@EmperorNero,
Well, I realize there is no way of convincing you otherwise if you think places that had snow now don't.
But maybe I can make it understandable that some other part of this scheme don't make sense. There's enough that doesn't fit reality.
I really don't think Chinese coal plants are cleaner than American ones, especially since they don't give a damn about what they emit. I wish very much for China to become industrialized. But this is a very different debate. I wanted to illustrate that the supposed solutions are not helping the apparent problem.
Have you ever wondered that it is pretty unlikely that solving global warming means giving a lot of money to the people who sell global warming
now? It's not too late and we don't have a lot of time. We are right between. And what we have to do is give money and power to people who came up with global warming. What a coincidence, eh?
Those taxes are not used for wind farms. A least there are not more wind farms because of those taxes. It just enhances the power of politicians. But it's more about justifying intrusions in your life than money. Only a global government can save us from doom! Yes.
I take my chances with the death of humanity from some controversial doomsday theory before I let the ruling elite get all power and control in exchange for saving us. There is lots of space and lots of capacity for more people. We just can't imagine that now. It's like the person in 1900 New York. If he worried about people in 2000, what would he worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horseshit? Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses?
But the future is not a linear continuation of today. It has never been. Nobody foresaw the personal computer in 1980. Nobody foresaw the internet in 1990. But we know what's going to plague humanity in 2100?
The worst thing we can do is stifling progress by population control. Then we are sure to stay on this little planet, not expand into the solar system where there are lots of resources. And have a hierarchical society with aristocrats and rightless plebs.
In the 1970's for example there were predictions of "Global Cooling", scientists noted a cooling trend from about 1940 that led to a scientific consensus of global cooling and perhaps leading to a new "Ice Age", this is now science that is being refuted as an instance where they say scientists misinterpreted the Data. They have gone back and reexamined all the data that they could find and said that they were mistaken about their conclusions.
