Climate Change? When has climate ever been static?

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  • #231779
    Vknid
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      I just don’t get this thought process. Why is there an assumption the climate should be static? When has it ever been static?

      And we have recorded weather for about 100 years or so. How are we now qualified to know what climate should be given the 4 billion year history of Earth?

      I agree since we are part of the system we influence the system but to think we steer the bus is just the height of human arrogance.

      https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/pacific-northwest-heatwave-virtually-impossible-without-climate-change/

      #231780

      This is one topic that sometimes I clash with a few conservative voices that downplay what’s happening in the planet right now.

      I recommend the following documentaries:
      Seaspiracy (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14152756/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)
      David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11989890/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_t_5)
      Dominion (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5773402/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6)

      The slaughter that happens on a daily basis by huge millionaire corporations putting many species almost in extinction is something that should be discussed very seriously by the world leaders. Many species are key for our planet to breathe (forests, corals…). But we are destroying it. Because of the abusive commercialization of everything.
      And we’re just talking about the consequences in the environment and climate. If we start talking about animal rights, it’s even more horrendous (torture and suffering of animals).

      We should stop supporting big corp brands, we should try to buy everything from local farms.

      Big brands will lie to you, saying they have a sustainable model, but it’s fake, they slaughter millions of animals everyday, they destroy everything for profit and for luxury. (Example: in asian seas they kill hundreds of sharks everyday just because elite chinese like to drink shark soup because they say it’s luxurious and gives them good luck…).

       

      But it’s stupid how the left pushes a bunch of fake campaigns every year of millionaire companies like starbucks etc, about plastic straws (that have zero impact) and other fake stuff, but they keep quiet about the animal slaughter that they do.
      Oh and now they even support asian countries that eat dogs and cats… they say: “Respect other cultures!! we eat cows and pigs too!!”.
      What a disgrace…

      #231782
      Vknid
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        @Hazu

        I was not trying to downplay anything. The climate change argument is really silly in my opinion as it is put forth by the left. It is really used just to do what the elites always do, gather money and power.

        HOWEVER

        There are real issues. I find plastic pollution in the oceans and other water ways to be the most pressing. But you rarely hear about it because of the climate change push. Not only that but the climate change push is always on the west when in fact its the east doing most of the polluting.

        #231783

        I mean I do think climate change caused by humans is real and eventually will be a problem, but not for a looong time and the panic and mass hysteria caused by Greta Thunberg etc. is just an exaggeration, predicting that by 2030 this and that will happend and we will be screwed.

        100% agree with Peterson here:

        #231791

        I’m old enough to remember some of the so-called climate change hysteria in the 90’s (we did it in Primary school) and that was very mild compared to what that silly Greta girl keeps saying! I can even remember our school claiming that the Ozone layer will vanish in the 2020’s or something like that. As you can imagine, I’m laughing at that now. I was even trying not to laugh back then.

        #231792
        Vknid
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          @SuperSoynic_Speed

          Is there climate change? I am sure there is because climate is not static. Just because it might be quicker than we like does not mean it’s not natural. Do we influence it? I am sure we do but I believe the rate at which this is the case is undetermined. That is not a license to mistreat the environment we should always be studious in our treatment of our gift from God like we should treat any gift.

          But let’s be honest. Most of the “green” things the government and the left want are not green at all. It’s simply a way to (again) do what they always do, gather money and power.

          And to be honest, if the climate IS changing (and again it is because it always does) assuming we can alter it is a foolish thought at best. Sure we sit on that bus but we don’t steer it.

          But let me say that I agree with you in that whatever the climate change thing is will be slow while there are much more pressing issues that will kill us far quicker. And that’s the thing too. Anyone claiming to “save the planet” is a virtue singling dingdong. The planet will be fine. It’s our own butts we need to save. We f up and cause a mass kill in the oceans because of plastic and we are hosed.

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          #231794
          Vknid
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            @DragonLady

            The powers that be will ALWAYS take anything then can to create a crisis because through said crisis they can generate fear which causes people to surrender their rights and their money.

            #231801
            Mustangride1
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              If, you go off the charts the “scientist” have put out the Earth goes through Climatic cycles.
              What or Who is to say we are not simply in a warming cycle now?
              Scientist, well ya, and then others say its not!

              But I can without a doubt and no need for science, say FOLLOW THE MONEY!

              Look at all the industry built up around “The Green Industry” and supported by politicians.

              Do we need to look at other forms of energy? Yes, but before those forms come on line for general use, we should also have safe ways to dispose of their waste safely.  Just as an example, all these electric cars, well those batteries will sooner or later be disposed of, where and how?

