COULD THIS BE THE BEGINNING OF TRUTH ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

One of my biggest frustrations in fighting ineffective industrial wind development is that when you talk about fighting wind power most people stare at you dumbfounded! They ask - How can you be against this?  The planet is dying! The Earth is warming at a horrific pace! We have to do everything we can do now!  And as you and I know the United States has spent billions of taxpayer dollars in response to this thinking!

The New York Times is trying to re-brand itself as the media outlet of truth! And maybe this is the beginning of that truth!  This columnist clearly and accurately states how much the Earth has warmed and now they and others need to go much further.  We need to stop blaming every ecological change on global warming and we need the scientific community to start researching and reporting real science - Not just hyperbole!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/opinion/climate-of-complete-cert...

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Comment by Eskutassis on May 2, 2017 at 9:45am

Jim, DON'T HOLD BACK!

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on May 1, 2017 at 10:35pm

Delingpole: New York Times Snowflake Readers Melt in Horror at Climate Skeptic Columnist Bret Stephens

According to Soros attack dog Joe Romm, it could scarcely have been worse if the New York Times had given the column to the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/05/01/delingpole-new-y...

Comment by Jim Wiegand on April 30, 2017 at 10:57am
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You forgot to mention one thing.............Most of these ignorant, arrogant, obnoxious people believe these stupid inefficient turbines are going to be the backbone for electrical transportation in the future. Of course the lying scumbags selling them, have known  for years, this is impossible. 

Comment by Eskutassis on April 29, 2017 at 11:45pm

While this is a step in the right direction for the NYT, read some of the other articles on this topic. They are as radical as anything I have read. Coal companies dumping pollution into streams, extinction of species, sea levels drowning nations . . . . it goes on and on. I wish you were right, but am afraid the die has been cast.

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on April 29, 2017 at 6:45pm

EPA Removes Climate Science Website, Announces ‘Changes’ to Reflect Trump Administration

EPA sources told Reuters in January that administration officials asked the agency to take down the climate change page, but EPA staff fought to keep the page up

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/29/epa-removes-clim...

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on April 29, 2017 at 2:13pm

“This ruling is important, because it means it will now be easier for the Trump E.P.A. to revoke or revise the Clean Power Plan”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/climate/clean-power-plan-global-...

Comment by Long Islander on April 29, 2017 at 1:49pm

They build them because of "Free Money" coming from taxpayers and crooked legislators who create renewable mandates for their ratepayers.

Comment by jan van eck on April 29, 2017 at 1:30pm

Without getting into the issue of certitude and the people voting against Hillary because they were offended by her personal arrogance and hubris (and she offends lots, including vast ranks of "deplorables") as recounted by that NY Times writer linked to the blog post above, let's focus on those wind machines.  It is an interesting technology, but like all technologies, has gone off on one developmental tangent simply because of its own internal dynamics.  It reminds me of say the use of Freon in A/C systems.  Why is (or was) Freon the gas of choice, when its escape is undeniably harmful?  Short answer: because a large group of engineers saw other engineers doing that and followed suit.  The result is that it ended up the dominant technology - never mind that it is a silly design. 

Aplying that to stationary propellers,  is the design of a massive generator coupled through a big complicated transmission sitting on the top of a giant pylon 450 feet up a great design?  No, but, like the Freon, it is the way that this technology has developed.  And now the concept is building on its own internal momentum.  They build them because everybody else builds them. 

Does windpower work, in some absolute sense?  Sure, and it is well suited to places where you have lots of powerful, steady wind - and the alternative is expensive diesel generators.  Aruba comes to mind, with the consistent 20-knot winds coming on from the South. Is it any good in New England?  For a number of technical reasons, the short answer is No. But the stuff gets built anyway, using the platform that the big engineering companies have developed - large machines parked on top of giant towers. And also (of course) because taxpayers throw gobs of money at the developers, who, let's face it, are cynically exploiting them. 

Comment by Long Islander on April 29, 2017 at 12:04pm

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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