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5 minutes ago, Legato said:

Unless you chirp or tweet.

Bird deaths from wind turbines are inconsequential, according to the Sierra Club:
 

“Estimates of up to a million or more birds a year are killed by turbines in the US  but that is far exceeded by collisions with communications towers (6.5 million); power lines, (25 million); windows (up to 1 billion); and cats (1.3 to 4.0 billion) and those lost due to habitat loss, pollution and climate change (American Bird Conservancy, Nature). Even if there were twenty times more wind turbines, enough to supply the US with electricity, the number of birds killed, assuming no improvement in wind turbine design, would be about 10 million--still far less than most other causes of bird deaths.”

https://www.sierraclub.org/michigan/wind-turbines-and-birds-and-bats

If you care so much about bird deaths (you don’t give a crap about bird deaths, but..) do you want to outlaw windows and cats, which kill many thousands times more birds than windmills?

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@reason10: “Hitler had very little to do with the Holocaust.”

 

Posted
15 hours ago, dialamah said:

Whether we try to mitigate climate change or not, our economy will be trashed as weather events become more common and extreme.  We're hooped already.

Mitigate what mah?

We're choking our own economy off while China and India build even more coal-fired generators. 

This whole effort stinks of backroom deals and alterior motives.

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Posted
15 hours ago, herbie said:

So says the guy who thinks that the wind that pushes a ship can't run a generator. Who's being stupid?

I didn't say that. I said windmills can't generate enough power to reliably supply our needs.

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Posted
15 hours ago, robosmith said:

Hardly. Proving you wrong is so routine my arm would get tired from all the fist shaking.

Ya well...you destructive Libbies have been wrong so regularly, that I think it's rather safe to believe wrong about this too. Especially since the evidence clearly shows how wrong and destructive you really are.

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Posted
15 hours ago, robosmith said:

I never said that, dumbo.

Ah yes. You're correct about something  finally. It was your Libbie partner Rebound.

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Posted
13 hours ago, Rebound said:

Wind can power the United States. It provides 9% of total electricity nationwide and there’s no reason why that 9% can’t become 20, 30, or 50 percent. Even a complete nimwit can understand that we won’t simply decommission every other electric plant at once, and we don’t need to reach zero carbon emissions, either. We just simply grow and grow the wind utilization and decommission the dirtiest plants (i.e., coal) as we bring more online. 

Only a complete nitwit would count on the wind to power a nation. And only a destructive little Tweenkie could conclude that the cost of this BS is justified.

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Posted
47 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Mitigate what mah?

We're choking our own economy off while China and India build even more coal-fired generators. 

This whole effort stinks of backroom deals and alterior motives.

You missed the point, not surprising.

Posted
4 minutes ago, dialamah said:

You missed the point, not surprising.

I don't think so mah.

Have you never wondered why one of the richest nations in the world is completely exempt from these "mitigations"?

This is unmitigated hypocrisy. 

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

I don't think so mah.

Have you never wondered why one of the richest nations in the world is completely exempt from these "mitigations"?

This is unmitigated hypocrisy. 

Doesn't matter.  Climate change is here, regardless of cause or mitigation, our economy will be destroyed because of it.  

Posted (edited)
2 minutes ago, dialamah said:

Doesn't matter.  Climate change is here, regardless of cause or mitigation, our economy will be destroyed because of it.  

WE'RE destroying our economy because of this fear-porn.

Its nonsense.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Nationalist said:

WE'RE destroying our economy because of this fear-porn.

Its nonsense.

Tell that to people losing their homes, livelihoods and lives because climate change has already raised sea levels and created extreme weather.  It's only going to get worse, till even deniers figure it out.

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10 hours ago, sharkman said:

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If you had the intelligence to know the facts, you’d be flabbergasted at how stupid you are for posting that moronic meme. 
1) MMGW is a real crisis which is upon us today. 
2) Coal is only 20% of US electrical generation

3) Even when the electricity comes from coal, gross carbon emissions are lower. 
 

You’re the people destroying America, and you’re just too damn stupid to realize it.  Either that, or you’re committed to evil.  One or the other. Most likely stupid. 
 

