08-07-2019, 09:23 PM
(08-07-2019, 09:03 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: I've told you at least once already I've never claimed humans aren't causing climate change. I've never claimed CO2 doesn't cause warming - in fact it's a known quantity of 1.0 degrees celsius for each doubling. But it's a common tactic, and a telling one, of the faithful to label anyone that rejects the alarmist claims as a "denier". When you threaten tenure or threaten to sue or jail skeptics, that's not someone who is defending science but defending their faith.
My question, or my point, has always been what is the actual climate sensitivity to CO2? That's the fundamentally critical question to climate change "not a problem" and "existential threat". 12 years to act? Pure garbage. It's a political football now and I don't expect the rhetoric will change any time soon. Just another distraction - we are not and really no one is going to do anything different. The only practical thing that can be done in the immediate future is an all-electric fleet charged by nuclear. And I'm glad that there's still enough rational sanity left to NOT start building a bunch of nuclear plants.
Truth be told, I don't believe there's enough fossil fuel left in the ground to cause anything remotely close to catastrophic warming. But that doesn't justify throwing money at windmills. Now China cheats with its solar subsidies, so you could argue the govt has to step-up there to keep us competitive.
Is there something wrong with investing in renewable energy?
