Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on ""Climate Activism is a Religion" - Marian Tupy" video.

FARK GUYS - I love so many of your conversations but what I can't stand is this stream of hyper-funded radical Right Wing clowns. I know you have Lefties on every so often like you did with David Pakman AND I know he acted in bad faith to you guys with a short video on his channel. I called out his bad faith on that and I got panned by some of his fans. Because the one thing I cannot stand are people who act in bad faith. Marion presents a lot of facts I agree with but I cannot stand his bad faith or the sneakiness with which he does it. For instance his claim that the energy crisis is from bad policy is 100% true BUT the claim or inference that it is totally due to Green policies is one of the worst lies being perpetrated on the planet. Yes without doubt the Greens have been very vocal on changing the source of energy to green technologies but that is only a fraction of the story. FIRST: Power stations do not last forever. They have a basic lifetime of 20-30 years which can be extended to around 50 years with rebuilds and overhauls. But no matter what is done they reach a point where they are done. So this time period where we need to build new power stations has been coming for decades. The difference in public opinion is over what type of power generation. SECOND: NOBODY has kept up with the power demands in developed nations. I'm an engineer and found out several years ago that my country (Australia) has a huge problem. We haven't built any new large bulk delivery power stations since the 1990s. We've built a few smaller power stations and some wind and solar farms but no large scale bulk delivery. I call these power stations Gigawatt class power stations because they can deliver more than 1,000 Megawatts (1 Gigawatt) of power constantly 24/7. THIRD: The Energy generation issue is 100% an economic issue. Britain is currently building one of the very few Gigawatt class power stations anywhere in the world with Hinkley Point C that has been commenced since the year 2000. Its also an economic lesson that explains the problem. Hinkley Pt. C took 7 years to approve and will take 10 years to build with a planned commissioning date of 2027. At £26 Billion pounds those 17 years are impossible to economically justify to any private corporation. Most CEOs are over 60 with many over 70 and a few very influential CEOs over 80 with a couple over 90. The same can be said for many politicians. How do you justify to people of that age to invest that much when they wont see anything for 17 years. Other large scale power generation plants might not take as long as a nuclear power station but when you're building Gigawatt class power generation NOTHING IS SIMPLE OR QUICK. As an engineer I can't begin to explain how angry people like Marion get me with the economic rationalism and other garbage. They are never the people who have to deal with building a mine or factory or power station or water treatment plant, but they tell people like me to get it done and deal with the issues THEY CREATE.
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@brettcohen2832 If you are a right wing neoliberal clown who thinks Ronald Reagan was a genius and Margret Thatcher was a goddess then I'd agree its one of the best interviews of the past decade. On the other hand IF you know a few things like where this guy has worked for the past 20 years as in The CATO Institute and you know who funds that place and what their goals are you'd realise this guy is a snake. I actually agree with about 90% of what he says. Its that other 10% that's an issue. He's one of these people who's adept at hiding 1 lie among 9 facts. He's 100% correct that the energy crisis is the result of bad government policy. He's 100% right that the Greenies have an unrealistic view of nuclear power. HOWEVER the bad government policies that have caused the energy crisis have come from people like Charles Koch and Robert Mercer funding campaigns and lobbying through places like the CATO Institute to stall and interfere in government energy policies. They have also been double funding the nuclear issue. On one side they get people like Marion to say its not so bad and then through back channels fund radical Greenies to scream yell and rant BECAUSE that prevents any sensible public discussion on the subject. Marion's also 100% right that there has been no proper planning for the energy transition, but then the billionaires funding him have prevented any sensible planning through political lobbying to protect the fossil fuel assets. Sorry mate but this guy is incredibly good at telling 9 facts to hide 1 lie.
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@guidedmeditation2396 Can people like you just STOP LYING. I MEAN REALLY JUST STOP LYING the average CO2 is over 415 PPM. There is no discussion on that. There are monitoring sites all over the world. Just like it was with tobacco we have had enough of the lies. I am an aerospace engineer and NASA sets their CO2 limits by partial pressure not parts per million PPM https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/co2_technical_brief_ochmo.pdf NASA like NOA is quite clear on the current state of CO2 in earths atmosphere. https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-relentless-rise-of-carbon-dioxide/
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@philsandele Go do a background check on Tupy. He has a reputation for being very selective some data, ignoring other data and out right lying. He is by his own admission at the start of this and employee of the CATO Institute a Right Wing Libertarian Think Tank. That's actually an understatement. CATO is one of the big 3 of billionaire funded RWL Think Tanks. The other 2 are the Heritage Foundation which is famous for running the tobacco cancer denial campaign for Phillip Morris and the Federalist Society famous for funding the promotion of RWL judges throughout the American Federal court system. I'm actually very annoyed with both Konstantin and Francis because they never challenged this guy at all, which makes me wonder how much they were paid for this.
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