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Commented on Nuclear Is Obviously Clean EnergyIf you had bothered to watch just the opening segment of the British TV documentary "The Great GLobal Warming Swindle" you would know from scientists that 1) the Earth has had as much as 30 times as much CO2 in its atmosphere as we have today, and 2) it did not impact the climate then and it will not today either. These are scientists who do not have their snouts in the pig trough of government grant money tied to promoting the global warming theory like the Climategate rogue secientists. It is easy enough to listen to the scientists who do not have a financial interest in promoting the unfounded manmade global warming theory.
Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 4:56 pm
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Commented on Ireland's big offshore wind energy push will give it most expensive electricity in worldWE got royally screwed by our own "Republican" leaders in the General Assembly with HB951 and it is going to cost us big time in our pocketbooks, and that has already started with the first double digit electric rate increase caused by HB951, NC's Green New Deal. If other places that have gone down this path are any guide, those will be coming regularly from here on out until we get to Germany's level, where residential electric rates are three times what they have been in North Carolina. Thanks a whole hell of a lot, Tim Moore and Phil Berger.
Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 2:41 pm
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Commented on Nuclear Is Obviously Clean EnergyWhat Big Government Bob conveniently ignores in his usual tunnel vision, or perhaps those who wrote the narrative he,she parrots deliberately left it out is the relationship betweeen the Earth's oceans and CO2. When the Earth in in one of its cooling periods, the oceans absorb large quentities of CO2 and when it is in a warming phase, the oceans release large quantities of CO2. They are by far the largest source of CO2 changes in the atmosphere. There is a lag time of decades from the start of a warming period before the oceans start releasing CO2 and a similar lag time of decades from the start of a cooling period before it starts absorbing CO2.
The current natural warming period started in the mid 19th century at the end of the preceding cooling period, called the Maunder Minimum or Little Ice Age. That would trigger the oceans starting to release CO2 in the early decades of the 20th century and continue to do so until decades after the next cooling cycle starts. Bobbie may want to junk the tunnel vision of his / her narrative and listen to prominent scientists explain it on the British TV documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle". Here is the link to that documentary which was broadcast nationally on the UK's Chaneel 4 and is packed full of scientific information from prominent scientists from around the world: www.youtube.com
Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 2:13 pm
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Commented on Nuclear Is Obviously Clean EnergyPercentages are what matter, and if you listen to the prominent scientists interviewed in that British TV documentary, in the scheme of things, the percentage of CO2 from humans is insignifcant. Further, actual historical data refutes the argument that CO2 is a driver of warming or cooling. The overall percentage of CO2 in the atmoosphere starts rising decades AFTER a rise in climate termperature, and starts falling decades AFtER a decrease in climate temperature. Thus changes in levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are a RESULT of warming or cooling, NOT a cause of them. Watch the documentary. You might learn something.
Commented: Thursday, May 25th, 2023 @ 6:23 pm
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Commented on Nuclear Is Obviously Clean EnergyCO2 is a very small percentage of the atmosphere. Most of the CO2 going into the air is from natural processes, NOT from humans. There have been periods in Earth's history with a lot more CO2 in the atmosphere than today. More CO2 means better growing conditions for plants, including food crops.
Commented: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 @ 2:37 pm
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Maybe the enviromental extremists justify in their own minds the slaughter of millions of birds and bats by wind turbines on the basis that it reduces CO2 when those creatures are no longer living to exhale CO2 as part of their breath, but their mass destruciion of trees would seem to go against their stated obsession with eliminates CO2.
Trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere as part of the photosynthesis process and release Oxygen. Clearcutting forests to build wind farms and solar farms means those treeing are no longer removing CO2 from the atmosphere. 13 million trees, ust on public land in Scotland is a lot of CO2 that is no longer being remvoed from the atmosphere. It would be interesting to calculate worldwide how much CO2 the push for "green energy" has left in the atmosphere by their assault on our forests. The clear cutting of forests in the Amaxon for balsa wood to make wind turbine blades also contributes to more CO2. Then there is another issue with deforestation. That increases runoff from major storms and therefore flooding. The huge floods in Germany a year or so ago came from deforestation for wind turbines, although the eco-zealots tried to blame it on "climate change"
Commented: Monday, May 22nd, 2023 @ 2:06 pm
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Spending is always the problem in government. Democrats raise spending, as Biden has done. RINOs too often help them do it, like Mitch McConnell. Republicans cut taxes rather than overspending, as our state legislature has done. Those in control of our county commission are a combination of the Bidens and the McConnells, sadly.
