Posted on 12/02/2014 3:04:23 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
... To grasp climate change, you have to think in terms of species and their future. To know how things have already changed, you have to remember how they used to be, and so you may not notice birds disappearing from the skies, or hotter weather or more extreme storms and forest fires. You need to look past the sparrow and see the whole system that allows — or allowed — the birds to flourish. The swallows, the chinook salmon, desert tortoises, manatees, moose and us. Addressing climate means fixing the way we produce energy. But maybe it also means addressing the problems with the way we produce stories.
Over all, climate change tends to be reported as abstract explanations about general tendencies and possible outcomes. It’s a difficult subject to tell and to take in. The scientific side is complicated. Understanding it requires the ultimate in systems thinking: the cumulative effect of all of us burning coal and oil impacts things far away and yet to come. A lot of it is hard to see.
Climate change is everything, a story and a calamity bigger than any other. It’s the whole planet for the whole foreseeable future, the entire atmosphere, all the oceans, the poles; it’s weather and crop failure and famine and tropical diseases heading north and desertification and the uncertain fate of a great majority of species on earth.
And so we should seek out new kinds of stories — stories that make us more alarmed about our conventional energy sources than the alternatives.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Thank you.
Yeah, and before we invented fire, we had to eat dinosaur meat RAW. Horrible tasting stuff.
What Climate should we trying to achieve?
But not ONE of these elitists has any real, tangible "contribution" that they add to the world.
They get rich and live out their barren, useless lives, dying alone, unloved and forgotten.
What do most West coasters know about sh@t and have a jerk off reaction to everything? Please Alaska is not part of the Left coast!
....Gruberlike stories.
“Are We Missing the Big Picture on Climate Change?”
Nope. Decided it was bullsh** long ago.
Sounds like you described “The Won!”
They found a dinosaur footprint in a sewer line project about two blocks from my apartment in No. Fairlington, Alex. Va, many years ago. Does this count, or only living dinosaurs?
If only applied to living dinosaurs, try Congress, up Shirley Highway and take a right down Constitution Ave. Lots of dinosaurs there, including John Dingell(berry), Harry “The Raptor” Reid, Nancy Pelosi (aka the Dimetrodon), Chuck Schumer (the Mosasaur), Mitch McConnell (aka the Stegasaurus, has a walnut-sized brain), and Carl Levin (the Detroit Ankylosaurus), among others.
Life on this planet - in the whole sense - has survived climate changes far beyond our imagination, and some of that hard won survival included the earliest humans as well.
And HOW did life survive - adaptation.
In the microcosm sense as well as in the whole earth sense, conditions change - all the time - and they become less than optimum for some, while simultaneously proving better conditions for others, because somewhere in all life on earth there is some living species better suited to some set of conditions and not well suited for others.
So as climate changes has life been destroyed? No. Change has changed what is most successful, what is less successful and where the struggles to succeed are.
What have humans done in their own struggles with climate? Like the rest of life on earth they’ve adapted, and adapted so well they can, if they chose, occupy just about any different local climate the earth produces.
And today?
Today humans are probably better positioned than they have ever been for adapting to climate change; for mitigating its affects and for adapting to it. They will manage their food chain to make the necessary adaptations needed there as well. The sky is not falling and climate change is not going to destroy life on earth or human’s place on it.
LOL It’s a sign of the bad economy. When I was a kid everything was bigger!
Indeed, you just never know.
You know, when we were headed for a CERTAIN "new ice age".
Translation: You are too stupid to understand it, so just trust us, OK?
Oh, that’s wonderful. I must have missed that when new.
That’s OK, many of the PhD signers of the UN climate documents don’t have much in the way of an appropriate technical background, either.
Excellent book.
” Solar array burning up thousands of birds shows direct evidence of burned dead birds. Wind turbines chopping up thousands of birds shows direct evidence of mangled dead birds. But claiming fossil-fuel plants kill millions of birds, with no evidence? Other than saying climate change is doing it? Come on! “
I love it when GW hysterics compare real killings with theoretical ones and expect to be taken seriously. Especially when they dont even offer an explanation on how GW is killing birds.
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