re: ‘Propaganda’: Top MIT Climate Scientist Trashes ‘97% Consensus’ Claim

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It's been the hottest years on record recently and we're pouring more into the atmosphere. Why is it so hard to put the giant round peg in the giant round hole and have a grown up conversation

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after some judicious manipulation of past data to make it fit the narrative perhaps. But even so, it's nowhere close to as hot as it normally is on Earth if you look at longer timescales (which you should if you want to actually understand climate). For most of the history of life on Earth, there have been no ice caps, no glaciers, etc...life did just fine, cold is really the thing that makes it hard for life on the planet. The 2nd largest mass extinction event in the planets history happened because something triggered a complete planetary freeze to the equator killing almost everything. But whatever, that's just science

And yet we have ice ages on record with much higher concentrations of CO2 how do you explain that?

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It pretty much tells you that 98% of scientists understand that when we add CO2 it warms the planet. For the life of me I don't understand where the miscommunication is if we are, indeed, adding CO2. It's been the hottest years on record recently and we're pouring more into the atmosphere. Why is it so hard to put the giant round peg in the giant round hole and have a grown up conversation

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Since when did having a grown up conversation turn in to forcing the country to adhere to one sided international agreements that greatly favor other countries whithout going through the normal course of treaty ratification?

Because that does not sound like a grown up conversation to me. Nor does any of the discourse that has happened since withdrawal from said agreement.