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Stan, the Climate-Industrial Complex (great term, BTW!) that is pushing wind and solar is one of the biggest threats to trees in the world today. Scotland's government forestry office has calculated that 13.1 million trees have been cut down just on government land, not counting private land, in Scotland to build wind turbines and solar farms. That does not even count the rest of the UK, either. The "Green" Party government of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg is turning parts of the Black Forest to sawdust to build wind farms. Real environmentalists have been called "tree huggers" for many years but those in the climate carbon cult seem to be tree haters. It is not just the Amazon, but the Climate-Industrial Complex is causing deforestation all over the world.

If they were really concerned about CO2, cutting trees down would be stupid since trees absorb CO2 in the photosynthesis process and give off oxygen. But honest scientists will tell you that CO2 has nothing to do with climate in the first place. It is a very minor greenshouse gas, and the greenhouse effect is essential to life on Earth. The most important greenhouse gas is water vapor, which accounts for over 90% of the greenhouse effect.

Commented: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 @ 8:11 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The climate-industrial complex tries to blame any unusual weather event on "climate change". Like the medieval church blaming such things on punishment from God, the climate alarmists want to blame them today on "punishment from manmade global warming".

A good example was a massive flood a year or two ago in a region of north western Germany, which produced higher floodwaters than any flood event in many centuries. The usual suspects immediately blamed the flood on "climate change". However, it turned out that the main culprit in the severity of the flooding was something that very commonly causes floods to get worse, deforestation. The reason for the deforestation was also telling. THe trees were cut down to make space to build wind turbines and solar farms. So, it was actually climate hysteria that caused the bad flooding, NOT "climate change".

Commented: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 9:54 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Hood: There was a Little Ice Age between about 1303 AD and 1850 AD when temperatures raised about 3.5 Degrees.

Commented: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 4:48 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Concerned Taxpayer is on to this thing about weather. Glaciers at Washington, DC 17,000 years ago, been warming ever since. I guess these warming alarmists are praying for another ice age.

Commented: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 4:16 pm By: Hood Richardson

You mean to raise cattle.

Commented: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 2:57 pm By: Big Bob

The damage done by Authoritarian Cooper, in his incredibly poor handling of Covid by and through his unconstitutional Emergency Powers Act, was years ago, and finally the people of North Carolina need someone to blame because of the tremendous damage done by the elongated shut down without the data to do so.

This is why one should never vote for a Democratic Socialist, whose main campaign tactic is his opponent refused to wear a mask.

Commented: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 1:28 pm By: Stan Deatherage

You are right.
We have had creeping socialism for a while and our local school board has had a hard time recognizing it. 70% of our students are not at grade level for reading and Math in Beaufort County. Eight of our schools were rated a (D) by the DOE. A (D) is now 40 by the current grading system. The math course, Bridges, has DEI built in as part of that course. Why is that part of a math course? The Current school board almost bought SAVVAS for $450,000.00 for our Social Studies program. SAVVAS had dominant features of the Rain-Bow Flag. The current board refuses to look at the Hillsdale Social Studies program, which is free. The State DOE Does not set the curriculum. The local School Board Does. Why are we in this mess? Parents need to get involved to find out. The first place to look is LEADERSHIP.

Commented: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 11:22 am By: Buzz Cayton

Hmmm! Maybe that was the part of the Amazon where the rain forest has been clear cut by the wind industry for balsa wood for wind turbine blades. No more trees will make it hotter.

Further, it likely was at least that hot there back during the Medieval Warm Period, the Hollocene Maximum and other warming cycles the Earth has gone through during its history.

Commented: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 10:11 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

in parts of Brazil it was 112 today, just saying. It will be interesting to see if the flat earth people can convince the rest of us not to worry as they cook.

Commented: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 9:40 am By: Big Bob

I'm rubber, you're glue...

Commented: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 9:45 am By: Big Bob

President-elect Milei of Argentina called the climate malarky "a socialist lie" and he hit the nail on the head. We need more cleare thinkers like him in public office.

Commented: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 8:27 am By: Rino Hunter

The behavior by this Democratic Socialist Judge Engoron is abhorrent to the point of malicious, belying an incompetence to the point of gross stupidity.

That this fool could ever be elected suggests an incredible Institutional Corruption in this sector of New York.

Commented: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 7:25 am By: Stan Deatherage