Oh PRAY TELL Why Not?

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
This is off-topic but actual real-life example. From 1952 to 1969 I lived in Concord. Even great grandparents born and raised there spoke of inevitable hot spells during the summer with 102-to 105 degree heatwaves lasting a week. Rarely temps climbing to 112+F. Almost never sea breezes. EL NI?O winters were a fact without having a catchy moniker. 1951-52 1956-57, were monster flood years. NEVER according to lifelong families including the Diandas (since the 1700's) the Pachecos (also 1700's) did summers not bring stale days with hundred degree temperatures and high 70's dawns.
Then in the SIXTIES weather began to change. Sea breezes. What did California legislators do? Well they screamed and stamped their little Brooks Bros clad feet and shouted "SEE! YOU IDIOTS! our smog control efforts paid off royally!"
To the tune in reality about 15-20% cut in NOX, CO and CO2.
It is the POLITICIZING of technical issues that really fumes me. Let failed lawyers ruin oops I mean run your life and this is what you get.
I am dead serious about upcoming DRACONIAN regulation of recreational vehicle design, construction, and operation. Suits who wear loafers instead of shoes because tying knots is too intricate are going to gang up and legislate bit by bit restrictions on use of recreational vehicles.
I rail and fume about the insane asylum restriction on battery charger design. To save .0000001% total state energy use. Oh no. California cannot mandate compliance for use of MODERN traffic signal computer operation. That would only save ten thousand times the electricity of changing over to WILL NOT WORK smart chargers that end up as landfill and destroys millions of batteries in the process.

People who do not or refuse to see this insanity are part of the problem not part of the solution.

This is pretty contentious comment and it deserves a response.

Mods be nice.

I hate to say that climate change and its accompanying reality along people's acceptance that it is happening is not insanity.
It is people who don't understand the dynamics of how the earth go through cycles of cooling and warming.

Over the past 3000 years the earth's temperature has been increasing steadily. Scientists agree that this increase is happening more and more since the industrial revolution.

CO2 emissions caused by burning fossil fuel contribute largely to the problem. . . though it is not the primary cause--erupting volcanoes for example can contribute big time to this problem far more than mere aerosol cans that would cause greenhouse effect.

The ongoing debate is about keeping CO2 level at 340 parts per million (ppm). At the turn of the century CO2 level was around 300 ppm, so, clearly it has increased. There is no denying that this increase is caused by human activity.

At this point, earth's temp has increased by around 5 deg C. Nine out of ten climate scientists believe that keeping this increase to around 2 deg C is an untenable goal. Surely there is still evidence that global temp is increasing. This goal is what politicians are aiming for.

The problem is where people like you (and your battery folly) believe that "toys" like yours don't contribute to greenhouse effect. If millions of your horribly inefficient, indestructible gizmo are used in every part of the world, it would accelerate global warming. It's not solely how you are using them but the process of manufacturing them. California CEC engineers are not a bunch of idiots and relentlessly denigrating them is appalling.

We can't stop global warming but we can mitigate the resulting effect. If we allow this to keep rising at its current rate we'd be looking at increased CO2 level to a catastrophic 1000 ppm by the end of the century.

At this increased temps ice caps would melt, ocean level would rise 80 to 100 feet, drought in some parts of the world would wipe put civilizations. We don't need to look beyond Katrina. . . and now severe drought brought in wildfires in Portugal. This has never happened at this magnitude before.

I give you credit for the insight although not based on science-- albeit, replete with embellished verbiage that doesn't add value to the argument.


You know you are getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you can do while you're down there-- George Burns.