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IPCC Climate Change Report Calls For Urgent Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels (bbc.com)
The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a report that says global temperatures are heading towards 3 degrees C, and that the original goal of keeping the rise under 1.5 degrees C will require "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society." While the window of opportunity is not yet closed, the prospect looks unlikely and hugely expensive. BBC reports: The critical 33-page Summary for Policymakers certainly bears the hallmarks of difficult negotiations between climate researchers determined to stick to what their studies have shown and political representatives more concerned with economies and living standards. Despite the inevitable compromises, there are some key messages that come through loud and and clear. "The first is that limiting warming to 1.5C brings a lot of benefits compared with limiting it to 2 degrees. It really reduces the impacts of climate change in very important ways," said Prof Jim Skea, who is a co-chair of the IPCC. "The second is the unprecedented nature of the changes that are required if we are to limit warming to 1.5C -- changes to energy systems, changes to the way we manage land, changes to the way we move around with transportation."
"Scientists might want to write in capital letters, 'ACT NOW IDIOTS,' but they need to say that with facts and numbers," said Kaisa Kosonen, from Greenpeace, who was an observer at the negotiations. "And they have." The researchers have used these facts and numbers to paint a picture of the world with a dangerous fever, caused by humans. We used to think if we could keep warming below 2 degrees this century then the changes we would experience would be manageable. Not any more. This new study says that going past 1.5C is dicing with the planet's liveability. And the 1.5C temperature "guard rail" could be exceeded in just 12 years in 2030. We can stay below it but it will require urgent, large-scale changes from governments and individuals, plus we will have to invest a massive pile of cash every year, around 2.5% of global GDP, for two decades. Even then, we will still need machines, trees and plants to capture carbon from the air that we can then store deep underground. Forever! In order to get to 1.5C, the report says the following will be necessary: Global emissions of CO2 need to decline by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030; Renewables are estimated to provide up to 85% of global electricity by 2050; Coal is expected to reduce to close to zero; Up to 7 million sq km of land will be needed for energy crops (a bit less than the size of Australia); and Global net zero emissions by 2050. As if this wasn't demanding enough, the report says that to limit warming to 1.5C, it will involve "annual average investment needs in the energy system of around $2.4 trillion" between 2016 and 2035.
If the planet reaches 2C of warming, coral reefs would be almost entirely wiped out and global sea-levels will rise around 10 centimeters more. "There are also significant impacts on ocean temperatures and acidity, and the ability to grow crops like rice, maize and wheat," reports The Guardian.
Further reading: Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040.
"Scientists might want to write in capital letters, 'ACT NOW IDIOTS,' but they need to say that with facts and numbers," said Kaisa Kosonen, from Greenpeace, who was an observer at the negotiations. "And they have." The researchers have used these facts and numbers to paint a picture of the world with a dangerous fever, caused by humans. We used to think if we could keep warming below 2 degrees this century then the changes we would experience would be manageable. Not any more. This new study says that going past 1.5C is dicing with the planet's liveability. And the 1.5C temperature "guard rail" could be exceeded in just 12 years in 2030. We can stay below it but it will require urgent, large-scale changes from governments and individuals, plus we will have to invest a massive pile of cash every year, around 2.5% of global GDP, for two decades. Even then, we will still need machines, trees and plants to capture carbon from the air that we can then store deep underground. Forever! In order to get to 1.5C, the report says the following will be necessary: Global emissions of CO2 need to decline by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030; Renewables are estimated to provide up to 85% of global electricity by 2050; Coal is expected to reduce to close to zero; Up to 7 million sq km of land will be needed for energy crops (a bit less than the size of Australia); and Global net zero emissions by 2050. As if this wasn't demanding enough, the report says that to limit warming to 1.5C, it will involve "annual average investment needs in the energy system of around $2.4 trillion" between 2016 and 2035.
If the planet reaches 2C of warming, coral reefs would be almost entirely wiped out and global sea-levels will rise around 10 centimeters more. "There are also significant impacts on ocean temperatures and acidity, and the ability to grow crops like rice, maize and wheat," reports The Guardian.
Further reading: Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040.
We'll get right on that as soon as we've phased out the UN!
along with hurricans and stuff like that. I'm goinga build an ark
The communist governments of the west need population growth (immigration) to fool the voters into believing their communist system can provide economic growth. Without immigration they are all bankrupt, so overpopulation can never be charged with responsibility for climate change.
(Opens window and sticks hand outside)
Yeah, sounds about right.
"Close the door! What, were you born in a barn?" -- Police chief, "Jesus Christ Supercop"
y'know... the planet doesn't care if humans are on it or not. if we're all dead (cooked, starved, killed in food riots), the planet will be peaceful and recover from our cancerous pathological behaviour, soon enough. Agent Smith: "you humans are like a plague. a disease. and we? we... are the cure..."
All they do is spout garbage and lies and all of their fake predictions call for the end of the world. They act like hurricanes, storms, cold and heat waves never existed before. Their "solutions" are meant to impoverish (control) populations while the bureaucrats and politically connected amass more and more wealth. Nothing says love for the earth and protecting the climate like owning multiple mansions and flying all over the world in private jets to lecture everyone else that driving their cars to work and having air conditioning is bad. Fuck them. Phase out all these globalist organizations that seek to enslave humanity instead.
Climate change has become a religion. Bring on the downvotes.... it's still true.
the world is run by corporations, not people. corporations are run by shareholders. a large part of the stock game is run by algorithms calculating and trading stocks for maximum efficiency. that algorithm does not care about the weather or the long term suitability of our planet.
God bless humanity, we lost it.
There is no way we will stop producing CO2 before this planet no longer can be a home to humankind.
Solar Reserve have some great low externality base load solar power stations. The heat is stored in molten salt and is available when the sun goes down. Base load solar plant like this can be scaled up, I have no affiliation with them however I find their technology interesting.
Coupled with domestic, industrial and commercial P.V there is enough energy in the sun to build power infrastructure. Combined with the terawatts of power available with wind and geothermal does anyone think the oil and coal industry want this technology to be developed and advanced?
I reason that any form of massive dynamic grid will need a lot of intelligence to make the power available where it is needed, which means interesting technological avenues to explore, a massive explosion of information technology and, fortunes to be made as the economy changes. If we can overcome the economic inertia.
None of the criticisms of these technologies ever ask what it would take to build such infrastructures and all of the technologies look like they scale well. We know we can't continue the way we are going because we will die. This is not just about the planet - Save the Humans, the planet will be just fine.
The only rational conclusion is that the world is being run by complete anti-social psychopaths who actually want such an outcome, otherwise it would be done already. The excuses are less and less believable every day.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
But, but, then how will we fuel our self-driving flying cars?
Murphy strikes yet again!
The higher ones income, in general, the greater the carbon footprint. Sounds like the Lexus Liberals could make a dent in climate change all by themselves, even if the non-believers never converted.
But why would they do that? Pfft, That wouldn't get them any attention. Where's the feel-good rush of dopamine that sccompsnies self-riteous indignation? You don't get that from quietly living your values.
But oh those rednecks that don't believe are just so infuriating. Progressives care about people. That's why they try to get them fired for wrongbadthink. Cause they care. They really care about the climate your kids will have to endure 70 years from now. No, really, they may try to cost you your job, thus making it harder to care for yiur children now, but one thing they will not tolerate is your children or grandchildren being too warm half a decade from now! That's just where they draw the line!
Yes the primary concern of the climate change believers is those gosh-darn others who don't believe that climate change is occuring. It almost makes it seem like they could not care less about the climate at all. Like maybe climate change is a dog whistle to cement one's social position as one of the 'haves', and not some trailer troll whose only post-high school options are Walmart or the military.
Why can't you poor people from Appalachia progress at the same rate as the moneyed people from gated communities and good colleges? Gosh, why do you people choose to be poor and ignorant?
They must be evil. Pure evil.
It's the only explanation.
No wait, how about some snarky one-liners! I bet THAT will solve the issue. No seriously, snarky one-lines solve everything in I'm Special cause my parents teachers and private school guidance counselors said so Land. Yes, it is a real country, look it up.
I don't have a car. Haven't flown in 10 years. Do you think the progressives thank me? You know, for living their vslues? Eh, trick question, you know they don't. They even kind of get mad when they find out. Look real disappointed. Progressives don't give a rat shit what I DO, they only care what I say. I could drive a big ol' SUV, but as long as I talked the talk, I'd be A-OK.
But they care about the climate. Oh, and look, flaming monkeys are flying out of my ass.
the 'new' 'virgin' beachfront land speculation frenzy is on.. cease fire stand down.. there's room enough for every mom & her mother.. truth+mercy=justice.. good sports with good spirits prevail.. hydrogen/solar cars are just a few panels away...
While the US federal government has a distinct lack of political will change pollution, it is still possible for states to take action that will have a wide effect.
For example, a state could require an environmental tax on all products (including imports) that are equivalent to the cost the remove the pollution expelled in the production (or use) of the product. They could then use that money to fun CO2 capture systems. Naturally, you would want to ramp this up over a few years as to reduce the economic impact. While the demands of a single state would have a small impact, it would provide the political cover for other states to join in.
