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Advanced Nonsense: The Politics of Alternative Energy

Your comments about global warming are absurd and baseless.
They mimic the most uninformed, most gullible of skeptic arguments, the kind that real climate scientists have gotten sick of trying to argue with. I'm referring to the kind of skeptic that asks "If it's cold at my house this winter, doesn't that mean global warming has stopped?" If you are to argue against the AGW theory, at least have something based on science.

Throw in a reference to Carl Marx and you've kind of said it all, right? That old red baiting from the fifties still gets a lot of mileage, eh?

You must be referring to the conservative biased media right?
The concept of a liberal biased media is a myth. Please read the book "What Liberal Media?" by Eric Alterman which clearly debunks this.

The continual reference to Elites is getting stale. Funny how the party of and by and for the rich calls the other party the party of elites.
After all aren't you inveighing against the perpetuation of myths by the media?

By the way there are 25 peer reviewed studies that show that converting to clean energy and efficiency will have at worst, a slight economic impact and maybe a positive one over the next 20 years of so. The only study I've seen that predicts much economic damage is the non peer reviewed, heavily biased, fault filled and non transparant study done for the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers.
getenergysmartnow.com/.../

www.hillheat.com/artic...

As an example, one of the studies projects GDP to reach $23 trillion in April instead of in January of the same year in the 2020s.
In exchange for that slight economic cost in the U.S., we get clean air and water, mitigation of global warming, a generally healthier environment, healthier population, energy independence, hundreds of billions less in trade imbalance, no more wars over oil, 24,000 less deaths from respiratory disease from coal, no more billion gallon toxic coal sludge spills, better national security, no more wild fuel price fluctuations, and so forth.
And after those twenty years, we will reap economic gains from all of the above.