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Talking To the Public: the Biggest Enemy To Reducing Greenhouse Emissions
Lasrick writes: "Lucien Crowder is fed up with the notion that solutions for climate change would be easier to enact if only the public (especially the American public) understood the science better. Crowder looks to nuclear disarmament advocates as a model, as the move to reduce nuclear weapons has seen comparatively greater success even without public awareness and understanding: 'Indeed, in the nuclear and climate realms, desirable policy often seems to flow less from public engagement than from public obliviousness. Disarmament advocates, no matter how they try, cannot tempt most ordinary people into caring about nuclear weapons—yet stockpiles of weapons steadily, if still too slowly, decrease. Climate advocacy provokes greater passion, but passion often manifests itself as outraged opposition to climate action, and atmospheric carbon has reached levels unseen since before human beings evolved.'"
Methane, much more insulating than C02 per pound, released at rates THOUSANDS of times higher than industry-regulators "estimated" for fracking sites.
Pardon me, but the ideology of "Anthropogenic CO2-caused Global Warming" is not based on the "insulation" properties of CO2. Instead it is based on a physics-challenged notion of "trapping radiation", which is not how thermal insulation works.
1 through 4 are because of the general trends in oil and gas prices. What many forget here is that demand from Asia far outstrips supplies and producers would produce more if it were available in the ground. Even if all this AGW were to disappear, the price of oil will continue to increase - regardlesss of how much is produced because of demand. We the USA are 300 million people and use 25% of the World's oil. There a several billion people in Asia who want to live like us. See?
#5 Power plants are not being taken off line because of Global warming. They are taken offline for maintenance or fuel conversions.
And I just wish fossil fuels would just go away. I'm tired of living with smog 5 months a year.
You speak of costs but what about the healthcare costs from breathing the particulates and other pollution from using ancient fuel sources. Then there's the loss of productivity because of the pollution. Oh no! Americans want to drive around in their 5.5L V8s and to hell with clean air and our health! It's the 'Merikan way!
Anyway, change is a constant in this World and your way of life has already changed - and your standard of living is getting worse because of the fundamental structural changes in our economy. IOWs, any regulations or laws as a result of trying to control AGW and costs associated with it are nothing compared to the way our economy has and is changing.
tl;dr, American values are fucking twisted. CONSUME and CONSUME and fuck everything else because it's OUR WAY OF LIFE! Your way of life is going away whether you want to or not and it has NOTHING to do with AGW. So suck it up.
I'm enjoying the fact it went over the rednecks heads.