3 tons wrote:

“As a person that has worked it both Gas and Electric construction and maintenance for a utility, I can tell you there is currently not enough generation in California to support this....we all knew that”…..

Well, where do we go to find the non-politicized, non-subsidy seeking, non-virtue signaling, rational individuals (independent of Gov’t Grant moola $$, and trendy popular narratives…) capable of saving us from this self-imposed day of reckoning??…Why are sentient minority voices of concern (the Socratic method = critical thinking…) being utterly dismissed??…The sage wisdom of Sir Winston Churchill comes to mind, “With each generation, a new world begins” - Just thinking about the future…

3 tons

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Global vegetation photosynthesis and productivity have increased substantially since the 1980s, but this trend is heterogeneous in both time and space. Here, we categorize the secular trend in global vegetation greenness into sustained greening, sustained browning and greening-to-browning. We found that by 2016, increased global vegetation greenness had begun to level off, with the area of browning increasing in the last decade, reaching 39.0 million km2 (35.9% of the world’s vegetated area). This area is larger than the area with sustained increasing growth (27.8 million km2, 26.4%); thus, 12.0% ± 3.1% (0.019 ± 0.004 NDVI a-1) of the previous earlier increase has been offset since 2010 (2010–2016, P < 0.05). Global gross primary production also leveled off, following the trend in vegetation greenness in time and space. This leveling off was caused by increasing soil water limitations due to the spatial expansion of drought, whose impact dominated over the impacts of temperature and solar radiation. This response of global gross primary production to soil water limitation was not identified by land submodels within Earth system models. Our results provide empirical evidence that global vegetation greenness and primary production are offset by water stress and suggest that as global warming continues, land submodels may overestimate the world’s capacity to take up carbon with global vegetation greening.

3 tons wrote:

Not at all Sir, I agree completely, and what you describe equates to my personal perspective as well, however I’ve yet to see even a mere modicum of objective (i.e. independent) science to suggest the widely accepted narrative that carbon is bad for the environment…In fact, it far more realistic to suggest that quite the opposite is true…

Truth is at present (or the last two decades) the earth is undergoing a greening process, particularly and more importantly at the mid-arid regions, likely thanks to liberated carbon (a plant fertilizer…) from natural carbon sinks (e.g. rocks, oceans, particularly petroleum)… FWIW, per core samples, the CO2 levels upon earths formation were somewhere between 3000-9000 ppm (5000ppm in submarines and 7000ppm on the Int’l space station…), and at 150ppm or below plant life cannot even exist…There is no additional CO2 on earth (what’s present already exist), all that is happening is the liberation of carbon from natural occurring earth sinks, a return to non-deficit levels…Good luck at trying to get gov’t grant money at making or even suggesting this case, thus a return to one the dimensional narratives (scientism…) of the medieval era…

3 tons

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and for providing a mere glimpse into the research fraud estimated at about 50% of so-called ‘white papers’ (often funded by the obscene amounts of highly politicized Gov’t Grant ‘moola for evidence’) and the world of those who are Smart by about 1/2, actively bordering on a University kleptocracy…

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706604033/duke-whistleblower-gets-more-than-33-million-in-research-fraud-settlement

BCSnob wrote:



Let me guess, those studies which support your point of view are valid and those that don’t must be fraudulent.

BCSnob wrote:

Debating tactics are trumped by data in published studies. Care to provide any?