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Jul 19, 2022·edited Jul 19, 2022Author

"But even Gates says that we’re talking about 70 years, not a dozen, or less than a decade. People who look at the science, and who also understand economics and the mechanics of human need, know that the world isn’t going to walk off a cliff in deference to a doomsday religion fixated on stopping greenhouse gas production."

I'm not going to fault policy-makers in an island nation and one with a third of its territory under sea level from doing what they think is necessary to do their part on climate change. At the rate we're going (3.6 mm / 0.14 in per year[1] - assuming that doesn't accelerate), can either the Netherlands or Sri Lanka absorb a 9.8 in rise in sea levels without even more disruptive things happening than these environmental policies?

[1] https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/question-14/

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Jul 19, 2022Liked by Chris J. Karr

While in other more pressing news around the world: An extreme heat wave that meteorologists call an "apocalypse" broiled much of Europe and the United Kingdom on Monday, and hundreds of people died because of record high temperatures and ferocious wildfires. At least 748 heat-related deaths have been reported in the heat wave in Spain and neighboring Portugal, where temperatures reached 117 degrees this month."

On another front, this news also in: "Sen. Joe Manchin took in more than $400,000 from fossil fuel interests in recent months as he fought his colleagues’ plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the electricity sector. Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who is up for reelection in 2024, raised $1.6 million in campaign contributions between July and October, according to his election campaign’s filings."

I guess it all just depends on who's "RELIGION" one wants to buy into doesn't it Steve. This seems as good a place as any to use the Pandemic argument, "those people were all going to die anyway."

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Jul 19, 2022·edited Jul 19, 2022

Tesla's port in the USA is the result of coming to market prior to a standard being decided. All other manufacturers are using CCS1 and CCS2 (including your Kia EV6), while Tesla is stuck using a proprietary port: so the standardization isn't the issue, it's just a matter of building out the networks more fully. Ideally, Tesla would move production to the new standard for newer vehicles and provide an adapter for their Supercharger network.

Perhaps a shift in focus from ethanol subsidies to subsidies for building more EV charging stations would be a better use of our dollars.

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Yet another sign that christians really don't believe a thing about their religion. If there is a 1 percent chance that man made climate change would destroy the world a person who thinks their vengeful almighty god told them to be responsible for it would do anything to not anger said god.

Instead these sneer at the people who actually care.

If were comparing religions yours comes out on the losing end. Again.

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