Biden’s oil lie

[eohrnberger]

1. We use more oil than we domestically produce and have for decades - even when we were exporting.

2. The question is, are EVs, plugin-hybrids, and hybrids environmentally less destructive through all stages of production and use than traditional ice vehicles.

Answer, they are: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgor...he-12-greenest-cars-for-2020/?sh=76fdd30cc5be

BTW, as I have stated before. I am all for greater domestic oil production, but if we do not couple that with greater efficiency mandates for passenger vehicles, we won't accomplish anything.

Alaska would appear to have some capacity yet not producing, and a governor ready and willing to make it happen.

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Alaska Field Production of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels per Day)

• The comments also come after the Biden administration last week began delaying decisions on new oil and gas leases after a federal judge blocked the administration from using higher climate change cost estimates when regulating polluting industries.
• The ruling stems from President Biden's decision on his first day in office to restore the climate cost estimate to $51 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions, up from the $7 it was slashed to during the Trump administration.

Alaska ready to increase oil, gas production if Biden admin allows: Gov. Dunleavy​

Dunleavy argues the US should be pushing for increased production of oil, natural gas amid tension overseas​

By Talia Kaplan FOXBusiness​

Alaska ready to increase oil, gas production if Biden admin allows: Gov. Dunleavy

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy said that his state is ready to increase oil and gas production amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine if the Biden administration allows.

www.foxbusiness.com

Given leverage that the shortfall is giving foreign tyrants, and the weak foreign policy that produces, I think it would be wise to open up all the taps, provide for ourselves, and provide as much as we can to the EU nations that had made the Faustian Bargain with Russia for energy until they can get their production facility back on line as well, in order to further weaken those foreign tyrant's leverage on our EU / NATO partners. It'd be the right thing to do. Sure, a stretch goal, but It'd be the right thing to do.

This, of course, would require Biden, more so the radicals in his administration, to reverse their anti-US energy policies and position, and face down the environmental extremists with which they made a Faustian Bargain with to get elected. I don't think Biden, nor more so the radicals in his administration, are going to do that.

 

[Sand Castle]

Alaska would appear to have some capacity yet not producing, and a governor ready and willing to make it happen.

View attachment 67379921​

Alaska Field Production of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels per Day)

• The comments also come after the Biden administration last week began delaying decisions on new oil and gas leases after a federal judge blocked the administration from using higher climate change cost estimates when regulating polluting industries.
• The ruling stems from President Biden's decision on his first day in office to restore the climate cost estimate to $51 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions, up from the $7 it was slashed to during the Trump administration.

Alaska ready to increase oil, gas production if Biden admin allows: Gov. Dunleavy​

Dunleavy argues the US should be pushing for increased production of oil, natural gas amid tension overseas​

By Talia Kaplan FOXBusiness​

Alaska ready to increase oil, gas production if Biden admin allows: Gov. Dunleavy

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy said that his state is ready to increase oil and gas production amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine if the Biden administration allows.

www.foxbusiness.com

Given leverage that the shortfall is giving foreign tyrants, and the weak foreign policy that produces, I think it would be wise to open up all the taps, provide for ourselves, and provide as much as we can to the EU nations that had made the Faustian Bargain with Russia for energy until they can get their production facility back on line as well, in order to further weaken those foreign tyrant's leverage on our EU / NATO partners. It'd be the right thing to do. Sure, a stretch goal, but It'd be the right thing to do.

This, of course, would require Biden, more so the radicals in his administration, to reverse their anti-US energy policies and position, and face down the environmental extremists with which they made a Faustian Bargain with to get elected. I don't think Biden, nor more so the radicals in his administration, are going to do that.

All the bullshit presented and yet, still not on Biden. Pretty clear below

Big Oil passes on drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

ANCHORAGE (CN) — Major oil companies passed on the opportunity to drill in Alaska’s pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during a long-awaited oil lease sale Wednesday, an anticlimactic culmination of one of President Donald Trump’s biggest environmental rollbacks.

