Yep, the one you’re talking to I concede you make good points. I stubbornly refuse to appear stubborn
I honestly don’t think they would. I think they would see my objections as valid, but not consistent with popular opinion, so their hands are tied. It’s a mutual respect kinda thing. That’s my impression from arguing with some bright guys at the liberalforums. Nobody called me stupid, but they couldn’t get their head around how I could reject so much consensus.
The co2 concentration is 0.04%. If we double it, it’s still insignificant. Is co2 a better insulator than wool? Do you think an extra 0.04% wool is going to keep you perceptibly warmer? How about a few strands of fiber glass between you and a fire? Nevermind the fact that plants will gobble up any excess, and if excess prevails, it’s because animals are thriving beyond the capacity of plants to keep up. CO2 always lags temperature because heat causes animal activity. All the greatest achievements of man happened in warm periods. CO2 is the effect of heat and not the cause, even though it’s a frequency dependent EM radiation filter, like a capacitor is to electricity, which defines it as an insulator, but not the best one and extremely dilute. I think stronger arguments can be made for the existence of god.
Next they’ll propose the snowball effect. Then it’s no longer an argument about 0.04% being significant, but that once a line is crossed, co2 goes to infinity and the world ends… apparently. Obviously this isn’t true since co2 is lower today than in the past at various points, so the level can come down all by itself.
From here they resort to appealing to authority and popularity and it’s a stalemate.
But the only reason co2 is correlated to heat is because heat is correlated to animal activity. It’s an effect and not a cause. Like a gas gauge is an effect of the fuel level and not the cause. Also, cholesterol is an effect of atherosclerosis and not the cause. Correlations cannot determine which correlated things causes the other.
Yes and sometimes I wonder if it is a conspiracy to hurry the transition to solar energy for the ultimate benefit of mankind, but I haven’t decided if such a thing could be orchestrated or even if they’re smart enough to see it. But whatever, I like electric cars and wish my atvs could be electric, but battery technology has not kept up with everything else because there was no profit in it. Well, thanks to the government, now there is.
So it’s bullshit propagated for the greater good like telling a kid santa claus is watching… or god is. Whether or not “they” know it’s bullshit is beyond me.
What bad can result from marginalizing climate change skepticism?
If not for Max Planck, Einstein may not have ever been noticed. Whew, that was a close one lol