Wasn't directed at you, necessarily. I generally enjoy the give and take, but have grown weary of the "just asking questions" soft attacks on science. The science here is settled and we're seeing the seas practically boiling while Sicily and Lahaina burn. Polar ice is at historic lows and receding in an accelerating fashion. Massive and unprecedented flooding is striking Spain and Norway. This shit is real and while there have been cyclical periods of warming/cooling it has never happened at the speed at which we're pushing it.
I'm not interested in discussing the matter if the conversation isn't geared towards how we can mitigate and/or slow the rate at which we're destroying this planet.
You do realize absolutely none of that is true, right?
And I'm being 100% serious. None of that is accurate. There are mountains of data and observations that prove those things are false, but they're ignored because that's not where the fear/paranoia money lives.
The "science" is anything BUT settled.
A letter signed by over 50 leading members of the American Meteorological Society warned about the policies promoted by environmental pressure groups. “The policy initiatives derive from highly uncertain scientific theories. They are based on the unsupported assumption that catastrophic global warming follows from the burning of fossil fuel and requires immediate action. We do not agree.”2 Those who have signed the letter represent the overwhelming majority of climate change scientists in the United States, of whom there are about 60. McMichael and Haines quote the 1995 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is widely believed to “prove” that climate change induced by humans has occurred.3 The original draft document did not say this. What happened was that the policymakers’ summary (which became the “take home message” for politicians) altered the conclusions of the scientists. This led Dr Frederick Seitz, former head of the United States National Academy of Sciences, to write, “In more than sixty years as a member of the American scientific community ... I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report.”
Solar power, wind power, kill all the cows because they fart, get cars/gas ovens/gas tools out of the hands of people, etc. All of that is just a fallacy. It's nonsense.
Yeah, we should stop throwing metric tons of trash in the ocean. Yean, we should clean up our neighborhoods and not throw bags of garbage out the car windows. Maybe, just maybe, we should stop the urban sprawl and quit paving over everything to make neighborhoods while others remain abandoned. Fix up what we have, stop building new. But the entire "green agenda" pushed on by these hysterical and untrue things you state as "fact?" Well, that's just horseshit.
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