AWFUL, AWFUL, AWFUL!!!
So bad I just cannot FACE it!
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So I guess I'll go have breakfast.
(I'm feeling like blueberry pancakes...)
/sarc
Posted on 03/25/2023 6:18:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Having a child is the most emphatic statement of hope a person can make. I have three young kids, and yet I have trouble remaining optimistic about the world they and their children will inhabit in 2100 and beyond.
The world 77 years from now is likely to be far hotter and more unstable, warmed in a way that depopulates entire metropolises and renders farmland nonarable. It's a world the latest report from the United Nations warns will become reality unless we make dramatic, immediate reductions in our fossil fuel use.
We’re not on track to make those changes in time to prevent a world in which animal and plant species will die off at an alarming rate. And yet, kids deserve to have hope.
But not false hope. That was emphasized to me by Peter Kalmus, one of the climate scientists I called a few months ago to discuss the dissonance of raising children in a world we know to be headed for breakdown. In fact, “Earth breakdown” was the term he used to describe the ecological collapses and natural disasters that would be brought about by the global warming we face.
My older children have learned the basics about climate change in their classrooms; I try to relate some of that to what they see when we’re out in nature. They’ve asked about fires and water restrictions, and even why I’m so reluctant to turn on the heater.
Each conversation is an opportunity to discuss not only climate change, but what we’re doing at our house to not contribute to the problem. Action and example give hope. So does knowing that scientists, such as Kalmus are working on the problem for us and their own children.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
At each and every point on the earth, the climate is continuously changing. The effect of man on the climate is irrelevantly small if it exists at all.
More important perhaps is the continuously on going change produced by tectonic drift. That tectonic change is currently quite visible as east Africa splits away.
Tectonic drift induced earth quakes present a much larger and quite real danger to American states that include the Pacific and San juan De Fuca Plates
Being a liberal must be incredibly depressing- they see gloom and doom everywhere, And where there actusly isn’t any doom, they invent it
I am hoping for Climate Static, where the climate never changes and we have ability to control Mother Nature. Well, at least if we could predict tomorrows weather 100% of the time it would be a good start. >s
There is no such thing as “fossil fuel”, there is only hydrocarbon fuel, formed both abiotically and as a result of thermal depolymerization of organic matter. The burning of hydrocarbon fuels continues the carbon dioxide/oxygen cycle of life, and is essential for just about every living thing, plants and animals both, and even taking in the other forms of life right down to single-cell organisms.
Methane, the simplest of the hydrocarbon fuels, existed even before the formation of the earth, and continues to exist today as both a product of the decomposition of organic matter, and in pockets trapped in the earth’s crust as the major constituent of natural gas.
Outlawing hydrocarbon fuels does not mean they shall no longer exist, only that a new “criminal class” shall emerge.
Prohibition of alcoholic beverages did not mean that the art and science of the brewing and distilling of spirits stopped, that was another class of “criminals” created. Yet it was once the law of the land.
Pure propaganda.
Then move south to about 15 degrees either side of the equator. No heater, clothes dryer, or coat is ever needed. Air conditioners are addictive, but as heat pumps they are four times more efficient in changing the room temperature one degree than heaters. The outside starting point temperature is closer to the ideal comfort temperature, so less "white man climate change" is needed.
So bad I just cannot FACE it!
.
So I guess I'll go have breakfast.
(I'm feeling like blueberry pancakes...)
/sarc
All these brilliant scientists and ask them how to fix this globe killing problem and they have no answer.
No problem. Just point out to your kids that you and your doomsday ilk have been dead wrong on EVERY SINGLE SUCH PROGNOSTICATION YOU HAVE EVER MADE. ALWAYS. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE TIME.
There is no rebuttable better than that.
Bfl
No.
“The world 77 years from now is likely to be far hotter and more unstable”
Doubtful, but it’s not under our control morons. Democrats ard the largest threat to America and mankind.
What a pussy.
Wow things will be different 77 years from now.
> ...and even why I’m so reluctant to turn on the heater.
Wow! I never knew my Father was a climate scientist!
77 years from now
What happened to 5, 10 or 20 years from now? Has he switched to the weird number 77 because NONE of their previously doom and gloom forecasts came true? Is it because very few alive today will remember his forecast 77 years from now?
"...[I tell my kids] why I’m so reluctant to turn on the heater."
Another LOL. Might it have to do with your heating costs having tripled because of your climate scare-mongering? Might it have to do with your neuroticism? Or perhaps you're just a cheapskate?
His poor kids are being raised to be as neurotic as their father and afraid of everything they see, hear, read, touch or observe.
"[The neurotic kook Peter Kalmus] and three scientists were arrested last year for chaining themselves to a Chase Bank in downtown Los Angeles to protest JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s industry-leading fossil fuel investments. More recently, he chained himself to the door of a private-jet terminal in Charlotte, N.C., saying the climate emergency requires ramping down aviation."
The left is as nutty as Koresh’s Branch Dravidian’s who thought the world was on the verge of ending. This is the apocalypse for atheists.
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