tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post7732161221630842400..comments2024-03-28T16:31:54.494-04:00Comments on Borepatch: Environmental Science: reduced carbon emissions are actually increased carbon emissionsBorepatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-83306087730430495922014-10-28T09:21:20.812-04:002014-10-28T09:21:20.812-04:00Finally! Leftists who use dynamic scoring!
MFinally! Leftists who use dynamic scoring!<br /><br />MMark Philip Algerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09595406476619940294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-10832551430430800582014-10-24T14:31:42.735-04:002014-10-24T14:31:42.735-04:00Goober, all of me thinks that. We are deep into &q...Goober, <i>all</i> of me thinks that. We are deep into "Are you paranoid enough?" country.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780425923108876647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-77972271118047979582014-10-23T17:36:27.021-04:002014-10-23T17:36:27.021-04:00part of me thinks they don't care about a bit ...part of me thinks they don't care about a bit about co2 emissions. I'm starting to think that they're just Luddites who don't want people to use energy. Except for them of course.Gooberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07358115439453465833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-24540591886727302602014-10-23T12:41:22.067-04:002014-10-23T12:41:22.067-04:00To a person who actually cares about helping the n...To a person who actually cares about helping the natural environment and reducing pollution, there is no conceivable sense in which substituting natural gas for coal in power plants is not a good thing. Even if you use more of it.<br /><br />Burning coal produces all kinds of dangerous toxic byproducts. Natural gas doesn't.<br /><br />The most annoying thing about the whole AGW hoax is the way it's taken attention away from _real_ problems in order to focus all the effort on fighting a _fake_ problem. Byproducts of coal power are a real problem. So are heavy metals from the batteries that those oh-so-beloved electric and hybrid cars run on. But no...we just ignore all that, and focus on CO2, because that provides the most leverage to control people's lives.lelnethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08600824544185328505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-16788505758322909352014-10-23T10:49:12.972-04:002014-10-23T10:49:12.972-04:00Another thing that goes to support my suspicion th...Another thing that goes to support my suspicion that it has never been about saving the environment, it has always been about increasing control of the populus and decreasing the opportunities available to groups they don't like.Wolfmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757339335162584002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-87880816802739747502014-10-23T07:38:45.874-04:002014-10-23T07:38:45.874-04:00Agree with all of the above... sigh... And follow ...Agree with all of the above... sigh... And follow the $$Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-67950896898425473702014-10-23T07:34:43.666-04:002014-10-23T07:34:43.666-04:00...because all that cheap energy will stimulate th...<i>...because all that cheap energy will stimulate the economy so much that we will all use more energy.</i><br /><br />And here we have an example of the confluence behind liberal thinking. Can't have anything that actually improves the economy because that would reduce the need for income re-distribution.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-58383906915498676982014-10-23T07:32:27.323-04:002014-10-23T07:32:27.323-04:00How many? About 95% in round numbers, quod erat de...How many? About 95% in round numbers, <i>quod erat demonstrandum.</i>Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780425923108876647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-73313873518757678222014-10-22T17:05:39.381-04:002014-10-22T17:05:39.381-04:00I have a niece getting an Environmental Science En...I have a niece getting an Environmental Science Engineering degree from a Colorado university. She is in her last semester and during her summer internship job she came to the realization that her "green" degree was worth less than horse dung. There are a precious few jobs in the government arena but most of her classmates have aspirations of getting into law school because the realization has set in there are not any real jobs out there for their degree.tsquaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737130316088634658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-71311957550890671992014-10-22T13:47:06.334-04:002014-10-22T13:47:06.334-04:00the rate of increase in US CO2 output was accelera...the rate of increase in US CO2 output was accelerating all though the years up through the Clinton Administration, and then in the GWB years, the rate of increase slowed to zero in spite of GDP continuing to increase. I looked all over to figure out how the US could achieve such a kyoto-style turnaround without anyone noticing, and finally discovered this massive shift to natural gas that was a thing even before "fracking" started to get into the news cycle.<br /><br />So I call BS. The evidence since 2000 shows that cheap gas from fracking has reduced CO2 output in the US. Anyone looking at the data could see this.Douglas2https://www.blogger.com/profile/11290012200563917585noreply@blogger.com