Quote:I KNOW A GUY...  lol.  

 

Quote: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.

This is what I was getting at. The point isn't that I "know a guy" (or a couple dozen meteorologists that I spend about a third of the year in constant contact with, but whatever), it's that candidates aren't looking at climatological data, and it seems that none of them have bothered to consult with an actual atmospheric scientist. I, on the other hand, have had lots and lots of discussions with atmospheric scientists, some of them heated (no pun intended), about climate change, how severe it is and how much humanity had to do with it. Is it too much to ask that a candidate pick up the phone and call the superstar teams at Oklahoma, Colorado, Colorado State and Penn State before going on national TV and saying that climate change is insignificant and not our fault?

 

And I'm with you on energy consumption, Pat. My A/C stays off unless it's warmer than 85 outside, lights are turned off when not in use, and we have our fireplace turned off at the valve from April through October to completely eliminate gas usage.

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