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I’m listening to Prof. Plimer right now. It’s a very enlightening presentation.
Very interesting. I’m also happy to see Not Evil Just Wrong by Phelim McAleer is coming out.
How much really is being spent on fighting global warming ??? In the grand scheme of things probably not nearly enough. I doubt we even spend 10 billion on the environment.False studies are being used to tax the United States into abject poverty. By making electricity so expensive through Cap & Trade that people will spend all their money for energy.
AND, even more tax money will be sent abroad to the dictatorships already established in third world countries:
wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/16/obama-poised-to-cede-us-sovereignty-in-copenhagen-claims-british-lord-monckton/#more-11739
All based on falsified data as described in the OP. That got fed into unverified computer models.
We are headed for disaster, with the United States being turned into another impoverished Communist satellite nation.
If we spend only $1 to combat global warming it is too much. Because AGW [anthropogenic (man-made) global warming] is a complete and total hoax.How much really is being spent on fighting global warming ??? In the grand scheme of things probably not nearly enough. I doubt we even spend 10 billion on the environment.
We just got a one Trillion dollar bailout for banks and big financial institutions, and we spend 70 to 80 Billion a year on Iraq and soon to be just as much on Afghanistan. Add in the massive defense budget and entitlements such as social security and there really is not a whole lot left for any other program.
You are probably talking about less than 1% of the federal budget, so claiming that global warming is improverishing the country is way off base. Wall street, defense, war, and social programs are improverishing the country. Money spent on the environment is an investment for our future, getting rid of our dependence on oil, keeping our air and water clean makes it liveable for future generations.
I would say we do not spend enough on the environment but we spend way too much on other stuff.
Perhaps, but this thread is not about any of the things you listed above; it is about whether or not man has significantly altered the climate. If we have not affected the climate then any money we spend to change an effect we didn’t cause and cannot alter, viz. solve a non-existent problem, seems like the very definition of wasted resources.Money spent on the environment is an investment for our future, getting rid of our dependence on oil, keeping our air and water clean makes it liveable for future generations.
If the $1 you spend fixes other problems as well it is money wwell spent. If you fix global warming by fixing our dependence on foreign oil it will be well worth it.If we spend only $1 to combat global warming it is too much. Because AGW [anthropogenic (man-made) global warming] is a complete and total hoax.
But, unfortunately, we have government subsidy schemes to subsidize wind power and solar energy, both of which are grossly uneconomic and in the name of global warming.
And then there are CARBON CREDITS. A complete waste of money. In the name of global warming.
newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/06/04/gore-invests-carbon-credit-company-will-media-care
We spend a FORTUNE on the environment in terms of pollution controls, in terms of bankrupting whole industries, such as irrigated farming in California because of some fish, such as no new nuclear electric generation reactors for decades thereby depriving us of reasonable and reliable (and pollution-free) electricity. Denial of drilling permits for oil in the USA[including Alaska where they have a LOT of oil] and offshore. Denial of mining coal (by President Clinton). LOTS of examples. The cost to the economy is in the many many billions.
We wouldn’t need that foreign oil if we drilled in Alaska and offshore.IF you want to see real waste, just look at the Billions of dollars that we are spending each day on foreign oil, and look at the billions more spent on fighting wars to protect the oil sources. Do you really think we would be even close to Iraq or Afghanistan if we were no longer reliant on oil ??
We would never have been in there in the first place.
False Dichotomy.I think folks on this thread have been drinking the Kool Aid. We are stewards of this planet, and there is no other planet to go to when we finish destroying it.
Can you please point out where exactly the Afghan oil is?Do you really think we would be even close to Iraq or Afghanistan if we were no longer reliant on oil ??
If this were true, there would be a power company doing it and making a profit off of it without any type of goverment assistance.It is economically feasible to use solar and wind.
If they can manufacture a fuel efficient car that the public likes, great.That is General Motors thinking. They destroyed the EV1 in the 1990s, because they thought the American public would never want a fuel-efficient car. Now, Toyota is selling almost 600,000 Prius’s a year. Toyota makes the best hybrid car, because they invested in the new technology first. Now they have a head start on everyone else.
Less waste is a great thing. I’ll not deny that, but we should not enact laws based upon shoddy research. We need to have a very clear, very well researched, very credible, and achievable goal behind any type of environmental law. Laws based on psuedoscience and religious belief are a problem.Reducing pollution of all kinds is a no-brainer to me. When the Great Lakes were in really bad shape, new laws were introduced to reduce pollution, and now the Great Lakes (including fish stocks) are more healthy. We are reducing the waste going to landfills, by composing more and trying to avoid excess packaging.
Why should we? CO2 is not a pollutant, it is a naturally occurring gas that plants use to survive. Show me some real science to indicate that my CO2 is causing harm.Each American on average puts 22 tonnes of CO2 in the air each year. Why are the climate change deniers on this thread so much against reducing that pollution?
This is also in dispute as well.Almost all of the glaciers on the Earth are shrinking. Arctic ice is thinning each year. Much of the melting ice has been in place for tens of thousands of years or more. Plus, the ice is melting much faster than ever before.
What hurricanes?Put that together with the warming of the surface of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, causing more frequent and stronger hurricanes.
With the length of time records have been kept, it is not surprising that new records come about all the time.With the number of weather records being set almost every year, how can you so quickly dismiss the scientists’ conclusions?
If you believe you should reduce your CO2 output, have at it.God created everything and I believe he loves all of his creation. We have a responsibility to take care of it. We should reduce the 22 tonnes of CO2 that we put into the air each year.
This debate isn’t about fuel efficiency, new technology, or pollution; it is about whether the CO2 man produces has led to global warming … and that’s all.Toyota makes the best hybrid car…
When technology is new,…
Reducing pollution of all kinds is a no-brainer to me.
CO2 is no more a pollutant than water vapor is.Each American on average puts 22 tonnes of CO2 in the air each year. Why are the climate change deniers on this thread so much against reducing that pollution?
Even if this were true - which is debatable - the question is not whether there has been warming but whether CO2 was the cause.Almost all of the glaciers on the Earth are shrinking. Arctic ice is thinning each year. Much of the melting ice has been in place for tens of thousands of years or more. Plus, the ice is melting much faster than ever before.
This one is not debatable: it is simply incorrect. In 2009 we reached a 30 year low in tropical cyclone energy. Again: this (if true) would be an argument that warming is occurring, not that CO2 is the cause.Put that together with the warming of the surface of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, causing more frequent and stronger hurricanes.
Despite the fact that the latest records being set are all cold weather ones, again: this goes to the fact of warming, not about causation.With the number of weather records being set almost every year, how can you so quickly dismiss the scientists’ conclusions?