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Lectro was RIGHT--post1626--(climate related)

Global climate strike: Greta Thunberg and school students lead climate crisis protest – live updates

Downtown New York City is packed with sign-bearing people of all ages, though the crowd noticeably skews young. Students from all over NYC have come to the march. Many young children are accompanied by their parents while middle and high school students are here with their friends. Almost all groups have posters in hand.

On the way down to the march, I caught up with students from Professional Performing Arts School, who caught the subway to attend the strike together. They met up at school and decided to go to the march in a group.

“I just want the world to exist the way I knew it was growing up,” said Nyla Robothan, a 15-year-old student at the school, on why she’s striking.
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WFcatamount22 said:
Saying that she was stolen of her childhood and dreams is absolute PEAK caucasity and utter amazing blind privileged.
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The very next sentence acknowledges that privilege. Ignoring the context of the sentence is peak dumbassery.
 
awaken said:
There seems to be a coordinated PR campaign on this topic now. Last night, WRAL did a segment on how global warming would adversely affect beer production.

Here is what a rational, educated adult has to say
https://reason.com/video/this-environmentalist-says-only-nuclear-power-can-save-us-now/
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I've got no argument with nuclear power. Mainly because the low probability negatives are mostly localized or at worst regional whereas the alternative, fossil fuels, the high probability negatives are global.
 
The US nuclear navy and the people trained by it are both the best and worst things that happened to the US nuclear industry. The best because they are a very skilled and knowledgeable group of people and capable of running Nuclear power plants. The worst: they only know one type of plant: the enriched uranium fueled, light water cooled pressurized water reactor.

That technology is great if you have the (almost infinite) ocean of water to serve as the ultimate heat sink.

Other potential reactor technologies ( gas cooled, natural uranium fueled, thorium fueled, molten salt cooled, etc. were outside their realm of knowledge and given limited opportunity to show their capabilities.

This may change with the latest generation of modular small reactors.

Energy density is a real concept. And an important one. How much energy can be produced in a square meter? Nuclear power, in all of its various forms, has an extremely high energy density.
 
if you still need help for ditching the green new deal:

Professor Guus Berkhout
The Hague
guus.berkhout@clintel.org

23 September 2019

Sr. António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations,
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017, United States of America.

Ms. Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Executive Secretary,
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
UNFCCC Secretariat, UN Campus, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1,
53113 Bonn, Germany



Your Excellencies,

There is no climate emergency...

A global network of more than 500 knowledgeable and experienced scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have the honor to address to Your Excellencies the attached European Climate Declaration, for which the signatories to this letter are the national ambassadors.

The general-circulation models of climate on which international policy is at present founded are unfit for their purpose.



Therefore, it is cruel as well as imprudent to advocate the squandering of trillions on the basis of results from such immature models.



Current climate policies pointlessly, grievously undermine the economic system, putting lives at risk in countries denied access to affordable, continuous electrical power.

We urge you to follow a climate policy based on sound science, realistic economics and genuine concern for those harmed by costly but unnecessary attempts at mitigation.

We ask you to place the Declaration on the agenda of your imminent New York session.

We also invite you to organize with us a constructive high-level meeting between world-class scientists on both sides of the climate debate early in 2020.



The meeting will give effect to the sound and ancient principle no less of sound science than of natural justice that both sides should be fully and fairly heard.



Audiatur et altera pars...!

Please let us know your thoughts about such a joint meeting.

Yours sincerely, ambassadors of the European Climate Declaration,

Professor Guus Berkhout - The Netherlands

Professor Richard Lindzen - USA

Professor Reynald Du Berger French - Canada

Professor Ingemar Nordin - Sweden

Terry Dunleavy - New Zealand

Jim O'Brien - Rep. of Ireland

Viv Forbes - Australia

Professor Alberto Prestininzi - Italy

Professor Jeffrey Foss - English Canada

Professor Benoît Rittaud - France

Morten Jødal - Norway

Professor Fritz Vahrenholt - Germany

Rob Lemeire - Belgium

The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley - UK





There is no climate emergency


A global network of 500 scientists and professionals has prepared this urgent message.

climate science should be less political

while climate polities should be more scientific...

Scientists should openly address the uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real benefits as well as the imagined costs of adaptation to global warming, and the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of mitigation.





Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming


The geological archive reveals that Earth's climate has varied as long as the planet has existed, with natural cold and warm phases.



The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. Therefore, it is no surprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming.





Warming is far slower than predicted


The world has warmed at less than half the originally-predicted rate, and at less than half the rate to be expected on the basis of net anthropogenic forcing and radiative imbalance.



It tells us that we are far from understanding climate change...





Climate policy relies on inadequate models


Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools.



Moreover, they most likely exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases such as CO2. In addition, they ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial...





CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth


CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing.



More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth:

additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass.

It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crop worldwide.





Global warming has not increased natural disasters


There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent.



However, CO2-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly. For instance, wind turbines kill birds and bats, and palm-oil plantations destroy the biodiversity of the rainforests.





Policy must respect scientific and economic realities


There is no 'climate emergency.' Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm.



We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. If better approaches emerge, and they certainly will, we have ample time to reflect and adapt.



The aim of international policy should be to provide reliable and affordable energy at all times, and throughout the world.



Return to Climate Changes

Return to Agenda 21 and Earth Charter

Return to The Ultimate Delusion - The United Nations

Return to Global Warming - An Official Pseudoscience...
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https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia3/ciencia_climatechange157.htm
 
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