Originally posted on 05/02/2014:

Dante you know my stance on it all. Yes there is a 'changing climate' but there always has been and the group of 'climate scientists' are basically this....getting grants to continuously study what hasn't been decided in order to keep the $$ flowing into their cause. Of COURSE they are going to keep saying things are getting worse so we better keep funding their studies...but when asked to tell us definitively why things are getting worse, the answer is always 'well we cant say for sure but we'll keep at it for you'

There is a reason that over 95% of models predicted since 1990 have been wrong...there is a reason when you hear 'hottest year on record' it's based on solely within a certain time period not totality of history - if for simplicity sake for millions of years the Earth's temp ranged from -50 to 130 degrees and we've had ice ages and extreme heat etc...then to present times say in 1776 the temps were 84 but in 1900 it was 81 and we started 'recording' in 1900 by 2014 the temp is 82 thats by definition hottest on record but not hottest sustained in historical terms. Saw a documentary not dealing with climate change debates but just history in general - there was a sheet of ice covering Manhattan region 1000 years ago or so....did Exxon cause that to melt?

On fossil fuels the facts are pretty straight forward - carbon emissions are at decades long lows even with the recent boom on extraction...recent models predicting carbon levels have had to be revised or scrapped and started over once new science showed that oceans actually absorb a larger amount of carbon back out of the atmosphere which nullifies that part of the formula in predicting the tonnage in the atmosphere - the guy who broke ground on DNA mapping and other areas is one of those who is now in the oceans studying this new science to determine how much algae helps in saving the carbon emissions....the answer to energy and the cleanest forms that do the job for mankind leads to nuclear...will take 20-30 years due to the intensive building and so on but thats why Nat Gas is king for the next couple of decades - price and density and scale buddy. I'm all for retasking the locations of injection wells for waste water on site to get them off active fault lines but past that, I'm 1000% on board with the oil/gas solutions. And this will not lead to a catastrophic end to mankind. It's a boom to the world economy - energy drives innovation and production in the world economy period.