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Article: Conservative agenda aims to kill science in United States

  • Offline MalabarJag
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12-05-2016, 11:05 PM

Quote:So worst case scenario of the majority of the scientists being wrong and a few extreme politicians being right is a bit of unnecessary taxation.


Worst case scenario of the scientists being right is all sorts of environmental mental destruction.


Hey and not to mention burning all our finite resources and needing renewable energy anyway.


Ps there is a world outside the USA as hard as that is to believe. I know not many of you get out and experience that, but maybe go to some Pacific nations and tell them the threat of changing climate is nonsense.
 

1. It's not just "a bit of unnecessary taxation." It's a LOT of taxation, plus regulations that double (or worse) electric rates. That hits the poorest people the most.


 

2. Most scientists are not in the "environmental destruction" camp, although they are willing to include it as a possibility since that greases the wheel for continued research funding.


 

3. If it were just about climate, the thrust would be towards building nuclear plants. The so-called 'renewable energy' is undependable (living in Oz you should know that first hand), and very expensive. If it weren't there would be no need to subsidize it. And by "subsidize" I mean direct payments to manufacturers, not just tax breaks. I'm all for renewable energy if it can stand on it's own without subsidies. Solar has some uses, but at 46% efficiency at the top level there's not a lot of potential improvement. Windmills cause environmental damage and require a huge amount of land area. Hydroelectric plants work fine (if you ignore the environmental damage to the ecosystem under the new lake) but we've pretty much run out of places to build them.


4. The sea level is rising at the same rate it has since at least 1900. If a Pacific Island nation has a problem it's not because of climate change, and all the taxes and regulations in the world won't stop it.




                                                                          

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