There is a large elephant in the room...
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https://data.worldbank.org/topic/climate-change
Apparently, the elephant in the room isn't so visible to many.
and raw temp data per country 1901-2016
http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateport ... historical
There's no measurement data in the links you cited, only very limited statistical data.
Global warming scientists admit they hide their data. I heard one say "we don't want the public to misunderstand", or maybe they don't want their critics to "have ammunition" to use against them. If they published their data, then skeptics could go out and verify the data.
Regardless, Global Warming scientists are like Bernie Madoff ("I can't show you my data, but look at my charts").
As far as I recall scientists working on global warming begun to release their data years ago; though I guess it could have changed since then.
Anyway, temperatures are not the only proofs of climate changes, as it's consequences are observed in a lot of phenomemons: the melting of glaciers, sea rises, erosion of litorals, the north migration of some species in the north hemisphere, the shrinking of the banquise, the difficult new conditions for outside ice rinks in some cities like Montreal, and so on.
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Among a lot of useful information in the video he made the CO2 comparison only, held it up against the planetary temperature graph and - no match. He then held up increased heat from the sun over 500 million years - again, no match. Multiply the two together, ie. solar output and CO2 levels, you get a much more convincing match.
Unless someone has scientific journal articles falsifying the claim that CO2 traps reflected heat and that scientists now know they were doing that simple laboratory experiment all wrong it sounds like the fundamental principle - ie. that heightened CO2 retains heat - stays intact. If we know that it's multivariate, ie. that there are several causes, that just means there are several causes. To say that one cause on its own isn't causing the whole thing is both entirely correct in isolation and utterly misleading if we're asked to follow that up with some notion that because it's not the whole phenomena then it's having no effect. The later sounds a bit like gender wage gap logic.
Yes I also agree with your video.
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I don’t believe in the politicalization of climate change...but it is evident that this is occurring. What I wonder about is its causation.
Man-made, or normal geological variation.
I think the cause of the politicisation of climate change is probably man made because geological variation doesn't normally politise anything.
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That's ridiculous, we need freaking science....I am no scientist myself but I trust freaking scientists, they do all the studies and experiments to make sure we don't all kill ourselves or put excessive toxins into the planet and such...they are trying to help us live. Who in their right mind is like 'f**k scientists ahhh they don't know what they're talking about, screw science." well apparently our current GOP but who can say they are in their right minds?
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I don’t believe in the politicalization of climate change...but it is evident that this is occurring. What I wonder about is its causation.
Man-made, or normal geological variation.
I think the cause of the politicisation of climate change is probably man made because geological variation doesn't normally politise anything.
Well there are studies that show that we've increased the greenhouse gasses, and the worst part is there is still time to start reversing some of this...but not too many people really want to take it serious and really jump on it. Like there have been posts about some pretty grim climate senerios and posts like that on reddit get like 58 upvotes, I mean we need more people to care about this. I mean a lot of scientists are now saying if the global temperature raises 2 more degrees...then it may be too late to reverse anything and it will set off a chain reaction of problems. And with the amount of people who care now which doesnt seem very many...well how are we going to stop this, a lot of people probably don't even believe the two degrees will make a difference. I mean "it still snows in the winter so obviously global warming is fake." The stupidity of some people makes me just want to cry and scream. In fact I wish I lived in a rural area so I could just go out into the forest an scream, but if I did that here in my apartment I am sure cops might be called.
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If people feel the need for anything, they'll pay for it on their own; noöne has to force them. But, at any rate, cavemen did quite well without science.
I like science, too. In fact, I've always wanted to be a scientist. But this is no excuse to shove science down the throats of people who reject it and prefer their own irrational worldviews; and much less to force them to pay others to do science they don't want. I don't know if science has much of a chance to survive without governments robbing their peoples to fund it, but if it can't, it has no moral right to exist, period, regardless of how much we'd miss it.
Everyone is responsible for their self-defence, so noöne has any business telling others whether they can kill one another. And the right amount of toxins to put into every piece of the planet should be solely decided by its owner.
It's not that they don't know what they're talking about; it's that you don't need to care, let alone pay them to lecture you on what you don't want to hear.
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Yes they should be forced to pay and contribue to society's advancement because they live in a society and are part of it. We are even too kind to them, we should make them pay an extra as a form of taxation of their stupidity and their tendency to make other sane people suffer it. Otherwise go live in a cave and stop annoying us all.
Yes they should be forced to pay and contribue to society's advancement because they live in a society and are part of it. We are even too kind to them, we should make them pay an extra as a form of taxation of their stupidity and their tendency to make other sane people suffer it. Otherwise go live in a cave and stop annoying us all.
Don't want to contribute to society, go live in the woods and eat bugs.
I fail to see how forcing anarchy on people is somehow more "free" than taxation. Most sane people have no interest in existing in chaos.
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I fail to see how forcing anarchy on people is somehow more "free" than taxation. Most sane people have no interest in existing in chaos.
I don't intend to force anarchy on them, they can go and establish a flat Earth community in the desert and out of my sight, for all I care.
Or do you mean that they want to force anarchy on us?
I fail to see how forcing anarchy on people is somehow more "free" than taxation. Most sane people have no interest in existing in chaos.
I don't intend to force anarchy on them, they can go and establish a flat Earth community in the desert and out of my sight, for all I care.
Or do you mean that they want to force anarchy on us?
Yes.
Most intelligent people don't view "freedom" as meaning "anyone should be allowed to do whatever they want, and it's moral if a stronger person subjugates a weak person."
Most of us prefer lawful, orderly societies that have systems set up that insure we can live in relative peace. Some folks seem to think that inflicting lawless anarchy on the majority of those of us is somehow more "free" than being required to pay taxes and follow laws.
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The solution is to start focusing on renewable energy sources. I don't understand what the problem is. They will likely become ubiquitous eventually so people may as well invest right now to speed along the process and save our planet at the same time.
This summer has already killed a significant amount of people, and this is due to abnormally high temperatures. It will kill people, and it's thought that parts of the earth may soon become uninhabitable. This isn't even considering the other effects like more extreme weather and floods.
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This summer has already killed a significant amount of people, and this is due to abnormally high temperatures. It will kill people, and it's thought that parts of the earth may soon become uninhabitable. This isn't even considering the other effects like more extreme weather and floods.
That's still not enough to wipe people out.
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Somalia seems to have high individual taxes. A 18% individual income tax rate and a 5% sales tax rate.
Somali government introduces 5% sales tax to boost revenues
https://africa.cgtn.com/2018/02/17/soma ... -revenues/
There are so many taxes in Somalia, it doesn't even rank as a "tax haven".
"The Cayman Islands" seems like a better example. The Cayman Islands: No corporate tax, No estate tax, No Property Tax, No Income Tax, No Capital Gains Tax, No Inheritance Tax, No Gift Tax, No Corporation Tax, Duty Free shopping
http://www.cireba.com/tax-free
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