EDITORIALS: ‘Coal plants will be our savior.’ Kansas senator blames renewables for power outages – By Kansas City Star Editorial Board (Kansas City Star) / Feb 17 2021
According to Tucker Carlson, the cause of the deadly rolling power outages in Texas is too much reliance on that state’s “silly” windmills: “Well, the good news is all that alternative energy seems to have had a remarkable effect on the climate,” the Fox News host said sarcastically, since “Sunday night, parts of Texas got the temperatures that we typically see in Alaska. In fact, they were the same as they were in Alaska. So global warming is no longer a pressing concern in Houston. The bad news is, they don’t have electricity. The windmills froze, so the power grid failed.” That is such a tidy narrative, and one that the fossil fuel lobby loves. But none of it is true.
So naturally, the climate change denialist aka Kansas State Sen. Mike Thompson has hopped on this same coal-burning steam locomotive. He likewise blames frozen wind turbines for power outages.
The longtime FOX4 meteorologist, who doesn’t believe in evolution, either, said last year that the death rate from COVID-19 is so “infinitesimally small” that we should “call off this emergency.”
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