In the U.S., the share of electricity coming from coal declined from 45% to 25% between 2010 and 2019 not because of "our allies" but because natural gas become cheap due to the natural gas fracking revolution
In fact, the carbon intensity of energy — the amount of carbon emissions per unit of energy — has been declining for *150 years*
It has nothing to do with "our allies."
There was a 20% *decline* in methane, a greenhouse gas, despite a 40% *increase* in natural gas production
P.S. If Biden and Democrats really care about climate change, they will fight for a Green *Nuclear* Deal and not give $2 trillion in ratepayer/taxpayer wealth to bankers and China for unreliable solar panels
Nuclear waste is the best kind of waste. All of it ever produced can fit on a single football field. It never hurts anyone & never will. It will be recycled in future reactors
Nice to see stridently anti-nuclear @SenatorReid acknowledge that it is safe where it is!
@ziontree I met Zion last year when she was spokesperson for radical UK climate group, Extinction Rebellion
When it became clear Sizewell was the most important nuclear project in the world, I reached out to her, and ended up hiring her, a story I describe here.
@ziontree Zion campaigned relentlessly for Sizewell, writing articles for Britain's largest newspapers, participating, appearing in public debates, and organizing a pro-nuclear swim protest in front of Sizewell to underscore the safety of nuclear
For a more in-depth look at why power density determines environmental impact, please consider reading my best-selling and critically-acclaimed new book
Quick! Somebody alert Facebook’s censors @ClimateFdbk to slap a warning label on that San Francisco Chronicle story for being “misleading” because it failed to mention that climate change has doomed our forests to the apocalypse!!! @JohnStossel
All of this will come as a shock to East Coast journalists who are too scared to go camping but were absolutely certain climate change had burned down 2,000 year old redwood trees
Under Obama-Biden, “$15B went to energy efficiency, which turned out to be a massive waste of money. 2x as much money was spent weatherizing homes as was saved. The episode disproved the myth that efficiency investments always “pay for themselves.”
“Determined to learn nothing from history, Green New Dealers are now proposing to spend taxpayer dollars weatherizing every building in America.”
FWIW, this is not a left-right issue. Even @MotherJones reports, “the upfront cost of efficiency upgrades came to about $5,000 per house, on average. But their central estimate of the benefits only amounted to about $2,400 per household.”