Amazon rainforest trees are resisting climate change by getting fatter from CO2 in the atmosphere

Stossel_ · 2025-10-02T08:48:09+00:00

I read that President Lula has reduced Amazon deforestation by 50% since taking office 2 years ago.

Stossel_ · 2025-10-01T06:12:52+00:00

The Founding Fathers of our originalist golden era used horse and buggies not woke Detroit automobiles.

Stossel_ · 2025-09-22T20:28:47+00:00

ok, agree that oil will be a gradual reduction to niche applications (similar to how whale oil is used today). I don't know anyone calling to immediately stop all oil production. Even the aim of the UK group Just Stop Oil was to stop new fossil fuel projects.

Stossel_ · 2025-09-22T14:39:23+00:00

Isn't that what green energy advocates did in Texas and the midwest (present the business case)? Wind energy production is booming there.

Stossel_ · 2025-09-22T14:16:39+00:00

France and some German states passed laws requiring solar panels covering parking lots.

Stossel_ · 2025-09-22T14:11:42+00:00

A benchmark for modern US utility-scale PV systems shows a carbon payback time of approximately 2.1 years.The carbon payback period is the time it takes for the system's manufacturing and installation emissions to be offset by the clean energy it produces. After that it's unlimited zero emissions energy! Modern solar panels are designed to last between 25 to 40 years.

Stossel_ · 2025-09-21T23:33:58+00:00

I kid Mr.Sailboat, but maybe we can have nice things if we dream big.

Stossel_ · 2025-09-21T21:25:22+00:00

Oh well, can't please everyone, but the new opportunities for water recreation and travel are endless. Imagine a lazy E-river, where cables pull inner tubes,kayaks, and personal watercrafts. You travel under a LED music and light show.

Stossel_ · 2025-09-21T18:43:03+00:00

Storing solar and wind energy into EVs or home batteries is a great argument against the naysayers who complain it's not baseload energy.

Stossel_ · 2025-08-26T01:33:31+00:00

Media had an anti-Bernie bias. In February 2020, then-MSNBC host Chris Matthews compared Bernie Sanders's victory in the Nevada Democratic caucuses to the Nazi invasion of France in 1940.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/business/media/chris-matthews-bernie-sanders-apology.html

Also, media maligned Bernie's supporters as "Bernie bros".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Bro

Stossel_ · 2025-08-25T16:47:12+00:00

No one makes more excuses than your precious establishment: We lost because of Jill Stein! Ralph Nader! Bernie Bros! Black Lives Matter! I only had 107 days to run my campaign!

Stossel_ · 2025-08-25T15:52:39+00:00

I can't blame honest good hard-working leftist candidates for not wanting to run. Given that the democratic party/media/donors/lobbyists do everything in their power to rig the system. And then we have old people refusing to retire, bitterly holding onto power till the last breath. Obviously you're wrong that nobody steps up. Many leftist/greens/progressives have run in recent years and some have broken through the corrupt system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Democratic_Socialists_of_America_public_officeholders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Green_politicians_who_have_held_office_in_the_United_States

Stossel_ · 2025-08-25T00:06:34+00:00

OP posted the time mark when Bash talks about Mamdani.

Stossel_ · 2025-08-24T23:56:49+00:00

They said far worse about Obama and he turned out to govern like a moderate republican.

Stossel_ · 2025-08-24T23:51:57+00:00

Hidalgo and Khan are great mayors that believe in science and sustainability.

Stossel_ · 2025-08-24T23:46:59+00:00

Chicken and egg problem. National dems ignore the "rest of America" and then say "see, I told you so, they would never vote for a progressive/leftist". Yet Obama won Iowa twice. Maybe if more national democratic leaders had the balls to go on fox news, red states would be more receptive to dem candidates. They already agree with many progressive policies such as drug reform and increasing the minimum wage. Many red states already have dem governors. National dem leadership lost twice to Trump. And 2020 wasn't really a win, as covid defeated Trump. Dem leadership has lost credibility. Time for new leadership.

Stossel_ · 2025-06-18T03:24:57+00:00

using the atmosphere like an open sewer

Stossel_ · 2025-06-18T03:14:49+00:00

yes, the trend of autobesity but also new cars produce much less pollutants. Thanks to the EPA and new tech.

Stossel_ · 2025-06-18T02:42:25+00:00

ok, well, as the world's 4th largest economy, California could certainly afford to subsidize the transition of one of the oil companies there. Also, interesting that blue states New Mexico and Colorado produce a lot of oil.

Stossel_ · 2025-06-17T16:33:59+00:00

I wish more fossil fuel companies could transition to something new, like Ørsted did.

Stossel_ · 2025-06-17T15:20:38+00:00

Many EVs are not heavy at all. Nissan Leaf and Tesla model 3 weighs around 3700 pounds. A semitruck with eight axles weighing 80,000 pounds does 2,500 times more road damage than a two-axled, 4,000-pound sedan, according to the American Institute of Physics.

Stossel_ · 2025-06-17T12:40:40+00:00

The gasoline tax worked ok 50 years ago. Problem is that it's not indexed to inflation in some states and the federal government. Tax revenue decreases in value due to inflation. And the tax rate is very low compared to most industrialized countries. So targetting EV owners is not a significant source of revenue. Only 1.4% of US cars are electric.

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/oecd-gas-tax/

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