This would soon bankrupt coal power plants and quickly point power companies toward ramping up environmentally friendly power sources lest competition take their profits. So if some state politicians can just grow a pair and do this then we'll be on our way to environmental recovery.
Good progress is made by the brave, not the cowards who only think of themselves.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Us humans are stupid that way. Strap in and enjoy the ride. It's going to be bumpy.
So they recommend people to use trains, fly less and use video conferencing. When they all flew to South Korea for their conference..
"All animals are equal, and some animals are more equal than the others."
Speaking as a Canadian, a 10C increase would be quite nice(even tolerable in summer)... If we could hold back the climate refugees ;p
Simply put, if you don't put this in terms of monetary impact to those involved (politicians, government) then you're going to get ignored.
There's nothing better than saying: If you do nothing, then your land with factory/plant X is going to be full of water and unusable - this means your businesses in that area (which probably lobby you) won't exist, and it'll cost this much to move them if you do nothing. Over time, this will multiply and become hugely expensive, certainly more expensive than doing something about it and limiting emissions (etc other stuff in report to mitigate warming)
Facts mean little to politicians. I thought people knew this already?
If such a person existed, he/she could organize a grand climate Panmunjom.
The right would have to admit that the greenhouse mechanism is plausible and that current data shows warming. There may be disagreement about exactly how much there is and at what point 'weather' becomes 'climate,' but it's out there, and growing.
The left would have to allow us to use all carbon-free technologies in addressing the problem, rather than just the ones that are tiny and cute. In the real world, we still need energy-usinh big cities and heavy industries.
If next time is fire, wouldn't one think logically, temperatures will be rising while it's arriving?
Lets face it many think that Climate Change is a conspiracy by the Chinese / greens / tree huggers / etc., maybe it is. I think that hurricanes, floods and drought is just God's way of punishing the people that think Climate Change is fake and a conspiracy, or possibly that celebrity pussy grabbing or attempting rape is ok.
Whilst making America Great Again, enjoy the lovely sunny weather in California, Arizona etc.
First, I view this report as more hyperbole and fear mongering as every other prediction put out by IPCC has proven incorrect over time. IPCC's goal is to redistribute wealth.
But that aside I'm going to ask the same question I continue to ask - what is the correct temperature and who gets to decide?
Humans have no problems living with higher temperatures, plants and animals adapt as well. The FUD about the coral reefs has already been shown by recent analysis to be bogus, the reefs do just fine. They might grow a little deeper in the water than they do today but they continue to grow just fine.
CO2 cannot be responsible for the presented temperature increase because 1 molecule out of 2500 can't increase ambient temperature by that much, however increased CO2 is absolutely responsible for any increase in foliage. Warmer temperatures equates to more arable land and more CO2 equates to more food for plants and crops. Seems like a win win to me.
But back to my original point - someone please tell me who decided what the correct temperature is supposed to be and how was it decided? We've been hotter, colder, wetter, dryer, pretty much across the spectrum at some point in the past. Humans live in much hotter, colder, wetter and dryer locations so we're not at risk.
So please enlighten me, who chooses the right temperature we're supposed to get to, and more importantly how do you propose we force the world to stop changing after we get there? How do we prevent the solar cycles that drive our climate more than anything humans do? How do we hit the magick temperature value and how do we stay there?
"ACT NOW IDIOTS" is indeed the most appropriate language for the stupids.
Mellenials are...
Generation scapegoat at your service, sir! We're just the worst so blame everything on us!
I don't have a car. Haven't flown in 10 years. Do you think the progressives thank me? You know, for living their vslues?
Why would you need to be thanked for not doing something? Do you also complain that women don't thank you for not raping them?
Progressives don't give a rat shit what I DO,
Most people don't give a shit about what anyone does as long as it's not harming others.
they only care what I say. I could drive a big ol' SUV, but as long as I talked the talk, I'd be A-OK.
What you say is often a reflection of how you act and what you support.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Corporations are groups of people, the people at the top of corporations are people, as are the shareholders and customers.
But... is it?
Is it ACTUALLY more expensive to not do anything? Certainly, morally, but in terms of actual solutions and their efficacy and the knock-on effects and the cost of implementations - the data is actually thin on the ground.
The Paris agreement is an example. Even if we all stuck to it, these same research bodies are now saying it's not enough.
If the cost of not-drowing-in-Waterworld is to actually make many modern conveniences so expensive and unobtainable, have we "won"? Is that "better"? Is people aren't being flooded out of the coastal regions, but nobody can afford their electricity bill, or medicines and oils and products and shipping is suddenly twice as expensive?
Everyone's done the "cost analysis" of not doing something. Nobody has (realistically) done the cost analysis of actually doing something that might work - or even really suggested what that is.
It's a huge bugbear to me. The solutions are half-assed casual suggestions ("release less CO2", "stop burning oil"), etc. but the COST of doing so is not just a number on a balance sheet. More old people will die in winter, more things we take for granted won't be practical, and the associated error-bars are HUGE because we just don't know what's going to happen.
I'm perfectly happy to trust in science and saying yes, this is happening, it's bad, it's caused by us. Let's take that as an "assumption" to work from even if you don't personally believe it.
Now what? What do we do that fixes it? We stop burning coal. Okay, what would that affect? To my knowledge only one country in the world is coal-free on any regular basis (Germany?), and that's still one of the countries most reliant on coal overall. It's ALWAYS fossil fuels. Then nuclear. Then biomass (trees!). Then all the other "renewable" sources.
So just a simple statement as "don't burn coal" drastically affects the economy and energy production of every country on the planet. That's going to knock into heating, cooling and industry before anything else. Which is going to kill people (even if only the elderly) and make everything more expensive.
And that's just one item. Taken together, do the effects of "let's just burn everything, ramp up energy and use that resource to find a better solution" actually kill less or more people over the next 100 years? We don't know. Few ever study the "other side" of the coin.
The problem with this kind of thing, which I wholeheartedly believe is conveying a necessary message, is that the message boils down to "DO THIS OR DIE!" and then someone in the crowd says "But... if we do that... do we not die anyway? Just in a different way, while destroying industry and society and causing more damage long-term?" And nobody has even the decency to look sheepish or say "Well, no, actually we looked and it wouldn't hurt at all if we did X instead".
The research into that side might exist, but it's certainly not being advertised and not being made popular and almost certainly not being done as rigorously or as seriously as the scaremongering.
I'd honestly like to know - if we do EVERYTHING - if we all get unanimous worldwide co-operation and overnight we all become vegans who wash their clothes on rocks, solar-power the entire world, never burn so much as a match again, pump all our energy resources into reversing the CO2 increase, recycle every plastic bag in every landfill in the planet, etc. etc. etc. - whatever loony ideas we can come up with - will that *actually* make it better than the alternative? Because I see drastically little evidence that way. I know we all say "it's there, it's what the scientists say"... but as I consider myself a scientist, I can't honestly look and say "I must recommend this path, or indeed ANY path, out of this mess, because it will be better than the thing we think might happen if we don't".
Everyone acknowledges the problem. The solution eludes us. And the cost-benefit analysis of any dream we can imagine is really "Er... dunno... probably not" at best.
Good thing they finally turned up the hysterics, because that's certainly more convincing.
-Styopa
Stop flying around the world for stupid fucking holidays
Go well
In this conspiracy theory of yours did they also turn up the worlds thermostat to enable this control? And dial back the glaciers? Or are those glacier pictures all fake too?
See the trouble with your theory is facts and evidence. You could verify these yourself, but instead you run away from them.
Think I'm exaggerating? Australia just recently gave up on its effort to meet its Paris climate agreement carbon reduction targets.
Lots of folks gonna' be packing up and moving to escape rising seas and suffocating heat (e.g., S. Arizona).
That's a very US-centric view. In the EU, for example, we have considerably more control over corporations. See our environmental and privacy protections, for example. We also tend to have more limits on the funding of political parties and the amount they can spend, which really helps keep things from getting as bad as the US.
Having said that, even in the US the corporations don't have total control. Look at emission limits on cars, surely if big oil and car manufacturers were running things those wouldn't exist.
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I have a cousin who works as an enviromental consultant - helps small companies reduce their carbon footprint. But every year she takes at least 2 long haul holidays with her bf, usually to the far east. But wait, thats ok according to her - because once they get their they don't hire a car but cycle around! No, I'm not making this shit up. And yes, she's a millenial.
"that algorithm does not care about the weather or the long term suitability of our planet"
Are you sure about that? Exactly how much of a profit do you think the algorithm calculates anyone making if everyone is dead? I'm sorry, this is just intellectual laziness on display here. We get it - you don't like corporations - but can you at least try to stop that from leading you into spouting nonsense?
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mr burns nuclear will help you change coal to nuke
Burning wood and dung account for huge amounts of renewables around the world. Far far more than energy from wind and photovoltaics. This is not mentioned. Have any of their policies been Successful? Ethanol for cars barely produces more the 3X factor of the energy consumed. Shipping production to China? blah blah blah. Better solutions exist: 1) Solar thermal heating is cost effective and produces more energy than consumed with out subsidies 2) Capitalsit are far better stewards of the environment than any communist/socialist even dreams of. 3) Private property rights are critical for reducing poverty
Not doing anything is not a long term option, because the fossil fuels will run out, or become too expensive to exploit.
