Climate Change: the costs of doing nothing
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If she ever does a video detailing all the causational links between racism and the climate crisis, please tell me where and when.
That way I can make sure and not watch it, live or in memorex.
Personally I think climate change caused racism, rather than the other way around. I believe I can prove that at least as equally as she can prove her 'thesis'.
Wasn’t sure where to post but I found interesting. Current windchill on Mount Washington is -105F. Lowest ever recorded in the US
www.mountwashington.org
Current Summit Conditions - Mount Washington Observatory
www.mountwashington.org
if recharging batteries with electricity is renewable energy then filling your gas tank is also renewable emergy.
China continues to double down on coal. Zero the US can do at this point. Best analogy I’ve heard. If CO2 is an overflowing bathtub, China is filling it up with a garden hose while the US is bailing it out with a teaspoon.
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They’ve also outpaced the rest of the world combined in renewable construction as of late….China continues to double down on coal. Zero the US can do at this point. Best analogy I’ve heard. If CO2 is an overflowing bathtub, China is filling it up with a garden hose while the US is bailing it out with a teaspoon.
Good PR move for them. Commies have always been good at manipulating the useful idiots in the US press
But Tom Corringham, a research economist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego who has studied the costs of natural disasters, said that allowing people to live in homes that are becoming uninsurable, or prohibitively expensive to insure, was unsustainable.
www.nytimes.com
Climate Shocks Are Making Parts of America Uninsurable. It Just Got Worse.
The largest insurer in California said it would stop offering new coverage. It’s part of a broader trend of companies pulling back from dangerous areas.
Unfortunately this is a net sum game. A game in which construction of hundreds of new coal fire plants guarantees we take a loss.
That's what I don't get, that the Democrats blindly don't see that it's a net sum game.(or ignore that factor when asking we do our part)
Because its not about the climate... its about power and wealth.. its about consolidating power through regulations and campaign funding.. its laundering tax dollars through green energy into campaign slush funds and building stock values for donors and elected officials..
Inhofe’s snowball reincaranted.Wasn’t sure where to post but I found interesting. Current windchill on Mount Washington is -105F. Lowest ever recorded in the US
Current Summit Conditions - Mount Washington Observatory
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Post had zero to do with climate change. I simply found a -105F windchill fascinating. As I prefaced my post “not sure where to post this”.
Just returned from a bucket list trip to Alaska where we visited Glacier National Park as well as the Mendenhall Glacier. The retreat of the glaciers has been ongoing since the 1700s, or after they expanded during the “little ice age”. It remains to be seen how much of this change is under our control or influence.
CC is caused by Volcanic activity under the ocean, which warms the sea water, melts the ice bergs, and heats the air causing it to capture more co2. our efforts wont fix it
Glacier Bay National Park is in Alaska. Glacier National Park is in Montana.
Correct. Lack of sleep when typing does wonders. Glacier Bay National Park was where we went this year.
No. I meant pedantic. It means someone who puts excessive emphasis on minor details. Anal has more to do with order or cleanliness.…kind of like an obsessive compulsive disorder.
Again…. Sorry for being pedantic.
Now he's really being anal. And he doesn't even know the colloquial definition of being mentally anal. Stop while you are behind.
One unusually cold day on Mt. Washington will not have much affect on these situations and costs.
Europe is struggling with a precarious water situation ahead of another drought-riven summer: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/05/expected-european-drought-likely-to-worsen-the-regions-water-crisis-.html
The high plains drought is so bad that Kansas is importing wheat from Europe: https://kansaspublicradio.org/2023-06-05/the-high-plains-drought-is-so-bad-that-kansas-is-importing-wheat-from-europe
Drought Tightens Grip Across the Corn Belt, 34% of new Corn Now Hit with Drought: https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/corn/drought-tightens-grip-across-corn-belt-34-corn-now-hit-drought
Europe is struggling with a precarious water situation ahead of another drought-riven summer: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/05/expected-european-drought-likely-to-worsen-the-regions-water-crisis-.html
The high plains drought is so bad that Kansas is importing wheat from Europe: https://kansaspublicradio.org/2023-06-05/the-high-plains-drought-is-so-bad-that-kansas-is-importing-wheat-from-europe
Drought Tightens Grip Across the Corn Belt, 34% of new Corn Now Hit with Drought: https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/corn/drought-tightens-grip-across-corn-belt-34-corn-now-hit-drought
What is different is not gradual change but the accelerating rate of change since the industrial revolution when we started pumping carbon into the air. Exxon scientists figured it out in 1968.
And Glacier National Park in Montana is worth a visit although there are almost no glaciers left to see. And it's a fair hike into see what is left.
Eastern Kansas near KC has been really wet as well. Same for west Texas. Weather patterns are an interesting thing. Just FYI a lot of those dry areas of Kansas have received significant rainfall in the past week. Probably too late for the wheat in those areas but still welcome.
Climate change is manifesting itself as vastly greater variations in and instances of extreme weather which our structures, locations, agriculture, and society were not set up to deal with. So big cities will face flooding, agricultural areas will face extremes of drought and bouts rain and on and on.
The lack of water is not just a result of climate change but also over use of aquifers which have been drained so they no longer provide the buffer they did before. This has long been predicted. Read Cadillac Desert published in the 80's which outlines exactly what is happening now. A slow rolling car crash.
The cry is always "it's too expensive" until it's too late. The value of a stitch in time or an ounce of prevention comes to mind. We've been told it all our lives and ignored it.
The lack of water is not just a result of climate change but also over use of aquifers which have been drained so they no longer provide the buffer they did before. This has long been predicted. Read Cadillac Desert published in the 80's which outlines exactly what is happening now. A slow rolling car crash.
The cry is always "it's too expensive" until it's too late. The value of a stitch in time or an ounce of prevention comes to mind. We've been told it all our lives and ignored it.
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Those coal plants aren’t necessarily all going to be running in perpetuity. They’re (partially) building backup generation for wind and solar’s intermittent issue. In any case much of China’s coal energy industry is already losing money even during times when they have hydroelectric droughts. It will be interesting to see what happens with that capacity over the next decade.
You cant turn coal plants on and off.... they have to be fired constantly or their ability to fill in the gaps is negligible..
Anyone concerned about immigration should take climate change very seriously..to say the least.
Climate Crisis Has Stranded 600 Million Outside Most Livable Environment
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-crisis-niche-migration-environment-population
Climate Crisis Has Stranded 600 Million Outside Most Livable Environment
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-crisis-niche-migration-environment-population
And that crap does nothing to move the needle. It simply defaces great works of art. These people are no better than the terrorist groups in the middle east who blow up and destroy buildings in Syria, that are the world's heritage. Their reasoning does not make them any different than ISIL/ISIS.
