First God damn the people like Al Gore who make alarmist
It ticks me off to hear Joe Biden speak about the need to act on climate change. He was in office for 8 years as VP. What are the Obama Administration's accomplishments on the subject? Answer that one Joe!
And don't give me "Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Accords." The United States has lowered CO2 emissions more than any of the remaining signatories of the Accords which are basically just a fig leaf to cover the inaction of nations and leaders. And while I'm at it let me point out that energy producing Texas has done much more to lower CO2 emissions than tree-hugging California. Hypocrites really piss me off!
Secondly, even though I'm a big proponent of nuclear power, what if there's nothing we can actually do? Even if we go 100% nuclear power and renewables what if the change in climate is due to things outside our control? Things like solar cycles (that we don't understand), changes in the Earth's magnetic field (which we don't understand) or the climate change effects of the Earth's "wobble" changing (again something we know is happening but don't understand). Or a combination of the things we don't understand.
Its common sense to embrace reducing pollution and trying to be more energy efficient. Common sense. But we need to state the simple fact that we truly don't understand our climate (or 95% of the universe we live in for that matter). The science is not settled - on either side of the argument.
Rant over. I feel much better.
Not only is the science not settled, most of what is touted as science is crap or conjecture. CO2 is more likely a lagging indicator of warming than a cause. Much of the raw temperature data has been "lost" by the "scientists" it was entrusted to. What we see is adjusted temperature, which strangely always gets adjusted upwards. The fact that nuclear power is never discussed by global warming proponents gives the game away, as it is the cleanest energy possible, with sufficient safeguards, which we have. From the hockey stick to "hide the decline" it's a scam all the way down.
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