Cost of climate hysteria

[blackpowder]

I sometimes wonder how many people can wrap their head around the number of stars in the sky. I can't.
Neither is it reasonable to think most people can visualize geological time.
It's humbling.
Doing better is a good thing.
Making money a necessary thing.
Setting an average temperature for the planet in 2 or 3 decades will be the preeminent study in human folly for centuries.
What we can't seem to talk about and should, is what the wasteland of Canada looks like when oil and gas are gone. Bickering about stupid stuff easier.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

.
Anyone can see the current strategy was just plain dumb.

All you need to do to prove how dumb the current strategy is, is look at the results.
The climate continues to improve (we haven't even slowed the rate of warming, regardless of what is causing it.). CO2 continues to increase. First world economies continue to decline while industry and jobs and investment flee to the developing world. Coal and total fossil fuel consumption continue to increase. The cost of everything in the countries devoted to fighting climate change continue to increase, while the ability to pay those costs continues to decrease. The world's reliance on some of the worst regimes for our energy and manufacturing continues to increase. The wealth transfer from the middle class to the politically connected elites continues to increase. The people are more divided than ever. Actual environmental threats and humanitarian catastrophes and actual science are being starved of resources and capital as as the climate machine vacuums it all up.
Actual pollution has increased, as the war on CO2 has driven dirty industries to places with no environmental regulations.

I can't think of any measure by which we are better as a result of having wasted decades and trillions of dollars tilting at windmills.

[fjlip]

Just ask CC, we are saving earth for great great great grandchildren... guaranteed accurate to 0.1 degree of AVERAGE ( phucking BS) world temp!

[Landdownunder]

Last 30 35 yrs some places warming some places cooling but probably leans a fraction to warming. Balanced unbiased data is about if ya look.

[farmaholic]

Whether "HUMAN CAUSED" climate change is real or not, I live in an area that the last thing I want to see is hotter and drier summers. Seems we're on the fringe already, that's why I don't want to see "hotter and drier".
Even if it's not real, seeing cities with their own brown cloud is discouraging. Years ago I even seen the small city of Regina had a brown cloud one time. So reducing "pollution", I'm not saying CO², can't be a bad thing. Ironically, the brown cloud thing is a result of concentrated population areas, out in the countryside the dilution affect makes things more than bearable, but the countryside would still be contributing. When we leave the city(can't get out fast enough!), the outside temp reading on the vehicle is always a degree or two warmer than at home, 50 kms away, don't even have to go that far to see it drop.

Night time satellite imagery of North America is somewhat alarming when you see the population concentration indicated by the areas lit up by night time lighting. Are humans the catalyst....

Just think the massive improved difference modern gasoline engines are compared to the old carburated ones. Fuel injected with sensors measuring air flow and temperatures sure makes them alot cleaner burning.

[Landdownunder]

[QUOTE=farmaholic;n831023]Whether "HUMAN CAUSED" climate change is real or not, I live in an area that the last thing I want to see is hotter and drier summers. Seems we're on the fringe already, that's why I don't want to see "hotter and drier".

our run of 44c to 48c has ended was a toasty 3 week period in jan early feb

[farmaholic]

Our crops would fry in that heat.
I'd like to see Australia in our off season but I'm pretty sure I'd melt.

[Grain Farmer]

We have cooler/cold April, May..so heat is needed June, July , August or crops could be toast by frost.
no cooling please.

[farmaholic]

Can we agree on highs of 25 to 28 and timely rains

[fjlip]

And +10 or warmer at night! Winds under 20Km, humidity at 50%...

The order is in, the ideal CLIMATE , right CC? No change EVER!