Posted on 12/01/2015 1:39:27 PM PST by Kaslin
What a dilemma we humans find ourselves in when we discover that fixing one problem serves to worsen another, something a group of Environment Canada researchers recently determined finding environmentalists caused global warming in their attempts to curb it.
In an October 2015 scientific study, "Impact of aerosol emission controls on future Arctic sea ice cover," published in Geophysical Research Letters, these researchers found that efforts to clean up the atmosphere is melting its sea ice. The study found that efforts to reduce harmful aerosols had the unwelcome side effect of quickening Arctic sea ice melt.
So what's next? Choosing between cleaner air for us and Arctic ice for polar bears?
The Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] repeatedly tells us burning fossil fuels like coal must be reduced and recent rules and regulations have drastically reduced those emissions. Additionally, back in 2013, the European Environment Agency reported a colossal 74 percent drop in emissions between 1990 and 2011. China joined the effort, reducing their emissions utilizing clean air programs.
All this effort might eventually kill us, given we also accept the global warming doom-and-gloom premise warning us that as sea ice melts, oceans will in turn rise, potentially turning carbon billionaire Al Gore's $8-plus million Montecito, Calif. beach villa into a modern-day Noah's Ark.
Okay. At least we'll have cleaner air to breathe before we drown. Or, maybe evolution will finally kick in and our feet and lungs will morph into fins and gills. If that happens, clean air won't matter anyhow.
Might it be more prudent confronting the real danger of our times, rather than waging war against an unidentified event which may or may not occur on an unspecified date in a future so far away that even our kids will not live long enough to experience or not experience it? If ISIS wins, our kids' future won't matter.
Meanwhile, once again seated somewhere in an alternate universe, President Obama suggested during a joint news conference with French President Francois Hollande, that attending the 21st yearly session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris will somehow be "a powerful rebuke to the terrorists [ISIS]." President Hollande traveled to Washington to discuss a bit more perilous issue, destroying ISIS.
But why deal with those who live to watch the world burn when you can secure "a better future for our children" as Obama said, yakking about climate change? Surely the enemy of our children's future shakes in their boots at the mere mention that our valiant leader courageously led the charge by attending a climate change conference.
During a debate Bernie Sanders said, "climate change is directly due to the growth of terrorism," warning, "limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land...to grow crops" due to global warming, may spark international conflicts. Bless his heart, someone needs to explain to dear old Bernie that the desert wasteland ISIS is headquartered in was there long before man-caused climate change.
And then there's Hillary. When asked during the CNN debate about who her enemies were, the former Secretary of State listed the NRA and Republicans, not ISIS. CNN reports Clinton also draws a connection between climate change and the Syrian refugee crisis, based on a far-fetched theory that drought in Syria initiated a huge migration of farming families to urban centers. (Insert: palm-banging-forehead emoji).
Let's backtrack (tongue-in-cheek, sort of): Liberals claim the refugee crisis and ISIS is caused by climate change. They also warn we're doomed because Arctic sea ice is melting. And it's melting faster because of cleaner air. We have cleaner air because liberals enforce unreasonable regulations. In essence and by their own admission, liberals are responsible for melting sea ice, polar bears' demise, global warming, the Syrian refugee crisis and ISIS.
Our only hope is for a few volcanoes to erupt or that someone black markets aerosol to the masses. The next president has his hands full.
I’m going to go out on a limb here. The reason the planet is cooling is because of carbon (not co2) pollution. It blocks the rays of the sun and prevents us from burning up.
If we get rid of carbon, erf will heat up and we will all fry.
Arctic Ice is not decreasing. In fact it is increasing. This whole article is a fraud.
Liberalism is the process of seeing a problem wher none exists and institution an expensive government program that not only doesn’t fix it, but makes it worse. Which, of course, the liberals have a solution to involving another expensive government program that will work no better than the last.
Liberalism is the process of seeing a problem where none exists and instituting an expensive government program that not only doesn’t fix it, but makes it worse. Which, of course, the liberals have a solution to involving another expensive government program that will work no better than the last.
Your theory was once on the front pages of Time, Newsweek and National Geographic back in the 1970s.
Existential Cage Theory
Did you even read the article? *rme*
Climate change is NATURAL and constant. We are always either warming up from the last little ice age or cooling down to the next.
BTTT
Just another piercing but for the tackle.
“Your theory was once on the front pages of Time, Newsweek and National Geographic back in the 1970s.”
Yep, it just happened 40 years late. But I can forgive scientists since it is impossible to precisely control climate. We are in a period of stasis. Mother erf lets us know when it is hot, cold, will rain, will snow, etc. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Fact of life, it will never change. Or will it?
To my point. Liberals complain mother erf is getting warmer and if we don’t stop throwing carbon into the air we will burn up. I submit that it is taking away the carbon from the atmosphere that will burn us up.
Think about this. In the 70’s we were told the earth would freeze if carbon kept getting pumped into the atmosphere. So what did we do? We went green. What happened’? The earth warmed up. So if we take the liberals seriously, then removing carbon pollution will actually hasten the global warming process, not reduce it.
My proposal (a modest one at that) is to maintain stasis, we should keep mining, drilling and get rid of the alternative energy sources that do nothing but act as a front for liberal cronies. We clean up the processes we use to explore and retrieve resources, not get rid of them. Carbon will continue to go into the atmosphere but at a lower rate.
Hence stasis. What the liberals are doing is what they have done throughout history. In their warped little heads they believe they are doing a good deed as unintended consequences destroys their forced upon us theories.
If that is the case, then I can only surmise that the idea of carbon credits, where producing countries pay off non producing countries to use their carbon allotment is a zero sum game at best and won’t change the climate one bit.
The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the rest of us will pay taxes.
Note: Mother Erf is not getting warmer. As shown from satellites and those other good monitoring tools we are actually cooling.
Biologists will also tell you that removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will inhibit reproduction in flowering plants; the very plants are mammalian life’s primary source of food. In fact, the carbon dioxide levels are much lower than they were at the start of the Cenozoic Era, when flowering plants exploded across the earth. In fact, they are about as low as you can get and still have them reproduce.
You’re almost right. You forgot the part where the politician and the lobbyist who start the government program make enormous profits from the scheme, all paid for by the taxpayers.
Sorry about that. I forgot.
Real environmental issues get ignored while the libs spin their global warming BS.
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