Climategate
08-20-2018, 03:46 AM
#291
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I understand the emotional resistance to acknowledging human activity as being a major driving force in global warming. At some point one must get past that, man up, and face reality.
08-20-2018, 05:49 AM
#292
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Originally Posted by Fdxlag2
Go tell the Chinese (preferably in person) to man up. We all like clean air and clean water, do you support tariffs on polluter counties like Mexico and China?
08-20-2018, 05:54 AM
#293
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Originally Posted by MaxQ
If we choose to take drastic steps ourselves to slow and eventually limit global warming, it would involve a great deal of material hardship for everyone.
The best that we can realistically expect is “modest steps”. Sorry, but that’s the truth and we all know it.
08-20-2018, 08:09 AM
#295
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Originally Posted by Fdxlag2
So again, the US reduced Carbon emissions last year (thank you frackers). The rest of the world didn’t. Go tell the Chinese (preferably in person) to man up.
Originally Posted by Fdxlag2
Pollution and CO2 are not the same.
I was addressing your first quote. Again, the US emits more than twice as much GHG/person than China.
08-20-2018, 09:19 AM
#296
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08-20-2018, 09:21 AM
#297
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Originally Posted by Flytolive
If you want to start a pollution gate thread have at it.
I was addressing your first quote. Again, the US emits more than twice as much GHG/person than China.
I was addressing your first quote. Again, the US emits more than twice as much GHG/person than China.
08-20-2018, 09:27 AM
#298
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Originally Posted by Flytolive
China emits less than half and Mexico less than a third of the GHGs/person than the U.S.
