Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Hottest Day in 120,000 Years? LOL" video.

@SoilToSoul Nature also has buffering effects. Better conditions for plant and coral growth, which locks carbon up in living and dead and decaying plant matter, coral skeletons (reefs). The Kaibab Limestone that's the common cap-rock in the Grand Canyon is super thick and super extensive. Just think of all the CO2 Mother Nature locked up, right there. But don't ask me about the chemistry. CO2's solubility in water is higher at lower temps. So I think that's in line with warmer temperatures spurring coral growth, the same way they spur stalactite growth. Colder water dissolves lime better than hot, because there's more carbonic acid dissolved in it. My guess is that in the end, The Science will say that CO2 emissions are a net benefit, but that emissions are still a problem for all the other stuff they pump into the atmosphere, the metallic impurities in coal and so on. Then they'll circle back to "clean-burning fossil fuels," and "natural gas, the hero we deserve." But by then, the world will be a much poorer place.
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Continental drive explains a lot of that. It's not that the pole wandering explains all of that phenomenon. Also, the Earth's crust is always moving. We're a very thin and fragile bit of slag on a very big, spinning ball of molten metal.
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@SoilToSoul Seems like we're due for a magnetic reversal. North becomes South and vice-versa. Who knows what problems that might cause? Earthquakes and such? Lots of igneous rock around the planet that is magnetized one way or the other, in vertical layers on land and horizontal bands, mid-ocean. A reversal of Earth's magnetization would reverse the magnetic stresses on those opposite-oriented layers and bands. It's a small force, but that's a lot of rock, and all the forces are in perfect balance under the current field.
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Yes. Paving a parking lot under a weather station can make it seem like the whole area got a lot hotter, when it just got hot next to or under a weather station. All such measurement errors/anomalies feed the narrative of fear.
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@MerryOlSoulGigglesmith Gun control favors gangs and big bullies.
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A lot of people also live wastefully. There are some kernels of truth in the sustainable living narrative. I think permaculture is pretty cool stuff. I like arranging things so I don't burn a lot of fuel in my day-to-day life. Of course, I still want the option of affordable transportation, too, and that means fossil fuel. We should evolve to a lighter footprint, but not forced evolution by people who are more interested in THEIR solutions rather than letting us come up with our own. The regulators are WAY behind us on home construction, and the regulations keep us from building smarter. Too much cheaper to build a wooden box aboveground than an earth-sheltered home with a daylight basement. Yes, little EVs for tooling around and close to town make sense. But don't suck up all the battery production on replacements for all work and pleasure-trip vehicles. I think a 2- or 3-wheeled EV that can handle my shopping and errands around town makes a ton of sense. But when I want to go over 100 miles? I'd rather watch my fuel gauge than my battery level. It's like having a car with a tiny tank and the mileage gets worse and worse every time you fill the tank AND it takes too long to fill the tank. That said, over time, standardized battery "cassettes" might be good. You go to a charging station and they swap out your battery for a charged battery, and the charging station is constantly charging x number of batteries. That solves the fill-up problem. I can see that kind of thing working in the city and stations springing up farther and farther out, over time. But let it grow organically, as the market allows. Don't force it. The fear mongers always reveal their urge to rule underlying their urge to save when they resort to force. This channel ain't about force.
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@boredandconfused "Hey look! I'm green! Send money!" - Zelensky
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They'll keep doubling down until the next Krakatoa. That'll wipe the slate clean and they'll move on to something else for us to give up our lives and liberty.
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@chetpomeroy1399 Then you're old enough to remember the same "Do what we tell you" people fear mongering about the looming ice age. Had pretty much the same prescription as the global warming crowd, today, whose hockey stick begins in 1978, when it was super-duper cold, and people thought the Earth was cooling catastrophically. None of the models explain why it was so hot before CO2 built up, or why it got cooler from the 1930s (HOT!) until 1978ish. That part of climate history has been expunged from the official record for no good reason. Just shut up and buy batteries and solar panels made in Chinese factories power by coal-fired electric plants.
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