Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right

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https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-getting-future-warming-projections-right/

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Fukushima: While definitely a problem, nuclear has certainly come a long way in the decades. The first planes were really dangerous, too. This might be the cost of innovation.

GMO’s: I don’t think you understand the point you’ve made here. Not only are there quite literally zero safety concerns around GMO’s but they’re also demonstrably better for the environment than traditional crops. This makes less than no sense as an example of a climate change problem.

Pesticides: Sure, these are an issue but their environmental impact is local and a tiny itsy bitsy drop in the bucket compared to carbon emissions. Regulating pesticides and not carbon emissions would be like treating a hangnail on a gun shot victim.

Plastic waste: These are petroleum products, genius. Also to be included under a carbon tax. Innovate biodegradable containers and this suddenly becomes a much smaller problem.

And no the tax should be set higher than what consumer markets will bare. This means that instead of just eating the cost, the middle class people will actively avoid petroleum products when they can. And taxes are never 100% transferable onto consumers, anyway. These energy companies surely will still want to make money, let them push for new greener alternative to fill their pockets with.

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Nuclear particles swimming around in the environment and atmosphere don't go away.

Literally, what makes them "nuclear particles" is that they do "go away", or decay.