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  1. Not just the humanities departments. Scientists, too. Trends in American scientists’ political donations and implications for trust in science https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01382-3 As Stephen Colbert once remarked i, it's a fact that reality has a liberal bias.
  2. Well, you've got me there...oh wait a minute... Trump pitches US natural gas to European leaders, suggests Russian gas holds them hostage https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/06/trump-natural-gas-europe-leaders.html
  3. False. The Secret Service is not responsible for the "general security" of premises of private citizens. Their job is to protect the people they are assigned to protect. Even if it was the case that the secret service would be responsible for protecting sensitive documents of ex-Presidents, since Trump denied having any such documents, why would the Secret Service even consider protecting documents which according to Trump were non-existent?
  4. I'm sure you think what you wrote actually means something.
  5. What took Trump so long? Obama and Biden were way ahead of him Obama to EU: Cut reliance on Russian gas https://www.cnbc.com/2014/03/26/eu-to-press-obama-at-summit-for-aid-in-cutting-russian-gas-imports.html Biden warns EU against Russian gas dependency https://www.dw.com/en/biden-warns-europe-against-dependency-on-russia-for-heating-oil-and-natural-gas/a-19503334
  6. I want to commend you on your humility. You actually confessed that you had no idea that reducing revenues would effect indebtedness. But don't worry about that. I'll be here to set you straight next time you stray.
  7. I'd give odds of 3-2 that your comment made sense to you.
  8. Thanks for the bloviation.
  9. I'm not saying it. The official report from the Greta Thunberg Foundation said it. In a legally required annual report.
  10. Actually, that honor goes to Finland. But even if it were Norway, why would the Breivick incident, which occurred over ten years ago, disqualify it? Apart from some postage stamp sized countries like Monaco, Andorra, Luxembourg, and San Marino, Norway has the lowest homicide rate in all of Europe. https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5/rankings
  11. So it's always a disgrace to desert an army no matter how brutal it is and no matter how severely it violates human rights? Another report from OppositeWorld.
  12. It's incumbent upon the person making the allegation of malfeasance to prove that funds have been misused. It's obviously ridiculous to ask someone to prove a negative. And given that Thunberg is Target A for the climate change denialist movement, if she had misappropriated those funds, somebody most likely would have cottoned on to it by now.
  13. The case you make is remarkably compelling. How did you come up with it? Coin flip? Crystal ball? Ouija board?
  14. So why does it matter?
  15. What does it matter where she put the money? What matters is how she spent it. You have any evidence that it was misspent? If so, can you share a link to that info?
  16. You clearly are having a problem with pronouns. In this case the pronoun in question is "it". "It" is so cold now because of variations in weather. On the other hand, on average "It" is getting warmer. The warm days are increasingly outweighing the cold days. In the United States for example: Daily Heat Records Rising In the 2010s, 96% of 247 locations set more heat records than cold records. A century prior, during the 1910s, 54% of locations set more heat records than cold records. From January 2020 through November 2022, 91% of 245 locations had more record heat than record cold. Over the same period, 25 locations across the U.S. only set records for heat (none for cold). Tampa, Fla. had the greatest imbalance (setting 76 heat records and no cold records)—followed by Miami, Fla. (52 heat records), Phoenix, Ariz. (47), Reno, Nev. (45), and San Francisco, Calif. (36). https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/daily-heat-records-rising-2022
  17. I hope it isn't because you sincerely didn't know that spending doesn't necessarily result in net indebtedness. I had assumed you were feigning ignorance and calling you out on it. Was I wrong?
  18. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qEF9-nZyETMR9Ew8fES4F66lk0NTtI7s/view Ya got any other nasty questions?
  19. Here's the link again that will show you where it all went: https://thegretathunbergfoundation.org/where-the-money-goes/
  20. Nonsense. Stop making things up. Or provide some proof: From the landing page of the World News Forum "Any alleged factual claims must be supported by a valid link to an approved credible source."
  21. Using carbon in a way that doesn't turn it into greenhouse gases it is exactly the opposite of what is meant by a 'carbon footprint"
  22. You think that this escaped the donors' attention? What is your point?
  23. It costs less and pollutes less than continuously mining the earth for fuel. Rare earths don't get burned up and they are eminently recyclable: Renewables Are as Green as You'd Expect Despite all the metals and raw materials that go into making solar cells and wind turbines, these sources of low-carbon renewable electrify will have a low climate and environmental impact through 2050 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/renewables-are-as-green-as-you-d-expect/ Rare Earth Recycling https://energyindustryreview.com/metals-mining/rare-earth-recycling/#:~:text=Rare earths – an ideal candidate,an ideal candidate for recycling. Electric vehicles make debut in agriculture No longer an idea only, electric tractors are making a quiet start in vegetable farms, vineyards and orchards. Innovation and out-of-the-box thinking seek to outfit farmers and especially specialty crop growers interested in automation and alternative energy solutions. https://fruitgrowersnews.com/article/electric-vehicles-make-debut-in-ag/ As for the working life of the battery, it's clear that you are unfamiliar with information on that score: How long do electric car batteries last? [Dec 2022 updated] According to current industry expectations, EV batteries are projected to last between 100,000 and 200,000 miles, or about 15 to 20 years. However, even when EV batteries do age, their large initial capacity combined with minor losses in battery capacity means the aging is nearly imperceptible to drivers. Indeed, EVs are currently estimated to lose an average of 2.3% of their battery capacity per year. https://blog.evbox.com/ev-battery-longevity For obvious reasons, at least obvious to me, your vicious cycle claim makes no sense. Are you seriously claiming that the more charging stations and recycling stations that are created, the greater the deficit will be. That they consume so much power that it makes no sense to use them? Is that the case today? Why would it be the case tomorrow. Usually, as technologies develop, costs go down, not up. What is different about renewables?
  24. Sure. Nothing much is happening on that front at all... Renewable power’s growth is being turbocharged as countries seek to strengthen energy security The global energy crisis has triggered unprecedented momentum behind renewables, with the world set to add as much renewable power in the next 5 years as it did in the past 20... The global energy crisis is driving a sharp acceleration in installations of renewable power, with total capacity growth worldwide set to almost double in the next five years, overtaking coal as the largest source of electricity generation along the way and helping keep alive the possibility of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, the IEA says in a new report... The report finds that renewables are set to account for over 90% of global electricity expansion over the next five years, overtaking coal to become the largest source of global electricity by early 2025. https://www.iea.org/news/renewable-power-s-growth-is-being-turbocharged-as-countries-seek-to-strengthen-energy-security
  25. Generally, protests are a pain in the butt to somebody. If not, those in power could just ignore them. Gandhi, Martin Luther KIng, Lech Walesa were all pains in the butt. This has nothing to do with the personal insults you've directed at her.
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