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Comment Economics-India and China find coal cheaper (Score -1) 222

If the USA eliminated ALL coal for power today, within one year Indian and China would add an equivalent amount of coal burning power plants. If coal is so expensive, why are these two giants basing their energy security on coal? Because coal (and gas) work, like nuclear, they can supply reliable base load power needed to run any industrial economy. They know the intermittent nature of wind and solar are unreliable and too expensive to make them the basis of their energy plan. Look at where wind and solar are added the most. In California and Germany unreliables have been added in too large amounts, and their power costs are much higher than areas with reliable coal, gas, and nuclear plants.

Comment No, vaxed deaths are higher-see IL data (Score -1) 209

Uh, no...Here in Illinois for example, the number of COVID deaths fully vaccinated are higher than the unvaccinated, and have been for a few months now. https://wirepoints.org/illinoi... Data from the UK, Canada and other countries support this. Now the vaccine proponents argue that vaccinated are more likely to have co-morbidities, but as vaccination rates get higher, that distinction become less important. The issue with excess deaths is they are seen in younger people, where in 2020 most deaths were in the elderly, those have died off from COVID. In 2021, with the less fatal omicron variant, deaths were up especially in the younger population. Insurance actuaries have reported this as well as in the Dept. Of defense database. Speculation is the vaccine is causing some excess mortality, as that is the difference in 2021 vs 2020. The vaccine was widely rolled out. The VAERS database lists 26000 deaths from the COVID vaccine, and many studies show that VAERS underestimates reporting. You could try and claim this is not so by debating Steve Kirsch, who has offered 1 million dollars to someone that will debate him and his facts. https://stevekirsch.substack.c... https://stevekirsch.substack.c...

Comment Ivermectin (Score -1, Troll) 449

No it is effective, despite the government and media attempts at suppression.. The Project Veritas showed DARPA documents that say the DoD knew Ivermectin was effective in all phases of the disease since 2020. Look at this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... Conclusions: Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally. There are many randomized clinical trials indicating its effectiveness.

Comment Fake news sells bad vaccines (Score -1) 173

Last week in Illinois one third of the COVID deaths were fully vaccinated. Since about 2/3 of Illinois are vaccinated, the vaccine offers maybe a 50% reduction in death. Significant, but not that great. https://wirepoints.org/illinoi... Data from many countries indicate the vaccinated are more likely to get COVID, more likely to be hospitalized. https://joannenova.com.au/2022...

Comment Vaccines don't protect against death (Score -1) 99

128 fully vaccinated people in Illinois last week would beg to differ if they could. They can't because they are dead. https://wirepoints.org/illinoi... Last week 128 fully vaccinated died, and 173 unvaccinated died. So 42% of deaths, and Illinois is vaccinated 60% (87% over 65 yo). There are some subtleties, like the ages of the victims and the distribution of comorbidities in the two groups. But the jab is no prevention of death, and perhaps a 1/3 reduction in mortality.

Comment Re:Two words-alarmism failure (Score -1, Troll) 59

Ocean acidification is a term used by global warming alarmists. There is NO way the oceans can become acid. Do you know the meaning of acid? pH 7. The ocean is so heavily buffered, it could never become acid. It could be less alkaline, but that does not sound as scary to the un-educated. Acidification is another false crisis.

Comment Re:Two words-alarmism failure (Score 0, Informative) 59

These pacific atoll islands are not sinking or losing land. Coral atolls rise up as the seal level rises. Many studies have shown that the area of most of these islands is actually increasing in recent years, despite a slow linear sea level rise we have measured for centuries. See these references: https://wattsupwiththat.com/20... https://wattsupwiththat.com/20... There is no acceleration of sea level rise, as usual, more exaggerated scare tactics to prop up the rapidly failing alarmist climate narrative.

Comment Re:Participation medals for everyone! (Score 0, Interesting) 148

They can't take the relentless down votes on the Biden white-house videos and CDC propaganda videos. They can't let the people speak, more high tech censorship. I use google less and less every day. Avoid them for search when possible, g-mail only for junk. Always block google tracking when browsing with NoScript add-on.

Comment Re:Americans programmed to think more extreme (Score -1) 91

Americans perceive more extreme weather, because they are being told all the time this is so.

Well I've lived in the same area nearly my whole life (moved away for college) and it doesn't seem much different to me. There's variations year to year of course (weather is not climate) but the fundamental patterns are still the same.

But that's just anecdotal of course, what does actual data tell us?

There isn't a noticeable increase in hurricanes for example.

Colorado snowpack per year remains similar.

In California record temperatures have mostly not been set very recently.

People are more and more being driven to fear EVERYTHING - weather is just one aspect of this.

