06-22-2024, 07:36 PM
The climate has never stopped changing. That has never been disputed. The question is, to what role do humans play in this, and what is a reasonable strategy to mitigate it? There's 50 years of documented climate hoaxes and they show no sign of stopping with those.
The biggest problem is that this can only be addressed on a global scale. Western politicians have so far only proposed more taxes, counter-productive regulation, and wealth redistribution as their "solution". My favorite EPA rule was when they banned gas cans that actually performed the function they were invented to do, and forced us to use ones that spill gas everywhere instead. Now there are "after market" can modification kits people are buying to make the gas cans work again, and the shit nozzles the govt forced on us are going into landfills. The government needs to stay away from my gas hole.
Example- US air pollution from 1970 to 2022:
Overall Emissions Reduction: Between 1970 and 2022, emissions of the six key pollutants—particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), carbon monoxide (CO), and lead (Pb)—dropped by 78% (EPA GISpub) (US EPA). This occurred alongside economic growth, with the U.S. GDP increasing by 304% during the same period (US EPA).
Specific Pollutant Trends:
Carbon Monoxide (CO): CO emissions fell by 88% from 1980 to 2022. This reduction is attributed to cleaner vehicle technologies and regulations (US EPA) (US EPA).
Lead (Pb): Lead emissions have decreased by 99% from 1980 levels due to the phase-out of leaded gasoline and stricter emissions controls on industrial sources (US EPA) (US EPA).
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2): Annual NO2 concentrations dropped by 60% from 1990 to 2022, reflecting reductions in emissions from vehicles and industrial sources (US EPA).
Ozone (O3): Ozone levels decreased by 22% from 1990 to 2022. Despite this progress, ozone remains a challenge due to its formation from other pollutants under sunlight (US EPA).
Particulate Matter (PM2.5 and PM10): PM2.5 concentrations saw a 42% reduction from 2000 to 2022. PM10 levels dropped by 34% over the same period (US EPA).
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2): SO2 levels decreased by 94% from 1980 to 2022, primarily due to regulations on power plants and industrial emissions (US EPA) (US EPA).
The USA is already on a trend of cleaning up our act. A lot of this comes from more fossil fuel exploration, not less. A lot of the pollution reduction has been from switching to natural gas. We have the ability to share with the rest of the world this clean energy, but "fossil fuels bad" so they are firing up more coal plants in the rest of the world.
So how do we move forward, obviously, we need to stop using plastic straws and eating beef! China of course laughed at that, said "Hold my tea" and constructed several hundred new coal plants in the last few years, adding to the 1,000 they already had.
Remember all that plastic recycling "we" did, and it turned out we were just shipping it to China and most of it got dumped into their rivers which eventually put it all into the ocean? This is perfect example of a good idea getting ahead of our technology to fulfill it. Most of the "western" ideas about climate change are virtue signaling and push the pollution and strip mines to countries that are just far enough away we can pretend it doesn't exist. Any ideas the politicians push forth are rooted in corruption.
The biggest problem is that this can only be addressed on a global scale. Western politicians have so far only proposed more taxes, counter-productive regulation, and wealth redistribution as their "solution". My favorite EPA rule was when they banned gas cans that actually performed the function they were invented to do, and forced us to use ones that spill gas everywhere instead. Now there are "after market" can modification kits people are buying to make the gas cans work again, and the shit nozzles the govt forced on us are going into landfills. The government needs to stay away from my gas hole.
Example- US air pollution from 1970 to 2022:
Overall Emissions Reduction: Between 1970 and 2022, emissions of the six key pollutants—particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), carbon monoxide (CO), and lead (Pb)—dropped by 78% (EPA GISpub) (US EPA). This occurred alongside economic growth, with the U.S. GDP increasing by 304% during the same period (US EPA).
Specific Pollutant Trends:
Carbon Monoxide (CO): CO emissions fell by 88% from 1980 to 2022. This reduction is attributed to cleaner vehicle technologies and regulations (US EPA) (US EPA).
Lead (Pb): Lead emissions have decreased by 99% from 1980 levels due to the phase-out of leaded gasoline and stricter emissions controls on industrial sources (US EPA) (US EPA).
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2): Annual NO2 concentrations dropped by 60% from 1990 to 2022, reflecting reductions in emissions from vehicles and industrial sources (US EPA).
Ozone (O3): Ozone levels decreased by 22% from 1990 to 2022. Despite this progress, ozone remains a challenge due to its formation from other pollutants under sunlight (US EPA).
Particulate Matter (PM2.5 and PM10): PM2.5 concentrations saw a 42% reduction from 2000 to 2022. PM10 levels dropped by 34% over the same period (US EPA).
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2): SO2 levels decreased by 94% from 1980 to 2022, primarily due to regulations on power plants and industrial emissions (US EPA) (US EPA).
The USA is already on a trend of cleaning up our act. A lot of this comes from more fossil fuel exploration, not less. A lot of the pollution reduction has been from switching to natural gas. We have the ability to share with the rest of the world this clean energy, but "fossil fuels bad" so they are firing up more coal plants in the rest of the world.
So how do we move forward, obviously, we need to stop using plastic straws and eating beef! China of course laughed at that, said "Hold my tea" and constructed several hundred new coal plants in the last few years, adding to the 1,000 they already had.
Remember all that plastic recycling "we" did, and it turned out we were just shipping it to China and most of it got dumped into their rivers which eventually put it all into the ocean? This is perfect example of a good idea getting ahead of our technology to fulfill it. Most of the "western" ideas about climate change are virtue signaling and push the pollution and strip mines to countries that are just far enough away we can pretend it doesn't exist. Any ideas the politicians push forth are rooted in corruption.