0. Identify the bounds of what change you’re anticipating.
Serious canonical climate change models see a probable maximum warming of 2°C increase over the next _century_ (that’s 0.02°C/year, significantly less than hourly variation).
Serious contrarians are observing signs of the onset of a new mini (or more) ice age. Compare relatively recent cooling periods for reasonable bounds (time & temp).
1. Relocate immediately.
Climate changes. Relocating to somewhere likely optimal for most scenarios is wise. Oceans rise? don’t be close to oceans. Permafrost regions expand? don’t move to areas prone to freezing up. Look for temperate areas good for farming even if long-term thermal fluctuations reach +/- several degrees. Remember that just one major volcanic eruption can cool things down in a hurry.
2. Change jobs.
Get a job not tightly coupled to a single company, and which compliments self-sufficient living. Telecommuting is excellent. Avoid factory work.
3. Be rich.
That doesn’t mean lots of $$$. That means staying out of debt, live the life you want, want the life of self-sufficiency, and have multi-layered means of fulfilling all needs. Flip the house circuit breaker, stop buying gas, and cut up all the debit/credit cards - can you get by indefinitely in relative comfort?
4. Reduce your need for clean water and air.
Via #1: move to where clean water & air isn’t an issue. Install fine-particulate wood stoves and solar panels, backing up natural gas & “grid” electricity. Build rainwater collection & purification.
5. Don’t get attached to each other.
Au contraire, get more attached to your neighbors. In a grid/infrastructure/economic collapse, best to already have working & mutually productive relationships.
6. Avoid having children and grandchildren.
Au contraire, procreate abundantly. The only way humanity will survive is by enough competent & coping people producing competent & coping offspring. Don’t opt for the “I object, so I resign” copout - that leaves the bad people in charge.
The human species lives in-between ice ages.
We, all of us, are living in the greatest time of this planet. It’ll probably get warmer to be sure, but its sure as shit going to get VERY cold in the future..
I dumped mine on Algore. What a boob!
If you're a liberal, may I suggest the Marianas Trench? Or somewhere south of Patagonia?
Change jobs.
There won't be much demand for baristas when we're all boiling alive.
Be rich.
Because Michael Moore and Al Gore and a whole host of limousine liberals have discovered the secret to not suffering.
Reduce your need for clean water and air.
You mostly live in filthy cities. You already have.
Don’t get attached to each other.
Liberals? They go through relationships like most people go through toilet paper.
Avoid having children and grandchildren.
That should be easy. If the males aren't sterile soy boys, they're queer. And the women can turn the stomach of a lonely whaler.
What a bunch of mentally retarded fools.
For at least 120 years, climate “scientists” have been claiming that the climate was going to kill us…but they have kept switching whether it was a coming ice age, or global warming.
(A timeline of claims follows, updated to 2014)
1895 – Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again – New York Times, February 1895
1902 – “Disappearing Glaciers…deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation…scientific fact…surely disappearing.” – Los Angeles Times
1912 – Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age – New York Times, October 1912
1923 – “Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada” – Professor Gregory of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, – Chicago Tribune
1923 – “The discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age” – Washington Post
1924 – MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age – New York Times, Sept 18, 1924
1929 – “Most geologists think the world is growing warmer, and that it will continue to get warmer” – Los Angeles Times, in Is another ice age coming?
1932 – “If these things be true, it is evident, therefore that we must be just teetering on an ice age” – The Atlantic magazine, This Cold, Cold World
1933 – America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise – New York Times, March 27th, 1933
1933 – “…wide-spread and persistent tendency toward warmer weather…Is our climate changing?” – Federal Weather Bureau “Monthly Weather Review.”
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Gee doesn’t Al Gore have a seaside mansion in California?