Ok, I tried to stay out of this but I can't anymore. Lol.
First, climate is always changing. Always has always will.
Second, any atmospheric/climate/history book from any decent university has the recorded history of our weather. This shows that there have been times a lot worse than this, and a lot better. Just the other day a friend in Madrid Spain sent me some articles that Madrid had temps of 45-51 (yes 51) in the early 1900's. We are not breaking temp records from history, we may be breaking temp records from current (last 100-125 year) time period in some places. So we need to pump the breaks on the hysteria.
Third, so tired of tv, re: news and govts, trying to put fear in our minds with the scare tactics about catastrophic end because we drive a car, or buy a tv, or use AC, blah blah blah. You know that any decent statistical search can show that factories producing non-essential items (tvs, plastic toys from china, garden gnomes, picture frames, nick nacks, porcelin angels, plastic plants, and a whole host of other utter junk, is from the last I saw 61 percent of industrial production, but also 78 percent of pollution.
Fourth, there is no one on earth that can quantify electric cars as better. If you research the production of electric cars, they are just as polluting as gas to make and source, but...the batteries are massively damaging. Just to create one battery, it takes massive trucks and tractors hours and hours to mine the ore, using thousands of liters of fuel, then hours and massive resources to refine it anywhere close to usable material to put into a single battery. The environmental damage is unreal.
Anyone even seen the oil sands in Alberta just for oil?? Lithium and other rare earth minerals are far far greater damage to our environment. No one talking about that on tv!
Fifth, electricity. Anyone even read the paper in the last 20 years will see many many headlines of rolling blackouts, power failures of many major cities. As a Canadian, I have seen the blackouts of Toronto myself when I was posted in Ontario for years. It was a regular thing. Other major canadian cities have had blackouts on and off over the years. So...this brings me to my biggest question that no politician or scientist even attempt to answer. If we barely or can not make enough electricity 20 years ago, or 10 years ago or even now when people turn on their AC units for a hot day...how do we make 10-50 times that requirement for that amount of ev's any govt says is a must?
It is highly laughable! In fact many nations have turned back on their coal powered plants to deal with greater demand. But you don't see much of that in the news do you? Lol.
Sixth, since third world countries around the world, along with China and India produce the majority of emissions, how in the heck will anything 1/3rd of the world does affect what the 2/3rds do? I mean what happens if 1/3rd of a football teams runs and the 2/3rds stand there? You lose! So please explain how we overcome that? Punish those countries? Sure why not go after the poor! Lol!! China and India really? What are you going to do to make them change? Already most countries import more than 50 percent of goods from China. (more like 75 -80).
People going to go to the small villages in India and arrest some farmer for using at 89 toyota engine as a water pump for his irrigation? Hah.
Seventh, ev's are not safe. Say what you might, but the insurance claims and registration statistics show that ev claims are 97 percent total loss claims, whereas ce (combustion engine) claims are 31 total loss claims. We have all seen the ev's catch fire, can't be put out, people stuck locked in an ev, etc. Then ev's tire replacement rates are 23 percent greater that ce use tires. The increased weight of the vehicle are wearing tires out faster. Collision fatalities are greater.
With scant stats so far, the increased weights of ev's create more physical damage at the same speed as ce's. Basic physics. Surely we can not be blind to this.
Eight, the cost of purchase then maintenance. Evs are way more costly to begin with. Less range, and when the batteries need replacing...watch out. We have all heard the stories. 12 grand or more, not covered under warranty of course!
Ninth, forest fires lies. Again as a Canuck, the fires in Canada are 80 plus percent man made. Either accidental, purposeful burns that get out of control, or according to news-arrests of arsonists.
Tenth, and my favorite-sea level rise. Al Gore in the 90's---we are all under water in 20 years! LOL. That was good! Well Victoria BC, sea marker that has been there since around the time of the first british military port/base was there, tells a much different story! My fathers brother lives on Islamorada Florida since the 8o's. His dock, waterfront and property has not changed 1 bit.
Eleventh, IPCC report from the 90's. Told a much different story than today. Yes times change. But according to FOIA there was attachments to the IPCC that said to conceal this info. Why? Hmmm. I wonder.
Twelfth, new research proving Temp precedes Co2.
According to an extensive study on the matter recently published by Demetris Koutsoyiannis titled "Stochastic assessment of temperature–CO2 causal relationship in climate from the Phanerozoic through modern times." Koutsoyiannis holds an engineering doctorate and is a professor emeritus of hydrology and hydrosystems at the
National Technical University of Athens.
The study is a stochastic assessment determination of the sequencing of
CO2 variations versus temperature variations since the 1950s, over the last 2,000 years, and throughout the last 541 million years. The strong conclusion of the study is that the causality direction certainly shows the temperature changes lead and CO2 changes lag on yearly, decadal, centennial and millennial scales.
Not the other way around.
The claim that "increases in CO2 drive temperature changes" is merely a "narrative" perpetuated by climate alarmists. The claim that humans, through their emissions by fossil fuel burning, are responsible for the changes seen in climate can be regarded as a "non-scientific issue." (Related:
Proof 'climate change' is a hoax: Climate models are engineered with 'dangerous' CO2 warming conclusions built right into the code.)
"The premise of this study is that the climatic system is very complex and subject to perpetual change due to numerous processes, either internal or external to it. The fact that one of them, namely the relationship of climate with atmospheric CO?, is highlighted in the last decades does not correspond to its actual importance as a climate driver," Koutsoyiannis wrote. "The promoted importance is a non-scientific issue, related to the narrative that humans, through their emissions by fossil fuel burning, are responsible for the changes we see in climate."
Then...we get to CO2 itself. Well it is less than .04 percent of all atmosphereic gases. So...is science telling us that .04 that has risen from .03 in the last 50 years is the death bell for all of humanity? Really? Are we that numb to logic? Do we all not learn from past mistakes? Just outright believing everything that they say? Do we not have logic, deductive reasoning of our own?
So in Canada, we have less forest fires then 10 years ago, and 20 years ago. According to NOAA there are less hurricanes then the last decade. So where are these extreme weather events? Maybe the storms are more devastating because our infrastructure is old and heck, people live next to natural disaster zones more than ever, and govts make arbitrary rules and bad decisions that affect our response.
Re: Hawaii where the govt turned off the water in Maui so the people couldn't fight the fires on their own, the govt in Alberta recently threatened people who were willing to use thier small fleet of water trucks to put out a small forest fire on their own. So their are a lot of questions to ask.
All in all, I know this post is long, and of course someone will come after it, likely a few, but, I have my opinion, and I stand by it. We have been told we all will be under water by now, all be burnt to death, all be nuked by now by a whole host of doomsdayers and politicians for decades, yet here we are. The only catastrophes on earth are what the govts are doing.
Destroying farming, mass immigration uncontrolled spending and inflation, unprecedented business closures, unheard of crime and homelessness, corruption and so on. It's high time we the people wake up to the fact that we need to research and learn the truth for ourselves, and not rely on some overpaid, corrupt person or politician to feed you your daily slop of doom!
