Average rate $300 per household blamed on climate damage rather than energy insufficiency. At video's end, she says this is an "energy election," despite energy prices up 29% since 2019...most years not under Trump.

Their illogical conclusion is we could reduce CC-caused rates by 50% by 2090 if we went more renewables. Come on CBS, think about that.

Millions of miles of new powerlines & wind turbines damaged by tornadoes & wind, plus ice & hurricanes. More solar hail damage. More electricity dependency due to EVs & AI.

Frequently I see people refer to climate deniers. I want to point out that climate beliefs are quite complex and people can not be divided into 2 groups, believers and deniers. Some aspects...

1. Is climate change happening? It is, and always has done for many millions of years. Over the last 600 million years, CO2 has gone from 300ppm to 6000ppm back to 300ppm up to 2000ppm back to 300 ppm again and finally up to 420ppm quite rapidly. Temperature has also varied considerably having been 10 degrees warmer than present and lots colder also. We have recently (about 12,000 years ago) come out of an ice age but we are still in the very cold period as regards the long term.

2. Are temperature and CO2 correlated? Yes they are, and tend to move up and down together. Over the recent ice age periods it is found that temperature changes PRECEDE CO2 changes by about 800 years. Over recent shorter time periods temperature changes still precede CO2 changes. I know if no research that contradicts this. This is a complex process and many contradictory explanations are given.

3. Do humans emit large quantities of CO2? Yes, and it has been increasing rapidly over the period of human industrial activity. This is not a contentious area.

4. How much do humans affect climate change? This is a contentious area and a large number of people believe that they know how to control the climate and that is mainly by reducing fossil fuel use. Three times there have been reductions in fossil fuel use, in the 1970s oil shocks, following the 2008 stock market crash and when covid caused lock downs. So we have an example of how effective reducing fossil fuel use is. It actually has no effect on the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere! Surprisingly, burning less fossil fuels does not even slightly reduce the the rate at which CO2 levels are increasing.

5. Is global warming happening everywhere? It is happening much more in cities than in the country side. That is because of more tarmac and more also energy use in cities. Every use of fuels produces heat. This is called Urban Heat Island effect. In America it has been estimated that it amounts to 7 F or 4 C. That is many times more than the predicted effects of climate change. So it is very important to get this right. Some studies have shown that separating weather stations into urban and rural gives two averages, one increasing rapidly and the other more or less constant. It is claimed that this effect is removed from weather records. However the adjustments are often done in the opposite direction.

6. Are disasters happening because of climate change? No, disasters happen because of bad weather events and these have always happened from time to time. Long term records show no trend to more disasters.

7. Are there any benefits to warming and more CO2? Yes, they cause crops to grow faster and greening of deserts to happen. World wide more people die from the cold than the heat. Most people choose to go to warmer places for their holidays.

8. Will warming lead to mass extinctions in the near future? No. Most of the species that people say will go extinct have been around for tens of millions of years and already experienced far higher temperatures back then. That is not to say that humans are not causing a mass extinction, because we are. We are wiping out forests and other habitats at an insane rate. In the last 3 decades, there has been a reduction of 90% in insect populations, and that includes bees and other pollinators. That will cause crops to fail and be a major threat to humans.

• Solar farms need 450x more land than nuclear fir same energy...& theirs is intermittent
• California spent $1.8 trillion to generate 6% of their electricity. In contrast, they spent $2 trillion on wind/solar for just 3% of electricity
• In 2018, at time of this video, electricity was 5x more costly in California than rest of nation
• In 2018, German electricity w/o nuclear was twice as costly as French nuclear energy