tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post3614332313724377671..comments2024-03-29T03:40:00.298-04:00Comments on Progressive Eruptions: Flordi-DUH! and ArizonaShaw Kenawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-37928556542113047272017-05-05T16:27:18.439-04:002017-05-05T16:27:18.439-04:00Speaking of climate change deniers...
So I was li...Speaking of climate change deniers...<br /><br />So I was listening to the NPR report on the Trump administration’s attempt to roll back the <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-releases-first-ever-standards-cut-methane-emissions-oil-and-gas-sector" rel="nofollow">EPA regulation of May of 2016</a> requiring periodic reports for existing oil and natural gas operations to better understand where the methane leaks are coming from and what efforts are being made to control methane leaks, intentional or otherwise. Scott Pruitt has already rescinded the orders for reports in January and May of this year.<br />There is a famous cloud of methane stretching over the four corners region of the U.S. about one half the size of Delaware.<br />So the oil and gas industry spokesman comes on the radio and explains why the Obama era regulation is really just too annoying and how he wishes government agencies that have no regard for the profit motive just mind their own business please.<br />“There is already a financial motive for recapturing this Methane.” He continues unapologetically. “We’re in the business of making money. We don’t want to do anything that’s going to effect our bottom line.” The industry has already invested in technology to capture methane leaks from their newer operations. “But my fear is that the older facilities will have to be closed down prematurely because it does not make economic sense to invest methane capturing systems.”<br />In other words, if he can make a dollar by allowing pollution to continue, he is not concerned with the lost resource, i.e. methane. Even Obama’s EPA allowed for the mining and selling of precious natural gas resources to other countries. If the mining, handling and transportation of this energy resource itself causes pollution to occur, it is not in our national interest to sell it off.Flying Juniorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02098313953658606206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-23047825916221709602017-05-04T13:06:58.272-04:002017-05-04T13:06:58.272-04:00I hope sticking their fingers in their ears helps ...I hope sticking their fingers in their ears helps the folks in Florida. De Nile isn't going to be <a href="http://guardianlv.com/2013/12/global-warming-scientist-warns-florida-will-be-under-water/" rel="nofollow">the only thing under water</a>. Sorry, couldn't resist.Kevin Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10555818021469626619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-73268658486984827952017-05-04T11:27:34.376-04:002017-05-04T11:27:34.376-04:00I've been rereading 1984 and the parallels bet...I've been rereading 1984 and the parallels between their government and ours is truly scary. Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-10207379748073622762017-05-04T11:05:41.439-04:002017-05-04T11:05:41.439-04:00Republicans and conservative pols and pundits have...Republicans and conservative pols and pundits have been bashing education, science, and the press, incessantly. The last thing they want are educated, rational, informed citizens.<br /><br />JMJ Jersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-7440490288782618502017-05-04T07:48:29.565-04:002017-05-04T07:48:29.565-04:00There's much more work to do. The spherical-E...There's much more work to do. The spherical-Earth theory is also "now taught as fact". Let's have the spherical-Earth and flat-Earth theories taught side-by-side. And the germ theory of disease is "now taught as fact". We should demand equal time in schools for the theory of witchcraft and demonic possession.<br /><br />And as always, these people fail to consider the biggest problem they ought to be considering with such efforts -- that the kids whose education is reduced to rubbish by this kind of nonsense (or who get no education at all, if Mosley gets his way) are going to grow up to compete with their contemporaries in Japan, Europe, Russia, Israel, and so on who did learn real science. Even Iran teaches evolution in its schools without equivocation. Think about that. <i>Iran</i> has better science education than some parts of the US.<br /><br />I agree with <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neil-degrasse-tyson-america-fading_us_590a8627e4b05c3976862241" rel="nofollow">Neil deGrasse Tyson's recent observations</a> -- this kind of thing is actually the beginning of the end of America's position as the world's leading country.Infidel753https://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696noreply@blogger.com