h/t Breitbart; Joe Biden has tried to catch up with the Democrat cool kids, by demanding fossil fuel executives should be held accountable for the climate harm they have done.
Joe Biden: ‘We’re All Dead’ if We Don’t Stop Using Fossil Fuels
Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed during a Sunday campaign event that “we’re all dead” if fossil fuels continue to be used as one of the world’s primary energy sources.
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Earlier in the event, Biden vowed as president to hold energy giants liable for global warming and made a pledge to even jail executives.
I’ve got to say for once Joe Biden has shown some real balls.
The threat to jail fossil fuel executives presumably includes current or former executives like his son Hunter Biden (Burisma) and Nancy Pelosi’s son Paul Pelosi (Viscoil), and who knows how many other children of prominent Democrats who hold or have held lucrative fossil fuel directorships in the Ukraine and elsewhere.
It takes a courageous politician to threaten jail time for his own kin, and the children of some of his most important political allies.
Blades from a massive wind turbine crumpled to the ground Monday, smashing a car flat and damaging another piece of infrastructure, authorities said.
“This shouldn’t have been put up so hastily. A wind turbine should not be able to be taken down by the wind,” state Sen. Jamaal Bailey said during a press conference discussing the incident, which happened in the Bronx.
During the press conference, Bailey and Assemblyman Mike Benedetto called on the city Department of Buildings (DOB) to make “sure something like this doesn’t happen again.” Both men spoke at the site of the collapse and were struggling to project their voices over the sound of roaring wind.
DOB did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
BREAKING: New York State Assemblyman @mikebenedetto82 and state Sen. @jamaaltbailey address the media at the site of the 500 Baychester Ave. wind turbine and sign collapse.
New York has worked to transition the state away from fossil fuels and toward other forms of energy, namely solar power and wind turbines. The New York State Thruway Authority built five wind turbines in 2015 along the thruway in the western corner of the state to help in the transition.
The project was expensive, with the five windmills costing $4.8 million and another $500,000 for design expenditures. The authority believed the turbines would pay for themselves, saving as much as $420,000 annually on energy bills. Such forms of energy also have detractors.
President Donald Trump, for instance, often mocks turbines for not being as reliable as natural gas or crude oil.
“When the wind stops blowing, it doesn’t make any difference, does it? Unlike those big windmills that destroy everybody’s property values, kill all the birds,” Trump told a crowd who gathered to hear him speak at a chemical plant in August.
Trump added: “One day the environmentalists are going to tell us what’s going on with that. And then all of a sudden it stops.”
This extract from an article at Historic Mysteries looks at the demise of the city, linked to major climatic changes that happened centuries before the arrival of the modern industrial world. Cahokia Mounds is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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In Southern Illinois, situated along the Mississippi River in Collinsville, an ancient settlement that we call Cahokia rose to great power between 800-1200 CE.
Nicknamed America’s Forgotten City or The City of the Sun, the massive complex once contained as many as 40,000 people and spread across nearly 4,000 acres.
The most notable features of the site are hand-made earthen mounds which held temples, political buildings, and burial pits.
Cahokia Mounds are a testament to the highly organized culture of the early Mississippian people who built the largest city in pre-Columbian North America.
The Rise of the Mound Culture
Small villages first emerged along Cahokia Creek beginning around 600 CE. Subsequently, the climate warmed and more rain found its way to Southern Illinois. Thus, villagers could easily grow an abundance of food. As a result, thousands of people migrated to the area around the Mississippi River.
Then as time went on, the Mississippians created a unified culture all their own and began building mounds across their land in the ninth century.
By about 1000 CE, the Mississippians had built the largest civilization in North America. In fact, some people have referred to it as a kingdom, because the Mississippian culture reached up to the Great Lakes and down to the entire southeastern region of North America.
The city became the pre-eminent center of religious and political power and may have even controlled a vast trade network from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico.
Although today we call the site Cahokia Mounds, no one knows the original name of the city. French explorers in the 1600s named Cahokia after the Cahokia tribe, which lived in the area around that time. However, they may not have had any relation to the original mound builders.
. . . What happened to Cahokia Mounds?
Cahokia was not destined to last. Its collapse is somewhat of a mystery, however, based on research, the following three events may have had something to do with it.
1). Broxton Bird, a climatologist from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis headed a study that he published in 2017. By taking ancient calcite samples in Martin Lake, Indiana, he and his team determined the precipitation levels throughout the years. Their results indicated that beginning around 1250 CE, climate change occurred. Consequently, this was the start of the Little Ice Age, which lasted 500 years. At that time, a dry period resulted. By 1350 CE, there was a serious drought brought on by dry arctic air.
2). Floods often go hand-in-hand with dry spells when large rainfall occurs during droughts. In another study, Samuel Munoz and Jack Williams took core samples up to 2,000 years old from two lakes in the Mississippi floodplain. They saw that prior to 600 CE there were many floods. Then there was a period of no floods until 1200 CE. During the floodless period, Cahokia flourished. After the flood of 1200, the population declined until complete abandonment.
3). The changes in the climate and the flood event may have severely affected corn production. Thus, famine and hunger would have inevitably led to major upheavals in the large population. As a result, Mississippian societies in the region began to collapse. The destruction of the palisades, an increase in sacrifices, and intensified warfare occurred after 1250 CE. By the end of the 14th century, residents had migrated south and east to areas with more stable climates.
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