Climate Change

Many of the responses to my comments were expected since a large number of users of this site have left of far-left leaning.

Many times worst-case climate predictions are played as likely or fact by the press or likes to liven up articles to attract eye-balls and by politicians who want to scare voters into voting for them. They tend to feed the climate dogma with many predictions turn out to be wrong:

It seems that some people can’t see the forest for the trees. Perhaps more awkwardly but more accurately they can’t see the missing sections of the rainforest because they can’t see the missing trees.

If you tell someone they need to study five hours a week or they will fail the course, but they study only three hours a week and get 51%, it doesn’t mean you were an incorrect alarmist. It means you were correct and their corrective actions reduced the disaster, but they will still not be getting into university. Some countries have taken some actions against global warming, but so much more action is needed.

Some people also think that there is only one tipping point. In fact, there are multiple tipping points some of which we have already passed. Others we have yet to pass.

For example, glaciers are retreating all over the world. That is a tipping point that has been passed. The coral reefs are dying because of the acidification of the ocean water as it absorbs more of the carbon dioxide that is produced by petroleum dependent countries and industries. Island nations are planning for their own elimination because of global warming.

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The fact that you have not been killed yet as a consequence of climate change does not mean that others have not died. The fact that your home is habitable with air conditioning doesn’t mean that people can continue to live where there forebears have for generations.

H.L. Mencken said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”. It is also the case that for many, it is easy to maintain an expensive lifestyle today if the next generation is going to pay for it.