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Australia Just Had Four of Its Hottest Days on Record

You proved my point that you ignored the entire first part of your link that mention that no scientific body of national or international standing maintains a formal opinion dissenting from any of the main points of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). There those points for example are;

""Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia."[12]
"Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide have increased to levels unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years."[13]
Human influence on the climate system is clear.[14] It is extremely likely (95-100% probability)[15] that human influence was the dominant cause of global warming between 1951-2010.[14]
"Increasing magnitudes of [global] warming increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive, and irreversible impacts."[16]"
Without new policies to mitigate climate change, projections suggest an increase in global mean temperature in 2100 of 3.7 to 4.8 °C, relative to pre-industrial levels (median values; the range is 2.5 to 7.8 °C including climate uncertainty).[18]


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Climate Change - American Meteorological Society

"For example, nearly 7 million U.S. children are currently affected by asthma.[1] The changing climate contributes to increased levels of airborne allergens that are associated with a risk of increased allergic and asthmatic episodes.

Climate-related health issues can put the nation’s most vulnerable citizens, children, pregnant women, the elderly, and the poor, at risk."

"Climate change has led to a growing number of extreme weather events that are even more likely to occur in the future.[2] In 2012, climate and severe weather disasters cost the U.S. economy more than $100 billion.[3] From 2004 to 2013, the United States saw estimated multibillion dollar losses from the following disasters: $392 billion from hurricanes, $78 billion from heat waves and drought, and $76 billion combined from tornadoes, flooding, and severe storms.[4]"

Climate Change - Science Policy

While you will most likely ignore all of that and cling to the "facts" that you believe conforms your preconceived notions.

Well lets look, oh, the first part of your statement claimed "deny the so-strongly supported science",
so what science is being denied?
You then quote the IPCC AR5 report,
There is unequivocal evidence that Earth’s lower atmosphere, ocean, and land surface are warming; sea level is rising; and snow cover, mountain glaciers, and Arctic sea ice are shrinking. The dominant cause of the warming since the 1950s is human activities.
Yes global temperatures are rising , as are sea levels, but notice, that in the second sentence they singled out warming as being caused by Human activity.
Saying the dominant cause of the warming since 1950 is human activity, sure sound ominous, but let's break it down to actual numbers.
Harcrut4 says the decade averaged warming since 1950 is .5923 C
The accepted forcing level for CO2 (assuming 100% is from Humans) is 5.35 X ln(410/311) X.3=.4435 C
So indeed the IPCC's statement is correct using the assumption of CO2 forcing, but that alone does not equal
catastrophic warming.
Consider that before 1950, there was .288 C of natural warming (Hadcrut4), and that the predicted amplified feedbacks
would have acted on that warming as well as any warming caused by CO2.
Total warming since before 1900 (average 1850 -1900) .88 C
Natural warming before 1950 .288 C
CO2 total forcing 5.35 X ln(410/280) X .3= .612 C
Methane forcing = ~.1C
Total warming .88 C minus the known sources (.612 C, .288 C , and .1 C)= -.1C,
that is odd, there is less total warming than there should be, but the only way for that to happen,
is if the forcing number were wrong, or if the predicted amplified feedbacks were in fact attenuated feedbacks.
This is not simple me drawing a logical conclusion, but concepts published in peer review.
http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/236-Lindzen-Choi-2011.pdf
It is generally accepted that in the absence of feedback, a
doubling of CO2 will cause a forcing of ∆Q≈3.7 Wm−2 and will increase
the temperature by ∆T0≈1.1 K
However, warming from a doubling of CO2 would only be about 1C

The reality is that for the catastrophic predictions to be correct , the levels of amplified feedbacks, would have to be higher
than can shown with the observed data.
 
Even Australian news media owned by the right wing Murdoch media empire publish editorials acknowledging the need for action on mammade global warming.

“The public debate on the existence of climate change is over and we are owed an apology from those who prolonged it for self-serving political purposes.

They might acknowledge their disrespect for science, or for driving rejection as a vehicle for “brutal retail politics”.

Voices as varied as the schoolchildren who marched on Friday, the top ranks of Australia’s central bank, and federal department chiefs are warning of the consequences of those changes.”


Climate change: Public debate is over and we are owed an apology
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Interesting article. I found this intriguing...

The debate continues, but it now is centred on measuring the urgency of a response to increasing climate instability, and the detail of that response.

