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The CO2 canard is coming apart at the seams

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Posted By: Hazymac, 1/23/2025 9:23:24 AM

In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping emissions (methane, nitrous oxide, and some other stuff) are pollutants under the Clean Air Act and that the government has the authority to curb them. Since then, the world has been subjected to numerous climate-related laws and treaties, along with assorted governmental, academic, and corporate pressures — all serving to hype the “existential threat” that is climate change. The number-one culprit all along has been atmospheric carbon dioxide. There is nothing inherently wrong with qualitative versus quantitative statements, but there has been an inordinate amount of hand-waving to explain

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Reply 1 - Posted by: cartcart 1/23/2025 9:59:00 AM (No. 1879880)
Carbon dioxide-as I live and breathe out.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 1/23/2025 10:29:40 AM (No. 1879911)
Awww. Their BS "sciencey" claims are proving to not be true in actual experiments. Now, STOP wrecking the economy because of a beneficial trace gas is slightly increasing. FTA: "There is no linear relationship between rising CO2 levels and rising temperatures. This explains why the Earth “has never experienced runaway warming in the past when CO2 levels were 5–10 times more concentrated than today.” The planet was, however, more lush with vegetation than it is today." Now stop your whining, you econuts.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Enoch Powell 1/23/2025 11:30:02 AM (No. 1879964)
CO2 levels have been infinitely higher in the distant past... and here we are.I just wish the climate alarmists would find another hobby horse upon which to vent their neuroses.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: FlaDiver74 1/23/2025 11:38:34 AM (No. 1879970)
Their god COTWO causes every climate calamity and more. Stock market crashes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, you name it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: czechlist 1/23/2025 11:56:48 AM (No. 1879985)
science which has been known for decades. The first evidence that the Green House Gas Theory was a scam is "tge science is settled" with "97% scientific concensus". Science is never settled and concensus is politics, not science
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 1/23/2025 12:06:43 PM (No. 1879996)
CO2 increases vegetation - - which increases the intensity of wildfires started by arsonists. Arsonists would not be as busy starting wildfires - - if CO2 had not given them more fuel to work with. The only solution - - use Agent Orange - - or some other chemical mass killer - - to wipe out all vegetation. Then - - there won't be any wildfires - - and all arsonists will have to take up a different criminal hobby. This is so simple - - it's embarrassing that no one else has thought of it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 1/23/2025 12:43:44 PM (No. 1880016)
I read about this saturation effect last year and was amazed how decisive it is. The more CO2 the less effect it has. It is based on verifiable physical laws. And yet the climate loons are still predicting doom. IT IS A LIE! Further, this is destroying the credibility of ALL science. Are the scientists lying or is it the politicians or both? Or, are they terminally stupid? There is going to be a lot of reexamination of scientific "truths". And a lot of scientific and political garbage will need to be disposed of.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Starboard_side 1/23/2025 1:38:46 PM (No. 1880051)
It's always been about pollution and continues to be so today. They've simply used the propaganda to fool people into a knee-jerk reaction that everything is related to climate change. You notice when they focus on NOX, SOX and diesel particulates which is a good thing to reduce. But emissions free, or Zero Net, is a grand aspiration and not needed NOW. Ask the banks who've left their consortium to force Zero Net banking. Politicians, however, are fixated on the revenues they're seeing and will be hard pressed watching it reduced.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: JackBurton 1/23/2025 2:02:01 PM (No. 1880075)
A saturation study is about the only relevant experiment on CO2 that you could do in a lab. A REAL CO2 experiment would involve clouds and plants and the sun. And actually, we're doing that. Result of more CO2, not warming but 10 inches in New Orleans
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