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Originally Posted by Mutt
97% of scientists believe in man made global warming. 'Tyranny' is a word used by kooks. There are hysterics and demagogues on the extreme ends of both the political left and right.
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That 97% figure comes from a study that has been thoroughly discredited and shown to be wrong in both its methodology and conclusion. The author won't even release his data to people who want to test it. What is he hiding? It's a big lie that was handed off to the media and now they just run with it.
I guess 'Tyranny' is a word used by kooks to describe the end-game proposed by alarmists that "deniers" be arrested. Call me a kook if you like but proposing that people you disagree with be arrested is a road map to tyranny if you ask me.
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Originally Posted by Mutt
In the end what's the downside if we cut carbon emissions - who here owns an oil company?
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The better question is what's the downside if we
do cut carbon emissions? Plant life shuts down at 150ppm CO2. We are far closer to the dangerous bottom end of CO2 than we are to any imaginary high end.
The carbon dioxide level is dangerously low
The Positive Externalities of Carbon Dioxide: Estimating the Monetary Benefits of Rising Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations on Global Food Production
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Originally Posted by Mutt
I will read any opinion, the whole issue doesn't mean much to me since I don't think a couple of degrees of warming is going to be catastrophic, I don't live on an atoll two feet above sea level.
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Bingo. So why are we wasting trillions of dollars globally and crippling our economies to fight something that in all likelihood won't even be a major problem? A couple degrees of warming would probably be a net benefit.