Re: Anthropogenic Global Warming
Reply #487 –
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Not to worry! When I tried to "copy & paste" what I posted, I quickly gave up that tack. I can read and type… (And copy edit! )
[The author's] assertion that there's a lack of of surface warming on the planet is inaccurate.
(Correction, please: the data's assertion; the various papers I've read that try to "explain away" the failure of model predictions are -at this point- lame!) What data set shows increasing rates of surface warming? (…Because, if we're racing towards a cusp of a climate catastrophe -a "tipping point- one would like to know!) So, please, mention where I can find the raw data and whatever code and supplemental material provided: I'm not so trusting as you — there's no one who's word I'd take, at this point.)
Even if we simply have short term AGW, followed by a natural cooling trend, it's still time to consider graduating from fossils fuels. Bring down the cost of batteries to make at least hybrid cars the normal and enjoy the economic benefits of a new, greener, industrial revolution (quite the opposite of deindustrializing and reverting to living in caves.)
I've heard this sort of argument from you many times before…
By all means, invent the technologies you want, create the infrastructure to support them and become "filthy" rich! (I'll applaud you. Heck, I'll use them myself. I, too, like this planet!) But disabuse yourself of the notion that such things happen, on command.
Or keep voting Democrat… (Shit! Or Republican…) We do need a new "take" on politics.
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You said "it's still time to consider graduating from fossils fuels"… If all you want is a pat on the head and a diploma! But, seriously, have you never met anyone who thought you should "graduate" from life?
Why do you think yourself qualified to determine how most of the world's economy should be structured and run?
(Are you going to support sub-Saharan African populations? Indian? Chinese? No. You're going to assume the mantle of King of the World — and parade around naked, until some peasant child cries "Look!"
But you won't be embarrassed, will you? Nope! And, then, friend, you'll be mighty-glad for "Global Warming"! )
I reiterate my challenge: Do the work, or finance it, yourself! Otherwise, you're just looking for converts to your bizarre ideology — much as mjm surmised…