謬誤當道,可再生能源版

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來自北卡羅來納州的問候,我們州的立法機構一週內的瘋狂程度超過你們州整個會期。你可能已經聽膩了,但“Plugged In”想讓你保持關注。

好了,第一件立法蠢事:立法機構想要禁止溫室氣體法律。是的——北卡羅來納州參議院第171號法案,於3月5日提交,禁止“州機構和地方政府採納、實施或執行 регулирующие 規則或條例溫室氣體排放”。這真是太好了,因為它不僅僅阻止了本州許多明智的社群——阿什維爾、教堂山、卡爾伯勒、羅利和達勒姆,以及許多其他具有前瞻效能源思維的城市,它們提供免費的電動汽車充電站等等——實施公開應對我們這個時代最嚴峻挑戰之一的策略,而是堵塞了科學的渠道。

不,透過取締“執行”任何此類立法,它實際上保證了聯邦層面的任何此類法規都會在法庭上受阻,因為思想落後的人有州法律為他們提供藉口,進行有害的法律訴訟,而這些訴訟肯定會上升到最高法院。


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人們不得不感到震驚。即使在南北戰爭期間,“州權”也僅僅被用來為奴役特定群體辯護。現在,150年後,它被用來為拒絕面對客觀現實辯護,併為攻擊所有這樣做的人提供保護傘。

而這僅僅是第一件蠢事! 也許是嫉妒瘋狂的北卡羅來納州參議院獲得了所有關注,北卡羅來納州眾議院表明它完全有能力跟上。 它在3月13日提交了眾議院DRH10099-MH-3號法案,“取消可再生能源配額標準”

是的。 像卡託研究所的羅伯特·J·邁克爾斯這樣的人表示非常有把握,可再生能源標準不會提高能源效率或清潔度,所以你可以理解。 因為你不希望科學家們胡亂插手能源之類的事情,想辦法使用清潔或可再生能源來代替產生溫室氣體的化石燃料。 你希望保守派經濟學家來制定這些政策。

無論如何,北卡羅來納州的立法者還確保將風力發電從“可再生能源”列表中刪除。 這在北卡羅來納州並不令人驚訝,因為我們州的環境與自然資源部部長認為石油可能是一種可再生能源。 說真的——他說他相信這一點,而北卡羅來納州正在發起立法,將風能從可再生能源列表中刪除。

在其他北卡羅來納州新聞中,向下現在是向上,黑色現在是白色,我又開始喝酒了。 其中一個是真的。 還有:無知即力量。 可悲的是,這也是真的。

附言:非常感謝令人欽佩的@sarapeach,感謝她確保我一直關注這個話題。

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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