Now you’re trying to help PG&E raise electricity rates by $365/year per household on average even though your corrupt anti-nuclear renewables-only agenda already resulted in California’s electricity prices rising 8x more than they did in rest of US
Journalists, experts, and elected officials are today blaming heat wave deaths, forest fires, and electricity shortages in New York, California, and Texas on climate change
But the underlying cause of those events is lack of air conditioning, lack of electricity, and the failure to properly manage forests, not marginal changes to temperatures.
All of those news stories including “explainer” stories we are seeing right now are grossly misleading because they deliberately *exclude* all of the relevant context that @BjornLomborg provided above
The media do the same on floods, forest fires, hurricanes, etc
As @AlexEpstein notes, humans took a dangerous climate and made it safe, we didn’t take a safe climate and make it dangerous
The idea that the climate was safe before humans caused climate change is an infantile fantasy & the Edenic foundation to a false, apocalyptic narrative
Yesterday, Biden appeared to have scored a big climate policy victory in announcing a deal with Republicans to spend hundreds of billions on new infrastructure, including $73B for new solar and wind farms and $15B for electric vehicle infrastructure and electric buses.
But the total ends up being just $88B, which is less than the “clean tech” portion of the 2009 stimulus and a far cry from the trillions progressives demanded. The total for electric cars is less than 1/10th the $177B Biden requested. And there is no Clean Electricity Standard.
"China is... running its solar industry using forced labor linked to an ongoing genocide. That simply can’t be tolerated or ignored. We can’t save the planet by increasing the suffering of the world’s most vulnerable people."
As I have been reporting, it won’t be cheap or easy to relocate or replicate China’s solar industry
“The availability of cheap coal energy & labor in Xinjiang enabled Chinese polysilicon makers to dominate
solar industry, making it difficult for manufacturers to replace them”
A major new investigation by @NPR of Calfornia's Gov. @GavinNewsom is damning:
"An investigation from @CapRadioNews and NPR’s California Newsroom found the governor has misrepresented his accomplishments and even disinvested in wildfire prevention."
"California’s response faltered under Newsom. After an initial jump during his first year in office, data obtained by CapRadio and NPR’s California Newsroom show Cal Fire’s fuel reduction output dropped by half in 2020, to levels below Gov. Jerry Brown’s final year in office."