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noted WRT 'Political Leaning' you identify as a 'Progressive' I mention this because I'm 99.999% certain you have no problem identifying 'environmental' bull$hit statements spread by republican politicians BUT due to human nature I'm also 99.999% certain you would have great difficulty identifying 'scientific environmental' bull$hit spread by fellow democrats
the first earth day in 1970 was a teach-in,... 52 years later humanity by and large is still ecologically oblivious
http://www.governing.com/now/earth-day-teach-ins-and-saving-the-planet-since-1969 the consequences of political and business leadership being ecologically oblivious is lots of eco-anxiety (especially among the youth)debatepolitics.com
one such case of scientific environmental bullshit is the unresolved nuclear waste issue here in the USA,... back in the 1980's yucca mountain was designated to be the national site to contain spent fuel BUT what ended up happening is Democratic Party politics killed off funding for the project (to illustrate the unintended consequences of de-funding yucca mountain what ended up happening is millions of pounds of spent nuclear fuel was essentially left on a Southern California beach)
having a physics back ground I also pointed out spent nuclear fuel can be used in a thorium reactor (which is a carbon free source of generating electricity)
California energy officials on Friday issued a sober forecast for the state's electrical grid
sigh,... AND the energy shortfall throughout the south western USA is exacerbated by 'climate change drought' in the South Western USA The Great Liberal Economic Powerhouse, California, can't even modernize it's own power grid?debatepolitics.com
Lots of 'can' in your statement. Get back to me when we actually develop some of these new-old technologies.
Democrats killed the funding? NV didn't want to be the waste dump. The states largest population center had qualms about being 85 miles from one of the planet's most toxic substances.