Posted on 01/25/2024 2:46:25 AM PST by Libloather
The new year's barely underway, and already it's a make-or-break moment for our precarious climate - and the U.S. role in saving it.
Last year was by far the hottest in recorded human history. Yet the United States produced more climate-heating gas and oil during that time than any country in the world—in fact, more oil than any nation in history.
When it comes to why the Biden administration needs to lead the charge to phase out fossil fuels, four reasons stand out.
Going to Extremes
Last year's record-shattering heat and its climate harms left a wake of death, destruction and heartbreak from Lahaina to Libya, Arizona to the Antarctic. Every month since June has blown out temperature records by such huge margins that one scientist called the numbers "gobsmackingly bananas."
Now experts are saying 2024 may be even worse. That's in part because sustained fossil-fueled climate change is being supercharged by the planet-warming El Niño weather pattern.
The "era of global boiling" has arrived. Without dramatic action, annual heat-related deaths are expected to rise 370 percent by 2050, with 525 million more people facing food insecurity. In the coming decades, 1 million animal and plant species could be lost to extinction.
Out-Polluting Progress
The United States plays the pivotal role in the fight against the climate emergency, for better or worse.
In December, as past heat records were melting into oblivion, the U.S. set a record for the most oil produced by any country ever and maintained its role as the world's largestgas producer. It also hit a record for exports of liquified natural gas and became the world's largest LNG exporter.
The Biden administration boasts about enacting bold climate law through the Inflation Reduction Act. But oil and gas projects approved by the administration threaten to entirely erase...
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True dat.
How stupid/gullible you must be, to say and/or believe, a ridiculous statement like this.
When are the Climate Controllers going to stop the Volcanoe’s Eruptions. They pump billions of tons of vapor, gas and ash into the upper atmosphere every year polluting the planet. All the cars on earth cannot pump as much trash into the upper atmosphere in ten years. Jan 15 2022 Tonga Volcano pumped estimated 58 billion tons into the upper atmosphere and a few months later two other volcanoes erupted pumping another 40 billion tons into the upper atmosphere. It will take many years for this trash to fall out of the atmosphere.
Warmer weather.. longer growing season
Warmer Weather.. less death when compared to freezing temps
Warmer weather.. less heating needed
What are the idiots going to do in 6.9 years (and thereafter) when the “climate” is no different then than it is now?? Will they declare their present proclamations insane?
The first step is always to define the problem. So far, none of these screwheads have done that. The science is settled? BS. Show your evidence or STFU.
How “Mao” of her.
The Four Musts, sounds like Mao’s “Four Olds” - The Cultural Revolution sought to eliminate feudal and bourgeois artistic influences, and destroy the ‘four olds’ — customs, cultures, habits, and ideas.
We only had 7 years left over 15 years ago
More proof that McKinsey & Company is the most evil company on the planet.
I remember the earth ending in 7 years back in 1969.
The year of the Miracle Mets, I was sure it had to be a sign of the end times.
Bwahahahaha
Last year was by far the hottest in recorded human history
And how hot was it before “recorded human history”?
I am not questioning how many billions of tons the volcanoes let go. How does that compare to the amount of the entire US emissions>
58 tons for Tonga
How many tons for the US?
How many tons for China?
How many tons for Europe?
How many tons for India?
“The Four Musts to Save the World From Global Warming ...”
We don’t need to save the world from a hoax, we need to save it from filth like this.
Newsweek and MSN.... That’s like a turd with vomit on it..
True, but at the rate we're heading towards Idiocracy I fear they'll be the majority before long.
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