Termyn8or -> RE: Climate change doubtful? (3/24/2017 5:14:29 AM)
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Doubtful ? I doubt it. One would have to be a total idiot to deny that us burning all this shit will cooll the place down. Not even considering CO2 yet, we emit so many BTUs of heat into the environment it is ridiculous. You know even when you turn the AC on it does not remove the heat, it just moves the heat outside. And of course there is probably something burning somewhere to generate the electricity to do that. Look at a highway, look at a traffic jam. Now realize that each and every one of those cars has a (heat) radiator, for a reason. But now the issue is supposedly CO2, a greenhouse gas. That the effects of increasing the levels of it are cumulative and supposedly disastrous according to some. I do not doubt the effect, I doubt the extent of it. In fact, even those 90 % of scientists who agree do not agree on how much. If this is cut and dry science, there should be reliable numbers and there are not. But still, it is true and it is happening. The question becomes how much are we doing to make it happen, and how much of it is nature. We are just now coming out of a Malinkovich cycle that had us closest to the sun during the northern hemisphere winter. They say that effect is negligible but you move this planet a few hundred miles towards the sun and it will get quite hot. The energy we get is inverse square. You get half the distance you get four times the energy. So that might be a more significant factor than "intelligencia" recognizes. They have been wrong before. But the fact still remains that we burn all kinds of stuff and put CO2 into the air and that is a greenhouse gas. Nobody with any science knowledge would deny that. However, the question becomes - what do we do about it ? We are trillions in debt. We cannot force other countries to conform to anything. If we abolished all factories in the US, China won't. They are spewing the shit into the other side of the fishbowl. They are on the same planet. As bad as Trump may be, he wants for jobs here, and that pipeline thing is part of it. You need energy to run a factory, you need energy to run anything. This is cheap, and it works. And pipelines, they are like NIMBY here, though we fight wars to get pipelines in other countries. What do you think all the shit in Ukraine is about ? Western oil companies want a piece of that European market that Russia supplies. But I digress. What is the solution ? We cannot all afford to just scrap our cars and buy electric ones. What's more, more CO2 is produced by the generation of electricity than cars anyway, so that doesn't look too promising as a plan. What do you have in mind ? I am a natural born troubleshooter and I have given this alot of thought, and come up with nothing. You want to ride bicycles ? Walk ? You want to have to walk down the street to the neighbor and trade some of your beans for his tomatoes ? Because that is how it will be without gasoline. You can start riding horses and having carriages. Do you want that ? See that is the only solution. You cannot have what you have without this. And big truck polluting, everything you have came in on a truck, including your truck. They might have self driving ones now, but they still run on diesel fuel. I know electric cars are powerful, needing no transmission and all, but nobody as far as I know has been able to make an electric tractor/trailer. (lorry for y'all across the pond) We all know a solution is needed, and one day technology will get there. But there is no good reason to cripple industry here for these lofty goals while other countries will simply do what they want and pollute our fishbowl. This is one of the things on which I agree with Trump, build that pipeline. I would do a couple of things different though, I would make it a million dollar fine for any leak, and then a million dollars a gallon. That should make the environmentalists happy, or at least less unhappy. Those Natives protesting don't really mind a pipe so much, it is the fact that they leak. STOP MAKING THEM OUT OF PAPER MACHE' ! Dammit. People said Florida would be gone. The stupid rubes in one state down there (a bunch of republicans) tried to pass a law making it illegal to talk about the rise in sea level. What kind of fucking brainiac thought that up ? It is not only unconstitutional it is like, totally, and I mean totally stupid. Anyway, we cannot all afford to just go throw seventy grand down on the Tesla. I don't know if you know about how people live in this country but most of us cannot even afford a new car at all. People have to put gasoline on their credit card. Jobs are mostly part time. Many are through temp agencies, which make more than the worker for his work. And in the end, what is really the consequences of global warming ? Sea level rises, that floods a few places. But those desert lands could become arable if they get flooded. We might have a smaller land mass but it is definitely not the end of the human race. It is just a change. Your kids can figure out how to deal with it. Just like everybody else. T^T
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