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35 minutes ago, Orlando Tim said:

Your argument is that the flooding would not happen have happened if what had happened in the past?


A helpful way this was explained to me years and years ago:
 

We know that Barry Bonds did steroids, right? But when he hit a home run, can you say for certain that the only reason he hit that home run was because of steroids? Probably not. 
 

However, when you look at the trends and data over time, it’s clear that he was doping.

 

Similarly, it’s currently hard to tell if a specific weather event was due to climate change*. But when you look at the data and trends, it’s clear that it’s happening. 
 

*this is changing due to attribution science which actually allows us to understand the impact of climate change on individual weather events. 

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1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

Natural disasters of one kind or anoher have been ocuring on planet Earth for hundreds of millions of years.  The planet is about 4.5 billion years old and I'm quite certain ithere have been years, decades, centuries, and much longer periods where it's been much hotter and much colder,  much drier and much wetter without human assistance in the past.  

Nothing is more frightening than ignorance in action and climate science is a prime example.  To think our 150 years of incomplete temperature data is sufficient to understand and predict the future climate, how it changes, and with certainty its cause and effect is the height of arrogance.  A trait humans have a monopoly on among the creatures sharing the planet.  150 years is a blink of an eye in geological time.

It's far more likely we have absolutely no control over the climate than what many think how it can be controled by removing 2 parts per million of CO2, a naturally occurring compound necessary for plant life, from the atmosphere. 

I suggest we spend our time and resources learning to adapt to the changes.  Organisms that fail to adapt to changing conditions eventually become extinct.  And the planet will somehow manage to survive and change without us for another couple billion years.  

 

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1 minute ago, All_Pro_Bills said:

Natural disasters of one kind or anoher have been ocuring on planet Earth for hundreds of millions of years.  The planet is about 4.5 billion years old and I'm quite certain ithere have been years, decades, centuries, and much longer periods where it's been much hotter and much colder,  much drier and much wetter without human assistance in the past.  

Nothing is more frightening than ignorance in action and climate science is a prime example.  To think our 150 years of incomplete temperature data is sufficient to understand and predict the future climate, how it changes, and with certainty its cause and effect is the height of arrogance.  A trait humans have a monopoly on among the creatures sharing the planet.  150 years is a blink of an eye in geological time.

It's far more likely we have absolutely no control over the climate than what many think how it can be controled by removing 2 parts per million of CO2, a naturally occurring compound necessary for plant life, from the atmosphere. 

I suggest we spend our time and resources learning to adapt to the changes.  Organisms that fail to adapt to changing conditions eventually become extinct.  And the planet will somehow manage to survive and change without us for another couple billion years.  

 

Ok.  staying in the highlands...

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4 hours ago, ChiGoose said:


A helpful way this was explained to me years and years ago:
 

We know that Barry Bonds did steroids, right? But when he hit a home run, can you say for certain that the only reason he hit that home run was because of steroids? Probably not. 
 

However, when you look at the trends and data over time, it’s clear that he was doping.

 

Similarly, it’s currently hard to tell if a specific weather event was due to climate change*. But when you look at the data and trends, it’s clear that it’s happening. 
 

*this is changing due to attribution science which actually allows us to understand the impact of climate change on individual weather events. 


so are you a vegan who only walks or rides a bicycle to get around and refuses to use air conditioning? Or are you not really worried about it? 

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7 minutes ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:


so are you a vegan who only walks or rides a bicycle to get around and refuses to use air conditioning? Or are you not really worried about it? 


Very nice strawman argument you have there. Strawmen and whataboutism seem to be the default rebuttal from the right these days. 
 

The tragic thing about climate change is that instead of proposing different solutions to combat an incredibly obvious problem, conservatives would rather bury their heads in the sand and pretend it isn’t happening. 
 

As always, it’s feelings over facts. 
 

BTW: until a very recent job change, I commuted exclusively via mass transit. And even now that I do drive to work, the overall commute is less than 10 minutes. 

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3 hours ago, ChiGoose said:


Very nice strawman argument you have there. Strawmen and whataboutism seem to be the default rebuttal from the right these days. 
 

The tragic thing about climate change is that instead of proposing different solutions to combat an incredibly obvious problem, conservatives would rather bury their heads in the sand and pretend it isn’t happening. 
 

As always, it’s feelings over facts. 
 

BTW: until a very recent job change, I commuted exclusively via mass transit. And even now that I do drive to work, the overall commute is less than 10 minutes. 


just another profit of doom that refuses to buy in to the hysteria enough to really sacrifice and do something about it. Just as suspected. Facts 😂 
 

This isn’t denial, it’s rejection of this imminent existential crisis your idiot sheep herders keep handwringing over… so the earth might get a couple degrees hotter in a few centuries. Im sure we won’t figure out how to cope with that 🙄 
 

Tell me, are you pro Ukrainian war… well that carbon footprint is accelerating us towards this decade or less brink your band leaders have cited. 

 

what are you going to do about China and India, because their acceleration of carbon emissions is skyrocketing and will well exceed  any global output numbers we’ve seen to date. 

