Weather Channel founder calls Global Warming "a scam."

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Does it mean, stop driving?

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I have greatly reduced the amount of driving I do. I walk two miles to work and two miles home from work.

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Does it mean, stop using plastics?

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I try to buy new plastic as little as possible, and I try to make sure it is recycleable if I do.

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Does it mean, start recycling?

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I have been living in areas that recycle for a long time, and it doesn't just matter for climate change. It matters for land fills and simply reducing the amount of non-biodegradeable waste that has to be dealt with somehow. I've lived close to a city dump and it is not very nice, believe me.

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Does it mean knitting your own grocery bags so as to not use paper or plastic bags?

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Haha, I have just bought some linen yarn to do just that, actually. Of course, you can also buy cloth or canvas bags. It saves money and reduces the amount of waste we have to put somewhere.

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Does it mean, shut down factories?

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It means to require companies to improve factories if they can, or build new ones if they can't. I would support giving businesses incentives to improve the cleanness of their operations, simply to make them pollute less. I don't like living in pollution.

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Does it mean, boycott fossil fuels?

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Fossil fuels (haha, you called them fossil fuels, even though you don't believe in Evolution. Whoopsie!) are a finite resource that will run out, regardless of the impact that burning them has on the atmosphere. Also, our dependence upon them is what leads us to have to be best buddies with disgusting oppressive regimes like Saudi Arabia. Edited by nator, : No reason given.

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Then, for one possibility, we are unnecessarily hindering our technological advancements in the effort to mitigate an effect that is negligible.

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I thought that some of the biggest polluters, at least for energy, were the old, inefficient coal-burning power plants, though.I mean, what technological advancements do you believe would be hindered by using efficient power? what industries would be affected?

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But politicians, at least in Britain, are all too happy to use Global Warming as the perfect excuse to raise more taxes!

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I'd be happy to pay more taxes if it meant that they'd be used well.