Right... Extreme weather is not happening more frequently, as noted above. Looking at real data over time shows fluctuations with up and down times and cycles. What has increased is the endless media focus on weather to scare people and drive the global warming narrative. And from the story, the propaganda campaign is working.

Comment Ivermectin-anti viral reference (Score 0, Troll) 676

Ivermectin has been known for years to have anti viral effects. If you search you can find papers where it was used against the original SARS and MERS viruses. There was a nice review paper of the many anti-viral mechanisms. Many papers going back >12 years. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

Comment Re:Critical thinking. (Score 0) 676

Do some homework. Many drugs are pleiotropic, meaning they have multiple effects, like statins, which may reduce heard disease by lowering cholesterol. but also reduce inflammation in the arteries. Ivermectin has been known for years to have anti viral effects. If you search you can find papers where it was used against the original SARS and MERS viruses. There was a nice review paper of the many anti-viral mechanisms. Many papers going back >12 years. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... The data is getting overwhelming. Japan has approved doctors to prescribe Ivermectin cor COVID in the past week or so. There is a recent review article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go... American Journal of Therapeutics 28, e434–e460 (2021) "Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines" From the study- “Conclusions: Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally. Keywords: ivermectin, prophylaxis, treatment, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 Combining this with all the other studies found in the link below (thousands of patients in randomized clinical trials) showing 60-8% improved outcomes (deaths, hospitalizations, cases etc). https://ivmmeta.com/ means those actively suppressing Ivermectin as a treatment may have blood on their hands. They have to suppress it or the vaccines and their pharma potential billions in profits could be knocked off the terms of the EUA (Emergency Use Authorization). They have reason to lie.

Comment No- it is necessary for internet control (Score -1, Redundant) 226

They want to lock down the internet. So you can only get approved information (not that messy mis-information about vaccines or election results or government corruption). You will need the internet drivers license to access the controlled web where you are "protected" from mis-information that does not support the official government/corporate narrative. They can only enforce it with the total control and TPM hardware. I wonder how they will block the linux users?

Comment Vaccines not effective (Score 1, Troll) 334

No the vaccines should NOT be approved, especially on this rush basis. The phase 3 clinical trials are not finished until late 2022 or 2023, so no data on long term effects. Further there is NO control group left from the initial Moderna and Phizer trials ! They unblinded the trials so the control (placebo) group was given the vaccine. So, no control group, violating a basic practice of scientific experimentation. So, how can you make any approval this year? Only with corruption and political pressure. And is not that effective with the new variants. Israel data shows in one of the highest vaccinated countries, the number of vaccinated that are getting sick is equal or worse than the unvaccinated. The Massachusetts data from the CDC showed the vaccinated were 80 percent of the cases, and 4/5 hospitalized were vaccinated fully. A new report from some hospitals in Los Angeles say the same, vaccinated are getting sick at the same rate as the unvaccinated. This is three reports I have seen, and this contradicts the MSM narrative that there is only a pandemic of the unvaccinated. This is false. There are many examples, including deaths of the vaccinated. Anyone can find documentation of these reports on the web. Then there is the problem of >10,000 dying from the vaccine in the USA VAERS database. More deaths than all other vaccines combined. Many severe side-effects. It took the swine flu vaccine only 50 deaths before the vaccine was stopped. And there is evidence that the VAERS database under estimates the adverse reactions. The deaths and injuries are real, as it is a federal crime to submit a false report. The government is playing games, no longer counting vaccine breakthrough cases unless they result in hospitalization or death. Why change the reporting criteria? To minimize publicity of adverse effects. Why get a vaccine with all the dangers fro a disease with a 99.7% survival? -unless you have comorbidity like obesity or diabetes. The vaccines may be forcing the virus to evolve to escape the vaccine. This is seen because countries with high vaccination rates are seeing more cases, but low vaccination countries have lower cases. These new cases could also be first evidence of what experts have been warning against, ADE, antibody dependent disease enhancement. With a weak antibody or vaccine, some are more susceptible to the virus as the vaccine blocks the bodies natural defenses to a covered up binding site. Ivermectin looks to be a good treatment reducing the risk of bad outcomes, but is being suppressed. There are dozens of peer reviewed studies and randomized clinical trials of Ivermectin against COVID showing >60-70% efficacy involving >21000 patients. https://ivmmeta.com/ So, NO, do not prematurely approve these vaccines.

Comment Re:Strangely quiet -NO (Score 1) 120

Did you even look at the data tables and graph in the link I posted? Feb 16, 2021 according to ERCO wind was 6%, solar 2%, Nat gas 65%, Coal 18%. So fossil fuels and nuclear were 92% of Texas electrical generation. Look at the graph Feb 8-14th, you see wind and solar are a tiny band riding on top of the total energy from gas, coal, and Nuke.

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