              #231802
              Vknid
              Moderator

                One of the primary reasons I know the global warming “movement” is BS is because many times I heard it rest on the phrase “the science is settled”. That is such a grievous philosophical error as to go against the very tenants of science itself. If we had that same general mindset hundreds of years ago we would still be confident in our beliefs that the Earth is flat and at the center of the universe.

                #231817

                @DragonLady I recall the decade were the ‘EXPERTS” were calling that if we don’t change our ways, we can expect GLOBAL COOLING and the start of the next ice age.

                The next decade, it was acid rains.

                The next decade, it was the ozone, then the global warming.

                 

                The so called “EXPERTS” are completely moronic and stupid as hell.

                SO they decided to use a term that happens all the time as the new buzz word.  Something you can’t argue against.

                CLIMATE CHANGE!

                In most places we have four seasons… that is climate change.  (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer)

                In a week, as can have sunshine, clouds, rains, thunder storms, winds, calm.  That is all climate change in action.

                In a day, it can overcast overnight, temperature drop, morning fog, sun comes up, heats the air/burns off the fog, winds blows cloud away/clear skies, etc.  That is all climate change.

                 

                So you can’t say climate change is not real.

                What is NOT real is their predictions and models.

                 

                But too many people will except it because someone said they are an “expert”… yay, and expert BS’ers!

                #231826

                @Legatus_Legionis

                Agreed.

                Media: OMG! A heat wave in July! It must be climate change!

                Me: Um…it’s called SUMMER!

                Media: OMG! It’s colder than usual! It must be climate change!

                Me: Um…it’s called WINTER!

                #231827

                One thing I have never heard from the green lobby or the politicians exploiting them to impose more rules and taxes on the rest of us is exactly what the global temperature and climate is supposed to be if not for human activity. If current conditions prove what they are saying then they should also be able to tell us what conditions would disprove what they are claiming.

                #231831
                Vknid
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                  @StephenDutton

                  That is an excellent point. But it’s like anything the left does. It must be dressed in mystery and surrounded by vagueness because otherwise people would figure out it’s bull.

                  #231848

                  In a week, as can have sunshine, clouds, rains, thunder storms, winds, calm.  That is all climate change in action.

                  In a day, it can overcast overnight, temperature drop, morning fog, sun comes up, heats the air/burns off the fog, winds blows cloud away/clear skies, etc.  That is all climate change.

                  that’s not climate, that’s weather. Ofc weather changes with time of the day and seasons. The way to measure if the long running climate has changed is by comparing the average temperature to earlier years, where many countries are breaking old heat records (in both peak and average temperature) and the ”everlasting” glaciers on the north and south pole are melting and rising the level of the ocean. These are all facts with statistics backing up.

                   

                  However, I think the real question is if all this is caused hy humans and if it’s gonna lead to something bad and catastrophic or if it’s just a neverending cycle that like once in every 500 years for example the average temperature rises for X amount of years until the cooler period comes again. It’s like Jordan Peterson in the video I linked said, we cannot predict and know for sure if the climate will change in the coming 50 years and if it does, we can not stop or slow it down because there is no way to measure if the method is working before 50 years into the future.

                  My opinion is that the climate is slowly changing and the actions of us humans make the process a little bit faster with pollution etc, but nothing dramatic is still gonna happen in a very long time.

                  #231962

                  The hypocrisy of liberals on climate change

                  On Wednesday, Politico reported that the Sunrise Movement, joined by more than 40 other liberal environmental groups, is urging the Biden administration to soften its approach to the Chinese Communist Party.

                  Being soft on tyrants?  Being soft on human rights?

                  Specifically, the groups asked that the administration “curb its confrontational approach over issues like Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong and forced detention of Uyghur Muslims.” Truly, who cares about human rights and basic freedom as long as you’re a reliable exporter of solar panels and critical minerals?

                  Virtual signaling is more important than lives!

                  This is just the most recent instance in a long history of liberals’ hypocritical agenda on the climate.

                  Nothing surprising there.

                  Unfortunately, these leadership failures have real-world consequences. Just this April, left-wing activists claimed success in shutting down New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant. Before the closure, the plant produced 25% of New York City’s energy. Within a month, in-state carbon emissions from electricity production rose an astonishing 46%. Unperturbed, progressives such as Sanders still call nuclear energy a “fake solution” while also opposing other emissions-reducing technologies, such as carbon capture and natural gas.

                  That is because they can’t financially benefit from it.

                  People deserve to know that too many climate activists are more interested in empty political rhetoric than actually supporting actionable climate bills.

                  Because it makes them “feel good” rather than actually DOING GOOD!

                   

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