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Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

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Re: Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

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Post by hereme888 »

melling wrote: post #126
hereme888 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought my hinted answers were clear: the climate is always changing, hence the terminology is imprecise compared to the previous, specific "Global Warming". It fuels conspiracies. The science itself is difficult, and at times has been admittedly imprecise or biased. The overzealous politicians are given an alarmist presentation, and in turn propose exaggerated solutions that threaten current livelihoods. Instead o…

Which alarmism would you like to discuss? Can’t be vague if you want to address a problem. Another tendency is to complain about current policies without offering any solutions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmJvvqYgfUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jtg9qBq110

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgMagIqZNuA

I'm not a politician. I don't offer policies. But I did specify policies, based on policies that have been proposed, and some that are thankfully being implemented. But unreasonable people want extremist implementations, and go against reasonable policies.

I'm being as specific as it gets. Now, you can try keeping me on the defense, or give in and admit I've proved my point.

Re: Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

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Post by melling »

hereme888 wrote: post #131
melling wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which alarmism would you like to discuss? Can’t be vague if you want to address a problem. Another tendency is to complain about current policies without offering any solutions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmJvvqYgfUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jtg9qBq110 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgMagIqZNuA I'm not a politician. I don't offer policies. But I did specify policies, based on policies that have been proposed, and some that are thankfully being implemented. But unreasonable people want extremist implementations, and go against reasonable policies. I'm being as specific as it get…

You watch a lot of garbage.

The first video said nothing about climate change. (By the way DDT was banned.) The second started with Greta. I stopped immediately. None of it was science.

Chris Wallace interview did nothing. No gotcha moments there.

No wonder you have issues.

Keep it simple. Tell me what we have wrong about climate change and I’ll clear it up.

Re: Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

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Post by melling »

hereme888 wrote: post #73
melling wrote: post #48

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I’ve spent decades. They’re imbeciles! By the way, it’s still global warming but that was causing some confusion to some people because the weather locally might be cooler, warmer, wetter, dryer, etc. Hence, climate change seems to better convey what people actually see. Should we review what climate scientists actually said in the 1970s next? What’s your favorite anecdotal (ie non science) story you go to?

You think 90% of the world cares to follow what scientists said in the 1970's? All they care about is "They said 'global warming', but now some news report it's actually colder, and I've heard several scientists give presentations that it's all fake and not true. They just want to push their green agenda and are part of a conspiracy to [something]. And btw the earth is actually flat. All those satellite images are CG…

So, I got to the bottom of this. Someone watches a lot of “right wing “ alarmist garbage on the Internet then doubts everything. Mission accomplished.

Re: Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

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Post by ninalanyon »

t-writescode wrote: post #88
maldonad0 wrote: post #54

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Life is psychologically worse in the cities.

My sorrow and sadness from being in a place where I can't walk to go do things is substantially worse than places where I can. I can walk in cities.

Why can't you walk outside of cities? At least where I live and mostly travel, northern Europe, walking outside of cities is easy.

Re: Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

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Post by hereme888 »

melling wrote: post #132
hereme888 wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmJvvqYgfUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jtg9qBq110 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgMagIqZNuA I'm not a politician. I don't offer policies. But I did specify policies, based on policies that have been proposed, and some that are thankfully being implemented. But unreasonable people want extremist implementations, and go against reasonable policies. I'm being as specific as it get…

You watch a lot of garbage. The first video said nothing about climate change. (By the way DDT was banned.) The second started with Greta. I stopped immediately. None of it was science. Chris Wallace interview did nothing. No gotcha moments there. No wonder you have issues. Keep it simple. Tell me what we have wrong about climate change and I’ll clear it up.

We? Are you a climate scientist?

Those are not videos I watch, but they are viral videos watched by people who want to believe that information. You need to start following what I'm actually saying. Another direct piece of evidence for what I very, very clearly stated. This will be my last reply because I've answered you directly and to the point, and you keep deflecting with some irrelevant rabbit trail.

Re: Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

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Post by melling »

hereme888 wrote: post #135
melling wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You watch a lot of garbage. The first video said nothing about climate change. (By the way DDT was banned.) The second started with Greta. I stopped immediately. None of it was science. Chris Wallace interview did nothing. No gotcha moments there. No wonder you have issues. Keep it simple. Tell me what we have wrong about climate change and I’ll clear it up.

We? Are you a climate scientist? Those are not videos I watch, but they are viral videos watched by people who want to believe that information. You need to start following what I'm actually saying. Another direct piece of evidence for what I very, very clearly stated. This will be my last reply because I've answered you directly and to the point, and you keep deflecting with some irrelevant rabbit trail.

I’m not a climate scientist but I’ve answered thousands of imbeciles. They have very limited range, as one would expect. I could do this in my sleep.

Re: Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

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Post by ajkjk »

lazide wrote: post #29
ajkjk wrote: post #5

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Well studies like this are often directed at policymakers, who actually can do something about it.

Policy makers generally only give a damn if someone else makes them - or they get something from it.

That's the cynical take, but as far as I can tell it is far from universally true. You just hear about all the bad cases. Not to mention, the the way it pulls on policy can be much more subtle than getting bills passed.

Re: Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk

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Post by hopelite »

flouridist wrote: post #55
hopelite wrote: post #36

Why do they show a picture of polluted India with people wearing masks and have some kind of skin thing going on, and then go on to show a heat map of PM2.5 rates across the USA, where the most polluted areas are nowhere near as polluted as non-western cities/countries [1]. Why do we never talk about the fact that the post polluted areas are not at all in the European civilization block, i.e., they are Bangladesh, Pa…

> This all just seems like gaslighting lies, manipulation, and abuse. The countries you give all have less than half and usually less than a third the percentage of people over 65.

That is simply not a good argument. Any number of things could even explain that is it were true, starting with the most basic and obvious math problem; the fact that their reproductive rates are way higher so any percentage of older people will invariably be far lower.

Have you ever asked yourself why you make such irrational excuses?

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