2018 was the 4th warmest year on record

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2018 was the 4th warmest year on record

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https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2841/2018 ... nasa-noaa/
I continue to be astounded by the scope of this elaborate Chinese hoax and get-rich-quick scheme set up by climate scientists.
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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Thu May 23, 2019 8:45 pm https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2841/2018 ... nasa-noaa/
I continue to be astounded by the scope of this elaborate Chinese hoax and get-rich-quick scheme set up by climate scientists.
My father's explanation is that this is all just how nature is progressing and humanity has absolutely no involvement in it. So shut the Hell up, you damn hippies, and let us start devastating Yellowstone and the Oregon Rainforests for oil already!

Remember, it's hotter on average now than it was in the Middle Ages, so humans have nothing to do with it... somehow. Seriously, I do not get his logic.
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Well, your dad sounds like a charming fella.
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Yukaphile wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 3:54 am Well, your dad sounds like a charming fella.
Eh, he CAN be when you get him talking about, say, Star Wars or Minecraft. It's the politics that make him a bit... cranky.
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I'm curious how he reacts to the "SJW agenda" in Star Wars?
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ProfessorDetective wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 3:53 am
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Thu May 23, 2019 8:45 pm https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2841/2018 ... nasa-noaa/
I continue to be astounded by the scope of this elaborate Chinese hoax and get-rich-quick scheme set up by climate scientists.
My father's explanation is that this is all just how nature is progressing and humanity has absolutely no involvement in it. So shut the Hell up, you damn hippies, and let us start devastating Yellowstone and the Oregon Rainforests for oil already!

Remember, it's hotter on average now than it was in the Middle Ages, so humans have nothing to do with it... somehow. Seriously, I do not get his logic.
He is only half wrong. Climate change is both natural and man made.
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I believe in anthropogenic climate change, but that doesn't mean that China isn't happy to take advantage of it. Selling carbon credits for coal-fired plants that they promise they were "planning to build" (and they really, really mean it) is a nice way to make money while not building a power plant, but does it actually help reduce greenhouse gases?

Meanwhile the U.S. has been reducing CO2 output overall for about a decade. We still have a long way to go, but if there was an easy solution to this we'd be spending more time arguing over milkshakes.
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My "Chinese hoax" comments come from the current president of the united states, and him claiming that the very existence of global climate change was a hoax created by chi-nah.
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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Sun May 26, 2019 1:19 am My "Chinese hoax" comments come from the current president of the united states, and him claiming that the very existence of global climate change was a hoax created by chi-nah.
I can't honestly object to that. Never mind!
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Yukaphile wrote: Fri May 24, 2019 4:59 pm I'm curious how he reacts to the "SJW agenda" in Star Wars?
He's never brought it up. He wasn't the biggest fan of TLJ, but mostly because he thought it was padded out.
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