Climate Change -- conspiracy theory or is it time we all drive a Prius?

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Vivek Ramaswamey Nukes Andrea Mitchell On Climate Change

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Vivek Ramaswamey Nukes Andrea Mitchell On Climate Change

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Ramaswamy is suggesting a pivot, that's more or less mitigation. He is suggesting better air conditioning and heating will save people and other things along that line. I'll be interested to see if more Republicans start embracing this. It is perhaps a devious way to not explain why some will pivot from human caused global warming is not a problem or not real; to we've got a better way -- just forget we weren't on board that it was a problem to now we're acting like we have to do something. Drill drill drill is going to be a great answer to suddenly changing their position and hope no one notices.

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A document published in late June is currently making the rounds on social media: the document is signed by 1,107 scientists and expert members of the Climate Intelligence Foundation (Clintel), based in the Netherlands, who insist that “there is no climate emergency”. To make their case, they state that “warming is far slower than predicted”, that “climate policy relies on inadequate models”, that CO2 is “plant food”, and that global warming “has not increased natural disasters” (p. 3), among other false or misleading claims which have been thoroughly debunked by climate experts on numerous occasions.

For example, with regard to the reliability of models on which climate predictions are based, after consulting the available scientific literature, we conclude that the models have been very precise in their global warming predictions. Here we show that certain extreme phenomena, such as heat waves, have intensified in half a century.

What’s more, most of scientists who appear in the document have not been formally educated in the field of climate or meteorology. Rather, according to the document by Clintel, there are numerous engineers, biologists, chemists or physicists – signatories also include a commercial fisherman, a cardiologist, an air conditioning engineer and numerous retired geologists. There is also a Nobel laureate in Physics, Ivar Giaever, who received the award in the 1970s for his contributions to knowledge on the superconductivity of materials, which is unrelated to climate studies.

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Trust the real scientists.

"Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific," states the declaration signed by the 1,609 scientists, including Nobel laureates John F. Clauser from the US and Ivar Giaever from Norway/US.

"Climate policy relies on inadequate models
Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools. They... ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial... There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent." — 1,609 scientists, There is no Climate Emergency, clintel.org."