Wonderland Road Widening 4 to 6 lanes

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Molson Export wrote....


#47
Posted Aug 27, 2021, 11:16 AM


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>I take great issue with people trying to soft peddle the grave impact of climate change, simply to suit their own selfish interests.

And I take great issue with people assuming selfish intent rather than being motivated by scientific honesty and integrity.


> I do research on climate change, among other topics. I work with scientists who have spent decades researching the many effects that ACC is having on our ecology, from warming oceans, to bleaching coral reefs, from rising sea levels to retreating glaciers, from migrating species to mass extinctions. It is not an exaggerated threat in the slightest. It is not some distant prospect. It is the most grave threat facing humanity and the ecology. The consequences of of a business-as-usual approach will be devastating, ecologically, socially, and economically.

And, if you are honest, you'll acknowledge there is great deal of bad science going on in the ACC space, with a lot of funding that is up for grabs if you can even loosely tie your specialty to AGW. Again, if you look beyond the Summary For Policy Makers, you know there is nowhere near the pants/world on fire in the real peer reviewed work that is truly open to unbiased review. And you'll acknowledge that it is very hard to honestly and conclusively untangle Anthropogenic drivers from Natural drivers. And that adaptation has to be a factor, because even if you TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE! (meaning AGW), there will always be Natural Climate drivers (that we are not even close to understanding).

>I understand the science. I hold a PhD and an MSc, and I have been a Professor at Western for 16 years.

Lol, so, of course, the solution is... Socialism!! Predictable.

I too have hefty cred but I'm not trotting it out in full sanctimonious glory. And I prefer to focus on discerning good science from bad, and on proportional solutions that balance good stewardship and harm reduction where it actually makes a difference with not destroying the economy with Degrowth.