(08-23-2019 06:52 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-23-2019 06:46 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  I don't remember your drop-dead issues. But as you know, my biggest issue is climate change. It stuns me that no one is talking about the fires in the Amazon. The Amazon produces 20 percent of our planet's oxygen. Have we had one single comment from Trump on the fires? The U.S. should be leading the fight to try to squash the destruction of the rainforest.

Here are my drop-dead show-stopper issues:

- Gun control (I favor reducing gun violence, just not by means of gun control)
- Single-payer/single-provider health care
- Massive government redistribution of income and/or wealth
- "Live birth" abortions (I am basically pro-choice with restrictions)

I think climate change is real and is a huge issue. My problem is that the so called global warming/climate change activists refuse to come up with meaningful and achievable proposals to reduce it significantly.

I think that anthropogenic climate change is real. Undoubtedly humans are altering the portions of the atmosphere and heat retention properties of the Earth.

The problem is that the there is absolutely no real, scientific indication of how well the CO2 climate forcing parameter that is promulgated actually describes the system at large. It might be at the level of we only have 20 years, or, if people like Svenmark are correct about the Sun and cloud feedback loops, then about 75-85 per cent of the warming attributable to CO2 really isnt.

Accordingly, no one can accurately assess what measures are properly commensurate with the issue of CO2 forcings actually are responsible for. The result is a morass of non-achievable economically devastating 'solutions'.