The question is not if we should move away from fossil fuels, but when.
Spin a giant fresnel lens (or simply a diffuser) at L1 to shade the earth, like was already suggested in 2004 by Gregory Benford. He said you could use plastic, but I have my doubts that would survive very long. Aluminium oxide maybe? L1 delta v isn't much higher than LEO, so with SpaceX costs this should be doable for 10s of billions in lift cost.
A fraction of the opportunity cost of destroying the global economy and triggering WW3.
Check with your local biologist what havoc it would wreak on the local eco system , especially which species of plants, insects would win or lose. What good is 10C increase if all your local pollinator are dead within a decade ? What good if all you trees can#t adapt and the coniferous in high temperature generate rolling forest fire ?
You're correct that typically trading algorithms do not explicitly factor in climate change. Liquidity provision algorithms or short term statistical arbitrage algorithms are largely indifferent. However if there is a large enough financial penalty for impacting the environment or climate change, then this data feeds into fundamentals models, and would be traded on. Trend models would then pick up on this as should discretionary traders.
LOL, Germany? You mean the country that shut down its nuclear power plants for "safety" reasons only to have them replaced with coal power plants?
Long haul flight is basically around 2 kg fuel per seat for every 100km. For a long haul like , say, 8000 km that is about 160 Kg fuel time 2 for return that's 320 Kg fuel or 640 Kg per two persons. Compare that for average fuel consumption car is 9 kg per 100 Km. Let us say 10. So the distance corresponding is 6400 km of car, or about 8000 miles. Somebody doing 8 mils of commuting every day will have done that in 4 month. That is also by the way the same consumption as somebody doing their holiday in car, so barring you going only 20 miles away for holiday, you'll consume as much. And in the grand scheme of thing, that will probably be nothing compared to the carbon footprint reduction for most company. So you can take your millennial joke , and shove it (I am much older than a millennial but I can't appreciate people which use that as a cheap shot).
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Not doing anything is not a long term option, because the fossil fuels will run out, or become too expensive to exploit.
The question is not if we should move away from fossil fuels, but when.
That's easy. Society will move away from fossil fuels when there is a better option.
"Better" means cheaper, more efficient, readily available, suitable for purpose, etc.
Typo in doing the division.
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They've been saying stuff like that for years and it never comes true. We humans are a genious bunch when it comes to survival. What scientist need to do is find an economic solution to the problem. What really is an affordable, acceptable solution? So far all we've heard is either limit reproduction severely (a la China's one child policy - that worked out great) or kill people en masse/let yourself be killed. The other alternatives are mass production of inobtainium and going back to a pre-industrial era - that was a great time too and plays right into the "let's all die en masse".
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That and every potential solutions or effort gets attacked by eco warriors pointing out it will hurt this or that. I pointed out a mass scale sequestoring solution and someone argued it would impact high altitude species by lowering the temperatures at high altitude. Was someone under the impression there were answers to this that don't break some eggs? We might just have to come to terms with bigger snow caps on mountains it certainly impacts less than destroying the oceans.
I agree 100%.
So what do you suggest? That we tax fossil fuel use to oblivion or stop it entirely.
Let's assume that we can go *snap* and all the fossil fuels are locked away from us and can't be touched for 100 years.
Now what? What do we do? What's the impact of that? How many people die of starvation or hypothermia while we sort it out? How long will the plans take to implement? What's the most practical replacement (NUCLEAR, don't argue otherwise)? How much do we need to ramp that up (double, maybe triple current usage)? How long will that take? What suffers in the meantime? How long will that last us? How much MORE / LESS CO2 will that generate than coal? Because... if it doesn't make bills much, much more expensive (fuel poverty deaths) then it may make them much, much cheaper (hell, let's just leave the air-con / heating on 24/7, we can afford it!)?
So... where's the analysis of that situation? Where's the suggestion? What's the timescale (it'll take longer than 30 years to replace every coal plant on the planet with nuclear and in some places we may not even allow that to happen politically!)? How many suffer because of that plan (a non-zero number)? And what impact will that have on actually stopping/reversing/undoing the CO2 emissions as they stand (because those three are VERY different things)?
What if doing that, worldwide, instantly, costs trillions, double energy prices, makes plastics unaffordable, holds off CO2 rises for 10 years, and then the levels continue to increase anyway? Was it worth doing? Honestly can we say that with any certainty?
No, that would be a Permian–Triassic extinction event, which was 8 degrees higher.
Literally the CO2 in the sea, chokes everything in the sea, it dies, decays,, sulphur fills the air, land animals die, 98% species wipeout. Everyone dead.
Why are they dumbing down carbon dioxide? Whatâ(TM)s the point of lying? This is why people are having a hard time caring about this shit.
Itâ(TM)s not carbon thatâ(TM)s causing this.
That's easy. Society will move away from fossil fuels when there is a better option.
I wouldn't be so sure. Switching will take huge investments, not just in money but also in energy. If you wait until fossil fuels are more expensive, then switching also becomes more expensive.
It is entirely possible for a society to wait so long that they can no longer afford to switch.
With the billions that the EU has stole from US companies, over whatever violations they make up this week, I fully expect them to have CO2 scrubbers up and running in the next couple of years to help clean out the air. If they don't, I expect the problem is not as serious as the IPCC believes it is.
If the cost of not-drowing-in-Waterworld is to actually make many modern conveniences so expensive and unobtainable
It's not.
In fact it's probably cheaper overall, it's just that there are a lot of powerful people opposed to the re-balancing because they lose out.
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So why did the EU emit MORE carbon in 2017 than they did in 2016? And why are they on track to emit even more in 2018? Eurosnobs know nothing about Europe. Too stupid.
So what do you suggest? That we tax fossil fuel use to oblivion or stop it entirely.
I suggest that we gradually phase out fossil fuels, starting in 1980. Take 30 years to do first half, and then another 30 years to do the second half. Increasing taxation sounds like a reasonable plan to make the market do the work in an efficient manner.
Let's assume that we can go *snap* and all the fossil fuels are locked away from us and can't be touched for 100 years.
That's the current plan. Keep using fossil fuels until they are too expensive, and then go *snap*. Where's your analysis of that situation ?
Yeah, and you also suppress speech, political parties, and imprison people for saying mean words, and ignore criminality committed by particular racial/ethnic groups. It's sure working out well. But let's be realistic, because those limits on the funding of political parties work out about as well as nothing. See the most recent bit where several left wing parties, in various EU countries which held power loosened fundraising rules in order to get more money from corporate donors, then re-tightened the rules after public outcry...and the fact they were about to lose the election.
Look at emission limits on cars, surely if big oil and car manufacturers were running things those wouldn't exist.
Possibly, but that hasn't happened. Yet we can see the "allowances" given to cities and businesses because they allow a financial trade off into the government coffers. Like dumping fresh water out of reservoirs during a drought, or allowing cities to dump raw sewage into rivers(by paying a fine) but causing downstream cities to halt intake because they can't treat it, or allow companies to overfish as long as they pay a fine on each catch in treaty violation. Looking at you EU, and your abuse of fishing treaties. Something that even China is doing a better job on.
Om, nomnomnom...
For the last 3 million years the earth's climate has been dominated by cold -->glaciers. We are right not at the tale end of a 10-13K year warm period. When that ends it could be 100,000+ years before the earth warms again. Rome had its height when the earth was warmer than now. look up Grand solar minimum. Melt.
And the cost-benefit analysis of any dream we can imagine is really "Er... dunno... probably not" at best.
That depends on who is doing it. Some don't mind dramatic climate change where our way of life is completely changed or destroyed. They'll be on Elysium or something protected by their private military and private farms by their private potable water sources.
Others have examined their values and realize that they are just not compatible with a sustainable world. And most of my values were really programmed into me at a very early age; thrust upon me by marketers whose sole mission in life is to get me to consume mostly things that are completely unnecessary for my well-being or happiness.
And the changes that would be required of me personally, I have already done to the best of my ability. Unfortunately, I do not have the resources to build my own public transportation system and living in a Waffle House state, public transportation is considered "Socialist" or something and don't want to pay the taxes - but have no problem devoting a significant part of their disposable income on their car (paying higher taxes for public transport and dumping the car would actually leave more money in their pockets.)
In a nutshell, doing what we need to do to combat global warming is only a win. Aside from some adjusting to our lives, there is no downside.
[citation needed] which is exactly the point the op is trying to make. She/he wants to see real evidence for it being more expensive on a monetary and/or lives-lost basis.
That's easy. Society will move away from fossil fuels when there is a better option.
I wouldn't be so sure. Switching will take huge investments, not just in money but also in energy.
A better option takes migration issues into account. Few would buy LED light bulbs if they required new fixtures.
To a consumer electricity from a nuclear plant is identical to electricity from a coal plant.
But if other options cost twice as much and performed worse they wouldn't be 'Better'.
And the EU keeps increasing their carbon output, so I agree: https://www.reuters.com/articl...
People like AmiMojo only see faults in others. The EU is perfect of course. It is the "rest of the planet" that is the problem of course.
