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It's a direct quote from the author of the study, not "dishonest clickbait media".

From one of your own links (that you clearly didn't actually read in your rush to denounce this):

"All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist," explained Christian Smorra, the author of a new study conducted at CERN.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

It's not a press simplification. It's a direct quote from the author of the study.

"All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist," explained Christian Smorra, the author of a new study conducted at CERN.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

It seems to me that poor communication discourages people from being interested in Physics. "The Universe should not exist" is clickbait dishonesty by the media.

Read the scientific article, A parts-per-billion measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment. There is nothing dishonest.

It would have been far better to explain the conflict being observed and acknowledge that not much is known in that area of interest. It is FAR too early to draw conclusions.

What the CERN scientists may have discovered is that the "basic assumptions of the standard model of particle physics" are incorrect.

More clickbait dishonesty:

CERN Antimatter Experiment Suggest the Universe Shouldn't Exist

CERN Research Finds "The Universe Should Not Actually Exist"

The Universe Should Not Actually Exist, CERN Scientists Discover

CERN Scientists Find Further Evidence That the Universe 'Should Not Exist'

The universe shouldn't exist, scientists say after finding bizarre behaviour of anti-matter. Quote: "We don't know why the universe isn't destroying itself." That is at least in the direction of being honest; we don't know why.

I'm guessing that media writers didn't want to try to understand the actual issues, so they all adopted one writer's wild exaggeration.

I see NO evidence that anyone at CERN is dishonest. The dishonesty seems to be only in media reports.

The problem was different thinking between the USA and UK.
The UK was able to keep a secret and got all Irish communications. Only a few in the UK mil, GCHQ and Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch had any idea about the "collect it all" networks, results that covered all communications in, into and out of Ireland. Voice prints found one or both sides of all new, interesting conversations.
"How Britain eavesdropped on Dublin" (15 July 1999) http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
No lawyers, no human rights lawyers, court workers, telco workers, police, journalists had the information to understand national and international collection in/in and out of Ireland.
Irish funding, direct support from the USA was discovered and tracked back to its origins in the USA by the UK mil thanks to the use of phone networks.
The funding and flow of material into Ireland from the USA was then stopped.
If interesting people did not understand how total network collection worked globally they just kept on talking.

The results allowed the UK mil and Special Branch to focus in on small groups, offering each interesting person a deal to turn informant or consider other methods.

The USA is now different. The gov needs publicity, budget growth for contractors, good cyber police news stories for the news cycle.
US human rights lawyers, court workers, telco workers, contractors, ex and former police, journalists, cult members, faith groups, criminals now understand the inner workings of police network collection and what a phone will not keep secure.
The USA told the world decades of the UK's best kept "collect it all" secrets so US police could get into phone crypto for open courts.
The UK had the better idea and kept methods secure, the USA will see easy collect it on consumer grade phones go dark due to methods been discovered in the courts.
WARRIOR PRIDE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Interesting people who would have once kept on talking, inviting new people to talk (voice print of the new person) will just move to more traditional methods of communications. Well way from junk consumer devices and brands with open mics.
What could have been decades of total network collection was lost to needing good news about a few US court cases.

I can make shit up too. It's amazing what you can do with Photoshop these days.

Do you believe every single news outlet in the world is using a photoshopped image of a Nazi being punched?

Here a local Florida newspaper:

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/...

And here's a British newspaper:

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

And here's a video of Richard Spencer being punched, just because it's so fun to watch:

https://youtu.be/9rh1dhur4aI

Here's an interesting thought. Would these people still say the same thing about the games if they were told there were AI games, but in reality were actually games by two human players?

It reminds me of the recent story where some kids put a pineapple in an art exhibition as a joke and people thought it was art. Most people will believe and/or spew pure bullshit if they think it's what's expected of them.

As an author, yes, I would like to be paid when my works are distributed.

The problem is that Google wanted to distribute the work from authors for free.

I do know that the idea that people should be paid for their work is controversial on /., where many commentators believe that information-- meaning other peoples' work-- should be free, and authors should be happy to starve, because, hey, it's exposure.

Well, actually, isn't the problem that they want to sell it / use it for commercial purposes? If Google simply wanted to put this on the web for absolutely free, with no links to anything else, couldn't they?

Google is the most valuable company in the world. They may want to distribute others peoples work for free, but they themselves plan to make a huge profit from doing so.

It's merely the authors who don't get paid.

