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by barney54 10y ago
Your characterization of climate science is incorrect. If you read the reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, they understand that there are trade offs to carbon controls. These controls are expensive and those costs ha
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It won the Carnegie Medal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_awa...
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What I love about this analysis how it tries to deal with conflicting information. The author is very explicit with the problems of the Worms study, but still trusts it. This is real life decisonmaking. There are few easy answers, especial
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No, nuclear would provide all the base load and it can we ramped up and down some too. Solar is far more limited.
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This hits the nail on the head with respect to the monopoly argument. There is plenty of room for other companies to enter the market is Uber jacks up prices.
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Solar did not help meet peak demand today in California: http://www.caiso.com/Pages/TodaysOutlook.aspx Nor does solar help meet peak demand for 2/3rds of the year because peak demand comes after the sun goes down.
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It is incredibly difficult to site new pumped hydro in places like California today. It might work in other places, but it's almost impossible in California.
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Saying that solar is less expensive than nat gas is misleading. It's and apples to oranges comparison. To make a valid comparison you need to compare solar + batteries to natural gas. There is value to electricity production that has a
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For Google to say that it will run entirely on renewable energy is not accurate. Thank goodness only the headline of the article says that, but the article explains that Google gets electricity from the grid--which is not 100% renewable.
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What do you mean, "indigenous lands"? Texas, especially west Texas, doesn't have these conflicts.
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What do you mean about the water situation in Texas? West Texas is not in drought: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?... The problem with solar is that solar does not provide on-demand electri
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This is an ad hominem attack and has no bearing on this specific article about what climate models are.
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Why not bother linking if the things she has said are so obviously wrong?
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This quote from Gavin Schmidt is two years old. I'm not sure what is has to do with this blog post by Curry about what climate models are.
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China is building 200 GW of coal by 2020 alone http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-power-coal-idUSKCN0Z...
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We don't have to choose. Today's technology means that burning coal is clean. There are carbon dioxide emissions, but in terms of pollutants that make the air dirty, there is very little (carbon dioxide emission have climate impac
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I also highly recommend touring Churchill's war rooms in London. It is very much worth the time.
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Nothing in that post explains why Thiel is a climate change denier. The only thing I see that could be construed that way is that he said it hasn't gotten warmer the last 15 years. It depends on when Thiel made that statement whether i
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The short answer is: 1. It is possible. 2. It is really expensive. 3. You have to put the co2 somewhere after you capture it and that is a question mark.
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That is not accurate. It does not make financial sense to use renewables versus natural gas for electricity generation. Here's the data: https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation... No
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The story is reporting on a report from GSA's Inspector General. It's straight reporting. Not a hit piece.
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Usually communism requires totalitarianism. I don't know of any examples where communism didn't require totalitarian as long as we are talking about the country level. But I'd like to hear some counter examples I'm not t
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Well, autonomous cars have real advantages in terms of transportation flexibility and comfort. Those are two factors that are very important in people's transportation decisions.
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Cheap Driverless Taxis May Kick Mass Transit to the Curb(bloomberg.com)
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DC's Metro should give Seattle pause for building ST3. Metro's ridership is down because the infrastructure costs are so high and the maintence backlog is out of control. Even though the suburbs around DC are some of the richest i
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Now is a strange time to commit to spending billions on light rail. In multiple cities ridership is down even as more money has been spent on rail. Two examples are LA and DC. https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com&
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I disagree about the burden of proof here. Why should there be laws that prohibit Airbnb? Who is being harmed? The hotels are being harmed, no doubt. Why should they be protected. I've never used Airbnb, but unless there are serious ha
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How is the pro-life position discriminatory against women? The question is one of line drawing of when life begins that needs to be protected. The pro-life position believes that life should be protected earlier than the pro-choice positio
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The US isn't being hosed, however some in the US are being hosed by globalization.
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No. To suggest that Mexico's problems are free market problem is not at all true.

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