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Scientists: Petrol Pumps Should Carry Cigarette-Style Climate Change Warning Labels
Breitbart.com ^ | 4/1/2020 | Victoria Friedman

Posted on 04/01/2020 12:25:44 PM PDT by rktman

Petrol pumps in Britain should carry climate change warning labels akin to the legally-mandated health warnings on cigarette packages, a group of scientists have said.

In a blog post for the British Medical Journal (BMJ), British, American, and Indian professionals from within healthcare and environmental studies have claimed that petrol pumps, airline tickets, and even energy bills should come with “warning labels” which “state clearly that continuing to burn fossil fuels worsens the climate emergency”.

The opinion piece, published on Tuesday, draws parallels to the gory pictures of blackened lungs or rotten teeth now displayed on cigarette packages, implying that a similar tactic should be employed at “points of sale of fossil fuels”. The piece suggests that if petrol pumps and gas bills similarly use graphic imagery, “these warnings can change attitudes and behaviour”, consigning driving petrol cars and keeping one’s house at a comfortable temperature to the realms of other socially unacceptable addictions.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climageddon; ecowankers; gorons
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To: GoldenPup

Maybe all citizens 21 and under should be banned from driving gas engine cars and the age should go up one year every year. That would cause the younger generation to stop reliance on car transportation if that is what they want.


21 posted on 04/01/2020 12:39:47 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: rktman
"scientist" is a grossly misused word. There is no actual definition of the qualifications required to be a scientist. I have an advanced degree in biochemistry, so I'd consider myself a scientist, and as a scientist I say this anthropogenic global warming stuff consists of flawed (in many cases deliberately) models, total lack of the basic tenant of science that the hypothesis should be shaped to fit the observations not the observations changed to fit the hypothesis, and downright lies designed to give socialists more control over our daily lives.

So scientifically speaking, IT'S ALL BULLSH!T.

22 posted on 04/01/2020 12:47:41 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: rktman

Uh, there is NO climate emergency....sorry.


23 posted on 04/01/2020 12:48:07 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: rktman

Then all home charger ports and most public charger ports should ad well, as they are using coal and ng plants to produce their electricity.


24 posted on 04/01/2020 12:52:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rktman

Just can’t give up the narrative, can they?

Anthropogenic global warming is a MYTH, fed by “studies” that apply projections and assumptions not supported either by logic or by an even remotely reliable source of data.

Carbon dioxide, the compound to which these dilettantes try to attribute to an accumulation of latent heat in the atmosphere and the hydrosphere, simply is not capable of being that change agent. In the first place, its concentration is far too low to affect heat accumulation or loss by any measurable standards. And secondly, as “greenhouse gases” go, the concentration of water vapor, a MUCH more potent agent of heat exchange capability, is from thirty to a coupe of hundred times as concentrated at any given time, as carbon dioxide.

Plus, the water molecule, H2O, has a unique quality of being able to exist in three different states of matter at one time, as a solid (ice), as liquid water, and as water vapor gas, at the so-called “triple point” under terrestrial atmospheric conditions, defined as 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Centigrade. There is a whole body of physics and chemistry study out there relating to this unique capability of the water molecule, and it is one of the most powerful of all the atmospheric constituents in regulating weather and meteorological phenomenon.

REAL science is never settled.


25 posted on 04/01/2020 12:53:33 PM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: rktman

These “scientists” should all be marched in front of a firing squad!


26 posted on 04/01/2020 12:55:39 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (I'm triggered by liberals and other assorted moonbats.)
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To: rktman

I. Will. Deface. Them.


27 posted on 04/01/2020 12:57:08 PM PDT by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

...not just “marched in front of”.


28 posted on 04/01/2020 12:58:30 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: rktman

People with PhD in Science degrees should be required to wear jester hats with bells.

Even in the shower, to remind them of how serious they are.


29 posted on 04/01/2020 1:03:39 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Bob434

Research paid for by taxpayers, no doubt.


30 posted on 04/01/2020 1:11:05 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Just thought I’d drop this in :

Uk power production Live data.
As of 21:09 GMT 01,04,2020:

Coal 2%
Gas 49%
Wind 16%
Nuclear 14%
Pumped water 2%
Hydro. 2%
Imported from France 6%


31 posted on 04/01/2020 1:12:21 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Life really does begin at forty. Until then, you are just doing research.)
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To: rktman

From the BB =>

New Law Requires You To Listen To Greta Thunberg Lecture Before Purchasing Gasoline

U.S.—A series of new bills working their way through state legislatures in New York, California, Oregon, Hawaii, and several other progressive states will require you to listen to a Greta Thunberg lecture before purchasing gasoline.

Motorists will be required to watch a 20-minute lecture by the 16-year-old climate activist before they purchase gallons and gallons of harmful fossil fuels.

https://babylonbee.com/news/new-law-would-force-drivers-to-listen-to-greta-thunberg-lecture-before-filling-up-their-cars


32 posted on 04/01/2020 1:16:57 PM PDT by Ken H (Best SOTU ever!)
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To: rktman

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
By C.S. Lewis


33 posted on 04/01/2020 1:29:48 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Any "scientist" who says so should be required to wear a B***S**** warning on his or her face.

34 posted on 04/01/2020 1:48:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: rktman

I’d say OK — I’d trade that warning label for this one, to be placed on all college websites:

“Attendance at this institution will most likely cost you your ability to discern fact from fiction, plus an arm and a leg.”


35 posted on 04/01/2020 1:50:02 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: rktman

‘In a blog post for the British Medical Journal (BMJ), British, American, and Indian professionals from within healthcare and environmental studies have claimed that petrol pumps, airline tickets, and even energy bills should come with “warning labels” which “state clearly that continuing to burn fossil fuels worsens the climate emergency”.’

Oh great. The next thing to be banned will be farting under penality of death and I’ll be a goner.


36 posted on 04/01/2020 2:01:18 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (uff)
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To: rktman; All

The warning labels would be wrong. There is no such thing as a fossil fuel.


37 posted on 04/01/2020 2:11:40 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: rktman

Label should read as follow: ‘Morons posing as scientists, like that moron Bill Nye, believe that you living as a modern human will cause you to kill the planet, which real scientists, who study the earth, will tell you that the sun has more affect on the planet than you.’


38 posted on 04/01/2020 2:12:03 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: rktman

The global economy is imploding and there are still idiots out there blathering on about climate change.........


39 posted on 04/01/2020 2:16:59 PM PDT by wny
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To: rktman
Scientists: Petrol Pumps Should Carry Cigarette-Style Climate Change Warning Labels

So should each "scientist" on their backs!They do more damage than faulty ignition systems or leaky mufflers.

40 posted on 04/01/2020 2:24:26 PM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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