It's real. But the level of fearmongering over it is unwarranted.
That's an assertion - based on what evidence?
The first head of the IPCC was a Christian. There are Christian climatologists.
EG: Dr Katherine Hayhoe is an amazing example of a Christian excelling in science and environmental care. Many “Greenie crusaders” think she is awesome. The UN gave her one of their highest awards - “United Nations Champion of the Earth!”
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She says there are solid biblical reasons for Christians to get stuck into climate activism even as a Christian longs for the new world. (One day. We don’t know when.) As a result, we have a responsibility to hand over the world to our kids better than the way we inherited it. Indeed - this is standard Reformation thinking - and goes back to John Calvin.
This is a great episode of what is one of the best Christian podcasts on the planet.
The host is Australian Dr John Dickson - who now lives in Wheaton College USA.
I wish more American Christians would listen to this podcast - and especially this episode.
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I'm sure it does and eventually they'll be replaced by the Green Industry dictators.
If Russia is still a dictatorship after their oil and gas are gone - maybe. But that's no reflection on wind and solar energy itself.
However, the 'black gold' has propped up many what I would consider to be illegitimate forms of government, start many wars, and oppress many people.
Most of those people are probably on death's doorstep out of the 67 million who die per year.
Absolutely incorrect. Yes - it's tricky.
But the epidemiological studies try to eliminate for the noise.
It's what medicine and science are all about.
Why do you jump to conclusions? Like why do hate vanilla ice cream? Why do you love pond scum? See what I mean?
No - I do not. You are avoiding valid questions about the POLLUTING, CORRUPTING, and VANISHING nature of fossil fuels. Let's run those 3 by renewables:-
POLLUTING? Where renewables do have some environmental footprint as they are mined, at least the air will be vastly cleaner.
CORRUPTING? Wind and solar operate best by Overbuilding them and connecting them up across vast continent-wide super-grids, which will encourage co-operation between nations.
VANISHING: They're renewable. They're not vanishing.
Like I already said, as a matter of progress the Green Industry will eventually replace a lot of things.
Excellent - I totally agree!
The issue is all of the unwarranted fearmongering in the meantime.
You assert and assert. But what data have you contributed?
Every time I discuss this with someone from MAGA who vaguely hedges their bets by asserting "Oh it's real - except it's not - they're exaggerating" - they make vague assertions, get tired, and run away.
Are you humble enough to ask yourself, what if you're wrong? What if peer-reviewed science in this case shows a real and present danger RIGHT NOW to the world, one that is gradually snowballing into something even more potentially harmful for our children, and disastrous for our grandchildren?
It makes people frantic to the point where they become totally immersed in Climate Panic. That's not healthy.
Neither is suffocating to death with pollution particulate late stage emphysema, or being a Ukrainian killed by Russian drones and missiles and tanks and armies all funded by gas and oil, or being an African farmer starving to death because the rains failed, because the measurable extra energy in the atmosphere moved the rainfall away from his country.
Climate change IS tricky. The raw principles are quite basic - we KNOW CO2 and methane and other gases trap heat, and by how much. But where that heat goes and what it is going to do? That's tricky, and deals with the vastly complex interactions between 2 major chaotic systems - the oceans and atmosphere!
But huge, broad, general patterns are emerging - and they are NOT good!
But there are still surprises. Sometimes it seems, in little corners of the world, there are areas where human models are wrong! The oceans off the East coast of Australia surprised the climatologists recently. There's something tricky going on with the water circulation and behaviour down in Antarctica at the moment.
In other words - the climate experts ARE telling us when they don't know certain things or were caught off guard by new trends! If you're listening. If you are open to paying attention to what they say.
Generally, though? Climate change IS a nightmare. We are changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere by doubling one of its key heat trapping gases - a gas that lasts hundreds to thousands of years.
How is that in any way a "conservative" action?