Hey is it not time to actually have a conversation on climate change? Or is the term global warming? Matters not for something is on the horizon and we are sticking our heads in the sand and hoping it will all go away…..
Hint: IT WON’T!
The word is out and it does not look too promising…..
“The planet warmed more than we thought. It was hidden from us just because we didn’t sample it right. But it was there. It was in the ocean already.”
Offering a stark warning that humanity may have even less time to drastically cut carbon emissions than the United Nations suggested in its latest alarming report on the climate crisis, new research (pdf) published in the journal Nature on Wednesday shows that Earth’s oceans have retained 60 percent more heat each year over the past 25 years than scientists previously believed.
“We thought that we got away with not a lot of warming in both the ocean and the atmosphere for the amount of CO2 that we emitted. But we were wrong,” Laure Resplandy, a geoscientist at Princeton University who led the new study, told the Washington Post. “The planet warmed more than we thought. It was hidden from us just because we didn’t sample it right. But it was there. It was in the ocean already.”
Don’t believe a word of the new study! But instead take the word of some jack wad that gets his money from the industries causing the world’s problems for we would not want these greed turds to lose any money now do we?
The so-called “Doom and Gloom” continues (maybe it is time to listen)…..https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/eco-crises-doom-gloom-truth-consequences/
The biggest threat is the threat of drought……these seem to be expanding yearly…..a bad drought will expand the hunger and the famines……
The most hazardous global warming risk for society at large is widespread loss of grain production because of a synchronized worldwide drought. It would be a colossal killer. It’s happened before, known as The Great Drought 142 years ago.
Unmistakably, droughts feed off global warming and world temps are heading up, not down. Thus, droughts are intensified by temperature increases. If the same conditions as the drought of 1876 recurs, it would likely be a nightmarish scenario.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/26/the-great-drought/
For a couple of decades the world’s population has looked the other way when the subject of climate change is mentioned…..America’s are some of the worse…
Finally the population has decided that they cannot sleep there way to a cleaner safer world…..civil disobedience, environmental disobedience will return to the world stage……appears the UK may well lead the world in this new found empowerment…..a Declaration Of Rebellion (has a nice ring to it)…..
To underscore the planetary emergency and denounce the U.K. government’s inaction on the climate crisis, a new group calling itself Extinction Rebellion rallied over 1,000 people to block Parliament Square in London on Wednesday. The direct action marks the launch of a mass civil disobedience campaign, with the group issuing a “Declaration of Rebellion” against the government because the activists “refuse to bequeath a dying planet to future generations by failing to act now.”
May we finally have some progress on saving this world before we go out looking for another one to screw up.
QAPLA!
After writing this draft I read another silly theory……
Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has chosen a new foreign minister who believes climate change is part of a plot by “cultural Marxists” to stifle western economies and promote the growth of China.
Ernesto Araujo – until now a mid-ranking official who blogs about the “criminalisation” of red meat, oil and heterosexual sex – will become the top diplomat of South America’s biggest nation, representing 200 million people and the greatest and most biodiverse forest on Earth, the Amazon.
I cannot wait to see how long it takes for the dullards on the Right, the Trumpian Right, to get on board with this silliness.
Any bets?
I appreciate that most people have grandchildren to worry about, but I do think it might be time to just accept that humans have messed up the planet beyond repair. Perhaps it is time for nature to reclaim it, and for humans to just die out gradually. I doubt any remedial measures will work this late in the day. Even the ‘Green’ protesters are using phones and media to promote their message, and transport to get to the demonstrations. It strikes me that climate change protest depends just as heavily on consuming electricity and resources, and leaving a carbon footprint behind.
Best wishes, Pete.
I am beginning to agree….the more I listen and read the more I think it is time for most humans to just go the way of the do-do….chuq
Nothing will be done until the panic stage is reached and by that time it will be too late.
Kinda like what is happening now, huh? chuq
kinda like
Thanx for the link John…I appreciate your help….chuq
I’m sure you’ve seen this, but just wanted to make certain…..
https://www.stripes.com/two-navy-seals-two-marines-charged-in-green-beret-s-death-in-mali-1.556736?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Stars+and+Stripes+Emails&utm_campaign=Weekly+Update
Yes and thank you…I have been writing for my closing thought…I appreciate the help….chuq
There may be a few survivors in our of the way places. High on the Andes, Tibet, in the far North or a few more places where people live as hunter gatherers or in other ways not dependent on technology.
We will not be around to find out.
Learning to survive…..that does not include Facebook, right? LOL chuq