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Some Climate Change Facts

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From a talk by John Christy:

1. Climate models are not accurate in their prediction of future climate.

2. Extreme weather events are not increasing in frequency or intensity.

3. Even assuming the climate models are correct, putative regulations in the US will do essentially nothing to change what the climate does.

4. Coal is increasingly used to power the world's energy demands, including in Germany and Japan, no matter what the US says.
 
I don't get why the left never asks themselves if something is actually going to help... it's as if the thought that counts, literally...Maybe for grandma's Christmas gift or in academics, but not in the real world... the thought doesn't count, what actually happens counts.

Every last feasible drop of fossil fuels will be extracted and burned on this planet, and there is NOTHING you can do about it...and actually, trying to do something about that fact kills people, wastes money, and halts economic prosperity. MOVE ON to something you can actually do. No alternative will occur until the world begins to have a shortage of fossil fuels and something else will be able to compete with them in cost.
1. Save the freaking rainforest...
2. Stop harmful farming practices...
3. Enact laws for liability in toxic disasters and clean up.
4. Find alternative energy resources that can compete with fossil fuels.
5. Nuclear power.
6. Protect endangered species, etc, etc, etc, etc,

There are so many more productive things that can save the environment significantly more than you can ever do limiting carbon emissions. Climate Change is useless. Our climate always changes, whether we make it change or not.
 
celticwar17 said:
I don't get why the left never asks themselves if something is actually going to help... it's as if the thought that counts, literally...Maybe for grandma's Christmas gift or in academics, but not in the real world... the thought doesn't count, what actually happens counts.

Every last feasible drop of fossil fuels will be extracted and burned on this planet, and there is NOTHING you can do about it...and actually, trying to do something about that fact kills people, wastes money, and halts economic prosperity. MOVE ON to something you can actually do. No alternative will occur until the world begins to have a shortage of fossil fuels and something else will be able to compete with them in cost.
1. Save the freaking rainforest...
2. Stop harmful farming practices...
3. Enact laws for liability in toxic disasters and clean up.
4. Find alternative energy resources that can compete with fossil fuels.
5. Nuclear power.
6. Protect endangered species, etc, etc, etc, etc,

There are so many more productive things that can save the environment significantly more than you can ever do limiting carbon emissions. Climate Change is useless. Our climate always changes, whether we make it change or not.
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I disagree, kind of! as far as helping, it depends on what their goals are.
If the goal is harming the US economy, while generating a new income stream for social projects,
some type of carbon tax may help that!
 
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