• circularfish@beehaw.orgM
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    The grim irony is that a lot of the pain will be felt in red Southern and Western states.* When the power grid goes down for good in Texas in 15 years or so, nursing homes filled with a lot of these climate skeptics are not going to be fun places.

    *Yes, pour one out for SoCal.

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      And they’ll still blame the left. These people will never admit they were wrong about this. They will go to their graves claiming climate change is a hoax, even as the world that they were meant to leave for their children and grandchildren literally burns around them.

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        They’ll blame it on renewables, even thought it’s only like 9% of Texas’ power, and they’ll ironically complain there’s not enough coal and gas fired generation plants.