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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Let’s assume that this guy is exactly right, and the number is 30% on the nose.  But we need to keep in mind that it’s unequally distributed around the 50 states, so you’re going to have places like the Deep South where all this regressive garbage represents a majority perspective.

This translates into states in which abortion is banned, LGBTQs can be discriminated against, creationism is taught as science, people regard that Trump (and future con artists) as national heroes, and kids grow up believing that climate change is a hoax and that pandemics are government plots.

The problem is that this goes on in perpetuity, as ignorance and hate beget more ignorance and hate.

Can it spread?  Yes, if we let our educational system continue to founder.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

You just found it.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Fossil Fuels

If I told you that you’re an “energy citizen,” what would you take that to mean?  Doesn’t it sound like a good thing? Doesn’t it seem to imply that you’re concerned about reducing the carbon footprint (and other forms of pollution) in the energy you consume?

We’ll, if that was your thought process, you would have fallen for the trickery of the American Petroleum Industry, whose purpose is to prolong and expand the consumption of fossil fuels to the largest degree possible.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I’m sure there are Democrats who get sent to prison for committing various felonies, but it’s amazing how seldom we hear about them.

Here’s a former GOP senator from Tennessee, who tried to legalize LGBTQ discrimination, going down for 21 months.

It’s almost as if hatefulness and criminality somehow go together.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

From this article on climate denialism:

Videos that compare climate activists to Nazis, portray solar and wind energy as environmentally ruinous and claim that current global heating is part of natural long-term cycles will be made available to young schoolchildren in Florida, after the state approved their use in its public school curriculum.

Slickly-made animations by the Prager University Foundation, a conservative group that produces materials on science, history, gender and other topics widely criticized as distorting the truth, will be allowed to be shown to children in kindergarten to fifth grade after being adopted by Florida’s department of education.

Teachers who use the materials “will not be reprimanded, cannot be pushed back on about it, we are approved on the curriculum”, said Jill Simonian, director of outreach at PragerU Kids, the youth arm of the organization. “More states are following Florida. I’m applauding. This is (a) step in the right direction.”

If your goal is to use propaganda to deliver anti-scientific thinking to impressionable young minds, so as to protect the fossil fuel industries at the expense of baking the planet, I’m impressed. Get to them early, before they become capable of thinking for themselves.

As I’ve pointed out in the past, even the name “Prager University” is a lie.  It’s not a university; it doesn’t confer degrees; it’s not in any way an academic institution.  It’s just another extremist organization on a mission to move America even further to the right.

Re: their spokesperson’s claim that “more states are following Florida,” it’s a foregone conclusion that Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and the other states at the very bottom of the nation’s educational rankings are also rejecting climate science.

But what influence will America’s most intellectually defective regions have on the ultimate outcome? The developed nations of Earth, including most of the United States, have already realized that we will not have an organized civilization on this planet by the end of the 21st Century if we allow this rejection of science to dominate our thinking or our lawmaking.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who has been assigned to preside over the case in which Trump is accused of trying to overthrow the U.S. government, finds herself in a tough position.

That’s because Trump continues to spread lies in order to win over public opinion and make threats against prosecutors, perhaps because he knows that the judge is unwilling to find him in contempt of court and remand him into custody until his trial.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

As shown in the video below, an auto analyst, “Elliot” takes a spin in Toyota’s Japan-only electric kei car: the C+Pod, and asks, “Could this tiny EV be the affordable electric car we’ve been waiting for, and a sign that Toyota might be more serious about electric that it first appeared?”

The answer is no. Toyota knows very well that low- and medium-speed EVs (top speed 37 MPH) have an extremely limited appeal, if only because they require most people to own two cars.  And this one, made of plastic, sounds like a distinctly noisy and otherwise unpleasant driving experience.

To me, this appears like just another attempt at greenwashing on Toyota’s part.  I don’t even give it a C+, pardon the pun.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Regardless of how this ends for Trump, it will be a very long time before we (and the rest of the world) can begin to forget the vast humiliation that Trump has leveled upon the United States of America.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics
They write:
On day one of his presidency, Joe Biden declared war on our Second Amendment rights, and he hasn’t let up. He’s illegally and unconstitutionally used unelected federal bureaucrats to attack our God-given right to keep and bear arms. He is a traitor to our country and our Constitution. Protect our 2A rights.
A few comments:
Yes, Biden favors the same set of common sense gun laws as the vast majority of his fellow Americans, e.g. banning weapons of war and mandating background checks for prospective gun owners.  But it doesn’t seem that he’s any more aggressive in this arena than the other recent Democrat president.  Keep in mind that it
is not happening anyway, as the gun lobby has an iron grasp on our lawmaking process.
You have to be something of a nut to refer to Biden as a traitor to our country and our Constitution, simply because he doesn’t believe that the Second Amendment guarantees citizens, some of whom are mentally deranged, the right to own weapons whose sole purpose is killing as many people in as short a period of time as possible.
I normally don’t ridicule others’ religious beliefs, but I challenge the American Firearms Association to support the notion that gun ownership is a “God-given right.” If they want to claim that God wrote the bible, that’s up to them.  But I’m fairly certain that He didn’t write the U.S. Constitution.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The cartoon here is an apt description of what we mean by the phrase “defund the police.”

This may be the worst misnomer in the history of the English language, because it suggests that we neither need or appreciate law enforcement. What we actually mean is not defund, but rather focus, redirect, or concentrate.

Police should be redirected so as to focus solely on stopping criminal behavior that threatens public safety.

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