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It's the Climate, stupid

mexcurandero420

See the world through a puff of smoke
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Three Berries

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Doesn't do much good for the US and EU to shut down coal plants and suffer economically and healthwise while the half the world's population doesn't go along with the suffering.

I wonder how much China funds the Climate Change hysteria in the US? Russia spends millions so we cut back on oil.
 

Three Berries

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so you like what the US military is doing?
No we are war mongers. CO2 is a part of the natural carbon cycle. We would all be dead without it.

I just was wondering how the use to be anti war libs are now the proud supporters of the consumption of huge amounts of products spewing CO2.

We will soon have to limit our gas stoves and get rid of advanced IC engines so we can have wars and the CO2 is offset? Does the US Military use Carbon Credits? Will they only fight when they have solar power?
 

audiohi

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No we are war mongers. CO2 is a part of the natural carbon cycle. We would all be dead without it.

I just was wondering how the use to be anti war libs are now the proud supporters of the consumption of huge amounts of products spewing CO2.

We will soon have to limit our gas stoves and get rid of advanced IC engines so we can have wars and the CO2 is offset? Does the US Military use Carbon Credits? Will they only fight when they have solar power?

I learned from you that co2 isn't harmful

so, I'm good.
 

Three Berries

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Crushing defeat

Last Sunday’s “Berlin Climate Neutrality By 2030” referendum failed resoundingly despite the more than a million euros spent in a massive run-up campaign that included plastering the city with posters, concerts by famous performers, huge support and propaganda by the media and hefty donations coming from left wing activists from the east and west coasts of USA.

Once the dust of the referendum had settled, it emerged that the “yes” side fell way short of the quorum 608,000 votes needed to pass the measure. Only 442,210 cast a vote in favor, which represents only 18% of Berlin’s eligible voters. The activists expected a far greater turnout. 82% refused to lend any support.

Berlin’s rejection of the climate neutrality by 2030 mandate is a massive body blow to the the radical Fridays for Future and Last Generation movement in Germany, and it will take months for the radicals to recover, it ever, from this setback.

The Berlin initiative to make the city climate neutral by 2030 was led by rich, upper class youths like Luisa “Longhaul” Neubauer. But Berliners, having been harassed for months by activists gluing themselves to the streets and blocking traffic, saw the folly of the initiative and the high costs it would entail politically and financially. They decided resoundingly they’d wanted no part of it.
 

Three Berries

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In its new report - What a waste: How fast-fission power can provide clean energy from nuclear waste - RePlanet says Europe's nuclear power reactors "have a long history of safe use, and have provided prodigious quantities of clean electricity for decades". However, it notes that they use less than 1% of the actual energy potential in the natural uranium used to make their fuel and irradiated fuel assemblies removed from reactors are considered 'nuclear waste'.

"While this nuclear 'waste' is not a serious environmental or health threat - it occupies trivial volumes compared to waste produced by other industries, and does not harm anyone if properly shielded and safeguarded - it does provide a political challenge, and is among the most oft-cited reasons for continued opposition to carbon-free nuclear power," the report says.

RePlanet says using this used fuel in a new generation of fast-neutron reactors would "eliminate it as a 'waste' concern via a carbon-free waste-to-energy process". It notes that most of the remaining leftover fission products would return to a level of radioactivity comparable to the original uranium ore within 200-300 years. "This means that current deep geological disposal strategies can be simplified and scaled back," it suggests.
 
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