Sadly the possibility of everyone being dead years from now is not considered by these algorithms. HFT bots don't consider what's going to happen beyond the next few seconds. Most companies don't look beyond the next few quarters - usually not beyond 1 quarter. Some industries like insurance look further ahead and are already taking global warming into account, but most don't.
Humanity is strapped to a machine that is indifferent to human suffering or ecological collapse and is dragging us toward catastrophe for our species and most of the life in the known universe.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
That makes no sense. You are going to increase taxation (to make the market work by making fossil fuels more more expensive) in order to phase out fossil fuels, but don't want to wait until fossil fuels are "too expensive"? It isn't like fossil fuels are going to get "too expensive" overnight.
Harsh reality time - The "goal" is is to reduce the human population (by design) to well under 500 million. All done with the support of the indoctrinated electorate.
Yes, the elite still need a permanent underclass to support their way of life.
You really didn't think it was about YOU did you? Perhaps you shouldn't have taken the Red Pill after all. Sorry if it caused discomfort.
Life is not for the lazy.
Hardly, and depending on context "the EU" isn't even one single entity. But none the less, there are things that the EU does better than the US, and vice versa. Discussing them and learning from each other is a good thing, no?
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
25% of Germany's energy usage comes from coal and its greenhouse emissions rose in 2016 and 2017. People have this misconception about Europe that they are trying to be "green". What a joke.
You honestly think trading algorithms factor in... climate change impacts of their investments? ....hooooooooooooo boy.
Because you looked at one year's data and ignored a decades long trend to make your point, that's why.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
And shareholders are people. So you're saying that:
the world is not run by people
AND
the world is run by people
For what it's worth, if you have a 401k, it is very likely that YOU are a shareholder. It's utterly certain that I am a shareholder, in about a dozen companies, not counting 401k, IRA, and similar items that own shares....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
You aren't attempting to learn anything. You are just pointing fingers. Typical Eurosnobbery. But yeah enjoy your "clean diesel" and keep on increasing your carbon output. I am sure the EU will produce some nice glossy reports about it you can read soon. Oh I know: you can also sign some more treaties in Paris and have some lavish ceremonies and conferences about climate change. That will help.
Soon to be two years data. Why is the EU increasing their carbon output?
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
You signed a treaty! Apparently you guys aren't taking this too seriously.
This is the massive threat to humanity we've seen in sci-fi movies, usually represented by an invading alien species or some massive natural(ish) disaster, but in real life it was our own pollution that first posed a huge threat to us all.
And now we see how we react as a species to that threat. We didn't temporarily put aside our differences to work toward a common goal as fiction has often speculated. Instead most people kind of brushed the problem off and went back to focusing on the small-scale problems in their own lives, and a few people convinced themselves that the threat was made up and we'd all be fine. When we already had a good idea of how dangerous this threat was, those people elected a raging moron who shared their collectively suicidal beliefs to what was at the time the most powerful political office in the world.
The biggest threat to humanity is ourselves. Working to optimize our societies into what is effectively a perfect breeding ground for psychopaths over the last few hundred years (and especially over the last few decades) has been biting us in the ass the entire time and is about to finally rip out our throats.
I think our only hope is a millennial-driven political revolution - vote out every conservative everywhere across the globe, and put something between social democrats and democratic socialists in power so we can refocus our societies on benefiting as much of humanity as possible and defeat the incredibly short-sighted and largely detrimental business interests driving us to collective ruin.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Humanity is strapped to a machine that is indifferent to human suffering or ecological collapse and is dragging us toward catastrophe for our species and most of the life in the known universe.
A few years back I was at a meeting with an insurance company mahatma.
The figures are stunning, and if an insurance company is going to survive, they have to take the effects of AGW into account.
Or even if they don't believe in it - they have to take into account whatever is mimicking Sea Level Rise.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Actually, your story is a great example of why most people aren't really making an effort to change behaviors over climate change concerns. .... These things are relatively non-negotiable. Most of us only have so much income we can spend on things, and making more requires MORE energy usage. Maybe you start a service business as a side job or second job? Well, now you're traveling around to client sites in your spare time and running errands for needed supplies to do the work. With the high cost of such propositions as switching your vehicles to electric cars, it's out of financial reach for many people still.
At the end of the day, we need to use a lot of energy to accomplish the things in life we want to do. Everything from taking those trips to visit family or friends to the daily work commute needed to earn a paycheck
The biggest changes will only come about as the primary energy sources are converted over from burning fossil fuels. The power generation plants are actually doing this, but it's a very slow process that's (perhaps ironically) slowed down quite a bit by all the legal requirements for things like "environmental impact studies" - foisted upon the utility companies by the likes of Greenpeace. The main solution will probably be nuclear power - which is the toughest one to put online without a lot of resistance from environmental groups.
Honestly, I feel like I've almost over-extended myself already, financially, investing in some of these "Green" solutions. I put as many PV solar panels on my roof as the company could fit, using the most efficient ones per square foot available at the time. I traded in a Jeep and a sports car to get a used Tesla S. And I just took out a loan to do some home repairs that included ripping down the old siding and material behind it and replacing it with better insulated, modern materials. So hopefully, that cuts down on my winter heating bill and energy usage. So I'm going to sleep well at night that I've done my share. But realistically, all of this is a tiny drop in the bucket in the big picture -- even if it's a huge chunk of my total income.
There seems to be no shortage of people making technical arguments over political problems. The scientific community is doing its job and providing us with the best possible information under the circumstances. This is not disputable. What we do about it is a political and moral issue. Denying that 100s of millions of people's lives, and therefore all our well-being, are at risk shows the content of your character.
The easy part is saying we need to do it, whatever IT is.
The largest polluters in the world are still ramping up as their economies rise and their governments have no real interest in this except as an economic weapon.
Then there is getting it down to the street.
Sure, the average person on the street would like to save the planet but is not willing to give up comforts like a large screen TV, large house with oil or gas heating,
The solutions put forward all have their gotcha's, solar and wind have heavy environmental impacts with the disposal of obsolete panels and blades.
Hybrid and electric cars have expensive and hard to dispose of batteries.
What to do?
Your average minimum wage Joe cannot afford any of the new high-tech cars. Now what's the solution for them?
Here are the official stats: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/...
As you can see, there is a consistent downward trend. In the last couple of years things have stalled a little as parts of Europe start high levels of growth after the financial crash. So really it was artificially low post 2010, and this is something of a correction. But still, the overall trend is down.
We are on track to meet our Paris commitments as long as we keep working at it. We need to go even further than Paris of course.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
You pills. You forgot them. Go back to your asylum.
The EU has more control over the rights of people, and government of signatory states then the Federal government of the US, or Canada has on the control of states or provinces. Pretending that the EU by design isn't meant to force signatories into a "single state" is the reason why there has been such a big backlash against it.
Om, nomnomnom...
the u.s. could fund that for the whole fucking world by themselves just by getting rid of one of those rich white guy tax cuts trump gave himself and his partners-in-crime.
"stalled a little". You mean EU has INCREASED their carbon output?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-carbon-climatechange/eu-carbon-emissions-rose-in-2017-eurostat-idUSKBN1I50YU
You definitely make the best SJW type: a member of a formerly bloodthirsty colonizers who raped the planet for centuries, started two global wars, and now sits back on your ill gotten gains and judges others. Give us all a break. I am sure that you desperately want to point fingers at those "dirty unenlightened Eastern Europeans" but the Colonial powers are also increasing their carbon footprint.
As an observer of this conversation, pointing out someone's snobbishness with, a highly-snobbish tone digs into the point you're trying to make.
-1 strawman, -1 false dichotomy.
Ok, so how about we stop subsidizing fossil fuel production and new fossil fuel sites and then let the market take it's course? Renewable energy sources would already be cost competitive if there wasn't such a giant imbalance in government subsidies.
The financial penalty for combating climate change is more immediate than the cost of letting it happen. So I suspect the algorithm will give people a pretty negative view on acting on climate change. Combating climate change is also very disruptive to existing markets which makes it hard to account for in existing financial models.
Think globally but act within local variable scope.
Everyone acknowledges the problem. The solution eludes us.
Marine cloud brightening.
And the cost-benefit analysis of any dream we can imagine is really "Er... dunno... probably not" at best.
Ocean rise is currently the biggest economic impact, since so many people live on the coast. So keeping track of ocean levels is key.
You definitely make the best SJW type: a member of a formerly bloodthirsty colonizers who raped the planet for centuries, started two global wars, and now sits back on your ill gotten gains and judges others
You blame me for the sins of my forefathers and make sweeping generalizations, lumping me in with a group of 500,000,000 other people. And you accuse me of being an "SJW", a person who you define as unfairly apportioning blame and generalizing.
Let's just remind ourselves that you are going apeshit over a 1.8% increase one year compared to an overall 22% decrease since 1990. An increase that is not yet bucking the trend, or an indication that the trend will end, and at a time when most EU countries are pushing ahead with reducing emissions. And there is a good explanation as to why this is a temporary issue.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I will not deny the world run by Corporations. THAT will be the downfall of humanity at some point. But MAYBE, if scientists can stop the chicken little talk, and false reporting and fudging data, there would be stronger case
https://judithcurry.com/2014/04/29/ipcc-tar-and-the-hockey-stick/
https://observer.com/2017/02/noaa-fake-global-warming-data-paris-agreement-climate-change/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/03/01/fakegate-the-obnoxious-fabrication-of-global-warming/#207ca1ad6140
Sure, discount the sites, without using your intelligence to sift out any bias and stick to the facts. But by doing so, you further exacerbate the problem.
