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  1. ReeferMadness
    This statement is simply idiotic. AOC never said that and people who claim she did have zero credibility. Get your facts straight or stay out of the debate. The 12 year timeframe has been repeated in dozens of news stories such as this one which is quoting an IPCC report that says:
  2. ReeferMadness
    Sure.
  3. ReeferMadness
    Yes, but I hopefully we get a clue quickly. A Harvard study has shown that levels over 1000 ppm lower certain types of cognitive abilities - the very ones that we'll need to deal with climate change!
  4. ReeferMadness
    Every time you get involved in a discussion, it culminates in the logical equivalent of you chanting U-S-A!! Find a new schtick so I don't have to block you.
  5. ReeferMadness
    I think Dunning and Kruger might have been reading the nonsense you write when they had their insights.
  6. ReeferMadness
    Well. We're all gonna die then. Let's just give up. Good thing you're not one of those "alarmists".
  7. ReeferMadness
    It is pretty simple. The most difficult part is getting people to stop denying the change and looking for excuses why it shouldn't affect them. Stanford University Mark Jacobson has done research that finds: Stop obsessing over the problems and look for solutions.
  8. ReeferMadness
    Sigh. Another example of the Kruger-Dunning effect. Do some research and post again.
  9. ReeferMadness
    Europe has much higher gas prices. The last I checked, they hadn't degenerated to abject poverty. In Norway, over half of new vehicles sold are EVs. Maybe Norway is a total hellhole. Or maybe they're just smarter than we are. Maybe they've figured out that the higher one time costs of EV's is offset by much lower operating costs. What I'm advocating for is that people living today don't have the right to f*ck up the planet for people who are going to live 50 years from now. Regardless of whether it raises their cost of living. Do you have a problem with that? It's ironic that right wingers refer to people who listen to climate scientists as "climate alarmists" and then light their hair on fire at the thought of making changes that will improve everyone's life. Just a few years ago, there was a guy on here who insisted that using renewable energy would send us back to the stone age. Who are the real alarmists?
  10. ReeferMadness
    Well, nobody suggested ceasing oil sands production right now but if it did, it would have a significant effect on CO2 reduction. Prices would spike and people would use less oil. It would take years to replace that production. Meanwhile, with every spike and gyration in the price of gasoline, more and more people are opting out by buying electric vehicles. People whine incessantly about the price of gasoline and then run out and buy the biggest fuel waster they can find. The problem isn't that gasoline is to expensive; it's that it has been way too cheap for way too long.
  11. ReeferMadness
    It is part of human nature. Like any other flaw in human nature, humans with intelligence and self-awareness can recognize and compensate for it. I see a lot of statements that indicate that people are quite unaware of this tendency.
  12. ReeferMadness
    I think that warming will continue for 50-100 years after the GHGs in the atmosphere stop increasing. I think that the more we change the climate, the greater the odds that we will trigger massive releases of CO2 or CH4 from permafrost, from the soil, from oceans or from forests that dry up and burn off. The massive amounts of stored carbon would dwarf our emission cuts and could result in runaway climate change. I think nobody can really predict how bad it's going to get but that scientists are in the best position to guess. So maybe we should start paying attention to them. Most of all, I think I'm worried about the Dunning-Kruger effect and how it it has prevented any effective measures on climate change to date.
  13. ReeferMadness
    Then maybe you need to start paying attention. It is impossible to ascribe any one event to climate change but it is possible to consider the range of events and calculate the odds of it happening without climate change. This has been done and the odds against it are astronomical.
  14. ReeferMadness
    And drugs? Good drugs? I'll bet all those scientists who wasted their time on degrees and research are gonna feel pretty silly when they realize that all they need is logic and reason.
  15. ReeferMadness
    That's never stopped right wingers before. In fact, they probably view it as a plus.
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