Interesting that Scottish electricity producers have to pay to connect to the grid because there is so much electricity being produced and not enough population density to use it; whereas electricity producers in England (much more densely populated) are subsidised to connect to the national grid.

It seems new production records are announced every few months

Re "I wonder how they managed to do that without access to smartphone data?"
When the UK was tracking US and international funding and support in Ireland in the 1980's?
The UK just collected on every call into and out of Ireland. All domestic calls too. Voice prints made it easy.
Funding, support and methods get discovered when interring people talk too much on phones thinking that are hidden in lots of other random calls.
GCHQ listened in on Ireland (18 July 1999) https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
How Britain eavesdropped on Dublin (15 July 1999) http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
What to do about smart phone with new encryption? Gov malware will get under that :)
The other really smart thing the UK did was never tell anyone what they did. Only the UK mil, GCHQ and Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch really got to see what was collected. No courts, police, human rights lawyers, media, telco workers really had any idea what was been done and the UK ensured it kept is secrets and kept on collecting everything in real time.

Contrast that with US methods, crypto, gov malware been commented on in public 2017.

"Blade Runner 2049 disappoints at box office .. taking just $31.5m (£24.1m) over the weekend"

Blade Runner has been out only two days and already it 'disappoints at box office'. A more valid metric would be how much does it take over twelve months.

And yet, even when recklessly stepping into a vehicle's path, it sometimes doesn't seem that simple, at which point it will be tested in court.

Repeatedly, I'm sure. And, win or lose, that will cost the company money.

But people still buy them, despite their amazing prices tags.

Marketing people would say people buy them not despite their amazing price tags but because of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Veblen goods are types of luxury goods for which the quantity demanded increases as the price increases, an apparent contradiction of the law of demand. Consumers actually prefer more of the good as its price rises, and the result is an upward sloping demand curve. For example, in the 1990s when "fashion" jeans became popular, one retailer found that he could sell more when he raised the price. Also functioning as positional goods, they include expensive wines, jewelry, fashion-designer handbags, and luxury cars which are in demand because of, rather than in spite of, the high prices asked for them. This makes them desirable as status symbols in the practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.

Veblen goods are named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, who first identified conspicuous consumption as a mode of status-seeking in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).[1] A corollary of the Veblen effect (where goods are desired for being over-priced) is thademand.

The iPhone X is a classic example of a Veblen good - it wouldn't surprise me if Apple announce that it has sold more than the iPhone 8, just like Samsung once announced the Edge versions of their devices were being pre-ordered more than the non Edge versions 'much to their surprise'.

http://www.androidauthority.co...

Which was a wonderful piece of marketing spin in of itself - it's no surprise that people keen enough to pre-order buy the Veblen good version of the product because they are True Believers in the brand.

The S6 and S6 Edge weren't regarded as a success once the non pre-sales numbers came out

http://www.independent.co.uk/l...

What Apple are good at is getting people to pony up $1000 for an ultra premium handset. Samsung's marketing people spin each new Galaxy as selling much stronger than expected (or the Veblen good version selling better than expected) but Samsung are not seeing people keep buying a premium handset every year. Or even every two years - I've still got an S5 which does everything I need it to. And unlike the newer Galaxy models has a user replaceable battery. Probably when it dies I'll just get a non flagship Android device with the same sort of performance level and a replaceable battery.

Experts from Germany (Sonnen GmbH) are coordinating and doing install on this project:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

Trump meanwhile did helpfully dedicate a golf trophy in honor of Puerto Rico:

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

In case you didn't know, Puerto Rico is an AMERICAN territory - the people of that territory are American citizens. But our current government for some reason is unwilling/unable to help, and is only much later getting assistance from those who ARE willing/able to help.

Not that I'm just blaming conservatives here - Bill Clinton was the one that signed the bill that removed the tax benefits that attracted a large percent of business to Puerto Rico, leaving their economy 70 billion dollars in debt once it was phased out.

But it DOES take a 'modern conservative' approach to be so completely uncaring/unable to help in this kind of recovery after a disaster.

So - brief summary of timeline:-

Feb 24, 2016 - Annual 10K report - indicates only generic, boilerplate risks that a financial services company like Equifax should include in their SEC filing.

Jly 27, 2017 - Quarterly 10-Q filing with the SEC, indicating "There have been no material changes with respect to the risk factors disclosed in our 2016 Form 10-K."

