What IS fact is that the religion of "man-caused climate change" has made a few people very wealthy, insured continued employment for a few thousand scientists and separated many millions of average folks from several billion of their hard-earned dollars. All because of something that has happened before, will happen again and NEVER because of anything humans have done.
What IS fact is that the religion of "man-caused climate change" has made a few people very wealthy, insured continued employment for a few thousand scientists and separated many millions of average folks from several billion of their hard-earned dollars. All because of something that has happened before, will happen again and NEVER because of anything humans have done.
No, because we've seen it all before. This is the Big Tobacco playbook. Buy off just enough quack scientists to try and keep the debate going. Second hand smoke is safe. Cigarettes are actually good for you. Smoke promotes healthy growth in the human body. Here, let's use cartoon characters to teach the kids about our product. You can't say for certain cigarettes are bad for us so stop trying to scare everybody.[/QUOTE
Do you not realize the whole war against big tobacco was also a money grab?
Sure smoking is bad for you and those around you, but there's been a warning on the packs for damn near 50 years.
It was a govt led shakedown, and tobacco paid up and the bad publicity slipped away. They didn't stop making their product.
The AGW supporters sound more like the big tobacco you describe.
Do you not realize the whole war against big tobacco was also a money grab?
Sure smoking is bad for you and those around you, but there's been a warning on the packs for damn near 50 years.
It was a govt led shakedown, and tobacco paid up and the bad publicity slipped away. They didn't stop making their product.
The AGW supporters sound more like the big tobacco you describe.
You are blind if you cannot see the entire world moving towards alternative energy sources. Will it happen overnight? No, but the collapse of oil prices is just the beginning. China's future cannot be more coal fired power plants even though they are building them faster than you or I can post. There will be a reckoning. Change is happening and although change on this magnitude always starts off slowly, the momentum is clearly building as is the realization that the old ways are no longer good enough. The coal and oil cartels are living on borrowed time.People aren't going to stop using oil Z, or fossil fuel.
Look, take this statement of yours as an example:
It was a govt led shakedown, and tobacco paid up and the bad publicity slipped away. They didn't stop making their product.
That is complete nonsense and provably factually ludicrous. Let's examine what the US Government taking on Big Tobacco (finally) has done:
"Fewer Americans are smoking, with the smoking rate at its lowest point in 50 years, federal health experts reported Wednesday.
Just under 18 percent of Americans are smokers, down from 21 percent in 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
"That is the lowest prevalence of adult smoking since the CDC's Nation Health Interview Survey began keeping such records in 1965," CDC said in a statement, with 42.1 million people still smoking in 2013."
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/calling-it-quits-american-smoking-hits-50-year-low-n256711
All as a result of our Government taking on a powerful cartel bent on spreading public misinformation and advertising to children... which we stopped. An example of Government doing what it is supposed to do in looking out for the wellness of their people and preventing greedy unscrupulous interests from profiting off lies and deceit. I can make the same case for the Clean Air Act and also our government's efforts at controlling CFCs depleting the ozone layer.
But you, in your warped world, see greed and misinformation on the part of the Government instead of those that would sell your soul and that of your children if it meant more profit and more greed and more money. There is a clear unequivocal history of this.
You are blind if you cannot see the entire world moving towards alternative energy sources. Will it happen overnight? No, but the collapse of oil prices is just the beginning. China's future cannot be more coal fired power plants even though they are building them faster than you or I can post. There will be a reckoning. Change is happening and although change on this magnitude always starts off slowly, the momentum is clearly building as is the realization that the old ways are no longer good enough. The coal and oil cartels are living on borrowed time.
Remember when the internet sprang into being? The laughable thought that it would challenge retail storefront marketplaces? Well how silly does it sound, now?
Energy is front and center. The focus of the world is on it. A revolution in the industry is coming and what's on the other side does not include fossil fuels. Their extinction is inevitable. Your oil and coal will be as useless as your empty malls and Blockbuster Movie rentals. A relic that we shake our heads at and wonder how we ever were so backwards.