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I am a firm believer in Climate change. If you read up on the geological history of Georgia, there have been formation and destruction of mountain ranges. There were periods where the parts of the state were under the sea. I have found geodes with fish fossils in Blue Ridge. 65 million years ago the entire US had a tropical climate. The glaciers at the North Pole melted. The sea level rose to where much of the US was underwater. Later there was an extreme cooling off of the planet and the glaciers began to grow again and the sea levels dropped. The entire US was covered in glaciers. But, you know what is missing from these events???? Mankind (or is it now personkind?). There was not a single human practice (automobile) or any industrial pollution, C02 emissions etc. that had a factor in it. So, my belief is that that climate change is real....it is just not caused by any human activity and nothing we do will prevent these changes from happening over time.

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So, we, the EU, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea will foot the bill for all this while the world's two largest polluters, China and India, are exempted from doing anything based on some "post-colonialist" illogic. The Chinese have already stated their intentions to build at least 30 more coal-fired electric generation facilities over the next 10 years, and India is studiously ignoring all this. Those nations have put their own interests, and in the case of China, its Asian hegemonic desires, ahead of any desires to do anything, which in practice means that whatever the rest of the world does will be more than offset by their actions.

The result will be that Western economies, and their ability to defend their valid national interests, will be crippled while China continues down the path toward de facto global dominion. We may have a somewhat cleaner planet, but we'll certainly have a less free and more totalitarian one.

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Inflation harms the working class and the working poor more than anyone else. The people on the coasts don't seem to understand (or care) that there isn't sufficient public transportation in 98% of the country--and even if there were, trucks that carry goods can't use it. Your lawn care people, contractors, painters, roofers, plumbers, electricians, et al need affordable fuel to work. It's maddening.

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If, you have made a commitment to yourself to ignore any evidence of the effects of Climate Control you'll probably want to ignore this article from the Washington Post about a very prominent land in our Christian belief system, Mesopotamia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/iraq-climate-change-tigris-euphrates/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F350c794%2F617190699d2fda9d411be70b%2F60549a0d9bbc0f1fcd1eea52%2F9%2F72%2F617190699d2fda9d411be70b

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Climate control. Myth! Why?

Because the truth to people such as you, us unbearable! Do I believe in Climate change? YES! Do I believe in MAN MADE climate change? NO! Why do I not follow this thinking? That says my country, or China , or any other country that is industrialized has had something to do with, and therefore can do something about unfavorable climate conditions such as described in the Post's piece you reposted here?

Again I follow real science, which has no bearing on how I feel for these poor people in this obviously bad situation!!

First of all, to give you a scientific prospective , currently there is real, provable climate change on Mars! Mars, where we humans are NOT!

What's happening here, is also happening on an uninhabited planet! This means, to even a casual observer, that there IS a verifiable source of climate change! One in which you don't like, because it doesn't fit your agenda! And yes, you have one!

That real answer is our own source of life, the sun!

People who want us to do something about climate change (used to be global cooling , then global warming, and finally just plain old change. ) ignore the truth because of the agenda! Get somebody else's money to throw at the problem, and maybe it'll just go away!

Again, the sun is the sole cause of global climate conditions, so throwing "money" at it won't stop the sun's causative actions! The sun is undergoing a minimal activity period right now! This has caused high winds aloft to shift out of its normal course, which in turn affects temperature maximum/minimums! Therefore we get 121°f in Canada, but snowing in Brazil! Try as you may, you can't stop it! And it will get worse , then about 5 to 7 years from now, reverse! Quit believing the pseudo scientists! They are liars, lying to keep getting paid! No matter what they tell you about combating "global warming" (or currently global COOLING if you're in Brazil) it will have zero effect. The reversal of the sun's condition, will! Look for its current condition to cause earthquakes, strong storms especially electrical, and cold winters in places you'd likely have a hard time believing!

One of our current severe problems us underground heating melting ice from below! (Another thing we can't do anything about) which is adding to the sun's effects!

You want to do something about pollution? Fine! But go after the real culprit, China! The plastics floating in the ocean didn't come from USA, it came from China and other uncaring Asian nations! Fix that!

