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#2658937 18-Feb-2021 12:39

That mayor has other problems. What he actually said was - "Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish" - lol spelling.

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#2659118 18-Feb-2021 16:48

Bill Gates: “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” & Driving Innovation

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Bill Gates discusses his new book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” shares some concrete steps people can take to reduce carbon emissions and urges the government to take a more proactive stance on climate change.

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#2659121 18-Feb-2021 17:01

gzt: That mayor has other problems. What he actually said was - "Only the strong will survive and the weak will parish" - lol spelling.

Will the parish survive if the strong are weak?

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#2659409 19-Feb-2021 09:10

Senator Ted Cruz (Republican - Texas) flew to Cancun in Mexico for a sunshine break with his daughters while Texans froze to death.

That guy is all heart.

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#2659416 19-Feb-2021 09:19

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is one of the most unlikable people in the US.

I won't even get into his failed presidential campaign, and being a Trump cuck.

Even while in college, he was genuinely disliked by everyone. How he became a senator makes you wonder about the existance a of devil's pack.

Anyhow, he wrote this tweet last year when California was having wildfire problems:

"Ted Cruz August 2020

California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity.

Biden/Harris/AOC want to make CA’s failed energy policy the standard nationwide.

Hope you don’t like air conditioning!"

He wrote this tweet last month, using Trump's exact language. (Pittsburgh's mayor say he supports the Paris Climate Agreement)

"Ted Cruz 21 Jan 21

By rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, President Biden indicates he’s more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh.

This agreement will do little to affect the climate and will harm the livelihoods of Americans."

Now he made the news by flying to Cancun Mexico, a resort beach town filled with rich Americans, while his state suffers.

Guardian: Ted Cruz flies to Cancun as millions of Texans freeze in the dark

Texas senator boarded flight on Wednesday night
Power out for millions after snowstorm hits Cruz’s home state

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#2659424 19-Feb-2021 09:32

From the Texas Tribune

Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans blamed green energy for Texas’ power woes. But the state runs on fossil fuels.

Green energy has been a political punching bag for Texas Republicans like Gov. Greg Abbott throughout the winter storm. Experts say that politicians never take responsibility for natural disasters when it comes to preparedness.

...Dan Woodfin, senior director at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, had said hours earlier that 16 gigawatts of renewable energy, mostly wind power, had gone offline as of Tuesday.

But that made up only about a third of the lost power on the state’s grid.

Nearly double that capacity had been lost from thermal energy sources like gas and coal.

And ERCOT forecast in November that wind energy would make up less than 10% of the overall winter capacity.
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#2659876 19-Feb-2021 15:28

Despite the GOP trying to paint renewables as the culprit for power outages in Texas, the Texas SpaceX facility has been able to continue working because of solar + Tesla batteries

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#2660163 20-Feb-2021 18:40

Comic Sands: Someone Leaked Heidi Cruz's Cancun Trip Group Texts—And Totally Blew Ted's Excuse To Pieces

...After pictures of him boarding a plane to Cancun went viral, Cruz reportedly booked a return flight and returned to America the next morning, claiming this was always his intention....

...But newly leaked images of Heidi Cruz's group chat with her friends seem to undercut Cruz's explanations, suggesting the vacation was supposed to last longer for the Senator and had little to do with his children.
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#2660173 20-Feb-2021 18:56

The Guardian: Rick Perry says Texans will endure blackouts 'to keep the government out of their business'

Rick Perry, the former Texas governor who became Donald Trump’s energy secretary, has said ...“Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business”

...The severe winter storm has, among some Republicans, been used to open up a new culture war around the expansion of renewable energy, which is a stated priority of the Biden administration in order to address the climate crisis.

Perry was among the many Republicans who falsely claimed that frozen wind turbines spurred the mass electricity shutdowns. In reality, the utility system’s failure to prepare for perils presented by cold temperatures – such as frozen natural gas pipes – had a significantly larger role in this crisis.

Renewable energy sources such as wind did see failures; these lapses contributed to 13% of Texas’ power outages, while generating approximately 25% of the state’s winter energy. But sources such as coal, gas and nuclear power ceded nearly twice as many gigawatts of power due to the low temperatures.

Nonetheless Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, voiced anti-wind sentiments similar to Perry’s.

“This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America,” the Republican governor told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday. “Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10% of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis … It just shows that fossil fuel is necessary.”

Abbott’s attack contradicts the operators of the Texas grid, which is overwhelmingly run on gas and oil, who have confirmed the plunging temperatures caused gas plants to seize up at the same time as a huge spike in demand for heating. Nevertheless, images of ice-covered wind turbines, taken in Sweden in 2014, were shared widely among conservatives on social media as proof of the frailty of clean energy.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic congresswoman behind the Green New Deal platform, said that Abbott was “blaming policies he hasn’t even implemented for his own failures” while the renewable energy industry also hit back.

