The Scientists Are Terrified

[NNadir]

68. If one thinks that it's just Joe Manchin, George Bush, or all the demons, they should think...

...again.

The problem is basically one of dogma and the inability to look at data and admit that one's sacred cows are just big animals that shit a lot.

We have our own dogma.

Here on the left there are many of us who think that this issue is best addressed by electric cars, wind turbines, solar cells and batteries.

This is nonsense, thermodynamic nonsense. The laws of thermodynamics - on which all energy depends - are not controlled by political opinions; nor are they determined by bad guy demons, and for that matter, by assholes like Elon Musk. They are immune from marketing and wishful thinking does not affect them.

They are physical laws.

It's really time to stop blaming "someone else." It's time to look in the mirror, get serious, and think anew.

I first began to think seriously about climate change in the 1990's, and energy as a general subject in the 1980's after Chernobyl exploded.

That with which I came away would have shocked my younger self, but I can say I saw this coming, as clear as the sky in a high desert at night.

I screamed rather loudly about it here and elsewhere, but other people here, not me, got what they wished for.

This is the result.

The mirror is a very useful tool, but only if one looks in it.