A few random rambling thoughts.
I am a geoscientist and worked in the oil industry for over 35 years. So I have an informed opinion on earth processes based on my training and a little bias based on my profession.
Is climate change real? Of course it is. The earth's climate has always been changing. We have been coming out of an ice age for over 11k years now. Glaciers are retreating and ice caps are melting. They have been doing this since then end of the Pleistocene. This is not caused by humans. It is possible that humans have sped up the melt? Absolutely. But I have looked at a lot of the climate expert's reports and data and find that they are anything but truthful. They pick and choose their data, to the point that if the data does not fit their hypothesis, they do not use it. They routinely 'normalize' data, which is a term used to say if the data don't fit, adjust it until it does. Absolutely none of the climate change (which was originally called global warming) models have been right. None. And they have been doing this for what, 40 years? I use to teach seismic modeling and one of my points was that "all models are wrong, but how wrong are they? Some are useful". The climate models have been so wrong that they are not useful. These folks are getting rich off of government money to 'research climate change'. Of course they are going to find that it is happening. If not, then their grant money dries up and they are out of a job.
A couple of years ago there were memes floating around that made fun of 'climate change deniers'. It basically state that 'a few days, or years of cold temps' did not mean there was no climate issues. But now those same folks are pointing to the fires on the West coast as living proof of climate change brought about by man. I remember as a kid (I am in my 60's) that Cali went through cycles of drought, wild fires, then torrential rains and mud slides. And this has been going on longer than written history can show.
All animals are consumers. But humans are the ultimate consumer. Of course DiCaprio et al tell us that we need to stop consuming, but do not lead by example. Biden flies to give a speech to 18 people and flies back home. The social justice rioters burn cities, contributing to the green house gas and air pollution they say they despise. Years ago I made a comment at a research symposium that one day maybe would become smart enough to not burn our oil but use it in a more intelligent way. I had also said that maybe some day we would be smart enough to design nuclear plants that would not just be high tech water boilers and maybe figure out a way to generate electricity directly from the nuclear reaction. Unless the human population decreases dramatically, the consuming will continue at a huge pace. This consumption will lead to shortages, which will lead to a reduction in population.
Full electric transportation: What kind of electric grid and generating plants would be needed to support this? How much rare earth elements will it take to build all of the batteries for this to happen? Is there even enough known deposits of those minerals? Same goes for solar power replacing coal/oil/gas power plants. What about the environmental impact of mining all of those minerals? The impact of scores more power plants and their transmission lines? If wind and solar are the future, how does one store enough electricity to handle those days when the sun doesn't shine, or at night, and the wind does not blow? Battery farms on a square mile scale?
If you have gotten this far, thanks for reading. This was a rant in no particular order and not well thought out. Just from the top of my head. I am sure it is full of hole and those that are inclined will ask for references, which I won't bother to cite. Have a nice day.
