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When do we declare DEFCON 1? We need to be on a war footing now!

As others have pointed out, this is just an overreaction and bad science.

As a thought experiment, consider the level of mass panic and hysteria if the dust bowl happened to occur in this century rather than in 1930.

It's important that we ween ourselves off fossil fuels, but the panic about some kind of impending climate catastrophe is not science based.

I disagree about oil and NG,LNG. We need more of that. Cheap energy is better for the world than anything else. You would decimate the world if we move off carbon fuels. fyi oil is not made from fossils or decaying matter. No evidence of that at all.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Treibs&Chlorophyll...

On the right is a chlorophyll molecule. On the left is a molecule found in oil shale. Their structure is far too similar to be coincidence.

You fell for a distration. The origin doesn't really matter, that happened long ago, that ship has sailed. What matters is that burning oil releases large amounts of CO₂ and that disrupts the climate.

> fyi oil is not made from fossils or decaying matter. No evidence of that at all.

What is oil made from?

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