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In cases like this you should really investigate the motivations of people telling you "nothing's happening, nothing's wrong, it's just a liberal invention because ~reasons~" Nobody WANTS climate change to be real. Nobody WANTS that nearly impossible task of reducing co2. But it's going to be nearly impossible to accomplish WITHOUT numbskulls coming in and telling you it isn't even real. Meanwhile my brother, a chemical engineer at a Phillips plant in North Texas of all places is in the process of overhauling their plant to attempt to create fossil-free fuel sources.
Phillips Petroleum. In Texas. Believes in climate change. You idiots. |
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Yeah it's easy not to get excited about crazy predictions being made as the result of man's effects on climate when you can see just how much the effects of real climate change can be. |
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02-13-2019, 03:50 PM | #63 | |
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Second, if you're talking about 'taking care of' CO2, there are plenty of ways that efforts at reduction can impose 'bad.' Energy is our lifeblood. Human capacity to harness energy to productive ends is the single biggest factor in our contemporary quality of life, as well as health and longevity. There are mechanisms for harnessing energy that involve no emission of CO2, but at present and for the foreseeable future, CO2 emission is part of the most efficient, effecitve and affordable way of providing reliable energy to mass populations. I am all for progress. I am all for finding newer, cheaper, more efficient, more reliable methods of energy producting, harnessing, and transmission. But moving beyond our current understanding without a new understanding to replace it at the same price will incur severe costs. Some will just be belt tightening. Some will be marginalizing. Some will be deadly. People like to think that the 'climate change debate' is between deniers who oppose progress and advocates to support progress. But the true 'debate' is between the laws of physics and our understanding of them. Harnessed energy is a powerful tool for human comfort, productivity and achievement, but it is slavishly bound to the laws of the universe that we can only understand, not bend, not erase, not ignore.
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This is exactly what I think. What's wrong with taking out an insurance policy?
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So make a plan and develop the technology.
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And some industries, like coal and petroleum, will do everything in their power to remain relevant as long as possible. Including spreading disinformation and lobbying congressmen and women. Acting like it isn't happening so we can keep strip-mining, drilling and perpetuating coal and natural gas industries is ridiculously short-sided. Ending our reliance on fossil fuels benefits this country in ways that both Republicans and Democrats can appreciate.
But you're going to have to excuse me for being angry about it when Trump waltzes in and assigns a climate change-denier as the head of the mother ****ing EPA and he predictably shits the bed. See that's going backwards. Then you look at a company like VW that is overhauling their entire fleet to be electric and that's the kind of bold risk-taking that is necessary. |
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Minneapolis is supposed to feel like Kansas.
Does that mean we get the Chiefs???
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