Follow the money, there are bankrolls for and against this topic. To think it's only one sided, is to simply show your ignorance.
Hold scientist to a higher standard, instead of ignoring the hype and simply bad science that has been on display.
If you can stomach it, knowing how delicate some folks can be these days, go search thru the archives here for some past predictions - http://climatechangepredictions.org/
Yeah, sure, whats the problem with someone using the same amount of fuel in 10 hours for recreation purposes that a driver would use in 4 months to commute to work? Pah, fuss about nothing, right?
Jesus, with people like you around no wonder we have a problem.
the world is run by corporations, not people.
Okay.
corporations are run by shareholders.
HahaHahahaha no. Corporations are run by crusty old white guys who have figured out how to game the system with golden parachutes, who are emplaced and protected by people who have figured out how to game the system by profiting from the failure of corporations rather than their success.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The IPCC's constant litany of Doom and Gloom, Last Chance, End of the World As We Know It, proclamations have come with such regularity that they are now simply background noise in the larger fight between those who believe in Complete Government Control and those who believe in Individual Freedom.
Their, "empirical" data isn't empirical at all, having been adjusted and interpolated time and again.
Their doomsday deadlines keep getting pushed back as each one passes without the world ending (much like any other Doomsday Cult).
Lastly, some scientists have actually admitted that the hyperbole is necessary so that they are heard.
Is anybody else sick of "the real world" and how most the time people using it are claiming their narrow perspective somehow has the definitive insight to the reality the masses do not? Sure, that is sometimes the case, especially with scientists and the educated because they actually have insight the ignorant masses do not.
POLITICS is an imaginary thing existing in human minds. It manifests into real world problems; but it is not real on the same level of the laws of physics; it's just emergent behavior. Like other animals; and like them, instinctive urges controls most of it.
The UN is a combination of reasoned highly educated thinking and politics. Quite often the political "realities" are better known and they try despite those; because one is real and the other is human social behavior.
The world could solve many problems extremely quickly if we were not a bunch of apes limited by our primitive nature; which we arrogantly and ironically dispel to protect our fragile egos.
Democracy Now! - uncensored, anti-establishment news
Who gets to decided what the best temperature is? Or what the best rate of warming/cooling is?
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
And in the mean time, while you're both squabbling, yesterday China and India put out more carbon than the EU and the United States will in a year combined.
That is what was wrong with the Paris Accords.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Yeah, and you also suppress speech, political parties, and imprison people for saying mean words
Citation needed.
and ignore criminality committed by particular racial/ethnic groups
Oh, I think I get where you're coming from. What a cute little way for a racist to call attention to the inherent criminality of "particular races"
What a little bitch you are.
You blame me for the sins of my forefathers and make sweeping generalizations, lumping me in with a group of 500,000,000 other people.
Yes I do: I learned how to do that from you SJW types. Straight from the SJW playbook. You Eurosnobs aren't allowed to lecture ANYONE on appropriate behavior. Ever. This planet is a creation of your behavior. You don't get to sit back now and point fingers. Enjoy your increased carbon output and clean diesel. You earned it.
Apparently you aren't very good at reading. I'm not being a snob at all. I am pointing out the fallacy of blaming and lecturing others from your rich perch. Europeans shouldn't be lecturing anyone on appropriate behavior.
we need fusion
elon should stop screwing around and just do it
Are shareholders not people?
> and ignore criminality committed by particular racial/ethnic groups
Yes, like rich white male rapist judges for example.
Oh wait, wrong country.
My point is there needs to be a sufficient financial penalty imposed on corporations who contribute disproportionately to climate change if we want to change their behaviour. If screwing mother earth is profitable, and a viable option for investors, then of course that's what they'll do. It's no good, giving them this option and then acting disappointed if they exercise it. Lawmakers need to understand the beasts they are governing and how to influence them to get the results they want. Appeal to their wallets, not their morals. That is more in line with how they measure their performance.
What was wrong with the Paris accords was that it is an attempt for the European colonial powers to share blame for their sins. They aren't allowed to tell others how to behave now. They lost that right a long time ago. The fact that the EU is increasing their carbon output makes it even more pathetic:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-carbon-climatechange/eu-carbon-emissions-rose-in-2017-eurostat-idUSKBN1I50YU
Are you really trying to justify your position by saying "you are just as bad"? Ignoring the debate over if Europeans or whatever subset "Eurosnobs" refers to, is that really your intended justification.
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Nope. I am saying you are WORSE because you are a hypocrite. Europeans don't get to lecture anyone EVER on being a good global citizen. The EU is increasing their carbon emissions: https://www.reuters.com/articl...
YES! How many generations now has this been a tired theme of fiction? Not just sci-fi... it's human nature; told by lies (fiction/art) to raise truths to consciousness. In modern times, we have an educated elite class of people instead of some random old wise man or mystical being. It's EASIER to relate and yet we are still just apes; because consciousness is fleeting and we just go back to autopilot with the next distraction. sad.
The REAL problem is psychology. Some idiot like Hitler (he wasn't taken seriously at first) can team up with a psychology nerd (Goebbels) and today event less talent is required; only money to apply the always improving science of training human animals. As a student in psychology, I think we've past the ability to self govern. A ruling elite can keep ahead of the curve if they properly manage their sheep... only a minority will realize they are being fleeced; the challenge is keeping those inline to prevent the herd from being spooked. Oh and have plenty of sheep dogs (kind of like wolves in sheep's clothing...to mix in more metaphors...)
Take Trump, he got the cows to leave the farmer who sacrificed a few and spooked them to run over to the butcher's feed lot. Many will be happy right up to the point where their head is strapped in and they realize the bolt gun is next... very few want to get out of line after seeing what happens at the end of it (this is for real how it goes BTW.)
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I don't see how this post relates to mine. Morals have nothing to do with systematic trading. I'm certainly not denying lives are at risk either. My post was to summarise to what extent policy could influence algorithms employed by quant funds.
If you want to discuss this from a moral perspective, then of course it's selfish for current generations to ignore these problems and leave future generations to suffer.
Remove ONE BILLION CHINESE mouths eating, and shitting, and consuming all that rhino horn for their tiny cocks and the world can BREATHE easy again.
Nuke China to save humanity!
SOOOO TINY!
Given the fact we now know the real science is showing climate change is largely non-anthropogenic, the call for eliminating fossil fuels is not only idiot but should be considered criminal.
#realclimatescience
Funny thing about imprisoning people. Do you know which country has both the highest incarceration rate and the largest prison population (the latter actually higher than in the Soviet GULAGs)?
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
All of the nations are trying to blame each other. China continues their MASSIVE expansion on coal plants. Not just replacement of old plants, but building all over the globe for their belt-trade idea. In addition, the MAJORITY of new coal plants in China are not replacements, but additions.
Then we have Europe, in which eastern Europe continues to say that they are exempt and continue to add. Germany kills off nukes and is replacing with coal.
Then we have America. America was headed in the right direction for the last 9 years. But now, we have trump.
Trump has been pushing coal, but thankfully, that has gone NOWHERE, other than increased sales to China ( who then resells to other nations in their belt/trade ).
And to be fair, his cutting the MPG on our fleet will actually HELP kill off new ICE sales. The reason is that EVs are cheaper to own than ICE.
Probably his one action that will make things worse in America is his allowing oil companies to ignore methane emissions from oil wells. I fear this action WILL increase America's methane emissions.
But, until all nations accept that NO MORE BUILDING ADDITIONAL FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS (and any replacement has to be by one that emits less CO2), then things will only get worse.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Ya know, if they'd stop messing with the data, and present objective results instead of panic-filled reports, it would be possible to take them seriously...
Lose original data, lose track of exactly what adjustments were made. Fail to account for poorly situated stations (UHC). Steadily reduce the number of climate monitoring stations, especially in important regions like the arctic. Satellite data showing no warming - quick, adjust it. Then publish stupid reports and articles like TFA, based on this questionable science. Creating panic apparently drives publications and funding.
I'm sure the climate is warming; this may be influenced by humans. Likely we shouldn't be pushing masses of CO2 into the atmosphere. But the climate science as currently practiced has zero credibility. We have no idea what is really happening.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
Enjoy your hockey stick graph, you cock smoking tea baggers.
Try to have some actual discourse
Pointless little troll. You know it's very easy to lower your emisions when they are so high like America. It's much harder if they are already low like the EU.
Its not either your preferred solution or "destroying the global economy and triggering WW3"
Bad arguments just make things worse.
If the cost of not-drowing-in-Waterworld is to actually make many modern conveniences so expensive and unobtainable, have we "won"? Is that "better"?
Let's just say that it was. It isn't, we can simply pursue greater efficiency that's being let fall by the wayside because it's not the most profitable path, but just for the sake of argument let's say it is. How expensive do you think drowning-in-waterworld is going to be? I mean, let's just say that humanity is willing to move into a combination of underwater and floating cities. How much do you imagine that will cost? What will we have to give up to make that happen? Either we have to give up billions of people's lives because it will make it much cheaper to do that, or we will have to give up even more than we would to avoid that situation. The energy costs alone of building all of that infrastructure would dwarf our current consumption.