Emergency services, diplomats and farmers are all seeking the best answers to climate change effects — effects which some of their flecked representatives for the better part of a decade said didn’t exist.

Military and intelligence agency leaders have warned climate change is a national security threat to Australia.
 
The summer heat-wave has really gotten the attention of the Aussie population. Huge numbers showed up for their Climate Strikes.

More voices from the Australian climate strike - World Socialist Web Site

Tens of thousands of Australian high school and university students participated in last Friday’s global climate strike, demanding immediate action to end environmental destruction and halt accelerating climate change.
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Flynn, a high school student from Heathcote, commented: “We keep giving corporations breaks for killing our earth. A hundred companies are responsible for 70 percent of climate emissions across the globe, but we still think that removing plastic straws is going to make a bigger difference than stopping them from poisoning the earth. It’s complete rubbish. A lot of countries now are oligarchies. They’re controlled more by big business interests than actual people.”
 
Interesting article. I found this intriguing...

The debate continues, but it now is centred on measuring the urgency of a response to increasing climate instability, and the detail of that response.

Emergency services, diplomats and farmers are all seeking the best answers to climate change effects — effects which some of their flecked representatives for the better part of a decade said didn’t exist.

Military and intelligence agency leaders have warned climate change is a national security threat to Australia.

Also that news media with the same owners as Fox News support action to curb C02 emission is just one of many example of the overwhelming evidence of the urgent need for action on climate change.

Take also for example the fossil fuel companies that could have easily funded studies to disprove the need for action on manmade global warming if any evidence against manmade global warming existed. Instead the evidence is so overwhelming that they have to publicly support curbing C02 emission and the Paris Accord. While at the same continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollar on delaying action on climate change.

“The largest five stock market listed oil and gas companies spend nearly $200m (£153m) a year lobbying to delay, control or block policies to tackle climate change, according to a new report.

Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil were the main companies leading the field in direct lobbying to push against a climate policy to tackle global warming, the report said…

Shell said in a statement: “We firmly reject the premise of this report. We are very clear about our support for the Paris agreement, and the steps that we are taking to help meet society’s needs for more and cleaner energy.”


Top oil firms spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies, says report | Business | The Guardian
 
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The summer heat-wave has really gotten the attention of the Aussie population. Huge numbers showed up for their Climate Strikes.

More voices from the Australian climate strike - World Socialist Web Site

Tens of thousands of Australian high school and university students participated in last Friday’s global climate strike, demanding immediate action to end environmental destruction and halt accelerating climate change.
...
Flynn, a high school student from Heathcote, commented: “We keep giving corporations breaks for killing our earth. A hundred companies are responsible for 70 percent of climate emissions across the globe, but we still think that removing plastic straws is going to make a bigger difference than stopping them from poisoning the earth. It’s complete rubbish. A lot of countries now are oligarchies. They’re controlled more by big business interests than actual people.”

This is al cool video from last weeks global climate strike.

 
Also that news media with the same owners as Fox News support action to curb C02 emission is just one of many example of the overwhelming evidence of the urgent need for action on climate change.

Take also for example the fossil fuel companies that could have easily funded studies to disprove the need for action on manmade global warming if any evidence against manmade global warming existed. Instead the evidence is so overwhelming that they have to publicly support curbing C02 emission and the Paris Accord. While at the same continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollar on delaying action on climate change.

“The largest five stock market listed oil and gas companies spend nearly $200m (£153m) a year lobbying to delay, control or block policies to tackle climate change, according to a new report.

Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil were the main companies leading the field in direct lobbying to push against a climate policy to tackle global warming, the report said…

Shell said in a statement: “We firmly reject the premise of this report. We are very clear about our support for the Paris agreement, and the steps that we are taking to help meet society’s needs for more and cleaner energy.”


Top oil firms spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies, says report | Business | The Guardian

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Study? Lol! It's a piece of Heartland propaganda published by AGW denier Watts. How gullible do you think we are?
 
What's that? No. 26 on your list of trite banalities to trot out when you've run out of arguments?

He's never had any 'arguments' to run out of. Just tens of thousands of copied and pasted blog posts from ridiculous pseudoscience conspiracy blogs like WUWT.
 
Study? Lol! It's a piece of Heartland propaganda published by AGW denier Watts. How gullible do you think we are?

