(01-09-2019 09:39 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(01-09-2019 09:12 AM)NIU007 Wrote:  Still holding out hope that it's a hoax? Good luck with that.
And you could make that argument about EVERYTHING scientists are doing in any field. But this is the only area where people suddenly decide that they'd rather believe the CEO of a fossil fuel company than the people actually studying the issue.
Also, if they determined that the Earth is warming, but not due to humans, one would think you'd still want to study it so we'd know what we need to be prepared for and how soon.

But the fallacy is your implicit assumption that CEOs of fossil fuel companies are somehow biased, but "people actually studying the issue" are somehow objective. When the grants for studying the issue presuppose the objective, then nobody is more than a hired hand.

Here's my point. I don't want to spend money on conjecture about whether the average temperature will be 1 degree or 3 degrees warmer in 2120. Where I want the research going is what do we do about it. So far the answer seems to be developed countries take massive hits to your economies, developing countries keep on keeping on, and developed countries make massive transfers of wealth to developing countries. I don't think that works. And I think that anyone who truly believes that we are staring catastrophe in the face within 100 years should want a better solution.

This exactly.

Additionally, the political class embracing it see it as a way to increase the power of government over everything the people do..........