Big Oil passes on drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Major oil companies passed on the opportunity to drill in Alaska’s pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during a long-awaited oil lease sale Wednesday, an anticlimactic culmination of one of President Donald Trump’s biggest environmental rollbacks.

missoulacurrent.com

 

[eohrnberger]

All the bullshit presented and yet, still not on Biden. Pretty clear below

Big Oil passes on drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

ANCHORAGE (CN) — Major oil companies passed on the opportunity to drill in Alaska’s pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during a long-awaited oil lease sale Wednesday, an anticlimactic culmination of one of President Donald Trump’s biggest environmental rollbacks.

Big Oil passes on drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Major oil companies passed on the opportunity to drill in Alaska’s pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during a long-awaited oil lease sale Wednesday, an anticlimactic culmination of one of President Donald Trump’s biggest environmental rollbacks.

missoulacurrent.com

Yeah, cherry picking isn't the whole picture, is it?

I'm glad you're amused.

When? Dec 2019.
Here's one source: https://www.atr.org/joe-biden-we-are-going-get-rid-fossil-fuels/
If you don't like that, here's another: https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/1...e-dont-stop-using-fossil-fuels-were-all-dead/
If you don't like that, here's another: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ossil-fuel-executives-environment-damage.html
If you don't like that, here's another: https://lidblog.com/fossil-fuel-execs-jail/

There are more, but that should suffice.

Biden said over and over he would kill fossil fuels!

Listen to him in his own words!

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Joe Biden is determined to END FRESH DRILLING by Fossil Fuel Industry​

Biden targets drilling, fossil fuel subsidies in sweeping climate push​

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a raft of executive actions to combat climate change, including pausing new oil and gas leases on federal land and cutting fossil fuel subsidies, as he pursues green policies he billed as a boon to the economy.

“In that EO, the President stated that it is the policy of his government to act to “mitigate [climate-related financial] risk and its drivers,” as part of his Administration’s all-of-government approach to addressing the climate crisis. The EO directs several federal actors to issue reports and recommendations on how, precisely, to do that.

By including the “drivers” of climate change in the Executive Order’s directives, President Biden has made it clear that agencies can’t just tinker with assessments and disclosure —steps that provide greater information and transparency on banks’ climate risks. Federal financial regulators must address what is creating that risk head-on, including by driving down the financing of fossil fuels.”

Financial Regulators Have the Power to Prevent a Climate-fueled Economic Crash

Here's how regulators can implement Biden’s climate finance executive order to prevent an economic crash

www.evergreenaction.com

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[eohrnberger]

(Continued)

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Utterly bizarre that they are pretending that destroying the oil industry is not a core platform of their party. Bizarre.

1. On his first day as president, Biden canceled completion of the Keystone XL Pipeline, taking away thousands of American jobs, reducing domestic energy production, and driving up the cost of oil.
2. One of Biden’s first actions as president was suspending oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and New Mexico.
3. Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reinstalled regulations that restrict domestic energy production, including resurrecting the “Waters of the United States” rule that limits how farmers and ranchers can use their land.
4. Last month the EPA announced new regulations for methane emissions from oil and gas production, transmission, storage, and distribution. The American Petroleum Institute estimated that the Democrats’ desired ban on oil and gas development on federal lands would cause nearly 1 million Americans to lose their jobs, and cost the U.S. $500 billion to import gas.
5. Biden’s EPA is also pushing a new rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. That regulation is estimated to raise the average vehicle price by $1,000.
6. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord, citing its harm to American jobs and the U.S. economy. Biden rejoined the United Nation’s globalist project, which will result in more energy regulations and restrictions and drive up the cost of domestic energy, including gasoline and heating.
7. Biden’s decision to put a moratorium on oil and gas leasing on federal land and his goal of banning hydraulic fracking will no doubt please Russia and OPEC as the U.S. loses its energy independence and increases its dependence on foreign oil and gas.
8. Biden vowed to prohibit fracking, which will cause a massive loss in American jobs. “Banning fracking, as Biden has promised to do, would eliminate 19 million jobs between 2021-2025,” according to the House Republican Policy Committee.
9. Biden’s policies have resulted in skyrocketing prices at the gas pump. A year ago — in November 2020 — the average gas price was $2.11 per gallon. By November 2021, the national average gas price had shot up to $3.42. Americans paid 61 percent more for gas as inflation soared to a 30-year high.
10. Biden’s Build Back Better plan would spend taxpayer dollars to force utilities to use more expensive forms of energy (as called for in the Green New Deal), reducing energy choices and raising costs for American consumers.

