Regardless of your opinion on global warming, whether it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, mostly/solely natural, or some mix, the actions of the Warmists, who became a full fledged cult, have made a real mess of things
The new Secretary of Energy Chris Wright returned to his home state Thursday to tour the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, as the Trump administration continues to mull budget, staff and policy changes at the agency.
The department oversees a vast portfolio of national laboratories, maintains the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile and funds an innovation office to support new technology. The renewables laboratory in Golden has thousands of employees and has made key innovations in solar, wind and other clean-energy technologies meant to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
Wright praised the lab’s work during remarks to staff. But during remarks with reporters, Wright, the former head of the Denver-based fracking company now called Liberty Energy, said that calling climate change a crisis was a form of political theater that led to destructive policy choices.
“The biggest barrier in energy development the last few decades is people, for political reasons, calling climate change a crisis,” Wright said. He said climate alarmism led to policies that curtailed American infrastructure and may not actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“So factories that would’ve been here in Colorado are instead in Texas or in Asia. You can say this is all for climate change,” Wright said. “But most of that is just nonsense. Honestly, it’s just nonsense.”
He’s right. The doomsaying began 35 years or so ago, and continued to increase exponentially, until they called it a crisis. They Demanded that the only energy could be “green”, but, immediately started trying to nix hydropower, because it requires dams. And the extreme enviros do not like dams, because they might block a little fish. And then they sue to stop solar and wind because they may mess up a turtle, and sue to stop transmission lines. And most do not want nuclear, except a few like Michael “Robust Debate” Mann. So, they stymie energy production. They could have worked to slowly eliminate coal (I’m not a big fan), while moving towards more natural gas and nuclear, while slowly working to make hydro, solar, and wind a reality, especially putting R&D into them to make them produce way more energy for the money. And more for homes, so that people were not reliant on the grid. But, no, they went batguano insane.
Colorado is not exactly the best state for wind and solar. First, you have to clearcut massive acres. Then you have to do with high winds, at which turbines cannot operate, and snow for solar. Companies are not fans of unreliable and expensive power.
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Nonsense, indeed! Secretary Wright is fracking executive who believes global warming is a hoax.
Who would you expect King Donald to appoint, and what would you expect Wright to say.
Our devotion to fossil fuels curtailed nuclear.
Nice try-the greenies curtailed nuclear power. But aren’t you tired of the environmental movement’s constant clamoring to build more nuclear plants? Why would they want something that emits hardly any CO2 and is reliable, unlike wind and solar? Answer- they don’t, which along with the fact that you don’t see any “stop oil” protests in China tells you all you need to know about the “net zero” movement.
“A fracking executive who believes global warming is a hoax”. Your point would be….what?
Rimjob never has a point, silly. He just mindlessly rants to attract attention.
Wind and solar are only good for small niche applications. The largest windmills are around 3-5 MW. A typical plant is 1000 MW. That wind power drops off fast as wind speed decreases. With solar, you might get 200W per M^^2 of panels… and there’s no good way to stor power overnight. or hydro, I’d guess the best sites are already taken. So, it’s nukes or nothing if you want to go green.
BREAKING – Job creation ACCELERATES in March to 228K!!!
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/04/breaking-job-creation-accelerates-in.html
I think the plan is to go all out on small Thorium salt reactors. Can be shipped on the trailor of a big rig, is very low risk, and we are already making them.
But I hope Trump opens the floodgates to many forms of energy, including coal. Klimate Kookery is an evil deception. It’s only a tool to force
de-Industrialization, to enable the capture and enslavement of the United States. All of our resources would then have been happily stolen by the Globalists.
Because of this, Klimate Co-conspirators should be prosecuted for Treason. Al Gore can lead the parade to the gallows.
China plans to put a thorium salt reactor on-line by 2029. They currently have an experimental reactor operating in the Gobi Desert, not to be confused with the Gobi Dessert, a mound of sponge cake coated with brown sugar and decorated with Gobi berries and sprigs of needlegrass.
Yes, climate scientist chicanery has been revealed – they are part of global conspiracy to enslave Americans. Hang ’em all. Trumb was sent by God to save the world.