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I'll save you some time


Basically he's saying we can do more good spending the money on the third world than trying to fix climate change. Very nieve and short sighted. Just look at what's happening now in the summer of 2012 with the drought in the US. We provide grain to much of the third world. Corn prices have hit a record high and the harvest hasn't really started yet. We aren't going to have the excesses we normally have to ship overseas. Now let's say this is a normal year in the near future, not an extreme idea if global warming is right and he claims it is correct and we are the cause. Suddenly in a good year we don't have much excess and in a bad year we have shortages here at home. The droughts and warming could actually be worse I'm just using this as an example of something we are already seeing and I'm not counting things like storm damage which is another issue. Now guess which area is hardest hit by global warming? Africa. They are projected to have drastically worse droughts than here. Now by ignoring global warming and throwing all the money into foreign aid as he suggests are we helping or hurting?

He's short sighted because he likes to fantasize about all the good we can do if we divert resources but he ignores the fact that the real warming hasn't even started and already we are having problems. His stance is essentially don't insulate your house to cut down on energy use send that money to third world countries. What he's saying has nothing to do with the environment it's a personal agenda and he's clouding the issue.

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I agree with him.

I'm not one of the people who forgot the predictions in the late 80s that "it will be too late by the year 2000". Naturally the time for "too late" has moved now.

Typical doomsday crap. Human beings love that stuff and doomsayers never fail to garner a following. You'll blame every single bad event on "global warming" like any religious zealot does to support a doomsday prediction. My mother does the same thing with her bible stuff.

Doomsday predictions....not coming true since humans first started inventing them.


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He makes a good argument that everything we're spending money on now won't make much of a dent in the coming future. He makes it clear that nobody can predict what is going to happen. He provides many ideas to curb the warming that will have immediate affect like reflecting light back into space, wave energy, using the nuke waste to create new energy, etc, etc. He also calls the media out on the carpet for feeding the hysteria that is pumped out and how it eventually just leads to a stasis and learned helplessness so-to-speak on the part of people who keep hearing the sky is falling and 40 years later still nothing. He points out how what was supposed to change as a result of Kyoto never materialized and all this money and good intentions bullsh*t is just that...bullsh*t.

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I guessed you missed the part where he advocates spending nearly 60% of the proposed budget on combating climate change ($100 billion on green energy R&D, $1 billion on geo engineering R&D, $30 billion combating sea level rise, $6 billion dealing with inland flooding, and $12 billion to engineer cooler cities (combat urban heat islands)).

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That's kind of you.

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