Just like cheap lead was a good way to provide drinking water or cheap asbestos was a good way to provide fireproofing..
I will believe folks are serious about this when Davos is held on Zoom, and we stop powering electric vehicles with coal fired plants.
This thread is an example of why we probably are already screwed. The vast majority of scientists who study this (not all) agree that the climate is warming and that human factors are causing it. You don’t have to be a scientists to see that. I’ve heard first hand from elderly Minnesotans some who are Trump voting conservatives talk about how winters “ain’t what dey used to be ya know”. The changes to forest are obvious to people who’ve hunted for a long time. Even with a very wet year this year doesn’t make up for decades of drought in the West that is visible to anyone who visits lake Mead. And again for those who live in FL and TX check to see how much more money is being spent to deal with things like “coastal erosion” and seawater infiltration in your state. Yet we still have denial and obfuscation on full display. We’re likely already past the tipping point where climate change can be reversed and while I don’t believe this is the end of humanity it’s certainly going to be much more miserable for many and it’s going to be very costly to keep and maintain the civilization that we have.
cheap, reliable, portable, dense, abundant energy which most take for granted not to mention the massive benefit to plant life
this is another problem, where an obsession with controlling the earth's temperature and not emitting the C02 plants crave takes priority over more acute environmental concerns, like ensuring we have clean water
Most of the western world is phasing out coal fired plants. But even right now in the United States with coal's share of the generation stack being what it is, it's still cleaner to use grid electricity than it is to burn unleaded gasoline. Ironic, since in this country it's the party of climate denial that is also the party that opposes efforts to ensure clean water.
If you want to live in willful ignorance and believe the world is flat, you have that right and that's your choice. One that I respect actually. If you want to actually start learning the truth.
By his own admission, he isn't a scientist that studies climate science: "Research interests include conditions of early Earth during the initiation of life; constraining the amount of continental lithosphere through time; understanding the flux and timing of asteroids impacting the Earth-Moon system and the association with major extinction events; medical mineralogy and the evolution of the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau. I also enjoy musing about climate on social media." Let's follow the science, not someone's musings.
Gotta love the assortment of vehicles going by some of them look like they have no business being part of the 75 vehicle convoy
Of course because there was no CO2 prior to burning fossil fuels. Higher temperatures aren’t good for many plants especially when it leads to drought. Also things lien increased global temperatures lead to greater growth of things like algae blooms that affect clean drinking water.
I suppose you weren’t there the days it was raining in January and in the upper 30’s. again as stated climate isn’t weather.
Republicans want to prioritize acute environmental concerns by advocating for the abolition of the EPA. LOL.
