Killer boots, man.
Haven’t read the article but zero chance 300 billion does much to stop global warming. Gonna take a monumental effort and amount of money.
My guess at this point damages will be slower than the scientists screaming think it is (usually they’re completely wrong (see acid rain scare, ice age thing, etc) , which is the one of the two main reasons it’s hard to get traction with many people [the other of course being they don’t see how it directly impacts them so they dont’ give a damn]), which unfortunately means nobody is gonna do shit till it’s too late.
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It will save money. Not only are renewables and conservation (ldo) cost effective, just lost productivity because of air pollution last year cost over $200B.
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Lol.
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https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1212470102899265537
So you’re saying Trump made a plane lie
instead of a plain lie, you see HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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I remember the acid rain scare bullshit. They’ve also been proclaiming everything would be fucked by now a million times over and it’s not. So yeah they’re vulnerable to the same dumb shit everyone else is, ie the thought process that everything goes in straight lines forever when they do not.
Yeah I definitely agree especially when you factor in future damages we can prevent. Mostly mean initial investment
he views his gut feeling about this extremely complex topic as more valid than a panel of professional scientists who study this stuff every day as a career. there’s not gonna be any citation.
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If you really remembered the acid rain scare, you’d remember that it wasn’t bullshit, that it was a real problem, and that it was largely resolved by regulating pollution. It was largely caused by sulphur emissions from coal plants which were drastically reduced not only by domestic regulation, but by international treaty.
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This is by far the worst post you have ever made.
Not only that, but the vaunted “Ice Age” 1970s-era predictions (which were, I should emphasise, largely media hype in any case) were based off extrapolations of rapidly increasing atmospheric sulphur dioxide levels. Rasool and Schneider, 1971:
An increase by only a factor of 4 in global aerosol background concentration may be sufficient to reduce the surface temperature by as much as 3.5°K
They were extrapolating a quadrupling of levels, which seems fairly reasonable when you look at the graph up until 1971:
What happened to reverse this trend? Precisely the same regulation of pollution which brought acid rain under control. Much more here.
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It’s not the worst post he’s ever made.
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Reasonable hyperbole, though, imo.
:) I didn’t mean that as a shot at you.
Also amazing that the media covered acid rain and in a way that helped spur people to act
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Warming started out a lot less divisive as well. There was a similar political movement from the business interests against acid rain (it shared a lot with the pro-smoking lobby - see the great book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming). The combination of this, the Koch’s, the Tea Party, cable news, and right-wing radio and probably more really turned the tide and they have kept progress somewhat at bay.
See also: CFCs, leaded gas.
Leaded gas is a super interesting story. The guy who found the world was covered in lead was trying to find the age of the Earth and couldn’t get a sample without lead contamination from anywhere in the world. He was also a leader in developing clean rooms.
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