Links tagged “gnd”

Phil McDuff: "Climate change is the result of our current economic and industrial system. GND-style proposals marry sweeping environmental policy changes with broader socialist reforms because the level of disruption required to keep us at a temperature anywhere below “absolutely catastrophic” is fundamentally, on a deep structural level, incompatible with the status quo."

American Thinker: "Perry had some conciliatory words for Ms Ocasio-Cortez and other proponents of the Green New Deal, saying that while he might disagree with their means, he hoped they could agree on some of their goals"

"Rick Perry, the Trump administration’s energy secretary, several times at the conference referred to the importance of cutting greenhouse gas emissions through technologies including nuclear power, carbon capture and natural gas to replace coal for power generation."

"Perry is a useful fool in wanting to help the Marxist plotter Occasional Cortex. And wanting to help China reduce its emissions is Children’s Crusade-level wishful thinking."  He is a useful fool in wanting to help the Marxist plotter Occasional Cortex...The reason Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 was because the rest of the field were spineless invertebrates. One of the most spineless was Rick Perry."

Flashback 2017: Rick Perry says the U.S. should not withdraw from UN Paris pact -- but instead 'renegotiate' it

Flashback 2017: Energy Secretary Perry Pulls a U-Turn on Climate - Rick Perry reverses his support of the Paris accord, in the name of energy "leadership"

"We depend on fossil fuels, because they exhibit five characteristics that result in their superiority over all other potential energy sources, including: power density (the amount of power produced divided by volume), widespread availability, storability, ease of transport, and cost."

Radical measures are necessary to bring down tourism emissions, the climate researcher Schellnhuber said, arguing that “domestic flights within Germany should be banned” and replaced by a better continental high-speed train network.

Flashback: Schellnhuber Says We Will Have To Go Back To Mud Huts By 2040