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'Optimal' is a funny term concerning CO2. As you now. most of it rests in our oceans soil.
I'm still pondering the argument that you can't deny that human pollution is not a non-factor in the debate of 'global warming' (same quotes I used before). It has an effect.
On no, not this tired subject again.
human pollution is so minimal it is not worth mentioning. we are like a mosquito to this planet, we will make a small mark, cause some itching then we will disappear.
Yeah possibly, but if we kill ourselves ...then that's a problem for us humans.
I've got an honest question for you, not trying to be snarky: How would you propose to address air pollution, as well as other types of environmental pollution while maintaining that humans have no impact on the planet's environment? Is that a different issue in your mind, or do you also think that humans don't pollute the air, land , and water of Earth and that it's just a big conspiracy as well?
In an essay contained in the textbook entitled "Overpopulation and the Potential for Ecocide," Holdren (Our Chief Science Czar) and Ehrlich predicted on pages 76-77 a "world cooling trend" they estimated at measuring "about 2 degrees Celsius in the world mean surface temperature over the past century."
Holdren and Ehrlich attributed the cause of global cooling to "a reduced transparency of the atmosphere to incoming light as a result of urban air pollutions (smoke, aerosols), agriculture air pollution (dust), and volcanic oil."
The authors worried "a mere 1 percent increase in low cloud cover would decrease the surface temperature by .8°C" and that "a decrease of 4°C would probably be sufficient to cause another ice age."
Holdren and Ehrlich warned, "The effects of a new ice age on agriculture and the supportability of large populations scarcely need elaboration here."
Just a good question. How many of those 7 billion actually have cars ect....??? most of that population is 3rd world.
yep, I hear you. From what I can tell there are about a billion cars or so, many of them buzzing around 24/7. Maybe not the greatest example. It's just this mentaility that gets me. Some people have the attitude that humans can do whatever they want and would never cause any adverse effects even if they tried.
Their reasoning?? The Earth is big, we are small. It's just seems to me this is a flimsy unscientific excuse to not hold themselves accountable for anything.
I for one never said humans can do whatever they want. I practice "reducing, reusing and recycling" every day. I pick up other peoples garbage and am all for alternate fuel sources. I believe we should explore magnetic propulsion systems and try to get rid of our dependance on oil.
Some people have the attitude that CO2 is causing the Earth to warm to catastrophic levels and we are all going to have to pay a carbon tax or we will most certainly die. It is very evident that this is based on flimsy unscientific evidence and flies in the face of the Scientific Method.
Pixel- sorry, ..my comment wasn't meant to be directed your way. We've had our exchanges in the past and I know how you feel about it. I have had some conversations with several people that do have this mentaility though. They tend to think that if it in any way disrupts what they want to do then the hell with it. And if it makes them actually have to act responsibly and do something extra then they really go ballistic. Recycling, don't litter, reduce waste?? Screw that, I do what I want, .. this is America!! That's the mentality.
I do tend to agree that a carbon tax isn't going to change anything except where the money is.
Picking up garbage is something I do every day it seems...
And now we know what you do with it. Watts up with that?
Jonah do you have something to contribute? Maybe you can give us your take on the topic rather than being a troll.
Maybe I can give you my take? Didn't I give you about 35 pages of "my take" in the thread found at this link:
https://www.theparacast.com/forum/t...lobal-warming-debate?highlight=Global+warming
You, Schuyler, Bob the Knob and many others got "my take". And since that thread was started -by you- in the General Chitchat forum, I felt quite comfortable bitch slapping you and the rest of the denialist right wing Republitard crowd as you deserved it. -BUT-, since this particular regurgitation of the same old tired lines is located in the Conspiracy Theory's portion of the board, the minute you begin discussing such as related to any "Conspiracy", I'll be happy to "contribute".
Your attempt to, once again, subject this Forum to your "garbage" denial of the effect of Greenhouse Gases on global temperatures (and again, they include more than simply CO2 - feedback loops, methane out gassing from sequestering sources such as the worlds oceans and the now melting Arctic Permafrost, etc etc) is, IMO, beside being completely ignorant in the extreme, is off-topic in this particular section of the board.
In the end, I suppose I just find you a clueless fuck. Sorry.
Carry on friend. You'll find no more objection or contributions from me here. At least until you start talking "Conspiracy" wrt to Global Warming. Care to?
Cheers.
explains your maturity
Maybe I can give you my take? Didn't I give you about 35 pages of "my take" in the thread found at this link:
https://www.theparacast.com/forum/t...lobal-warming-debate?highlight=Global+warming
You, Schuyler, Bob the Knob and many others got "my take". And since that thread was started -by you- in the General Chitchat forum, I felt quite comfortable bitch slapping you and the rest of the denialist right wing Republitard crowd as you deserved it. -BUT-, since this particular regurgitation of the same old tired lines is located in the Conspiracy Theory's portion of the board, the minute you begin discussing such as related to any "Conspiracy", I'll be happy to "contribute".
Your attempt to, once again, subject this Forum to your "garbage" denial of the effect of Greenhouse Gases on global temperatures (and again, they include more than simply CO2 - feedback loops, methane out gassing from sequestering sources such as the worlds oceans and the now melting Arctic Permafrost, etc etc) is, IMO, beside being completely ignorant in the extreme, is off-topic in this particular section of the board.
In the end, I suppose I just find you a clueless fuck. Sorry.
Carry on friend. You'll find no more objection or contributions from me here. At least until you start talking "Conspiracy" wrt to Global Warming. Care to?
Cheers.
Regardless of what you think is correct in this argument, each side will have "science" to back it. I chose to go with what the scientists I respect say. You know, the good ones.