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> The earth's magnetic field is decaying at an exponential rate as the poles shift.

Got any scientific sources for that claim?

> I believe we've spent far too much time worrying about CO2 and not nearly enough worrying about the dangers from our sun.

Other than hardening our power grid to the effects of solar storms, what exactly could we do WRT the sun and the magnetic field?

Also, given our serious lack of progress on climate change targets and the glacial pace (pun intended) at which it has been accepted as 1) real and 2) anthropogenic, I think saying 'too much time' is inaccurate.

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I wonder what you (or any of us) would like to say to N. J. Ayuk, Executive Chairman at the African Energy Chamber:- (his words, not mine)

“Africans don’t hate Oil and Gas companies. We love Oil and today we love gas even more because we know gas will give us a chance to industrialize. No country has ever been developed by fancy wind and green hydrogen. Africans see Oil and Gas as a path to success and a solution to their problems. The demonization of oil and gas companies will not work.”

and this is very far from an isolated opinion in the developing world. Given the amount of Western human capital applied to reducing dependence on fossil fuel it's a somewhat sobering experience to take a look at the Mauna Loa CO2 rate of increase. Can you see any significant decrease in recent years. I can't.

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

1) go to perplexity.ai

2) type in "Is the earth's magnetic field weakening?"

3) read the summary and click the sources if you don't believe it.

Read this about your CO2. The CO2 in our atmosphere is already at a concentration where the narrow band of wavelengths CO2 absorbs is fully saturated. This means more CO2 isn't going to cause more warming, because there is no more light in its opaque wavelengths to absorb. Also the pattern of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere vs surface temperature does not indicated that CO2 causes warming, but that CO2 levels rise after warming has already occurred. Policy around CO2 is hindering human progress and has caused massive economic damage. The models were all wrong, and this paper explains the reason.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266649682...

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