Posted on 09/13/2018 9:45:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is here now, and it’s time to urgently ask ourselves: What kind of future do we want to work toward? The air we breathe is key to answering this question. Global warming is not just manifesting in devastating fires, floods and heatwaves; its causes are impacting nearly every breath we take.
A recent World Health Organization report said that nine out of 10 people on the planet breathe dangerous air, and an estimated 7 million premature deaths a year are caused by air pollution-related diseases, including stroke and heart disease, respiratory illness and cancer.
The most vulnerable people are impacted the hardest. Fossil fuel combustion byproducts have been deemed one of the most serious threats to children’s health and global equality. Emerging evidence indicates that pollution from coal combustion and motor vehicles has been linked to development delays, reduced IQ and autism in children.
Carrying on along this trajectory is irresponsible and absolutely unacceptable.
But another trajectory is emerging as more people are standing up and campaigning for their inalienable right to clean air - and therefore, to life. On Wednesday in San Francisco, the Global Climate and Health Forum is bringing together 250 leaders to generate momentum and commitments for action on climate and health.
We know that a comprehensive response to climate change could be “the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century.” The New Climate Economy report just out shows it will also deliver at least $26 trillion in economic gain over business as usual by 2030.
However, to do this within the window of time we have left to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we must act with boldness and unprecedented urgency. There is no time to lose. Every breath matters.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Air pollution and climate change are two completely different things. I support efforts for cleaner air. I do not support the idea that carbon dioxide, exhaled continuously by every animal on earth, should be listed as a pollutant. It’s idiotic on its face.
"consensus" is NOT part of the Scientific Method.
GFY, commie.
So a bunch of climate change ninnies are going to go to San Francisco to dodge shit bombs as they walk down the streets while inhaling fecal material. Sounds about right.
Dumb. Life expectancy is at its highest since the biblical patriarchs
Your Trump pic/meme made me laugh out loud — LITERALLY!!
Speaking of the UN and global warming, let’s move UN to North Pole and see how long UN continues to cry about political correct global warming.
In fact, patriots are reminded that double-digit Celsius temperature drops during the brief durations of darkness under total solar eclipses are evidence that CO2 is not preventing heat from escaping the earth imo.
Brrr! How Much Can Temperatures Drop During a Total Solar Eclipse?
Also, consider hourly weather forecasts for next 24 hours show that nighttime temperatures stop dropping after sunrise (Sherlock issue), assuming sunny day.
Corrections, insights welcome.
That meme is like a spear being tossed through the heart of the latest MSM attacks on President Trump.
Someone is slipping. There should have been a major barf alert in the title.
We (the planet) is just now starting to recover from an Epoch level drought of CO2 (plant food)
Dear Christiana,
Hurricanes are weather, not climate.
This is not the first hurricane ever. This has been a relatively quiet hurricane season until the last week.
They had clean air in the Dark Ages too, b*tch.. and no UN.. and they all died anyway.
Coincidence?
‘since Earth has had numerous ice ages in history, and the ice ages ended due to global warming’
there were no Ice Ages; they were purported to take place over 10,000 years ago, and as we’ve learned from numerous sources, the earth is only 6,000 years old...the geological evidence of the Ice Age legacy is really a ruse from Satan, to throw us off the straight and narrow...
I elect this “THREAD OF THE DAY”
I second that!
RE: I elect this “THREAD OF THE DAY”
Here's a reality check leftist libtards with your "climate change" agenda. Two points:
One, we cannot significantly change the climate. We lack both the technology and the resources. We simply cannot do it, period. Even the most ambitious plans are forecast to only make a fraction of a degree difference over the next century. That through draconian changes to our societies - all for a possible change that will almost certainly be overwhelmed (one way or another, higher or lower) by unforeseen natural forces. Still think what you think matters?
Two, number one is a good thing - no, a great thing. Because if we could actually change the climate, it is a virtual certainty we would screw it up in spite of our best efforts to "manage" it. Think I'm wrong? Look up the history of National Park wilderness management by so-called "experts." Now imagine that on a global scale. Oh, I can hear you thinking from here "Yeah, but we're much smarter now than they were..." Yep, that's no-doubt exactly what they thought at the time too. They were sure they were doing the right thing too. Look how that turned out...
They are gone. The natural phenomenon that made them recede is STILL ACTIVE.
Hey!
Don’t confuse us with FACTS.
What’s unacceptable is that every “solution” to the “problem” either involves
1)Raisng taxes on Americans
2)Otherwise making energy more expensive for Americans, it’s too expensive already
If these people were serious about this “grave threat” they would come up with a solution that decent people could support. They have not, which makes me think that it’s just an excuse to push to socialism.
The Bezos Blog
[”This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.]
Yes, lets can back to that poverty and oppression thing.
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