Climate Change: the costs of doing nothing
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I’m disheartened that people feel they need to do this. I love Monet. Probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite artist.
I think there are probably better ways of gaining notoriety than gluing yourself to a priceless painting, and the people who you need to reach are typically ones who don’t care about the art anyway.
Biodiversity loss...another aspect of human activity on the planet.
ec.europa.eu
Sixth mass extinction could destroy life as we know it– biodiversity expert
Urgent international action is needed to halt this potentially catastrophic decline in biodiversity, according to Professor Georgina Mace, head of the Centre for Biodiversity and Environmental Research at University College London, UK. While Prof.
Hostility wins out. It's hard to see how this country can continue to have a vibrant, effective democracy if this is becomes the new norm.
I’m much more concerned with the growing number of lost and hopeless young teenagers than one left wing political weather guy somewhere in Iowa. They are our future and they are lost. Suppose we can also talk about the skyrocketing crime in our cities and the mass exodus of business and now people from the same as it relates to a vibrant country.
Then there's the cost of doing something...
dailycaller.com
‘Dead Without Water’: Massive Desert Solar Projects Are Sucking Up Groundwater, Angering Locals
Massive solar development projects in Southern California have strained local water availability, threatening desert ecosystems and angering residents.
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Doesn’t compare to the damage done by drilling and fracking to local water supplies both from usage and pollution. And that is just to the water supply, not the subsequent carbon in the atmosphere.
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Utilities like green energy but only if they provide it.
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Opinion | Guess Who’s Been Paying to Block Green Energy. You Have.
As regulated monopolies, utilities have the unique ability to force customers to fund their political activities through monthly bills.
I call Shennanigans on that polling.
A) 2012 was not the “rise” of social media.
B) Clearly no-one was listening to teens on the Mid-2000’s when we had an entire musical genre named after our depression. Emo. Nowhere in that graphic do i see a statistically significant rise in depression during that era even though I (anecdotally) saw a significant rise in teenage suicides and self harm during the same time.
If you’d like to see real depression go to an emo kids MySpace page from 2003.
The CDC is now involved in poll rigging on health issues huh? Never took you for someone who believed the CDC outright lies.
Why American Teens Are So Sad
Four forces are propelling the rising rates of depression among young people.
I didn’t say they rigged it. I just said it was a poor poll that evidently has highly inaccurate historical data. There’s no way that the millennials weren’t significantly more emotionally distraught than the kids of previous generations simply based on the culture of that time. You don’t hear kids singing about killing themselves these days like you used to.The CDC is now involved in poll rigging on health issues huh? Never took you for someone who believed the CDC outright lies.
Why American Teens Are So Sad
Four forces are propelling the rising rates of depression among young people.www.theatlantic.com
I don’t think the poll is malicious. I just think that it probably leads to some incorrect assumptions about the true nature of our society’s kids.
You accused the CDC of Shennanigans in their polling results. Saying you didn’t accuse them of “rigging” the poll is merely semantics You flat out called the CDC report dishonest
My meaning was it was inaccurate, not rigged. There’s a difference in the motive.You accused the CDC of Shennanigans in their polling results. Saying you didn’t accuse them of “rigging” the poll is merely semantics You flat out called the CDC report dishonest
Your emo culture used to be the goth culture of the late 70's, 80's and early 90's. Just because it wasn't in your time doesn't mean it never existed before. The goth culture was singing about suicide frequently. Talk to Morrissey.
Agree. However “shenanigans” implies intentionally inaccurate or dishonest.
How was the winter up in Wyoming? You guys get a lot of snore like they did out west? Figure it’s ok to ask in a climate change thread..:right.
Although the "underhanded trick" sense of the word is oldest, the most common senses in use now are "tricky or questionable practices" (as in "political shenanigans") and "high-spirited behavior" (as in "youthful shenanigans")
I tend to use it in the second / third example from the MW dictionary, didn't even know it had the connotation of the first until I just looked it up. The more you know!
We had a good amount of snow. More so the weather remained colder longer than it typically does. It has been really rainy this year. Lots of moisture. Had to cut back on my grass watering... but driving through the Western US last week I saw that West of the Rockies they've have very little moisture at all.
It can certainly be hard to keep perspective on the world's climate when just had your coldest Fourth of July in living memory despite other areas setting new records for warm temps.
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We’ve been very fortunate of late in Tulsa with the heat. Currently on a nice yearly trend of milder than normal summers as it relates to above 100 degree temperatures. Hoping it continues.
The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff has some pretty startling statistics on teen and adult mental health in the last decade+. Their hypothesis iirc was that it’s due to the rise of social media and parents/society plowing through adversity their child needs to face at critical developmental stages.
Agreed. Keeping one's perspective while we experience more extreme weather in the form of droughts and massive rain/snow drops, more frequent and more extreme storms, more frequent and more devastating forest fires with concomitant smoke and poor air quality is a challenge. Meanwhile in the back ground glaciers keep melting, water sources are drying up, and sea levels rising. A train wreck in very slow motion.
the heat wave this year is similar to the one in 1980 when we set lots of records; 43 years ago.
Aparently the Chinese have discovered that the gravitational pull of the planets and the sun have drastic effects on the climate of Mars.... and Earth...
If China says it... it has to be true.
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If China says it... it has to be true.
The climate of Mars changed dramatically 400,000 years ago, Chinese rover finds
Zhurong spotted telltale patterns in Martian dunes.
July 4th was the the hottest day ever recorded. Earth's global average temperature of more than 17 degrees Celsius (62.6 Fahrenheit) may well have been the hottest it has gotten in the last 125,000 years.
So it’s hot in the desert southwest in mid July? The average high temp in July in Tulsa in 94 degrees. The average forecast high over the next 5 days in Tulsa is……94 degrees.
The eastern and midwestern US are in seasonally cool btw due to the current weather pattern over the US. This is a global thing.
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D'oh!!! Love your ignorant statements. It's GLOBAL warming, not local warming. Besides the fact that they don't use that term any longer because of idiots like you.
China, China, China....Aparently the Chinese have discovered that the gravitational pull of the planets and the sun have drastic effects on the climate of Mars.... and Earth...
If China says it... it has to be true.
The climate of Mars changed dramatically 400,000 years ago, Chinese rover finds
Zhurong spotted telltale patterns in Martian dunes.
Damn. Was hoping for a link regarding those 100 new coal fire plants China is building
Insurance companies withdrawing from climate impacted areas. Private companies are going to pass those costs on to the insured or continue to pull out of markets.
www.news4jax.com
Crisis continues: AAA Insurance set to drop ‘small percentage’ of Florida homeowners
AAA Insurance will be issuing non-renewals for a select number of homeowners in Florida, the company told News4JAX sister station WKMG on Thursday.
Citizen Insurance in Florida is going to blow up after the next hurricane, all the major carriers are getting the heck out of the promised land. Farmers announced they're getting out this week, all policies, home, commercial and auto.
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