It really is from Heartland! Jack - if the Koch Brothers were in the room, would you bow down at their feet? I can almost hear you - "Yes, boss. You're the man, boss. Whatever you say, boss."
 
Study? Lol! It's a piece of Heartland propaganda published by AGW denier Watts. How gullible do you think we are?

The fossil fuel companies know it’s pointless to fund research to disprove manmade global warming because of the overwhelming evidence. So instead they fund denier propaganda like the Heartland Institute.

That the evidence of manmade global warming is so overwhelming that even the American Intelligence Community under Donald Trump acknowledge the threat from climate change.

“Global environmental and ecological degradation, as well as climate change, are likely to fuel competition for resources, economic distress, and social discontent through 2019 and beyond. Climate hazards such as extreme weather, higher temperatures, droughts, floods, wildfires, storms, sea level rise, soil degradation, and acidifying oceans are intensifying, threatening infrastructure, health, and water and food security. Irreversible damage to ecosystems and habitats will undermine the economic benefits they provide, worsened by air, soil, water, and marine pollution.”

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/2019-ATA-SFR---SSCI.pdf
 
Wow, that's some activism there! Almost '60s-like, and there's no Vietnam War.

Yes that 1.5 million people of all ages participated in climate events in over 100 countries Marsch 15. You also have this map over all the cities and towns that has held climate events. There many places continue to have climate events every friday.

Map - FridaysForFuture

There will also be a new big climate event May 24.
 
The fossil fuel companies know it’s pointless to fund research to disprove manmade global warming because of the overwhelming evidence. So instead they fund denier propaganda like the Heartland Institute.

That the evidence of manmade global warming is so overwhelming that even the American Intelligence Community under Donald Trump acknowledge the threat from climate change.

“Global environmental and ecological degradation, as well as climate change, are likely to fuel competition for resources, economic distress, and social discontent through 2019 and beyond. Climate hazards such as extreme weather, higher temperatures, droughts, floods, wildfires, storms, sea level rise, soil degradation, and acidifying oceans are intensifying, threatening infrastructure, health, and water and food security. Irreversible damage to ecosystems and habitats will undermine the economic benefits they provide, worsened by air, soil, water, and marine pollution.”

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/2019-ATA-SFR---SSCI.pdf

My response is here:

Climate change denalism has been a willful lie from day one
 
Yes that 1.5 million people of all ages participated in climate events in over 100 countries Marsch 15. You also have this map over all the cities and towns that has held climate events. There many places continue to have climate events every friday.

Map - FridaysForFuture

There will also be a new big climate event May 24.

It's so interesting to see Republicans complaining about the expense of the Green New Deal, when inaction has such a huge future cost. But Republicans no longer seem to care about the future. Case in point is their tax cuts for Billionaires which is skyrocketing the nation's deficit. So misguided. So inept.
 
What's that? No. 26 on your list of trite banalities to trot out when you've run out of arguments?

If we went with the "logic" of that particular trite banality of Jack's, apparently if you "opposed" someone who claimed the earth was flat, that would "confirm" that it's flat. *shrug* Yeah, it was a trite illogical banality.
 
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It's so interesting to see Republicans complaining about the expense of the Green New Deal, when inaction has such a huge future cost. But Republicans no longer seem to care about the future. Case in point is their tax cuts for Billionaires which is skyrocketing the nation's deficit. So misguided. So inept.

Think of the impact if just some of money spend on the tax cuts instead have gone to a new green deal. That having governments, individuals, communities and companies leading the way have already drastically reduced the cost of renewables, batteries and other technologies.

“A new report reveals 42% of global coal capacity is currently unprofitable, and the United States could save $78 billion by closing coal-fired power plants in line with the Paris Climate Accord’s climate goals. This industry-disrupting trend comes down to dollars and cents, as the cost of renewable energy dips below fossil fuel generation.

Across the U.S., renewable energy is beating coal on cost: The price to build new wind and solar has fallen below the cost of running existing coal-fired power plants in Red and Blue states. For example, Colorado’s Xcel will retire 660 megawatts (MW) of coal capacity ahead of schedule in favor of renewable sources and battery storage, and reduce costs in the process. Midwestern utility MidAmerican will be the first utility to reach 100% renewable energy by 2020 without increasing customer rates, and Indiana’s NIPSCO will replace 1.8 gigawatts (GW) of coal with wind and solar.”


