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Yes, it is. Burning fossil fuels sends CO2 into the atmosphere. CO2 reflects heat rising from the earth and oceans, keeping it in the atmosphere instead of letting it escape into space, warming the planet.
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Wow, that simple huh? Is that the best talking point they gave you in your AGW alarmism manual?
You do realize that the heating potential of CO2 is logarithmic, right? It does not have unlimited potential to heat the earth. Most of the warming caused by CO2 happens in the first 20 ppm. At current levels, and at levels much higher still, the extra heating caused by CO2 is negligible. That's why the earth has never had a runaway greenhouse effect even with CO2 levels as high as 8000 ppm.
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Daily life in China:
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Yes, there is a lot of pollution there. But that is smog and fine particulate matter. That is not CO2. It is real pollution like SO2 and it is a real problem. CO2 is not pollution.
If you do some research you will find that here in North America and most of Europe the air and waterways are much cleaner than they were 100, or even 25, years ago. For the most part things have been getting better not worse.
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Beach life in Florida
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Yes that was a terrible accident. But you cannot reasonably use that as an indication of overall pollution levels or as justification for shutting down civilization as we know it.
Besides that no technology is without its problems or potential negative environmental or health impacts. Not even your beloved electric cars:
Study: Lithium-Ion Batteries Can Impact Environment, Health Negatively
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The researchers found that batteries using cathodes with nickel and cobalt and solvent-based electrode processing are the highest risks for negative health and environmental impacts. These impacts are a result of the production, processing and use of cobalt and nickel metal compounds. The environmental impacts include resource depletion, global warming, and ecological toxicity while the health impacts are poor respiratory, pulmonary and neurological effects.
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Yes, probably true. But you do realize that oil naturally seeps into the environment all of the time, right? In fact oil is a natural product of, and a part of, the environment. Oil extraction should be no more or no less scrutinized than extraction of any other natural resource. We just have to learn to be a little more careful extracting and transporting it.
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It takes less energy to move an electric car than a gasoline car. If everyone drove electric, there would be more energy, not less.
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You're not serious are you? Either you need to rephrase that or you need to go back to basic high school physics. If you have such a flawed understanding of something so basic it's no wonder you are so easily fooled into the whole "CO2 is pollution" dogma.
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