Comments on: How We Halt the Climate Crisis https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/01/27/how-we-halt-the-climate-crisis/ Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:47:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/01/27/how-we-halt-the-climate-crisis/#comment-921055 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:47:07 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33605#comment-921055 YouTube has some good videos about the Texas cold snap. In this one, Chris Matthews of MSNBC debunks the lies told about green power by state politicians and Fox News.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-96D-H3M0a8

Yes, he’s partisan — but he’s also correct.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/01/27/how-we-halt-the-climate-crisis/#comment-921025 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:34:43 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33605#comment-921025 A little longer discussion of the problems in Texas. This is the disaster that comes from putting right wingers and libertarians in charge of anything more complicated than peeling gum off the bottom of a table.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/texas-blackout-preventable/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/01/27/how-we-halt-the-climate-crisis/#comment-920262 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:17:37 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33605#comment-920262 This won’t shock anyone, but: here’s the reason Cornyn, Cruz, and Cresnshaw have been lying about the energy situation in Texas.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/how-much-the-oil-and-gas-industry-paid-texas-republican-1846288505

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/01/27/how-we-halt-the-climate-crisis/#comment-920058 Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:01:44 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33605#comment-920058 In reply to dean.

Addendum to previous post: The state’s power company had this happen before and did nothing to remedy the situation, despite having recommendations about what it could do.

Not a failure of renewables alone, as the resident liar would have you believe, but willful lack of precaution by the power company.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/01/27/how-we-halt-the-climate-crisis/#comment-920055 Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:20:35 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33605#comment-920055 rickA is wrong again. His consistency in not knowing what he’s talking about is the only thing he has going.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/texas-power-grid-crumples-under-the-cold/

]]> By: RickA https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/01/27/how-we-halt-the-climate-crisis/#comment-920047 Tue, 16 Feb 2021 15:54:24 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=33605#comment-920047 Did anybody else see the 60 minutes interview with Bill Gates this weekend?

I thought it was interesting. Especially the part about 100% renewable was impossible and needing nuclear power to solve global warming.

I am sure Texas agrees – what with the power problems they have caused to their wind turbines freezing. When the sun isn’t shining and the turbines cannot spin (or no wind) – you need another source of power. Nuclear is the best option.

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