Comments by "Michael RCH" (@michaelrch) on "Why people are nixing having kids because of climate change" video.
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“Wind is a joke, solar is real”
Wtf?
No, Tucker you cretin. Onshore wind, unsubsidised, is already cheaper than natural gas and some oil and coal generation.
Solar is not as cheap as onshore wind although it’s quicker to roll out in more places and it’s cost/MWh is falling faster than wind right now.
Oh, and btw, green tech is responsible or far more jobs than coal, and they were the fastest growing sector in the US in recent years. Plus, most of the jobs are in installation and maintenance so they are labour intensive, moderate to highly skilled and they cannot go abroad.
Thanks Tucker, go kill those well-paid US jobs. Yeah! MAGA or whatever...
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Tucker Carlson repeatedly discusses climate change as though there is a significant and meaningful debate among scientists about whether it’s real, what causes it and if it will be a major problem for the world.
There isn’t.
In the US there are lots of non-scientists who have believed the propaganda that the fossil fuel industry is paying for and there is Fox News, the only major news outlet that still has anchors that talk this way. Shepherd Smith btw no longer does. Non-scientists who claim that climate change is either not real, not man made or not a problem are not basing their opinion on actual science. From what I can see they are basing it on what politicians, or Fox anchors, or industry lobbyists or bloggers tell them. But these same politicians often don’t believe in evolution, bloggers will claim that the Earth is flat and industry lobbyists are clearly not to be trusted as their whole industry relies on not taking action on climate change.
It’s really a tragedy that so many people are falling for all the same tricks that the tobacco industry used to delay any action to regulate tobacco products for decades after scientists knew that smoking caused lung cancer. The tobacco industry promoted smoking as good for you while they knew for a fact that it kills you. The fossil fuel industry is using the same tactics now - lying to people to make a fortune while they are knowingly doing very serious and permanent damage to the only planet we have to live on. If we cook this planet, there is no other one to move to and we know of no way to remove billions of tons of CO2 from that atmosphere. Even if we did, the positive feedback effects already happening would probably render our attempts to stop warming would be useless. If we don’t act now, it will take many thousands of years for the climate to return to pre-industrial conditions once we have finished with it.
That is what all the major, respectable independent scientific bodies that we have relied on for centuries are saying. Who is Tucker Carlson to tell them they are wrong?
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