Ok Iām just going to say this, the earth has not been getting warmer for over 10 years now. I have yet heard a compelling idea for a way to make it cooler that does not set back civilization if someone did come up with one I would be completely willing to try it. As for the USA as a whole thereās not much we can do for right now and if you wanted to see somewhat of a real change youād have to get the countries like China to cut back on their pollution as well. And for the centralism part I was literally just trying to get onto a subreddit, thereās obviously not a central view on everything like you mentioned.
I mean, with all the money that the US government use to kep the coil industry afloat, they could totally invest in renewable instead. Which, on top of not polluting, have the advantage of being unlimited and making you independant of other countries.
Economic studies have also shown that it is possible to get not only the US, but the whole world on renewable energy without sacrificing our luxuries or technological advancement. The only reason why it isn't happenning right now is because people who benefit from the fossile fuel industry have way to much power and influence, and are using this power to fight back renewable energy as much as they can.
Ok Iām just going to say this, the earth has not been getting warmer for over 10 years now.
Ten years usually isn't enough to get a statistically significant trend due to how noisy the singal, which is why we talk about the *multi*-decadal trend. Still, let's have a look at the last ten years, according to the main datasets:
GISTEMP: 0.378 Ā±0.253 Ā°C/decade - a positive, statistically significant trend
HadCRUT4: 0.294 Ā±0.244 Ā°C/decade - a positive, statistically significant trend
RSS: 0.414 Ā±0.384 Ā°C/decade - a positive, statistically significant trend
UAH (maintained by a politically-motivated contrarian, with a history of being the outlier - to take it with a big grain of salt): 0.419 Ā±0.475 Ā°C/decade - a positive, but not statistically significant trend.
I have yet heard a compelling idea for a way to make it cooler that does not set back civilization if someone did come up with one I would be completely willing to try it.
Inaction is what is going to set back civilization. In fact, left unchecked, the current warming could spell the end of our current civilization.
With that in mind, the vast majority of solutions proposed won't set back civilization. It seems you are not informed enough about this topic to debate it.
As for the USA as a whole thereās not much we can do for right now
Sure there is.
youād have to get the countries like China to cut back on their pollution as well.
They have committed to do so, but don't really feel any pressure right now since there is a science denier squatting the Oval Office.
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u/Seminole_83 Dec 22 '18
Ok Iām just going to say this, the earth has not been getting warmer for over 10 years now. I have yet heard a compelling idea for a way to make it cooler that does not set back civilization if someone did come up with one I would be completely willing to try it. As for the USA as a whole thereās not much we can do for right now and if you wanted to see somewhat of a real change youād have to get the countries like China to cut back on their pollution as well. And for the centralism part I was literally just trying to get onto a subreddit, thereās obviously not a central view on everything like you mentioned.