12-10-2018, 03:04 PM
Should we be concerned about climate change? Yes, but with all of the facts... climate change has become a political cudgel where hypocrisy reigns supreme. I remember seeing all of the private jets landing and departing at a major climate change conference... sheesh, are they THAT concerned?
Since the Earth's formation 4.543 billion years ago, the planet has been in a constant state of climate change with repetitive extremes of heating and cooling. Mebbe giant lizard flatulence brought along the last ice age? Who knows?
What we do know is that despite leaving the <ridiculously expensive and even more ridiculously ineffective> Paris accords, the US has the lowest per capita rate of carbon emissions among all of the countries that remain in the pact.
Blame Trump for climate change? Politically convenient but not realistic.
Fact is, the major contributors to carbon and CO2 pollution are countries like China and many in the third world. Now there is a great place to start if meaningful global reductions are to be realized over the next several decades... I guess the politically inclined just haven't got around to that inconvenient truth yet.
Since the Earth's formation 4.543 billion years ago, the planet has been in a constant state of climate change with repetitive extremes of heating and cooling. Mebbe giant lizard flatulence brought along the last ice age? Who knows?
What we do know is that despite leaving the <ridiculously expensive and even more ridiculously ineffective> Paris accords, the US has the lowest per capita rate of carbon emissions among all of the countries that remain in the pact.
Blame Trump for climate change? Politically convenient but not realistic.
Fact is, the major contributors to carbon and CO2 pollution are countries like China and many in the third world. Now there is a great place to start if meaningful global reductions are to be realized over the next several decades... I guess the politically inclined just haven't got around to that inconvenient truth yet.