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Today's carbon cult "greenies" want to kill trees and are doing so on a large scale. Gates is an oligarch trying to get control of society. The only difference between him and the Russian oligarchs is that Gates, Soros, Zuckerberg, and their ilk want to control the whole world.

Commented: Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 @ 11:51 am By: John Steed

"Bringing Woolly Mammoth-like creatures back to the tundra could, in theory, help recreate the steppe ecosystem more widely. Because grass absorbs less sunlight than trees, this would cause the ground to absorb less heat and in turn keep the carbon pools and their greenhouse gases on ice for longer. Large numbers of the animals would also trample snow cover, stopping it from acting like insulation for the ground and allowing the permafrost to feel the effects of the bitter Arctic winters. Again, this would, in theory, keep the ground colder for longer." Source:
www.smithsonianmag.com

Commented: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 @ 4:07 pm By: Washingtonian

Geothermal is an interesting concept, currently employed in Iceland.

The earth is full of energy. If we can safely tap into it, we should.

Commented: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 @ 10:44 am By: Stan Deatherage

CT: Growing trees is far more important than the so called renewables.

The USA needs to get back into the nuclear business, if for no other reason, to support the purpose of a energy secretary, or they can get rid of that one too when the time comes, and it is coming.

Commented: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 @ 9:59 am By: Stan Deatherage

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

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

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 wind and solar grifters are raping the environment. Scotland's national forestry agency calculates that building solar and wind "farms" on govenrment land has destroyed 13.1 million trees. The German state government of Baden-Wurttemberg led by the "Green" Party has been turning swaths of the famed Black Forest to sawdust to build the things. The same is true elsewhere in Europe and other western countries.

Commented: Monday, November 20th, 2023 @ 7:30 pm By: John Steed