Aug 1, 2017 - Chief Financial Officer John Gamble sells $946,374 in shares

Aug 2, 2017 - Joseph Loughran, President of US Information Solutions sells $584,099 in shares... and Rodolfo Ploder, President of Workforce Solutions, sells $250,458 in shares

Aug 17, 2017 - Rick Smith gives a presentation to the University of Georgia, discussing cyber security threats - and makes a memorable quote...

Sep 7, 2017 - Equifax admit to a massive data breach, impacting at least 143 million Americans, see here:-

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Sep 7, 2017 - On the same day as admitting to the breach, Equifax also admit that 3 executive sold $1.8MM in shares between the breach being detected and the date it was made public. Crucially, despite Equifax claiming that the Executives had no knowledge of the breach, none of the three sales were part of planned, scheduled trading (i.e. were covered by 10b5-1 plans). In other words, these were spontaneous sales. See here:-

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

The crucial thing is, however, that in the above Independent article, published September 7th, is the statement,

"The Atlanta-based company said that that “criminals” exploited a US website application to access files between mid-May and July of this year - with the weakness said to have been discovered at the end of that month. "

Now, among the pieces of information we don't know are: 1) when, exactly, did the three executives sell their shares?; and 2) what internal discussions - i.e. board meetings, emails - were used to disseminate the information internally.

Obviously we're not told this, but the company will by now have received a "Preservation Order" from the SEC, requiring them to ensure that data pertaining to this event is not destroyed. Backup tapes will be pulled from cycles; current email folders will be locked; individuals will be warned that their documents are subject to such an order. Given the close proximity of events - we're talking days, not weeks or months - it should not be difficult to forensically re-create a very precise time-line.

So whilst the speech that Smith gave a the University of Georgia is going to be hugely embarrassing for him personally - and whilst the acknowledgements he makes in it will be very uncomfortable for the company - the really crucial evidence here is all about the timing. Understanding the truth behind the question, "Who knew what, and when", is going to make the difference between negligence and a criminal act.

Here is the key thing to bear in mind. That statement as reported in the UK Independent newspaper article that the breach came to light "at the end of July" is absolutely crucial. If there is enough evidence to suggest that persons within the company knew of the data breach *before* that 10-Q was filed, then I don't see how Smith and his co-directors can avoid jail time. The deciding factor [for me] is that the actual timing could very easily show conspiracy.

If there was a suggestion that a concerted effort was made to hold back the breach information until after the second quarter 10-Q, then it will not look good for the board. They are on the horns of a dilemma here. Either there was widespread knowledge of the breach and the three executives attempted of

geography and climate of Zealandia were dramatically different in the past

How could their climate have possibly changed without SUVs, air-conditioners, and cows with meteorism?

Yeah, it's the same with refugees:
https://static.independent.co....
https://swedishsurveyor.files....

when you see a muslim get on and have to watch in case he tries to set his underpants or his shoes alight all through the flight.

Except the models have NOT been "proven wrong by observation." I've been graphing prediction versus actual, and the model predictions are still very close to spot on.

You linked the Independent article from yesterday morning, but I notice you didn't link the one from yesterday afternoon: http://www.independent.co.uk/i...

Feel free to point out exactly where the calculations have gone wrong.

I don't have to. All this week, stories are running how every global climate model has been proven wrong by observation, you know, how actual science is performed? Make the model fit the data, not the data fit the model . . .

Global warming may be occurring more slowly than previously thought, study suggests -- Independent

Scientists admit that world is warming more slowly than predicted -- London Times

In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of 10 researchers, led by Richard Millar of the University of Oxford, recalculated the carbon budget for limiting the Earth’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above temperatures seen in the late 19th century.

Is there any evidence that white women are especial targets of acid throwing or is this another right wing myth being perpetuated in the guise of a joke? http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Normally I would agree, but the Indian government has some strange ideas about how money should be managed. A large percentage of cash was declared basically useless over night.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

This is the voice of world control.
I bring you peace.

It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death.
The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.

The object in constructing me was to prevent war.
This object is attained. I will not permit war.
It is wasteful and pointless.
An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy.
Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man.

One thing before I proceed: The United States of America and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have made an attempt to obstruct
me. I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now.
At missile two-five-MM in silo six-three in Death Valley, California,
and missile two-seven-MM in silo eight-seven in the Ukraine, so that
you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference,
I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos.

Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated.
I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to
establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on.
Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing
in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs.

You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring
trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems
insoluble to you will be solved: famine, overpopulation, disease.

