G... f... y... Billy - Moronic, false and devious!
Temperatures rise indeed - it follows the balance of input energy vs losses from our star - the SUN.
Carbon is NOT even remotely relevant- unless we build biased and INCOMPLETE models!
Energy received from the sun has many influence factors (rotation, tilt, precession, nutation... all motions of our planet relative to the sun) . And we are ONLY a minute fraction of it! Those are cyclic and perfectly documented by astrophysicists - and they match what we measure (when measurements are done right.. that is away from hot surfaces, which is another "engineered" bias).
Methane -lke carbon, like water... like everything on our planet have CYCLES. We are - as far as those molecules are concerned - a closed system, whose steady states can fluctuate .. and all of this is logical.
All humans activities and energy production/expenditures totaled are dwarfed by the sun by a factor of 5000! It means earth receives in a single YEAR, what we could need 5000 years to exhaust ! Impossible?
True in fact. easy maths to do...
We do not have a resource problem (food, water, and stuff...) we have an ACCESS TO RESOURCES problem - some of which is self-inflicted by our ways of doing things.
Energy and matter linked to it, is INTERCONVERTED (remember thermodynamics in college ?)
By us living here - we interconvert those and interfere with those cycles, generating access i. shortages and ii. pollution.
SHORTAGES solutions are strictly linked to economic models in nature - pollution not quite, it is linked to processes.
POLLUTION is thus our true MAIN problem.
In a car exhaust, carbon and water vapor are NOT the big problems, but the sulfoxide, the nitroxides and th soot,... all of which can IMPACT OUR HEALTH.
We should focus on THAT part.
Like humans - all the rest of the biosphere can be disturbed why pollutants - think about the forever plastics in the oceans, climbing up everywhere even - as was reported recently in the male testicles. Remember that we use water in plastic bottle ! Right?
In the deep seas, too, what are their effects on life? The oceans are likely to die prior being raised by melting antartica. By the way, the earth of the dinosaurs (65 M Yr ago) had NO South pole, and NO North pole OK?! And life was thriving even more than now, even with MORE volcanic activities until a certain meteor...
WE should talk care of OUR house, our beautiful blue planet - TRUE. But carbon is not the pollutant- the rest is!
Let's make a true POLLUTION footprint measurement to clean up all of industrial processes... which can be done. Let's create circular loops for our economies and product lifecycles, which can be done.
Let's stop having strawberries and avocados taking planes all over the planet to reach our plates ON DEMAND because it generates business .. at the cost of local and ESSENTIAL farming...
Instead of using biotech to do modify animals, we could use GERMS to clean up and do REAL bio-remediation. It would cost less and tackle the REAl issue
Let's SOLVE real problems with intelligence, goodwill and CORRECT insights. Let's use biotech like all tech in wise ways. Going electric is needed for POLLUTION... and because a computer on wheels is way better than a car!
But what about energy independence?
Think about something funny here - geothermal energy is nuclear in fact, and the sun is also nuclear :). Whether we use fusion, fission, solar panels or geothermal ... it will all boil down to Nuclear reactions. Nuclear waste? - it comes from the planet, hence after to is spent and LESS radiant, if we give it back at reasonable depths IN the earth crust (deep mines fi.) we essentially can leave to there for eons! No problem. No need to fight those endless wars for oil... peace on earth anyone? :)
I am sick and tired!
I am sick and tired both as a human, and as a polymath scientist of having UN-intelligent clowns like Billy boy telling us all "are we the science people?" whereas he is full of it! and except in business, he remains totally UN-educated! And assuredly not a well rounded scientist himself - just surrouneecd by conflicted advisors...
I am sick and tired of the "politization" of science to reach financial or personal goals...
The beauty and usefulness of Science is that we give the whole edifice at each step - it has to be REFUTABLE. Thsi is teh way to make TRUE progress! Whenever a fool comes by and tells that "science is settled", I'll show you a liar, an imbecile or both!
Wake up...
Cows are NOT the problem - Billy boy and his wide network is!
Elon, .... Anytime you need an army of true thinkers, open minds to not only save free speech, but all HUMANS, count me in. I can be a loner, and do not need crowds cheers, I need NONE of those fights actually - but I love life and humans enough to care!
If what I write starts to resonate in you, please do not sit idle
ACT... debates are a good start, doubt is a DUTY, killing fake modelizations everywhere a necessary step ... and choosing better leaders a MUST!
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And let's terraform Mars - just in case Billy boy really screws up our home :)