Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Extinction Rebellion Comes To US - Nine Arrested" video.

  1. Here's A counter to the alarm: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/01/22/ocean-global-warming-is-not-actually-global-at-all/ It seems that Indian Ocean and South Atlantic are where the greatest jump is obtained. Interesting to note that they didn't get the bad-ass Argos monitoring system that went to DEPTH. Basically the IPCC itself says that our ocean-temp measurements before 2003 were worthless, because surface temps tell us little about the heat in the larger column of water. But yeah, if they're NOW saying that it's warmer, and not just at the surface, that's significant. In the article cited, above, they say that the increase in 1/3 of the the planet's waters and not in the other 2/3 (most of the Atlantic and Pacific) makes it hard to argue that the apparent increase is due to global CO2, else the temperature increase would be universally measured, and not just in 1/3 of the region measured. It might be an indicator of geothermal causes unrelated to the teeny tiny atmosphere that forms a thin-as-gossamer shell around a pretty good-sized planet. We know we're big. But we also know we're not THAT big. The oceans are a major buffer against atmospheric change. If they're taking a lot of heat out of the system, then it gives the alarmist view longer legs, fer sherz. But the only path I see to reducing emissions is middle-classing the shit out of the planet. Western democracies curbing their pop growth, naturally, due to prosperity and selfishness? Isn't that a good thing? Shouldn't we want to export that, rather than import a bunch of people who haven't learned, yet, while more people like them continue to be generated under their backwards, non-person-respecting governments back home? What's the path to prosperity? Fossil fuels. Want to reduce emissions? Get that woman in Sri Lanka some gulldurn propane! Right now, she's cooking over a wood fire, and breathing that shit and making all her neighbors breathe that shit. Meanwhile, Western democracies can start worrying about falling birth rates when the USA gets down to, say, 100 million souls. Meanwhile, encourage S. American countries to respect their people's rights to persons and property, and enforce the rule of just law. Prosperity and free trade will do the rest, and in another 30 years, they'll be prosperous enough that children are more burden than retirement plan, and birth rates will fall in THOSE countries like they have in ours. There's really nothing wrong with how we live. We're just encouraged to breed like rabbits by governments that sup off our blood and sweat. Why must we over-produce? To pay taxes to government just for breathing or daring to occupy some actual ground that we can call ours and maybe grow some food. And then, the one Jimmy Dore can agree with me on: Our war machine consumes fuel like nobody's business. Scale that shit back, too. Minimum necessary to DEFEND us. No more regime change. No more Iraqi Freedom or Libyan Slavery (Weren't those the slogans for the two 'regime changes?')
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  2. All that being said, I don't think CO2 emissions are driving climate change. I think that climate change is always a sword of damocles hanging over our heads. Vulcanism, meteoroid strike, solar cycle... All those things can bring catastrophic change at a single stroke. But if CO3 - Wait! That's carbonate! - CO2 emissions are driving things, I don't see government solutions proposed by the AGW crowd as very effective in reducing CO2 emissions any time soon. But what would be instant would be the huge shift of power into the hands of a new (actually old) cohort of society, with Al Gore signs everywhere selling carbon offsets that magically make the planet a better place, so long as you pay him when you pollute.
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  3. It all depends on weather or not you can climate. It's a steep learning curve.
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  4.  @Digi.B  : Yeah, but half of how I inform myself is bloviating and seeing what holds up and what doesn't. Shoot from hip. Revise. Shoot from hip. Revise. I call it "aggressive learning." Great way to bring out the teacher in others.
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  5. But mainly, just seeing if it makes sense to ME when I see it in print. That's how I've always learned. By writing. Checking. Editing.
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  6.  @BradenENelson  : I don't think anybody seriously doubts climate change. Many doubt whether CO2 emissions drive it. In fact, I'm not sure why they're focused on just eh CO2. I think it's other stuff that we emit that is probably a bigger deal. If you could tie CO2 emissions to, say, SO2, SO3, H2O, CH3 emissions, say a simple proportionality constant, then you'd have a good case for tracking CO2 as an indicator. I think we could turn the Sahara green if we put our minds and some elbow grease to it. I think greening up Saharan Africa would be something we could all agree on, without having to create a whole 'nother layer of government control on people, that will eventually all be administered by the kinds of idiots that always end up at the tops of those "fail to grow your domain" outfits. That's why I'm not a progressive. I think you guys waste way too much time asking government to do things you should just get off your asses and do for the folks in your immediate area. But then I'm old school. I see compassion and charity in human hearts, not on spreadsheets in government offices.
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  7. And I think CO2 could actually help in the greening-up process. Why don't we just get really really good at setting up desalinization infrastructure, and just start extending the green perimeter South from the Mediterranean? Wouldn't need a treaty or nothin'. Just a few million progressive types chippin' in $20 a head. Bet you could get somethin' good started if you all looked to yourself instead of always to authority that you turn right around and criticize, mainly because you gave the wrong people a job you 'n' yer buddies shoulda handled, yourselves, but you found it easier to virtue signal and preach at people so you could dig more of their money out of their pockets by FORCE instead of encouraging folks to contribute as they can and their hearts tell them to.
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