We gotta fill the gaps between intermittent output from renewables somehow. Would you rather fill those gaps with fossil fuels? Because that's the choice.
Agreed. I’m in California and it is pretty obvious our water problems are due to outflows exceeding inflows. They are draining the reservoirs faster than ever. They were full three years ago and are supposed to last five to seven years of drought, by design.
Meanwhile, natural reservoirs like Tahoe do not even recognize there in a drought.
Lake Tahoe has dropped from it's most recent peak in 2019 and inflows do appear to be lower than normal, though perhaps normal should just be thought of as having changed
It's hard to qualify the statement nationally, but I could provide just one example of his statement being correct.
Chesa Boudin was the District Attorney for San Francisco, until his recall recently. He ran on a platform of reducing charge rates for many types of crimes. Under his watch, charge rates for DUI, hit-and-run, burglary, theft, weapons related crimes, and assault have decreased; sometimes significantly. Here are some quotes from Boudin:
“We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes."
“[we will] shift our focus to . . . addressing root causes of crime.”
“Jails do nothing to treat the root cause of crime,”
“The challenge going forward,” said Boudin in 2019, “is how do we close a jail?”
George Soros has a very clear political ideology. He has not been shy about his desire to elect left leaning Democrat candidates with similar views across the U.S. In just this instance, Soros publicly supported Boudin's candidacy; donating more than $1 million: https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2022/05/29/soros-backe...
For the record, I find the "I stubbed my toe, thanks Soros" meme a little trite too. But it's no conspiracy that Soros has been supporting leaders like Boudin across the nation. That's not a conspiracy. It's public record. And it's not conspiracy that Boudin and many other leaders have run on platforms of being softer on crime. Especially "victimless" and "quality of life" crimes, in addition to their support of movements like "defund the police." Their records are public and they show consistent decline in charge rates. Whether one supports this action or not, those are the facts.
Boudin tenure was 2 years. Do you really think sociatal effects like this crimewave can occure because of the actions of a single officer in two years?
Wouldn't a global pandemic that severely effected the economy in a country that hates socialism where huge swathes of the population don't have functioning support systems could be factors that pretty much explain away[1] Boudin's and Soros influence?
I referenced only the charge rate. That is, of people who are arrested for certain crimes, how many did Boudin and his team choose to prosecute. This does not include the absolute number of crimes committed. For reference, charge rate for certain crimes like rape went up. He specifically mentioned rape and other crime to media and said he would prosecute these kinds of crimes more, even if the chance of conviction was low. So it wasn't due to a lack of resources. Boudin simply choose to charge certain crimes less, and others more.
No, public transit systems can only be good on paper. Then they get implemented, the fares are held artificially low for equity reasons, bums move in, polite society abandons the system and it turns into a rolling cesspool. Every time.
My private car however has only my germs. No drugs. No needles. No piss. No stinky bums laying across the seats. My music. Air conditioning. Goes where I want, when I want it.
The only difference is cost. My private car costs me a lot. Your public transit dream also cost ME a lot.
As evidenced by functioning public transport virtually everywhere else in the world: the things you're describing are civic problems, not problems with public transit. It's no particular coincidence that the US, with its car-dominated culture, has more civic problems on public transit than just about any other nation.
> Your public transit dream also cost ME a lot.
Are you operating under the misapprehension that my local, state, and federal taxes don't pay for your roads? We can play that game all day, but I don't think it's going to be a very fruitful one. And that's before we even get to the question of externalities, via which your car costs me a great deal.
> No, public transit systems can only be good on paper. Then they get implemented, the fares are held artificially low for equity reasons, bums move in, polite society abandons the system and it turns into a rolling cesspool. Every time.
Have you been to London? Paris? Zurich?
I'm trying to understand the basis for your absolutism and pessimism. In those cities, polite society definitely hasn't abandoned the public transit systems; at least not when I had been.
I am a resident of Bengaluru. We have a city bus service that is quite good, has air conditioning on some routes, and is quite cheap (I spend about 50c to go about 25km).
Our government subsidises the operations of BMTC, so it is cheap.
The central government spent a whole lot of money in cleaning up the country, and I am glad to report that a lot of changes did take place.
All things considered, our cost of living is lower, we try to ensure that there are not too many homeless folks, so that is there.
Downvotes don't make this statement any less of a possibility. As CO2 increases plants use less water in respiration, making deserts greener. This is part of the reason the Earth is becoming greener despite human activity. For some reason climate change activists always ignore mitigating forces.
How much does this greening offset the other effects of climate change, such as increased severe weather, ecosystem loss, and water scarcity, among other things [1] ?
There are two Moderna boosters that have been announced, the mRNA-1273.211 and mRNA-1273.214, ones. The .211 candidate is based on the Beta variant spike proteins the trial of which has already been completed, whereas the trial of the .214 candidate that is based on Omicron mutations is expected to complete by or in early June 2022.
Moderna has multiple bivalent booster candidates that have been evaluated to date, which include mRNA-1273.211 (9 spike protein mutations, based on the Beta variant), and mRNA-1273.214 (32 spike protein mutations, based on the Omicron variant). mRNA-1273.211 includes four mutations and mRNA-1273.214 includes 32 mutations present in the Omicron variant of concern.
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A booster dose of mRNA-1273.211 demonstrated superiority against the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 and the Beta, Delta and Omicron variants one month after the booster dose and superiority against the ancestral SARS-CoV-2, Beta and Omicron 6 months compared to the booster dose of mRNA-1273. There was a 2.20-fold (95% CI: 1.74, 2.79) and 2.15-fold (95% CI: 1.66, 2.78) increase in the neutralizing antibody titers against Omicron with the mRNA-1273.211 booster dose compared to the mRNA-1273 booster dose at 1 month and 6 months, respectively.