Commented: Sunday, May 21st, 2023 @ 7:03 pm
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Commented on Nuclear Is Obviously Clean EnergyHere is some Congressional testimony that debunks the claim that wind and solar are "clean":
stopthesethings.com CO2 is NOT "pollution" or "dirty" It is a gas naturally present in the atmosphere that is not harmful to animal life and is a necessary nutrient for plants. Without it, all plant life would die. As to real pollution, gas fired power plants have always been clean, and since the scrubbers were required on coal plants, they have been, too. The so-called "clean coal" technology even almost eliminates the CO2 for those who have their panties in a twist about that. It uses coal gassification, a techonology that goes back almost 200 years. We had a coal gas plant in Washington, NC before the War Between the States which primarily provided gas for lighting in houses and on the streets. It was located on part of the lot where the new police station has been built. New Bern had one, too.
Commented: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 9:23 pm
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PBS should stand for Propaganda Broadcasting System. It is little more than the PR arm of the left wing of the Democrat Party. Spewing partisan propaganda is NOT NOT NOT "quality journalism". And Taxpayers should not be tapped to pay for it.
Commented: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 11:30 am
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Commented on Nuclear Is Obviously Clean EnergyNuclear is cleaner than wind and solar which generate lots of toxic waste as well as lots of otehr environmental harm. It is also much cheaper. Finland just opened its first big nuclear power plant, and electric rates fell by 70% the next day.
Commented: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 11:25 am
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RINOs spend and spend way too much. Mitch McConnell is an example of that, and he often colludes with Democrats to spend too much money. John Boehner was a similar example. However, CONSERVATIVE Republicans oppose spending, like our longtime former Congressman from this district, Walter Jones, Jr. who routinely voted against all debt ceiling increases and against all budgets with too much deficit spending, which was about all of them. Walter refused to go along with Boehner's rotten spending deals with the Democrats and Boehner took away Walter's best committee assignments in punishment. Repubican voters in primaries need more like Walter Jones and fewer like McConnell and Boehner. Also fewer like Phil Berger and Tim Moore who gave us the big spending Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
Commented: Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 @ 10:58 am
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Biden is a hypocrite on this issue. As a Senator, he supported forcing the president to negotiate for debt ceiling increases. Why does he think he is entitled to a different path now that he is (at least the figurehead) president?
Commented: Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 @ 9:54 am
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My tax money should NOT be going to the heavily politicially slanted PBS, which ought to be called the Progressive Broadcasting Scam.
Commented: Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 @ 9:51 am
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Biden has declared war on our quality of life, and is using the eco-fascist climate cult to attack middle class America.
Commented: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 7:19 pm
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The EPA got really creative with the Clean Air Act to try to include CO2 which is not a pollutant. If the case brought by the fishermen now pending at the Supreme Court is decided the way most expect, I think that power grab is going to be rammed down their throat. That case should be decided in the next few months.
But the last time the EPA tried a power grab to impose these sort of restrictions on power plants, that power grab was itself shot down by the SCOTUS.
Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 9:17 pm
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This is bad in the US, with all sorts of new mandates by order of the EPA, without going through congress, that are making lots of applicances more expensive and less functional, with their climate delusions as the excuse for doing so. Then they are trying to force us into very expensive self-combusting electric cars and trying to sned our electric bills to the moon.
Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 2:45 pm
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The Biden regime imposing your Climate Scientology religious cult on our country is impairing the quality of life of the rest of us. Biden is making Climate Scientology a state religion.
Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 1:27 pm
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So the climate cult getting their predictions WRONG time after time after time but NEVER getting them right to date makes them "smart people" in your book????? Most of us would say they are either dumb people or conmen.
Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 2:02 pm
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EVERY ONE of the dozens of dire warnings from the climate cult that were supposed to have already happened have turned out to be false alarms. None of them even came close. Only a fool believes the hot air of the self-serving clique pushing this narrative.
The most important greenhouse gas is water vapor, which is responsible for over 90% of the Greenhouse effect. Water vapor is impacted heavily by solar radiation, which is why the last multi-century climate cold period, the Little Ice Age, corresponds with the Maunder Minimum of low sun spot activity. If the predictions of astronomers that we are approaching another long cycle of low sun spot activity, and a decrease in solar radiation, is true then it is much more likely to be getting cooler soon rather than warmer.
Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 8:51 pm
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Southerners pay for the upkeep of Arlington National Cemetery, including millions of Confederate descendants, along with everyone else. Monuments for our soldiers deserve to be there with their graves. What will the woke bastards try to do next? Take up the tombstones of southern soldiers? The land itself was stolen from General Lee and his family.
It is bad enough to go after monuments to our veterans at parks and courthouses, but to go after them on battlefields and cemeteries as the woke bastards are now doing is absolutely outrageous. That is the sort of thing that totalitarians do.
Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 7:21 pm
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Instead of responding, BOb, you deflect. It is what the left likes to call "whataboutism". See? I know your side's lingo.
Kennedy got it right. The wealthy elite want to use this climate smoke and mirrors to sucker the rest of us into giving them totalitarian control. Kennedy has been a lawyer for major environmental groups for years, so he has the inside knowledge on what they are up to. He surely knows a heck of a lot more about it than a foot soldier in the far left's internet troll brigade like yourself. All you think you know is their narrative and the talking points they give you.
Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 9:50 pm
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As usual, you are the one speaking with a forked tongue, Big Government Bob when you accuse others of not being truthful. You seem to think the far left narrative is "the truth". It isn't. Here is what Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said, for instance:
www.thegatewaypundit.com The rules of this site only let me put up one link, but I could add others. YOU are the one posting untruths, something you do all the time, Bob.
Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 9:56 am
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The "big money" is what we need to be very wary of in the climate cult scam. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. recently spoke to that very thing, declaring that a group of the world's billionaires were using the climate scare to impose a totalitarian system on the rest of us. This is one of the key gambits of the globalist totalitarians of the World Economic Forum.
The climate cult is the biggest doomsday cult in history, but the snake oil salesmen who run it have repeatedly been shown to be wrong. They have already made dozens of dire predictions that they claimed would have happened by now if they were correct, and not a single one of them has come true or even come remotely close to coming true.
Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 7:10 am
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Industrializing the oceans with offshore wind turbines damages the tourism industry, damages the commercial fishing industry, damages the environment by killing seabirds and marine mammals like whales, and is the most expensive way to produce electricity. It makes our entire grid vulnerable to very long term outages from hurricanes. It is a rotten political fix for a fantasy "problem".
Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 12:09 pm
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China leads the world in PRODUCTION of wind and solar equipment, which they con western coutnryies into buying, making western countries dependant on Red China for energy. How stupid is that for the west? For themselves, they are building scores of new coal fired power plants, with useful economic lives of over half a century. If you think they are going to abandon them after a few years use, Bobbie, then I have a bridge up in Brooklyn I would like to sell you.
China is building electric capacity for industry, NOT airconditioning. With the cheap and reliable coal fired power, they will run circles around the west's espensive and undependable wind and solar. And they are laughing that gullible fools like John Kerry actually believe the things they say.
Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 12:04 pm
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You Climate Scientologists are just pure nutjobs. The Earth is simply in one of its natural multi-century warming cycles. The last cooling cycle, the Little Ice Age or Maundaer Minimym ended in the 19th century. This warming cycle is not as warm as the last one, the Medieval Warm Period, nor the granddaddy of all warming cycles, the Holocene Maximum. These cycles have always rotated, and do so naturally. The fact that some self serving scientists now want money and power by claiming manmade CO2 has something to do with it is laughable.
Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 7:40 am
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To rational people, those not in the crazy climate cult, coal is a great option. It is cheap and reliable. Regualr coal is fine, but if you have your panties in a twist over CO2, then there is always clean coal technology, using coal gassification.
