Old, outdated conservative ideas about energy are really threatening the United States’ future national security. While Republicans focus on the past—promoting fossil fuels, denying human-caused climate change—they ignore the future.Cooter wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:10 pmGiven what was mentioned in that article, it might be time to start planning a dike for Manhattan.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 10:45 amI know most everyone here disagrees with me on this. This is planet earth doing what it will do when, where and how it wants to do it. So what is the game plan to stop this from happening? Drive more electric cars? Should we all become vegan? Do we need more wind turbines and solar energy? Do we need to stop cows from passing gas? What exactly is the mechanism that reverses climate change and puts the planet back on a happy, happy equilibrium of only modest disasters? The chicoms don't give a flying hoot about saving the planet. They are the folks hellbent on destroying it to become the new world superpower. Since the world is basically impotent at stopping anything the chicoms want to do, we can just concentrate on cow farts for right not and eating lots of broccoli.Cooter wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 10:27 am Antarctica's huge Thwaites glacier melting faster than expected
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/weather/ ... index.html
Green energy is the future and we need to end Republican control of this nation in order to get back in the game.
China is still investing heavily in fossil fuel energy production, but they are also investing heavily in green energy ... the future. Importantly, they are also investing heavily in the intellectual property rights associated with clean energy. That may mean our energy future is controlled by China.
And all because moronic conservatives in America refuse to even acknowledge climate change and the need for clean energy. Instead, they’re focused on how to dig up more fossil fuel from the ground.
Chinese export of renewable energy technology around the globe is set to boost Beijing’s clout as the influence of major oil exporters like Russia and Saudi Arabia wanes. China has by far the most renewable energy patents with the U.S., Japan and Europe lagging behind. “No country has put itself in a better position to become the world’s renewable energy superpower than China,” says a recent report by the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation, chaired by former Iceland President Olafur Grimsson.
The U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords under President Donald Trump provided China an opening to seize. America’s abandonment of global leadership on the issue was thrown into sharper focus by Trump’s empty chair during a climate change discussion at August’s G7 meeting in France. “The U.S. administration is not particularly interested in renewables at home let alone overseas,” says Simon Nicholas, an analyst for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. Now, China has firmly established its leading position in renewable energy output, as well as in related technologies such as electric vehicles, transmission lines and battery storage, and Beijing is managing to weaponize green technology in a way that strategic rivals like the U.S. may struggle to counter.
https://time.com/5714267/china-green-energy/
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