It's Climate Change I tell'ya!! IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE!!

Tecumsehsbones

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I once actually won an argument over nuclear power. Rare. Usually you can marshal every fact in the universe. . . makes no difference. As the saying goes "One convinced against their will/Is of the same opinion still."

In this case, however, I pointed out that over 400,000 deaths per year are attributed to the air-pollution problems from fossil-burning power plants. I closed my argument with "So the normal operation of fossil-burning power plants kills more people every week than the "disasters" at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl put together (this was before Fukushima)."

To my surprise, a couple of days later my interlocutor came to me and said "I can't get that out of my mind, and I'm re-thinking nuclear." I commended her for her open-mindedness.
 
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It's a transition to a new energy source. Not exactly the first time. Just think when we all started running our lives and economies on this newfangled "petroleum," switching from good ol' whale-oil and firewood.
In Germany, where apparently, they have a lot of windmills, they have gone 12 days without wind in one area of the country. So needless to say, they're hurting. I'm hoping they have fossil fuels for back up!! It's cold outside!
 
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Taxslave2

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I think it would be more efficient to issue the $2 bills however I think it became a social stigma if you had $2 bills in your wallet. Everybody would assume you needed them for the whorehouse. So nobody wanted them and they stopped circulating them.
That was only a prairie thing. We never had a problem with them in BC.
 

Taxslave2

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I once actually won an argument over nuclear power. Rare. Usually you can marshal every fact in the universe. . . makes no difference. As the saying goes "One convinced against their will/Is of the same opinion still."

In this case, however, I pointed out that over 400,000 deaths per year are attributed to the air-pollution problems from fossil-burning power plants. I closed my argument with "So the normal operation of fossil-burning power plants kills more people every week than the "disasters" at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl put together (this was before Fukushima)."

To my surprise, a couple of days later my interlocutor came to me and said "I can't get that out of my mind, and I'm re-thinking nuclear." I commended her for her open-mindedness.
And Fukushima is still poisoning the water my dinner lives in.
 

Ron in Regina

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The earth is flat .
It’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel to criticize the federal Liberal government these days.
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They are committing so many “own goals” one almost feels sorry for them. And a shining example of the government’s incompetence can be found in the actions of Minister of the Environment Steven Guilbeault.

Trudeau putting Guilbeault in the post of Minister of the Environment appeared to be a giant middle finger to Alberta. One can only wonder what a different path the federal Liberals would pursue if the oil and gas industry was based in Quebec.
 
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Retired_Can_Soldier

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It’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel to criticize the federal Liberal government these days.
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They are committing so many “own goals” one almost feels sorry for them. And a shining example of the government’s incompetence can be found in the actions of Minister of the Environment Steven Guilbeault.

Trudeau putting Guilbeault in the post of Minister of the Environment appeared to be a giant middle finger to Alberta. One can only wonder what a different path the federal Liberals would pursue if the oil and gas industry was based in Quebec.
Steven Guibeault: A true believer and capo in Justin Trudeau's Legion of Doomsday Twat Waffles.