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Comment Re:Horseshit (Score -1) 54

Wind, solar, and batteries isn't likely to get an electrical grid as close to zero carbon as France sees with heavy use of nuclear fission.

Nuclear uses gargantuan amounts of concrete for cooling towers, ponds, and underground storage bunkers. Which produces a lot of CO2. As always, renewables beat the pants off your radioactive water heaters.

Comment Re: Spoils of war? (Score -1) 63

To stop the advance of Ukrainian troops in the occupied part of the Herson district.

Russian artillery does that with ease, without flooding Russia's own troops and equipment. Your propaganda is as self-debunking as the assertion that Russia would blow up their own multibillion dollar pipeline and top negotiating tool that they could have turned off with a switch.

Why did the ruzzkie destroy dozens of cities that according to their own propaganda were "Russian"? Mariupol, Bakhmut, Volnovaha, etc. etc. etc?

Because your Azov pals were heavily dug in, especially with the tunnels under Mariupol. Duh.

LOL, which ruzzkie troll farm did you crawl out from?

There's a nice meme that neatly addresses this dipshit dumbfuckery. It's a clear picture of a banana, with a caption that says "this is an apple, if you see anything else, you're a Putin Puppet". Twenty years ago you losers would have been smearing Iraq war skeptics as Saddam Lovers. SSDD.

Quite strange then that the Ukrainian people have been resisting ruzzkie "approach" since the 90s, and are either trying to fight this invasion off or running away, mostly westwards, don't you think?

Quite colossally ignorant. Crimea was voting for more indepenence from Kiev and closer ties to Russia in the 90's. People in Donbass also overwhelmingly voted to re-join Russia. Small wonder as Kiev had spent eight years bombarding them.

Their war crimes are well-documented, numerous and unprovoked.

Annnnnnd more projection. Less than half a percent of Ukraine casualties are children, compared to 30% or more in Gaza. That's the difference between a war and a genocide. Russia hasn't even done decapitation strikes to take out the Banderite regime.

Basically, a terrorist shit will do terrorist shit anytime.

Using a HIMARS or an M-777 for your projection? Nazi America and Nazi Israel are by far the worst terrorist states the world has ever seen.

And once you see "banderites" and other similar propaganda shit, you know you're talking to a zetnik.

Western media was awash in reports on Ukraine's Nazi problem before it was time to forget all that to pretend Russia was the bad guy. Including NATO itself via their Atlantic Council think tank telling you of Hitler Youth camps set up in Ukraine.

Enjoy your bowl of shit, NAFO troll.

Comment Re:Gotta feed the AI Bubble (Score 1) 172

It's the exact opposite. Poor are the ones most benefiting from things like cheaper food, cheap power, and easily available housing. All things brought in by cheap power enabling them.

Chances are, there won't be many if any poor left by the measuring stick of "global warming will be able to harm more than benefit". It's why you see increasing panic in the alarmist circles, as poor are increasingly comprehending what fate alarmists have in store for them and are rejecting their degrowth nonsense outright.

Comment What happeneed to the Deccan traps? (Score 1) 39

https://geosciences.princeton....

Abstract: We test whether Hg in marine sediments over the last 550 m.y. of the Cretaceous is a reliable proxy linking Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions to late Maastrichtian global climate warming and the mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (KPB).

From what I have seen and read about this, it is quite possible that the traps were emitting unimaginable amounts of gasses for tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of years. In this video essay from Kurzgesagt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjoQdz0nxf4) it is suggested that the traps emitted the equivalent of tens of thousands of our civilizations (!!!) for great many years. Gases that swung the climate like mad: sulfur-based "coolers" and carbon-based "warmers". Plus the mercury, where our current emissions will not even register on the scale back then (and also why the greatest source of Hg in the air today is coal and oil burning - we are re-emitting the poison that the Earth spewed in the past).

In the last several years though, there seems to be a concerted effort to bury the contribution of the traps and put all of it on the asteroid again. Could it be because the traps show that the greatest danger is beneath our feet and has nothing to do with our civilization? Compare the apocalyptic claims of irreversible this and catastrophic that, which will surely happen next year, or at the latest by 2030 or at the very, very latest by 2050 with evidence that tens of thousands of civilizations worth of emissions, going on for a lot longer than our singular civilization has existed didn't result in irreversible climate change and wholesale destruction of life. In fact, adding the asteroid as the cherry on the cake, KPB extinction event is, as far as I remember, the mildest extinction of the big 5(?). Only 75% of everything living perished...

Kurzgesagt goes on mentioning that all the big extinction events were caused by volcanic activity.

Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 172

Even if I were a "MAGA troll", the point would stand on that "MAGA trolls" do not claim to care for the poor.

Green nutjobs do.

I.e. it's pointless to say "but you don't care about the poor" to people who never claimed to do so, but who's actions benefit the poor.
It is however meaningful to say "but you don't care about the poor" to people who made well being of poor front and center of their political platform, but who's policies inflict massive harm on poor instead of reaching the stated lies about their goals.

Comment Re:Just another wumao troll... (Score 1) 172

You forgot to include me in the following categories:

1. Indian troll
2. ASEAN troll
3. Everything outside EU troll (and maybe US if you squint really hard).

So when one person represents the view of about 7/8th of the world, whereas you go for "7/8 of the world are trolling me when they tell me what they have been doing for decades, are doing right now, and will be doing for foreseeable future", which one is trolling in your view?

Comment Re:Gotta feed the AI Bubble (Score 1) 172

It's been well established at this point that even fairly minor raise in wealth mitigates pretty much all relevant harmful effects of global warming.

And then you get the bonus of not seeing things like starvation of early 2000s, and instead massive obesity crisis in same places, because CO2 fertilization enabled former borderline regions where nothing could be grown industrially to feed the masses to instead be ag powerhouses.

Comment Re:Gotta feed the AI Bubble (Score 1) 172

https://www.iea.org/reports/co...

Are you ok? Do you need suicide watch due to reality colliding with your bubble?

Hint: you can click on each one and get snazzy longer term charts of growth of coal during last few years. Basically the only place reducing coal usage is the same place where there's an ongoing massive offshoring event of heavy industry due to both added bureaucratic cost of metallurgical coal and electricity prices (because we have decided to pretend that LCOE is the correct measure of power, so heavy industry receiving actual power bills to pay for rollout and spikiness of two most expensive forms of electricity isn't real, doesn't exist and we don't want heavy industry anyway, so it's a good thing it's offshoring).

Comment Re:Gotta feed the AI Bubble (Score 5, Insightful) 172

No, gotta produce cheap and reliable energy to lift people out of poverty. We still have a couple of billions to go.

I know, I know. Caring about the poor is so 1990s. Today we care about killing them via degrowth ideology, because they produce too much CO2. Turns out poor and people leading them disagree, and they are the ones who get to decide, not degrowthers.

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