谬误当道,可再生能源版

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来自北卡罗来纳州的问候,我们州的立法机构一周内的疯狂程度超过你们州整个会期。你可能已经听腻了,但“Plugged In”想让你保持关注。

好了,第一件立法蠢事:立法机构想要禁止温室气体法律。是的——北卡罗来纳州参议院第171号法案,于3月5日提交,禁止“州机构和地方政府采纳、实施或执行 регулирующие 规则或条例温室气体排放”。这真是太好了,因为它不仅仅阻止了本州许多明智的社区——阿什维尔、教堂山、卡尔伯勒、罗利和达勒姆,以及许多其他具有前瞻性能源思维的城市,它们提供免费的电动汽车充电站等等——实施公开应对我们这个时代最严峻挑战之一的策略,而是堵塞了科学的渠道。

不,通过取缔“执行”任何此类立法,它实际上保证了联邦层面的任何此类法规都会在法庭上受阻,因为思想落后的人有州法律为他们提供借口,进行有害的法律诉讼,而这些诉讼肯定会上升到最高法院。


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人们不得不感到震惊。即使在南北战争期间,“州权”也仅仅被用来为奴役特定群体辩护。现在,150年后,它被用来为拒绝面对客观现实辩护,并为攻击所有这样做的人提供保护伞。

而这仅仅是第一件蠢事! 也许是嫉妒疯狂的北卡罗来纳州参议院获得了所有关注,北卡罗来纳州众议院表明它完全有能力跟上。 它在3月13日提交了众议院DRH10099-MH-3号法案,“取消可再生能源配额标准”

是的。 像卡托研究所的罗伯特·J·迈克尔斯这样的人表示非常有把握,可再生能源标准不会提高能源效率或清洁度,所以你可以理解。 因为你不希望科学家们胡乱插手能源之类的事情,想办法使用清洁或可再生能源来代替产生温室气体的化石燃料。 你希望保守派经济学家来制定这些政策。

无论如何,北卡罗来纳州的立法者还确保将风力发电从“可再生能源”列表中删除。 这在北卡罗来纳州并不令人惊讶,因为我们州的环境与自然资源部部长认为石油可能是一种可再生能源。 说真的——他说他相信这一点,而北卡罗来纳州正在发起立法,将风能从可再生能源列表中删除。

在其他北卡罗来纳州新闻中,向下现在是向上,黑色现在是白色,我又开始喝酒了。 其中一个是真的。 还有:无知即力量。 可悲的是,这也是真的。

附言:非常感谢令人钦佩的@sarapeach,感谢她确保我一直关注这个话题。

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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