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Originally Posted by Ohio
The biggest farce about global warming is the Green New Deal. The Green Climate Cult is based on fear and superstition.
The US is now one of the cleanest countries. Compare our pollution levels to Russia and Asia. If fossil fuels were the source of the problem, then Siberia should be warmer than Greenland.
If the US could actually end the use of all fossil fuels, it would still have no effect on weather or climate.
God is in control. Read the Bible. He uses the weather to judge us, and to bring man to repentance.
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You make some valid points. It is reasonable to consider carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as "pollutants". If the US decreases its level of pollution that will have a very small impact on the total pollution of the world. Since the green new deal is not legislating for the entire world, it really is not a solution at all.
That said some of the other things you say don't make any sense to me at all. For example, the comment about Siberia should be warmer than Greenland. Doesn't make any sense. These gases mix with the atmosphere and change the amount of heat being held in Earth, not for any one specific location, but for Earth as a whole. It is like putting a blanket on bed, the more blankets, the warmer it gets for those under the covers. The entire Earth is under this blanket of gases.
Also, I don't get the relevance of God using the weather to judge people. Couldn't God use other things as well? Couldn't a car accident be used? Perhaps as a result we would realize you can't mix alcohol and driving, and so we would change laws. Perhaps from another we would realize that seat belts save lives, so we would make that a law. Perhaps people would realize that we have more people dying in car crashes than in the Vietnam war so we would make safety in cars a key issue (might change speed limits, create a safety rating, invent air bags, etc). So if God is judging us with a car crash the proper response is to change what you are doing to make cars safer. Likewise, if God is judging us with climate change it seems the proper response is to change what we are doing as well.