You’re just too stupid to realize that all-time high temperatures around the world, catastrophic hurricanes destroying New Orleans, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, etc., massive, unprecedented  ice storms shutting down Texas, largest-ever wildfires over and over… each of these events cost over $20 billion and you think renewable energy is too expensive and it just makes people feel good. Not to mention wars in Iraq. 
 

Man, you are just an idiot. 

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@reason10: “Hitler had very little to do with the Holocaust.”

 

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10 hours ago, sharkman said:

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Do people who post stuff like this realize how dumb it is? 

Much of Canada has moved away from Coal. Ontario banned it last decade. 

And even if 100% of the power was generated from Coal, an EV uses a fraction of power the equivalent of several dozen litres of gasoline represents. So it would be worth it just to remove the wildly inefficient gasoline industry. 

Drilling, Refining, Transportation all before you put it in your car to burn it. The luxury of having thousands of litres of Gasoline a few kms from every home in Canada is wildly inefficient compared to delivering it directly to your home through electricity. 

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Posted
52 minutes ago, dialamah said:

Doesn't matter.  Climate change is here, regardless of cause or mitigation, our economy will be destroyed because of it.  

Only if we panic.

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8 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Only if we panic.

 

I think they're already panicking. 

?

BC has had a very normal summer with none of the vaunted climate change we hear so much about. It has been a splendid September so far. Perfect temperatures...a bit of rain...lots of sunshine.

Obama has a huge estate on Martha's Vineyard recently purchased that we've all been seeing lately...right on the ocean. Must be a 'climate denier'.

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Posted
22 hours ago, Rebound said:

Are you denying that Denmark gets half its electricity from wind?

Is that a constant statistic for Denmark? This link states that the numbers are kind of sketchy since other more reliable sources of energy are often greatly lowered in order for wind to be able to produce more.

A great wind, or not? - Climate Discussion Nexus

Even the piece in North American Windpower, which is an industry advocate that greets readers with such gems as “DOE’s Equity Action Plan Includes Clean Energy Program Investments”, concedes that “The average capacity factor of U.S. wind generators (35% in 2021) is lower than the average capacity factor of nuclear generators (93% in 2021), which are designed to run at or near full output, which they typically do…. In the United States, wind speeds, and correspondingly, wind-powered electricity generation, often peak during spring…. Because electricity demand tends to be lowest in the spring and fall months, some generators – including both nuclear and coal – reduce their output or schedule maintenance during these months. Also, on days when weather patterns lead to more wind generation, competing coal-fired and natural gas-fired generators often are called upon to reduce their output so that overall electricity supply matches demand.”

The last sentence is the giveaway. The reason wind outpowered other sources is that they were turned down on purpose to let wind prevail because it is so inflexible as well as expensive. Frankly just about anybody can outsell their competitors if their competitors are ordered by the government to sell less so they can sell more. But what is to become of the consumer, the power grid and even government finances if it turns out that people cannot build wind turbines unless their operators are allowed to charge much higher prices than other types of energy need to?

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Posted
1 hour ago, Nationalist said:

WE'RE destroying our economy because of this fear-porn.

Its nonsense.

 

The power of propaganda.

It's sunny out....ahhhh global climate change!!!! Head to the shelters!

It's raining....fill the sand bags!!!! Flee to higher ground.

It's foggy now....what do we do in the fog?????? Ahhhhhhhhh.........

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1 hour ago, dialamah said:

Tell that to people losing their homes, livelihoods and lives because climate change has already raised sea levels and created extreme weather.  It's only going to get worse, till even deniers figure it out.

Do you think the weather is generally more extreme than it always has been?

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Posted
2 minutes ago, ironstone said:

 

In 2012, they should have been worried that hurricanes were coming to an end.

Save the Hurricane! say all the signs at the demonstration.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, dialamah said:

Who's panicking?  Lip service to mitigation, business as usual.

Many people and our federal government are all panicking.

Hence we have stupid crap like carbon taxes.

These panic stricken policies and taxes are damaging our economies while our little pee-hole in the snow is grossly undone by...China and India.

So...what's the point other than to destroy the fossil fuel industry and hurt everyone financially?

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