'Hyperalarming' study shows massive insect loss.

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18. Exactly...

...and I back up what I say with data.

I note that I started my adult life as a dumb-ass anti-nuke "renewables will save us" cretin, this almost half a century ago.

Then I learned how to read, and read widely.

I make no secret that I believe that anti-nukism is a very, very, very, very, very dangerous and ignorant fact of life, and I appalled, absolutely appalled, by its popularity on my end of the political spectrum.

And yes, I'm too old and too educated to accept what clearly are delusional pipe dreams.

We hit 411 ppm of carbon dioxide this year in the planetary atmosphere. Maybe you didn't hear about it.

I never tire of saying that we just spent in the last ten years two trillion dollars on this delusional pipe dream, on wind and solar alone, 2.2 trillion to be more precise and reference the most recent reports. Both industries shut down several times a day, depending on the weather, the solar industry because of the existence of something called "night." No one notices, because they're trivial and useless. Prattling on about them, as if we "needed" them - we don't - is frankly, just as you report me saying (and I say it often) delusional.

As I often repeat: It didn't work; it isn't working; and it won't work. The reason is physics.

So called "renewable energy" was in wide use for more than 2,000 years, but was abandoned in the early 19th century because most citizens of the world lived short, miserable, dire lives of poverty even more so today. When it was abandoned, the world population was less than 1 billion. It's more than 7 billion today. I am always interested to find out, who we'd like to nominate to die so we can all live again in this putative "renewable nirvana." The Chinese perhaps? The Indians? They seem particularly disinterested in our bourgeois electric cars powered by solar energy fantasies.

Some people have a fondness for the expansion of poverty. I don't. It's not my liberalism; it may be yours, but not mine.

Frankly, I consider this issue in Energy and the Environment the most important issue before humanity.

You may call it "pimping" but in the current case, but I would consider any other approach, based on what I have learned, to be morally appalling. I'm not one of the people around here whoring for gas, which is precisely what the so called "renewable energy" industry has brought us. Gas, more and more and more of it.

My life is approaching its end, and when I die, I want to do so with a feeling that I at least struggled to become decent. My fierce nuclear advocacy is a part of that. You may find that amusing, but I really don't care what anyone thinks. One must do what one believes to be right.

Stick to watching Coen brothers movies. They're cute; meaningless, but cute. I have something far more important to do.