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This graph speaks for itself!
Too many people in the world
A head tax on births might help, you think?
A head tax on births might help, you think?
It would be better than doing the opposite.
Last I checked, it cost in excess of $250,000 to raise a child from 0 to 18....if that's not enough deincentive...
Which is, what we do.
Most folks don’t realize the size of the hit. An up front payment to be made before birth would be a wake up call.
This graph speaks for itself!
No it doesn't. Real science is more complicated than that. If you looked hard enough you could find a similar graph matching global temperatures and cases of lymphoma diagnosed, or something.
It's funny how a thread on Mankind Induced Climate Change turns everybody into a scientific expert. I have a Bachelors of Science and I claim no such expertise, because I'm not a Climatologist. Therefore I go to the experts. The National Climate Assessment of 2014 is authored by such experts, and reviewed by hundreds of experts, along with the National Academy of Scientists. Here is one of their statements:
Overview | National Climate Assessment
Multiple lines of independent evidence confirm that human activities are the primary cause of the global warming of the past 50 years. The burning of coal, oil, and gas, and clearing of forests have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by more than 40% since the Industrial Revolution, and it has been known for almost two centuries that this carbon dioxide traps heat. Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture and other human activities add to the atmospheric burden of heat-trapping gases. Data show that natural factors like the sun and volcanoes cannot have caused the warming observed over the past 50 years. Sensors on satellites have measured the sun’s output with great accuracy and found no overall increase during the past half century. Large volcanic eruptions during this period, such as Mount Pinatubo in 1991, have exerted a short-term cooling influence. In fact, if not for human activities, global climate would actually have cooled slightly over the past 50 years. The pattern of temperature change through the layers of the atmosphere, with warming near the surface and cooling higher up in the stratosphere, further confirms that it is the buildup of heat-trapping gases (also known as “greenhouse gases”) that has caused most of the Earth’s warming over the past half century.
Except for the fact that most of the data the left is using to claim man-made climate change is from politicized science with no realistic peer review.
Woah, a graph. I guess that settles it.
Except for the fact that most of the data the left is using to claim man-made climate change is from politicized science with no realistic peer review.
Yes, thank you for posting further details that agree with what I said.
You can't just post two sets of datapoints and declare it "speaks for itself." Here's an example:
The correlation is one thing. The consensus of scientific experts is what really seals the deal. How many scientific experts agree with your graph? 97-98%?