“It is disgraceful to see the longtime antagonists of clean power engaging in a politically opportunistic charade misleading Americans,” said Heather Zichal, the chief executive of the American Clean Power lobby group.

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#2660377 21-Feb-2021 07:53

Very old, very mainstream magazine "Time" (as in "Time's person of th year")

Time: The Texas Power Grid Failure Is a Climate Change Cautionary Tale

For scientists, the havoc wreaked by the extreme winter weather that hit Texas in mid-February dropping several inches of snow and leaving millions without power did not come as a surprise. Ten years ago, in 2011, energy regulators warned the state’s electric-grid operators that they were ill-prepared for an unprecedented winter storm. And for decades before that, climate scientists had cautioned that a warming planet would cause climate chaos, raising the average global temperature while driving unusual weather events like this one. For Texas, it was always just a matter of time.

Despite these warnings, the state was unprepared—which Texans realized as soon as the storm swept in. Equipment froze at power plants, leaving about half of the state’s electricity-generating capacity offline. Natural gas wells iced over, slowing the fuel supply that heats homes. Millions were left without electricity, at least one city turned off its water supply, and Harris County, where Houston is located, reported hundreds of cases of carbon monoxide poisoning as Texans turned on their own generators to warm up.
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The cascade of failures in Texas signals what is perhaps the greatest challenge ahead in this climate-changed world: accepting that business as usual isn’t working. Across the planet, humans have built civilization to withstand the vagaries of a 20th century climate. The extreme weather events of the 21st century will look nothing like those that came before—and hundreds of years of past preparation will not suffice.
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#2660379 21-Feb-2021 07:55

Oh, Lyin' Ted - Trump - his BFF's - nickname for him - and who probably learned how to become a hypocrite at Trump University, isn't concerned at all.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/19/politics/ted-cruz-cancun-texas/index.html

How could he run for President anyway? Isn't he Canadian?

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#2662437 25-Feb-2021 07:58

Ted Cruz’s Photo Op & Texans’ Extreme Electric Bills

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Senator Ted Cruz hands out water for a photo op, electricity bills across Texas spike, and Cruz changes his tune on government regulation

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#2679953 24-Mar-2021 19:42

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/24/big-banks-trillion-dollar-finance-for-fossil-fuels-shocking-says-report

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#2919673 28-May-2022 11:13

Press release:

New Zealand and California have signed a cooperation deal on climate change, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced in San Francisco today.

The Memorandum of Cooperation, signed during a meeting with California Governor Gavin Newsom, will facilitate the sharing of information, experiences and research in reducing emissions as well as working together on projects that are good for the climate.

“Taking action on climate will secure our environment and our economy, so it makes sense to partner with allies in this shared problem,” Jacinda Ardern said.

“We both aim to achieve net zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century. This agreement means we’ll work together to share expertise and experience and collaborate on projects that help meet each other’s targets.

“As the fifth largest economy in the world California will be a significant player in the global low-emissions transition and an important partner in our efforts.

“We each have comparable broad-based plans to emissions reduction, and know it will take every sectors of our economies playing their part.

“As a result we both have ambitious policies for zero-emission transportation on land and sea, energy innovation, clean power generation, nature-based solutions and zero waste initiatives.

“The agreement provides a framework for cooperation across a range of sectors including on zero emissions vehicles, energy storage and smart grids, emissions trading schemes, and climate smart agriculture.

“Transport is California’s largest source of emissions and New Zealand's second largest, so this is an area where there is the potential for real gains from cooperation.

“Likewise agriculture plays a significant role in each of our economies and emissions profiles. Gains here can be both good for business and the planet.

“No country is immune from the impacts of climate changes, so it’s just common sense to collaborate with likeminded partners to meet mutual goals,” Jacinda Ardern said.

“This month, Aotearoa New Zealand launched its first Emissions Reduction Plan - a blueprint for a climate-friendly future. International engagement, like this agreement with California, will play a key role in driving domestic decarbonisation and achieving our climate targets,” Minister for Climate Change James Shaw said.

“Just as New Zealand will need access to new technologies, New Zealand businesses will find new opportunities in a net-zero world and this agreement also unlocks the potential for private sector innovation and collaboration.

“In Aotearoa New Zealand we intend to continue leading by example, but the fight against climate change is a truly global effort, and only through cooperation will we deliver our shared goals and build a safer, better future for everyone,” James Shaw said.

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#2919687 28-May-2022 14:02

Very smart move. California has been an environmental leader for a long time regardless of the party in the governor's chair. Even Ronald Reagan had to be green to win in his day.

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