Comment Re:Dumb, dumber, dumbest (Score 1) 256
well, if you're holding hot coffee, it could spill everywhere.
If your kid has a ice cream cone, it's gonna hit the floor.
Bubba might spill his beer.
I can go on.
If we want to apply the brakes to climate change, what can go wrong with just "hitting the brakes" without being smart...
Lots.
1. All ICE powered cars have to be destroyed. anyone that isn't rich would lose their transportation, and be hosed. Current model can't support production of enough replacement electric vehicles.
2. Shutter all coal fired power plants. Rolling blackouts, electricity rationing. Those folks with electric cars would be hosed since you couldn't charge them.
That said, the climate change proponents are missing the boat because they want to come across as holier than thou.
a simple, do you like pollution? no? Great, let's try and cut down on it as much as we can. First step, more nuke plants.
Now that we've cutdown on developed countries pollution, how can we get China and others to not go through the same path of extreme pollution other countries did in the past before we realized better ways to cutdown on pollution.
But when they keep coming out with "by 2010 we'll all be dead and NY will be under water" and folks can see huge holes in their logic/math/arguments, it results in people saying "global warming is fake, you're an idiot, i'm gonna go roll coal in my giant diesel truck while hauling nothing"
Now that said, the deniers are being stupid too. "Hey, the super extreme case study is clearly flawed, so there must be nothing going on"
If your kid has a ice cream cone, it's gonna hit the floor.
Bubba might spill his beer.
I can go on.
If we want to apply the brakes to climate change, what can go wrong with just "hitting the brakes" without being smart...
Lots.
1. All ICE powered cars have to be destroyed. anyone that isn't rich would lose their transportation, and be hosed. Current model can't support production of enough replacement electric vehicles.
2. Shutter all coal fired power plants. Rolling blackouts, electricity rationing. Those folks with electric cars would be hosed since you couldn't charge them.
That said, the climate change proponents are missing the boat because they want to come across as holier than thou.
a simple, do you like pollution? no? Great, let's try and cut down on it as much as we can. First step, more nuke plants.
Now that we've cutdown on developed countries pollution, how can we get China and others to not go through the same path of extreme pollution other countries did in the past before we realized better ways to cutdown on pollution.
But when they keep coming out with "by 2010 we'll all be dead and NY will be under water" and folks can see huge holes in their logic/math/arguments, it results in people saying "global warming is fake, you're an idiot, i'm gonna go roll coal in my giant diesel truck while hauling nothing"
Now that said, the deniers are being stupid too. "Hey, the super extreme case study is clearly flawed, so there must be nothing going on"
