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This is the typical progression of science as new studies help expand our understanding.
They will cause enormous upheaval - mass migration, huge food shortages, wars, the loss of many coastal cities, etc., etc.
The weight of evidence is overwhelmingly against you. You can keep repeating the same points over and over again, but the science still remains against you.
concede that your point of view might change in the future because you don't have all of the answers?
Maybe not:
Why Does California Let Billions Of Gallons Of Fresh Water Flow Straight Into The Ocean?
.." Even on the driest year in recorded history in 2013, it still rained 3.6 inches in Los Angeles. An inch of rainfall in L.A. generates 3.8 billion gallons of runoff, so you’re talking about more than 12 billion gallons of water that could be captured, but that flows within hours down our concrete streets and into the ocean.
https://blog.treepeople.org/treepeople-news/2015/04/forbes-california-billions-gallons-fresh-water-flow-straight-ocean
That's only from CA, what about all the other states, countries around the world?? It's only a "few" BILLION gallons, right?
Oh yeah, only melting ice from the polar caps adds to the level of the ocean, silly me!!
Malcolm saysBeautifully stated, so will the alarmists please concede that your point of view might change in the future because you don't have all of the answers. Please stop pretending that you can predict climate or understand all of the variables of natural and man-induced variables.
Bingo.
But if they accept that fact, then the grant money will start disappearing...
The science being 'settled' doesn't mean that scientists know everything and can predict temperature and sea levels from year to year over the next 100 yrs.
If scientists knew everything, how could they justify grant money?
And this is the guy who thinks he's smarter than the best climate scientists.
Your buddy says that a train could come by your town at 10pm. At 11pm, the train is not yet there. It is getting close, but it is not there yet. Do you (A) Say that your buddy was a bit wrong about the time he said it MIGHT come, but was correct about the train coming through town or (B) Go go lie across the train tracks while smugly asserting that your buddy was wrong and is therefore a discredited liar.
All the deniers make the same logical error---presuming that one needs 100% proof. Life is lived uncertainty. All decisions are made by amassing as much data and determining the best course of action. Whether it's limiting risk or maximizing potential outcome, there is never complete data.
Wouldn't I see, hear, and or feel the train coming?
We can't even predict and control the weather.
Not correct, every bold prediction about climate change has fallen flat on its face so far. Now the predictions just keep on coming with more urgency and alarm, yet no one can actually show me sea level rise or an accurate climate model from the past.
Not correct, every bold prediction about climate change has fallen flat on its face so far. Now the predictions just keep on coming with more urgency and alarm, yet no one can actually show me sea level rise or an accurate climate model from the past.
Or even just say that a 100ppm increase in CO2 will result in X degree C/F Global Average Temperature Increase
It has worked with a very small population with fairly minor climate changes over longer periods than we are talking about now. If you are wrong as the vast majority of scientists say you are, then the likely changes that you are dismissing will not be dealt with by simple adaptation. They will cause enormous upheaval - mass migration, huge food shortages, wars, the loss of many coastal cities, etc., etc. This needs to be tackled to the best of our abilities to mitigate the damage.
You like asking the same question and then pretending you haven't got an answer. How about you answer me these two questions? If I'm wrong about climate change, what will the consequences be? If you're wrong...
we waste trillions of dollars for a problem that didn't exist.
People who think we are doomed are the real science deniers who can't fathom how we can easily adapt.
That's not true. What happened is that statements of what MIGHT happen were turned into "bold predictions" and memes by dishonest members of the AGWC. And than parroted on sites like this as if they were true.
Wrong again, I have heard this stuff over and over for my whole life. It is never what might happen, it is always non-debatable scientific fact that these things will happen. if the actual results were the same as what was predicted over recent decades, it would be a moot point. No one would care about indiscernible changes to global temperatures and sea levels. Since you don't believe me, here are some of the best of climate change alarmists over time.
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researchers explain how they used a mathematical equation known as the elastic sea level equation to more accurately measure the ocean floor.
http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-sinking-ocean-rising-sea-levels-772862?amp=1