Wyatt earp
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If you want to disagree with something, you should state what it is. And, it would be great if you stated why.No, Hansen is NOT an idiot. He's a serious scientist who doesn't always conform to the mainstream.No, you are wrong for two clear reasons:
- the article points out that his results are NOT consistent with the majority of science.
- it points to very specific problems that his techniques clearly ascribe to climate change. That's not even SLIGHTLY similar to your claim that there is willy nilly attribution to climate change every time there is a natural disaster. He points to specific scientific evidence concerning specific results.
You mean the article points out that Hansen is an idiot. Hansen himself says recent heat waves are proof of global warming. Allow me to quote from the article.
The relentless, weather-gone-crazy heat that has blistered the United States and other parts of the world in recent years is so rare it cannot be anything but man-made global warming, a top Nasa scientist says.
The research, by a man often called the "godfather of global warming" says the likelihood of such temperatures occurring from the 1950s through the 1980s was rarer than one in 300. Now the odds are closer to 1 in 10, according to the study by Professor James Hansen.
He says that statistically what is happening is not random or normal, but simply climate change.
"This is not some scientific theory. We are now experiencing scientific fact," Prof Hansen said.
He is quite specific about what events are attributable to climate change, and he shows his science on why. That is NOT what you were claiming.
The fact of the matter is that climate change is making extremes more likely. It would be nice if there was a "climate change" thing like El Nino, or something, but that's not the way climate change works.
Hansen is the biggest fake ever to hit climatology..
It would help if you studied his bull shit with out Rose collared glasses on.
Also, there has been no serious proposal for a climate change response where we would be economically damaged as a nation.
Let's remember that the average gas tax in OECD countries is $2.65/gallon, and they are not dying. So, moaning about the relatively tiny changes proposed by even the most radical in the US is ridiculous.
Like I always said liberals don't know math, economics or business..
God you are a fucking moron..
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I won't even bother to post a link because you have absolutely no common fucking sense...
Global warming is real, climate change is real and they are expensive. The latest research from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that suggests fighting climate change could cost the equivalent of 4% of the total world economy by 2030. The reading is grim.
The IPCC said that keeping the current warming of the planet to just 2 degrees Celsius would require a “40 percent to 70 percent reduction in heat-trapping gases by 2050 from 2010 levels.” What that means is we’re trying to keep greenhouse gases below 480 parts per million in the atmosphere; currently, that figure is around 400 ppm.
Alex Morales at Bloomberg reported, “Containing the concentration to 480 ppm ‘would entail global consumption losses’ of 1 percent to 4 percent in 2030. That range would rise to 2 percent to 6 percent in 2050 and then to as much as 12 percent in 2100 when compared with scenarios that don’t involve fighting climate change, according to the document.” In other words, spend a little now or a lot later.