re: Educate me on Climate Change

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So my knowledge on this is basically limited to what you hear on the mainstream news.

For those who think climate change is not an issue or is not real or not a big deal can you explain why you feel this way and what information you have to back up your sentiments.

I'm MAGA big time, the environment is the one area where I lean liberal but I want to get better educated on this issue.

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Do some independent research and you will find out that the USA was the first and only country to meet the Kyoto Protocol standards on CO2 emissions, and we did by embracing fracking and natural gas not "green energy." Germany and the EU embraced "green energy" and shunned nuclear, which left the EU way too reliant on Russian oil and natural gas imports which makes them vulnerable because Putin can cut off the gas anytime he wants. Then in order to counter that vulnerability, Germany ramped up its coal usage, and the EU, the USA, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and others tried to overthrow Assad to control the natural gas pipelines heading to Europe which lead to civil war. Both of those things increased global carbon emissions, and Europe's carbon credit system turned out to be a massive failure.

In addition to the pack of lies the UN, the democratic party and the liberal media have been selling about their solutions, we've passed the point of no return and "runaway" climate change is now inevitable. Which just makes the liberal solutions even more ridiculous. Yes, climate change is a real issue and yes we need to limit CO2 emissions but "green energy" pipedreams, international clusterf**k agreements like Kyoto and Paris accords, carbon credit, and carbon tax goals are not the way to do it. If you want to "fight global warming" you should support expanding the use of nuclear energy to fight climate change, natural gas to replace coal, and increasing the USA's coal and LNG exports to Europe so they don't have to be dependent on Russia and/or meddling in the Middle East. Since "runaway climate change" is inevitable you should support restoring La's wetlands to protect against future storms and capture CO2, building desalination plants and new reservoirs in Ca to lessen the impacts of the drought, and other projects like those that will lessen the impacts of "runaway climate change."

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Republicans like to be told what to believe, not figure it out by themselves.

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Says the side that gets their talking points and political positions emailed to them.

I have less faith in those predicting climate change than I do those who have tried to predict how long we will have oil. Here is a summary of how well the scientific community has done on predicting peak oil -

Incorrect predictions of peak oil over the years

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Says the side that gets their talking points and political positions emailed to them.



You can tell they've never actually studied the issue. Who downvotes data?

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The sheep that buy electric cars and think that solar panels will replace oil wells.

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Here in Louisiana we are called cancer alley, not because of all the plants dumping waste into the river and releasing whatever is burning into our atmosphere but because of delicious seafood, right

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Obesity is strongly linked to cancer and LA is in the top three fattest states. I'd bet that if you measured the BMI along "Cancer Alley" you'd find a significantly higher rate of obesity and alcohol use than in the rest of the nation.

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but now show Antarctic sea ice over the same period.

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Answer: we are not going to do shite and what happens will happen

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This is spot on. We can't stop climate change. However we should minimize the amount of shite that we dump into the environment in an effort to prevent poisoning the only home humanity will ever have.

All that smog you see in most industrial cities in China is not a big deal to the atmosphere. Here in Louisiana we are called cancer alley, not because of all the plants dumping waste into the river and releasing whatever is burning into our atmosphere but because of delicious seafood, right?

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Note that if you sum the Arctic and Antarctic, the sum is decreasing.