re: Veritasium's 13 Misconceptions on Global Warming...

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it doesn't matter if climate change is manmade or not. Until there is a better solution than cap and trade or increased regulations that make electricity and fuel more expensive you will not persuade me.

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I just wish all the conservatives here would be this honest instead of playing at science.

It's really a mystery to me how this has become a core tenet of conservatism with regard to carbon dioxide. Certainly there were some cottage industries of bad science contra ozone depletion and acid rain, but they never had this sort of universal "damn the atmosphere if I have to pay one more red cent" religiosity behind them.

Fossil fuels are cheap because they treat the atmosphere as a free lunch. If carbon emissions were priced then nuclear would be cheaper and private rail would be a thing. (This would be doubly true if nuclear weren't ridiculously over-regulated and the auto industry wasn't coddled, but those are separate gripes.)