Comments by "Trazyn" (@Trazynn) on "Innovating to zero! | Bill Gates" video.

  1. The CO2 that has been present before the industrial revolution is not the problem. We like that CO2 has it's responsible for the stable climate we used to have. However, we're introducing NEW CO2 into the atmosphere, we know this our CO2 because the carbon isotopes found in fossil fuels are increasing in the atmosphere. And we all should be 'climate caring folks', there's no such thing as balancing between the environment and economy, without a healthy environment there's no healthy economy.
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  2. In that I agree. Solving global warming doesn't have to mean chastising people for what they're doing now. We only need to phase out the polluting industries by making clean alternatives competitive. Calculate the damage caused by the product, back on the product and you've got the true value of the product.
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  3. Well yes it is. This is not just a correlation between emissions and temperature, the radiative forcing of CO2 is just an indisputable fact. These models we're using (you can mix whatever atmosphere composition in the software) have proven themselves over and over again. See, I'm all for scientific debate, but the dissidents are A: rarely scientists and B: not publishing anything, they're just standing at the sideline without actually getting into a real debate.
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  4. It's actually the nations causing global warming that are abusing the poor who suffer the most from the effects.
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  5. This attitude is mainly caused due to the erosion of authority. It's quite a concerning development because everyone having his own soapbox means that the layman has a very hard time to make up his mind in who to believe and who not. What should be done about global warming is a political issue, people can have different opinions which deserve equal time. But whether it's real or not is a scientific matter, not every opinion is a valid one.
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  6. Climate activists actually dread the drying up of oil as that would mean an increase of coal to fuel energy which there's still plenty of, and also far more pollution. Just going through your comments here. You seem to have gotten part of the picture, I hope don't mind me filling in stuff.
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  7. Oh trust me, I did. Nothing but slander.
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  8. If anything the volcanoes are actually cooling the planet with their aerosols in short terms.
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  9. The models and data are not indisputable, just very reliable. The radiative forcing of carbon however, is as any other physical property attributed to it. We're not talking general climate science here, we're talking physics now.
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