this evening's weather report
Just FYI, the Wizard just this minute walked in from the airport and said it is -7 degrees F. In Colorado, that's beyond chilly and into REALLY QUITE COLD. and there's snow, too.
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Socialists always defeat their arguements. It is never about confirmed science as they claim. It is always about how humans are destroying earth and why they need more control over all us cattle.
Then came the cold Ice Age or Ice Ages.. It may interest you to know that, when I was a school kid in the late 50s and early 60s, teachers spoke of a theory that we were not Out of a great Ice Age as yet. They said the ice sheets may be returning within the next few hundred years.
I attended a conference in Denver in February many years ago, and the temp. was well below zero. I was wearing a parka as two guys wearing only windbreakers picked me up in their car. I asked if they were nuts, it was 45 degrees below freezing. They told me it was a dry cold and didn't feel that bad. I told them, below zero doesn't feel cold? I'll keep my down-filled parka on, thank you very much.
Our household rule, hammered out after years of [slight] discord, is that the Wizard has to wear a coat if it's under freezing because seeing him without a coat makes me feel cold! silly, but.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM7zb5FM...
This is contrary to what the evidence so far overwhelmingly shows. It's pure wishful thinking from people who find the problem overwhelming or don't want to address it. We'd all *love* to learn we were wrong, like the idea that removing fat from food would make it more healthful. I'm very grateful the evidence is pointing away from that one. Maybe we'll luck out again. It will save huge amounts of wealth if so, a much bigger deal than my liking fatty foods.
If you care to study this subject order the documentary, "An Inconsistent Truth". It debunks much of global warming and provides data.
There are millions of dollars money aimed studying and dealing with climate change. There are tens of trillions of dollars of economic activity in some way associated with burning stuff and generating carbon emissions. So if we ignore the science and follow the money, we start to wonder just how extreme the problem is.
I actually don't thing the problem is more extreme than known. I think we know the cycle of glacial maxima and minimum which has been going on for a million years will affect humans, but it's hard to calculate the exact cost of every time we burn something. I reject associating it with whatever political controversy of the day. It's a longer term problem, but I suspect it will be solved, maybe in my lifetime. I feel like human progress has accellerated and will keep accelerating (if we can resist the urge to overregulate and micromanage people's lives and the economy), and we will nail this.
What you have just said contradicts itself. There is no way to stop burning things without regulation and regulation will hurt the economy for a problem that does not exist. If this problem did exist the very people that are pushing the agenda would need to be the first people to be forced out of the 10000 square foot homes to live like the rest of us.
Sometimes the truth is exactly opposite from what I wish. It's only a contradiction if I said, "and this issue happens to work out favorably for human interests". Fortunately, I'm very confident in human ingenuity to solve problems. I think we'll find away to keep burning stuff and stop or mitigate the ill effects of doing it. We need to to support billions of humans living plush lives. I'm confident we will.