re: Is the Climate Scam almost over?

Oh we all know there are many brainwashed followers of the climate crap. Plenty in this thread alone.

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Ah yes, climate scientists across the world agree that the Earth is warming and that we should collectively do something about it, but no, conservative rednecks in the US (primarily in the Southeast) actually know what’s really going on. It’s a giant conspiracy to somehow make a lot of money (or power, or whatever) and all the scientists are somehow in on it. Why listen to climate scientists, who are obviously compromised, when you can listen to the oil and gas industry and Republicans, who clearly have no profit incentive at hand in denying climate change? I mean, have you seen that rich people are still flying jets? What other proof do you need? You have to be a complete fricking retard to believe the above.

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Perfectly stated

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t's up to the United States, the most prosperous nation, to provide the moral leadership to quell the scourge of unbridled CO2 emissions and climate change. Instead Trump removes temperature monitoring devices

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What would be the best level of CO2 for our atmosphere? I have never seen anyone say that.

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Ah yes, climate scientists across the world agree that the Earth is warming and that we should collectively do something about it, but no, conservative rednecks in the US (primarily in the Southeast) actually know what’s really going on.

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You do realize that there is a very large voice of dissent from climate scientists. The matter is not as settled as you claim.

But I will ask you the same question.

What is the perfect level of CO2 in our atmosphere? Would you like to decrease it from current levels and if so, to what level?

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We need to be preparing for the negative impacts on things like food production, human and animal migration, coastal flooding etc..

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1) Greater CO2 in the atmosphere promotes plant growth and increases yields. Also the warming trend gives a longer growing season. Food will not even be close to an issue. It will actually become more available.
2) With greater food availability, animals will not need to migrate so far to find it. Humans migrate due to hardships such as war or famine. Greater growing potential takes natural famines off the table. We would only have to worry about war or man-made famine.
3) Coastal flooding - water has risen how much? It is so little as to be barely noticeable.

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You want to coherently articulate how any increase in CO2 is harmful to food producing plants?

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Research has shown that certain staple crops grown in open fields with elevated carbon dioxide levels had up to 17 percent lower levels of protein, iron and zinc compared to those grown amid less CO2. More research needs to be done on that possible problem. But increased CO2 levels arent the only issue or even the main concern imo. Changing weather patterns maybe be beneficial to some areas and devastating to others.There are a lot of factors here, but soil quality and availability are not universal. Just because land becomes the right climate in areas that were previously barren does not mean the soil will be fertile or capable of meeting all of local area food production needs. Planting and harvesting dates might need to be adjusted. Practical steps can be taken to mitigate the negative effects as much as possible while food producers make adjustments.

Climates change .whether through man made influence or not and we should prepare for them. If we could've anticipated the Little Ice Age moving away from wheat-dependent systems toward hardier, colder-weather crops such as rye, oats, barley, and eventually the potato, which thrives in cool, wet environments might have saved a lot of lives.

Like I said it wont be the apocalypse. Human civilization isnt going to collapse but some adjustments may be needed to be made. Its unfortunate this has become so politicized.

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Research has shown that certain staple crops grown in open fields with elevated carbon dioxide levels had up to 17 percent lower levels of protein, iron and zinc compared to those grown amid less CO2.

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I will take that tradeoff. With optimum levels for plant growth between 1500 and 2000 ppm, and danger levels at 200 ppm, sitting at 420 ppm now is dangerously low.

Rest of your post is very sensible

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You might want to ask yourself why the current administration is removing monitoring devices

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Are they removing beachfront homes? Preventing building Skyscrapers along the Florida Coastline? Have Insurance Companies refused coverage on those buildings and homes.

Has Martha's Vineyard been deserted?

Those are the accurate monitoring devices.

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Coastlines have varied by hundreds, even thousands of miles around the world. The idea that oceans rising by inches was some kind of planet

History is littered with coastal cities that are no longer there.

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Global average sea levels have been rising since the last ice age. The rate has slowed more recently (in the last few thousand years). New Orleans might be in trouble in a couple of decades, but that's because the land is moving too, and New Orleans is going in the wrong direction.