“guess how many times he mentions the benefits of fossil fuels?” – Alex Epstein on Michael Knowles

“Fossil fuels have stopped hunger. And Michael Mann, our designated expert cannot talk about one benefit. So, he is a fossil fuel benefit denier”

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[jameswhiteman]

Haha comments here are crazy. This man is trying to break down the simplest concept and *still* y'all have an aneurysm

[paulflute]

"benefit denier" thank you.. brilliant.. the perfect throw back..

[lottaniklas]

Gaslighting. Why are the benefits relevant when we have better alternatives that doesn't destroy the planet. Green electricity is the obvious way to go.

[hiroobidoo]

Calling it „fossil fuels“ alone is already quite dumb.

[ethanb]

Alex Epstein during the civil war: “why are none of these abolitionists willing to mention how beneficial this whole slavery thing can be?”

[seanwhitehall]

Nobody is denying the benefits/uses of fossil fuels, we all understand them but there are side effects. On the other hand I'm glad to so a pro vaccine argument come from the political right.

[bobbresnahan]

Oh yes, Michael Mann is the chief author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's major papers. He's honored by his peers, the top climate scientists in the world. He's also well-known for being very even-handed in his assessments.

[movinbutnotshakin]

Alex Exxon fails to imagine a future where hunger is gone and his own kids don't have to breathe the carcinogenic exhaust of cars and factories.

[Cspacecat]

[1]Let's first look at this from the incoming light. The Sun, with an effective temperature of approximately 5800 K, is an approximate black body with an emission spectrum peaked in the central, yellow-green part of the visible spectrum. Of that, about 55% of incoming sunlight to Earth is infrared photons. They strike the Earth and are reradiated back out into the atmosphere. The other 45% is white light and of that, about 30% is reflected which is what you would see if you were to look at the Earth from outer space. That should leave about 31.5% of the total light being white, to strike the Earth, absorbed, and then reradiated in the Earth's black body 255k infrared range back into the atmosphere. That would mean 55% infrared photons coming in and 86.5% total infrared photons going out. As we increase secondary greenhouse gases, CO2, CH4, O3, N2O, CFCs, and HCFCs, in the atmosphere, we block more incoming infrared photons, slightly cooling down the planet's surface. In addition, some incoming infrared light is converted into kinetic energy raising the atmospheric temperature by the greenhouse gases before reaching the planet. Being there are more outgoing infrared photons than incoming, as we increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, we should trap more outgoing infrared photons than reflecting incoming photons. That being said, all things being equal, on the mean, the planet must heat.

[justinzak]

Level 15 conflation rhetoric. Sponsored by? Shell, BP, Exxon?