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Originally Posted by HighwayStar
For the record folks.. I certainly do believe that climate change is mostly real
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Firstly, there's no "believe" in climate change. This is like saying you believe in gravity. You either accept the science or you don't.
Next, it really does not seem that you accept or even understand the science when you start talking about how California has always had fires and Houston has always had floods. You quite simply don't seem to get the link between climate change and weather phenomena (notably severity and frequency). Insurance companies are directly attributing the events you mentioned to climate change. Yet, apparently somebody with no real money on the line knows better?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-...nsurers-cancel-policies-because-of-risk/
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-harvey-climate-change-20170829-story.html
If anybody wants a great read on how some of this is playing out in real time, look at Florida and its real estate market and the havoc insurance is playing there:
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2017/04/20/448504.htm
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Originally Posted by HighwayStar
My problem with going "all-in" remains that the raw hypocrisy of Climate Change advocates ( Canada sending 300+ people (!!!) to the Paris accord, a PM who preaches climate change is bad.. yet does nothing substantial, either personally or leadership-wise to address the issue other than raise taxes, celebs jetting in for protests, etc). I can't help but be suspicious that the "lets make money out of this" people have a little too much control.
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Ah yes. The new tactic. "I'm not a denier. I'm just opposed to do anything about it because of << insert red herring here. >>"
Ironically, the federal Liberals have put out one of the most revenue neutral carbon pricing schemes in the world. This is about as close as it gets to what any conservative economist would suggest on tackling climate change. And yet here we are still dealing with complaints. The only alternative to the Liberal plan would literally be doing nothing. Which is what I suspect folks like you really want.
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Originally Posted by acottawa
The most significant contributor to climate change under the purview of the city is sprawl. If the city put more effort into curtailing sprawl this declaration might be a less vacuous and meaningless gesture.
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Absolutely. It's disgusting how much sprawl has been allowed. Not just in Ottawa. But in cities throughout this country. And it's particularly egregious when most of Ottawa inside the greenbelt is pretty damn suburban by any definition that does not come from an Ottawan living in Kanata or Orleans.
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