The Denier Credo
1) The Earth HAD been warming. And it stopped. And it also warmed from 1909 to 1945 and stopped for almost 35 years and cooled some. And it also warmed to about 1878 and also stopped and then cooled.
2) CO2 acts as a green house gas, and the amount of CO2 is increasing, and has increased a lot since 1998 with no effect on temperature
3) If Humans are causing climate change, it is very selective and tends to coincide with the AMO cycle.
4) This small amount of warming will cause fanatical people to squander trillions of dollars trying to prevent the same warming/cooling that has occurred in the past in a similar form to the AMO. This insane response to natural fluctuation is causing net economic harm and increase human suffering by replacing nuclear and coal power with tree burning power plants (which produce way more CO2) and bird chopping wind turbines and filthy rare earth contaminated solar panels.
5) The natural warming after the Little Ice Age is a good thing.
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Great! And change “selectively” to “selective” and you’ll be golden.
Thanks.
Does it matter if global warming isn’t manmade? Even if it is completely natural, we can still improve our planet by trying to stop it.
Yeah, it’ll be expensive, but who really wants to live on a dirty, polluted planet?
Warmer doesn’t mean more polluted. Try researching how polluted the USA was in the 70s. The air is cleaner now by a huge margin.
More CO2 is good for agriculture.
Warmer is good for people. Cold kills 10x as many people was the heat.
Burning fossil fuels emits volumes of pollutants, which can cause a variety of illnesses, for example bronchitis. It also can trigger asthma attacks and lead to lost workdays.
Combustion of fossil fuels is regarded as one of the main causes of global warming. By trying to stop global warming (reducing fossil fuel combustion) we can reduce the associated health risks.
Billions of people cook their food over dung or wood or charcoal fires in huts. You are condemning them. The air in the fossil fuel burning countries is much cleaner than the air in the homes of the worlds poor. Why do you hate the poor?
I don’t hate the poor. I appreciate that the change from fossil fuels to different energy sources is going to be difficult, but it still needs to be done.
Firewood can be got from sustainable sources, and after all, sustainability should be a global aim.
It is combustion of coal (and other resources that will be depleted in the foreseeable future) that I am against.
I guarantee that cold living conditions without fossil fuels will cause more bronchitis (plus pneumonia and far more serious diseases) that even old coal-burning plants. The particulate levels from burning natural gas are negligible, so the current shift in favor of that fuel will reduce that small risk even further.
Fossil fuels are long-term renewable, relying on natural pressure/temperature conditions caused by the energy in the deep earth to convert solar-generated biomass to an efficiently concentrated energy source, over very long time scales. There are no short-term renewables with enough energy density to survive a cold winter. None. Wind and solar and hydro can have a small and local incremental benefit, but that is all. Electrical transmission losses prevent widespread benefit. Nuclear energy is the only alternative to fossil fuels that can accomplish the necessary (assuming you don’t want human population to plummet) requirement to keep 2-3 billion cold-dwelling people and our livestock warm through the winter, as well as keeping the hot-dwelling people air conditioned and everyone’s food and medicine refrigerated. Long-haul transportation at a pace faster than sailing ships requires fossil fuels and even nuclear won’t provide the portable energy needed for this activity.