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Apple CEO Tim Cook Urges U.S. President to Stay in Paris Climate Pact
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Obviously, you're ignorant of what will happen if we don't take vigorous action. I don't think Apple get subsidies. But they get enormous savings through efficiencies. Siri, iCloud, cost much less because they are mostly powered by the sun. The entire of Apple Park is fueled by renewable energies. It cost some money to install panels, etc., but the yearly maintenance is near zero. Yes, you can take away the $7,500 tax credit from electric car buyers. But it's stupid. Because of that tax credit, we've seen a lot of cars with increasingly better (clean) engines that are fun to drive, fast, and cheaper to run in the past years. The price of the cars has fallen. Now Chevy has a plug-in electric, and others are coming on the market. Sooner or later, that subsidy will be withdrawn. I'd like you to explain to me how Silicon Valley came into being: it was through government grants and subsidies, many through the Defense Department -- heard of the Internet? -- that were then applied to civilian use. Government regulations and tax rules helped too. Otherwise, all they'd have in Cupertino would be apple trees, not Apple Inc.
If I want someone to build a jet, spaceship, or building I'll call Bill. The other sciences not so much. He's not qualified to speak on much of what he speaks on.
Quite true. There is no free market in a "libertarian" society. There's just mob rule. It takes regulation, laws and police.
I'm not sure where you heard that plants produce carbon dioxide into our atmosphere, but that's objectively wrong.
There's no physical reason why warmer temperatures would increase carbon dioxide more than negligibly. There's a lot of physical reason why increased carbon dioxide would result in non-negligibly warmer temperatures. We've seen it happen and continue to.
Al Gore's book is quite accurate, and far more accurate than contrarian books.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/al-gore-inconvenient-truth-errors.htm
A local cold day has nothing to do with the long-term trend of increasing global temperatures.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-cold-weather.htm
A number of investigations have cleared scientists of any wrongdoing in the media-hyped email incident.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/Climategate-CRU-emails-hacked.htm
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=826
UC Santa Barbara disagree with you. You should give them a call and set them straight for the good of the environment.
Having just come from an extended stay in the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania, in the middle of "coal country," I must say there is nothing anyone can do to save those towns. They are either dying or already abandoned, relics of a bygone era. Windows on storefronts and homes are shattered, and what few residents remain along Pennsylvania State Highway 61 through "Coal Township" basically spend their days on their porches, watching the cars go buy. Otherwise, there is no life in Shamokin (unless of course you happen to work at the nearby Correctional Institution).
On a positive note, the skies were very clear and blue the entire time I was there. Why bring back a dying industry when there is no future demand for it? Leave the mountains alone.
On a positive note, the skies were very clear and blue the entire time I was there. Why bring back a dying industry when there is no future demand for it? Leave the mountains alone.
They aren't gonna admit any of your points that don't agree with their views.
Let's hope the MODS shut down this thread.
The sign of the intellectually challenged.
Take a good hard look in the mirror. That comment is fitting for the person staring at you.
Afraid you used the word that triggers the Trumpsters: "collective." There are no "groups," you know? There's just brave, lone individuals, who see the truth based on their unique individual insights, which they all just happen to agree with to the syllable. In the same way that they think they can understand what insurance is without considering that covering everybody is the way you make premiums (or taxes, if it's single-payer), SMALLER, not larger. I'm sure they all believe that, if their theories of global warming are real, all it will mean is that they, who will be the wealthy "winners," will just have to turn up the air conditioning in their fabulous mansions, and in the hot luxury sedans. And the superior individuals will survive in the bubble that they construct on the principles of Fox News.
How so? A net negative compared to what? Any facts to back it up or are we just using "emotional science"?
That area is unique and yes it is desolate but I think it has more to do with the coal fire (why PA61 takes some odd turns) in the area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire than economic times. Nearby Sunbury and Selinsgrove are expanding.
What would be a good source for this topic according to you? A site or individual that has an agenda of rejecting man made global warming, I guess?
"Stay out of politics, Tim!"
Uh, no. We need all the big voices we can get right now telling Trump to stop being a retard.
(Queue the morons saying climate change isn't real).
Uh, no. We need all the big voices we can get right now telling Trump to stop being a retard.
(Queue the morons saying climate change isn't real).
Seems difficult to find a valid source then? I mean we can always claim that the source has an agenda if we don't like what it claims, because "there's an agenda behind it".
Opinion is fact? :-/
Got to sleep – it's late here...
Be kind to each other while I'm away, okay?
I really wish I hadn't read through this thread. Some of the opinions expressed here make me despair for humanity's future. People are so greedy, so self-absorbed, so obsessed with a few more zeros on the end of their bank balance, they can happily damn the rest of it.
Whether or not you think global warming is a myth – and boy, there really are some of you out there – I simply can't understand the aversion to leaving the world better than you found it. I'm genuinely unable to wrap my head around why there's so much opposition to renewable energy and these sorts of pacts.
Whether or not you think global warming is a myth – and boy, there really are some of you out there – I simply can't understand the aversion to leaving the world better than you found it. I'm genuinely unable to wrap my head around why there's so much opposition to renewable energy and these sorts of pacts.
If you follow the money - you will realize there is a carbon credits exchange and it means big money to those running it - including the UN.
Mostly this is just a way to fleece you - wake up.
P.S. I've been alive a long time - the climate is about the same, maybe a bit cooler actually.
Mostly this is just a way to fleece you - wake up.
P.S. I've been alive a long time - the climate is about the same, maybe a bit cooler actually.
1. Mother Nature has positive AND negative feedback loops. For instance, if artic ice melts, more heat from the sun is absorbed by the ocean, which accelerates the warming of the ocean. Ice would have reflected that heat back into space.
2. Why do we need to rely on Mother Nature to clean up after us? Following your logic we shouldn't filter sewage water or clean the smoke coming from our factories.
3. There are many buffers regarding the climate that have dampened the rise of temperature in the last decades. These buffers are getting full, and when this happens (not IF, but WHEN), the true consequences of climate change will be visible. One of these buffers are the oceans. And yes: algae and plants consume CO2 and take it out of the atmosphere, but the rate at which we put it back into the atmosphere is unprecedented. And totally unnecessary.
disclosure: I'm a climate scientist, working at a European university. I don't have any financial gain in claiming climate change is real. If it is or isn't, I won't be out of a job as many think.
If you have a scientific question about climate and climate change, I'm happy to answer them.