Nukes' effect on the Environment

[brianshapiro]

The thing is, the political debate makes it sound like conservatives who are against activism don't believe humans are affecting the climate or dont believe that theres global warming. Very few people actually believe this. The argument is about whether any impact humans are having is catastrophic and calls for alarmism. There's more than one factor in the increase in temperature, humans being only one, and taking that in consideration with the fact that the temperature is still increasing only very minimally, it may not be possible to say that the world is headed for destruction and we need massive new programs to change things.

There are a lot of areas regarding the environment that we have political consensus on, and we would do a lot better to move forward on these, than focus on the areas we don't, because implementing actuable policies little by little will prove do do much more than people think. The areas we don't have consensus on we don't, because there is vagueness in interpreting climate science.

 

[brianshapiro]

The English languages has many nuances, so it's not surprising that you missed the subtle difference between "political statement" and "poorly-researched innacuracy."

dude, people need to stop defending Al Gore on this. I know what he said, he said he 'took initiative in creating the internet', not 'invented', as if it matters. The point is what he said sounded like him crediting himself with the fact that the Internet exists, which is completely idiotic. The Internet didn't need Al Gore. The fact that he chose to use the most ridiculous word--"creating"--made him sound like a political weasel. There's a reason people make fun of him for it, and exaggerate his wording for the point of a joke.

 

[Duuk]

Personally, I'm fine with calling it global warming. But it shouldn't start with the 1st nuke because right now 1 nuke and the whole world goes to hell for the rest of the game.

The threshold should be higher and it should slowly reduce effects if no more nukes are used.