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We know that carbon dioxide is the most important persistent greenhouse gas, we know that human activities emit billions of tons of it a year and that levels of atmospheric CO2 have gone from about 280ppm in pre-industrial times to close to 400ppm now. We also have reams of evidence that are...

More stuff that may help understand the complexities of climate change. The Discovery of Global Warming - A History Extreme Ice Survey | Art meets science. Global Warming & Climate Change - Frequently Asked Questions | UCAR - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Read up, you may...

The basic science hasn't changed.

Trying to bend physical laws to your preconceived opinions can be frustrating. The science is sound and goes back over two centuries, it's going to be a really unpleasant experience for anyone who tries and maintains climate change denial in the coming years, the real world evidence is just too...

I'm not debating climate change anymore, it's pointless. People can accept the most likely scientific model built up over decades and centuries of research... Or buy into the industry created fiction that there is no climate change and or we aren't responsible. When you consider that the...

I agree, if there are delays in one area then resources can be transferred to others. It also makes sense to create an energy market that has some competition built into it.

Not many, because we're currently reliant on fossil fuels for most of transportation and construction needs then it follows that they will be required to build new energy production facilities and infrastructure. As the new technologies come online we can begin to start to phase out fossil...

You've got a very limited view of alternative sources of energy to replace fossil fuels. There are a number of different nuclear technologies that offer many advantages over current Pressurized Water Reactors and few of the drawbacks. Liquid fluoride thorium reactor - Wikipedia, the free...

An ad hoc implementation isn't going to work, there needs to be a comprehensive plan, and that includes the phaseout of fossil fuels...which brings in a political element that makes it very hard to do anything.

Sorry, my mind doesn't work like that. What I do see are many new emerging technologies that offer much lower environmental impacts and virtually limitless supplies of energy. Investing in them would be investing in a future that is almost limitless. All we need to do is get around a power...

Not directly, that's not what the issue is. What we can and should at least try and control is the forcing part of the equation that we're responsible for. That has to do with the energy balance between what's coming in from the sun, mostly in the form of short wavelength EM radiation, and...

You're talking out of your ***, climatic systems are chaotic they aren't linear, no one knows where the global and by extension regional climates are going, all we know is that significant change is already underway... and it's not controlled. As for the rest, grow up, these are adult issues...

You make it sound like this is a controlled process, it isn't. Canada has everything to lose, just as does the rest of the world. Changing climatic and temperature zones means that the habitat that most species have evolved to live in are moving rapidly polewards, in many cases faster than the...

The science of climate change is built on very firm foundations as I'm sure has been explained here many times by people like Tonington, this conspiracy theory stuff is delusional. Most scientist who are working in the field of planetary studies are very concerned based on the science, looking...

George Gerbner did extensive studies of the effect of violence in media and came to some interesting findings. - Violence in media doesn't seem to have much effect of people's immediate behaviour, few people are directly inlfulenced by what they see on TV and in the movies. - The more...

At least someone is finally starting to take action over the robocalls scandal of the last election but it's been over two years and we still don't have any really good explanations of what really happened. The federal conservatives get off lightly with just a $78,000 fine, but if the illegal...

Anyone who's in power in the coming years is going to have to deal with this issue, denial based on ignorance, whether real or feigned isn't going to cut it no matter what someones political affiliation.

The greenhouse effect caused by glass windows is somewhat different from that of gases in the atmosphere. Shorter wavelength photons can pass through glass, but the longer wavelength photons emitted from within the car vibrate at the same frequency as the molecules in the glass, which prevents...

This is getting silly, in the midst of the conservative government doing everything it can to remove the muck from the senate scandal, Kenny is trying to smear some on Justin Trudeau by attacking him for what he might possible say about the recent London attack. Jason Kenney Slams Justin...

Free access to information is an essential part of any democratic system, without objective information it's impossible for the electorate to make free choices. In an environment where the flow of information is highly controlled the results reflect how well the subjective views of individuals...