#EarthDay EPIC! Michael Moore’s new film trashes ‘planet saving’ renewable energy – full movie here!

[mamooth]

The thing is, most bed wetters are city dwelling vermin.

And obviously, one exterminates vermin.

Not all deniers are eugenics freaks like Pete, but many are. After all, they've embraced the current "To keep profits high, let's kill the old people, the handicapped, and all other useless eaters" plank of the Republican party.

while doing bong hits

That explains much about your postings. Excessive marijuana use leads to paranoia and stupidity.

And I hate liberals.

We liberals don't hate you;. We laugh at you because you're such a pajama boi, but we still wish you well.

See the difference between the two sides? You're hateful and violent, while we're the opposite.

And if any deniers disagree, they need to start by renouncing Pete here. If they won't, that indicates they embrace his hateful and violent ways.

 

[basquebromance]

my goodness, folks, these areas like ANWR have been studied to death

let's drill baby drill not stall baby stall. let us rejoice in the economic benefit of drilling!

DRILL, BABY, DRILL! DRILL, BABY, DRILL! DRILL, BABY, DRILL! DRILL, BABY, DRILL! DRILL, BABY, DRILL! DRILL, BABY, DRILL!

 

[Sunsettommy]

Now here is Moonbat in his idiotic 6 minute video rant, that is mostly` unrelated to the Documentary Moore produced. The fool pulls the race card hard against "rich white people"....

Watts Up With That?

Monbiot vs Moore: “You Provided Us with No Solutions” to Climate Change
Eric Worrall May 22, 2020

Excerpt:

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

As Michael Moore extends free viewing time for his blockbuster “Planet of the Humans” for another month, George Monbiot has launched a savage attack against Moore’s film, accusing Moore of perpetuating racist colonialist tropes.

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What a stupid presentation that was, no evidence or sourced provided, just another leftist attacks on rich white people.

 

[Sunsettommy]

Watts Up With That?

The Looming Failure of Wind Energy

Excerpt:

Guest post by Mike O’Ceirin

May 22, 2020

Summary

This is not about “Climate Change.” It addresses the issue of whether wind as implemented is an effective replacement for fossil driven power stations. This is about Australia where we are according to the mainstream media in a transition to renewable energy even though after many years, we are far from it. We are closing coal-fired power stations, but the expansion of renewable energy is slow. We are approaching a crisis point. The reality of the Australian situation can be applied worldwide, and this report draws on data and nothing else. This

There are many offhand comments that we should just replace fossil as a source of electricity with renewables. What is the detail and how successful has it been? That is exceedingly difficult information to come by. This so-called transition started in 2000 with the implementation of the Renewable Energy Target.

For years, the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has published data on the amount of energy dispatched to the eastern grid by all generators registered with them. Using this data, a relational database was created for analysis.

Wind at the end of 2019 was 8.3% of the dispatched energy to the eastern grid. The infrastructure to achieve this is extremely large. There are 55 active wind power stations over a huge area. The plate capacity is 6973 MW and their capacity factor is 29%. On today’s prices that is a cost of $15.7 billion. The dispatched energy from wind was 16.9 TW hours in 2019. This exceeds the second-biggest coal-fired power station on the grid, Bayswater. After 20 years the biggest source of renewable energy can on average replace one large coal-fired power station. There are 16 coal-fired power stations and their lifespan is twice that of wind.

The supporters of wind energy ignore the actual performance. Plate Capacity is less important than energy dispatched. Critically the importance of variability is not understood. Faith that the large pumped storage facility of Snowy Mountains 2.0 will stabilise renewable energy dispatch is a delusion

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[Sunsettommy]

Planet of the Humans

“Old Data” Is a Lie

May 18, 2020
by Jeff Gibbs

Excerpt:

I wish to respond to the eco-industrialists who, in the attempt to “save the planet,” have gotten into bed with bankers, billionaires, industrialists, and their foundations, in other words, with capitalism itself. Their paradigm, their status quo of losing the battle against planetary ecological collapse, is threatened by the massive success of one little film for free on YouTube — and they have been on a crazy rampage against it.


And all they really have to say in their defense — their key attack against our well-researched examination of their failures to save this planet — is that our film has “old data” in it! That, simply, is a lie.


“Planet of the Humans” is a story — a nonfiction story. Stories take place over time. Stories reveal higher truths than data alone—like what questions we are even supposed to be asking. That said, if I made a film with nothing but “data” from this week, our “critics” would still be attacking it as “old data” and throwing out the next shiny object of technological progress to distract us.


Also, to say a documentary has “old footage” as if that’s taboo, either means this person doesn’t watch many documentaries, or they are trying to create a red herring and get the reader to believe they should be upset about something — anything! It’s like crying foul that a story uses photos from the past in order to illustrate the present.


That said, our data is up to date, and everything you see in the film is accurate. The data in “Planet of the Humans,” in charts, graphs and interviews with experts and activists, runs all the way to the present — up to and including 2019 and 2020. The film taking place over time is a strength; for instance, in two scenes that bookend the film, history repeats itself. I visited a solar festival that actually used biodiesel generators to power itself, and another a decade later that is still trying to fool us with the exact same lie, just on a larger stage.


Even scenes early in my quest, like the solar array in my home state of Michigan where the tour guide says his solar panels are about “8% efficient,” are not outdated.

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[Sunsettommy]

Master Resource

The Flawed Worldview of ‘Planet of the Humans’ (Part I)
By Pierre Desrochers and Joanna Szurmak -- May 20, 2020

Excerpt:

“Environmental degradation is not a function of increased population and economic growth. It is rather a society’s (mis)handling of industrial wastes and sewage and its capacity to innovate that matter.”
“If certain environmentalists approve of destroying mountain tops to install intermittent energy producing wind turbines, why do they not approve of destroying a mountain top to mine valuable minerals allowing for the construction of superior energy storage devices and medical instrumentation?”
“Gibbs is apparently unaware of the appalling environmental record of communist regimes. As documented by many people (including Marxist intellectuals), waste and inefficiency reigned supreme in the absence of private property and a profit-and-loss price system.”

The Michael Moore-sponsored documentary Planet of the Humans has generated much debate since it was made freely available on Earth Day. The documentary’s creators Jeff Gibbs and Ozzie Zehner have since addressed many technical issues raised by their pro-renewable energy critics. But one thing they did not expand upon much in the documentary–although it was made more explicit in an Earth Day Live Stream and in a shorter interview with The Hill-–is the worldview that underlies their documentary.

That has changed; executive producer Jeff Gibbs has now stated it in twenty bullet points. What follows is our short critique of each one of these (Part II tomorrow will cover points 10–20).

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