Green New Deal - Climate change in general

I spoke with a thirty-something the other day in a non-heated manner about climate change. What I found interesting was he said "the good thing about the consensus of scientists supporting it is then I don't have to know much about it to be correct" ("it" being man-made climate change). This is an intelligent young man, but his youth and trust show a lack of wisdom & skepticism. Further, it showed a bit of intellectual laziness, to just take others at their word based on their position in society as opposed to digging into the manner and garnering information for oneself.

This particular position puts believing in made made climate change an act of faith, where blind trust in those who are giving you information & the conclusions that must be drawn from said information, is tantamount.

Exactly like their lord, Schumer, commanded them to do.

freaking spineless lemmings... and what a terrible thing to say about lemmings.

The OMG project struck me as pretty funny.



With expectations of the sea level rising another 3-6 inches over the next 10 years...I guess we're all doomed to Waterworld.

www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/one-part-of-greenland-ice-growing/

...and Dennis Hopper drives around throwing cigarettes out of the car. Did you happen to notice the name of that ship? Pretty funny.

Honestly why is everyone freaking out about water levels in our oceans... believe it or not all you scientists we are the "WATER PLANET"! I Mo'  wants a bit more ocean she will do so.... 

I hear you on the "expert" level many people put themselves at.  I own a Home Theater company and the people I meet socially fall into 2 groups.  The first group is curious and have questions, the second group tells me what they believe to be the truth.  Some in the 2nd group have a handle on what they know, many just have confirmation bias and want to feel good about the system they purchased & put together themselves.

Many people rely on experts, in my field it is not uncommon for a person to walk into a Best Buy and feel they are getting expert advise.  Yes, those salespeople have knowledge and can tell you about specifications of products, but what they are lacking is real world experience.  In other words, they may have sold hundreds of TV's & A/V receivers, but most have never installed a system other than the one in their home.  They are "book smart" and know what should work, but lack the knowledge gained when you actually are out in the field doing the work.

I look at other fields the same way.  There are many folks who may be considered experts in these fields, people who are intelligent and have "book smarts".  However, these people are just regurgitating information given to them by others, they have no hands on experience that allow them to know why things occur and what can be done in reality, not theory, to change course or correct an issue.  That is why the "significant mass of consensus among the scientific community" doesn't mean so much when you realize that many of those in the mass are as much of an expert as a Best Buy TV salesman and that their area of expertise is not real world solutions.

All one has to do is look back at the predictions made in the early 2000's as to the consequences of global warming or climate change to see that while this mass consensus may have identified something as occurring, they were just guessing as to the what the impact would be to our world and what solutions, if any, should be enacted.  Sometimes the best solution is a minor correction, not a major overhaul.

Exactly, and I've always said that even if there is global warming (or climate change as they now refer to it), it is bad for some areas and good for others. For those that built their homes and businesses too close to sea level, it's bad. (Maybe why the blue coastal states are so anxious about this). But think how much nicer Northern Canada, Siberia and Greenland will become.