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"And if there is a scam, whats the motive of the people saying protect our climate?" Well, one thing could be funding. This subject is highly politicised Its
by ThomPete 9y ago
"And if there is a scam, whats the motive of the people saying protect our climate?"
Well, one thing could be funding. This subject is highly politicised
Its a much more complex discussion which I learned when I decided to dig into it and understand what the skeptics actually was saying (instead of what the media and many climate scientists say they are saying.
I always get suspicious when someone claims there is no discussion that always means there is one. Especially something based on computer models.
One thing I learned which helped me understand the discussion a little better was that very few if any so called "climate deniers" say that there isn't climate change.
In fact, they all say that of course there is climate change and as long as there is a climate there is climate change.
Furthermore, most of them completely acknowledge humans affect the climate however and this is where it gets really fuzzy, the debate is how much and if it's enough to be concerned about.
Once you dig into the data you realize there are so many uncertainties involved in this and so much guess work. The ICSC have had to change their forecasts several times to much less problematic temperature rises in the future.
Even more, confusing to the layman, the arguments for on the "catastrophic climate change is coming" is changing and actually have been changing. That reminds me a little bit of the creationism which evolved into intelligent design discussion. There is something that needs more transparency if the argument changes. Now it's the ocean we have to worry about.
I am just a lay man and all of this might have a perfectly rational explanation but I have to say that I have changed my perspective on this quite a lot once i digged into it.
Then there is a whole other discussion which people like Alex Epstein is proposing about the morality of ex. oil and the fact that removing fossil fuels right now would do more harm than good.
It's a difficult discussion because people are so tribal about it which leaves very little room for freethinking and trying to explore different perspectives without being labeled either a climated denier or a treehugger.