As we all do. So you want to live in your own imaginary world.
But I do use all the external information I have available which I use to interact with my own knowledge and ideas. Some people have very low internal processing power so they depend very greatly on what they are told at any time. Others have very great internal processing power with fewer gaps in knowledge and less bung information with which to think for themselves.
Some things I know nearly nothing about, so I depend almost totally on others to do my thinking for me. Some things such as the greenhouse effect I've spent decades learning about, thinking about and deriving my own conclusions. For example I have calculated the amount of CO2 that is taken down from the gulf stream to the bottom of the ocean. I've never seen so-called experts calculate that. It's megatons of CO2. Not enough to keep up with the amount produced by people. Similarly for CO2 absorbed and sunk by dead fauna to the bottom of the ocean which is also megatons.
Climate models are very fancy but they do not calculate cloud effects, incoming cosmic particles that produce clouds. They don't calculate technological advances such as Cyberspace effects on what people do. One of those effects is to enable people to do lots without producing CO2.
The models continue to be updated. That's because they have never been even slightly close to representing reality. The simplistic light absorption models for various amounts of CO2 in air are not much use.
After 40 years of watching, CO2 has increased to just over 400 ppm. It has taken over 150 years to increase CO2 from 280 ppm to 400 ppm. And that was with easy oil. People avoid buying oil as much as they can. So they are buying electric cars. Nuclear reactors are back in production. Photovoltaics by the megaton are being produced. Populations are peaking and declining in some countries.
40 years ago I proposed to my BP Oil International boss that if CO2 becomes a problem, it's easily fixed by shifting taxes from other things to ships full of crude oil. Dopey governments instead tried to slam people with carbon taxes without cutting other taxes even more. Greedy stupid. My boss shushed me as he didn't think that was a good idea to put taxes on BP Oil business. But that's still the best idea.
I remain unworried about CO2 after 40 years because contrary to the so-called experts, troposphere temperatures have not increased significantly. Sea levels have not risen significantly. The so-called experts predicted a third of a century ago that New York would be underwater, snow would be unknown to children, the north pole would have gone, storms would be common, etc. Not so. In fact, crops are booming, deserts are losing ground and the dire predictions have not come to pass.
A single tsunami is worse than two centuries of sea level rise and tsunamis are common. One asteroid in the Pacific ocean is what will cause sea level rise and do it in one second as the tsunami comes ashore and maybe 10 metres or 100 metres high. A metre over a century wouid be no problem. Simply move a little uphill. A degree warmer would be pleasant. It's easier to stay cool than warm up.
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