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    The same guys that say Sanders can't win said the same thing about Trump.
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    James Hansen https://dailycaller.com/2016/04/12/scientist-who-predicted-ny-city-would-be-underwater-says-hes-not-an-alarmist/
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    When is shows up in the statistics and not just the models, I will take another look. (BTW, did you notice that one of the models had to assume a 5 degree C increase in temperature to detect attribution?)
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    No I am a rational skeptic. I don’t “deny” climate change. The climate has been changing since time began. I question the role of CO2 as the control knob on the global thermostat.
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    From your article, (and I did read the whole thing) "Such analyses are exceedingly tricky, and not all experts in the field agree" "One study published in Harvey's aftermath suggests climate change likely boosted the hurricane's rainfall, the models suggest " “Global warming is nebulous,” says climate scientist Peter Stott" "climate researchers clash over methodology" "it’s difficult for researchers to evaluate the quality of computer models because the counterfactual scenarios, by definition, didn’t actually happen" "often referred to as a “storyline” approach. And where the conventional approach emphasizes natural variability, the conditional approach focuses on the role of climate change, says Trenberth. The different methodologies produce disparate reports" "Rahmstorf, who suspects that atmospheric dynamics are not well-represented in current climate models used for attribution studies" It doesn't sound like the science is settled.
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    Of course there are some negatives, as in any large scale extractive enterprise, however the benefits far outweigh the negatives.
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    Joe: What has fracking ever done for us? Hutch: Abundant supply of cheap reliable clean energy. Joe: Yeah, yeah that's true Hutch: And a reduced carbon footprint Joe: All right, I'll grant you that, cheap reliable clean energy and a reduced carbon footprint Hutch: And the billions in tax revenue Joe: Well obviously the tax revenue, that goes without saying Hutch: Stabilized global energy markets, provided thousands of jobs, helped grow the economy, reduced the power of bad actors such as Saudi Arabia and Russia.... Joe: All right, all right.....but apart from abundant cheap reliable clean energy, reduced carbon footprint, billions in tax revenue, stable global energy markets, thousands of jobs, helping grow the economy and reducing the power of bad actors...…...WHAT HAS FRACKING EVER DONE FOR US? Apologies to Monty Python
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    I answered on GND thread.
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    No my position on fracking is more comprehensive than just the 100 year supply of cheap, reliable, clean, energy. I look at the geopolitics as well and how our energy boom benefits the global community. No longer does OPEC or Russia set world energy prices, it is the United States. Putin sure doesn't like fracking.https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/russias-putin-says-shale-oil-technologies-are-barbaric.html "Natural gas prices have fallen in Europe because of hydraulic fracturing of shale in the U.S., said Thorsten Herdan, a director general for energy policy at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. And that will help Germany...…… we are profiting from the shale revolution right now in the U.S. as the price of gas is going down dramatically in Europe. So that’s also some sort of helping each other." So as you can see, it is much more than USA, USA.
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    "Drying out AND seeing more rain" Just let that marinate for a bit. Coastlines disappearing? How about GROWING? https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3111 If your theory predicts head or tails in a coin toss, it is not much of a theory.
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    Yale says fracking causes gonorrhea. https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/22299/
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    Most of what you linked to is outdated and the trends observed in many cases have reversed themselves. For example, the record warmth in the United States. The last two years did not even make the top twenty. Nothing extreme about that. And I cant believe it took a bunch of PHDs to figure out that floods are more costly in rich countries with expensive infrastructure. As far as deadly concerned, no flood in this century even made into the top twenty.
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    And it is all because of fracking!
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    Yes, you are correct, a lot of folks feel that weather is more "extreme" and that the cause of those changes are the sins of man. This is nothing new however, that notion has been around for thousands of years. I think Colbert described that feeling as "truthiness". http://www.cc.com/video-playlists/kw3fj0/the-opposition-with-jordan-klepper-welcome-to-the-opposition-w--jordan-klepper/63ite2 When you can provide actual data to support the notion of more "extreme" weather, I will happy to take a look.
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    So are you saying that the hurricanes are more frequent, stronger, and last longer that at anytime in the past? If you can prove that, I would reconsider my position.
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    Yeah, I don't get it. NOAA declares this past January the hottest January in history, beating the previous hottest January in 2016 by 0.02 degrees. Yet we have no more floods, droughts, hurricanes, wildfires or acne. All we have is less poverty and more food. Why cant you guys get on board with reality?
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    Truth hurts, more importantly, why would it make you mad?
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    No, according to NOAA. January 2020 was 0.02 degrees C warmer than 2016. The rest is just math.
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    With a warming rate of 0.02 degrees in four years, it will take three centuries before we reach the "dangerous" threshold of 1.5 degrees. Again not a big deal in my book.
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    If you can’t handle the message, attack/diminish the messenger.
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    https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/medieval-warm-period Better?
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    About forty billion napalm bombs, or not quite as much as there was a thousand years ago.