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Would that equivocation not be a positive thing? When we said global warming, it caused huge political nightmares when things were cold. By saying we study cl
by jvalencia 3y ago
Would that equivocation not be a positive thing? When we said global warming, it caused huge political nightmares when things were cold. By saying we study climate change, we depoliticize it. We state these are the facts about climate change. Let's look at what's causing it, what we do about it, etc. If there is warming due to too much carbon in the atmosphere, perhaps we can try carbon capture.
The moment you make it into a political club, you bring out the talking heads, you make the situation an opinion column instead of scientific --- then it's just opinions of people who couldn't understand the science arguing about it and grossly misrepresenting it.
- Terr_ 3y ago(Note: I may have added to my post a bit before seeing your reply.) > Would that equivocation not be a positive thing? When we said global warming, it caused huge political nightmares when things were cold. I don't thinks so, since a similar kind of equivocation (and a strawman from it) was involved in creating those "political nightmares" in the first place: 1. Scientists pointed out that the globe, as an entire system, was warming. For short, "Global Warming." 2. Opposed politicians took "Global Warming" and twisted that into something like "every single point, globally, is warming simultaneously and strictly increasing." Then they "disproved" the strawman whenever anywhere had a colder winter night than the prior year.
- macintux 3y agoThere’s literally nothing that won’t be politicized, as the last few years have amply demonstrated.
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