'Why do we need to march for climate change?'

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The relevant part of the video starts at 2 min + 45 seconds

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/8q3nmm/burn-noticed

The scientist being interviewed by the panel answers questions on topics like:

At what point does CO2 in the air actually become poisonous to humans, how can we trust the findings of climate scientists if their careers were have been built on studies that support the idea of global warming, what's the big deal if sea levels only rise less than 10 ft, why would melting icebergs cause sea levels to rise if ice does not expand when it melts.

March for what ? What do you want changed?

-Less people driving cars ? We can't, because we immigrate a million + people / yr, so car ownership and car pollution will keep increasing. American culture is setup for people to drive to work, so not owning would make life very difficult.

-More tax on gas ? That hurts poor Americans the most, and Americans go ballistic when gas prices go up.

-Limit the energy Americans use from power companies, so less coal is burned? Immigration means we have more homes, more people using resources, so we have ever greater energy needs.

-Alternate Energies? Do electric cars even lower CO2 output since the power plants have to burn coal to supply the electricity they use ? Solar panels / Windmills / Green Energy Efficiencies don't seem like they would put much of any dent in power consumption to offset the energy needs of million + immigrants / yr.

Climate Change? First if you believe in that, the problem will take care of it's self in a few decades. We will run out of fossil fuels and the problem will be solved for us. We will be forced to find a newer cheap source of energy. Or we will start living in caves again.

I remember hearing about global cooling (1970's), then we heard about global warming (2000's) and climate change (2010's) from the same scientists. Remember they are all unproven theories. In the case of global cooling, there is plenty of empirical evidence they were wrong.

Global warming was on it's way to being de-bunked because of falsified data, emails describing how to set up rigged experiments, misplaced sensors, and the list goes on. The theory has an almost religious following, which instantly makes me wary. Especially after the news agencies picked it up and beat the drums every day with a new article.

Another inconvenient truth about the theory of global warming was it has never withstood an independent peer review. You are all aware of the scientific method? Why wasn't it applied to this theory?

They changed the name from global warming to climate change. That was a political move, because they were having a hard time selling global warming to the masses, when the mid west was frozen until April. Now any time a tornado touches down or a hurricane blows over the climate change people can point and say "SEE!?!" "Climate Change!" Have the weather events been getting stronger? Yes. Have they ever been this strong? Yes. In the early 1900's there were hurricanes and tornadoes. BIG ones. They didn't kill as many people, or destroy as much property as now, because there weren't as many people and developed land. Nor were there satellites and radar and instant news coverage.

Politics and science have always been strange bedfellows and this pairing allowed for some very interesting "solutions". Most of those solutions were schemes to relieve us of our money and line the pockets of the proponents of Carbon Credits. They were successful in getting a whole bunch of people to support this idea. They won't let up, until they have figured out how to tax the very air we breathe.

Do we have an effect on the climate? Yes. Is it going to tip the world into another ice age or another Precambrian age? Very Doubtful. Look at the amount of energy we are releasing every day. Add it up over the last 125 years. It is still a fraction of the amount of energy released by the earth itself just this year. Could we do better on environmental issues? Yes.

Does shutterbug believe in climate change? No. Climate change is an unproven theory. Prove it, then I won't have to believe in it. Quantify it and we can see if there is a problem that needs a solution. Right now there are lots of solutions looking for a problem.

IMHO

Of course we don?t need to march for climate change?we?re already changing the climate without any march.

They promised us global warming, but it's getting colder.

Considering societies won't change....

Wouldn't it be prudent to invent new ways of cleaning the environment from the pollution we make?

I mean, if you divert even a small percentage of the funds going into say..., warfare, we should be able to get something working.

We have dipped into a cooling trend.

http://data.remss.com/msu/monthly_time_ ... _v03_3.txt

That's the 30-year trend. It's not relevant.