Trump: 'Nobody Really Knows' If Climate Change Is Real

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Teeqoz said:

shikamaru317 said:

He has a point. Scientists always think they know something, once upon a time the scientific community thought the Earth was flat and that the Sun revolved around the Earth, they were wrong. Modern Science is not incontrovertible. While the climate definitely is changing, there is no way to know for certain that it's human caused rather than the natural climate changes this planet has always had.

No, but until we find some evidence that completely shakes up our understanding of how earth's climate works that disproves and unvalidifies all the evidence in support of man-made global warming, the natural course of action would be to presume that it is true until such hypothetical evidence arises. Especially because the consequences of it not being true but us trying do something about it because we thought it was true won't be that bad, however if we don't do anything and it is true, the consequences will be enormous.

Well, there are evidence that support man-made climate change (keep in mind that until lately, the talk have been warming, not change, so at least something has made change in opinion) and some that does not support it and some that disproves it. Majority of the scientists, however, are in support of climate change. 

ALL the evidence does not need to be disproved, just enough to have the majority of scientists to think it's not happening - and then it's not happening.

Socioeconomy plays a large part in emissions. Even if you spend more in countries with high welfare, everything is produced with less emissions. When economy grows, there's money to spend to invest in clean energy, while the lack of cheap energy is holding back growth. It is better to produce energy with a more pollutive energy source to have cheap energy and faster growing economy that can invest in cleaner energy sources. Worst thing you can do is public funded subventions to expensive "clean" source of energy that, not only, is holding economy back (because of higher taxing/less money to spend on public services), the energy used as extra source when the need is the highest, causes emissions.

Ot's somewhat easy in Norway because of virtually all energy you need, and then some, can be produced by water power, whereas most of the world isn't so lucky.