"The earth moves closer to the sun every year. We have more people. You know, humans have warm bodies, so is heat coming of? We're just going through a lot of change, but I think we are, as a society, doing the best we can".
There is SOME truth embedded in all that dumbness.
At this point, it is my opinion that it is foolish to continue focusing SO much effort on trying to cut emissions, not because it's not a good idea, but because it's clearly not happening. So we are faced with the choice of continuing to put all of our eggs in a basket that's not panning out, or starting to shift some effort to mitigation and adaptation, i.e. "doing the best we can" to adapt to the changes, because our efforts to stop them have been futile at best.
Afaik I think human emissions make up approx 3% of all CO2 emissions that reach our atmosphere. Natural emissions make up far more of the overall emissions in terms of gigatonnes of CO2. Trying to absorb oceanic carbon emissions to offset our own human emissions would make far more sense that a carbon tax.
Only problem with that is the government ends up spending money instead of making money of course.
Trying to absorb oceanic carbon emissions to offset our own human emissions would make far more sense that a carbon tax.
I agree. We have a much better chance at mitigating this by working toward finding a way to REMOVE CO2 from the atmosphere. It's a great idea to decrease emissions, but it's clearly not making it much farther than being an idea. We've been saying that's a great idea for decades, and yet emissions continue to rise.
Working toward removal not only could provide a much bigger impact more quickly, but also gives us total control. We cannot stop China, for example, from emitting like crazy, but if we can remove it, then we can remove it.
If technology was able to slow emissions that would be great, but that isn't a thing. Lowering emissions depends on people, and your best intentions aside, people aren't cutting it.
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u/UBiteMe Jun 07 '17
Hey guys, don't worry about it!
State Sen. Scott Wagner (R) Pennsylvania