Environment & Energy

Adolf Hitler asked Ferdinand Porche to design a People's Car, in German a "Volkswagen."

The result was the Volkswagen Bug. There's a picture of Hitler admiring the car on the internet.

When I was a young hippie type, I and many of my friends drove bugs. They were cheap and had impressive gas mileage for that time. Is the logic of the antinukism now that all hippies who drove Volkswagen Bugs were Nazis?

If the Orange Peophile in the White House says that a golf ball is a sphere - assuming he knows what a sphere is - does that mean that it is an tetrahedron?

There's also a picture on the ORNL website of smiling Jacquiline and John Kennedy with Al Gore's father, in the control room of a nuclear reactor at the Oak Ridge in 1959 with Alvin Weinberg . I would be an appalling idiot if I claimed this as a reason to support Molten Salt reactors. The reactors stand or fail on their technical performance, not on what politicians thought or think of them.

George W. Bush has solar cells on his ranch, but I'm not such a moron as to use this to assert that solar cells are unsustainable garbage. They're unsustainable garbage in my view whether Bush uses them or not.

That former Secretaries of Energy Steven Chu and Jennifer Granholm both supported nuclear energy has no bearing on whether nuclear energy has a low carbon impact. The carbon impact may be why they supported it but the number itself has no relationship to their opinion of it.

We seem to be having a festival of desperate whining today, pulling out logical fallacy after logical fallacy to support the unsupportable.

Again, in case we missed it the first time, trillions of dollars have been squandered on solar and wind, vast mines constructed to make them, and vast stretches of former wilderness industrialized to install them. They have had no effect on the rise in concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide. I monitor this pretty much every damned day.

The "hydrogen will save us" moron engages in this type of rhetoric "guilt by association" all the time,. It does not change the fact that China is adding over 90 new coal plants to the more than 1000 they have now.

In the last two weeks, the rate of increase at the Mauna Loa CO₂ Observatory has slowed.

I suspect the slowing of the rate of carbon dioxide increases in the last two weeks to be attributable tobthe closure of the Straits of Hormuz and higher oil and gas prices. If I'm right about that does this make the Orange Pedophile in the White House an environmentalist? Does this make his war a good thing?

This unserious nonsense is tellling.