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There's a tendency for the right wing to pass the responsibility to act on individuals and claim the high moral ground because they installed a solar panel to save themselves some money. Anything except admit that it's a global problem which requires global cooperation. Individual effort is like peeing into the ocean. Sure, about 1% of fossil fuel use. Nobody is suggesting or ever has suggested banning fossil fuels entirely, especially not products derived from fossil fuels. Nope, 100% of the cost of the electricity is recouped from the tenant. Is that not true? Batteries and other storage mechanisms. Again, fossil fuels will always be used but to suggest that since we can't remove them 100% so we shouldn't remove them at all is ridiculous logic.

I agree with that. The scientists define the problem, politicians decide how to fix it. Fossil fuel companies pay politicians not to fix it.

Why not call it by its correct name, fascism? You only use the term as an epithet while admitting it isn't an accurate description. What';s that about? It's the same as woke, the right use it in a polar opposite meaning to it's actual meaning.

I rarely do use it. As I said, what an individual does has minimal effect on climate change. 99% of the world's population never uses aircon at home. None do, they may take a rake but that's a different topic. Which is why governments are required to force changes in the way electricity is generated in power stations.

Have you thought about reading what the IPCC actually does? It is up to each country's politicians to implement policies to meet IPCC targets and agreements. The IPCC is not in the business of telling countries how to achieve emission goals since every country is different.

Ideology of a party is not how the country is actually run. In no country has the economy and assets been jointly owned by all its citizens. Ever.

My point is how can I install solar panels as a condo tenant? I have altered my lifestyle. I live in an area where I can walk everywhere and do so. Meaningful action on climate change can only occur on a macroeconomic level, like closing coal fired power stations, removal of fossil fuel subsidies, preventing land clearing and the like. There's obviously very little incentive for greedy rich capitalist pig dog landlords to expend capital to save their tenants from having to pay power bills and most such owners don't own the entire building anyway. Again, government legislation to force developers to install solar panels is the only way this is going to occur on a wide scale.

Nothing about Putin is communist. The term is flung around by the right as an epithet, much like woke. It means nothing as no country has ever been communist.

Irrelevant. Climate change will not be solved by governments doing nothing. Governments passing legislation to force and encourage changes to fossil fuel and land use are crucial. That is the elephant in the room. Individuals installing solar panels won't cut it because most can't afford them. Help needs to be provided to poorer countries to assist hem in adopting new technologies such as solar panels. Solar panels can only be installed by house owners in the main. Only the rich capitalist pig dogs who own the apartment blocks and their own houses can install solar panels. Mere mortals don't have that option do they?

The only people advocating waiting are right wingers wanting us to wait for the Chinese to reduce their emissions, despite the fact that Chinese per capita emissions are quite low.

Climate scientists know that's its CO2 that's the problem. They know what is causing the CO2, it's Fossil fuel burning, land clearing and cows mainly. As you said, they don't make policy and don;t try to. They merely point out what needs to be done.

The Russians depended heavily on the US in WW2, it's false to say they looked after themselves. This time they don't have the uS industrial might on their side.

But it's still true about Russia.

Musk is trying to con his employees into copping what will be an even greater loss. There are other Twitter alternatives under development and this one will die like other right wing initiatives to bypass market forces aka consequences. Twitter is now way overvalued at Musk's "valuation".

More fool them. If you lie with dogs you get fleas.

I must have missed something. Is there some indication that she lied in the article?

This is in response to a general unwillingness to pay this creep for verified status.

You guys have a crystal ball? On Monday, prosecutors in the Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's $130,000 hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels called David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer and a longtime ally of the former president, to the stand. It's unclear immediately why Pecker, who was instrumental to bringing down Trump's former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen, was called. But, wrote Jordan Rubin for MSNBC.com, a possible reason is to expose false claims by Robert Costello, a Trump-aligned lawyer who testified to the grand jury last week to try to discredit the claims made by Michael Cohen. https://www.rawstory.com/costello-pecker/

Name a single country, any country, where the army restricts itself to defense duties only.

It wasn't his original intention to destroy those sources. He thought Ukraine would capitulate in 3 days, remember?

He was very lucky. Daddy owned an emerald mine and was a property developer.

"This should panic Republicans who have any sense of reality," Rubin said. "Are they going to nominate a guy who was indicted for trying to overthrow the government, for trying to retain and obstruct justice? The Republican Party may be crazy, but I do not think the American people by any stretch of the imagination would re-elect Donald Trump, and that has serious consequences for the Republican Party. https://www.newsweek.com/gop-trump-arrest-2024-new-york-desantis-1790570

Not a good time to be a Trumpian. With Donald Trump facing no less than four criminal investigations, as well as civil suits headed to court, his ever-changing team of lawyers has no leader and no coherent legal strategy, according to the Wall Street Journal. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lawyers-2659660424/

"Florida is where woke goes to die," according to the Sunshine State's governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, who has based much of his expected 2024 presidential campaign on being "anti-woke." But a new poll from Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal is devastating to many of the policies being promoted and enacted by Governor DeSantis in his "free state of Florida," calling into question how he and other Republicans who embrace his ideas will fare on the national stage. "Patriotism, religious faith, having children and other priorities that helped define the national character for generations are receding in importance to Americans," warns the WSJ, with some on social media pointing to a graphic that purports to capture how much America has changed in the past 25 years. https://www.rawstory.com/new-wsj-poll-shows-america-is-not-with-desantis-on-his-anti-woke-policies/

No, but Martians obviously did.