The good scientists who don't bother to do that don't get much attention, while the ones who DO do that get plenty of attention, resulting in profits for themselves.
For a hundred + years good scientists have been screaming their heads off about anthropic warming and getting zero attention just as you describe. It IS the good scientist that is the source of our gloom and doom. They are the ones making the predictions.
And with a profit motive. They get to save the world. That’s big payback.
You want to follow the $$ trail you can’t go wrong looking at fossil fuel profits. We’re talking $billions+ per day.
$billions+ per day!
Now right there is a strong reason to shut down talk of anthropic warming, its implications, its impending physical, economic and political costs and who pays.
You think any of those eco-warriors makes that much?
You want to see motive in money? Clean your glasses.
No, I'd only have to show that they trumpet some things much louder than they do others.
No, you conservative windbag, you have to do just as Taq requires. We don’t care about your politically slanted lists and illogical bias. We care about the reality. The important parts like the science, not this politically motivated disinformation wrapped in minutia crap that you’re spreading.
That's because, with few exceptions, the rest of the world points to the U.S. and says "It's all your fault - you fix it!"
It is. And we have to.
But with the rest of humanity trying to emulate us the problem has become global, and the whole world knows it, whether your demented sources care to see that news or not. I guess it helps your side to kick sand in the face of the global consensus. In a world divided you can continue to rake it in while you burn the place down.
You folks are evil.
I don't ignore them, I believe them. I ignore the doom and gloom predictions of what it will cause by power seeking governments.
The gloom and doom is coming from the science. Or are you saying that shifting weather patterns, altered ocean currents, and thus shifting droughts and floods altering food production over vast areas of the continents, is not, somehow, amazingly, not supported by the science?
Oh, That's right. Your beer is cold now and all this gloom and doom stuff is just so far away. No need to upset the oligarchs with this talk of timelines beyond next quarter's bottom line.
And as for power seeking governments, the reality, discernable to most viewers of politics and power structures, is that government is in the hands of the conservative capitalist elite sourced by that $billions+ per day. You can buy a lot a republicans with that kind of cash.
I just proved Message 658 100% WRONG.
Whoa! Trump’s got nothing on you when it comes to making false claims right in the face of the evidence. Good show Marc.
As you might have noticed, it caused a two posters here to have a complete emotional meltdown.
Oh, Marc, Marc, we know you and your type. You can’t even raise a slight palpitation with anyone here.
I used Texas as an example that unexpected challenges and problems can happen if something new is implemented and depended on too quickly.
Then you failed, Bunkie. The Texas situation had nothing to do with technology and everything to do with republican politics.
Fossil fuels are TIME TESTED. Any complete replacements for them also need to be time tested, and it takes time.
What foolish crap is this? You think we care if the source becomes XX? In this society the only requirement is that it work. Time tested, my ass. If it replaces carbon bring it on!
And regardless of what you might hear in the back hallways of stupidity on power generation, do try to use less of the stuff, ok?
The world isn't ready to replace fossil fuels in any meaningful way in the near future.
We know. That’s part of the gloom and doom we’ve been talking about.
The transition is happening. Can’t be stopped. Those that can adapt will go on. Wall Street will find the rudders to keep things moving as long as the government can pump in the liquidity to keep all the ships afloat. When that stops businesses collapse, economies collapse, societies collapse. Kinda the definition of gloom and doom.
We can't go back to primitive, labor intensive methods of the horse and buggy days, when the world population was 1/5 of what it is today, and expect to keep up with current volumes of what is required in today's world.
We’re not going to have much choice. Major tipping points are coming and going with no attempts to action.
I know you don’t believe in the gloom and doom of tipping points but the science, uninfluenced by $billions+ per day, is getting so much better so fast that we have started to realize just how too late we are on a lot of this stuff already. We’re fucked.
A thousand years from now most of humanity will have rediscovered the non-oil versions of everything on your list while the community gathers on the commons to pray in union that the plague and the horde of patriots will pass them by tonight.
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