I understand that you are convinced, and believe that you feel exactly as you describe.JimC wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:49 amThe consensus among climate scientists is solid, and it goes like this:
1. Increasing CO2 levels, via humans burning increasing amounts of fossil fuels are causing increased average global temperatures by a very well established mechanism.
2. As we continue to add more CO2 to the atmosphere, the warming effect will steadily increase. A variety of models are used, they all show the same thing.
3. The effects of warming will be deleterious in a variety of ways to both human civilisation and the global ecosystem.
It is straightforward science, no conspiracy theories needed. If you find certain people like Gore hypocritical because their actions do not match their rhetoric, this adds nothing to any debate about global warming.
My guess is that you have looked carefully into it, and have an informed opinion.
None of this suggests to me that a new tax on an element will help in any way.
Nor does it suggest that any of this is as predictable as the 'consensus' seems to suggest. As I said before, climate change was described well forty years ago, as inevitable, by Isaac Asimov (not a climate scientist). He seemed to think that we needed to be ready for climate change no matter what we do.
