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Scientists warn that greenhouse gas accumulation is accelerating and more extreme weather will come

What "agenda lies"? Do you seriously think thousands of climatologists around the world are conspiring for whatever reason? That's patently absurd, but I guess you'll let us know what led you to that conclusion. Oh, and one study does not override the thousands of others confirming anthropogenic CO2 emissions as a major contributor to global warming.
 
I don't think anyone has said China doesn't pollute; what I and others have said that the US is the world's second worst polluter, and produces more CO2 emissions, per capita, than any other nation. The US also spends considerably less than either China or India in attempting to address CO2 emissions. For example China has over 20 million EVs on the road-almost half the global fleet, and spends $1.9 trillion, annually, in investing in clean energy.
Yes there's a long way to go, but at least China isn't sitting around with collective thumbs up arses arguing facts, but is proactively addressing this major problem. What is the US doing-except whining about China?
 
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What "agenda lies"? Do you seriously think thousands of climatologists around the world are conspiring for whatever reason?
The agenda cry is ridiculous. I cannot imagine a vast conspiracy that required 174,000 scientists from around the world, getting paid by Soros, to join a Zoom meeting and create an agenda! Hilarious.
 
Again, these scientists are only making papers that are being commissioned. The pundits lie about what the papers actually mean.

You guys are so easily lied to.
 
The agenda cry is ridiculous. I cannot imagine a vast conspiracy that required 174,000 scientists from around the world, getting paid by Soros, to join a Zoom meeting and create an agenda! Hilarious.
What a silly strawman statement.
 
PURE UNADULTERATED BULLCRAP

Scientists Expose Major Problems With Climate Change Data


‘Climate activism has become the new religion of the 21st century—heretics are not welcome and not allowed to ask questions,’ said astrophysicist Willie Soon.​



Globull Warming = Junk Science
 
Willie Soon is one of the many scientists that the cult has tried to professionally destroy, because he produces science that shows their scams.
 
Again, these scientists are only making papers that are being commissioned. The pundits lie about what the papers actually mean.

You guys are so easily lied to.
The conspiracy forum is over there mate; they'll welcome you with open arms. What a ****ing stupid post.
 
What pisses me off the most, is we have had modern technology available for ages now to burn coal with far fewer emissions that they built, but they choose to burn coal the dirty way.
Apparently, that started changing in China almost 20 years ago. This from 2009:

China has emerged in the past two years as the world’s leading builder of more efficient, less polluting coal power plants, mastering the technology and driving down the cost.

While the United States is still debating whether to build a more efficient kind of coal-fired power plant that uses extremely hot steam, China has begun building such plants at a rate of one a month.

Construction has stalled in the United States on a new generation of low-pollution power plants that turn coal into a gas before burning it, although Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Thursday that the Obama administration might revive one power plant of this type. But China has already approved equipment purchases for just such a power plant, to be assembled soon in a muddy field here in Tianjin.

The steps they’ve taken are probably as fast and as serious as anywhere in power-generation history,” said Hal Harvey, president of ClimateWorks, a group in San Francisco that helps finance projects to limit global warming.

Western countries continue to rely heavily on coal-fired power plants built decades ago with outdated, inefficient technology that burn a lot of coal and emit considerable amounts of carbon dioxide. China has begun requiring power companies to retire an older, more polluting power plant for each new one they build.



As far as today is concerned coal plants are losing money in China and wind and solar are cheaper.

As low-carbon energy sources continue to grow, they’ll take priority spot in the electricity mix. Coal power will start to take on the role of ‘peaker plants’.

Most of the world is used to gas playing that role. But China has never embraced gas: it doesn’t want another geopolitical burden when it has coal resources at home. So, coal is the ‘flexible’ or ‘peaker’ fuel of choice.

Another nod towards this shifting role of coal is that the Chinese government now has a program mandating “flexibility retrofits” on coal plants so that they can ramp up and down more effectively. If coal was going to maintain its role as the bulk baseload of the energy system, it wouldn’t need to do this.


 
Again, these scientists are only making papers that are being commissioned. The pundits lie about what the papers actually mean.

You guys are so easily lied to.

Do you have any studies that show pollution is causing the Earth to warm, or is your argument that they haven't proven CO2 and other greenhouse gases is causing Earth to warm?

You keep claiming we are "so easily lied to" but I have yet to seen you post a single convincing argument.
 
Do you have any studies that show pollution is causing the Earth to warm, or is your argument that they haven't proven CO2 and other greenhouse gases is causing Earth to warm?
Several times, a study was shown in these forums regarding the global average warming cause by soot. they claimed it to be 1.1 W/m^2 average for soot alone.
You keep claiming we are "so easily lied to" but I have yet to seen you post a single convincing argument.
Yes I have from time to time. Science is a discipline that requires correct use of terminologies. You however allow words to mean what you want them to mean, and not realizing they can mean more than one thing. You do not see the lack of technical clarity necessary. You are not distinguishing between what an author implies and what the author can show as legitimate.

Words have meaning!
 
Again, these scientists are only making papers that are being commissioned. The pundits lie about what the papers actually mean.

You guys are so easily lied to.

