Well with receding glaciers and disappearing sea ice, something is happening wether we agree on it or not. pulitzercenter.org/stories/ice-us-alaska...mise-arctic-ice-pack
Thanks uarnkjj
The nay sayers will beat one down with the minutae of graphs and charts but it's difficult to refute the disappearing glaciers. We can see these with our own eyes in the Rockies out west in Alberta and BC and we hear from those up in Hudson Bay and the far North about the ice coming later and going earlier. We know about acid rain from industrial smokestacks in the 70s and 80s and we don't doubt it. We know that if you put crap into the atmosphere it will likely have an impact somewhere. I've seen the dead lakes in northern Ontario.
But many of us are blind to what comes out of our exhaust pipes. A few years back I downsized to a Toyota Corolla which gives me a pretty economical 6.2 litres /100km. At almost 8000 km last year that works out to about 1,000kg of CO2 produced - any any youngster doing high school chemistry could do that math easily. Some people claim that CO2 is not impacting climate or global warming but really I find the CO2 numbers frightening when I consider that last year saw 40 billion litres of gasoline sold in Canada with each litre generating just over 2kg of CO2 . And thats just Canada with a lower (I think) population than California !
I find it hard to believe the nay sayers and so have no problem agreeing with the majority of the trained, qualified scientists who publish peer reviewed papers rather that the minority and the fringe websites. And no I don't believe in conspiracies either.
Would I buy and EV? Sure I would/will but not until they become affordable. Plus a bit more range would be nice. In the meantime the demand for EVs will grow but I'm not stressing about lack of available ICE cars. Many of those ICE vehicles being produced today will still be on the roads in 20 years. They are not done yet.