{"id":178378,"date":"2021-12-16T18:48:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=178378"},"modified":"2021-12-16T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:48:07","slug":"hijacking-the-environmental-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=178378","title":{"rendered":"Hijacking The Environmental Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Twenty years ago, natural gas was hailed as a solution for urban pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Environmentalists Hail Metro Decision to Expand Natural Gas Bus Program | NRDC<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But the environmental movement was hijacked by climate scamsters, and replaced with support for solar, wind and hydroelectric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The wind farms angering renewable energy fans \u2013 ABC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wind farms kill huge numbers of raptors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Windfarms kill 10-20 times more than previously thought | Windmills Kill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The industry responds with some spectacular lies. Housecats kill eagles?  Building wind turbines and wind farms doesn\u2019t require mining, drilling or pollution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Realities of Bird and Bat Deaths by Wind Turbines | REVE News of the wind sector in Spain and in the world<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fifty years ago, the environmental movement was focused around stopping hydroelectric power which had destroyed the most beautiful canyon on the Colorado River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cracking of Glen Canyon Damn with Edward Abbey and Earth First! (1982) \u2013 Sacred Land<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The destruction of Glen Canyon is largely what inspired me to testify at this Congressional hearing, almost fifty years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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28 May 1972, Page 12 \u2013 at Newspapers.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I took this picture on February 14, 2021 of the Rawhide Generating Station in Northern Colorado. It was the coldest day on record that late in winter in Cheyenne.  There was no wind and the wind turbines were all shut down due to icing, and the solar panels were covered with snow. The power plant is being shut down due to Colorado climate neuroses and the solar array has destroyed huge tracks of land where I used to film Pronghorns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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via Real Climate Science<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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December 16, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty years ago, natural gas was hailed as a solution for urban pollution. Environmentalists Hail Metro Decision to Expand Natural Gas Bus Program | NRDC But the environmental movement was hijacked by climate scamsters, and replaced with support for solar, wind and hydroelectric. 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