You missed another post of mine which explained your question.
Here is a CNN link that in my opinion does a good job telling both sides of the issue.

https://money.cnn.com/2011/06/06/news/economy/oil_drilling_leases/index.htm

The Biden administration is placing road blocks making it difficult for these oil producers.

U.S. Treasury's Yellen to push development banks to step up climate financing effort

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday signaled she will push multilateral development banks further away from fossil fuel projects, saying she would ask them to "increase their climate ambition" to support the Paris Agreement on carbon emissions reductions.

www.reuters.com

Yellen Urges Development Banks To Stop Fossil Fuel Funding | OilPrice.com

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is prepared to gather together the heads of development banks to persuade them to stop fossil fuel project funding

oilprice.com

You got the Treasury Secretary pushing banks away from fossil fuel projects. How do they get funding?
The road blocks and regulations this administration has placed on oil producers scares investors away.

Biden's assault on the energy industry

Pretty clear that Biden, more so the radicals in his administration that are handling him, have declared war on the US petroleum industry.

If you constrain the resource that powers your economy that economy will fail.
There's no belief in rainbows and unicorns that will change that reality, no matter how hard you believe in those rainbows and unicorns.

The completely avoidable forced poverty on the American people. Thank you Biden, more so the radicals in his administration, and the 'Green New Deal' screw job nut jobs.

You should never cut the legs out from under your economy.

 

[Linuxcooldude]

I support a prez that focuses on renewable energy, not oil. After the pandemic crash in oil production, the rate of increase in production is back to nearly the same as established during the Obama admin, under which oil production went up for the first time since 1970. The oil industry has no plans to increase production to new highs. To this day, the oil industry is heavily subsidized in many ways. It's renewable energy that needs the subsidies, not oil. Private investment is going into renewables, not so much into dirty energy. That's the "free market" at work. Why are con posters against the free market and investors' choice of where to invest their money?

The idea is to continue to develop on renewable energy...WHILE still making America energy independent

They are not drilling because there is no reason to drill. There is no shortage of oil. They want to push the price higher because of the increased profit that is created. It's not in their best interest to flood the market with oil because that results in the price and their profits decreasing.

Watching you defend them as their make additional profits from people like you is hilariously ironic.

Higher gas prices mean people will hold back traveling in vehicles when they can. Cheap gas prices companies can still makeup in higher volume.

 

[eohrnberger]

All the bullshit presented and yet, still not on Biden. Pretty clear below

Big Oil passes on drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

ANCHORAGE (CN) — Major oil companies passed on the opportunity to drill in Alaska’s pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during a long-awaited oil lease sale Wednesday, an anticlimactic culmination of one of President Donald Trump’s biggest environmental rollbacks.

Big Oil passes on drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Major oil companies passed on the opportunity to drill in Alaska’s pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge during a long-awaited oil lease sale Wednesday, an anticlimactic culmination of one of President Donald Trump’s biggest environmental rollbacks.

missoulacurrent.com

Specific to your point, when the fed chairman is cutting your company off from the money you need to produce, what, as a business owner, are you going to do?

The gas prices and the inflation are Biden and his radicals to own, and own them they should, as well as the likely recession such constraining on what powers the economy is likely to result in.

 

[Sand Castle]

Specific to your point, when the fed chairman is cutting your company off from the money you need to produce, what, as a business owner, are you going to do?

The gas prices and the inflation are Biden and his radicals to own, and own them they should, as well as the likely recession such constraining on what powers the economy is likely to result in.

Tom Cotton admits Trump, not Biden, caused inflation

Republicans hammered the Biden administration on inflation. But Republican Senator Tom Cotton has a completely different theory: He attributes inflation to Donald Trump’s poor selection to lead the Federal Reserve.

