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I'm still not convinced climate change is a problem. Can you convince me otherwise?

I'll admit it. In my past religious life, I did not believe in the climate change crisis. I'm open to the idea now but I'm still skeptical.

It's not that I don't believe in global warming. All I have to do is look out the window to confirm that. What I struggle with is the idea of certain catastrophy due to human causes. From what I understand at the moment, rising temperatures are not necessarily going to keep rising indefinitely and so far it's not a bad thing because it opens up more land worldwide to the production of food.

Please feel free to post evidence for why you believe we're heading for catastrophy or other conclusions about climate change. Insults will be ignored.

Edited to add: Thanks for all the great links, everyone. I'm working my way through them. Feel free to add but I think I've said all I can at the moment. I'll just be looking through everything for a while.

UpsideDownAgain 7 Feb 15
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I can simplify this for you.

Climate change will never wipe out the Earth or all living things.

There is nothing humans can do that the Earth can not fix on its own.

The timeline of the Earth is extremely long.

What climate change WILL DO is to make the Earth inhospitable for humans.
We will be the ones to die.

I can’t convince you, nor can anyone else on here. Simply read the science. You either believe it or you don’t. However what’s the logic of falsifying the facts here?

Fix climate change we all are healthier.
Ignore climate change big business gets richer.

Seems obvious who’s not telling the truth here. The ones with the money.

Educate yourself. That’s your job not ours. It’s irrelevant to me if you believe in it or not.

Big business gets richer either way . . .

@Meili
And big busi.... Oh hell! I forgot what I was going to type...

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Why is this post in politics?
Seems more like a Science question.

Plus, the question is rather silly. JMHO.

I overlooked the "Academic (e.g. Science)" category since I tend to skim over parenthesis. Changed the topic . . .

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Just wondering do you have any evidence that contradicts the science? Then that could be incorporated into the hypothesis to include a fuller picture. The research may have missed something.

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Well they’re going to try get rid of you now ??????
But anyway I don’t deny climate change but I cannot accept that we’re being given something of false narrative that the only resolution is to immediately convert from gas and diesel.

I believe that there’s another answer but it won’t come from us or Europe because we’re all about profit over humanity so the plan is to get us to buy their products and to live in fear of our impending doom.

But like I said I don’t deny it so the new green deal and other possible plans should be considered but to set unattainable deadlines definitely speaks as to the lack of knowledge of what it would take to achieve such a task in so little time.

Who are "they?"

@Meili You know I would tell you but now I just don’t fucking want to

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Burning fossil fuels & overpopulation... CO2.

Too much CO2. It's is killing off our plants. Plants give us oxygen. Lack of oxygen produces too much CO2, bad for ecosystem, humans, Earth.

Plants take in CO2 and then release oxygen. Dirty smoke stacks polluting the air hurt us and our plants, but plants like plain CO2.

@DenoPenno Too much CO2 can kill plants.

@SleeplessInTexas No. More CO2 in the atmosphere make plants grow more vigorously.

@TheAstroChuck Apparently oxygen levels have been as high as 35% in the past and this enables insects to grow much larger. Imagine dragonflies the size of eagles scary.

@TheAstroChuck foot long centipedes etc. Makes my skin crawl just thinking about them

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These "skeptical" links are really bad. Seriously, people need to stop claiming to be "skeptical" when they accept bullshit from unknown/unreliable sources.

Marz Level 7 Feb 16, 2019
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About if opening more land to grow food, the downside is that it also does the complete opposite. A lot of land becomes non arable too.

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Who benefits the most from preventing action against climate change? For example, electric cars and trucks, e.g., Tesla, put less CO2 into the air than gas and diesel vehicles. The biggest corporations pump and sell oil, and the automotive industry is huge. The world burns a cubic mile of oil a year. Add coal and the power generation and distribution industries, and you get climate change.

Switching to green energy and electric vehicles will destroy the oil gas and coal industries. Tesla has already forced the automotive industry to start the switch to making EVs, but IMO most auto manufacturers will suffer, and some will fail. Electric vehicles need little maintenance and no oil changes; dealerships make money on service, and little on sales. Auto dealerships will suffer and perhaps vanish.

All of these industries are opposed to the green revolution. With trillions of dollars at stake, they have been fighting for survival, and they fight dirty. They attack scientists and political activists. They publish articles to confuse people.

Yes, climate change is real. It threatens human existence. People are already dying from climate change, the frail from heat and others from extreme weather.

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