In what context
should I be quoting? ?
I’ve been reading along, I know what you’re talking about, but I’m pecking this out on a phone while Little bear finishes English. I’m a teacher now, too.
And tired.?
The first quote of mine, you took out of context. That was a statement made about the period beginning in the industrial revolution to the present day. And yes the global average temperatures HAVE been trending up through that period of time. That's a measurable fact.
A fact that does not take into account any other time period on earth. Not the Roman warm period not the Precambrian, nor Cretaceous period of known warmer temperatures and higher CO2 levels, that aren’t there now. It doesn’t take solar cycles into account, celestial dust storms that cloud the atmosphere or major volcanic activity cycles either.
You also assume I disagree with climate change. I don’t, usually, I just don’t agree with how you got there.
And further, hand wringing won’t fix it.
Arguing whether or not it is, is arguing with Muslims that Jesus is not a prophet, but the Messiah.
That just won’t take.
That doesn’t mean we can’t talk about human rights with them. Murdering humans is wrong.
In the same vein, I’m just a simple pirate, But I’m a decent and respectable type pirate. Most pirates know throwing oil in a sea is wrong. Given a GOOD alternative they won’t.
Evidently, driving a truck is wrong. But that’s my only option. There isn’t anyone standing here, just aching to give me an electric truck for free. Nor will they just give me the power transformer to install into my circuit panel.
Let alone if that truck could do all the things my planet killer does. Non-stop.
How many here actually take their bike the 2.1 miles to the corner store? I do. (Maybe you’ve seen my snafu...)
Anyone leave the truck at the corner and walk the three blocks to the barber and then the trinket store my daughter likes?
What about the cloth grocery sacks? There’s more to protecting the environment than gases and temperatures.
A brisk day pales when the ocean is dead with the shade of a plastic roof.
Who likes fruit? Well, stop. You know how much fuel it takes to get bananas and oranges to the white north?
And switching to vitamins won’t help, there is so much chemical stock necessary to strip the minerals from the foods. It takes chemicals to make chemicals. It takes energy to make those...
The fix, (if there is one, you know the sun is going to red giant eventually, right? It’s corona will be at earth’s orbit after expansion. It may be a touch warm!?) is making the globe saving technology popular and cost effective, not arguing with some Carpenter from Michigan about whether the Cenozoic era is actually warmer then the Mesozoic era, based on fossil records of the plant life, not ice cores from the other side of the planet, on the edge of a tectonicplate that literally could have moved to the other side of the planet in that time.
But I tend to look at a bigger picture than most.
In the end, even if human behaviors haven’t done the planet in, human behavior will have to change to repair it, or to deal with the aftermath, regardless.
And when I ask how to fix it, it’s not in jest.
We live in an amazing age. I believe there isn’t anything that humans can not do.
If everyone is worried about the polar ice, I have no problems with sending a solar shield satellite(a Shadellite? I named it first!?) to shade the pole and promote glacier growth.
There may be HUGE unintended consequences, but I know we could do it.
But we’re too interested in forcing behavioral change by boot sole about stuff that is no other humans business, yet I digress.
Really though, you said you proved it and anyone that is in doubt just doesn’t understand. So, it’s true. The climate is changing. Now what?
The castrating New Green Deal? Be the only country to go back to 1300 England, but with phones?
Force everyone to walk?
Trade cars and tractors for horses, and CO2 for methane? We could pump the methane under liquid pressure to the methane sea that lies under the Antarctic ocean... dang, dumping more stuff in the ocean...
Stop making plastic?
What about a moratorium on building new homes?
Driving the up cost and value of homes stifles all sorts of economic development, which lowers GNDP. Lower economic numbers means less energy burned, conversely more opportunity to break the law and destroy the environment for profit to live on, but we could hang those, which in turn saves food...
Force everyone to switch to immature electric technology? There couldn’t possibly be any environmental ramifications from increasing lithium battery production by a magnitude of a thousand...
I don’t mean to be flippant, but if the conclusion is reached, the time for solutions is now.
God please don’t say steam trains...
Depleted Uranium flash steam powered road trains, now that’s entirely different...?
Thanks for reading my rambling between homeworks. Time for some reading before bed. Little Bear reads to me!