Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Solar activity increasing right now: New research reveals where will be most impacted" video.

  1. Climate "crisis" is a big part of the problem as it's blown WAY out of proportion by sensational media, the science doesn't support that, not even the scientific consensus. We have much bigger problems especially over fishing the oceans, all these other things are neglected due to climate panic which is going to be largely fixed just due to the economic favorability of renewables in coming decades anyway. It's likely that 600ppm CO2 is better than where we started at dangerously low 280ppm.
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  2.  @vaevictis6990  The real wake up call was the fact that our response to the virus was completely ineffective and massively destructive. And that SO MANY are fine with authoritarian rule, individual liberties mean nothing to half the population.
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  3.  @VR_Wizard  Based on what? CNN? I've studied the data and read at least one book on it. Have you?
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  4.  @VR_Wizard  "....and I don't have to know what's going on." WOW, that's a scary attitude given you call me out with strong opinions. Don't pretend to know then.
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  5.  @VR_Wizard  We are all effected by propaganda and simply "If it bleeds it leads." Can't tell you how many didn't believe that the serious crime rate in America was cut in half between 1980's and 2000. (may no longer be the case) Or how many are afraid to fly on airliners in the US when the fatality rate is near zero many yrs while 100/day die on the road. Most Chinese citizens actually believe Corona was a USA made weapon. Propaganda works. (trying to keep this brief) Steven Koonin has been a long time climate expert and science adviser for Obama, a few excerpts from his book "Unsettled?":::: "....both the research literature and government reports that summarize and assess the state of climate science say clearly that heat waves in the US are no no more common than they were in 1900, and that the warmest temperatures in the US have not risen in the past 50 yrs. When I tell people this, most are incredulous. Some gasp. And some get downright hostile." " * ---Humans have had no detectable impact on hurricanes over the past century. ---Greenland's ice sheet isn't shrinking any more rapidly today than 80 yrs ago. ---The net economic impact of human-induced climate change will be minimal through at least the end of this century.* " " * --Humans exert a growing, but physically small warming influence on the climate. The deficiencies of climate data challenge our ability to untangle the response to human influences from poorly understood natural changes." * The above is drawn from most recent consensus of UN/climate accord agreement. It doesn't mean everything is rosy but it's not what we've been led to believe either.
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  6.  @VR_Wizard  Wikipedia is often dominated by fanatics with an axe to grind, possibly the most unreliable source available unfortunately. Anyone who even challenges the dogma of the day, no matter how factual and reasonable is trashed so that you may know to dismiss them without consideration. That's the Leftist way today. Truth can be very hard to determine but it's all I care about in this context.
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  7.  @VR_Wizard  I used to believe like you and for the same reasons, it took me a decade of study to gradually find something closer to the truth. You are correct, it's not easy but it is important. I'd urge you to look what we bought into over recent decades, as a substitute for doing the hard work I've done, compare what Al Gore predicted by now or any number of other catastrophe predictions 10 to 25 yrs back. There were signs in Glacier Park, MT, that said "These glaciers will be gone by 2020", only the signs are now gone. 2011: "Sever drought will be the new normal for Texas." Flooding has been a much bigger problem in recent yrs. The fact that extreme weather events have NOT increased is well known and anyone claiming otherwise should be immediately dismissed. One should be skeptical of everything but especially the dogma of the day. I've looked at the raw data, reams of it, and it supports what I've posted here. Natural climate drivers dwarf CO2 effects. (water vapor is by far the primary greenhouse gas on Earth BTW) The ice age for the last few million yrs that we are still in has been near all time low CO2 levels marked by devastating climate swings. IF CO2 was the driver we'd never escape a glacial maximum because that's when albedo is max (ice sheets reflect most solar energy and ice free oceans are minimized, liquid water is the best natural absorber of solar energy, much better than land) CLEARLY something much more powerful is responsible. Plant life is expected to enter mass extinction, which could be far worse than even the KT dino extinction event, at some 100 to 150ppm CO2. Recent glacial maximums have seen scary low CO2 levels of around 180ppm. It would be quite the coincidence if 280ppm, a random low value, happened to be best for us or life on Earth, hmmm? Certainly is not best for plant life or food production, also not controversial is the greening of Earth from higher CO2 levels. Commercial greenhouses typically use 2000ppm to accelerate production.
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  8.  @VR_Wizard  Medieval Warm Period peaked nearly 1 deg C higher than today, 1100 yrs ago. Why? Lowest temps in several thousand yrs were around 1600 to 1800, typically the modern clock of climate change begins in 1800's, convenient to make the case for CO2. But this century has not cooperated so far with temps flatish. 60 MYA CO2 was at 800ppm. Are you getting your info from corporate media? 140 MYA it was 2200ppm. (wish I knew how to link the data charts but I don't)
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  9.  @VR_Wizard  From 1600 to present solar irradiance very closely tracks temps, NOT CO2. Search this: CO2 Does Not Drive Glacial Cycles – Watts Up With That_
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  10.  @VR_Wizard  If you get nothing else out of this conversation...just watch this short vid for some perspective, a real climate scientist(s) doing real climate science. 1:30 is revealing. My dad was a life long active geologist, Masters from Berkley and an environmentalist, geology was the origin of climate science. This guy resonates with me as a no nonsense let the data lead sort of guy just telling it like it is as best as he can discern it. (the channel it's posted on is rightly controversial, I don't agree or believe a LOT of it, but that has nothing to do with this particular vid, it stands on it's own merits) https://youtu.be/pW16LGVPfIc
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  11. It's mostly about general awareness, nothing happens until we the ppl put pressure on authorities and representatives. Rarely do leaders lead, they follow their constituencies, fake news doesn't help such as anthropocentric climate panic which isn't scientifically justified and diverts from much bigger issues.
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