The day I tasted climate change: Every one of us will have moment when global warming gets personal

TechnologyReview.com ^ | Dec 21, 2018 | James Temple

[HChampagne]

What can be gratuitously affirmed can be gratuitously denied. I deny all of this.

[jospehm20]

Look more like he tasted stupid, environmentalist inspired forest management policies to me.

[hal ogen]

The person who wrote this article has a very damaged brain. Their centers of logic and reason have been either destroyed or mutated beyond normal function. I call "NITWIT ALERT"!!!

[Mr. K]

Yes... poor forest management means climate change.
Got it.

[Navy Patriot]

This nonsense comes from a publication called “Technology Review”?

Not only that, it's more specifically MIT Technology Review, ... yes that MIT.

[tomkat]

.. my door in Berkeley.

Color me cantankerous, but I stopped reading right there.

[ETL]

"Climate change doesn’t ignite wildfires, but it’s intensifying the hot, dry summer conditions that have helped fuel some of California’s deadliest and most destructive fires in recent years. I’ve long understood that the dangers of global warming are real and rising. I’ve seen its power firsthand in the form of receding glaciers, dried lake beds, and Sierra tree stands taken down by bark beetles. This is the first time, though, that I smelled and tasted it in my home. "

[Travis T. OJustice]

Know how I know James Temple has no science education?

[ETL]

By the nonsensical things he says?

[colorado tanker]

People were dying and losing their homes but this SF snowflake couldn't put up with a few days of smoke in the air?

Maybe he should load his pockets with stones and walk into the ocean. No smoke in there.

[Leep]

Climate change kind of taste like chicken.

[Calvin Locke]

Is that bupkis?

[shanover]

Power lines on untrimmed trees will start fires and fires will rage in forests that are not thinned in a part of the country that is prone to ferocious wildfires. If humans live in these lands, there is a good chance that they will die in a forest fire but I am not as smart as a typical liberal or bureaucrat.

[Calvin Locke]

... while retailers failed to meet critical public needs ...

In a ritzy town in MA, Concord or Carlisle, the town banned the sale of bottled water at retail outlets.

So for emergencies, whatsa' family to do? MA does get both hurricanes and nor'easters.

[Yaelle]

I’m tasting climate change too. We are on the patio in t-shirts. So?

The climate has gotten warmer around here in my lifetime. Again, I ask, so?

Who the [jiminy crickets] are we to stop the planet’s temperatures and climates? We couldn’t even stop the split of Gondwanaland, prevent any earthquakes, or plug any volcanos. Why don’t we stop living in houses or pay taxes to prevent future earthquakes? If not driving cars lowers the earth’s Core temp, imagine how stopping all construction and living in the trees will immediately cause all volcanic activity to cease. Same logic.

[Yaelle]

Because CA has never had a wildfire.

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Have him explain why certain seeds of plants in the California hillsides can’t germinate unless they hit temps of such high degrees only a fire can meet them.

We didn’t cause that.

[wbill]

When they get to their 60’s and the waters haven’t taken over most land masses what will be their excuse?

It will be "Global Cooling" by then. Or it may have cycled through "Global Cooling", and be back to "Warming".

But whatever the name, there will be gloom and doom, death and destruction. Politicians and associated hangers-on need a boogeyman to scare people with, so that their access to money and power continues....

Personally, I think that people 100-200 years from now will look at what we currently believe (We CAN control the weather! There ARE 57 genders! Etc.) and chuckle. Much as we do about "Bloodletting as a Medical Science", or the tonics pushed by Snake-Oil salesmen.

[wbill]

This is one of the reasons I thank {Diety} every day that we lack the technology to try to control or manage the climate

My $0.02?

"Climate Change" doesn't scare me. It changes, we adapt. Been like that for millennia. We're still here, as is Da Erf.

Nope, what scares me is some idiot trying to "fix" things, and managing to *REALLY* screw it all up. Like the latest from (Harvard? IIRC) where they wanted to spray particulates into the atmosphere to dim the sun.

Terrifying. But there's enough hysteria, and enough stupid/mis-informed people so that someone with money could try.

[ETL]

On the contrary. You’d have to drown it in ketchup to cover up the bad taste.

[wbill]

whatsa' family to do

Shop in the next town over, where the local politicians are more sensible. Costco/Walmart will gladly sell to you.

I think that Amazon ships bottles of H20, too.

:-) No sense in letting a few idiots' virtue signaling make your life difficult.