Senate Global Climate Change

Of course you sourced to a group funded by Exxon-Mobile to sow skepticism.

 

See, the right wing evil need to come up with new names. "Spark Of Freedom"? I saw that a mile away.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u...clash-with-trump/ar-BBQ15N0?OCID=ansmsnnews11

it's worst then we thought

 

Too late to change anything. The world will eventually look like “Interstellar”, just without hyper advanced multidimensional humans from the future coming to rescue us.

 

The Fourth National Climate Change Assesssment definitely represents a trend toward acknowledging the inevitability of significant anthropogenic climate change and focusing attention on the regions and demographics of people that will be most affected and advocating for the support of adaptation strategies.

Maybe Americans will finally exit the pointless gerbil wheel of either pretending the problem does not exist or pretending that there is a viable global strategy for mitigation. There isn't. The great global industrial and consumer engines are too vested in mutually assured destruction. The best case scenario is global aid strategies to help those who will be hurt first and hurt most. We're on this ride, and there's only one way off.

 

Death ☠️.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/climate/ocean-warming-climate-change.html

Every year producing record warming of the oceans. 22 million tons of atmospheric CO2 absorbed into the ocean every day. Ocean ecosystems are being run through a blender with very sharp blades. This was already happening as the result of pollution and overfishing, but on top of that climate change/ocean acidification will radically alter marine life all the way through the food chain that ends in humans' stomachs, vastly complicating the always immediate problem of feeding all 8 or more billion humans after this process destroys what few coral reefs now remain and drives almost all shell-bearing sea life to extinction.

 

Not to worry. Futurists have already decided that we will eat fried bugs and maggots.

 

my bet is we only fry them at first, until we acquire the taste.

 

Of course. We’ll run out of palm oil.

 

“But how can Global Warming be a thing if it’s so cold outside amirite guys up top.”

Basically the subject of one of Trump’s tweets the other day. This thing could destroy Earth in a matter of years and our own President doesn’t even believe it exists.

 

Nothing to worry about, folks. The Arctic is having its warmest winter in tens of thousands of years, its weather systems are rapidly collapsing and becoming more erratic.

 

One of the common arguments I hear is “The average temperature of the Earth goes in phases.”

Yes it does, and we’re going in the complete wrong direction.

 

First the energy intensification of the U.S./Europe. Since the 1980s, the energy intensification of China/India. Last five years combined hottest on record.



If nothing else, at least we can kiss most of Florida goodbye. There's always a silver lining.

 

I live in Florida, you ***.

 

3 million people in south Florida live less than 6.5 feet above the high tide level. Granted, many are retirees and won't live long enough, but anyone who thinks they might make it to the end of the 21st century could experience 15 feet or more of rising ocean levels.

 

And the worst part? It might not matter anyway, if we manage to slow down global warming enough to avoid its corollaries but our other activities still destroy the possibility for our ecosystem to support our species in such numbers. That latter one is the pitfall that drew a large number of predators extinct before us: at some point of overpopulation, there simply isn't anything left to eat, and the species starve.

 

I juuuust moved back to FL last week.

But i know how to swim so.....ok i guess?

Though to be fair i moved from AZ....i’d be ok with both going under...

 

Does your house know how to swim?

 

Dont have one thankfully. Looking to move right out again, hopefully to like Colorado or somewhere not about to be a ruins aquarium.

 

we're not dependent on a single track for human exinction. We're working multiple tracks simultaneously:

1. the destruction of ocean ecosystems through pollution, overfishing and climate change (warming and acidification). Seafood is 17% of the human protein supply.
2. the possible extinction of pollinating insects > the extinction of all flowering plants > the end of agriculture as we know it > the final endpoint of the neolithic revolution that we still depend on for survival
3. general climate change dramatically changing agricultural practices
4. an agricultural production and distribution system utterly dependent on fossil fuels for the production of fertilizers and pesticides, for mechanized farming and powered irrigation and for refrigeration, packaging/preservation/processing and distribution at the massive quantities needed to feed 7.7 billion people, 8.5 billion in a little more than a decade.
5. depletion of water reserves from depletion of fossil reserves and aquifers, the loss of mountain runoff as glaciers retreat from global warming.

possible 10 billion people within my statistical remaining lifespan. However bad things are now, they will be nearly 50% worse within 30 years.