<story><title>Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/notes/arnold-schwarzenegger/i-dont-give-a-if-we-agree-about-climate-change/10153855713574658</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Can you explain your lack of belief when 97% of climate scientists (there&amp;#x27;s conflicting data on this; some reports show as high as 99%) agree that human activity is causing global warming?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: That&amp;#x27;s not rhetorical. I&amp;#x27;ll entertain any logical reasoning you have as to why your reasoning is superior to those educated and practicing the subject daily.</text></item><item><author>steven2012</author><text>I absolutely don&amp;#x27;t believe that human-created CO2 emissions cause global warming.  However, I consider myself a staunch environmentalist.&lt;p&gt;I believe we should be doing whatever we can to control pollution.  It sickens me that factories pump out pollution, that we can barely eat fish anymore because of all the garbage and poisons we pump into our oceans.  I think we need very strict controls on every form of pollution as well as garbage and creating plastic waste (including microplastic particles in our oceans), although I do believe CO2 pollution is on the bottom of the scale in terms of importance.  I believe that fines for factories that pollute the environment should be material, ie. very heavy relative to yearly revenues.  Personally, I do my best to ensure that I create as little waste as possible, and that I do my part in terms of recycling, composting, etc.&lt;p&gt;So I consider myself an environmentalist, I just don&amp;#x27;t believe that global warming is caused by human activity, and CO2 pollution is the least critical of the pollutions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OniBait</author><text>I thought the 97% of climate scientists claim (based on Cook et al) was shown to be a really flawed study.
In any event, Consensus does not equal science.&lt;p&gt;I think given the broad definition of &amp;quot;human activity is causing global warming&amp;quot;, you&amp;#x27;d be hard pressed to find disagreement. If you refine it to &amp;quot;human activity is causing a majority of global warming and that warming is bad&amp;quot; there is a lot less agreement.</text></comment>
<story><title>Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/notes/arnold-schwarzenegger/i-dont-give-a-if-we-agree-about-climate-change/10153855713574658</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Can you explain your lack of belief when 97% of climate scientists (there&amp;#x27;s conflicting data on this; some reports show as high as 99%) agree that human activity is causing global warming?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: That&amp;#x27;s not rhetorical. I&amp;#x27;ll entertain any logical reasoning you have as to why your reasoning is superior to those educated and practicing the subject daily.</text></item><item><author>steven2012</author><text>I absolutely don&amp;#x27;t believe that human-created CO2 emissions cause global warming.  However, I consider myself a staunch environmentalist.&lt;p&gt;I believe we should be doing whatever we can to control pollution.  It sickens me that factories pump out pollution, that we can barely eat fish anymore because of all the garbage and poisons we pump into our oceans.  I think we need very strict controls on every form of pollution as well as garbage and creating plastic waste (including microplastic particles in our oceans), although I do believe CO2 pollution is on the bottom of the scale in terms of importance.  I believe that fines for factories that pollute the environment should be material, ie. very heavy relative to yearly revenues.  Personally, I do my best to ensure that I create as little waste as possible, and that I do my part in terms of recycling, composting, etc.&lt;p&gt;So I consider myself an environmentalist, I just don&amp;#x27;t believe that global warming is caused by human activity, and CO2 pollution is the least critical of the pollutions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>metamet</author><text>Maybe they forgot a keyword? It certainly isn&amp;#x27;t the &lt;i&gt;sole&lt;/i&gt; cause of global warming&amp;#x2F;climate change, but it is real.&lt;p&gt;CO2 in the atmosphere--what&amp;#x27;s historically known as the greenhouse effect--leads to earth&amp;#x27;s warming. CO2 emissions are also undeniably connected to the the greenhouse effect, which we clearly have a role to play in. That&amp;#x27;s science that no one disputes.&lt;p&gt;But somehow people come out of the woodwork as climate change denialists.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t really make sense unless seen through a political lens, since politics is antithetical to science in a lot of ways.</text></comment>