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• What ever happened to just planting a tree?
• I’m old enough to remember when the adults talked about planting trees to save the world b/c they ‘eat CO2’.
• The New CO2 Sucker!
• I mean seriously, this is just mocking the American people at this point.
• Granholm, on Thursday, told reporters that these “projects are going to help us prove out the potential of these next-generation technologies so that we can add them to our climate crisis fighting arsenal.” 
• “giant vacuums that can suck decades of old carbon pollution straight out of the sky.” 
• In  addition to removing the fossil fuels from the air, the plants are to be used as a way to develop “a robust clean hydrogen supply chain and workforce by prioritizing clean hydrogen demonstration projects in major shale gas regions” with “regional clean hydrogen hubs.”
• Serious Question: What is the difference b/w Gru, evil mastermind from the Minions movies, wanting to ‘steal the moon’ and this CO2 vacuum idea?

AUDIO/VIDEO: Sen Mazie Hirono on climate change – There are whole states where you can’t even use the worlds climate change b/c they still have a head in the sand attitude. Yes there is more that needs to be done. 

• Complex hydrocarbon – 
• Hey Senator, how did you get to DC from Hawaii? 
• Did you fly, did you use a boat? 
• The same process that makes soil makes oil.
• You put the same process under pressure, push down on the process that makes soil…add some heat and BOOM….CRUDE OIL.
• Senator Hirono goes on for 1 1/2 minutes on how this is man made type climate crisis but then at the end she declares this is a natural disaster. 
• Which one is it because it can’t be both.

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