Climate change is of course a hoax.
More TDS
Floods, heat waves, snow storms have been around forever.
Wise up and stop being brain washed.
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I am wised up, I am a Geophysicist. I used to work for the largest Oil & Gas multi-national corporations in the world.
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Our subdivision’s irrigation system went down several times this month due to clogging of too much green moss. We’ve never had this problem with green moss before. Biologists tell us it’s because of the unusually high temperatures the water has reached due to all the hot weather.
Estimates range from $1,500 to $3,000 over and above normal yearly fees if the problem continues.
Were you one of those in the 70’s that warned of the ice age coming in 20 years ? lol.
Found an old newspaper site , fascinating, floods, fires, hurricanes, droughts, heat waves etc. are nothing new.
It’s all about mind control.
With Phoenix having spectacularily broken just about every record relating to heat this summer, and on track to break more, you won’t find many here, regardless of political persuation, who disagree that the climate is changing. What you will find disagreement about is appropriate steps to mitigate it.
Personally, i would like to see zoning codes changed that require increasing percentages of commercial parking to be shaded either with trees tall enough and large enough to actually shade the concrete/asphault parking spaces, or with shade structures (which could also provide solar panels for electricity).
Ironically, here the city is cutting down huge oak trees because they are “too difficult to maintain”. Locals are enraged because the city has not maintained those trees in a decade
Ya gotta have a mind for that… maybe you shouldn’t worry about it. 
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No, we knew global heating was coming, my first exposure to the modeling was around 1980, although the models were much cruder back then, owing to weak computers compared to today’s,
American Geophysical Union (AGU) fact sheet on climate change.
Remember International Geophysical Year 1957, and the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts by Explorer 1? That was the AGU.
You can’t cherry-pick knowledge that you like or don’t like. Well, you can, but it makes no sense. If you accept that we know enough to “see” into the earth to land a drill bit to get the fossil fuels you need to live on, you have to also accept it when the same body of knowledge and same community of researchers also has insights about climate… even if you don’t like those insights.
You have to man up / woman up and take the good and the bad together, and figure out the best way forward.
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Everytime I hear I.G.Y I think of the artist Donald Fagan. I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World) - Wikipedia
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Climate change is the new Covid for the alarmists to push. WHO and WEF should be labeled as terrorist organizations and banned from the earth.
I think I know where mikie is coming from…
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I thought your post was funny …
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Stossel is an entertaining guy, his approach to subjects is both folksy and logically convincing. But the secret to his convincing ways lies in the fact that he often constructs his arguments to carry the listener from what is overwhelmingly true to what is not so true.
His folksy approach lowers the listener’s critical filters by first throwing in a few “hey… that makes sense” moments followed by the presentation of his “facts” which are few in number and typically marginal in quality. He the follows his favored position with the weaker aspects of just a few of the overwhelming numbers of opposing arguments.
IOW… he’s strongly biased… but he’s real good at hiding that fact. His technique is similar to that of a top-notch marketing approach. It’s designed to upset the homeostasis of the listener and spur them to action… like “I’m sold… sign me up!”
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Even when he interviews those experienced in the subject matter some will focus on symbolism over substance.
My scientist good, your scientist bad.
It’s not “my scientist good, your scientist bad”. Not at all. Science is not “what about”, is not “both sides”.
That’s why there is peer review in real scientific journals. It’s not that other opinions are wrong, every new idea starts out life as outside of the mainstream, it’s just if practitioners in the field can’t independently verify the results and give a “thumbs-up”, it’s not accepted as part of the body of knowledge. IT might be accepted as the body of knowledge someday… plate tectonics took decades to be accepted… but the onus is on the challengers to, as your high school math teacher said, “show their work!”
What Geraldo is doing isn’t science… it’s commercial journalism meant to SELL AD TIME.
My observations about Stossel’s story-telling technique was not about symbolism, it was about a well-known method used by salespeople to convince the listener of the perceived value of the product they are selling. Stossel is selling a product you want to buy and you bought it hook, line and sinker. It was an easy sell.
The symbolism that exists is readily apparent in the visual you provide in the video you posted. The visual of the math symbols, the burning globe, the magnifying glass and the astinished look on Stossel’s face are deigned to set the stage for the biased message in the video.
I guess the GA tech chair he interviewed was a mirage. My scientist good, your scientist bad.
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Actually it’s my 97 scientists right, your 3 scientists wrong. That’s the ratio of pro vs con among the planet’s climate experts concerning man’s contributing to climate change.
Or… to put it another way… NASA.gov right PragerU.com wrong…
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