Giving Up Meat Won’t Have Much of an Effect on Climate Change

Re:Giving Up Meat Won’t Have Much of an Effect on Climate Ch... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday September 12, 2019 @06:32AM (#20949912)

"This is probably true for a significant portion of people in the Valley. Certainly more so than say people in Midwest US "

That was in dispute. California gets a tiny fraction of its power from wind, the total state less than Iowa produces (where did you get the 'dwarfed' notion?) while the Midwest gets up to 50%. In Iowa another large fraction is from the Palo nuclear plant. So, very little coal etc.

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Re:Giving Up Meat Won’t Have Much of an Effect on Climate Ch... by pmalynin on Thursday September 12, 2019 @08:01AM (#20950443)

Coal's share of net electricity generation in Iowa declined from 76% in 2008 to 45% in 2018, but coal is still the state's largest source of net electricity generation. 45% is very little indeed.

Please fact check your claims next time.

California produces 28000 MW of renewables total which is way more than Iowa. California Coal power mix was about 3%, and lower in my community

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Re:Giving Up Meat Won’t Have Much of an Effect on Climate Ch... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday September 12, 2019 @09:18AM (#20951060)

I claim that Iowa wind energy exceeds California. That's all. And that's true.

It's unseemly to keep changing the subject to one that you can 'win'.

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