Cottons’ point of view, set out in a Wall Street Journal editorial, places the blame for inflation squarely on Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Fed.

Tom Cotton admits Trump, not Biden, caused inflation

Republicans hammered the Biden administration on inflation. Democrats have attempted to respond by blaming supply chain shortages caused by the pandemic. But Republican Senator Tom Cotton has a completely different theory: He attributes inflation to Donald Trump’s poor selection to lead the...

exbulletin.com

 

[eohrnberger]

Tom Cotton admits Trump, not Biden, caused inflation

Republicans hammered the Biden administration on inflation. But Republican Senator Tom Cotton has a completely different theory: He attributes inflation to Donald Trump’s poor selection to lead the Federal Reserve.

Cottons’ point of view, set out in a Wall Street Journal editorial, places the blame for inflation squarely on Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Fed.

Tom Cotton admits Trump, not Biden, caused inflation

Republicans hammered the Biden administration on inflation. Democrats have attempted to respond by blaming supply chain shortages caused by the pandemic. But Republican Senator Tom Cotton has a completely different theory: He attributes inflation to Donald Trump’s poor selection to lead the...

exbulletin.com

So you grab on the cherry pick which confirmed your confirmation bias, and look no further?
There's a lot more to consider, if you look at posts #203, #204, #206.
But you've found the answer that you want, and stop considering other information. Got it.

 

[EdwinWillers]

So you grab on the cherry pick which confirmed your confirmation bias, and look no further?
There's a lot more to consider, if you look at posts #203, #204, #206.
But you've found the answer that you want, and stop considering other information. Got it.

Facts --- they're simply not for the faint of heart.

 

[sanman]

 

[EdwinWillers]

ROTFLOL - hilarious. Thank you!

 

[ALiberalModerate]

U.S. Field Production of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels per Day)

His point was that there would have been a drop in domestic production regardless of who was in office because the Saudis and Russia flooded the market with cheap oil in order to put U.S. domestic producers out of business. They do this every time we ramp up domestic production. This is why it is pointless to ramp up domestic production without also increasing efficiency mandates on passenger vehicles.

Alaska would appear to have some capacity yet not producing, and a governor ready and willing to make it happen.

View attachment 67379921​

Alaska Field Production of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels per Day)

• The comments also come after the Biden administration last week began delaying decisions on new oil and gas leases after a federal judge blocked the administration from using higher climate change cost estimates when regulating polluting industries.
• The ruling stems from President Biden's decision on his first day in office to restore the climate cost estimate to $51 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions, up from the $7 it was slashed to during the Trump administration.

Alaska ready to increase oil, gas production if Biden admin allows: Gov. Dunleavy​

Dunleavy argues the US should be pushing for increased production of oil, natural gas amid tension overseas​

By Talia Kaplan FOXBusiness​

Alaska ready to increase oil, gas production if Biden admin allows: Gov. Dunleavy

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy said that his state is ready to increase oil and gas production amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine if the Biden administration allows.

www.foxbusiness.com

Given leverage that the shortfall is giving foreign tyrants, and the weak foreign policy that produces, I think it would be wise to open up all the taps, provide for ourselves, and provide as much as we can to the EU nations that had made the Faustian Bargain with Russia for energy until they can get their production facility back on line as well, in order to further weaken those foreign tyrant's leverage on our EU / NATO partners. It'd be the right thing to do. Sure, a stretch goal, but It'd be the right thing to do.

This, of course, would require Biden, more so the radicals in his administration, to reverse their anti-US energy policies and position, and face down the environmental extremists with which they made a Faustian Bargain with to get elected. I don't think Biden, nor more so the radicals in his administration, are going to do that.

You can get 2 million barrels a day through the Alaskan pipeline. How much oil Alaska has is irrelevant because how much they can get through that pipeline is what they can bring to market.

 

[finebead]

Everyone who is paying attention knows this is a huge lie by Biden. He told oil companies he was going to kill fossil fuels and now wants to beg for more oil, like the oil companies haven't been producing. Biden put restrictions on leases and permits the minute he walked into the white house.

