Comment by a reader at another story posted today at "Watts Up with That":
Without large scale energy storage, which green energy enthusiasts constantly ignore, they are either stupid or their true intent is to disrupt economies and living standards through intermittent energy supply. They claim not to be stupid so the latter must be their true goal.
Oh Lord, there be idiots at Stanford
We have large wind farms in West Texas and Southern California. We also have extreme drought conditions in both areas. Can’t help but think that the two have to have something to do with one another.
Not only do we not have an adequate understanding of the factors influencing the climate, we are projecting greenhouse effects without a good understanding of carbon sinks. Olivine in mantle rocks that have come to the surface seems a good way to mitigate any CO2 excesses. However, we have decided to dismantle our industrial society resulting in high death tolls and a stifling of freedom.
http://www.aaas.org/page/workshop-us-nuclear-weapons-stockpile-management-summary-report
from the link:
On November 10, 2011, the Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAA S), the Hudson Institute Center for Political-Military Analysis and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) hosted a workshop to discuss the future of the Department of Energy’s stockpile management program.1 The meeting was unclassified and off the record. To allow free discussion, it was carried out under the Chatham House Rule in which statements made during the meeting (such as those reported here) can be cited but not attributed to individual speakers.
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Wasn’t the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) - out of Chicago - an old Communist front organization? That would explain some of this...