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In reply to the discussion: The Answer to Climate Change Is Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power [View all]NNadir
(33,515 posts)24. Yeah. Apparently. That's why we've had cheering for this rich boy's fantasy for 60 years...
...with no result other than this:
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
2.66 ppm in a single year over October of 2012, the second worst October ever observed.
But don't worry, be happy. We have lots of people around to burn coal and gas in the spectacular effort to tell us, year after year, decade after decade, how wonderful so called "renewable energy" is.
This calls for another round of chanting and prayer, and for the hell of it, let's add a little cut and paste.
Ignorance kills people.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3051197
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The Answer to Climate Change Is Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power [View all]
kristopher
Nov 2013
OP
Please provide links to your statistics. Common sense says that you are wrong.
rhett o rick
Nov 2013
#5
What do the National Academies of Science and Engineering say about our energy future?
kristopher
Nov 2013
#30
I don't argue with evangelists any more. I just point out that there is no God...
GliderGuider
Nov 2013
#4
Yeah. Apparently. That's why we've had cheering for this rich boy's fantasy for 60 years...
NNadir
Nov 2013
#24
The Answer to Climate Change Is Neither Renewable Energy, Nor Nuclear Power
GliderGuider
Nov 2013
#35
Judging by that off point answer you don't seem to know what primary energy is
kristopher
Nov 2013
#39
That's why the last one wasn't in terms of primary energy, but electricity.
GliderGuider
Nov 2013
#40