I ask this again as I've yet to receive an answer but what are western governments, namely the US, supposed to do at this point? The us is the second largest carbon polluter which has a combined carbon pollution rate of the next 5 countries. Now the #1 spot is held by China who is more than double the U.S in carbon pollution. 1 country alone pollutes the atmosphere more than the next 6 behind it. The U.S. could very much so reduce it's carbon footprint but at the end of the day China will continue to more than replace what's taken out by western nations year over year.
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It's exactly that kind of attitude that isn't helping so what if china isn't doing anything it doesn't mean the usa shouldn't do anything it's similar to saying "my neighbour doesn't recycle why should i?" people can make a difference, nations can make a bigger difference. Also with international pressure china might start trying to make a change although that's perhaps hoping for too much
Could start by trying to cut car emissions it will also have health benefits for people in big cities also reducing the use of coal and oil will help the situation
People aren’t panicking because it’s not immediate enough. “Next year the worlds gonna end” oh crap better finish my bucket list
“The worlds gonna end in 30 years.” Oh that’s ok, I’ve still got time
All this crap MIGHT have some degree of validity .. IF there was one, just one, properly peer-reviewed, properly duplicated, properly confirmed, properly investigated, study that DEFINITIVELY and CAUSALLY links increased CO2 to planetary temperatures.
There isn't. Hypothesis therefore falsified. "Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming" therefore revealed as the complete and utter bullSHIT marxist waffle that is is.
Drop the mike.
Politicians have been campaigning on 'acid rain', i mean ' climate change', I mean 'global warming' for decades. 10-year predictions of impending doom have been around since the beginning and they have not come true.
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It's WAY more rhetoric than it is a plausible future.
The main champion who brought this climate change ideology into american politics was Al Gore, the biggest hypocrite to exist. When the champion of your very movment consumes 20-30x the national household average of energy usage to power his house then you know that no one claiming to be on the environments, at the goverment level, side actually gives a shit.
@guest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change has a bunch of references to studies on climate change. Five clicks from there is a "properly peer-reviewed, properly duplicated, properly confirmed, properly investigated" 1856 paper that "DEFINITIVELY and CAUSALLY links increased CO2 to planetary temperatures". If the scientific community could have falsified the greenhouse effect hypothesis in the last 150 years, it would have.
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Just forget it, you won't be able to influence this type of person with facts, as they have firmly decided what to believe and what to reject and just use terms like "scientific" and "peer reviewed" in order not to say blah blah blah all the fucking time. That's the secret of right wingers: they have the super power to completely ignore facts, no matter how obvious and well proven they are, and at the same time demand a guarantee that the problem could be 100% solved by one single means, or else it useless anyway. They're really like the villain in a silent movie, with mustache and a stovepipe hat
Thank you being such a shining example of open mindedness for all of those right wingers.
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Stick your sarcasm where the sun don't shines. I'm not planning to be an example for anything to anyone. People have the right to be morons, and I'm not going to tell anyone what they should do or not do. But there's truth and there's lies and I couldn't care less about people confusing both on purpose.
I'm all for doing something but ffs chanting slogans doesn't do anything.
“The worlds gonna end in 30 years.” Oh that’s ok, I’ve still got time
There isn't. Hypothesis therefore falsified. "Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming" therefore revealed as the complete and utter bullSHIT marxist waffle that is is.
Drop the mike.
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It's WAY more rhetoric than it is a plausible future.