Sensible people find the meme here to be compelling, while noting that it doesn’t take into account human misery: deaths from hyperthermia, drowning, and wildfires, the disease transmitted by insects, the loss of homeland, the hunger and thirst.
Category: Climate Change
Climate Change Mitigation and Denial
Great point to be made here. It’s obvious to the scientific community that too little is being done to mitigate global warming, but policy-makers, at least in the U.S., don’t have the political will behind them to support forceful and …
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Rise in Earth’s Temperature
From a reader: What I can’t understand is this, supported by about every climate scientist on the globe: If the U.S. stopped producing 100% of all CO2, it would change global temperature by year 2100 a negligible amount (-.246°F) according …
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The Climate/Environment Bill in Congress
Re: the new climate/environment bill and my comment that Asia is the real problem in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, a reader notes: Hopefully, it’ll give China/India marginally less cause to drag their feet. Does seem this bill is plausibly …
Climate Activism
As suggested here, the most significant beneficiaries of climate activism are either very young or have yet to be born. Yes, wildfires and super-storms are driving people from homes, but the actual environmental damage due to rising temperatures will grow …
Monetizing a Planet On Fire
There are already fabulous examples of this in the real world, e.g., Nestles’ assertion that water is not a basic human right, but rather a commodity like gold or soybeans that can be offered for sale to people whose rivers …
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….Doesn’t End Well
Correct. Our current climate trajectory ends in unprecedented suffering and death for entire populations of people and other living things.
Climate Change and Real Estate Prices
From NASA: Continuing a 22-year downward trend, water levels in Lake Mead stand at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time. As of July 18, 2022, Lake Mead was filled to …
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Provocative, But Unanswerable Question: What will California look like if a massive glacier melts? Here’s your answer.
What will California look like when a massive glacier melts? Well, it depends on which one, doesn’t it? In truth, the melting of each of our glaciers is a dynamic affair, one we’re learning more about each year. Nothing about …
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Addressing Climate Change
Here’s an interesting perspective from author, political activist, and social justice advocate Naomi Klein. Yes, this is a “civilizational wake-up call,” but we seem to be continually hitting the snooze button on the alarm. I’m reminded of the cartoon featuring …
