• doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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    6 days ago

    So they turned on coal. It is out of fashion purely because of political pressure. There’s still a ton of coal in the ground and many people don’t believe that carbon dioxide does anything but make plants grow faster. We’re talking about a gas that is .0004 in our atmosphere. The climate predictions are always wrong. The science is not settled, modern coal plants are very clean, and it is an affordable energy source.

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      6 days ago

      The science is very much settled, if anything the global warming predictions weren’t alarmist enough, but I shan’t waste my time and energy trying to change your mind.

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        6 days ago

        Huh, maybe you’re thinking of different predictions. None of the ones I’m thinking of came true at all. We still have ice at the poles. Florida isn’t underwater. Not that the wind patterns aren’t shifting, and yes some places are a little hotter. But not so much hotter if you remove the adjustment they did to the historical data. Where I live, although it is hot this week, the temperatures aren’t abnormal and our last fifteen years have been below average temps.