King CloneA ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old. Lucerne Valley, California
Gee, I wonder how long desert/drought conditions have existed in California?
Posted on 06/20/2017 12:36:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Record temperatures. Roads cracking and buckling. Planes that can't take off. Power knocked out. Wildfires raging. These are just some of the trying conditions currently roiling America's West Coast, which is in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave.
Nervous about how these disruptions will negatively impact the economy and even cost human life? You should be. And there's more to come.
Changing weather patterns are the new normal, thanks to decades of trashing the environment and a refusal from many in the party currently controlling Washington, the Republicans -- and their corporate patrons -- to even acknowledge climate change as a reality, let alone do anything about it.
Entire nations may soon be under water. Mega-cities that are home to hundreds of millions are set to drown, leaving huge numbers of people stranded, constraining already-limited resources, fueling violence and competition over those resources, and creating a whole new category of need: climate refugees.
A delayed flight out of Phoenix will soon be the least of our worries.
If you're stranded in Phoenix right now, or worried about an elderly acquaintance in California, or are without power in the Bay Area, or nervous about a wildfire taking your home, you can thank the long list of politicians who do the bidding of polluting corporations instead of their constituents and protect profit over the environment.
You can thank the President who tore up the Paris climate agreement. And you can show your displeasure by refusing to support candidates who don't take climate change seriously, and don't do whatever they can to keep the world inhabitable.
Anything less is global suicide.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I don’t care what it feels like
Well, that’s a dry heat.................
Make light of this if you want, but if the US doesn’t re-commit to the Paris Accord, the territory around Phoenix will be be desert 10 years from now.
Here she is, in all her “brainiac” glory:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3562610/posts?page=59#59
“...Where are the savannas that used to occupy what is now the Sahara?...”
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I’m not sure about the others but one migrated to near the Georgian coast in the US. That Savannah also took a river with it.
King CloneA ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old. Lucerne Valley, California
Gee, I wonder how long desert/drought conditions have existed in California?
Yes!
Without the Paris Accords we will turn into a desert in Vegas. Horrors!
Here I am in Sothern Alabama. Poor Ole, Miserable Me!
It’s cold and rainy! It is going to rain for days.
Haven’t hardly seen the big ole Sun and it hasn’t topped 90 degrees so far this year. It should be high 90s by the 4th of July!
Woe is me! We’re all gonna die!!!!
[Make light of this if you want, but if the US doesn’t re-commit to the Paris Accord, the territory around Phoenix will be be desert 10 years from now.]
You, sir, are a prophet! You’ll be getting a call from Don Lemon at CNN any minute now.
Wait until you tell him the same thing about Las Vegas!
Then, Don Lemon can move on to “black holes” and MH370!!
DONALD TRUMP KILLED MY BROTHER
Man, I feel her. My brother and I stopped at a steakhouse outside Phoenix about this time of the year 30 years ago.
We had been seeing heat waves rise off the pavement on the interstate, mirages. It was as hot as a pistol and my VW sedan—no cruise, no AC, leatherette upholstery that stuck to our skin.
As we left the air conditioned restaurant, the heat almost dropped us. Here’s the really tragic global-warming part. Bro’ forgot to use a bandana to open the chrome door handle on my Beetle. It was so hot he was instantly vaporized, thanks to Donald Trump.
Then I saw Wile E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner and they were walking. Both are endangered species.
Why oh why didn’t young Donald Trump cool things down? Now we’re dooomed ..... DOOOOOOOOMED and stuck in this living Outer Limits/Twilight Zone hey diddly h-e-double hockey sticks.
My goodness. It’s hot. In the desert. In June. This is unprecedented!
Now that Trump tore up the Paris Accord, I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict higher temperatures for the Midwest and South, from the Southwest to the Southeast for about the next 2 months.
I know, it sounds crazy, but you’ll all see I was right!
Hey CNN! Pay me $500,000 and I’ll come on and make the same prediction!
I won’t make light of your assertion. It hasn’t been long since Trump pulled out of the Paris Accord and Tucson is already surrounded by desert. I have relatives there who can attest to that fact.
What?
Does CNN really think Trump is GOD or something?
It’s called Summer.
Happens every year.
Look it up.
[ Then I saw Wile E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner and they were walking. Both are endangered species. ]
You think that’s bad? I saw Coyote chasing the Roadrunner through streets of Las Vegas!
And they were in air-conditioned cabs!!! And the driver in each did NOT speak Coyote nor Roadrunner!!
Only more illegal immigrants can fix this!! /Jeb Bush
keep spraying crao in the air and other things USA and countries do to try to “adjust” weather for various reasons.
I believe God is in control of the weather but the stuff some are spewing into the air surely cannot help air quality and reflecting of UV Rays and such.
(I don’t know much, just my 2 cents of thoughts)
It’s 75 and clear here in Ohio....is it Trump’s fault ???
Do you not realize that Trump moved the Sun closer to Earth since we lost Obama’s brilliant Paris Accord where the USA gives hundreds of millions of dollars to foreign governments?
The Sun is working for Trump — on Putin’s direct orders!!!!
“You can thank the President who tore up the Paris climate agreement.
How could this heat wave be Trump’s fault, he has President for less than 6 months but Barack Obama had control for 8 years?
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