brenthutch

I thought climate change resulted in drought. Anyway California did not have a warmer than average summer or fall, so.....try again.

What does avoiding risky sexual practices have anything to do with a phobia? Let's get back on topic and discuss your irrational and extreme fear of CO2.

Now you are sounding like BillV, conflating CO2 with smoking.

Why do you denigrate/fear education?

What has changed is human encroachment. The increase in the duration of the wildfire season is directly proportional to the increase in population in fire prone areas. The California wildfires have been blamed on climate change yet precipitation is 120% greater than normal and temperatures are around average. So climate change is not responsible it is the increase in population in fire prone areas. Just like in Australia.

You're more of a "from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs" kind of guy.

From the Atlantic "I teach environmental law, so naturally people get around to asking whether my wife and I struggled with what it means to bring a child onto this troubled planet, and whether it is a good thing to do at all. I take the point. James added his seven pounds, 10 ounces to a planet where humans and our domestic animals together outweigh the other land-based vertebrates by 24 to 1. As an American, he can expect to emit 16 metric tons of carbon a year, compared with five for a French newborn and about two for a baby in India or Indonesia." Sound like original sin to me. Original sin: "Original sin is an Augustine Christian doctrine that says that everyone is born sinful. This means that they are born with a built-in urge to do bad things" (like emit carbon) https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/becoming-parent-age-climate-crisis/604372/

Oh boy, you must really hate Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappell for that matter.

Just showing that dry, warm conditions predate the current global warming hysteria. As far as the arson is concerned, what do you expect from the offspring of a penal colony.

See guys it has nothing to do with man-made climate change, it is just natural variation.

Iran avenges the death of Soleimani by killing 138* of its own citizens and putting on a fireworks display for US troops *82 from the plane crash and 56 from the Soleimani funeral stampede

I digress. It looks like Iran lobed a few missiles that landed harmlessly in the desert (they had to do something for domestic political consumption) followed up with a statement that said they are calling it even for the killing of Solimani and that they do not want war. Looks like a solid off ramp to escalation if Trump can take it.

except when it comes to climate change

More "Last week the Bush administration came under heavy fire from a large body of respected scientists who claimed that it cherry-picked science to suit its policy agenda and suppressed studies that it did not like. Jeremy Symons, a former whistleblower at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said that suppression of the report for four months was a further example of the White House trying to bury the threat of climate change. Senior climatologists, however, believe that their verdicts could prove the catalyst in forcing Bush to accept climate change as a real and happening phenomenon. They also hope it will convince the United States to sign up to global treaties to reduce the rate of climatic change. A group of eminent UK scientists recently visited the White House to voice their fears over global warming, part of an intensifying drive to get the US to treat the issue seriously. Sources have told The Observer that American officials appeared extremely sensitive about the issue when faced with complaints that America's public stance appeared increasingly out of touch. One even alleged that the White House had written to complain about some of the comments attributed to Professor Sir David King, Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser, after he branded the President's position on the issue as indefensible. Among those scientists present at the White House talks were Professor John Schellnhuber, former chief environmental adviser to the German government and head of the UK's leading group of climate scientists at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. He said that the Pentagon's internal fears should prove the 'tipping point' in persuading Bush to accept climatic change."

Climate change causes pyromania.

No, not credible at all, none of those predictions came to pass. The "experts" were wrong, not just wrong but (dare I say) catastrophically wrong.

Some times it pays to look at what the experts predicted and compare it to what actually happen "Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.. A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world. The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents." The question is not why I deny catastrophic man-made climate change, it is, why do you believe in it?

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3295105633836408&id=100000110126295

Looks like Trump it taking a page out of the Clinton playbook when it comes to impeachment distractions.

Financial burden,

That is a good point, it opens the door to, "taxcutaphope" "CO2aphobe" "2ndAmendaphobe" "securetheborderphobe". That said I will leave the insults, name calling and personal attacks to the lefties.

https://www.facebook.com/prageru/videos/551717059011660/ This should help you climate alarmist relax a bit, and make you feel better.

Net net oil and gas subsidize the government not the other way around. If we want to stick it to oil and gas, I'm fine with that, but the poor folks who will have to bear the burden of what amounts to a highly regressive tax when the financial will be passed on to them might not be. I think the oil, gas and coal companies should receive a tax credit for all of the beneficial CO2 they are contributing to the planet.