Well said, sir. Logic, reason, and truth are beautiful things. Even if they are "inconvenient" truths.
Did you catch what I did, in the article at the start of this thread? If one actually reads that article, it says right in the article that the erosion was caused by oil and logging companies cutting channels. And then, hurricanes.
Hurricanes are normal and not climate change.
Something that is caused by loggers cutting channels -- is not "climate change."
But HUD can just give a resettlement grant, and call it "climate change" -- yet it does not address what actually caused the erosion.
Housing and Urban Development gave a "climate change" grant -- the fact a grant was awarded, does not in and of itself, prove effects from climate change.
It's like -- the way to get something funded, is to just put a popular name on it. Want to get Republicans to pass a bill? Call it "The Biggest Patriot in the World Freedom Act."
Want Democrats to pass a bill? Call it "Climate Change Resettlement Act."
Is the former really related to freedom? Is the latter really related to climate change? Not necessarily.
P.S. I do agree with climate change though, it's just that I don't think it should be used to pass a whole bunch of other things that's got nothing to do with AGW. It's just people putting "climate change" label on stuff, to get funding.
Personally I'm not a AGW denier -- but I'm not going to drink the entire climate change group koolaid about it, either. I think it may actually all work out -- I saw an article recently that said there's been a global boom in plant growth in the last fifteen years. Isn't that a good thing? Weren't we all worried about the rain forests and deforestation, in the 80s?
Well, thank goodness for the climate change, it's helping the rain forests. And Florida doesn't even have any hurricanes anymore, which is weird, but nice.
I dunno, maybe this stuff works out.
Look at this thread -- people are so off the rails about "climate change," that they think it's odd there's condos on Miami Beach.
There's been condos on Miami beach for the last fifty years. And the beach is still there.
If a person ran around all the coastlines of florida, yelling about "the water's coming, it's gonna swamp your condos" -- it would take a lifetime. Because that's how much coastline florida has, and how many condos it has.