How did that work out for them?

http://www.france24.com/en/20150701-...mer-guidelines

The French are wussies. We have 100 degree heat here every year for two months at a time. No one dies except the stoopids and tourists.

Yah, I don't know how it worked. The 15,000 to 19,000 deaths may have been before they put the measures in place. Maybe they'll be ready to react next time??? I really don't know.

The global cooling thing is mostly about one article in Newsweek from 1975 that the author refers to now as over-enthusiastic and based on the opinions of "several" experts as opposed to the near total consensus there is now about warming.

http://www.newsweek.com/newsweek-rew...cooling-252326

France to sell only hybrid and electric cars by 2040

As the article notes, this is less ambitious than goals set by Norway (2025) and India (2030), but a step in the right direction!

Similarly, Volvo announced yesterday that starting in 2019 all their new cars will be hybrid or electric.

The largest iceberg ever recorded just broke off in Antarctica. It's a trillion tons and the size of Delaware.

Happens all the time. This one is a little bit large - but if you think the Earth is homeostatic, I have a bridge to sell you.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/envir...icious-n782231

More bad investments by the Europeans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17xh_VRrnMU

This one particular event can't be directly tied to anthropogenic global warming is the battle cry of a bunch of reactionary fools.

Some extreme idiots still say something like "Chinese hoax" but most have backpeddled to the above, "wait for geoengineering", and "conservation and renewables cost more than adjusting to warming. "

Are you kidding? Have you missed "the drought is Global Warming, the flood is Global Warming, the war in Syria is Global Warming". Don't give me this non-sense.

As for hoaxes, we now know that the Paris Climate accords were at least a hoax. Paris wouldn't have made a difference to anything, just a way to centralize economic engineering. I'm glad Trump told them to take a hike.

Step up scientists - time to debate your positions:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN19W2D0

This is just like with solar only electric cars are several years behind. So, I don't really worry about the reactionary nonsense. ICEs for passenger vehicles will be replaced and the adoption curve will get steep. Market growth will drive prices down quickly. It's unstoppable thank goodness, I just wish we'd hurry it even more like the euros. California is aight though.

You're not bright enough to realize that what you said didn't contradict me at all. I didn't say or imply that some people don't attribute the cause of specific events to global warming when they shouldn't. In fact I implied the opposite. The point though is that that argument is not the correct one. On a poker forum one shouldn't have to explain how having fewer outs puts you in a worse position even if it doesn't tell you what card is coming on the river.

And my understanding is that Paris let countries determine their own plan, so the sovereignty fear mongering seems unfounded. Global pollution issues need international cooperation.

Developing all forms of energy and not damaging economies for non-demonstrable gain is the "developing more outs" strategy.

If only that were the real policy of the party of the Koch Brothers.

Can't wait til the televised debates on evolution. Coming soon, I'm sure.

Science is boring....isn't the conundrum the same? Basically waiting until clean energy becomes economically viable? But what about robots?

Long term solar contracts are coming in under 3 cents a kwh.

I don't think anyone is trying to set economic policy based on evolution, nor does evolution try to predict anything.

I'll concede though - Climate Scientists are just as dogmatic as Creationists.

Viva La Richard Lindzen!!!

Without government subsidies? Can you link to something recent, can't seem to find this number - my GoogleFu is lacking.

Of course, solar doesn't work everywhere either.

https://www.tep.com/news/tep-to-powe...lly-low-price/

Solar works everywhere the sun shines. In a place like New York it effectively costs about 50% more than in a place like Arizona.

How Does Mercury Get Into Fish?

How about less mercury in our food as a gain.

Do you know what the largest contributor to Anthropogenic Mercury Emissions are?

https://www.epa.gov/international-co...global-context

Do you know what's going to make solar panels more efficient in the future:

https://www.mgsrefining.com/blog/pos...ar-Panels.aspx

Did you also notice that mercury emissions are naturally occurring as well:
"Natural sources of mercury include volcanic eruptions and emissions from the ocean. Anthropogenic (human-caused) emissions include mercury that is released from fuels or raw materials, or from uses in products or industrial processes."

Please eat tuna every day.

You should tell that to the Germans:
http://www.rp-online.de/wirtschaft/u...-aid-1.6636489