I am not a climate change denier. I believe climate is always changing. I respect science and evidence. I am a person who requests peer reviewed evidence stating / proving man made co2 is causing climate change. Which is a very hard thing to prove considering the data shows change in ocean temps lead change in temps over land both up and down. I am sorry you all get so aggravated by someone who request peer reviewed science and evidence. Note... my face is not fat at the moment. Working out hard in spite of the fact my gym is closed, maintaining caloric deficit, plus snowboarding every chance I get and skipping lunch because of covid restrictions.
I was surprised by the numbers and that TX saw the largest migration. You think it helps you to dunk on Cali but it shows that TX will turn BLUE. 100% the migration is due to affordable housing while you imply is a shift to Conservatism. lol you fucking idiot.
Texas is already turning purple. Same with North Carolina. Educated people from the northern states diluting the hicks from those red states. It’s a beautiful thing.
There's a few other southern states that have received a large migration of ethnic minorities into their states by individuals that typically vote Democrat. This is why many states are now trying to pass laws to make it difficult for people to vote because such typically are aimed at the ethnic communities. It was also one of the hidden reasons for Trump immigration concerns...he feared they will become voters. It's the reason why I'm predicting a few more red states will turn blue in 2024. This is a serious concern by many states because about 40 million Americans (about 14%) move from one state to another state every year. It does impact whom seats in the House, Senate and the Oval Office. Also, its the reason why the GOP is fractured today. Trump knew this and was on a path to try to manipulate the system and it starts with trying to disenfranchising voters...especially new voters to a state that migrated or immigrated. wrbtrader
There’s no way to get power to much of Texas too due to its self contained grid. What’s also interesting is that many residential structures are failing from the cold. Things like lack of insulation and low quality materials are within code in Texas.
Even Texas electric officials don't want to live in a failed, third-world state.... One-third of Texas power grid officials do not live in Texas https://www.rawstory.com/one-third-texas-power-officials/ On Tuesday, the Austin American-Statesman reported that one-third of the leaders of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the governing body that oversees Texas' independent power grid, do not actually live in Texas — including the chair and vice chair. "Sally Talberg, chairwoman of ERCOT's board of directors, is a former state utility regulator who lives in Michigan, according to her biography on ERCOT's website," reported Madlin Mekelburg. "Vice Chairman Peter Cramton is a professor of economics at the University of Cologne in Germany and at the University of Maryland. His Linkedin profile lists his location as Del Mar, Calif." Three other members of the 15-seat board also live out of state and off the grid they are operating: "Vanessa Anesetti-Parra, a board member, serves as vice president of regulatory and compliance at Just Energy and lists her location on Linkedin as Toronto. Board member Terry Bulger spent his career as a banking professional in the United States, Canada and in Europe. His biography on the ERCOT website states that he is a resident of Wheaton, IL, a Chicago suburb. Raymond Hepper, another board member, retired in 2018 from ISO New England, which operates the electric system and wholesale markets for the six states that make up the area. His Linkedin profile lists his residency as Auburn, Maine." ERCOT's grid has been crippled by a freak winter blizzard that has buried much of the state under snow and ice, with officials unable to promise when power will be back on. The report sparked immediate bipartisan outrage from Texas state legislators, with Houston Democratic Rep. Carol Alvarado calling it "unacceptable," and Llano Republican Rep. Jeff Leach pledging to file a bill requiring ERCOT officials reside in-state. Gov. Greg Abbott has similarly vowed to make ERCOT reform an immediate legislative priority. Texas is the only state in the U.S. that operates its own entirely self-contained power grid. This arrangement dates back to the 1930s, and allows the Lone Star State to skirt some federal energy regulations, since a grid that doesn't cross state lines does not fall under "interstate commerce" subject to constitutional oversight by Congress. Ironically, after some Texas politicians mocked heat-related rolling blackouts in California last year as a consequence of green energy overreliance, most of the power loss in Texas is due to failures at coal, gas, and nuclear facilities.
The governor and his GOP comrades tried to blame the outages on green energy ("frozen windmills") then the truth came out about frozen gas lines. Texas has a new crisis compounding blackouts — natural gas is ‘just frozen right now’: GOP governor https://www.rawstory.com/texas-power-outage-blackout-gas/
'He is lying -- people are dying': Calls for Texas governor to resign as he blames power outages on wind and solar https://www.rawstory.com/abbott-resign/ As millions of Texans struggled desperately to keep warm amid power outages stemming from the devastating winter storm sweeping the nation, the state's Republican governor late Tuesday blamed solar and wind for the blackouts—despite the fact that Texas relies overwhelmingly on fossil fuels—and claimed the crisis shows that the Green New Deal would be a "deadly deal" for the United States. "Texas is blessed with multiple sources of energy, such as natural gas and oil and nuclear, as well as solar and wind," Gov. Greg Abbott said in an appearance on "Hannity" Tuesday night. "Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10% of our power grid. And that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power in a statewide basis." Abbott was far from the first Republican to deploy such blatantly false talking points in response to the ongoing crisis in Texas, which has left at least 10 people dead. But the governor's decision to appear on Fox News and attack a policy that has not even been implemented as Texans resorted to burning their belongings to keep their children warm was viewed as yet another example of his failed leadership. "Five million Texans are without power tonight and temperatures are below freezing. People will most certainly die tonight because of it," said Sawyer Hackett, senior adviser to Julián Castro. "But Gov. Abbott had time to go on Sean Hannity to blame the Green New Deal." Citing an official with the state's Electric Reliability Council (ERCOT), The Texas Tribune reported that as of Tuesday afternoon "16 gigawatts of renewable energy generation, mostly wind generation, was offline. Nearly double that, 30 gigawatts, had been lost from thermal sources, which includes gas, coal and nuclear energy." "Texas is a gas state," Michael Webber, an energy resources professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told the Tribune. "Gas is failing in the most spectacular fashion right now." But that hasn't stopped Texas Republicans like Abbott and Rep. Dan Crenshaw from attempting to blame frozen wind turbines for outages that could continue for days, endangering lives and coronavirus vaccines. In response to Abbott's "Hannity" interview, Texas voting rights advocate Charlie Bonner tweeted, "He is lying. People are dying, and he is on Fox News lying to you. We are living in fear and Greg Abbott is playing politics with our lives." "Greg Abbott doesn't care if you live or die tonight so take care of each other, my friends," Bonner added. "We're living in a failed state." (More at above url)
Oh... look... the governor is ordering an investigation...... why is an investigation needed? He already blamed it on green energy. Gov. Abbott orders investigation into Texas energy company amid blackouts, freezing temperatures https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ab...nergy-company-blackouts-freezing-temperatures
We know who to blame, governor... 'Dire and unpredictable' Texas power problems the result of 10 years of GOP governors: Dallas judge https://www.rawstory.com/reason-texas-republican-power-failures/