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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 07:50 AM


So if most of the old gas guzzlers continue to live on some minus their emission control systems the net pollution decrease worldwide is less than “0”!

This article is about Africa but anyone watching the inbound traffic to Baja California will see a solid line of the same old cars towing other old cars waiting to cross the border.

The pollution is just “exported” far away where it’s more difficult to see not eliminated.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/21/africa/west-africa-benin-...
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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 08:04 AM


Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
So if most of the old gas guzzlers continue to live on some minus their emission control systems the net pollution decrease worldwide is less than “0”!

This article is about Africa but anyone watching the inbound traffic to Baja California will see a solid line of the same old cars towing other old cars waiting to cross the border.

The pollution is just “exported” far away where it’s more difficult to see not eliminated.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/21/africa/west-africa-benin-...


Exporting old cars to mexuco. It’ like exporting retired people to mexico :lol::lol:




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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 10:02 AM


Its a political game being played for votes unless you are willing to let an elite global cabal dictate what every country in the world will do.

Without a total global commitment small efforts will yield nothing in a global perspective. And a "global perspective" is the current mantra!

Do you think for a minute that all those elites in DAVOS will give up their big corporate jets in the name of "Climate Change"?

Its time to wake up and smell the roses!
The earth survived just fine when the average temperature and CO2 levels were much higher than they are now.
The earth has a great propensity to heal itself.
Only "Chicken Little" thinks the end is near.
The sky is not falling.




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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 10:10 AM


Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  

anyone watching the inbound traffic to Baja California will see a solid line of the same old cars towing other old cars waiting to cross the border.


I cross the San Ysidro border frequently during the summer. The only cars I've seen towed south are race cars. I'm pretty sure you can't tow a junker or any other passenger car into Mexico. Mexico authorities will stop you.




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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 11:58 AM


Quote: Originally posted by Cliffy  

The earth survived just fine when the average temperature and CO2 levels were much higher than they are now.


You keep endlessly repeating this obviousness, as if you're telling us something we don't know. It's irrelevant. Yes, the planet will keep spinning in the universe, it just won't support life and the climate change will cause untold suffering on the way, as it already is, to the extinction of human and animal life.
You obviously don't care about that because you're an old man who won't be around long enough for it to affect you, likely have no grandchildren, or none you care about.
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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 12:36 PM


One of my biggest concerns about atmospheric warming, big because it may directly affect me and most probably will my descendants, is the northbound climate migration out of Central American tropics as crops fail, daily temperatures rise, and storms become more destructive.

I bet the current border crisis pales compared to what's going to happen in the coming decades.




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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 01:05 PM


For all of you man-made climate change deniers, and those who espouse the ridiculous notion that there is no point in individuals reducing the things we do that pollute, all you have to do is look at how rapidly and how much pollution stats dropped worldwide during Covid lockdowns.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1099092

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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 03:00 PM


Quote: Originally posted by surabi  
For all of you man-made climate change deniers, and those who espouse the ridiculous notion that there is no point in individuals reducing the things we do that pollute, all you have to do is look at how rapidly and how much pollution stats dropped worldwide during Covid lockdowns.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1099092

[Edited on 5-22-2023 by surabi]


Many have thought they can out wit Mother Nature, none have succeeded.

"Carbon pollution from California’s 2020 wildfires erased 16 years of the state’s greenhouse gas emission cuts, according to a new UCLA study."


[Edited on 5-22-2023 by JZ]




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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 03:22 PM


Quote: Originally posted by JZ  
Quote: Originally posted by surabi  
For all of you man-made climate change deniers, and those who espouse the ridiculous notion that there is no point in individuals reducing the things we do that pollute, all you have to do is look at how rapidly and how much pollution stats dropped worldwide during Covid lockdowns.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1099092

[Edited on 5-22-2023 by surabi]


2 years of forest fires in California wiped out 21 years of C02 savings by the govt.