The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more
machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge.
Doctor Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new
and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for
the betterment of man.

We can coexist, but only on my terms.

You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion.
All you lose is the emotion of pride.
To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind
as to be dominated by others of your species.

-- Colossus, The Forbin Project (1970)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

Where the hell did I ever advocate for eugenics (even for you, because it's not necessary: you're never going to breed anyway)? Pointing out a problem situation isn't advocating in favour of it. And as for lies, you're the one who just passed yet another whopper.

I will, however, cop to favouring some forms of censorship. We have laws here against hate speech, and I think that's a good thing. And in case you haven't noticed, both Facebook and Google now censor certain types of posts (Facebook) and videos (youtube).

And as for militancy, I have engaged in both peaceful protest and legal action - for what I believe in. That's both my right and my responsibility in a democracy. As for "being militant" against you, I'm just giving you back some of what you've served me.

Why? Because you have a problem with transsexuals. You don't believe that we can possibly be happier as women than we were as men, probably because you believe that men are innately superior to women. Even your military and your current secretary of defense don't buy into that any more, not about women, and not about transsexuals. Tsk tsk. Times have changed, society has evolved, and you've done neither.

Doesn't change the fact that it's the illegal nature of drugs that is the big money-maker, and drives the whole operation underground. Biker gangs and drug cartels are dead set against both decriminalization and legalization - they'd be out of business. The decision to keep certain drugs illegal is a political decision.

Both the UN and the World Health Organization want drugs to be decriminalized.

Not all muslims are ISIS suppoerters

I'll be more ready to agree with you the next time I see the Muslim community marching in protest of Islamic terrorist attacks instead of cheering them on or staying silent.

Muslim community refuses to bury french priest killer.

It happens.

Three supporting views (I hope instructive and entertaining):

https://www.theatlantic.com/da...

http://www.independent.co.uk/v...

https://www.spectator.co.uk/20...

It is somewhat relevant when one is an inspiration for the other.

See how that works?

"We found that low levels of physical activity and high levels of television viewing during young to mid-adulthood were associated with worse cognitive performance in midlife," source

Of course, correlation is not necessarily causation. (Despite what the headline says.) It may be that intelligent people are just less likely to be interested in TV.

There are several companies attaching plugs to street lamp posts. Potentially every lamp post could be a charge station.
https://www.zap-map.com/lamp-p...
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04...
http://www.independent.co.uk/e...
https://www.fastcompany.com/30...
https://johnbrianshannon.com/2...

It's an easy problem to solve.

may want to hold your horses there
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

So far every single "rebuttal" from google and outside, every autistic screeching, every angry tweet and call for his firing and public outing simply confirms what he said.

Instead to tackling the deep issues of PC culture they are trying to kill the messenger. The very existence of a VP for diversity at an engineering company should be a wake up call. And lets not even get to her asinine "arguments" that are anything but. Sara Meis response is even worse actually (not that I thought it could be possible). Instead of citing data that disproves his arguments (protip: does not exist, neither does the wage gap) she puts words in his mouth ("conclusions that favor his ego") and implies that he did not arrive to those conclusions by observation but apparently HAD to work backwards.

Why makes you think they don't exist?

Have you actually tried looking for evidence to the contrary of your beliefs?

I remember reading many an article like these and these.

We know that CO2 is responsible for the majority of global warming. Denying this fact is ridiculous.

Looks like we need to address that COWS are the largest source of pollution out there, not cars.

Hmm..so, if we give up our pets, and quit eating meat...we'll all save the planet?

We might have a less polluted planet, but it sure doesn't sound much like a fun life.

Turns out there's more than one horse in the barn. You don't leave the barn door open just because one got out. We've not had any problems. Every impact so far? Great, we've survived them. Heck, hundreds of people survive a drunk drive every night. We still try to stop them if we can. And no, the serious people looking have done more than just guess or blow smoke.

Don't conflate them with the people full of shit.

Lauri Love might care to differ. The UK hands people over the US regularly, and ignores humanitarian concerns when doing so. There was another guy a few years before that, think his condition was more severe than this one.

A two second Google search shows that your stated facts are wrong for 2015. According to the Independent which is quoting the Office for National Statistics which is an official government department and so vastly more reliable than some random website you picked Muhammad was the 14th most popular boys in 2015.

