from the Kiddie Pool...
Hello Cypress,
I saw there was a stolen thread and, since I refuse to post to stolen threads, I located the original in which to comment.
Fine by me. But since I am banned from participating there, I will keep moving discussion from there to here (where ANYONE is free to participate) so that I (and anyone else) can offer up dialogue on the topic as well.
Wow. 415 is a big number. Wasn't too long ago we were hoping to hold it below 350. OK, it's getting serious now.
CO2 is incapable of warming the Earth.
No action is necessary.
Here It Is
Bernie's bold Green New Deal.
I have a few issues with his Green New Deal...
1. It refers to a "climate crisis", but it doesn't define what that crisis is nor does it explain why it is a crisis (the "why" needs to be supported with the applicable theories of science).
2. It does not define "climate change", nor does it describe precisely how a climate can "change".
3. Rainforests burn during this time of year. It happens. It is also a rainforest. It will rain there. Water puts out fires.
4. Greenland's ice is just fine.
5. Fires happen during this time of year.
6. Heat waves, wildfires, droughts, floods, and hurricanes happen all the time; they are nothing new.
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Communities of color, working class people, and the global poor have borne and will bear this burden disproportionately. This part is quite racist and bigoted...
8. Science is not a community. It is a set of falsifiable theories.
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"We only have 11 years left..."
10. Rising temperatures?? How do you know this? We don't have near enough thermometers to even begin such a statistical analysis of what Earth's temperature is... We have no idea whether Earth's temperature is increasing, decreasing, or staying the same. This is simply religious dogma from the Church of Global Warming.
11. Health care is not a right. Housing is not a right. "Good paying jobs" are not a right.
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especially to those who have been historically excluded from economic prosperity. And who might that be exactly? Every American has the ability to join in on the fun of capitalism, do they not??
And that's just the very beginning of the the article... Get those issues addressed first, and then we can move on to the many other issues I have with the rest of it...
Immediately declare Climate Change An Emergency!
How can you declare something an emergency if it isn't even objectively defined?
Yes, now that's taking things seriously. And so much more.
No, it's being logically, scientifically, and mathematically illiterate.