If you think the solution is just to drill more, how do you explain what happened the last time the US oil producers went on a wild drilling spree after we learned how to frack wells?

Feb. 11, 2016 -
At least 67 U.S. oil and natural gas companies filed for bankruptcy in 2015, according to consulting firm Gavin/Solmonese.

That represents a 379% spike from the previous year when oil prices were substantially higher.

With oil prices crashing further in recent weeks, five more energy gas producers succumbed to bankruptcy in the first five weeks of this year, according to Houston law firm Haynes and Boone.

"It looks pretty bad. We fully anticipate it's only going to get worse," said Buddy Clark, a partner at Haynes and Boone and 33-year veteran in the energy finance space.

This bleak outlook highlights one of the flip sides to cheap energy prices.

<snip>

The dramatic increase in bankruptcy filings corresponds with the plunge in oil prices from over $100 a barrel in mid-2014 to below $27 today. It also reflects the drop in natural gas prices, which are near 14-year lows.


When oil prices were comfortably in the $90-$100 range and the shale oil boom took off, companies took on tons of debt to fund expensive drilling. But the ensuing surge in U.S. oil production created an epic supply glut that caused crude to crash.


Revenues have dropped, choking off cash flows and making it challenging for companies to pay off all that debt. Companies have responded by cutting jobs and slashing spending. But some of the more leveraged ones have been forced to resort to bankruptcy.

72 oil bankruptcies in just 14 months

The crash in oil prices has caused a dramatic spike in the number of bankruptcies by oil and natural gas companies. Last year alone there were 67 companies that filed for bankruptcy.

money.cnn.com

Investors have demanded greater discipline from oil company managements. You can't responsibly run out and borrow millions of dollars and start drilling wells just because the price of a barrel of oil has been over $90 a barrel for a while. Some investors have lost tons of their money and they are not going to do that again.

The bankers who lend to the oil companies to drill, they took a haircut also in 2015-2016. Their management understands they need to be a LOT more careful than they were in 2010-2014. The bank's shareholders demand greater discipline out of the banks.

None of that has anything to do with Biden or Trump. It is what makes a good business decision. You bring production on slowly so you don't throw production way above the daily demand rate, or else someone will go bankrupt.

 

[eohrnberger]

His point was that there would have been a drop in domestic production regardless of who was in office because the Saudis and Russia flooded the market with cheap oil in order to put U.S. domestic producers out of business. They do this every time we ramp up domestic production. This is why it is pointless to ramp up domestic production without also increasing efficiency mandates on passenger vehicles.

You can get 2 million barrels a day through the Alaskan pipeline. How much oil Alaska has is irrelevant because how much they can get through that pipeline is what they can bring to market.

Per the WikiPedia page:

Maximum discharge	2.136 million bbl/d (339,600 m3/d)

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The pipeline can support this.

What have we experienced with with the continual increase of CAFE standards on vehicles?
Fewer and fewer sales of them, mainly due to the increased price, because of the R&D and engineering required,
Leave the auto companies alone, we already see they've adopted the 'woke' EV craze. Hopefully that won't hurt them too badly economically.

Government should look to govern with a much lighter touch, rather than mandates.

 

[bluesmoke]

His point was that there would have been a drop in domestic production regardless of who was in office because the Saudis and Russia flooded the market with cheap oil in order to put U.S. domestic producers out of business. They do this every time we ramp up domestic production. This is why it is pointless to ramp up domestic production without also increasing efficiency mandates on passenger vehicles.

You can get 2 million barrels a day through the Alaskan pipeline. How much oil Alaska has is irrelevant because how much they can get through that pipeline is what they can bring to market.

That sure was a lot of posting btx you 2 that did not change the fact that the claim of '2000 pound toxic batteries' in landfills is false and the claim is correct that batteries in EVs and hybrids are modular, can be replaced/refurbished, and not necessary to replace the entire battery pack at once. Now the poster, after info spamming of no affect against the original point as explained above, is transitioning the argument to the need for producing more oil, wrongly making Biden the villain, again a claim not supported by evidence of fact. The fact is oil production has increased after the pandemic dip under Biden to nearly the same rate as first established under Obama, which Obama increase was the first time since production was fairly level from 1970 to 1986.

