Sandvol
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Here's my thing.
The science guys who I know personally say that man made climate change is insignificant. A point was made to me today that outside of the climate scientists nobody is freaking out. Why is that? Most likely because they know nothing is going to happen.
I'm all for ending pollution. I make part of my living building solar systems. I spend some of my time cleaning up trout streams. These are things that actually help. Tell me you want to stop acid rain, I can get behind that. But to ask me to buy into something nobody else believes is a problem and the industry guys have a history of faking their data......I'll pass
I was making wise cracks in my earlier post. But all humor should have an element of truth. I began typing in all sorts of calamitous events followed by "worsened by global warming". Here's a sampling.
Bad hair days, alter male/female ratios: Climate Change can efffect about anything | Orange Power
Extinction of Gingers in Scotland: Redheads could become extinct in Scotland as the country warms up because of climate change | Daily Mail Online
Infant and maternal mortality: Climate change and the potential effects on maternal and pregnancy outcomes: an assessment of the most vulnerable--the mother, fetus, and newborn c... - PubMed - NCBI
More pollen: Climate Change Threatens Health: California
Drinking water: Climate Impacts on Human Health | Climate Change | US EPA
Epidemics: Deadly by the Dozen: 12 Diseases Climate Change May Worsen - Scientific American
Skin cancer: Climate change might lead to more skin cancer, says study | GlobalPost
Two camps:
A. Global warming is caused by the build-up of anthropogenic greenhouse gasses and has an impact on a wide variety of things.
B. Global warming isn't real for many independent and sometimes contradictory reasons, but at the same time no one denies it is real and it is really a good thing and thus we should continue warming the planet, but the warming is really natural anyway because humans can't alter climate.
I think the position with logical fallacies is obvious.
Right, because linking temperature and atmospheric energy to precipitation patterns is just so outlandish.
Here's one that says floods will be worse with climate change:
River floods - Italy - Climate Adaptation
Here's one that says blizzards are worse:
Global warming could make blizzards worse - The Washington Post
It's the ultimate boogeyman. Too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too windy, too smelly, too sunny, too smoggy, more floods, more drought, better crops, worse crops, pretty women, ugly women, stupid kids, smart kids, sunspots, meteor impacts, black holes......CLIMATE CHANGE IS THE CULPRIT.
It kinda is, isn't it?
Droughts in Cali. Floods on the Mississippi. Blizzards in the Rockies. Heat waves in the Northeast. Ginger extinction in Scotland. Male/female altered ratios.
It's hysterical that so many contradictory outcomes have their genesis in global warming...or cooling...or climate change.
Surely, we can have share a chuckle together over the absurdity of it all.
It kinda is, isn't it?
Droughts in Cali. Floods on the Mississippi. Blizzards in the Rockies. Heat waves in the Northeast. Ginger extinction in Scotland. Male/female altered ratios.
It's hysterical that so many contradictory outcomes have their genesis in global warming...or cooling...or climate change.
Surely, we can have share a chuckle together over the absurdity of it all.
Two camps:
A. Global warming is caused by the build-up of anthropogenic greenhouse gasses and has an impact on a wide variety of things.
B. Global warming isn't real for many independent and sometimes contradictory reasons, but at the same time no one denies it is real and it is really a good thing and thus we should continue warming the planet, but the warming is really natural anyway because humans can't alter climate.
I think the position with logical fallacies is obvious.
