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Honest question: have you ever seen actual, unfiltered meteorological data? It's a brutal, unforgiving spaghetti bowl of numbers. Climatological data is much more complex than looking at temperatures over time. The numbers are every bit as mercilessly confounding as the numbers for meteorological forecast data are.

 

 

The point I'm trying to get at is that anyone can look at numbers and draw a conclusion, yes, but there's a big difference between interpreting data well enough to be presenting your position on national television and reading just enough to back the conclusion you arrived at the second someone told you what the party line was. Anyone who stands on that stage and says that climate change isn't happening or that we aren't responsible for it to some degree is just playing to their base. Spend ten minutes with someone who's spent the last 20 years studying climatology for a living, then try and convince yourself that it's not real. Dr. Carson, clearly, has not included any climatologists or meteorologists in the band of advisors that will tell him exactly what to do and when to do it.

 

 

I didn't hear anyone denying climate change, I heard most candidates say it is real but it is negligible the impact they could have on correcting climate change and would cost a fortune.  The other problem is we are just one nation, until the entire world decides to get our act together its going to be a problem regardless.


What I would like to hear is people say they will strive to drive down costs of renewable energy and put a bigger effort on cleaning up our act and incentivizing other countries to follow the lead.  


i have not seen unfiltered meteorological data and i don't expect the candidates to see it either unless they have a field expert who can help interpret it for them which I hope is exactly what happens.  What we need is a candidate who can take those concerns and find realistic ways to make change for the better without destroying the average mans wealth and wellbeing in the process.


Maybe a nice way to go about this is to upgrade our electrical infrastructure or restrict people from building 50cent, or Holyfield size homes that just waste energy resources.  If we can find a way to lower our power consumption we can find a way to lower our power plants pollution output.  thats just one of the ways we are pouring crap into our atmosphere that doesn't need to be there.  There are loads of examples and plenty of ways to go about fixing our prior century mistakes the thing I want is to start tackling the easier ones and start finding ways to fix the complex ones.

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