Back to the op..
Funny how the green crowd is ok with the energy required for their AI and crypto $$$ now...
Do you think they ever believed the climate hoax or was it just purely manipulation like most things are these days..
Eagler
I have no doubt climate changes. It changes all the time. I've had several long time residents of DFW tell me that the winters are not nearly as long and hard as they were a couple of decades ago and the heat of the summer lasts a little longer each year.
No educated, rational person would claim it is impossible for humans to affect climate. The very argument that Global Warming is wrong because there temp sensors are in location that have become urbanized and thus within the zone of urban heat bubbles from paved areas radiating more heat. So obviously we have the ability the create heat islands and change climate at some scale. If we paved the entire Earth, does anyone claim it would have no effect on climate?
The question is, is climate changing more now that it always has. The Sahara used to be a lush, green, verdant grassland. Mile high glaciers were creeping down to Kansas at one time.
The question is, humans obviously have the ability to alter climate at some scale. Is the scale material compared to other natural phenomena? That I'm not sure about.
To me, it is not that important though. I don't want to breath in smog, or acid vapor from coal fired power plants, or get emphysema from belching diesel trucks or have my water poisoned with microplastics and leached industrial chemicals.
Regardless of Climate change I want stuff cleaned up and kept clean. What rational human would want to live in filth?
Power-wise coal is dead. Get over it.
We have enough natural gas supplies now we should switch over completely. No excuse.
And the real answer is getting over our nuclear hangup. The new nuclear power designs now are orders of magnitude safer and more efficient and with AI limitless fusion is not far off.
And solar and wind do have roles to play in areas where they are uniquely suitable for use. (Which isn't everywhere).
Of course we can and should do all that, but the real problem will be China, Russia, India. They don't give a crap,
but neither did we at that stage of tech and social evolution.