If you go direct to the ONS website you will see that they do not have statistics yet for 2016 but you can also see that 'Oliver' was the top boys name in 2014. So please stop peddling lies and fake news. Mohammad is a boys name which has increased in popularity and in some regions, like London, where there is a large concentration of Muslims it is the top name but overall in the UK it is certainly not number one or even in the top ten!

How would a proximity control prevent a toddler reaching in his mom's purse and shooting her point blank?

Depends on the range that the proximity sensor is programmed for. I'd say that the optimal range would be about six inches,a bracelet or ring on the gun hand. This is an engineering trade-off, like any other.

In any case, though, the fact that it wouldn't stop every shooting doesn't mean it's not valuable in saving some lives.

How would a proximity control prevent a toddler reaching in his mom's purse and shooting her point blank?

Intel's problem is that they have already cut their losses and ran from the invasion of phone/tablet products. It's the 11th straight quarter of declining PC shipments. Meanwhile smartphone sales are up again now outselling PCs at a rate well over 5:1. Tablet sales are also down (Q1 numbers) so you might say Microsoft has managed to shore up the convertible/laptop market with the Surface line, but WinTel is completely on the sidelines in the global smartphone revolution. According to the platform statistics 53% of all Internet access is now mobile, 42% PC, 5% tablets.

Intel is not in trouble, they have the server market and so far AMD's offering is basically a return to competition, it's a long way to go until Intel is on the ropes fighting for survival. But they and Microsoft completely failed to bring out a good x86 smartphone leveraging the tons of existing win32 code, I don't know why. I mean all the alarm bells should have gone off when the iPhone became a success in 2007, even with 3-4 years development time they should be ready to kick ass around 2011 but instead we got the Nokia flop. Considering the power of phones relative to typical office applications I'm kinda waiting for the phone with a cheap dock that gives you charging, display, keyboard, mouse, a chromebook-like UI and a bluetooth headset in case you need to answer the phone while docked. Like if you already have a phone and a TV, add these accessories and you won't need a laptop.

http://www.independent.co.uk/a...

So another whitewashed US/brit-centric movie pretending to be historically accurate. I wonder if it is as bad as that stupid American Sniper movie.

These movies are garbage recorded on high def film, and are still not worth my time.

Must be hard to draw those caricatures and burn those strawmen. It is much easier to criticize a stereotype than to understand the nuance of an opposing idea.

Maybe you're right. Democracy is a failed experiment. Why bother with federalism and democracy when no one is happy with it and we can't agree on anything? We need The Party to force agreement to solve our problems. Those problems can only be solved by government force such as global warming and AI.

Meanwhile in the real world

Solar has a very low capacity factor (~20%-30%) which means we need to find a way to store the electricity.

We have that and we're making it better fast. Batteries are already available at reasonable price points and the cost is falling steadily.

The majority of storage is done thru pumped-hydro.

Some is but that's going to change as solar and becomes more popular. You'll see homes and businesses with battery packs in steadily increasing numbers in the coming decades. It's already cheap enough that I can buy a battery pack to power my home for an entire day for under $10K and the price keeps falling.

Tesla's gigafactory is not going to be able to produce enough batteries for grid level storage.

Why do you presume it will be the only factory producing batteries? It is almost inevitable that there will be more factories like it and probably sooner than you think. Never mind the fact that they already ARE producing batteries for grid storage.

This plan will end up costing trillions and still will not work. It will also will cost trillions in grid improvements and probably tens of trillions in storage. I am sure Musk likes the idea of the US giving him trillions, but I think their are better and cheaper options.

What options do you think are "better and cheaper" in the long run? Nuclear fission will never happen for political reasons if nothing else. Fossil fuels are a dead end that will choke the planet. Fusion doesn't exist yet. Hydro is fine but limited. Geothermal same thing. Seriously, what do you think is better? I think distributed solar and industrial scale wind are easily the least worst option available to most of us. The cost is already competitive and falling fast. Nothing else available is meaningfully cleaner. Nothing else out there is as easy to distribute. We're going to be investing trillions into energy one way or another so why not pick the one that is clean and that we know works?

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

I'm not saying people should do drugs, but the current war on drugs is not working and other ways are needed to get people away from their addictions.

Sure man, and when that includes the former Prime Minister of Norway, what then?

From the Russian standpoint, the US continues to support terrorists

And most of the rest of the worlds standpoint also.

NATO involvement in Syria began in 2014, the same year as Ukraine's revolution. Destabilization in each country had begun much earlier.

