That turnaround—a wholesale reshaping of our world’s climate—has been attributable in large measure to humans,
Not what Time was saying in the late 1970s / early 1980s. But I guess being Time means never having to explain your past inconsistent articles.
Oh, brother. They never stop.
Time must hire the bottom of every class just to be sure they never have executive competition. These girls are dumb, really, rally dumb.
The sea level on the Atlantic Coast has risen two feet since 1776.
The Little Ice Age was still in effect in 1776. Ended around 1850.
They’ve forgotten about Adapt and Overcome but now they think they’re God and can change the planet ,LOL
Can you work at a strip club and go to Heaven?
Can you work at Time and go to Heaven?
The article actually acknowledges the existence of one of the huge engines changing climate. Otherwise, this article is typical.
Turn a blank sheet of paper sideways. On the left write “weather event” in small letters, draw a circle around the words, and then draw a small arrow pointing to the right side. On the far right, write the words "manmade climate change” in small letters, draw a circle around the words, and then draw a small arrow pointing to the circle.
Is there not a large blank space in the middle? Have you ever seen a story which fills in this area? Have you ever read a story that uses words like sun and ocean, which are the two enormous engines determining temperature? Cannot the stories that you have seen be inserted into one or the other circles?
I will submit there is no evidence of man-made global warming because no adherent to the popular mythology will acknowledge the existence of the sun and oceans. All I have ever seen are fraudulent to accurate comments on weather events or physical phenomenon involving temperature followed by an assertion man-made global warming is the cause.
In the hard sciences of Math and Physics, the earth’s climate is known as an open system, meaning all influencers are probabilistic and not deterministic. Any assertions must be less than certain, but we are always treated to infallibility statements like those for the boiling point of water. Popular reasoning requires a complete disconnect between events and conclusions and is no more rigorous than Middle Age alchemy.
I have yet to find any article which attempts to measure the influence of the sun and ocean and then ascribe an increment to human activity. It was only since the late 70’s that it was possible to attempt to confirm changes in the sun’s radiance independent of earth. Without a rigorous solution involving those two enormous engines, models created provide outcomes no more elegant than what is left behind when a brand new puppy is turned loose in a house decorated with white carpets and white furniture.
Hard to tell about 1776, but we know that it was once much warmer at the poles, based on the presence of coal deposits and warm blooded fossils of huge annimals there.
I can’t wait until the mini ice age begins.
The only thing that can solve it is a boot stamping on a human face forever.
Juan Crespí, the highly reliable diarist of the Portolá Expedition, 24 September, 1769 in Jolon, San Antonio Valley, 25 miles northwest of Paso Robles, elevation 800 feet, behind two ridges of coastal mountains inland from Santa Barbara:
It is a very cold spot, with snow and heavy frosts [in September?]. Through the heathens belonging to this spot, we understand that in some years the snow falls a quarter, a half, or three quarters of a yard deep.
From the Diary of Gaspar de Portolá amid the Santa Lucia Mountains:
Dec. 19 …we travelled for three hours, passing the most difficult part of the range on which there was not a little snow [snip]
The 17th [January] we proceeded for about five hours, making [the same distance as] two marches on the previous journey, and came out on the Llano de la Puente, opposite the great sierra of snow-covered [San Gabriel] mountains…
From the 1769 account of the Portolá Expedition Engineer, Miguel Costansó:
Thursday, December 7 …in view of the few provisions that remained, the excessive cold, and, above all, the snow that was beginning to cover the mountain range beginning to co ver the mountain range - our commander himself resolved upon the return believing that if the passage over the mountains became impossible we should all perish.
They were planning to cross mountains in coastal Southern California. Why were they afraid of snow? The Diary notes that the packet San Carlos had supplied the expedition. From the ship’s log of Vicente Vila the prior spring, April 26 to May 1, 1769:
At sunrise, I was between four islands [in the Santa Barbara Channel] and the mainland the country high and mountainous with several high ridges extending northwest to southeast, all of them covered with snow, like the Sierras Nevadas [Snowy Mountains] of Granada on the coast between Motril and Salobreña near the Mediterranean. Following the notes of the sea pilot, Cabrera Bueno, I decided that they might be the ridges which the Philippine sailors call Sierras de Santa Lucia above Cape Conceptión [those along the channel are the Santa Ynez Mountains].
[snip]… Turning toward the mainland, I noted the extremity of it visible furthest to the westward, bearing WNW. The shore turned toward the southeast, high and broken by several high, snow-covered ridges [probably the Santa Ana Mountains; the entry also notes San Clemente Island]. The country inland, as I have said above, runs southeast.
Yet none of these climate change activists go after two of the biggest polluters on the earth - India and China.
It is ALWAYS the US that is targeted - and expected to pay for it all.
Jefferson probably stepped outside onto an earthen street and used a mercury-based, analog thermometer that was subjectively accurate to 1/2 degree. 249 years later, Jefferson would have stepped outside onto a heat-absorbing concrete sidewalk, surrounded by heat-absorbing concrete streets and buildings, and use a digital thermometer objectively accurate to no less than 100th of a degree.
Bro we get it, the only answer is global communism.
Ask yourself this why is China not concerned with “climate change”??
Easy they are already communists.
It’s sad that climate commies have hijacked the more pertinent issue of over population and resource depletion. Neither of which take global communism to solve. We as a species have the tools needed to solve both real issues without a boot to the face.