I'd honestly like to know - if we do EVERYTHING - if we all get unanimous worldwide co-operation and overnight we all become vegans who wash their clothes on rocks, solar-power the entire world, never burn so much as a match again, pump all our energy resources into reversing the CO2 increase, recycle every plastic bag in every landfill in the planet, etc. etc. etc. - whatever loony ideas we can come up with - will that *actually* make it better than the alternative?
We don't know, because it may well be too late. But if we don't address the problem, it will surely be bad, and "doing nothing" will cost us more than doing it now. It will cost us lifestyle, and/or it will cost us many lives.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So far all we've heard is either limit reproduction severely (a la China's one child policy - that worked out great) or kill people en masse/let yourself be killed.
That's bullshit. We've also heard "implement meritocracy", where those who have the best ideas are permitted to implement them instead of being stopped by wealthy interests who care only about how many yachts they will be able to buy this year and not about whether we get to continue as a species. We've also heard "improve education" since intelligent people naturally have less children. Stop this helplessness act at once and act like an adult, if you can manage it.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The BBC Headline says that this is the "Final Call". Good. Now let's hope they follow through with that, shut up, and go away.
Nothing will ever be done to seriously combat global warming. Those in power are only concerned with the short term. If any politician goes in for the long term, then short term interests will attack them as being wasteful, costing us too much, jobs, etc etc. As seen from Dumpf et al, the masses are easy to fool with this rhetoric.
Two, those that contribute the most to warming are also those that have the money and resources to mostly comfortably ride things out, at least in the mid term before things get too bad.
Three, most people forget what the weather was like ten years ago, so have little basis on which to judge the climate. Also does anyone remember that the sky is supposed to be completely blue? I would say everyone under forty maybe has lived their whole life with the horizons in a brown haze. Change is so slow, people dont know how things are supposed to be anymore.
Four, global warming does strange things, like exacerbate the polar vortex causing big winter snow storms. Narrow small brained politicians like to trot this out every year, forgetting that it is a global average, not local weather. There will always be dumb arguments available.
Five, it will cost a lot and require a lot of working together to solve things from politicians to business to populations. I think that is more than we can handle as a species. It is far better to come up with good plans for solar, wind, nuclear power options, electrical transportation, etc, now and when there is time to implement rather than the mad dash to the exits once the shit hits the fan. Im sure so little will be done, that in fifty years all hell will break loose once the last denial and excuse has been used up.
Collectively we are grasshoppers, not ants.
The subject says it all. When was the last time the UN did anything that was good for this country? I have zero interest in these people telling me to do anything.
Circle the wagons and fire inward. Entropy increases without bounds.
Yeah, and you also suppress speech, political parties, and imprison people for saying mean words, and ignore criminality committed by particular racial/ethnic groups
Is that some kind of unrecognizable synthesis of US and some European countries? Terrorists are shot dead, sometimes clearly against the rules of fire arm use here in Europe (the whole continent) as well. I was very proud of our police when the ISIS punk with a knife didn't get 60 rounds to the torso, but a single round to the leg in my country when one of those ISIS "shows of global reach" events was on last time.
No change at all in 20 years, despite prior predictions. Yet in another 10-20 years it's supposed to be a global disaster. This from an organization that owes it's existence to saying this global disaster is coming, and would be irrelevant if they said otherwise. Don't get me wrong, polluting the very air we breathe is dumb and needs to be curbed. But come on Chicken Little, send the right message.
Given the political and economic realities, any effort we make is simply re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
We humans are not programmed to sacrifice in the present to save our future.
Anyway, our present civilization is so fragile, with fragile infrastructure ( solar storm anyone ), financial ( 2008 again anyone) politics ( nuclear war anyone?) that something will snap and stop our carbon emissions.
What the hell does your anti-corporate screed have to do with individuals buying plastic shit they don't need, and new shit to replace still functional and not obsolete existing shit?
There's plenty of room to make sizeable gains here without whatever fucking nonsense you're spewing.
Move the planet further from the sun and celebrate the extra week as 'robot party week'?
Between Trump himself and the NHTSA report, nothing is going to get done about this, and when corporations only care about next quarters' profits, and governments stick their fingers in their ears and ignore it, and the average person says "Why should I care? That's some other generations' problem, not mine", we're probably well on our way to a slow extiction-level event for the human species -- and maybe everything else. Depressing.
You point out the fact. The fact is that nothing will help us "get past this" . "This" is just another step in the way of evolution.The removal of large amounts of life on the planet seem to be routine. And I imagine that at some point, whatever the most evolved beings on the planet come to determine, will seem, to them, to provide a possibility of stopping the natural process that's taking place. Alas, they're forced to determine that the very life that they're living, is killing them. And it's not a matter of living wrong, or out of tune with Nature. It's just a matter of Nature being more applicable than the beings that inhabit the universe.
Yet they are still far below the US...
I was going to write a longer response but I just realized my iPhone is 1 old, and I must therefore spend $1000 to buy a new one. But that's my right as a human this planet is ours to shit on and cover in electronic waste because God says so.
It actually IS working out well. The EU is slowly draining the US of all intelligent tech workers. I've gotten several job offers since Trump was elected; they all offer much higher salary, lower taxes than what I'm paying now, the company will pay 100% of my expatriation taxes, and 100% moving expenses, while also providing lodging until I can find a new house to buy. Almost all of my peers have received offers similar to this, and most of them have taken it up. At this rate the average IQ of the US will be about 50 in just a few years.
Let's just remind ourselves that you are going apeshit
Hey Hey, lets not blow this out of portion. Seems to me he is just going a little batshit, but not at the apeshit level. Lets not ratchet this up THAT level if we can help it. :)
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
"Artificially low" carbon emissions is very close to a synonym for "artificially high" smugness about carbon emissions. And now that your economy isn't tanking, they're going up, but it's fine because they were "artificially low" before?
So I guess it's actually easier to preach to people about expanding the economy without carbon cost than it is to actually do it? If it's so easy, and the EU is such a leader, why are emissions going up? Maybe there should be an inverse proportional change in smugness to go with that?
So let me get this straight:
A corporation is a kind of fake-person in America, because corporations run the government and the lawyers who represent those companies pushed laws through congress that say corporations are people.
Programmers and investment bankers created algorithms which automatically invest or divest money in investment vehicles depending on obscure and badly tested criteria concerning the "value" of the stock.
Corporations can be seen as investment vehicles, that is, money can be invested in or divested from a corporation simply by buying stock in that "person"
Seems to me that if a bunch of people wanted a corporation to do something, all they'd need to do is re-write the investment algorithms to manipulate the stock prices until the corporations all behave the way we want. All we need then is a huge amount of money for investment and the world is fixed.
Who's first?
China continues their MASSIVE expansion on coal plants.
Yet their coal use has barely changed?
American coal sales to China? LOL You are officially a full of shit liar.
I agree with you about the relative costs of the suggestions being unexplored. I always tried to get realistic plans out of environmentalists and it usually boiled down to miracle tech saving the day somewhere. That's a bad plan. Such advocates are generally poor students of economics.
Lastly, the sales scheme of "This sale is about to end RIGHT NOW. BUY NOW OR MISS OUT" is apparently effective since it is used so much. I can't help but see the similarity here.
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Haha, the EU has low emissions? What a joke. You Euronuts really take the cake.
Yeah, my mistake. I guess I shouldn't point out that the EU is increasing their carbon output, instead of decreasing it. It is amazing how angry the Euro types get when I point out facts. I didn't mean to go "crazy" and start pointing out facts.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/european-renewables-are-up-so-are-carbon-emissions
the world is run by corporations, not people. corporations are run by shareholders.
Um, I aint no logic master, but if A is run by B, and B = people, A is run by people, yes?
You're a people. Become a shareholder. Be the change you wish to see.
Yes the US does have the largest incarceration rate and prison population.
No that does not refute, diminish, or deny the claim that many European nations choose to not prosecute people based on their ethnicity.
No one should have modded up the parent. It's "whataboutism" or, for educated people, a red herring designed to distract, mislead, and misdirect by the person saying it because they know the fox does exist down that trail.
That is a concept that many around here have been arguing for some time. The classical argument against renewable energy sources is that "they are more expensive" - which is only true if non-renewable (read: coal, gas, oil) are allowed to externalize waste disposal (read: stack emissions).
If the incumbent fossil fuel energy generation was required to factor those costs into per-kWh generation costs, I'd bet that technologies that don't put any of that crap into the air would be far more favorable, if not outright winners without subsidy.
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What is really new in this study? How does it compare to previous studies? Are previous studies wrong? Did they discover new facts?
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Doesn't match real immigration numbers.
People still vote 'USA' with their feet.
I have dual citizenship, fuck the EU.
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However, the EU is what, 3% of the Earth's population? China and India put out more carbon in a day than the EU and the United States put together do in a year!
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and you also suppress speech, political parties, and imprison people...
Is "he" the one doing the suppressing, or is he the one being suppressed? Logic tells me he can't be both.
