The facts are in and the strange thing about facts is, no matter what you may believe, facts are facts and no rational person can disagree with facts - we can all have an opinion, but we are not entitled to our own facts ...
- global warming, climate change is occurring and no responsible scientist believes otherwise.
I really do like their argument strategy.
First, state something we all agree with - facts are facts and we are entitled to an opinion but not our own facts.
Second, phrase the statement in such a way that disagreeing with it places you at odds with: reason, science, logic, intelligence, responsibility, decency, humanity ...
Finally, make your claim.
Link them all together and ta da ... who can possibly disagree.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Mr. Earth himself, although I think Mr Gore needs to turn over that mantle to Leo first ... made the following statement at a UN awards ceremony on 12/16/16:
"There are a few, very prominent people that still deny the overwhelming conclusions of the world's scientists that climate change is largely human-caused and needs immediate urgent attention."
Well. Hmm. Let's see.
NO ONE I HAVE EVER HEARD OR READ STATEMENTS BY, denies climate change. No one. Not even Mr. Trump, although listening to the leftists and their agents for change, you'd think he actually has and did.
Once more - NO ONE denies climate change is occurring.
However, that fact does not equal - human causation. It's a trick and easily done when you don't pay attention. We all believe human beings are the top of the chain - every chain, we believe we can make life, control time, space, and gravity ... we have the ability to be gods ... so we must also be able to change the climate on the planet. If we can't, then we are not the gods we believe we are.
So overwhelming consensus ... I don't know much, but I do know when I want to know something I find the least biased party (and it can be done) and read / listen to what they have to say.
The Father of the Gaia Theory, the original, the first to start us down this path ... the scientist renowned for his work, without which we would just be starting ... I think his analysis and thoughts are especially worth paying attention to.
If you check back under LABELS and search global warming, you will find the larger article on this subject. For now, a brief synopsis -
James Lovelock, a British scientist known as the Father of the Gaia Theory argues that approximately 550 gigatonnes of toxic emissions are released into the atmosphere each year.
(A gigatonne is a billion tons, or 550 billion tons)
That is a LOT of toxic emissions or emissions of any kind that contribute toward climate change.
We certainly should cut that down.
Then Lovelock goes on to add ... if every human, car, building, plane, factory, or product built by man was to disappear off the planet tomorrow, that would reduce the total output by 30 gigatonnes.
Climate change cannot be stopped. It cannot be prevented. It is an immutable fact - it will occur and there is nothing humans can do to change it. We play a very small role in the larger order of climate change.
Even if Lovelock is off by 10-20%, human causation is very much in doubt, and any reasonable human being understands that. What is not in doubt is change will happen as it has since earth's origins.
Lovelock doesn't say give up, instead he suggests we help those people who will be displaced by the rising oceans and temperature changes.
That is something DiCaprio and others haven't figured out yet.
I cannot imagine why they can't or haven't. It seems self-evident to me.
- global warming, climate change is occurring and no responsible scientist believes otherwise.
I really do like their argument strategy.
First, state something we all agree with - facts are facts and we are entitled to an opinion but not our own facts.
Second, phrase the statement in such a way that disagreeing with it places you at odds with: reason, science, logic, intelligence, responsibility, decency, humanity ...
Finally, make your claim.
Link them all together and ta da ... who can possibly disagree.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Mr. Earth himself, although I think Mr Gore needs to turn over that mantle to Leo first ... made the following statement at a UN awards ceremony on 12/16/16:
"There are a few, very prominent people that still deny the overwhelming conclusions of the world's scientists that climate change is largely human-caused and needs immediate urgent attention."
Well. Hmm. Let's see.
NO ONE I HAVE EVER HEARD OR READ STATEMENTS BY, denies climate change. No one. Not even Mr. Trump, although listening to the leftists and their agents for change, you'd think he actually has and did.
Once more - NO ONE denies climate change is occurring.
However, that fact does not equal - human causation. It's a trick and easily done when you don't pay attention. We all believe human beings are the top of the chain - every chain, we believe we can make life, control time, space, and gravity ... we have the ability to be gods ... so we must also be able to change the climate on the planet. If we can't, then we are not the gods we believe we are.
So overwhelming consensus ... I don't know much, but I do know when I want to know something I find the least biased party (and it can be done) and read / listen to what they have to say.
The Father of the Gaia Theory, the original, the first to start us down this path ... the scientist renowned for his work, without which we would just be starting ... I think his analysis and thoughts are especially worth paying attention to.
If you check back under LABELS and search global warming, you will find the larger article on this subject. For now, a brief synopsis -
James Lovelock, a British scientist known as the Father of the Gaia Theory argues that approximately 550 gigatonnes of toxic emissions are released into the atmosphere each year.
(A gigatonne is a billion tons, or 550 billion tons)
That is a LOT of toxic emissions or emissions of any kind that contribute toward climate change.
We certainly should cut that down.
Then Lovelock goes on to add ... if every human, car, building, plane, factory, or product built by man was to disappear off the planet tomorrow, that would reduce the total output by 30 gigatonnes.
Climate change cannot be stopped. It cannot be prevented. It is an immutable fact - it will occur and there is nothing humans can do to change it. We play a very small role in the larger order of climate change.
Even if Lovelock is off by 10-20%, human causation is very much in doubt, and any reasonable human being understands that. What is not in doubt is change will happen as it has since earth's origins.
Lovelock doesn't say give up, instead he suggests we help those people who will be displaced by the rising oceans and temperature changes.
That is something DiCaprio and others haven't figured out yet.
I cannot imagine why they can't or haven't. It seems self-evident to me.
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