Posted on 01/22/2025 8:36:49 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Among the slew of executive actions President Trump signed Monday, there is one that may impact our climate.
The Paris Climate Agreement is an agreement between countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions with the goal of avoiding human interference in climate change.
When speaking with UW-Madison climate expert, Jack Williams, he shares with he has taught climate change courses for over a decade and says he has seen a major shift in how climate change is viewed.
"Public opinion and awareness has really shifted on this. And so, there is this interesting disconnect between public awareness, which people are mostly now convinced that climate change is happening. They're seeing the impact in their lives or seeing their insurance bills go up versus the, you know, the political leadership and sometimes the disinformation campaigns that go on around this," Williams said.
Williams attributes recent major weather events across the country to climate change.
"Rainfall intensity, and these extreme events of droughts and floods has been linked to climate change...weather extremes like hurricanes and floods. Those have a link to human caused climate change," he said.
He fears that by the U.S. pulling out of the agreement and there being less of an effort to combat climate change could impact Wisconsin.
"We're all affected by each other's actions. And so here in Wisconsin, we have been fortunate to date that we have not had the devastating fires of, say, California. We are seeing warmer winters, warmer summers. We're seeing an increasing, frequency of big rain events with more than an inch and a day that that those bigger rain events are intensifying in the state."
How we view things doesn't change how things really are.
So, the French will boycott Wisconsin cheese?
(Spellcheck made me add that comma.)
The old recurring, may, might, could argument that the left loves to engage in, even though it never does impact actually impact or affect Wisconsin at all.
We just got about 6” of global warming in Mississippi on the
Gulf of America.
UW-Madison, the Berkeley of the Midwest, with its little climate propaganda “expert”, Jack “Greenie Jerk” Williams...
“When speaking with UW-Madison climate expert, Jack Williams...
He’s not just an expert. He’s a climate expert!
I wonder if the first day of class.
He forces the kids to watch “An Inconvenient Truth”..
where he either edits all of Gore temp predictions to be accurate today. Or he dubs in new dates for when the Earth burns up.
What a load. He must wear one of those “24 pound” Huggies.
You are being kind. My first thought was expletive deleted 3x
"Rainfall intensity, and these extreme events of droughts and floods has been linked to climate change...weather extremes like hurricanes and floods. Those have a link to human caused climate change," he said.
Profound untruths or lies as we call em.
Does this idiot know than 10 times bigger than USA population lives in China and India, and both are building new coal fired plants to generate electricity EVERY WEEK?
> Williams attributes recent major weather events across the country to climate change. <
Well, he’s right about that. Because there weren’t any major weather events before those nasty factories starting throwing carbon dioxide into the air.
Oh, wait. There were many major weather events before industrialization. Maybe Mr. Williams is just trying to protect his silly job as a climate change instructor.
🤔
Except he is about to be prosecuted for sending Covid patients to retirement homes...he is not going to skate on that ...
In real life, these extremes between droughts and floods happens more often during the cooling periods than the warming periods. For example, Europe had a mainly cereal diet until the Little Ice Age (roughly AD 1300 to 1800) damaged crops and Spain learned that the potato grown in Peru could better withstand those kind of precipitation extremes. Thus, the potato became a staple in the European diet. Long before I was driving my pickup.
:)
Has this idiot studied 5 Billion year history of eareth? There have been cataclysmic climate changes on earth for 5 Billion years. Humans have been using fossil fuels for 0.0001% of time in earth’s exitance.
Sun is MILLION times bigger than earth. Imagine we are size of a ping pong ball inside a 4 bedroom house to be size of Sun. Sun flares are 1000 times bigger than size of earth. These man made climate change morons just want higher taxes on use of fossil fuels to spread the wealth to lazy people.
Maybe those in Wisconsin will notice that less of their tax dollars are going into the black hole of the Paris agreement.
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