Posted on 09/18/2018 12:05:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Hurricane Florence has drenched eastern North Carolina with more than 30 inches of rain, an all-time record for the state.
Last year, Hurricane Maria ravaged the island of Puerto Rico and caused, according to an independent study, nearly 3,000 deaths.
Welcome to the new normal.
Tropical cyclones are nothing new, of course. But climate scientists say that global warming should make such storms wetter, slower and more intense which is exactly what seems to be happening. And if we fail to act, these kinds of devastating weather events will likely become even more frequent and more severe.
Every human being on the planet has a stake in what governments do to limit and adapt to climate change, including those who, like President Trump, prefer to believe global warming is some kind of hoax.
At the very least, we should be trying to reduce carbon emissions and keep global warming to a manageable level. With the landmark Paris Agreement, the nations of the world agreed to try. But Trump foolishly pulled the United States - the worlds second-biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, behind only China - out of the deal.
The administration has already proposed weakening restrictions on carbon emissions from automobiles and coal-fired power plants. And last week, there were reports that the administration also wants to loosen rules governing the release of methane, which traps even more heat than carbon dioxide.
Climate change is no longer theoretical. It is real, it is all around us, and it is going to get much worse.
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The real theory is that eugene is intelligent. That is open to question.
Eugene
Eugenics ....
Not just a theory either...
(Couldnt resist)
Lol!
The intensity level of storms making landfall has not been rising, but declining in recent decades.
Is there a single published scientific paper (even a debatable one) demonstrating that hurricanes/tropical storms are in fact dumping more water in the last couple of decades?
The problem isn’t that there isn’t climate change, the problem is that these nuts think it is 100% driven by carbon emissions.
Indeed. Climate change has been around since the formation of the earth, and will continue long after humans are gone. This fact is no reason to play politics.
Also, a theory is a conceptual framework that unites a body of experimental and observational evidence into a coherent whole. It is actually a very high standard. In the science world, we would never say that a field of study is no longer theoretical--although, I suppose we could say that if the field was so discredited by evidence that it is no longer worthy of scientific study.
“Anthropomorphic Climate Change does not rise to the level of a Theory... its a HYPOTHESIS.”
It doesn’t even rise to the level of hypothesis, since it is not falsifiable. Its proponents will not propose or acknowledge a test that could prove them wrong. They won’t make a prediction that would lead them to abandon their position if it failed.
This crap is all over science and futurist thinking now.
We’ve lost our ability to reason.
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