China and India are building hundreds of coal fited power plants, while they push the wind and solar that China manufactures on us. That is a deliberate effort to make us dependant on CHina for our electricity and gain an economic advantage of cheaper and more dependable electricity for themselves.
Commented: Sunday, May 7th, 2023 @ 7:33 am
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ESG is a "woke" dogma like DEI and CRT. The "S" in ESG stands for "social justice" which most of us would call plain old socialism. That woke / common core math curriculum just approved by our school board is packed with that "social justice" far left political indoctrination. Our school board let us down.
But it is good to see our State Treasurer Dale Folwell standing strong against use of our state's pension investment funds by Blackrock to push ESG. Folwell took the proxies away from Blackrock to put a stop to that. One of the reasons Silicon Valley Bank failed was its coroprate risk officer was spending her time on pushing ESG instead of dealing with the real world of corporate risk.
Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 8:44 pm
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Commented on Massive Offshore Wind Turbines with Flashing Lights Would Be Major Features on the Coastal Horizon, Part 2These Democrats are trying to visuallly pollute our coastlines by industrializing the oceans. These whirling demons also kill lots and lots of sea birds. Biden and Cooper are trying to destroy our coastal environment. And what happens to our electric grid when a hurricane destroys most of these wind turbines?
Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 8:35 am
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The point is that it is the Biden Democrats trying to force global warming in our personal spaces by artificially forcing up the cost of air conditioning.
Commented: Friday, May 5th, 2023 @ 8:27 am
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Now we know who is causing global warming. When we can't afford air conditioning because the Biden Democrats have run up the cost, they will be the ones directly responsible for our own personal warming inside our homes.
In the last multi-century warm cycle, the Medieval Warm Period, air conditioning was not invented yet and people made it through until the following cold cycle, known as the Maunder Minimum or the Little Ice Age arrived for several centuries. During this natural warm cycle, we do have air conditioning if the climate cult would just let us use it!
Commented: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 10:23 am
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Commented on What the Blue Cross Blue Shield bill is really aboutWhat this guy calls "big business Republicans" most of the rest of us would call establishement Republicans, RINOs, or liberal Republicans. Big business no longer aligns with free market capitalism but instead pushes crony capitalism, and this is quite frankly a crony capitalist bill. Small and medium sized business still generally follow the free enterprise concept, and that is why they have been dropping their membership in the crony-capitalist US Chamber of Commerce in droves. A "big business bill" is almost always going to be a bill giving some aspect of big business an undeserved favoritism and that is what crony capitalism is all about, using government to give your business an unfair advantage over competitors. That usually means big business getting an advantage over smaller competitors.
A good ecample was the NC Green New Deal bill. While small and medium sized businesses came out to the hearing on the bill, HB951, to oppose it because it will raise their electric costs significantly, and consumer representataives did the same, the crony capitalist NC Chamber of Commerce supported the bill, because one of its influential members, the state electicitry monopoly Duke Energy would make money off of it. This writer with Long Leaf Politics just doesn't seem to get it, while the Daily Haymaker understands it perfectly. Crony capitalists are not the friends of ANYONE else, not small and medium sixed business, and not consumers. The Chamber of Commerce, state or national, has not represented the interests of small and medicum sized business in years, but pushed corrupt crony capitalism instead, and this bill is but one example of crony capitalism. The politicians who hook their wagon to crony capitalism are not the friends of free enterprise or of consumers, either.
Commented: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 1:48 pm
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The far left is workinig to destroy free speech here in America, too. That was the purpose of their "disinformation" board. Our First Ameendment makes it harder to do than in Europe, and free speech is disappearing in Europe. The "hate speech" hoax is largely respponsible there.
Commented: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 7:41 am
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Commented on What makes Electric Vehicle Fires so dangerousThe Biden regime wants to force us all into these fire traps through rules of his authoritarian EPA without even sending it through Congress. The out of control eco-fascist EPA needs to have its powers severerly stripped as it is a threat to democracy by being able to do these things by decree.
Commented: Sunday, April 30th, 2023 @ 9:24 am
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