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Not because of it getting too hot, or sea levels rising, or increased severity of weather disasters.
I fear climate change due to people's desire to try and mitigate it by way of forcing society to be weaned off fossil fuels at great economic cost. Imagine paying $7 for a gallon of gasoline. Or $15. Imagine a doubling of power rates, when more power than ever is needed to run the AC to keep cool in the increasingly hot summers. Wanna fly somewhere? Be ready to shell out an extra $100 or so per leg of travel, to pay for that carbon usage of course.
This drumbeat about climate change is really giving me the heebie-jeebies - since people might be fooled into "we gotta do something about it" - and destroy the economy in the process. Hope you enjoy those 25% unemployment rates to shave off one tenth of a degree of "future warming."
To satisfy my curiosity, I invite you to vote in my poll for how much more per month you'd be willing to help mitigate climate change (by whatever means.)
We are already paying for and also benefiting from both climate change and attempts at mitigation/adaptation.
Our electric bill reflects technologies and strategies required by the utility companies to meet stricter air quality standards, while our health care expenses have been tempered by improved air quality and lower incidences of asthma, ER visits, cancers, etc.
And yes, the economy has been impacted, but in both negative and positive ways.
Sorry, friend. Climate change is a myth. A hoax designed to shake down American taxpayers. It is the furthest thing from science, as the scientific method never closes down debate. It eternally keeps an open mind.
What really gets my goat these days too is how much hysteria they're throwing out. A fire and a flood - OMG the world is ending! We only have 12 more years to zero out carbon emissions, or we'll be going extinct!
Get what I mean? Hopefully we'll get a super-eruption in the near future and cool the planet down a few degrees C. Then all we'll hear is how cold everything is getting. Time to break out those SUVs and pump more CO2 in the air to warm things back up.
I really hope this blows over soon like a silly fashion trend - it's beyond ridiculous, and I'm just fed up of hearing about it 24/7.
Sorry, friend. Climate change is a myth. A hoax designed to shake down American taxpayers. It is the furthest thing from science, as the scientific method never closes down debate. It eternally keeps an open mind.
Unlike those who are climate deniers whose minds are sealed permanently shut. Welcome to the CD Politics Forum. You should fit in very well here.
Green energy sources would be cheaper if government didn't subsidise oil and coal...at taxpayer's cost.
I would agree with that - I'm against subsidies of any kind. Especially things like $7500 rebates so rich people can buy those fancy Teslas. Is that a good use of taxpayer dollars? Just gimme me my (universal) rebate, and I'll decide what kind of car to buy.
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Hope you enjoy those 25% unemployment rates to shave off one tenth of a degree of "future warming."
