Posted on 07/17/2021 10:30:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The extent of destruction and death wrought by Germany's recent floods is slowly becoming apparent. Dozens of people have died, with many still reported missing. The disaster has devastated entire towns, washing away residential houses, cars and trees.
Natural disasters are nothing new. They occurred long before the advent of the industrial age, when humans began burning fossil fuels on a large scale.
Over time, however, atmospheric CO2 concentrations have doubled, raising Earth's temperature by 1 degree Celsius (1.8° Fahrenheit). A greater frequency and intensity of natural disasters has been the consequence.
As vast swaths of western Germany are dealing with one of the worst floods in years, parts of North America are grappling with scorching hot temperatures that have left scores dead and sparked forest fires that have proven very difficult to contain. The Northern Hemisphere, in short, is facing a climate crisis. […]
Germany's Federal Statistical Office recorded an 11% increase in deaths during a weeklong heat wave this summer. It is almost unimaginable what would happen if temperatures were to rise to 46, 47 or even 49 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit), as they have done this summer in the Canadian town of Lytton. Lytton, incidentally, lies near 50 degrees north latitude, just like the German towns of Boppard and Coburg, in central Germany.
This means we should be taking safety precautions. Reconfiguring our cities could help, for instance by ensuring air can properly circulate in urban conglomerations. Preserving or cultivating green spaces can help lower temperatures. Concrete structures and asphalt surfaces, after all, lock in the heat. …
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Hilariously now leftists are starting to believe their own hysteria.
Sort of like it’s always been? Adapt or die. Good thing we haven’t blown a lot of time and money on that.
The only crises we have are bureaucrat-created crises.
Who cares about Germany?
Denn heute da hört uns Deutschland, Und morgen die ganze Welt
Simple minded people need simple minded solutions.
Lying out one’s butt ain’t one of them.
Bezos should take the whole dang climate change gang to Mars with them.. and Stay There!!
The “Crisis” can be stopped at any time.
What climate crisis?
Nonsense. If we give enough of our money and freedom to the left, anything is possible.
You may not care about Germany, but Germany (still, incredibly) cares about you.
Hi.
Before the end of the year, Deutsche Welle will claim that climate change is causing the moon to wobble.
Stole that last part from a fellow FReeper.
5.56mm
I’ve been working outside in Indiana for 50 years
Tornadoes, floods, droughts, heat, cold
Nothing in the weather these days haven’t seen before
Obozo is fleeing Martha’s Vineyard...
oh wait...guess not...
Only a few of these pathological liars believe their own lies—most are just sociopaths running a long con...
“Denn heute da hört uns Deutschland, Und morgen die ganze Welt”
Because today Germany hears us, And tomorrow the whole world
> raising Earth’s temperature by 1 degree Celsius (1.8° Fahrenheit) <
No one ever mentions what the estimate of uncertainty is with these measurements. Such a value is not just a guess. It can be calculated.
Given that the Earth is so huge, the estimate of uncertainty here could well be 1 degree Celsius, or even more. In that case the original measurement would be meaningless.
What the hell do you think we’ve been doing for the last 20,000 years.
What the hell do you think we’ve been doing for the last 66 million years.
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate, although many lives could be saved through dramatic programs to "stretch" the carrying capacity of the earth by increasing food production and providing for more equitable distribution of whatever food is available. But these programs will only provide a stay of execution unless they are accompanied by determined and successful efforts at population control.
This was written by Paul Ehrlich more than fifty years ago. By "providing for more equitable distribution of whatever food is available," he means switching to world government under socialism.
White, middle-class Americans did practice "population control." Other populations and cultures around the world did not.
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