Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:10:20 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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You quoted an article that contradicts your basic premise that human
activities do not cause any Global Warming.
I will recommend to the committee that, although D for usually stands
for Deaf or Dumb, you shall be known as D for Dunce, to wear a pointy
cap and sit in a corner away from your keyboard.
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Nope, read again. Carefully.

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The trouble with the whole global warming meme is that Earth has
demonstrably had wide temperature swings going back hundreds of
millions of years and the present is in fact one of the cooler times.
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But most importantly it's established that there are 'tipping points'
which nobody really knows for sure where they are so even if climate
swings are 95% natural, that 5% portion from human activity COULD push
it over the edge.
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(And this works in both directions - in the 80s we were more worried
about cooling rather than warming. I'm sure I'm not the only one here
who remembers all the talk of "nuclear winter")
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But the problem with that is that 1. if those tipping points exist, we would have seen traces of them historically, and 2. by supposing they exist, and supposing they are an existential threat (and looking at life on the planet, they are not) we end up in a bizarre version of Pascals wager, were every single USD, every pieces of property of every single human being on the planet should be 100% devoted to avoiding global warming.
Looking at the evidence, and taking the positive effects of warming into account and mitigating strategies, there is no way such a stance could be maintained or even remotely considered.