absorbed aristocrats, behind their Walled
      climate controlled enclaves ? ?

      .
      Humans have NEVER existed outside of those levels of atmospheric Gasses before. 180ppm-300ppm.
      .
      REMEMBER:
      We are not talking about JUST CO2.
      We are Talking about nearly 2 DOZEN TOXIC atmospheric gasses … Like Methane, CFCs, Oxides etc.
      Most Harmful to Human life.

    • MadFarkinWorld July 26, 2019 at 4:16 am #

      I too was a greenie back in the day! complete with muslin shirts, sandals and long hair…Then I started reading, got informed and grew up…have you ever tried to have an argument with these dingbats? They have so drunk the koolaid its dangerous!! also “Algorians” hahahaha Can I use that? it’s hilarious

    • Bobs Rockets April 26, 2020 at 9:06 am #

      The term is autumn not fall.

      • Kenneth Clark April 26, 2020 at 1:02 pm #

        Semantics…

    • R. Kooi April 26, 2020 at 1:23 pm #

      Please Look
      1. http://www.realclimate.org/images//Marcott.png
      .
      While Earth’s MOST powerful natural cycles are pulling us toward Cooling and Glaciation…never the less, you can see we are warming at an abnormally rapid rate of increase.
      .
      2. https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/hires/2014/44-climatechang.jpg
      .
      3. http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/independent-satellite-data-verifies-reality-of-global-warming/article/547843
      .
      4. “Solar Energy Output has Decreased
      (solar minimum/low sunspots)
      over the recent 4 decades, but STILL Global Warming has Increased.
      .
      Translation: It Is Not The Sun Causing ALL of this rapid Warming.”
      https://static.skepticalscience.com/pics/TvsTSI.png
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      https://vimeo.com/34099316

  43. phxflyguy August 30, 2016 at 4:01 am #

    https://www.facebook.com/Vox/posts/561503484037258

  44. Ian September 2, 2016 at 12:07 am #

    Yes it is a scam I once tried to study science in this area but soon realised it was a distortion of the real truth because these ignorant stupid people in Universities who are slaves to the system and as long as they teach un truths they continue to get paid. Yes the planet is warming because the out put of the Sun has increased in the last few decades and mans miss use of nuclear power. Poor old Carbon is being blamed how stupid and dumb are people today. Carbon is the basic building block and if you remove carbon you will kill all plant life. It is all about control and they will do anything they can to keep their power. Those who have promoted Carbon as the blame should be stripped of the wealth they have created out of this scam and thrown into prison Global warming is real but it has nothing to do with the Carbon Atom

  45. DrCroland September 9, 2016 at 4:29 pm #

    Elmer Beauregard, when did you suddenly become smarter than 99% of scientists? I am saddened by how oblivious to the facts you are. I won’t even bother trying to argue with you because there’s nothing to work with upstairs. Listen pal, why don’t you do something useful, go back to the trailer park and finish hanging up your old underwear with the holes in em. Maybe someday you might be able to buy a few new pairs.

  46. Apostaste September 13, 2016 at 12:01 pm #

    This is fucking retarded.

  47. Teagan_Justice September 14, 2016 at 4:44 am #

    lol you’re a special kind of stupid

  48. Don Abbott September 17, 2016 at 9:50 pm #

    Brian cox climate change non fiction story teller. malcolm roberts knows The climate change scam has to be stopped, the charlatans behind the scam need to be exposed, sued and some of them sent to gaol, Australia finally has a Senator who calls the climate change as the scam that it is, meet Malcolm Roberts the One Nation Senator destined to be the media’s new public enemy number one. THE REASON THE MEDIA DONT LIKE GREAT AUSTRALIAN HONEST PEOPLE SUCH AS MALCOLM ROBERTS IS SIMPLE !!! THEY CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH !!! the greens party are a horror story gone wrong as there disgraceful votes they received have shown.they are an artificial false political party with no concept on what the australian public really need. AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE ARE SICK OF THERE BLATANT LIES THE PEOPLE CAN SEE STRAIGHT THROUGH THE UTTER RUBBISH THAT FLOWS OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS ON A CONSTANT BASIS. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TRUTH AND A LIE TO THE GREENS IS A BELIEVER AND THE FACTS ARE THERE IS NONE OF THEM LEFT. With malcolm roberts an expert on these topics the greens can’t get away with their usual NON FICTION FANTASY POLITICS AND CONTINUE MISLEADING THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE. something they can’t handle and are not used to. THERE GREENS DAYS ARE NUMBERED MALCOLM TURNBALL has no clue on what is needed to be PM of the people of Australia. He is deaf to the concerns of the hard working Australian families.
    We miss the man that put Australia first before his ego.
    PM Tony Abbott had his feet on the ground and lead by example not arrogance. Turnbull does not speak for Australia, No one wants him as our PM. He is a useless, traitorous, self serving person who does not care about Australians. Its like having Rudd still in government. the only reason he wants to be PM to big note himself on the world stage , not too different from Rudd really both complete dud useless leaders. Not many nails left Malcolm, for you, and the Liberal Party’s coffin lid. THE LIBERAL PARTY HAVE DESTROYED THEMSELVES WITH THIS MUPPET

  49. Junior van Rooij September 22, 2016 at 1:04 pm #

    so unfounded…people like you mess up this world…there are more countries in the world than just the USA you know, countries where they actually DO notice extreme weather conditions and draught.. you think the exponential growth of world population will never get to the point where demand is just too high, and supply is just to damn low? This will lead to conflicts, with 100% certainty…If you find out in 10 years you’re too late…and why would you, who has probably mostly seen luxury destinations, resorts, hotels etc. not believe someone who travelled the world to actively document climate change (Leonardo Di Caprio, for example). And you just come with unfounded arguments –>99% of Scientists don’t believe in Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming??!! you mean of the three scientists you spoke to..

  50. Diane Hovinga September 24, 2016 at 2:51 am #

    Will say in advance, pardon my spelling if it is wrong! The year Mt. Pinatobo blew it’s stack it belched out more green houses gases into the atmosphere in 24 hours than all of mankind had since the beginning of the Industrial Age! The earth actually cooled down for awhile after that eruption! I’ve heard that a lot of the thermometers are placed on airport tarmacs, near the exhaust fans of air conditioners or in the sun so they will show wildly higher temperatures than the ambien air actually is! As for climate change…what’s that? The climate is always changing and goes through cycles which go back thousands not tens of years!

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