Originally Posted by Fishbus
(Post 49554)
Jimmy,
Since you took the time to offer an opinion without berating me personally, I'll respond in kind to each of your points.
"Climate change happens roughly every three months and is more pronounced in certain areas of the country. It's called seasons."
Obviously humor, I get it.
Al Gore started this nonsense decades ago to have a strong platform to run on and to try and transform his party in the the party that "cares about the environment".
Environmental issues have always had more pull with liberal voters. We all know politicians are out for the vote no matter what, so let's just toss Al Gore and all the other politicians out of this discussion about science.
Now it has become just that, a political platform and a way for Government to expand and take more of our money and our freedom. Hence emissions testing, tax breaks for buying a Chevy Volt, carbon taxes on manufacturing plants, etc.
It's also called policy. The way we use legislation to shape our society. Emissions testing bugs me because I have old cars, but I've also lived in one of the worst air quality zones in the country and moved from it, so I see the necessary evil. I don't get mad about subsidies for the electric vehicle market because Exxon/Mobile and their pals get plenty of subsidies too, and they have the lock on the infrastructure. It's not in their interest to let new technologies emerge, but it's good for people in general. As a colleague in the electrical engineering industry, it's in your interest to see the electric vehicle market grow also.
There is a lot of well-documented science that smashes everything these climate change pundits push.
But you're not citing any of it. Here's what bothers me the most. Carbon Dioxide parts per million in the atmosphere and ocean. Ice core samples from the arctic tell us that CO2 PPM hovered from 100-200 or so for hundreds of thousands of years. See NASA, NOAA graphs for the data.
Well guess what? In around 1800 (industrial revolution) the graph spikes, goes to 300 by 1960, and hit 400 last year for the first time in history that we know of.
Now, if you understand chemistry and trends, you know that in a chemical reaction, if you double the volume of any one component, you are going to do something to the reaction. You may inert it, make it unstable, speed it up or slow it down, but something will happen. The atmosphere is a giant, ongoing reaction of chemicals. It doesn't matter that CO2 is an overall small part of the atmosphere by volume, what matters is that the amount of it has doubled in the last 200 years. This is hard data. It's not up for debate. Look into it, see what you think.
Billy
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