Save the Planet…. Please!!!

This follows the fuel tax protests in France which started back in November last year, and continued into December. Macron finally dropped the proposed tax from his budget for 2019. The move was announced by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, who a day earlier had only promised to postpone them for six months.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46460445

President Macron, who had said the measures were necessary to combat climate change and meet budget deficit reduction targets. And there is that  phony-baloney nattering about “climate change” still rambling out of his mouth.

The nonsense about “going totally green” for energy is, simply put, not a feasible plan. Partial, yes, but not totally. On a house-by-house basis, individual installation on private dwellings works well enough to send power back into the grid, but the homeowner still requires battery storage for days and nights when a high demand is placed on the household installation.  On my house, it simply would not work and during the power outage in November, in the middle of a slop storm, when the lines were so bogged down with ice that 380,000 people/customers lost power for 36 hours (trust me, it was cold), the so-called green energy crap would have broken down first, simply because being coated in ice does that to mechanical stuff. A gas-powered generator is a much better choice. Solar and wind power are, in fact, more effective when the power generated is on an individual basis, house by house, and the power is fed back into the grid.

I have no issues with using less carbon-based fuel for power generation, because, despite advances in drilling and recovery, there is a limited supply to it and once it’s gone, it’s gone. Finding ways to conserve our resources for future use is always a good idea.

But the more sensible thing to do would be to step away from carbon-based platforms and go with nuclear-generated power. If the French people get the bulk of their electricity from nuclear plants, why are we lagging behind in this?  Even China is bumping up construction of new nuclear plants.

The objection to nuclear power is created by the Hysterical Greens in the Outer Circles of intelligence who see every nuclear plant as threat-laden potential explosions, followed by meltdowns. They don’t bother to research the very few incidents of such things. Chernobyl, for instance, was inattentive operators failing to heed warnings from the reactor itself. The Fukushima meltdown happened because the spent control rods were in a pool too close to the ocean, whereas another reactor a few miles away was in a less vulnerable spot and did not have the same kind of accident. Three Mile Island was stopped before anything really bad happened. What escaped was only steam. There was no meltdown.

In the history of using nuclear reactors to generate power, three episodes, one of which was stopped cold, make it more of a threat than being without heat and electricity in an ice storm or a half-week of subzero temperatures???? Please – GIVE ME A BREAK!!!

China and India are both ignoring the demand from IPCC that they pay a carbon tax and reduce emissions, and dTrump has already withdrawn from the silly Paris Accord.

The failures of Merkel’s green energy plans resulted in the deaths per year of close to 150,000 people who simply could not afford to pay the utility bills, or lost power because of breakdowns in bad weather, with no repairs coming quickly, and froze to death when winter came. The same thing happened in Scotland, several years running. That’s not something to be proud of.

As an assist in power supply, fine, but as a sole source of it for public use, not so much. Merkel is still hawking it, but after several winters of power-loss related deaths by the thousands, she is backing off, however slowly. Her party lost the last election, and she is not as popular as she used to be, for various reasons.

The false assumption is that the planet is going to go into a Ceti Alpha VI desertification and we’ll all be fried. This is baloney. It has never happened in the geological history of this planet, and never will. In fact, the only way the Earth can be desertified will happen some 4.7 billion years or more from now, when we are long gone, and the Sun is starting to slowly swell into its red giant stage before it explodes and becomes a white dwarf or a pulsar.  Will we see climate change? Of course, we will, but probably not until 2500 to 3000 years from now. The climate always changes in recurring cycles on this planet and always will. The COLD periods, however, always last longer than the WARM periods. All geological evidence points to that.

The point to this is to remind everyone that Ojos Locos’s Green New Deal includes taking the entire country off carbon and nuclear-based utilities and going entirely GREEN. Her ignorance of the cost of something like that is not just appalling, but profoundly disturbing. I doubt that she has ever suffered through 36 hours of no heat in the middle of a pre-winter ice storm.

It is even more disturbing that she is ignorant of, or maybe unwilling to listen to, the facts that the Aubudon Society has provided on the decimation by solar furnaces and wind farms of bats and migrating birds that devour the insects that carry some very serious diseases such as encephalitis, hanta fever and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Those are only a few disease examples. Wind turbines and solar farms do more damage that way than anything else.

I know that Ojos Locos is slowly being given set-downs but I’m not sure that she’s being squelched enough. She still seems to have  boundless energy. Was that white cape she wore for the SOTU supposed to tell us that she’s some Caped Crusader?

Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Dumbass Bullshit, Global Warming