Forty years ago, the "Progressives" were using the Great Ice Age scare to push their political power grab schemes. We gotta have more government to solve the crisis.
However, the natural fact is, more CO2 in the atmosphere reasonably can be expected to help the atmosphere retain heat. CO2 will capture radiation going or coming. The energetic modes of CO2 will then transfer that heat to other molecules in collisions or by it's own radiation. That didn't fit so well with the Great Ice Age Scare. And it just doesn't give the same leverage to fascist honchos/globalists with "solutions" as having a reason to regulate/control all human activity using energy....
We are going to have another Ice Age. The CO2 will not prevent it. Ice Age cycles involve some natural source of change that is more than ten times as significant as CO2 in the overall balance of things.
It is true that Ice Ages never occurred until the Earth's Atmosphere lost enough CO2, but they have occurred even with twice the atmospheric levels of CO2 our worst alarmists can conjure up for the next hundred years.
But an Ice Age is incompatible with any political scheme to restrict fossil fuel use. Well, not really, but in the popular science version of The Way Things Are. In the understanding of ordinary people, at first glance.
The great Rockefeller progenitor made is wealth in the oil monopoly business.....
Most people do not realize his genius. He was not one to rush gas out to fuel a price war at the gas stations. He always acted to restrict supply and keep prices high. A price war was madness to him.
Our oil industry has a few competitors that still try to gain market share by price competition. But it annoys the hell outta the Bigs.
The Great Carbon Scare is going to give governments the leverage to kill those competitors, by sheer massive regulations which nobody can survive.... except for the Bigs who "own" the governments worldwide.
Just look at your hands,
@Red, and whole bunch of the progressives pushers. You are playing the Rockefeller tune. You are the foot soldiers to restrict competition, reduce supplies, and make the Rockefeller holdings multiply in market value. You are working for the great Honcho Cartel.
People die when they have no fuel to burn in the icy cold of winter. People die when they are herded across the globe to enhance political power. People die when government increases. People die when dictators like Xi build their social score algorhythms and restrict people's access to transportation, or send them to camps. People die when ever some damn bureaucrat makes a new rule.
So anyway, I'm not going to make this thread a political thread. Just don't ask me to roll over for any
Nature article. The British educational elites since the Civil War have crafted the progressive movement using a band of pirates hijacking every free thinking intellect and swamping them with institutional elitism. The grand cause of integrated human management, in the eyes of any good progressive, however well-intended, just cannot allow the facts to interfere with the program.
Truth does not present an issue to progressive pushers.... government must increase..... people must decrease. That is all that matters.
The fact is, we do not have statistical basis to project global warming, nor to assume CO2 is the critical cause, nor to justify regulating human use of fossil fuel. The data is insufficient. The alarmists refuse to allow consideration of more significant issues into the discussion.
