Posted on 06/06/2025 12:03:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“Planet-warming” ?
HAHAHAHA!
These weenies will do anything to avoid ever saying (writing) the phrase “global warming” again
The Worm Seth Borenstein is involved with this piece of propaganda...
What a load of hogwash. The article talks about hazy skies and blames the nearby power plants. But the Clean Air Act greatly reduced the REAL pollutants: sulfur, nitrogen and particulate. Those emissions did indeed cause hazy skies. But the article then focuses on “carbon pollution.” That’s the clear, odorless gas that cannot be discerned in plant stacks or in hazy air. Cutting carbon emissions does nothing to clean the air. Then the article says that “carbon pollution” is down because coal plants shut down. No more cheap, plentiful, and reliable power. No more jobs.
Get back to me when the Chinese have to report to the EPA.
Get back to me when the Canadians stop having wild fires every year
Why hold back? Let’s call them “Galaxy Warming”.
Get back to me when the Canadians AND Californians stop having wild fires every year.
“At stake is the Greenhouse Gas Reporting program, a 2009 rule from President Obama’s administration that affects large carbon polluters like refineries, power plants, wells and landfills. In the years since, they’ve collectively reported a 20% drop in emissions, mostly driven by the closure of coal plants.”
First question, Is this rule made in response to direct legislation or did EPA just come up with it all by its lonesome?
Second question, If the burden of reporting the emissions is lifted why assume the emissions will increase? The article assumes a cause and effect not in evidence. I am sure there are multiple other reasons why emissions dropped (the article even mentions one of those).
Third question, Would those coal plants have closed anyway?
We Californians have to make way for the new Section 8 housing where the rich folks live. Wildfires can get rid of a lot of their houses quickly and cheaply. If that means a bit of global pollution, so be it. Don’t you have any sense of vision for the future??
I am sure they reported 100% accurate numbers.
Lost Angeles Times?
Gimme a break.
I want mature, educated writers.
Get back to me when the Canadians AND Californians stop having wild fires every year.
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True!
Not only are those lots of lovely trees being destroyed, but those are hydrocarbon sources being dumped into the atmosphere.
Why is it that these liberal bastions that both go by the “CA” abbreviation so happy to enable such polution???
(we all know the answer why. They just want to attack western [human] civilization. Natural or or non-western sources of pollution don’t serve the agenda)
Never give up the con.
“COAL FIRED PLANTS”
ARE THEY REFERRING TO POWER PLANTS?
IF SO——WHAT WILL RUN THEIR 84” TV’s? VIDEO GAMES? WASHER & DRYER? CHARGER FOR THEIR ELECTRIC VEHICLE?
SOME PEOPLE NEVER LEARNED TO CONNECT THE DOTS.
“DROPPED FROM WHAT LEVELS”?
What records exist?
Now ain’t that weird, I never thought too much about climate change until them three-legged chickens starting showing up here at the farm. I reckon all the ice melted down in Antarctica and they flew up here. I like drumsticks, but I ain’t never caught one, darn birds must be able to run 50 miles an hour.
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