See post #9. The timescale of the anthropogenic warming is 200 years. Don’t confuse the science with politics. Those who actually look at the numbers will tell you that we have little ability to reduce CO2 emissions until probably the latter half of the century. The world derives about 80% of its energy from hydrocarbons. It will take some time to bend that curve down. Meanwhile, we will continue to warm and there will be consequences but nothing that we can’t adapt to. Regarding hurricanes and anthropogenic warming, there is no real evidence of any impact on hurricanes from anthropogenic warming. However, climate modeling suggests that in the future we may see less hurricanes but the ones we do see may be stronger. Our reliable record of hurricanes is only about 60 years old.
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Originally Posted by swilkinson
There is a difference between believing in climate change and understanding if the climate is changing as part of a natural planetary cycle or is it due to human intervention. 11,000 years ago was the end of the last ice age. It eneded because the planet temperature rose and the sea level rose 400 feet. My question to all the climate change jockies is this: how many people were driving cars and heating there homes with fossil fuel 11,000 years ago??? Your problem with credibility is that you can't prove if this is a natural planetary cycle or human intervention, can you! On top of that, you people who want to kill the US fossil fuel industry don't understand that if the US stopped burning fossil fuel, there would be no improvement becasue china is building dozens of coal plants and they, and the reswt of the world, are 95% of the alleged problem. Further more, it takes fossil fuel to dig up the lithium for electric vehicle batteries, and if that is not enough for you to smarten up, where do you think the electricity comes from to power electric vehicles? Just use common sense. Maybe you should focus on US clean water and clean air.
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