He/she does not say the graphs are fake (and he provides some details of where the data came from.)
He does say that some of the data is inaccurate and should be updated to reflect the current data.
He does not address people with pejoratives.
He does a good job of explaining the fallacy of trying to use this data to disprove or disagree with the scientific understanding that changes in CO2 levels are driving changes in global temperatures. (I said this too, but in a very brief fashion.)
I think this last point is why you posted your comment about this graph (and other graphics on other sites.) If that is the case, you will do a better job of convincing people if you use an approach like his. Or you could just link to his page
“The evolution of Earth’s climate on geological timescales is largely driven by variations in the magnitude of total solar irradiance (TSI) and changes in the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere” https://nature.com/articles/ncomms14845
The thing I feel most upset about these days is the people most alarmist about climate are quite ready to start World War III. Where are the statesmen?
Weapon systems are quite hard on the environment
So where are the leaders who come down on a country for invading another country. Nothing uses more fuel than a tank or a jet. So they want me to stop using my charcoal grill.
Many here carry. They advocate self-defense and indeed defense of others if you are witnessing a crime.
It’s that humanity is inherently aggressive, and war is seen as a way to gain by the aggressor. I have no solution for our inherent behavior. The consensus since World War 2 has been you stand up early to aggression, and you build deterrents. Whether that is valid I don’t know, but indeed it isn’t good when the deterrent is used. Warfare is inherently human it would seem, as is not wanting to change other behaviors like reducing our daily carbon footprint because it is perceived as inconvenient limiting our economy and freedom.
Like most animals we are more concern with the present than the future. I often say we are crazy greedy apes. I also add other descriptors but these two sum up the above behaviors. We could use many more saints than self-serving individuals. Unfortunately, we don’t seem to produce many saints nor does our current system seem to support doing so. I say so with the realization I fall short of that standard though I do refrain from being aggressive.
We are remarkably successful as a species to the determent of other life and most likely our own. This success appears to be the seed of our own undoing. The ball has been rolling for a very long time.
The desire for peace is usually one sided. You either hide or stand up for yourself. There is no middle ground. A peaceful person will always be exploited. Count on it.
How much do you have to pay for energy before you change and scream for heat or cooling. If its been getting hotter for millions of years, it seems arrogant to think we can reverse it. When will world leaders push China and India to get with the program. When will you be willing to eat bugs instead of red meat. When will the green advocates start flying commercial or take a slow boat instead. I recommend everybody start doing it NOW. I’ll wait a little longer.
That’s the point! Nobody is influencing China or india. In fact, we’re selling our oil reserve to them so they can pollute the air. The last pack of flim-flam artists wanted the US to “give” them 2 billion to buy our oil, which is money we borrowed from them. Nothing I can do about it. This is a runaway bus. I don’t mind doing without so they can rub our nose in our stupidity. I’d play us for sucker too if I could.
Bravo to them and their resourcefulness. Nobody has figured it out yet. They shut down industry days in advance of the Olympics to clean up the smog and we sell them fossil fuel. They bought up all the battery raw material and make our windmills. We buy everything from them. We give them our proprietary information.
We don’t control the green future, they do. Tell that schill girl to go protest in China where she might do some good.
The Gov’t sells oil from the reserve to the highest bidder (most taxpayers would want it that way, I think). The buyers then refine that crude into fuel and other petroleum products. Then, guess what? They sell their products when and where they will realize the best return on investment. That’s capitalism.
Of course there’s an alternative … the Gov’t could dis-incentivize production so prices go up here. If domestic prices are high enough, exports will quickly plummet. What isn’t possible - at least with private companies in a market-based economy - is to expect low exports when domestic prices are lower than world prices.
I suppose there’s a third alternative. We could nationalize Exxon, Chevron and the others. Then the Gov’t could tell them who they can sell to, who they can’t, and at what price. Lot’s of countries have some variation on this model … just not free ones.
I guess I’m naive. Its coming from emergency reserves. We don’t need it. Thanks for the lesson in evil capitalism. The quicker we convert to communism supply and everybody is slavr labor, the better off we’ll be. Cant wait! They sure fixed Hong Kong. Got to get some of that.
