Richard
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to Lou Anne McKeefery, sf911...@googlegroups.com
Hi Lou Anne, All
It seems to me you invited a conversation on the science of global warming
and then "weren't willing to go there."
I was thinking you'd engage with some questions or something like that.
Nope!
What I found, instead, was forging ahead, ignoring the genuine science...
WHY invite a discussion on the topic and then not engage in it?
Why can I explain in the most simple terms imaginable what's happening and
people who just don't accept consensus on global warming refuse to accept
it, EVEN WHEN they could easily confirm the reality of it. And they won't
even engage in dialogue about the details. NOT ONE WORD!
Why NOT confirm for yourself or at least explore the reality of those
things YOU CAN confirm? WHY NOT discuss it, openly, directly. This is NOT
the difficult material many believe it to be. Computer models? NOT
NECESSARY to understand it. It's really trivial stuff - exactly the things
I've been sharing - to no perceptible effect.
Sometimes, like all of us, I'm slow to see what's directly in front of me.
I'm not picking on you, Lou Anne, it's just that our recent dialogue - if
you can call it that - and your post (included below) happened to get it
to more fully click in my head what you and others on this list have been
saying. NONE of you have been willing to explore a single sentence of how
they, personally, could investigate the truth of it. BUT you DO say SOME
things that give good clues to where you're at.
What many of you who aren't willing to agree with the consensus on this
topic, have been saying in your emails - _literally_ writing - very nearly
always includes a focus on disagreement on the "human" aspect to these
discussions. Sometimes this shifts to "it's government," such as the
recent proposal that it's caused by weaponization of weather. So it's not
OUR fault, not MY fault; "Sure, it's humans but I'm not a part of it!"
I finally got it to FULLY click in my head: Logic? Science? Whatever
it is is NOT the issue.
At one of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meetings I attended (in San
Francisco) I was engaged in a conversation where one of us cracked a joke
that sparked a serious discussion. Here's the joke:
"98% of scientists agree that anthropogenic global warming is real, and
100% of Earth scientists wonder why the percentage is so low!"
And what just clicked in my head is that the facts don't matter, the
science doesn't matter, LOGIC doesn't matter... What matters for those
that feel this way is primarily that they have an emotional problem with
the idea. Perhaps they don't want to feel culpable, or don't want to
change their way of life, want someone to blame someone, ANYONE else.
It's emotional, not logical, not factual. And no science, no fact, no
logic can overcome a person's emotions unless they are, themselves,
willing to face it themselves.
So, I'll be kind as I can and not call you out any further on how you're
not seeing the forest for the trees, etc, etc, etc.
I'd be wasting my time, yours, AND maybe upsetting or offending you. And I
DO NOT intend to offend.
I DO, however, hope you'll consider these words and muse on it from time
to time.
Regards, and truly best wishes,
Richard
On Sat, 11 Nov 2023, Lou Anne McKeefery wrote:
>
> I think the reason the controllers want and need to have humans be the
> reason for climate change is to implement carbon credits as the new
> measuring stick. Spraying the sky to block the sun yields carbon credits.
> Companies will be tied to their carbon usage and purchase carbon credits
> earned by spraying the skies by the commercial airlines. We'll be able to
> locked down on "spare the air" days. Their systems of shaming humans are
> already in place. Now to convince us we deserve the punishment and beg for
> it.
> Lou Anne