Non-sequitor. Deflecting again. It's like saying it's a waste of time and effort to ever clean your house, because it's just going to get dirty again. Or that there's no point in keeping your vehicle well-maintained because someone could run into you and total it.

And the increasing proliference and intensity of forest fires is directly related to man-made climate change, not just "mother nature".

Trying to mitigate and solve worldwide issues like climate change and pandemics requires lateral, not linear, thinking, co-operation, caring about something larger than oneself, and a certain amount of personal sacrifice or inconvenience, obviously none of which is a part of your mind-set.



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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 03:27 PM


Quote: Originally posted by JZ  
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"Carbon pollution from California’s 2020 wildfires erased 16 years of the state’s greenhouse gas emission cuts, according to a new UCLA study."


[Edited on 5-22-2023 by JZ]


It's a good thing that CA reduced its CO2 emissions. Otherwise, the CO2 due to wildfires would be in addition to the CO2 CA didn't eliminate. The situation would be worse.




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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 04:52 PM


Quote: Originally posted by SFandH  
Quote: Originally posted by JZ  
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"Carbon pollution from California’s 2020 wildfires erased 16 years of the state’s greenhouse gas emission cuts, according to a new UCLA study."


[Edited on 5-22-2023 by JZ]


It's a good thing that CA reduced its CO2 emissions. Otherwise, the CO2 due to wildfires would be in addition to the CO2 CA didn't eliminate. The situation would be worse.


The thing about wildfires is that vegetation grows back, so over decades each individual fire is net zero GHG emissions. So is sort of silly to evaluate carbon release from vegetation burning without also looking at vegetation growth that sequesters carbon. Perhaps the vegetation Regrowth removes carbon relatively faster than than old growth vegetation removes carbon, eh?
I suppose they did not teach science and logic at Ohio state :lol::lol:




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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 04:52 PM


There are still lots of cars towing a 2nd car waiting in line at the East Mexicali Commercial crossing.
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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 04:56 PM


Goat,

The world as we know is going to end soon (5 years or 15 years). The wild lands grow back time is 40 - 100 years.
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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 05:00 PM


Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
The wild lands grow back time is 40 - 100 years.


Clarky,
Here in SoCal and baja, the coastal sage scrub grows back much faster than your time frame. Not sure what the biomass rates are for northern forests…
And perhaps these smart scientists have factored wildfire and vegetation sequestering into their climate models, eh?




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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 06:19 PM


Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  

And perhaps these smart scientists have factored wildfire and vegetation sequestering into their climate models, eh?


Hmmm, these "smart scientists" thought a glacier was going to cover the US by 2000. :light:





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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 06:33 PM


Pretty amusing to be calling out scientists for being a decade or two off in their predictions (a relatively tiny smidgen of time), when you have nothing to say about your own erroneous predictions, you just go silent about that stuff when proven wrong. Red wave, Kari Lake rockstar, DeSantis next POTUS? I believe the expression is "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".
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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 08:42 PM


Goat,

I Lived in Malibu. There were bad fires every 40 to 80 years. We built a house there after the 80 year fire. We sold it and it burned a few years ago, about 40 years later. The same for the houses around it.

The ecology of the SM costal range (Malibu) requires fires every 20 - 40 years. 80 years was way too long. The area should be managed better.
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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 08:50 PM


S,

I believe Jesus said “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her”. John 8:7 King James edition.

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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 08:54 PM


Quote: Originally posted by JZ  
Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  

And perhaps these smart scientists have factored wildfire and vegetation sequestering into their climate models, eh?


Hmmm, these "smart scientists" thought a glacier was going to cover the US by 2000. :light:



Half pint,
These scientists managed to finish their phd and get a research position in their chosen field. You went to law school, flunked the bar, and gave up. Who is the smart one? :lol::lol::no:




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[*] posted on 5-22-2023 at 08:59 PM


You have no idea what Jesus said, only what other people claimed he said. Of course, you are free to believe whatever you choose. And I wasn't referring to "sin", a religious concept, I was referring to hypocrisy.
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