What a piece of leftist Reuters leftist crap ! The climate changes all by itself and has done so for millions of years. I review the data regularly and as a trained and educated scientist and being aware of the many “Climategate” revelations It’s time to stop publishing articles like this because there is no sound scientific evidence supporting the idea of manmade climate change. If this nonsense is worthy of IJ publication, then the Flat Earth Society deserves some space too.
Sure we can tax people for going over the emission. But that still doesn’t solve the problem of the extra emissions. There must be alternatives in order for this to work. Another issue, as everything goes digital a lot of energy is used to keep those data warehouses and servers cool. Those use a lot electricity and hence coal. The more electricity we use the more coal being used and the more emissions. We have yet to have as stable alternative energy sources as what fossil fuels provide. Until those alternatives are available we’ll have to wait.
Pay attention Natural-Climate change is far beyond the influence of human activity. Taxing energy producers/users is just a leftist tool to control your life.
@ Walter Bug: If you are indeed a “trained and educated scientist” then you would know that referring to this “leftist Reuters leftist crap” just undermines your credentials.
The science of climate change not be proven for certain either way but if you are using science as a tool it is self correcting and your (or indeed Reuters) politics don’t come into it.
If there was “no sound scientific evidence supporting the idea of man made climate change” then it would have been abandoned by the main stream scientific community – that is how science works and climate change science is no different.
I claim no particular expertise, I have a science degree, but I would not claim that alone makes me a scientist. What is your scientific training in? Anything relevant to this branch?
I’m a geologist and so know something about climate change over geological time – and from the data I have seen the climate change rate we are experiencing is well beyond the usual boundaries of natural rate change (which does indeed happen but historically very slowly) and so it is reasonable to put the prospect that it is being caused by non-natural means on any agenda of possible external causes – man being one of those possible causes.
Whether taxation can add anything positive to correct climate change is certainly debatable, but obviously if you don’t accept the possibility of non-natural climate change you will not accept human solutions as having any possible impact. Would man-made climate change skeptics prefer (tax) spending on protection against the knock-on causes of climate change (irrespective of the cause)? Or are we really talking about political anti-tax do nothing agenda – in which case the scientists here might as well pack up and go home…
What a piece of leftist Reuters leftist crap ! The climate changes all by itself and has done so for millions of years. I review the data regularly and as a trained and educated scientist and being aware of the many “Climategate” revelations It’s time to stop publishing articles like this because there is no sound scientific evidence supporting the idea of manmade climate change. If this nonsense is worthy of IJ publication, then the Flat Earth Society deserves some space too.
Sure we can tax people for going over the emission. But that still doesn’t solve the problem of the extra emissions. There must be alternatives in order for this to work. Another issue, as everything goes digital a lot of energy is used to keep those data warehouses and servers cool. Those use a lot electricity and hence coal. The more electricity we use the more coal being used and the more emissions. We have yet to have as stable alternative energy sources as what fossil fuels provide. Until those alternatives are available we’ll have to wait.
Pay attention Natural-Climate change is far beyond the influence of human activity. Taxing energy producers/users is just a leftist tool to control your life.
@ Walter Bug: If you are indeed a “trained and educated scientist” then you would know that referring to this “leftist Reuters leftist crap” just undermines your credentials.
The science of climate change not be proven for certain either way but if you are using science as a tool it is self correcting and your (or indeed Reuters) politics don’t come into it.
If there was “no sound scientific evidence supporting the idea of man made climate change” then it would have been abandoned by the main stream scientific community – that is how science works and climate change science is no different.
I claim no particular expertise, I have a science degree, but I would not claim that alone makes me a scientist. What is your scientific training in? Anything relevant to this branch?
I’m a geologist and so know something about climate change over geological time – and from the data I have seen the climate change rate we are experiencing is well beyond the usual boundaries of natural rate change (which does indeed happen but historically very slowly) and so it is reasonable to put the prospect that it is being caused by non-natural means on any agenda of possible external causes – man being one of those possible causes.
Whether taxation can add anything positive to correct climate change is certainly debatable, but obviously if you don’t accept the possibility of non-natural climate change you will not accept human solutions as having any possible impact. Would man-made climate change skeptics prefer (tax) spending on protection against the knock-on causes of climate change (irrespective of the cause)? Or are we really talking about political anti-tax do nothing agenda – in which case the scientists here might as well pack up and go home…