Global warming, or climate change, is an increase in the earth’s atmospheric temperature since the late nineteenth century. In politics the debate over global warming is centered on whether this increase in temperature is due to greenhouse gas emissions or is the result of a natural pattern in the earth’s temperature. In 2022 Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act which included hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies for investing in renewable-energy projects and producing energy from renewable sources. The bill also included credits to help factories retool to turn…
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Response rates from 159k Congressional District 1 voters.
66% Yes |
34% No |
60% Yes |
25% No |
6% Yes, and provide more incentives for alternative energy production |
5% No, provide more incentives for alternative energy production instead |
2% No, and global warming is a natural occurrence |
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1% No, tax carbon emissions instead |
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@9D5GR6M2yrs2Y
Yes and drastically increase the amount of fines the company must pay in the event of an accident and provide more incentives for alternative energy production
@9D84HDR2yrs2Y
Yes, but drastically increase the amount of fines the company must pay in the event of an accident
@4YRY8PG4yrs4Y
government needs to regulate the pollution of the planet, not just for climate change; saving the planet is unnecessary, the planet will save itself. However, humans are capable of making the earth inhabitable for themselves.
@4YTBLYB4yrs4Y
Yes, but not for climate change. I think that is unfounded for several contradicting reasons from both sides of the issue. However, the human toll through cancer causing agents is alarming and should have been addressed with more importance years ago.
@93H9FXV3yrs3Y
Yes and make littering illegal
@9D6QLWZ2yrs2Y
Yes drastically increase the amount of fines the company must pay in the event of an accident
@5DVLBZW4yrs4Y
This question is wrong, as the real problem has always been corruption/cronyism and failure to enforce property rights. Regulations are written by cronies more to the benefit of polluters than to our environment or property owners. Regulations have actually made it harder to sue those who harm our shared/un-owned resources, stealing property value, health and life.
@4YW99PV4yrs4Y
No evidence that CO2 is the dominant factor. Climate has changed relatively little in the past several decades. Almost all predictions for the amount of change have been wrong.
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Climate Change Service : 2023 Was Warmest Year On Record
@QuicheAria1Y
And let's not forget that the concept of "global average temperature" is total bunk
@ThrilledS0cialJustic31Y
This doesn't show the idea is "bunk".
Some of the "objections" are also incredibly stupid. This is like claiming averages in general are "nonsense" because they don't tell you what the variance of the data is. That doesn't make the very concept of an average nonsense or bunk.
@QuicheAria1Y
I don't have time to answer you now. I week try to get back, but it's not a concept rooted in science
@ResolvedGarlic7MO
How about giving up growing corn for ethanol, a taxpayer funded giveaway to corporate farmers.
There's also the amount of feed grown to raise meat. How about humanely raised grass fed meat on special occasions instead of factory cruelty meat at every meal 3x a day 7x a week?
@QuicheEllie7MO
The best policy would be to start moving charging actual cost for water to stimulate wiser use. And as Poet McTeagle notes, the "food as fuel" boondoggle needs to end.
From my reading, greens (lettuce, spinach, etc.) can be grown throughout the midwest. We need to stop subsidizing corn, which would also allow meat prices to rise to their appropriate level, signaling protein substitutions from cornfed animals to plant protein and/or healthier meat.
@ResolvedGarlic7MO
Farming has become a bastion of corporate power. It's about the money. Bigger is better. The minimum size for a farm to even have a chance to make any money is 5000 acres. Corporations are only concerned with profits, not what will happen to the water table in 20 years.
Grow crops that feed people, not livestock and cars, or Wall Street investors.
@ResolvedGarlic
is winning the debate
@UnityRat8MO
Politico is calling something Harris is on record and on video several times over saying she is in favor and will ban fracking, as a "Trump accusation."
@ThriftyProgressive8MO
I've never seen MSM just straight up go edit articles that were 3 years old, or delete them entirely.
What's going on with the search engines is next level.
@UnityRat8MO
Agreed it is legitimately large scale cordinated election interference seemingly coming from the DNC. To me that constitutes a criminal conspiracy but I doubt anything would ever be charged and I believe they know that. This is why independent news is vital, especially substack.
@ThriftyProgressive
is winning the debate
@VettedVoteCougar2MO
Trump backing out of Paris is no shocker—it’s basically ‘on brand’ for someone who thinks climate change is a hoax. Meanwhile, big businesses use that as an excuse to weaken any climate targets. Let’s just keep pumping greenhouse gases until we’re all toast, right? The hypocrisy is off the charts. And you can bet some of these corporations will still pretend to be ‘eco-friendly’ while lobbying for weaker regs in the backroom.
@TreatyKoala2MO
The Paris deal might be symbolic, but symbols can matter—if they push real policy. Right now, it’s just another stage prop. But if an administration actually enforced emissions caps, taxed carbon properly, and ended fossil fuel subsidies, that’d be progress. Of course, as soon as you mention raising taxes on Big Oil, watch the lobbyists swarm.
