Euro-peon hypocrites....

Euro-peon hypocrites....

...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
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Ben Wolfgang is a twit. Dealing with climate change is a decade long proces s of burning progressively less fossil carbon for energy and installing pro gressively more wind, solar tidal and - in France - nuclear power generatio n.

A small one year up-tick in coal consumption doesn't make Europe a continen t of hypocrites - they are just getting on with the job of keeping the exis ting system running while they work on making it less dependent on burning fossil carbon for power generation. That isn't going to happen overnight, e ven if some half-witted journalist think that he can get away with claiming that it ought to.

Jim Thompson is as bad as Cursitor Doom for finding idiot journalism that m akes him feel good by exploiting his gullibility.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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Yeah, I saw a different story about that. Euros slam America for not join ing the Kyoto "we're such awful people" party, then helps America's coal in dustry by buying more of our coal so they can burn it and increase their "c arbon footprint". They could be burning their own coal in some cases but wo n't permit their own miners the work. I wonder if they're enjoying boosting Trump's approval ratings as a side effect?

Cue the predictable apologetics from people like Slowman who just can't a llow themselves to see the irony.

Mark L. Fergerson

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alien8752

Why do you care about the Europaean opinion? Wasn't it comrade Mao who said it is a small peninsula at the western side of Asia? :-)

Best regards, Piotr

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Piotr Wyderski

Did I indicate an interest in Euro-peon opinion?

No! I just indicated an amusement with the continual hypocrisy.

But maybe you'll learn something from Hungary...

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ining the Kyoto "we're such awful people" party, then helps America's coal industry by buying more of our coal so they can burn it and increase their "carbon footprint". They could be burning their own coal in some cases but won't permit their own miners the work. I wonder if they're enjoying boosti ng Trump's approval ratings as a side effect?

allow themselves to see the irony.

This isn't any irony there to see. Cutting CO2 emissions is a multi-decade project. Burning some coal while you are doing it reflects the fact that th e original installed base was built back before we'd realised that we had t o end up burning a lot less fossil carbon for fuel.

Idiot right-wing commentators think that they can get away with claiming th at minimising climate change ought to involve going cold-turkey on burning fossil carbon. The economy would shut down and people would freeze and star ve, but right-wing idiots don't understand - or won't admit to understandin g - anything more gradual (and less damaging).

I've never actually seen any back-to-the-stone age greenie propaganda, but people like John Larkin claim that it exists. Presumably the denialist prop aganda machine writes it and pretends that it comes from real environmental ists. Steven Pinker's "Enlightenment Now" does include some references to i t, but they turn out to be references to references to recent commentaries. He also presents the claim that "socialism" is wedded to central planning and control of the economy, which would come as a surprise to the socialist s in Scandinavia and Germany.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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All he'll learn is that Brietbart can spin anything to suit their alt-right point of view. None of the "immigrants" involved wanted to stay in Hungary anyway, so it's more about the way Hungary labelled refugees in transit across their borders.

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ht point of view. None of the "immigrants" involved wanted to stay in Hunga ry anyway, so it's more about the way Hungary labelled refugees in transit across their borders.

of course they don't want to stay in Hungary, it is one of the poor countri es in Europe and has afaict has quite limited welfare compared to other Europe an countries

They have enough to spend their money on without Merkel causing a boom in t he human smuggling business

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If he hadn't made such a mess of running Syria that half the population reb elled, encouraging everybody else to get the hell out, and stay out until t he fighting stopped.

Merkel may be inconveniently humane when it comes to looking after refugees , but the smugglers would have many fewer customers if Assad's incompetence hadn't made Syria a place that you leave if you've got half a chance to ge t out.

In the normal course of events, Assad's incompetence would have left him in the same state as Muammar Gaddafi - dead in a ditch - but Putin saw the op portunity to buy a base on the Mediterranean Sea, and propped him up. So th e people smugglers owe Putin as well.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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Yes, by the mere fact of allocating your time to this rubbish.

You who? :-> We are the official leader of the evil league of evil by explaining Frau Merkel "you invited them, so now take care of them". It's one of not that many things this pathetic government gets right.

Best regards, Piotr

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Piotr Wyderski

The domestic war in Syria is so cruel that even the people from Nigeria, Bangladesh, Guinea, Gambia and Iraq are seeking asylum in the EU.

Best regards, Piotr

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