🌍 Europe now has a Green New Deal and it's coming to a ballot box near you in May

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4. I've spent 30 years of my life studying energy in the primary scientific literature.

I frankly have no patience whatsoever for glib statements.

It is not debatable at all.

We are at 411 ppm as of this week at the Mauna Loa observatory. I've been hearing all kinds of crap about going off dangerous fossil fuels for my whole damned adult life, and I'm not young. They were all bullshit, all of them completely devoid of any kind of deep study.

Oblivious statements, lacking any basis in data are a big part of the problem. When I was a kid, I used to make these kinds of statements myself, and I'm deeply ashamed of having contributed to the nonsense that has caused us to steal from all future generations by rote commentary that has no basis in fact.

My journal at this site, contains commentary on only a tiny fraction of the scientific papers I've read on energy and the environment.

I would submit that I know far more about energy than any one who believes that Europe is going to do anything realistic or meaningful about climate change.

They haven't, they aren't and they won't.

Prayer and slogans won't help. Knowledge might, but obtaining knowledge takes a tremendous amount of work, and in my experience, most people offering slogans are are far too lazy to do it, from Amory Lovins on down.