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Stand Up For Global Warming Ignorance

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Coal electric factory Why do people oppose the Global Warming warnings?

They are just scared. Scared of changing their life, scared of big changes. They need to give up big shiny SUVs, drive smaller cars (a lot of them think that SUVs are safer - a big misconception). They need to probe new vehicles like electric ones (spooky!).

Yes, electric vehicles are a bit expensive for mainstream, but only because companies who produce them want quicker return on investment, that’s it. The electric guts (engine, converter plus batteries) can be bought for about $10,000 at market price (not even wholesale, which will be about 30% less), the rest will be for car body, tires, etc. An electric vehicle can do about 250 miles one one charge, which is an average for a gasoline one. Add to your car a small solar panel, and you can recharge your vehicle on the go. Add a small generator and you can recharge car batteries while moving - all simple ideas to implement if you are an engineer, or a car mechanic.

The scared and ignorant people tend to use any possible solution, even creating a movie (”The Great Global Warming Swindle”) that showing that the Global Warming is a myth… A movie by a person who has nothing to do with science, but claiming his point of view as a scientific one… Yes, Mr. Global-Warming-Does-Not-Exist, I’m talking to you! Your movie just created a wave of protests among scientists around the world, think about that - would scientists stand against a valid point?

The funny bottom line is that movie claims that the reason of climate change is volcanic emissions… How many active volcanoes do we have? What’s their emission rate and what is the combined emission rate of coal plants, locomotives and the cars? Go do your math and dont waste money for a movie that may comfort someone for 3-5 years until the Polar Ice will melt completely. Better spend those money for children in Africa…

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