“Without substantial and sustained global mitigation and regional adaptation efforts, climate change is expected to cause growing losses to American infrastructure and property and impede the rate of economic growth over this century,” wrote the authors of the Fourth National Climate Assessment Volume II.
I’m a conservative who believes in AGW, but it would have to be a global effort to lower its effects. The west can cut emissions all day long and is immediately negated when China and India fire up a new coal plant. The Paris accord did nothing to halt China and India from firing up new coal plants. Without that it’s a non starter.
The actual theoretical component of it is not all that complicated: human activity in particularly the burning of fossil fuels is having adverse effects on our climate. The genuine debate focuses around to what extent can genuinely attributed to said activity.
It is a global problem this is why I liked the term “Global Warming” better than “Climate Change”. We can cut as much missions as we like it will do nothing unless China, India, and Russia get on board. It’s like putting a bandaid on a compound fracture.
And now since the west has made China rich you have millions on new drivers on the road emitting deadly emissions into the air. I am on your side but everyone has to be on board.
Climate change is like an asteroid heading directly for the Earth. Except conservatives pretend the asteroid doesn’t exist. Maybe if climate change was an evil plan hatched by the French or Venezuela- then they would care.