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tyronehedon The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisis Worse

This site is nothing more than conservative propaganda, doing its best to hide that fact.

Nothing to see here: move along.

tyronehedon Ask HN: Do you read books regularly? Fiction or nonfiction?

Both. Always have one of each going simltaneously.

tyronehedon In Private Call, Texas Regulator Pledged to Protect Wall Street Blackout Profits

Good thing ENRON got your Texas electricity market deregulated. That regulation sure is a bad thing....

tyronehedon Amazon will not sell books that 'frame sexual identity as mental illness'

How fascinating it is to see conservatives being all about the free market until it goes against them. Indeed, Amazon is a private business and they certainly have the right to sell only those items they deem worth of selling. In the same way they decline to sell neo-Nazi paraphernalia, they have the right to refuse to sell anti-LGBTQ+ objects. A similar, equally-fascinating example is the outrage conservatives express when those other free enterprises called Google and Facebook decline to allow individuals such as the former president on their platforms. Consistency is a bitch.

tyronehedon U.S. had its coldest February in more than 30 years

That's because the Jet Stream has moved South. The Arctic was much warmer, leading to melting of permafrost and the firing of the so-called methane clathrate gun, which releases vast amounts of tremendously-damaging methane gas.

tyronehedon U.S. had its coldest February in more than 30 years

You clearly don't understand what is happening. The increase in CO2 causes wilder swings in weather, leading to more and more extremes. It also perturbed the Jet Stream, leading us to get in the USA what had been weather confined to the Arctic. This outcome is PRECISELY what had been predicted for the worst effects of climate change.

In fact, the amount of CO2 that we have already released has triggered the knock-on effects, which is the melting of permafrost and the subsequent release of vast quantities of Methane gas, which is 84 times more damaging than CO2.

Unfortunately, climate is not simple. By definition it is a complicated effect. But the coldest February ever seen is 100% in agreement with the predictions in Climate change.

tyronehedon Nuclear technology’s role in the world’s energy supply is shrinking

Considering the amount of concrete the goes into making a nuclear reactor, nuclear power is not a solution to our climate crisis.

tyronehedon Nuclear technology’s role in the world’s energy supply is shrinking

Fukushima--that's why nuclear is held in ill repute.