Plunging Prices Mean Building New Renewable Energy Is Cheaper Than Running Existing Coal

While this statements from Rick Perry might give some hope of change.

‘Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Wednesday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., should not rebuked for pushing the Green New Deal.

Perry told reporters at the CERAWeek by IHS Markit energy industry conference in Houston that he’d be open to meeting with Ocasio-Cortez to discuss ways to reduce emissions.

“I don't think the representative should be castigated or pushed aside just on the face of her comments relative that she wants to live in place with clean air and water,” Perry said. “So do I.”

He later suggested a blanket rejection of the Green New Deal would be counterproductive to the goal of addressing climate change, which he shares.’


Rick Perry: AOC should not be 'castigated' for Green New Deal

Even if you have a president that wants to spend billions of dollar on propping up unprofitable coal plants.

Donald Trump hopes to save America’s failing coal-fired power plants - Daily chart
 
Think of the impact if just some of money spend on the tax cuts instead have gone to a new green deal. That having governments, individuals, communities and companies leading the way have already drastically reduced the cost of renewables, batteries and other technologies.

“A new report reveals 42% of global coal capacity is currently unprofitable, and the United States could save $78 billion by closing coal-fired power plants in line with the Paris Climate Accord’s climate goals. This industry-disrupting trend comes down to dollars and cents, as the cost of renewable energy dips below fossil fuel generation.

Across the U.S., renewable energy is beating coal on cost: The price to build new wind and solar has fallen below the cost of running existing coal-fired power plants in Red and Blue states. For example, Colorado’s Xcel will retire 660 megawatts (MW) of coal capacity ahead of schedule in favor of renewable sources and battery storage, and reduce costs in the process. Midwestern utility MidAmerican will be the first utility to reach 100% renewable energy by 2020 without increasing customer rates, and Indiana’s NIPSCO will replace 1.8 gigawatts (GW) of coal with wind and solar.”


Plunging Prices Mean Building New Renewable Energy Is Cheaper Than Running Existing Coal

While this statements from Rick Perry might give some hope of change.

‘Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Wednesday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., should not rebuked for pushing the Green New Deal.

Perry told reporters at the CERAWeek by IHS Markit energy industry conference in Houston that he’d be open to meeting with Ocasio-Cortez to discuss ways to reduce emissions.

“I don't think the representative should be castigated or pushed aside just on the face of her comments relative that she wants to live in place with clean air and water,” Perry said. “So do I.”

He later suggested a blanket rejection of the Green New Deal would be counterproductive to the goal of addressing climate change, which he shares.’


Rick Perry: AOC should not be 'castigated' for Green New Deal

Even if you have a president that wants to spend billions of dollar on propping up unprofitable coal plants.

Donald Trump hopes to save America’s failing coal-fired power plants - Daily chart

Do you think that Donald Trump's legacy will "The President who Saved the Coal Industry"?
 
Do you think that Donald Trump's legacy will "The President who Saved the Coal Industry"?

Trump can't save the coal industry.

'Coal is on the way out': study finds fossil fuel now pricier than solar or wind | Environment | The Guardian

While can be remembered as the president who delayed the necissary transition away from fossil fuel. How bad his impact will be dependend on if he win in 2020. There even his own agenceis warn about the devasting effects of climate change.

Effects | Facts – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
 
Trump can't save the coal industry.

'Coal is on the way out': study finds fossil fuel now pricier than solar or wind | Environment | The Guardian

While can be remembered as the president who delayed the necissary transition away from fossil fuel. How bad his impact will be dependend on if he win in 2020. There even his own agenceis warn about the devasting effects of climate change.

Effects | Facts – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

Perhaps, perhaps not, by putting all the competing technologies on equal footing, whichever path is best will emerge.
We can make educated guesses however.
Coal is dead within a few decades, because of logistics.
Oil will choke on it own costs, as extraction expenses push the price ever higher.
Pending some major advances in battery technology, batteries will likely not fly a jet over the ocean any time soon.
IMHO, this leaves only man made carbon neutral hydrocarbon fuels.
They can be produced as a storage device for the solar and wind surpluses that we know will occur,
in existing refineries. The man made fuels, can then be distributed with existing infrastructure, for existing demand.
As the technology improves, container size unites paired with solar panels could make fuel for remote farming communities,
doubling as an electrical source for some services.
Our future can be very bright, where everyone alive can live a first world lifestyle.
 
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