Via Charlie Pluckhahn: ABOUT THAT CLIMATE SURRENDER ... ER, DEAL WITH CHINA I will offer two links. Theyre both at the end. Facebook displays one prominently, but trust me the other ones also there -- and youll need to open both of them to see what Im talking about One is to an Op-Ed written by John Kerry, our secretary of state with (chuckle-chuckle) the great diplomatic track record in the Middle East. It promotes Obamas new climate deal with China. You know, the one where we cut carbon emissions by 26% by 2030, and the Chinese pledge to try to reach their peak emissions by then? Yeah, that deal. In the second-to-last paragraph of his sales pitch, Kerry states the following: To meet its goal, China will need to deploy an additional 800 to 1,000 gigawatts of nuclear, wind, solar and other renewable generation capacity by 2030 – an enormous amount, about the same as all the coal-fired power plants in China today, and nearly as much as the total electricity generation capacity of the United States. The second link is to the electricity production figures published by the U.S. Department of Energy. Ill admit that, at first glance, its a bit tricky to deal with kilowatts (thousands), megawatts (millions), gigawatts (billions), terawatts (trillions), and petawatts (quadrillions). Not only that, but the numbers are stated in millions of millions of thousands, which winds up being a quadrillion. But Im stupid and I figured it out. Kerry graduated from Yale with a gentlemans C average, which means he was a slacker before slackers were cool. So maybe we shouldnt be surprised that U.S. annual electricity generation of 4 petawatt hours is 4,000 to 5,000 times what Kerrys article stated. Heckuva job on that climate deal, Brownie, you idiot. Arithmetic, its whats fer dinner. In China, anyway. Isnt there anyone in the State Department who knows how to count? nytimes/…/john-kerry-our-historic-agreement-… eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec7_5.pdf
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:17:49 +0000
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