Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "" video.

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A scientist who isn't 100% sure about something?? Is this allowed? Shouldn't they be cancelled or doxxed?
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Technically, we're still living in what are essentially the dying embers (or is it icicles?) of an ice age. An ice age which began 2.6m years ago - a mere footnote in the history of planet Earth known as the Pleistocene Period - and which started to come to an end around 11,000 years ago. To imagine that human activity, particularly at its current industrialised levels literally employing millions of years of locked up in the earth solar and concentrated organic energy in the form of fossil fuels won't in some way contribute to hitherto 'unusual' temperature rises is, I think, for the birds. The real question then is quite how much the releasing of that pent up energy has contributed to the warming of the planet, particularly given how the planet effectively has its own thermostat working away 24/7. This lady, quite rightly, says she doesn't know or what threats those relatively minor temperature rises may or may not pose and, frankly, I don't believe anyone does.
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Now I freely admit that this REALLY is a conspiracy theory..... Given how fossil fuels are undeniably finite and, by definition, running comparatively low, wouldn't it make perfect sense for a certain blessed constituency to benefit from an establishment endorsed narrative that would divert the great unwashed masses away from their historical reliance on said dwindling precious resources and perhaps even profit handsomely from such a move in the process? Of course, no one would ever be that darkly cynical though would they?
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Activist 101. From the off, vilify and dehumanise your opponent, however learned, with a simplistic extreme label thereby nullifying any need to engage with any of their arguments. Job done.
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Chinese loan forgiveness in Africa, for example, is much much lower than it was at its peak in 2007 when it hit almost $600m. Between 2007 and 2019 most years it was close to zero, although 2019 itself was unusual when hitting $232m according to estimates. Most of this debt was in the form of interest free loans which only makes up 5% of China's total $843bn loans made to 165 countries between 2003 and 2017. Zambia, Africa's first covid debt default, has seen most of its debt restructured and payment times extended and some haircuts for creditors, but not written off as such. None of this is helped by China's infamously opaque lending practices but nor does that excuse the hugely damaging neoliberal 'conditionalities' attached by the IMF and World Bank for the granting of their loans to these poorer countries either. Let's be honest then, both the West and China are involved in 'debt trap diplomacy' for self serving reasons with the western powers usually offering cheaper loans with more punitive economic conditions attached and China offering more expensive loans with fewer strings Neither comes out smelling of roses here.
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Fear sells unfortunately. Always has and always will.
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I think I can speak for everyone here when I say I'm still recovering from the dreadful fallout from the Millennium Bug 🐛 Thankfully though, no one ever cynically preyed on our primal fears and sought to monetise and profit from that disaster.....
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'Sea level has been remarkably stable for 10,000 years'? During the early Holocene period a rapid sea level rise of 60m occurred over the Eurasian Mesolithic around the time period you're talking about. Britain an estimated less than 10,000 years ago used to be connected as a peninsula to the European continent until sea levels rose significantly rendering it an island today. As far as I'm aware the industrial revolution only started around 250 years ago so what would you attribute these past profound rises in sea levels, significantly greater than those predicted today, and profound changes in climate to back then?
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