Crescent Dunes began operation in September 2015, but went off-line in October 2016 due to a leak in a molten salt tank. It returned to operation in July 2017.While its average monthly production was expected to exceed 40,000 MWh, it only exceeded half of that value during 3 months. [Wikipedia]
Generation (MWh) of Crescent Dunes Solar Energy
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total
2015 Oct 1,703 Nov 1,831 Dec 0
2016 Jan 1,504 Feb 9,095 Mar 7,099 Apr 2,158 May 11,485 Jun 6,216 Jul 25,560 Aug 28,267 Sep 30,514 Oct 5,410
2017 Jul 9,420 Aug 9,192 Sep 13,666 Oct 9,263 Nov 488 Dec 0
2018 Jan 795 Feb 5,145 Mar 5,907 Apr 13,801 May 10,653 Jun 33,387
the world is run by corporations, not people. corporations are run by shareholders. a large part of the stock game is run by algorithms calculating and trading stocks for maximum efficiency. that algorithm does not care about the weather or the long term suitability of our planet.
Really the world is run by billionaires. If you established a pact that if [bad thing happens] happens a given number of billionaires and their heirs would die then you would see change. If they thought that they would be hunted down bin Laden style change would happen in a hurry. Until then they figure that they can always buy a safe place no matter what and are thus immune.
Hide the decline with Mike's nature trick.....
Funny thing about imprisoning people. Do you know which country has both the highest incarceration rate and the largest prison population (the latter actually higher than in the Soviet GULAGs)?
2016 UK population: 65 Million
2016 Australia population: 24 Million
That's nearly 1/3 incarceration rate.
You always lie. China was just coming out of a massive economic downturn that they were trying to hide. Coal usage increased. Now, they are back in another one due to Trumps saying enough of your shit.
You are a constant liar while getting paid by your chinese bosses.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Meritocracy is not democracy. What metric would you even use to gauge who will be in power?
The best ideas are found out by scientific inquiry and commercialization of those results in a competitive (capitalist) market where success naturally bubbles up. Improving education is also a direct result of capitalism, in a capitalist society nobody remains on top, you educate yourself to get on top, you implement the best ideas to stay on top but the rich 1% of today are not the same 1% of yesterday or tomorrow - there is a lot of flux and capacity.
If you take away the driver of our current society and put the "smartest" based on their ideas regardless of their contributions you end up with something akin to socialism and as we know, if in socialist societies results cannot be obtained by vote, you get communism where your results are obtained by force.
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So? The US is still emitting twice as much as europe does. While europe even has a much higher population.
The US has done very little in the past. Right now it is collecting the low hanging fruit to reduce emissions which europe has done a long time ago.
For anyone with a clue it is easy to see why there is so much difference in emissions. And replies like yours make me think this will be the case for a long time.
Sweet dreams.
I am glad the us decreased it's emissions. But it is still 200% that of europe you fucking tool.
And if you preselected technology isn't the winner, you just raise the externality cost on the competition until it is?
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Please, cite supported evidence for these so called rapist judges. In all the investigations and all the testimony there's not been a single piece of supporting evidence for any of the allegations of mis-conduct let alone any rape charges.
But don't let facts get in your way buttercup, we all know you have no original thoughts and only do what George Soros tells you to do. You are the epitome of the "useful idiot".
I'll recalibrate my crapometer.
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My point is there needs to be a sufficient financial penalty imposed on corporations who contribute disproportionately to climate change if we want to change their behaviour. If screwing mother earth is profitable, and a viable option for investors, then of course that's what they'll do. It's no good, giving them this option and then acting disappointed if they exercise it. Lawmakers need to understand the beasts they are governing and how to influence them to get the results they want. Appeal to their wallets, not their morals. That is more in line with how they measure their performance.
I agree 100% with you here. I was just pointing out that we can't rely on the algorithms themselves; we or our government needs to increase the immediate expenses of greenhouse gas pollution.
We can impact the financial calculations through boycotts and negative publicity. Eventually, companies that aren't even in our sights will lower their emissions to get good publicity.
Think globally but act within local variable scope.
> Nobody has (realistically) done the cost analysis of actually doing something that might work - or even really suggested what that is.
Just because you haven't heard about it doesn't mean it's not happening. In fact there are courses on Coursera where you can learn how to do it yourself. The discussion is about which part do you prevent and which part do you mitigate. You don't hear about it because it doesn't make nice soundbites for politicians.
But realistically, we have a pretty good idea of the cost of doing something. It's the cost of doing nothing that is uncertain. But at least we know that the cost of rising sea-levels for NL is going to dwarf the cost is simply insulating every house. So it's not a question of if, but when.
Because the warnings are fake news. These assholes who continually push their fear mongering need to be put in prison.
"Could be the worst flooding in the history of the world!"
"Could put entire cities under water!"
"Could wipe entire countries off the map!"
FUCK THE FUCK OFF. So goddamn tired of the FAKE NEWS. They've been calling for this to happen for DECADES and they've ALWAYS BEEN WRONG.
In the 1970â(TM)s it was a worry that they might be done by around 2050 if not earlier.
Poor countries have to develop and it's going to be impossible without cheap energy.
Everyone acknowledges the problem. The solution eludes us.
The solution does not elude us. I've listened to many experts on energy and they all agree on several key points.
First key point, more nuclear power. Nuclear power is safe, costs are less than wind and solar, reliable, and has lower CO2 emissions than any other energy source we have. The nuclear power plants we have now are getting old and will need to be replaced. We will need to start building nuclear power reactors now so when it's time to retire these old reactors we have something to take their place.
Second key point, more natural gas. While this might seem counter productive this is vital as a means to transition from energy sources in current use of higher CO2 contributions, specifically coal and oil. To make vehicles move requires a fuel that is energy dense, plentiful, inexpensive, and easily converted to motive force. While natural gas isn't as energy dense as gasoline or diesel fuel it is close enough that conversion should be of little cost with the benefit of an immediate reduction of CO2 produced per mile by 30% or more. Much of the reductions in CO2 in the USA has been from switching electricity production from coal to natural gas. We can do better with nuclear power but in the time it will take to build those nuclear power plants we can burn natural gas for electricity and work to switch transportation to natural gas.
Third key point, stop the subsidies. Subsidizing energy sources prevents the competition needed to drive lesser products and technologies from the market. There's enough solar and wind companies now that there can be real competition based on who can provide energy at the lowest price. What's happening now is that the winners are those with the best lobbyists than the best technology. Stop subsidizing bad windmills, solar collectors, electric cars, and so on, so natural market forces allow the best to come to market. Maybe there was a time when these subsidies were needed but that time has passed.
This is not a fourth key point really but more an addendum to the point above, stop with pushing so much solar power! This keeps getting brought up again and again. Solar power is bad for the grid because it provides lots of power in the day and nothing at night, and does so nationwide all at the same time. At least with wind it's randomized a bit, there's some at night, and without the drop off in the evening when energy is needed most. Solar is also quite expensive, produces waste that's difficult to recycle, and takes a lot of area for the energy produced. Putting the collectors on rooftops only adds to the cost, even if it allows for preserving use of the land under it, and also adds to the risk of injuries and death to those installing and maintaining them. We need more wind and nuclear before we need to resort to expensive and generally problematic solar.
We have solutions but also a federal government seemingly unwilling or unable to implement them.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
And yet you're one of the cheerleaders of "the law is the law". I guess it's only "the law" when it doesn't affect you or you wanna hate on brown people.
You can fuck right off.
Amateur.
I have some VTSAX shares in my IRA. Which companies am I a shareholder in?
All of them.
* All of the publicly-tradeable ones in the US, that is
However, the EU is what, 3% of the Earth's population? China and India put out more carbon in a day than the EU and the United States put together do in a year!
This is simply not true. As of 2015, China was about 3x the EU and India was about 2/3. Nothing like 365:1.
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A United Nations special climate report suggests a tax on carbon dioxide emissions would need to be as high as $27,000 per ton at the end of the century to effectively limit global warming.
For Americans, that’s the same as a $240 per gallon tax on gasoline in the year 2100
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
You've been flogging that icebreaker story so much, it should have the consistency of watery instant potatoes. Is that the only story you know? Is that the only one your sponsors emailed you this week?
Really, then why does the EU member states have more diverse laws than the US ones?
EU doesn't even have a union level police force the way the US does.
If you arent lying, show the facts to back your claims.
Stalin simply killed those who didn't drink the koolaid. Therefore, the gulag population was low by comparison.
What you are saying is, that by comparison, blind drivers have the lowest accident rate, a misleading statistic for obvious reasons.
Now accuse me of being insensitive to blind people, I need a laugh!
This isn't going to work.
Too many economies have built themselves around oil dependence or other processes that release massive CO2, and will be openly hostile to change. These countries would sooner go to war with the rest of the world than stop polluting. They just don't care about the future.
Therefore on the short time scale we have been given, we can't realistically change the CO2 output, but we might be able to increase the rate of CO2 input through atmospheric scrubbers like what Sweden is doing. One day. In the meantime, there's something we can do in the next five years:
Change the solar input.
Until we have a reliable and scalable solution to remove CO2 from the air we're going to need a big umbrella.