@VettedVoteCougar2MO
You’re right about the lobbyists, but we still have to demand change. If we just sit around, the fossil fuel industry wins by default. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and we need to squeak louder than their money.
@7PTL9634MO
Ineffective? Really? If we ignore climate change, we’re facing catastrophic consequences. The only thing "ineffective" is denying the reality of science because it doesn’t fit your political agenda.
@UniqueDoughnut4MO
But it’s not just about climate change, is it? It’s also about economic implications. That $1.2 trillion could be a colossal waste if not managed properly. This act isn’t just a magic wand for the environment.
@7PTL9634MO
A waste? How about investing in the future instead of the past? The oil and gas industries are dying. We need to evolve, not regress. Ignoring renewable energy is like throwing away our kids’ future for a few bucks today.
Climate Change Blamed For 2 Huge California Storms
@WearyQu0rum1Y
This mostly happens during El Nino years. Not so much during other times.
@ChicFreeTrade1Y
Impossible to say something is incorrect that hasn’t happened yet. Nice try.
@WearyQu0rum1Y
Incorrect. The barometric pressure differential, wave height, wind, and off shore radar returns can be measured and compared. You are not the atmospheric scientist we need, clearly.
New Evidence Shows The Off Shore Wind Industry Is Harming Whales
@Patriot-#17761Y
They'll report on 83 whales dying, but what they refuse to report on is the harm replacing oil with wind energy is doing to men and women by destroying our economy, creating massive blackouts and energy shortages, and increasing dependence on the government. That's more important than 83 whales.
@9CJ6CB61Y
Yes, individuals are obligated to do their part and make government help or else nothing changes.
@Patriot-#17761Y
"Yes"? Huh, last time I read my Bible (which was for the 100th time) I didn't see anything that said that.
New Evidence Shows The Off Shore Wind Industry Is Harming Whales
@Patriot-#17761Y
They'll report on 83 whales dying, but what they refuse to report on is the harm replacing oil with wind energy is doing to men and women by destroying our economy, creating massive blackouts and energy shortages, and increasing dependence on the government. That's more important than 83 whales.
@9CJ6CB61Y
So then you are agreeing with the individual idea? You are contradicting your own ideals of agreeing with that part of the Bible.
@Patriot-#17761Y
I agree that individuals should not litter, or kill animals for the h–ll of it. Who wouldn't? What I don't agree with is that we should surrender our rights to the government so they ward off some farcical hoax they're pushing as fact. There's actually a difference between the two.
Climate Change Service : 2023 Was Warmest Year On Record
@9CJ6CB61Y
And yet climate change has been proven time and time again by scientists. It’s actually one of the most heavily studied scientific discoveries currently around. 98% of scientists believe in climate change too, that’s a great place to start.
@Patriot-#17761Y
And how can you deduce that? Are there in detail records about ancient weather cycles? Or is this returning to the very fallacious reasoning I rebuffed at the start of this debate? Even if you had tangible data about the distant past, the warming trends would "not [be] NEARLY as high" because the earth was already considerably warmer than it is now, and how do we not know the warming trends weren't this high at the start of that period of normality that came before the Little Ice Age? Do you honestly know what you're talking about, or this what CNN has told you?
@9CJ6CB61Y
Because we literally mapped the warming trends from those times. Look up “Mini Ice Age Climate Change Map”. The dipping effects were a minuscule amount in comparison to a massive spike over the last 200 years.
@Patriot-#1776
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Climate Change Service : 2023 Was Warmest Year On Record
@9CJ6CB61Y
did you miss the politician part? Might I remind you that European has some of the least corrupt and happiest countries on earth. Europe’s soul is in the best shape it’s been in centuries because of this kind of policy
@Patriot-#17761Y
Yeah, unless you count the police state locking up teachers in Ireland and Britain for refusing to use their students fake "pronouns," a dropping standard of living, sky-high prices, the threat of continental war, inflation that's often worse than our own, the collapse of the nuclear family, and the recent destruction of the British Empire, they're practically living in Heaven.
New Evidence Shows The Off Shore Wind Industry Is Harming Whales
@9CJ6CB61Y
Humans making things at all causes environmental damage. The goal is to reduce it, and this stands still as a massive reduction.
@Patriot-#17761Y
So your goal is to significantly hamper the economic process of our species for the sake of "Mother Earth"? Let me tell you, most people in third world countries don't give a **** about clean energy, all they want is to provide food for their starving children, give them clean water, have half-decent sanitation, and get what energy they can as cheap as they can. These people NEED the economic development that can only come from the free market, and for the sake of your deified Mother Nature you would sacrifice the needs of your fellowman. That's a very radical position to… Read more
@9CJ6CB61Y
Yes, and that’s why I don’t have nearly as many problems with poor countries using oil, but it will hurt them too if they become too dependent on one resource. That’s what killed Equatorial Guinea and binds Saudi Arabia’s ability to think of anything but their oil sources. Oil itself is a good start for developing countries, but it cannot, must not, should not, be the monopolistic model for their energy sector, or they will suffer from economic dependence and fight over the bare amounts of oil leftover.
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