My favorite posts here are those that disagree with me!
Larry was not necessarily disagreeing with me in the general sense, just posting the response of others that do.
In the past, we've had some modest, respectful disagreements on how much weighting to give more powerful hurricanes(that we both agree are happening) in the overall picture of climate change and I can see his points.
Thanks very much, Larry! Please post my response to those that I was responding to.
As I mentioned last week, 1 reason that I don't spend X hours a day posting and responding on social media about Donald Trump or fake climate crisis stuff is that it's almost always a complete waste of time. People have already decided what they believe in the world of politics, like with MAGA religion. Climate science was hijacked and turned into NON science discussions and climate religion.
Again, that is NOT my view with regards to what WxFollower posts here on this or other topics and even if I felt that way, I would be still totally respectful in discussions with him, unlike some of the personal attacks that are aimed at "climate deniers" like me on social media.
In addition, there truly ARE climate deniers that insist that the increase of CO2 is not causing global warming and its NOT from humans emitting fossil fuels. Donald Trump is actually one of them based on some of the ignorant things he says about climate change, even though he has the right scientific policy because it lines up with his support for fossil fuels.
Donald Trump is doing it for fossil fuels NOT for authentic science. He doesn't really care about the environment or the planet. He wants fossil fuels...........no matter what.
Donald Trump mainly cares about what is good for Donald Trump and what will make him more powerful. It's just coincidental that the authentic science in this case lines up with his personal agenda.
There are a LOT of REAL deniers. In my response below, I made the distinction between them and my views crystal clear. Unfortunately, the strong tendency is to lump everybody that disagrees with a climate crisis into the same scientific category.
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By WxFollower - Feb. 15, 2026, 8:45 a.m.
Hey Mike,
Last night I quoted most of the 1st 1/2 of your 9:10 AM EST 2/13/26 post with 100% credit to you. Here was poster Charlie’s response:
Per Wikipedia the CO2 Coalition is a climate denial organization funded by fossil fuel interests. The CEO is a former head of the American Petroleum Institute. Sure plant life thrived when CO2 was higher but natural temperatures change occurred slowly which allowed accommodation through evolution. The idea that CO2 is plant food is climate denial myth. High temperature and intensification of precipitation counteract CO2 benefits on plant growth. The plants that thrived under higher CO2 were not the same plants in the same locations as today. For instance, If warming continues the Amazon rain forest and Boreal forests will transition to grasslands releasing large amounts of CO2. The same with animals, cold-blooded reptiles were favored in warmer times. Mammals were all small to shed heat. The bottom 2 links cover past mass extinction events. Notice how many where caused by episodes of volcanic activity that released CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/is-co2-plant-food-why-are-we-still
https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/10-mass-extinction-events-and-what-caused-them
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Response:
Re: Re: CO2 Finally Exonerated!
By metmike - Feb. 15, 2026, 11:32 a.m.