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Serious quesiton for people who deny human involvement in climate change/global warming

Pbs has recently run a show in two parts called "Uranium--Tickling the Dragons Tail". Or something very close to that. I watched it with my kids and we all enjoyed it and learned a few things along the way.

In part 2 the show looks at nuclear reactors. It changed my views of reactors....i am less excited about the technology we have now, but I am hopeful for better science and technology in the near future.

I keep telling myself that Star Wars and Star Trek figured out a way to harness nuclear power, so we also should be able to.
 
moevillini said:
Well the same can be said about Holocaust deniers, 9/11 deniers, conspiracy theorists of various stripes and those who generally feel the government ("gubmint") is out to get them.


While I agree with the idea of good personal education and planning and individual responsibility, I don't agree that it negates the need for some degree of government regulation.
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I call "some degree of government regulation" the "middle school hall monitor concept". As a society, my generation turned to "some degree of government regulation" as the preferred way to make everything "normal" and keep personal conduct modulated by "some degree of normalcy", and thus this concept today is equivalent to "normalcy bias". We just can't "see" things being OK without rules saying what everyone must do.

It has gotten so bad, now, that a smart lady radio show conservative, Kathleen Albright (https://www.katherinealbrecht.com/radio-show/), reports that kids today coming out of high school are completely unable to take care of themselves like 18 yr-olds of yore, who were expected to just leave their parents' nest and go out to school or to jobs and live on their own, and solve all their own problems. Our kids today have been conditioned to follow nanny state instruction unquestioningly.

While I believe you have fundamental good sense, and your point has some merit, I just think we need to re-educate the rising generation with a bias towards thinking for ourselves, taking care of ourselves, and rejecting this particular theory of governance, to become a "can-do nation" once again.
 
babe said:
I call "some degree of government regulation" the "middle school hall monitor concept". As a society, my generation turned to "some degree of government regulation" as the preferred way to make everything "normal" and keep personal conduct modulated by "some degree of normalcy", and thus this concept today is equivalent to "normalcy bias". We just can't "see" things being OK without rules saying what everyone must do.

It has gotten so bad, now, that a smart lady radio show conservative, Kathleen Albright (https://www.katherinealbrecht.com/radio-show/), reports that kids today coming out of high school are completely unable to take care of themselves like 18 yr-olds of yore, who were expected to just leave their parents' nest and go out to school or to jobs and live on their own, and solve all their own problems. Our kids today have been conditioned to follow nanny state instruction unquestioningly.

While I believe you have fundamental good sense, and your point has some merit, I just think we need to re-educate the rising generation with a bias towards thinking for ourselves, taking care of ourselves, and rejecting this particular theory of governance, to become a "can-do nation" once again.
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Or we can just work together to solve big problems instead of worrying that every collective action is the equivalent of giving Hitler a *******.
 
It wouldn't be inaccurate to assume that I couldn't exactly not say that it is or isn't almost partially incorrect....On the contrary, I'm possibly more or less not definitely rejecting the idea that in no way with any amount of uncertainty that I undeniably know that humans do or do not cause global warming.
 
tedbundy said:
It wouldn't be inaccurate to assume that I couldn't exactly not say that it is or isn't almost partially incorrect....On the contrary, I'm possibly more or less not definitely rejecting the idea that in no way with any amount of uncertainty that I undeniably know that humans do or do not cause global warming.
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Great reference. I bet most wont get it.
 
Siro said:
Or we can just work together to solve big problems instead of worrying that every collective action is the equivalent of giving Hitler a *******.
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well, aside from Hitler's life in the south woods of Argentina, and such, I think Hitler is pretty much out of the picture.

Lord Cecil Rhodes is also gone.

However, we still have Prince Philip and the Queen, and Maurice Strong, a bunch of banking families and the military industrial corporates, and oh, say, some pharmaceutical and oil cartels, and, well, . . . . I could go one. . . . folks who can inordinately weigh in with a plan for our future. Is it too much to admit that the real meaning of "fascism" from it's Latin roots correlates very well with "influence peddling", and private "connections" with real influence in our politics?

I think government is probably always susceptible to such influences, but we do need to at least make the effort to make it honest, and to hold up actual truth in "science" in a context of objectivity.
 
I have a question for those who don't think man's activities are NOT a contributing factor to climate change?

Where did you stand on the Terri Schiavo case?

Disclaimer: Not trolling.
 
VINYLONE said:
I have a question for those who don't think man's activities are NOT a contributing factor to climate change?

Where did you stand on the Terri Schiavo case?

Disclaimer: Not trolling.
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Has there been anyone say they believe our activities have no impact on the environ/climate?

I for one believe we do have an impact. I just also believe it's smaller than those that, for a living/make money from ringing the bell, try to lead us to believe.

It's also nauseating some of our policies.

We can't use coal because it's dirty, but we can mine for it and send it to India so they can burn it into our SAME atmosphere... and in order to get it there we will put onto trucks, trains, and cargo ships burning diesel??
 
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