In what can only be described as an embarrassing episode of click-baiting, the AP and others have made big news out of a well-known fact.
As though they're writing for Buzzfeed, the AP titled their story "Study: Your all-electric car may not be so green." Which of course is a very curious title, just begging to be clicked so you can point and laugh at those silly greenies with their expensive Priuses and Teslas and their inflated sense of smug.
But, like any clickbait, when you read the piece the title's deception becomes obvious. If your electric vehicle is plugged into a grid powered by coal, it's not clean. Well, duh. It’s unlikely that anyone who buys an EV does so to run it on coal-fired electricity, but obviously we need to keep building up clean energy infrastructure as we build up the EV infrastructure. Also, the study says that if your EV runs on electricity generated by anything BUT coal (including natural gas), it's cleaner and greener by at least 50%, as one rebuttal points out.
Maybe next week the AP will tell us all about this one weird trick that will make you lose fifteen pounds of carbon emissions in one week! (Geoengineers hate him!) Or maybe it'll be the 42 best gifs from the AGU meetings, or maybe they'll cut right to the chase and go with 20 unexpected reasons you should click this link! Your carbon footprint will thank you!
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Barring a major denier coup, the Climate Denier Roundup will be taking the holidays off, and will be returning January 6th, 2015. See you in the New Year!
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