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6. This is very true, but we are losing the war on science on both sides of the political spectrum.
Sun Dec 4, 2016, 12:56 PM
Dec 2016

Many of the "holiest of the holy" ideas on the left, specifically anti-nuclear and anti-GMO rhetoric are in fact pernicious.

Similarly, our faith in so called "renewable energy" which has not worked, is not working and will not work foreclose the possibility that we will be able to address climate change.

It is not even "renewable" in the sense that it relies on increasingly depleted exotic and in many cases toxic elements.

Science is about experiment. The so called "renewable energy" experiment involved the expenditure of two trillion dollars in the last decade with the result that climate change gases are accumulating at the fastest rate ever observed. As an experiment, this is definitely worthy of being referred to as a failure, since the result negates the hypothesis.

I know this analysis will not be popular here; but the truth is the truth. It is one thing to deny climate change, as the nuts on the right do, but the effect is no different ultimately than choosing the wrong way to address it.

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