Although I don’t mean for this post to go entirely political, I’m putting it here because I know it will go that way.
I understand there are some idiots on the left who use climate change as a flag to carry in trying to take down the ExxonMobils of the world. But even companies such as ExxonMobil are acknowledging that climate change is something they will have to deal with from a business point of view.
I know there are idiots that think we must eschew every carbon-emitting form of energy and wreck our economy in the process to fight climate change, but those people are fringe in my estimation. Combatting climate change to punish some is absolutely hideous.
But the science is clear on this — increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere is directly correlated to increasing global temperatures. We have millennia of study data proving this. And current readings on climate temperatures and CO2 levels show both are rising now.
If we strip away the rhetoric surrounding this, why can’t we come together and make progress towards fighting higher CO2 levels? If that means we move towards solar or wind or something else carbon neutral or negative for power sources, I’m sure it’ll be manufactured or operated by the ExxonMobil’s of the world and that’s perfectly fine — those companies are in the energy business, not necessarily the fossil fuel business.
For those in the mindset of “how could we affect or predict the climate when we can’t even affect or predict the weather very accurately,” I would offer that climate is a long-term deal that we know is affected by CO2 levels, and that’s something we can do something about. For those who say that only God can control the climate, I’m sure there were people who said it was a farce that science could find cures for things such as polio. If we left everything solely to God, we’d all still have 30-year lifespans.
I’m posting this while on a visit to Miami and thinking that view I have from my hotel right now likely won’t be here in 50 years due to rising sea levels due to glacial melt raising sea levels. That saddens me. We can do better and should.
I understand there are some idiots on the left who use climate change as a flag to carry in trying to take down the ExxonMobils of the world. But even companies such as ExxonMobil are acknowledging that climate change is something they will have to deal with from a business point of view.
I know there are idiots that think we must eschew every carbon-emitting form of energy and wreck our economy in the process to fight climate change, but those people are fringe in my estimation. Combatting climate change to punish some is absolutely hideous.
But the science is clear on this — increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere is directly correlated to increasing global temperatures. We have millennia of study data proving this. And current readings on climate temperatures and CO2 levels show both are rising now.
If we strip away the rhetoric surrounding this, why can’t we come together and make progress towards fighting higher CO2 levels? If that means we move towards solar or wind or something else carbon neutral or negative for power sources, I’m sure it’ll be manufactured or operated by the ExxonMobil’s of the world and that’s perfectly fine — those companies are in the energy business, not necessarily the fossil fuel business.
For those in the mindset of “how could we affect or predict the climate when we can’t even affect or predict the weather very accurately,” I would offer that climate is a long-term deal that we know is affected by CO2 levels, and that’s something we can do something about. For those who say that only God can control the climate, I’m sure there were people who said it was a farce that science could find cures for things such as polio. If we left everything solely to God, we’d all still have 30-year lifespans.
I’m posting this while on a visit to Miami and thinking that view I have from my hotel right now likely won’t be here in 50 years due to rising sea levels due to glacial melt raising sea levels. That saddens me. We can do better and should.