That doesn't make any sense. All of them? All of the studies are biased because all of them are being funded by groups that are promoting an "agenda"?

That sounds like a load of shit to me.

That sounds like you believe in dumb conspiracy theories.

So, which studies are the result of funding from organization you deem credible?

Which scientists are credible?

What is your frame of reference?

What are your favorite studies? What are your favorite orgs? Which funding do you accept as being "unbiased" funding or not the result of some sort of hidden agenda.

You just sound like you are making stuff up.

It sounds to me like you have a fringe, kooky belief that no one else believes and you're mad about it.

Show us the evidence.
 
It's the graph available, and visually tells the story. China is the biggest country and biggest contributor to pollution in Asia, just as the US is for North America. No, they aren't the only countries there.

Your graph is for Asia and doesn’t tell the story at all for China. It shows an ever growing but not quite doubling from 1978 to 2022 for Asia:




The graph below shows only China. As you can see if we look at only China sulfur dioxide tripled from about 12 million tons in 1978 to 38 million tons in 2006 then fell to 10 million tons in 2022. A completely different story. Other countries in Asia like Vietnam and India have had very different trajectories than China.





You are working way too hard to try to sell China as a country that doesn't pollute. They are the biggest polluter in the world, by far. Kudos to them for ANY progress, but they have a long way to go to join the rest of the civilized world.
I never said that China doesn’t pollute and are lots of things not to like about China. What I am saying is that some of what is being portrayed about China is based on either misleading information or people being unaware of what was happening in China in the past vs what has been happening more recently.

When it was announced that China was going to host the 2008 Olympics the world started freaking out over their pollution situation which embarrassed the Chinese Party. They didn’t want their athletes competing in a polluted hell hole. At the same time the Chinese people were getting more and more upset and excess deaths were occurring. These factors caused the Chinese party to change course and start building cleaner coal plants, retiring or refitting older plants and quickly ramping up first wind and later solar power generation.
 
And where does the electricity come from for those EV's- Chinas Coal power plants.
China has the greatest number of coal-fired power stations of any country or territory in the world. As of July 2024, there were 1,161 operational coal power plants on the Chinese Mainland. This was more than four times the number of such power stations in India, which ranked second.
 
Just look for yourself in papers, what the papers can actually show with science, vs. what people claim they say.
 
The Epoch times is a great resource if you believe in bullcrap like the 2020 election was stolen, antivax nonsense, January 6 was a false flag organization, QAnon is a great organization, etc.
 
The Epoch times is a great resource if you believe in bullcrap like the 2020 election was stolen, antivax nonsense, January 6 was a false flag organization, QAnon is a great organization, etc.
Your response should have identified SCIENTIFIC FACTS which refute or rebut the Epoch Times findings
 
If you look at some of my earlier posts you will see that in 2007 China started building the cleanest coal power plants in the world. They also started building by far the most wind and solar capacity of any country. Even though their economy is smaller than ours they spent more than twice as much on renewable electricity generation in 2023 as the US did. Their plan is to depend primarily on wind and solar. New coal plants as well as existing refitted ones are being designed to operate as what they call flex plants which serve peak demand periods. Already, some coal plants are required to operate less than 20% of the time.

So yes, they have a lot of coal plants but they don’t run all the time now and will do so less and less as time goes on because the wind and solar is cheaper to operate. Bottom line is that they plan that the electricity for those EVs to come from wind and solar.
 
The conspiracy forum is over there mate; they'll welcome you with open arms. What a ****ing stupid post.
I don’t think it’s possible to overstate how badly I’d like for all of us to be wrong about global warming.

The problem is we’ve got a whole planet’s worth of data to confirm the situation.
 

OK, so if this is the case, why isn't there an emergency order to shut down all drive-through services?
 
Your response should have identified SCIENTIFIC FACTS which refute or rebut the Epoch Times findings
You are free to look up any of the statements in the article and see how they have been debunked. Here’s one for you. Soon (the fossil fuel funded guy who hid his funding sources when he published papers) talks about the urban heat island so called problem, but that issue is not as he described it. Here’s the truth:



Note also that the Epoch Times article talks about all these experts and published studies but doesn’t name any except Soon.

Soon also said that climate change was primarily due to solar variability, but that also been debunked.

Below is a video from a former climate skeptic who had the integrity to go public with his findings when he tested enough data to convince himself to change his mind. His work as described here is primarily based on correlations. Now people will complain that correlation is not causation which is true. However, causation REQUIRES correlation. Soon’s solar variability didn’t make the cut. He also looked at the urban heat island issue.

Richard Muller founded the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project after declaring himself skeptical about climate change. He was funded in part by the Koch Brothers fossil fuel empire, just like Soon.

He found out what other scientists have known for decades. The Earth is warming, and we're doing it:


 


You should write inspirational cards.



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Duh. Use the same data and get similar results.
 
Yes, China does, but they are gradually transitioning from coal to greener energy, actively promoting the use of EVs-and spending hundreds of billions in the process, while America, with Trump's idiotic decision to remove EPA protections and emission regulations, lags behind. And who wouldn't like a quieter city of electric cars, devoid of noxious fumes and pollution?

 
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