re: Educate me on Climate Change

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Climate change is real and happens without humans (ask a geologist about the various ice ages). However, humans have sped it up by emitting CO2 and simultaneously cutting down the rain forest (which captures CO2 naturally).

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Cutting down the rain forests have a YUUGE impact but what has just as big of an impact is the loss of wetlands worldwide. Wetlands are the 2nd best carbon sequesters (just behind tropical rain forests), and they protect low lying areas from hurricanes, storms that create extra high tides, and sea level rise in general.

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The problem is the left have latched onto it to promote their cultural Marxist agenda, and that agenda is more of an imminent danger than the climate change itself.

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True but hopefully after this year the global left will be out of power enough country's that are driving that bs agenda.

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In the end, I think the issue will solve itself -- that is, it will be solved by entrepreneurs like Elon Musk who is working on electric cars, as well as a concerted effort among international scientists to get fusion plants up and running (France is opening a fusion plant for test runs sometime in the 2020's).

In the meantime we need to start adopting more fail-safe, passively cooled nuclear plants. The plants we have now were designed in the 1940's and are old technology. There are better designs out there that do not rely on active cooling (which can fail). Go to youtube and watch some lectures about Thorium plants. It looks very promising and we already know how to do it today. The problem is getting them approved by the NRC and going through all the crazy red tape.

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The energy and carbon emissions issue will eventually solve itself. Technology will make us more efficient and if the world switched to nuclear and natural gas or if carbon capture technology can make coal as clean as natural gas, emissions won't be a problem. However, the issue that will have a YUUGE impact in the future is our failure to learn from past disasters and adjust accordingly. 20 years before Katrina, "experts" were warning the Corp of Engineers that NOLA's levees could and would fail in a major storm, but the Corp, Congress, multiple Presidents, multiple governors, multiple mayors, did nothing to strengthen the levees in those 20 years. Ca spent the ~30yrs from the end of the last major drought to the start of the most recent drought doing nothing to prepare for the next drought, and now it looks like they will do the same after this drought. There are many more examples like those in the USA and around the world that occurred before "runaway climate change" is suppose to have an impact. If "runaway climate change" has any impact at all then the world will be in trouble because we failed to learn the lessons of past natural disasters.