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hatrack

(59,587 posts)
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 08:36 AM Aug 2015

Carly Fiorina's Cavalcade Of Derp On Climate, Environment, Reality - In Just Four Minutes!

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6) "Coal provides half the energy in this nation still" - No, it doesn't. Coal provides 20 percent of the total primary energy used in the US. It could be that Fiorina meant half the electricity in the US (electricity is only 40 percent of total energy consumption), but she would still be wrong. In 2014, coal produced 39 percent of US electricity. That number has been steadily declining.

7) "To say we're basically going to outlaw coal, which is what this administration has done..." No, it hasn't. US coal has taken a beating from natural gas, renewables, and efficiency — the market, in other words — but it still provides more than a third of US electricity. And EPA expects that under the Clean Power Plan, that share will be at 27 percent in 2030. That estimate is probably high, given how uncompetitive coal has become, but even if it drops to 20 percent, that's a fifth of US electricity and a long way from outlawed.

8) "Do we tell people the truth, that [wind technology] slaughters millions of birds?" A recent peer-reviewed survey of bird mortality studies found that wind turbines kill between 214,000 and 368,000 birds a year, compared with 6.8 million that die from colliding with cell and radio towers and between 1.4 and 3.7 billion killed by cats. Wind turbines kill a relatively tiny number of birds.

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http://www.vox.com/2015/8/21/9186313/carly-fiorina-climate-wrong

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