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If Man is affecting climate, what percentage is man made, and what percentage is Naturally occurring? What will the taxes on fossil fuels, carbon, and other items do to curtail the man made portion of climate change if there is one? If the Naturally Occurring Climate change increases as it has always done, will that negate anything man does to combat it?
good questions. doubt they'll be answered - and they really ARE the crux of what we do for climate change/effects.
One side wants to shame the other by asserting that man's evil nature has caused us to get to this point. But they never try and answer the question the way you've posed it.
Is the climate changing? -Yes, it always has and always will.
Is the climate warming?-Yes. On a macro scale we are still coming out of an ice age-a cyclic phenomenon.
Is the burning of fossil fuels a contributing factor? -Perhaps.
How much of a contributing factor is the burning of fossil fuels?-That is the real question-no one knows exactly.
Will destroying the US economy, putting millions out of work, perhaps leading to a global depression, do anything to reverse the impact of climate change? Not likely
Will the loudest proponents of "AGW" change their lifestyles, give up private jets, get rid of their luxury cars, live in a "tiny home" and sink their yachts to contribute to reversing the process?-get serious
Are some of the loudest proponents of "AGW" enriching themselves by promoting AGW?-absolutely. Look at Algore and his "carbon exchange" scheme-and the profits from fiction movies.
Nothing can stop what is to come with a mass die off within 120 years.
The scientific evidence is that it is 100% human. Our impact is technically over 100% because without human impact the planet would actually be cooling slightly right now.
when you determine how something can be more than 100%, please let us all know so we can make a fortune on it.
and to claim "scientific evidence says" without any linking is utter BS.
you don't do anything to advance your position with such inanity.
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Whether it's man made ir not, we still should be cleaning up our act and taking better care of the planet, and this especially applies to the Chinese, as too much emphasis is being placed on the US and not enough on China and other big potential polluters such as India.
Still doesn't mean the U S. can work towards being the most environmentally friendly Nation in the World and be an example for other Countries.
sure, that's a desirable goal. but it's not the emergency or dire need you describe previously, nor what is shouted at us daily by the GND crowd.
what you don't seem to realize is that ALMOST EVERYTHING includes an economic factor. Economics in the pure sense of supply and demand and cost.
Meaning: any of us could reduce our "environmental cost" by $1,000,000 over the rest of the Earth's existence. But if it COSTS $2,000,000 to do it, then it doesn't make sense.
a few trillion AC's in the summer....a few trillion heaters in the winter....and trillions of miles of black asphalt
how many of the ~ 3 BILLION families have heat and AC? How many have any permanent electricity and water/waste disposal? I think you'd be shocked, and even if they ALL did, then you're using 1,000 AC's and heaters PER household.
I could post 1,000 links stating that global warming is real, would that change your mind? No.
So I’ll say this instead which I have before.
I lived in North Carolina has a kid in the winters they were much harsher and colder then they are now not to mention more snow then we get here now. But none of that matters to you because truthfully you don’t care either way.
just provide the almanac year-by-year since your birth for western NC. Avg monthly temp each month, and total snowfalls. and total rainfall.
Whether it's man made ir not, we still should be cleaning up our act and taking better care of the planet, and this especially applies to the Chinese, as too much emphasis is being placed on the US and not enough on China and other big potential polluters such as India.
of course!
but look into the future. If we make all these GND steps, then in 20 years it may cost us $100 to make the life-changing widget that China makes for $10. You think enough of the other countries in the world are going to buy our $100 widget vs their $10 one?
Humans have to be having some impact. In the days of the cavemen, the only warming was from their fires to cook and keep warm. Look at all that we have now. Every year we break new records for heat worldwide. You can google the statistics but I was reading them yesterday. Just this July broke all records for Europe. And my state broke all records of the month of July. Some of it could just be natural warming but with all that we've got going on, it's a whole lot more than it ever was before and that's a contributing factor.
Pssst!
There is no real temperature record predating the satellite era (1979).
Moreover, the satellite era began at the end of a decades-long cooling trend.
Now we are in a panic because people with something to gain from pushing the CAGW narrative have some pretend, made-up temperature data that never existed before and was just recently discovered when they guessed what it might have been.
Since the start of the industrial Revolution we’ve been pumping stuff into the atmosphere it’s naive to think it hasn’t taken it toll on the planet.
Of course it has an effect on the planet.
But that is science, and the alt-right does not believe in science. They apparently do not believe in cause and effect either. It is all about religious fatalism. Odd, because it used to be third world countries that were governed by fatalism.
Now it a pervasive belief on the right. The human race has no control over the planet--we are all just passively batted around by the universe.
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