Re: CO2 Funny

On Tue, 21 May 2024 18:16:28 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
<pommyB@aol.com> wrote:

On Tue, 21 May 2024 08:50:23 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
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On Tue, 21 May 2024 14:23:04 +0100, chrisq <devzero@nospam.com> wrote:
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On 5/21/24 04:15, john larkin wrote:

This is wonderful:
 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/05/20/joe-biden-democrats-green-transition-evs-energy-costs/
 
"Contrast Biden voter certainty with their knowledge about carbon
dioxide. Nearly one in five Biden voters think there should be no
carbon dioxide at all because it’s a poison..."
 
"Forty four per cent of Trump voters and 26 per cent of Biden voters
were able to correctly identify the approximate concentration of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; nearly three quarters of Biden
voters were wrong by a factor of between 100 and 1000."

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Are we surprised ?. More like mass psychosis and death wish at the
highest levels of western governments. So infused with dogma and
dodgy science, they will bring down the whole house, rather than
admit they are wrong.

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Yes. What social media has done is magnified the already tribal
behavior of believing what everyone else apparently believes. Only the
tribes are now billions of people worldwide. That's an unstable
dynamic that results in all sorts of random delusions.
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The other thing we're seeing is fear, depression, and despair, over
Climate Change and other things. Lots of fear.
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Still, control the cost and access to  energy worldwide, and they
will control the world. Fascism, same shit, different wrapper...
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There is some of that, using climate as a power-mongering tool, but it
wouldn't work if not powered by so much public fear and hysteria.
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I wonder if such fear and innumeracy are hereditary. I suspect they
are. If the lunatic greenies don't want to breed, and they mostly
don't, the sane people will slowly pull ahead.
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So as a long-term investment, buy Exxon stock.
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(I have a mild variant on the Sallen-Key lowpass filter. Is anyone
interested?)

No.

Of course not. Electronics design would hurt your head.