Originally Posted by
Pilot DAR
...back then, there weren't hundreds of millions of people noticing their homes being threatened by the effects attributed to climate change, and demanding that the government take action to reduce those effects. .
It's the
ATTRIBUTION is the problem.
This "climate change scam within 5yrs or so will all have blown over.
Each time I ask some young green bloviator, how much is the exact percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere they invariably get it wrong by a factor of between 100-1000%, or don't dare answer.
The simple fact is the earth is POOR in CO2, it's just enough to make plants grow, and a little more as we have can only have +ve effects such as to make more plants grow better.
0.04% of the atmosphere is totally incapable of generating the claimed results of course, so let's hound people to death who dare to claim the airline industry makes no difference whatsoever to global temps, which in any case have been falsified and corrected more or less continuously for the last 20-30yrs too.
Then comes the utter bollox bit about homes being threatened by "more frequent hurricanes" (slight problem being that US hurricane activity is at an almost 100 year low), people insisting "the sea level is rising faster than evah before" (totally false, it's not rising any faster than at any time in the last 150 years), and then what happens to people insisting on building on known river flood plains, or eg. not draining the somerset levels in the UK, & selling off the equipment to dredge ditches, building villas in alpine valleys which are known avalanche risks...
One could go on & on, but the sheer crass stupidity of such people who cry their tears when nature takes its normal course, I have ZERO sympathy with.
If any government could take action to reduce said effects, it can be simple.
Force the insurance companies NOT to insure houses built on the slopes of dangerous active Volcanoes such as Vesuvius, in Tornado alleys with homes made of cardboard, where there is serious risk of forest fires, or regularly violent earthquakes such as California.
Stand back, take a deep breath and say,-
YES we could have had lighter aircraft years ago,but we have cars today which weigh up to 30% HEAVIER with bloat and still getting heavier....and in any case it's a dumb society that hasn't evolved from the days of WATT and the steam engine, where we willingly throw away 85% of all the energy we generate, either in waste heat through steam, or through the ridiculously low efficiency of the Internal combustion engine (disregarding traffic jams, when 99% of it is thrown away).
As a society we haven't really advanced in 200 years, the actual exception being the aircraft which has seen fuel consumption drop by a quantum leap in just a decade, and the use of composites & complex metal alloys spiral.
So much is positive, but you daren't say anything positive dare you?
All is as bad or worse than it can possibly imagined to be...so declare a "climate emergency" shut down Heathrow, and export all the jobs to the continent shall we?
Oh let's demonise progress shall we??
It's about all we have to be proud of right now.