You sound so sincere but I have to ask. How many people have died as a result of “global warming?”
Not sure, maybe 5 or 10 million. There are many CC impacts that result in human deaths, & they are very likely underestimating past deaths from CC, but here are a few links re that:
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popsci.com/environment/article/2009-05/climate-change-report-day
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ghf-ge.org/human-impact-report.pdf
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sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/how-many-people-die-from-carbon-burning-and-climate-change-each-year
The point is we should be concerned about future deaths from CC, just as we are re abortion when we vote for candidates – we want the to reduce future abortions.
In this respect CC would far outstrip abortion death figures, as we’d be killing off most, if not all life on earth (if we fail to mitigate starting right now), as discussed in the earlier link I provided (esp. see p. 24):
columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/AGUBjerknes_20081217.pdf
Even if it is only half of all people, that would be terrible. Why would we want to do that to people? Even if politicians do nothing about the issue, we have a sacred responsibility to reduce our harms in our daily lives.
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How many of the predictions regarding “global warming” have acutally come true.
Actually alll their earlier predictions have fallen far short of what has been happening. I’ve been following the science like a hawk for over 20 years after I learned in 1989 that CC may have been responsible for enhancing the droughts in Africa over the past 30 years, and the science keeps coming in, “It’s worse than we thought,” "It’s much much worse than we thought."Quote:
Were you around when the same “respected scientists” were predicting mass starvation or the Coming Ice Age?
I was born in 1947, so I’ve been around. I was vaguely aware that some scientists were concerned about the aerosol impact (emissions that go along side GHG emissions), and there was a cooling spell partly driven by that. I imagine some scientists may have been speculating on an ice age in some 1000s of years (afterall we have been in ice ages before) – I don’t remember this being an issue, esp since we have survived ice ages, e.g., during the Pleistocene.
What was a scary issue back then re “global cooling,” was talk about a “nuclear winter” re nuclear war kicking up so much dust, it would cool us down and blot out the sun so much the crops around the world would fail and send us into death by famine (assuming we didn’t die from the bombs or radiation first).
However, the top climate scientists for the past 100 years have been warning about warming, not cooling. See
thedgw.org/definitionsOut/…%5Cdocs%5CHansen_climate_impact_of_increasing_co2.pdf &
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius#Greenhouse_effect
And I was much more aware of that than any ice age prediction.Quote:
…I’m not missing a single second of sleep worrying about unproven and in many ways debunked theories. I don’t care what Romney thinks about about “global warming.”
If anyone wants me to vote for Romney/Ryan, please do contact them (just to humor me) and ask them to do something to help us mitigate climate change. That’s the only issue holding me up. It doesn’t have to be taxes and fees on fossil fuels; it could just be leadership and inspiration to reduce our GHGs in cost-effective ways, saving us money and strengthening the economy without lowering productivity & living standards (which could get us down to a 75% reduction with off-the-shelf technology AND reduce a lot of other harmful environmental and non-environmental problems).
Some people may not care about the babies, children, fetuses, and yet to be born (except those slated for elective abortions), but I do, and I’d like to vote for a fully pro-life candidate, not a partly pro-life candidate who would knowingly or unknowingly (due to wrong information promoted by his oily backers) push us into total destruction of all life on earth.