U.S. Field Production of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels per Day)

No evidence is given that the oil industry has plans to increase production to new highs.

 

[HangLow]

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[finebead]

Why don't we do like we did in the beginning of Covid, let people work from home 2 or 3 days a week, for three months, and see where the price of oil is.

The price of oil fell so low in 2020 that over 100 US oil and gas companies went bankrupt.

Record bankruptcy debt across North America oil and gas in 2020

Low crude prices prompted more than 100 North American oil and gas firms to file for bankruptcy in 2020, with their combined debt more than $100bn.

www.nsenergybusiness.com

We know that works to reduce demand.

 

[Lloyd Christmas]

This thread starts STUUUUUPID and somehow finds a way to decline from there.

that's every right wing troll thread on this forum. And by the day they just keep getting dumber and dumber.

 

[bluesmoke]

peak oil production was not back in 2009 but was under Trump in Dec. 2020 at 12,966 million barrels a day

U.S. Field Production of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels per Day)

Yes and it went up under Trump until the Saudi's and Russians had their price war and the US oil producers shut their wells down and went down to something like 9,711 million barrels a day in May of 2020 and it was about 9,773 million barrels a day when Biden took over and in Dec. 2021 it was up to 11,567 million barrels
we went to a net energy exporter it a net importer of Energy and everybody is trying to blame Biden for it
Have a nice day

My figures are of production on fed land being more than your post implies, or I inferred. Even though fed land production decreased while total oil production increased through the time period I gave, it has since remained about the same:

U.S. Crude Oil Production: Federal and Nonfederal Areas, 2016-2020
(million barrels per day)


Source: U.S. Department of the Interior

Despite Rep/con attacks on Obama over US oil production, oil production increased at the highest rate in history under Obama that Trump continued. Despite what is being said about Biden, oil production is now near the rate of increase as under Obama and Trump:

U.S. Field Production of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels per Day)

Make it a great day.

 

[bluesmoke]

The idea is to continue to develop on renewable energy...WHILE still making America energy independent

The way to get to energy independence is focusing on renewables, not oil.

 

[eohrnberger]

The way to get to energy independence is focusing on renewables, not oil.

I think you are going to be sorely disappointed in the renewable's performance and costs.
They have yet to prove themselves as being ready for 'prime time'. much less having the capacity to provide anything even remotely close to a significant part of the energy demand.

 

[bluesmoke]

I think you are going to be sorely disappointed in the renewable's performance and costs.
They have yet to prove themselves as being ready for 'prime time'. much less having the capacity to provide anything even remotely close to a significant part of the energy demand.

Yet proved is nothing compared to the unfolding actual and science-based cost of global warming by human emission of CO2. That you deny science is one thing. That you refuse to acknowledge the observable of the obvious is another.

 

[eohrnberger]

Yet proved is nothing compared to the unfolding actual and science-based cost of global warming by human emission of CO2. That you deny science is one thing. That you refuse to acknowledge the observable of the obvious is another.

There's a difference between 'the observable' and the conclusions some draw. To be skeptical when someone asserts that their preferred conclusions are 'settle science' is prudent and not 'denying science' as is often claimed. It is skepticism of those conclusions and skepticism of demanded actions based on those skeptical conclusions.

 

[bluesmoke]

There's a difference between 'the observable' and the conclusions some draw. To be skeptical when someone asserts that their preferred conclusions are 'settle science' is prudent and not 'denying science' as is often claimed. It is skepticism of those conclusions and skepticism of demanded actions based on those skeptical conclusions.

A scientific conclusion of likelihood does not constitute settled science throughout which process there is ever scientific skepticism. ACC/AGW is a conclusion of scientific likelihood that will forever be under scientific study that includes criticism/skepticism, though the running conclusion is of likelihood that ACC/AGW is extremely likely, and the evidence of which is very highly likely, until the possibility of change in conclusion is arrived, if ever.