Researchers results imply that higher intelligence is correlated with left wing beliefs.

[NNadir]

35. Thanks, I was booted for making a true statement which in a way, is a happy thought.

It brought me back here, which is a site that is owned, but is not an autocracy; democratic principles govern this place, i.e. the jury system, MIRT, etc.

It's a case of "Don't tell me what to do, show me." DU not only talks the talk, but walks the walk.

Over there they had a huge festival of admiring the work of the climate scientist Jim Hansen, and making sure that everyone knew that they "believed" him (as if science were connected with belief) until he wrote a paper they didn't like, this one:

Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power (Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895)

Referencing the paper, I made the statement that if the paper were accurate - it is and is often cited and mimicked - then opposing nuclear power was nothing short of murder.

Kos and his pal Timmy (Meteor Blades) really, really, really, really didn't like this true statement, and I was banned.

I was banned in the week of December 16, 2012. There is evidence that the dogmatic chanting they've been over there, as far as I can tell, is bullshit, at least as far as they give a shit about climate change, about which they really couldn't care less.

That week the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste CO₂ was 394.37 ppm as measured at the Mauna Loa CO₂ Observatory. As of this morning, it was reported as follows:

Week beginning on April 14, 2024: 426.34 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 423.82 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 401.84 ppm
Last updated: April 21, 2024.

Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

In other words, in less than 12 years, 31.97 ppm have been added to the atmosphere while they carried on with their antinuke "wind and solar will save us" chants. (The number reported this morning is 0.01 short of the all time record for CO₂ concentrations set a few weeks ago.)

Look, anyone who supports Democrats is doing work for the good as far as I'm concerned. This said, just as because one is a Democrat one is therefore intelligent is not a true statement, it is also a true statement that "being a Democrat does not preclude one from being a dogmatic asshole" is also true statement.

In working to reelect Joe Biden and other Democrats to other offices, Markos and Timmy are doing a good thing.

However the evidence is unambiguous that in pushing easily refuted reactionary nonsense about climate change, embracing dogma at the expense of all humanity, all future generations, and the planet as a whole, they are pernicious. Uncritical faith in so called "renewable energy" is making things worse faster than ever. It is, in fact, reactionary, not progressive, since, at least in my view, to be a progressive one needs at a minimum to understand numbers to make progress. Dependence on the weather for energy was abandoned in the 19th and early century for a reason.

I note that while I have disagreements with the Biden administration, my strong support for the Biden administration notwithstanding, on punctilios relating to energy - I don't support solar and wind energy and I don't support fossil fuels - the Biden administration's support for nuclear energy is the best of any Presidential administration in recent memory and is so for the best of reasons, climate change. I don't know if Markos or Timmy would ban the staff at the DOE, just praised by Dr. Kathryn Huff as she returns to academia, or if they'd ban Joe Biden (who would surely never be as crude as I am in his support of nuclear energy) but that's the truth: Joe Biden supports nuclear energy.

Thanks again for your kind words.