He really should have listened to Realists like me, Tom Nelson, Anthony Watts, and so many more
Vance on carbon emissions and climate change: ‘Let’s just say that’s true’
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) expressed skepticism about the scientific consensus behind climate change in response to a question during Tuesday’s debate.
“One of the things that I’ve noticed some of our Democratic friends talking a lot about is a concern about carbon emissions — this idea that carbon emissions drive all the climate change,” Vance said.
“Let’s just say that’s true, just for the sake of argument, so we’re not arguing about weird science. Let’s just say that’s true,” Vance continued.
There is a scientific consensus that climate change is occurring and is primarily being driven by human activity — largely carbon emissions stemming from the burning of fossil fuels.
Vance, in his answer, said the Trump administration’s climate policy would be to bring more energy production and manufacturing to the U.S. “because we’re the cleanest economy in the entire world.”
First, consensus is not science. Applying the Scientific Method is doing science.
Second, the proper answer is “let’s just say that’s true, for the sake of argument: why is almost every single policy from the Warmists about increasing taxes and fees, increasing the size of government, controlling people’s lives, and taking away their Free Speech and liberty? Oh, and why are you and Harris using so much darned fossil fuels?”
Walz touts EV jobs as he spars with Vance on clean energy in VP debate
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Walz specifically mentioned EV jobs growing under the current administration, touting more than 2,000 expected to arrive in Jeffersonville, Ohio. Construction is in progress there for a battery plant to be operated jointly by LG Energy Solution and Honda Motor Co. That facility might benefit from some IRA credits, but it was already in the planning stages before the IRA became law, according to Inside Climate News.
Yet, no one asked Walz if he was driving an EV himself, or if Harris was traveling around in one. JD did a great job coming back at Walz, but, really, Republicans overall need to learn to put Democrats on the spot as climahypocrites.
The first words out of their mouths should be: “Then we would be correct in assuming you alive in a carbon neutral home and own only EV’s”?
Mr Teach re-reveals his ignorance: First, consensus is not science. Applying the Scientific Method is doing science.
Consensus IS science. The scientific method IS applied to reach a consensus. for example, the scientific consensus on tobacco use is that it causes a variety of human cancers (and other maladies). For decades, and today, the tobacco industry financed the opposition to the scientific consensus via groups like the Heartland Institute, American Enterprise Institute, and writers such as Stephen Milloy.
Consensus is achieved through a process that includes peer review, scholarly debate, and replication of results and may be communicated with position statements or publish consensus review articles to communicate the scientific consensus to the public.
The scientific consensus on climate change is that humans are causing global warming. This consensus is based on evidence from a variety of physical sources.