https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/north-carolina-city-spent-millions-on-electric-buses-dont-run

This is a perfect example of an industry not ready for prime time. The government is dangling carrots by using tax payers money to entice sales of buses for mass transit that have not been perfected for such use.
Instead of rushing into an alternative energy, that is clearly not going to be sufficient, why not take time to prefect a sensible alternative to fossil fuel and not rape our citizens with outrageous fuel prices while doing so.


North Carolina city spent millions on electric buses that don't run

North Carolina and other states will probably have wasted money before. What this story tells me is that company that made the busses is not very good at it (yet). The technology is there. An electric bus does work properly as proven in many other countries. Charging time is limited when using a pantograph at various bus stops for top-up (300kW) and do a full charge overnight (60kW).

"Why not take the time to prefect a sensible alternative to fossil fuel.." Ask the oil companies how they succeeded in slowing down developments in alternative energy....

Power, lobby, corruption, Fox News?

You clearly didnt read all of it either because NOAA admitted that some of their stations are not placed properly. They just claim that that does not hurt their total data collection process.

The thing is that it does. Several years ago Oregon replaced their state climatologist. The reason was he had spent 25 years placimg data collection sites on farmland and had gotten vastly different data than the powers that be so instead of looking at his data they removed both he and his data from his positiin.

Because, surprise cities are hotter than the surrounding countryside.

I'm sure we have some cities where electric busses could work. We also have cities where they don't work.

You just go ahead and try an electric vehicle of any kind in Bozeman Montana in the winter.

In case you didn't see the news from Chicago Illinois a couple of weeks ago dozens of drivers were stranded when both their electric vehicles and their charging stations failed in the cold.

Just because something works in a flat relatively temperate climatebdoes not mean it will work everywhere else. I have nothing against electric vehicles other than the cost, but they are not feasable in some locations yetbour politicians are trying to force all of us into them regardless of if they will work in the real world that we live in.

No one is denying climate change. We are denying that it is a threat. The draconian steps that environmentalists want to take will be far more damaging to humanity than doing nothing would be.

You seem to want the U.S. to take immediate and drastic measures, but that will do nothing as China, India, Russia, Turkey and others are increasing their CO2 production much faster than we could possibly lower ours, meaning that no matter what the U.S. does unilaterally it won't make a difference.

But, that simple fact seems to escape those of you that want immediate action. You will destroy the economy and gain nothing from it. It isn't a matter of ignoring climate scientists. It is a matter of taking rational steps to improve life for all humanity. I've got news for you, people in much of the planet will be happy if the temperature does increase. Greenland is currently seeing tremendous development in their precious gem mining as vast areas of minerals that previously were inaccessible are now available. Farming in the far reaches of both the north and south is improving, and countries like the Netherlands have proven that it is possible to not lose land when sea levels rise.

The problems that you are concerned about can mostly be mitigated by using science, not to shut down development, but to preserve what we can while still improving the lives of millions of people that currently live in poverty. If you stop economic development you prevent them from ever bettering themselves, while at the same time actually causing more damage to the environment. For example, the reason the Amazon rainforest is being deforested is because of people attempting to eke out a living by farming land that is not really farmable. If we helped them have other job choices there would be no need for them to continue to damage the environment.

It isn't climate change that we deny, it is the solutions that has been proposed that we reject, such as forcing electric cars on us.

"Being shoved down our throats" is one of the perceptions I alluded to. You're reading and watching the viewpoints that push only that narrative. Try a more balanced approach

I'm with Klickitatdave, specifically his comments: "On the other hand CEOs of corporations that contribute to the deterioration of the global environment are getting richer every year...Sad to say this does not bode well for the future of humankind."

With the pushback against science, the constant referencing of global weather history - which doesn't take into account that we are now more than eight billion humans - and the willingness of humans to soil our planet in pursuit of money and power, I've concluded that as a species, we are accelerating our own extinction.