ESPECIALLY CO2. The entertaining thing for me has been this decades long, laser-like focus on CO2 - as though it is the only greenhouse gas and the only variable input in a - clearly, unquestionably "natural" - cycle of warming/cooling that the Earth has undergone countless times since the creation.

CO2 is NOT a pollutant. It is a trace atmospheric gas REQUIRED for life as we know it to exist on this planet. If anything, a little too little CO2 would be a much bigger problem than a little too much.

So, why the focus? Because since the industrial revolution began, CO2 serves as a proxy for energy production (and therefore a gross measurement of wealth).

The entire, transparent indoctrination and propaganda campaign has been towards a single end - a global form of Marxism in the form of carbon tax, cap and trade, etc., with the added irony that those pushing the agenda are also heavily invested in these schemes (from a financial standpoint) and ancillary industries (such as renewable energy).

So, I remain skeptical about the entire affair. There is significant fudging in the data, the models and the "selling" of the conclusions. That's not science. It's a secular form of religion, bordering on becoming some sort of global cult.

185 years or so of temperature record isn't even a blink of an eye, geologically speaking. And the fix? Going back to stone age living conditions to avoid a few tenths of a degree of warming?

GTFO here.

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Posted by GumboPot

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Posted on 6/5/19 at 1:51 pm to Ace Midnight

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ESPECIALLY CO2. The entertaining thing for me has been this decades long, laser-like focus on CO2 - as though it is the only greenhouse gas and the only variable input in a - clearly, unquestionably "natural" - cycle of warming/cooling that the Earth has undergone countless times since the creation.

CO2 is NOT a pollutant. It is a trace atmospheric gas REQUIRED for life as we know it to exist on this planet. If anything, a little too little CO2 would be a much bigger problem than a little too much.

So, why the focus? Because since the industrial revolution began, CO2 serves as a proxy for energy production (and therefore a gross measurement of wealth).

The entire, transparent indoctrination and propaganda campaign has been towards a single end - a global form of Marxism in the form of carbon tax, cap and trade, etc., with the added irony that those pushing the agenda are also heavily invested in these schemes (from a financial standpoint) and ancillary industries (such as renewable energy).

So, I remain skeptical about the entire affair. There is significant fudging in the data, the models and the "selling" of the conclusions. That's not science. It's a secular form of religion, bordering on becoming some sort of global cult.

185 years or so of temperature record isn't even a blink of an eye, geologically speaking. And the fix? Going back to stone age living conditions to avoid a few tenths of a degree of warming?

GTFO here.