One large satellite or, more realistically, a network of smaller satellites with solar umbrellas placed around the equator or at the poles, large enough to attenuate the solar irradiation to the Earth. Significant reductions in surface temperature could be achieved with just a bit of blocking without giving a noticeable drop in light levels.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
"lots of folk"
not in our lifetime
It's easy to have low gulag prisoner rates when most people simply die in the gulag(dead bodies don't count, and it keeps the ledgers clean). That's coming from someone who's grandfather spent 20 years in one for refusing to give his cows to "the state" oh and they demanded he provide the same next year.
Om, nomnomnom...
Citation needed.
Sure, try the UK, Sweden, and Germany. All of which banned political parties.
Oh, I think I get where you're coming from. What a cute little way for a racist to call attention to the inherent criminality of "particular races"
Oh look at the bigot. So you're arguing that the inquires that stated that the police, crown, and councils didn't cover up crimes by particular groups of people for fear of being labeled racist in the UK? Are you also arguing that the government under merkel didn't do the same to the federal german police? They did just a FYI, they still haven't caught the leaker either. Are you saying that the same thing didn't happen in Sweden and the Netherlands? It did, the one in NDL was caught and arrested they haven't found the one from Sweden.
Are you saying that in Swedens case they didn't illegally seize a domain, servers, and infrastructure of a person who published this information in order to try and find them? Oh and it was because they'd released "unscrubbed" crime reports listing the background of the person(s) involved but scrubbed of identifiable information.
What a little bitch you are.
I'd rather be a bitch then a coward that's afraid of facts.
Om, nomnomnom...
Yes.
Increasing the Earth's albido slightly will at least reduce the net solar irradiation reaching the surface. And hopefully buy us some time to scrub the excessive CO2 from the atmosphere before the oceans acidify.
My solution was to use satellites, but cloud brightening might be easier.
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Psychopaths tend to not be able to take anything.
So is it increasing massively, or are they in another downturn and it's decreasing again?
You can't even keep your lies straight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPGK6pNO0Qw
Nope.... I'll never support suggestions that it's somehow wise to try to roll back technology by way of taxation.
You can always play the "What if?" game, arguing why we might be better off if something or other didn't exist. But everything we create that gets traction and becomes part of our lifestyle does so because it adds immense value. The downsides need to be looked at and addressed -- but trying to tax a genie back into a bottle? I'd say politically impossible! Politically difficult to enact the tax itself, perhaps. But impossible to achieve the desired result.
Once people are aware that a means exists to do something, they expect to be able to do it. Government might have more leverage than normal with the airplane, but only because it's always maintained a high level of control of flights. Still, if taxes became too high for people to afford to fly for vacations, they'd look for ways around it. They wouldn't go back to a blissful unawareness that a vacation overseas could be a thing.
Our levels of energy consumption probably rise and fall too, as opposed to a linear upward trend. I don't know if there are any good stats to prove this argument? But just looking at utility prices and demand alone, I see evidence of that. I remember when the power companies were investing heavily in new power plants to meet estimated future demand, only to find out it didn't materialize. The nuclear plant near my old residence in Missouri was running at about 50% capacity for years for that reason. And even if you just look at a specific tech like computers? We went from power hungry desktop and tower systems to a vast majority of people using laptops instead. On the flip-side, you had a big surge of power usage for crypto-coin mining in recent years, which will again fade away as it becomes unprofitable and people migrate to new crypto-coins that don't necessarily demand all of that CPU power to work with them.
Fuck you.
As a co-founder, shareholder and executive of an Austrian start-up, I concur. Shareholders in Europe do not "run" corporations. The executives appointed by the shareholders run corporations in the best interest of the latter.
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So people simply die in the gulag (because dead bodies don't countt, and it keeps the ledgers clean) yet youir grandfather managed to spend 20 years in one.
Don't you see a little contradiction there?
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Boy, you are desperate.
Soon to be two years data. Why is the EU increasing their carbon output?
That's probably Britain burning all our bridges.
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Apparently you aren't very good at reading. I'm not being a snob at all.
Yes, yes you are. When you make out you are better than someone or they are somehow worthless because of some ill defined 'what they are' metric that you decide. Even using a term like eurosnob invalidates the entire point you are trying to make and if you can't see that then you are a fucking idiot to boot.
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Combine that with iron sulphate induced blooms in deep water. You have to harvest the excess salmon to keep it from crashing the local ecosystem but then you have salmon and a lot of carbon sinking to the bottom. The algae mats also have better albedo.
refactor the law, its bloated, confusing and unmaintainable.
I've never taken for granted that it's within the purview of peer-reviewed science to recommend economic policy actions, even at a modest scale, must less terraforming the entire human economy.
Economic policy is not science, and scientific peer review does not apply.
The science is the peer-reviewed part. The economic recommendations are the communist fraternity part, with no qualified peer review whatsoever.
I'm all for a new academic discipline of economic and political risk mitigation. But please don't call these people scientists. They're not. They are academics of a completely different stripe, meta-scientists who consume technology, but digest it in a different stomach.
No. I'd be happy with a proper accounting of the costs, rather than not accounting for it at all for over a hundred years and letting the problems be paid for by other people.
Isn't it the libertarian credo that the market should be able to decide? So let's make it an even market and have the polluter pay. Get rid of all subsidy, be it direct or indirect.
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Don't you love how the vast majority of people who experienced communism currently prefer it over capitalism?
Everyone here knows Mashiki is an idiot. He's a great source of laughs. Once he graduates middle school he might be of some use to society.
So people simply die in the gulag (because dead bodies don't countt, and it keeps the ledgers clean) yet youir grandfather managed to spend 20 years in one.
No they don't "simply die" they're either killed because it's more expedient, a favorite of the old USSR especially with politically dangerous but unknown to the wider world. That's then labeled a "natural death" because as we all know, because hypothermia is a natural death. And the people who survived gulags did so were kept alive because of three things: Examples. They were incarcerated close enough to the fall of the USSR. Made themselves invaluable despite their "crimes" against the state.
Don't you see a little contradiction there?
No. He survived because, he was smart. He ran a black market(even the guards bought from him), and he made himself somewhat valuable because of the remote location and his ability for engine repair they didn't have to dispatch someone else to do repairs on equipment. That didn't stop the commisars from ordering that every finger and thumb joint be broken, or both of his wrists a week from his release date. Or the fact for his release, he was specifically sent to east germany and put in a factory where he couldn't work - he was put there as an example and a warning.
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That's not the only rational conclusion. Another is that the politicians that keep talking of our impending doom unless we do something don't believe their own words.
You must be able to see right through them. That's awesome.
Another example the US Coast Guard wants... that's not right, NEEDS new ice breakers to service scientific missions in Antarctica
I'm not following your reasoning of why the US Coast Guard needs to guard the coast of Antarctica. Shouldn't they be busying themselves preventing immigrants and drug dealers making it to US shores? Instead of wasting time on science is some chunk of ice. You're saying it's a horrendous waste of tax pay money being down there when those immigrant muslims are just barging into America to take jobs and bring drugs into the country. You seem ashamed about that.
Here's an example, the US Navy wanted some new nuclear powered warships.
Someone has to stick up for the military's right to kill people and end civilization, I bet that kind of liberalism really get's you so mad.
If these people were serious about solving the problems of reducing CO2 output, providing for energy independence, and assuring the military is effective in defending our national interests, then they'd be building nuclear powered ships and putting nuclear power plants on military bases, airports, seaports, and other vital facilities.
Living the dream.
This means a series of half-assed "solutions" that on the surface appear to be a means to make things better but in the end merely push the problem off into the future so it can still be held over the head of the public to stay in power and distract from other matters they are imposing on the public.
I see where you're going now. Basically you're saying those sociopaths have an unimaginative, incapable and unrealistic view of Nuclear power and think people are dumb enough to believe it while they produce inaction. Great insights there.
I did use "sociopath" instead of "psychopath" as you did. That's because a psychopath is someone with violent tendencies, which these people are not doing. Maybe the foot soldiers in the form of GreenPeace are violent but the people at the top making the decisions are not.
Ok, so what you are saying is to project a propensity for violence onto them like they are the aggressors to feel justified to be the aggressor. Clever.
They are sociopaths, people that are acting without concern for others and in ways that are considered antisocial.
Oh, I see. Like those sociopaths that don't really care who gets hurt by transgenic disease in the generations to come from radio-isotopes. I'm so glad that you pointed that out.
These sociopaths demand that we take on the costs of buying new electric cars but can't be bothered to fund nuclear powered ships for the Navy and Coast Guard.
They're forcing the US coast guard to guard the US coast because that's the only place they can refuel.
This is not the actions of a government that is taking CO2 emissions seriously.
If the US coast guard doesn't get nuclear powered boats *real soon* climate change will destroy humanity.
I did use "sociopath" instead of "psychopath" as you did.
They are some amazing insights into how a sociopaths thinks. Thank you so much.
Therefore I conclude that they don't believe CO2 emissions are any real threat to humanity or national security.
You must get confused why people can't see how amazing you are BS. All your BS reasoning to come to an obvious conclusion which must mean everything else is right.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
You're saying the US has a problem? I mean, the US is still far below China...