 

Facts? Did you consider the likely 60-80 kg of life cycle carbon output from your unnecessary smartphone? I bet you don’t even have an electric car and solar panels on your house.  Your probably not even carbon neutral *gasp*

 

Here’s a fact for you. like every other liberal you’re worried enough to whine about climate change and tell other people what they need to do, and that’s where it ends. Right on brand. 

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5 hours ago, ChiGoose said:

 

As always, it’s feelings over facts. 
 

 

Get the commie ba**ards in Russia and China, the two biggest polluting countries on this planet to clean up. The US has probably done the most about cleaning up the environment. Don't you remember or are you too young, the brown  ring around the horizon in Buffalo?  Buffalo city hall was the light color it is now when to was built in the '30s. By the 6'0s it was dark gray, almost black.I thought it was always that color. Glad they cleaned it in the 80s or 90s.

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12 hours ago, ChiGoose said:


A helpful way this was explained to me years and years ago:
 

We know that Barry Bonds did steroids, right? But when he hit a home run, can you say for certain that the only reason he hit that home run was because of steroids? Probably not. 
 

However, when you look at the trends and data over time, it’s clear that he was doping.

 

Similarly, it’s currently hard to tell if a specific weather event was due to climate change*. But when you look at the data and trends, it’s clear that it’s happening. 
 

*this is changing due to attribution science which actually allows us to understand the impact of climate change on individual weather events. 

We know Barry Bonds was doping because his head blew up, the signs of doping are a 30+ year old suddenly becoming much more muscular. His HR record is a side effect, do you think Aaron Judge is doping because he got so many? As for the trends I have one question, are major hurricanes a sign of global warming? 

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3 hours ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:


just another profit of doom that refuses to buy in to the hysteria enough to really sacrifice and do something about it. Just as suspected. Facts 😂 
 

This isn’t denial, it’s rejection of this imminent existential crisis your idiot sheep herders keep handwringing over… so the earth might get a couple degrees hotter in a few centuries. Im sure we won’t figure out how to cope with that 🙄 
 

Tell me, are you pro Ukrainian war… well that carbon footprint is accelerating us towards this decade or less brink your band leaders have cited. 

 

what are you going to do about China and India, because their acceleration of carbon emissions is skyrocketing and will well exceed  any global output numbers we’ve seen to date. 

 

Facts? Did you consider the likely 60-80 kg of life cycle carbon output from your unnecessary smartphone? I bet you don’t even have an electric car and solar panels on your house.  Your probably not even carbon neutral *gasp*

 

Here’s a fact for you. like every other liberal you’re worried enough to whine about climate change and tell other people what they need to do, and that’s where it ends. Right on brand. 


When have I told other people what to do about climate change?

 

And why do you think it’s a requirement to have a panacea solution to climate change if you believe that climate change is real?

 

You seem like you’re rejecting facts about a problem simply because you don’t like the solutions to that problem that other people have proposed. Which was kinda my point. 

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Michael Shellenberger has a thread on the intersection of 

 

Apocalyptic environmentalism and exhibitionist narcissism 

 

that’s well worth a read:

 

michael_shellenberger_apocalyptic_enviro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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11 hours ago, ChiGoose said:

Very nice strawman argument you have there. Strawmen and whataboutism seem to be the default rebuttal from the right these days. 
 

The tragic thing about climate change is that instead of proposing different solutions to combat an incredibly obvious problem, conservatives would rather bury their heads in the sand and pretend it isn’t happening. 
 

As always, it’s feelings over facts. 
 

BTW: until a very recent job change, I commuted exclusively via mass transit. And even now that I do drive to work, the overall commute is less than 10 minutes. 

 

Nice revisionist history.  Everyone wants to (eventually) move away from fossil fuels.  But doing so without viable/affordable alternatives is stupid.  And until they corral the major offenders, it's like throwing deck chairs off the Titanic.

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5 hours ago, ChiGoose said:


When have I told other people what to do about climate change?

 

And why do you think it’s a requirement to have a panacea solution to climate change if you believe that climate change is real?

 

You seem like you’re rejecting facts about a problem simply because you don’t like the solutions to that problem that other people have proposed. Which was kinda my point. 


please let me know which facts have i rejected?

 

I’m merely pointing out the climate change alarmist party and their backers don’t seem to interested in eliminating their own personal contribution to the problem. 

 

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Investors continue to pull money from ESG funds.  

 

Money managers are shifting their attitude to ESG as ‘realism’ sets in

"In the second quarter of this year, investors have pulled $635 million from U.S. sustainable funds, according to funds research firm Morningstar. That racks up a total outflow of $11.4 billion from these sustainable funds in the past year."

 

BlackRock Dissolves ESG Funds as Firm Steps Back From Label

"BlackRock announced the closure of two ESG-focused mutual funds on Sept. 15, while other firms such as State Street Corp., Janus Henderson Group and Columbia Threadneedle Investments have dissolved ESG funds so far in 2023, according to Bloomberg. More sustainable funds in the U.S. have closed this year than in the past three years combined."

 

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