You want to help cut down on excessive heat here in the US? Get rid of blacktop! Use something in the asphalt to make it absorb less energy from the sun's radiation, so a barefoot person can walk on the highway without burning their feet, and you'll find this is one major problem on earth that CAN be stopped! The whiter the surface, the cooler! Put your hand on a white car and a black car in full sunlight and actually feel the temperature difference! Blacktop roads, and black roof materials should be easy to change as roof coatings that both insulate and protect buildings from heat, that IS a global warming problem humans CAN help! White parking lots instead of dead black! Parking spots in blue on the white pavement and heat over that area will diminish vastly!

Yes I know that won't help these poor folk in Iraq, but as long as they're alive..they can be moved to a better area! There really isn't that many, but I think the problem is, they don't WANT to leave! It's their homeland. They DO however have that choice! Move..or die!

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Barefoot honey, do you realize you were shouting all the way through that? I didn’t count the exclamation points but wow, there were a lot. (<-I kinda need one there.) So, your conclusion is that Climate Change is a Myth. Ok, so you won’t believe NASA, you won’t believe NOAA, you won’t believe the American Meteorological Society or the US National Academy of Sciences. You won’t believe National Geographic or any other group that loves the earth. You sure as hell won’t believe studies from qualified academic institutions (unless the Fossil Fuels lobby has decided to spin one up.)

No, you Climate Change deniers are a very peculiar bunch. (Guaranteed objection citing a Bible verse.) You must clearly know that you are wrong. Over 90% of climate scientist agree that Climate Change is cause by humans. I haven't seen a rational objection to that number yet. I’ve seen a lot of objections that didn’t have much support rationally in the face of that 90%. I’ve seen objections citing bribery. Bribery, that is, from the financially weaker side, The greenies. But how could that be? There’s no friggin way you’re getting me to believe the greenies have deeper pockets than the fossil fuels lobby. So forget a financial motive from them, it doesn’t hold water.

That 90%, that’s really where you need to put some energy. You’ve got to get that number down man. You should absolutely go bribe a prominent Climate Change advocate. Go get whatshisname, the hockey stick guy! Guy that wrote Miami Vice in a previous life! Get him and you’d better get a few more too. I mean that 94% (last I looked) is a pretty strong number. And it had to climb from zero. You had really better take away some of that consensus if you really want to stave off the mighty fall of the fossil fuels industry for another decade or two.

But no, you’d rather do battle for the other side. The deniers.

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Whatever happened to “servant leadership” wherein leaders actually worked for the people who elected them?

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It's called UN Agenda 21! Google it. Biden is a part of trying to institute this Agenda here! The current rulers in DC need to be removed for treason! Biden is in the pockets of the CCP and Russian mafia! You can't trust him to do anything that doesn't benefit him!

Agenda 21 is what we're really fighting! One World Government under the UN! All they've got to do...is get our guns and take over the world!

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So you think trying to save the planet is all part of bringing about the great tribulation? Hey I’m a Christian I know what’s coming but anyone possessing the gift of discernment can see the evil is in trashing the planet not cleaning it up.

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Responsibility! I dispose of my trash correctly! Those who do not should be held responsible for their actions!

But cleaning or not is not the issue. Making ME pay my hard earned money to take care of the trash problem is! If China is the number one polluter in the world.. they should be made to fix it! We have disposable straws in this country to keep from polluting the ocean! Guess what? It's bogus! My straw will NEVER hit the ocean. China! China does that!! Is it bad? YES! But I'm not going to pat to clean up their mess!! Why? Because they will never learn from it! It gives them incentive to KEEP doing it, because good old Barefoot will take care of it! I'm tired of the United States gripped at for trash in the ocean when it's the non caring Chinese government!

Saving the planet? When you get China to clean up their mess, then come to me with your accomplishment! It ain't gonna happen though, cause China doesn't care about you or me! They care about taking over the world and nothing else! Go look at the Yangtze river! People are dying that live near the river because of the pollution from electronics dumping! They don't care!

You want to fix our China problem? Then BAN Chinese products from the US, replace their poisonous products with made in America safe products and put them out of business!

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We are in a Climate Crisis. The prices at the pump are trivial compared to the cost of leaving an uninhabitable planet for our children. There is no planet B. Come at me.

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Umm... Poe's Law?

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How the hell did he ever get a "Law" from that brilliant observation?

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It’s a never ending cycle. They never learn. Scare tactics + market manipulation does not = reduced demand for anything. Instead it yields anger shown at the polls. There is a giant elephant in the room, the very one that completely alienates the very voters we got back in Virginia. Imposing himself on the midterms is a the only thing I see that could blow up an historic 1994 style blowout next November.

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