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or that CFCs and CO2 are both responsible? Why does everything need to be black and white?
by hayksaakian 13y ago
or that CFCs and CO2 are both responsible?
Why does everything need to be black and white?
- msandford 13y agoBecause these days, everything is political even if it shouldn't be. And people need to feel good about themselves for picking the "correct" party, whichever party that is. Think for yourself? Why bother! Jump on our bandwagon instead.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Because these days, everything is political even if it shouldn't be. I think the problem isn't that "everything is political", the problem is that everything that is political is tribal. The problem isn't that it has a connection to politics, the problem is that it is tied up in group identity and that people respond to it on that basis rather than rationally.
- msandford 13y agoYou got that a lot more right than I did.
- DennisP 13y agoIndeed they are both responsible. Right now I'm looking at page 6 of Hansen's book Storms of My Grandchildren, which has a table of climate forcings. CO2 is the biggest, but CFCs are in there too, along with methane, N2O, ozone, and black carbon aerosols. It's just the "not carbon dioxide" part that seems dubious to me.