Lawlight said:
the-pi-guy said:
We are actually able to perform experiments on this. We know what CO2 does. There's no doubt about it. We can test it in labs or at home. There are tons of factors that affect climate, but seeing as most of those factors are actually low right now; they are clearly not what's causing the change. We can create models based on all those things.
The countries that have a fertility rate of more than 2 are actually not the problem. Those countries aren't very rich or industrialized. The more industrialized countries, firstly have a rate around 2 or even a little lower for some of them, and secondly burn oil and coal to heat and power cars, houses, skyscrapers, and everything else.
Fertility rate drops when countries get richer. CO2 production conversely increases.
And conversely, climate is not in a closet. It is open and free to anyone who wants to study it. So, even easier for fraud to be detected.
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Fertility might decrease in those developed countries but population growth doesn't. The US's population has increased by a factor of 10 in the past 150 years. China doubled in the past 50 years. UK doubled in the past 100 years. Even Japan with its low fertility has seen an increase of 150% in its population over the past 100 years.
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You know it's only recently that Japan has had very low fertility rates? So quoting data from the last 100 years makes no sense. I honestly can't tell if you chose a misleading dataset on purpose, or maybe you actually aren't aware that Japan's population has been decreasing since 2009. China too. Again, silly to only use the past 50 years when they are currently at the lowest population growth they've had in modern times.