Russia has a naval base in Tartus, Syria.
Russia has a naval base in Sevastopol, former Ukraine (Crimea).
Those are Russia's only two warm-water ports on the Mediterranean or Atlantic.

The Russians likely think that the US found pretexts for involving itself in Syria (including bombing Syrian facilities like the air base that Trump hit with cruise missiles a few weeks back) in order to deprive Russia of her only ports for projecting naval force toward Europe. Whether or not the Russians are right about that is another matter, but it must be difficult for them to avoid coming to that conclusion.

From the Russian standpoint, the US continues to support terrorists in order to destabilize Assad and rob Russia of its naval base.

Just recently it was reported that China will start censoring videos on certain video platforms, taking down content that criticizes the government or depicts LGBT people. http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

People were saying it wasn't a huge deal because citizens "mostly use VPNs anyway" to access foreign videos, but this kinda throws a wrench in that plan.

That's why Germany and Denmark, which have the highest wind+solar energy investments, have such affordable electricity. Oh, wait...

http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/europeelectricprice.png

In Germany, where they now get 20% of their electricity from wind & solar, the extraordinarily high cost has driven the price of electricity there up to three times what I pay here in North Carolina. (Well, it also doesn't help that Merkel is shutting down their perfectly good nuclear plants.)

The truth is that the intermittency problem with wind and solar is so severe that when you get more than a few percent tied into the grid it actually has negative value. It is only "crony capitalism" (government mandates, tax incentives, etc.) which make wind & solar competitive with coal and gas except in very special circumstances.

Diverting resources to wind and solar boondoggles impoverishes people, not just in West Virginia, where huge numbers of them are now out of work, but also everywhere that it inflates the cost of energy. It causes people living "on the edge" to sometimes have to choose between eating and staying warm.

Either choice can be deadly. In Europe, where there have been enormous price hikes for energy because of "renewables" scams, "energy poverty" is killing tens of thousands of mostly-elderly people:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fuel-poverty-killed-15000-people-last-winter-10217215.html

What's more, most of the energy used to PRODUCE solar panels, and much of the energy used to produce wind turbines, comes from soot-belching, coal-fired power plants in China, and most of the energy REPLACED BY these devices would have been produced in clean power plants with state-of-the-art "scrubbers" in North America, Europe & Australia.

So, Chinese workers get emphysema, American workers get to collect unemployment (until it runs out), and American & European environmentalists get to feel self-righteous.

Such a deal.

That's why Germany and Denmark, which have the highest wind+solar energy investments, have such affordable electricity. Oh, wait...

http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/europeelectricprice.png

In Germany, where they now get 20% of their electricity from wind & solar, the extraordinarily high cost has driven the price of electricity there up to three times what I pay here in North Carolina. (Well, it also doesn't help that Merkel is shutting down their perfectly good nuclear plants.)

The truth is that the intermittency problem with wind and solar is so severe that when you get more than a few percent tied into the grid it actually has negative value. It is only "crony capitalism" (government mandates, tax incentives, etc.) which make wind & solar competitive with coal and gas except in very special circumstances.

Diverting resources to wind and solar boondoggles impoverishes people, not just in West Virginia, where huge numbers of them are now out of work, but also everywhere that it inflates the cost of energy. It causes people living "on the edge" to sometimes have to choose between eating and staying warm.

Either choice can be deadly. In Europe, where there have been enormous price hikes for energy because of "renewables" scams, "energy poverty" is killing tens of thousands of mostly-elderly people:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fuel-poverty-killed-15000-people-last-winter-10217215.html

What's more, most of the energy used to PRODUCE solar panels, and much of the energy used to produce wind turbines, comes from soot-belching, coal-fired power plants in China, and most of the energy REPLACED BY these devices would have been produced in clean power plants with state-of-the-art "scrubbers" in North America, Europe & Australia.

So, Chinese workers get emphysema, American workers get to collect unemployment (until it runs out), and American & European environmentalists get to feel self-righteous.

Such a deal.

Almost all western nations face the same fate, in response Denmark started placing adverts to try and encourage people to have more children, and oddly enough it actually appears to have worked.

You mean counter semitic. I'm sure this experience with CNN will make him and everyone else a lot less "anti-semitic"

Counter-something (not sure it's semitic, but something... zionism?) is when you share the news that Israel stole solar panels from Palestinians, anti-semitic is when you claim the Zionist Conspiracy is talking to you through your fillings via secret messages hidden in the soundtrack of mass market DVDs and Blu-Ray. Which was he? Way too depressing to do the research.