Simple really. In order to keep future generations of humanity from dying of pollution created by the industrailization of our civilization, current humanity must stop burning fossil fuels for energy and transportation. I would also say that this must happen faster than we originally thought it should. Say, within a generation (20 years) from now. At this time at least that is still quite possible without even having too much disturbance to our own life styles, but the clock is ticking!!
Of course you will notice that nothing the frogs did or do affects the temperature of the water. It is all external and natural and out of their control.
The conservative frog will stay there and wait for his God or gods to do something. The smarter frog will do something on his own to change the situation.
Burlington, Vermont is now 100% renewable power. Seattle is apparently 97% renewable and has been for some time. There’s a lot we can do.@Robert Landers, it’s not clear that we have a generation to do something about this. We are seeing the warning signs all over the world — well, those of us who are looking and who think we can do something about it are, which would be the majority of people everywhere in the world EXCEPT the U.S. Republican Party and some in Canada, who are also beholden to oil companies.The problem is that the Earth has already absorbed a lot of CO2, and may be reaching the point where it cannot absorb more, e.g., the oceans are increasingly acidic. If that is true, then the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will go up even faster. As it stands, some people are talking about “geoengineering” to reduce the heat rapidly. But besides being dangerous and virtually impossible to test safety, such techniques (e.g., do a simulated volcano eruption and scatter sun-blocking particles into the upper atmosphere) do not remove the CO2 that is already saturating the ecosystem.We MUST find ways to reduce our CO2 production now. If we can, we would hugely benefit from learning how to remove CO2 from the ecosystem. Then, maybe, we can try and reduce the amount of heat already trapped in the atmosphere.
If all we can do is to knock that 30% substantially down, then we as humanity will possibly have bought enough time for our descendants to work the problem even further. Furthermore, perhaps it might also do us some good to start to look at just how we can survive in a reasonable manner with some of the affects of the other 70%. Something that just denying the problem and sticking our heads in the proverbial sand will not do at all!
I would like to think that you and the other more intelligent thinking conservatives on this site can agree at least to that much at any rate!
The long term solution to the problems of human pollution of this planet is also relatively simple. It is the eventual colonization of at least our solar system, if not eventually even further out. Admittedly, this is going ot take a lot of effort and time (in centuries probably).
In the meantime however, we need to use every means available to us to keep our only spaceship Earth as clean as possible. Burning fossil fuels for both energy and transportation is NOT a new technology, it is an old and very dirty technology at best. It needs to go now so that we and our immediate descendants will even have a chance of becomming a space faring civilization. Perhaps I am just an idealistic old idiot, but I do have at least some degree of hope that we will do so!
While many amphibians are severely threatened, others will bury themselves for long periods, not using resources like well, food, , until rains return (sometimes years), and they can safely surface and return to “life”, so to speak. Can humans do that?
It is the hottest year globally on record. Period.
The year 2014 was the hottest on record, part of a “warming trend” that appeared set to continue, the UN’s weather agency said Monday.
Average global air temperatures in 2014 were 0.57 degrees Celsius (1.03 degree Fahrenheit) higher than the long-term average of 14 C (57.2 F) for a 1961-1990 reference period, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a statement.
“Fourteen of the 15 hottest years have all been this century,” said WMO secretary general Michel Jarraud.
“In 2014, record-breaking heat combined with torrential rainfall and floods in many countries and drought in some others — consistent with the expectation of a changing climate,” he added.
Global sea-surface temperatures also reached record levels.
aardvarkseyes over 9 years ago
Consider it an act of frog.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 9 years ago
Not sure I like what’s being implied here.
pam Miner over 9 years ago
Some frogs can’t handle the truth!
frodo1008 over 9 years ago
Simple really. In order to keep future generations of humanity from dying of pollution created by the industrailization of our civilization, current humanity must stop burning fossil fuels for energy and transportation. I would also say that this must happen faster than we originally thought it should. Say, within a generation (20 years) from now. At this time at least that is still quite possible without even having too much disturbance to our own life styles, but the clock is ticking!!
Carl Premium Member over 9 years ago
Of course you will notice that nothing the frogs did or do affects the temperature of the water. It is all external and natural and out of their control.
JDave over 9 years ago
The conservative frog will stay there and wait for his God or gods to do something. The smarter frog will do something on his own to change the situation.
magicwalnut Premium Member over 9 years ago
Is Mother Nature going to crank up evolution so her creatures can survive on the planet, or just kill off the perpetrators? Stay tuned!
Motivemagus over 9 years ago
Burlington, Vermont is now 100% renewable power. Seattle is apparently 97% renewable and has been for some time. There’s a lot we can do.@Robert Landers, it’s not clear that we have a generation to do something about this. We are seeing the warning signs all over the world — well, those of us who are looking and who think we can do something about it are, which would be the majority of people everywhere in the world EXCEPT the U.S. Republican Party and some in Canada, who are also beholden to oil companies.The problem is that the Earth has already absorbed a lot of CO2, and may be reaching the point where it cannot absorb more, e.g., the oceans are increasingly acidic. If that is true, then the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will go up even faster. As it stands, some people are talking about “geoengineering” to reduce the heat rapidly. But besides being dangerous and virtually impossible to test safety, such techniques (e.g., do a simulated volcano eruption and scatter sun-blocking particles into the upper atmosphere) do not remove the CO2 that is already saturating the ecosystem.We MUST find ways to reduce our CO2 production now. If we can, we would hugely benefit from learning how to remove CO2 from the ecosystem. Then, maybe, we can try and reduce the amount of heat already trapped in the atmosphere.
cepa over 9 years ago
In 2014 and in every year of weather history it was coldest, the wettest, the hottest, the coldest, the windiest etc. in some part of the world.
A very slight change in soar activity has more effect in our weather that any man made event.
If you read weather history it will scare the hell out of you. In only a small part of 1% of the time has been suitable for human life.
Neanderthals(contrary to current public pinion were advance over homosapians) were almost complexity destroyed by extreme weather changes.
frodo1008 over 9 years ago
If all we can do is to knock that 30% substantially down, then we as humanity will possibly have bought enough time for our descendants to work the problem even further. Furthermore, perhaps it might also do us some good to start to look at just how we can survive in a reasonable manner with some of the affects of the other 70%. Something that just denying the problem and sticking our heads in the proverbial sand will not do at all!
I would like to think that you and the other more intelligent thinking conservatives on this site can agree at least to that much at any rate!
frodo1008 over 9 years ago
The long term solution to the problems of human pollution of this planet is also relatively simple. It is the eventual colonization of at least our solar system, if not eventually even further out. Admittedly, this is going ot take a lot of effort and time (in centuries probably).
In the meantime however, we need to use every means available to us to keep our only spaceship Earth as clean as possible. Burning fossil fuels for both energy and transportation is NOT a new technology, it is an old and very dirty technology at best. It needs to go now so that we and our immediate descendants will even have a chance of becomming a space faring civilization. Perhaps I am just an idealistic old idiot, but I do have at least some degree of hope that we will do so!
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
While many amphibians are severely threatened, others will bury themselves for long periods, not using resources like well, food, , until rains return (sometimes years), and they can safely surface and return to “life”, so to speak. Can humans do that?
Motivemagus over 9 years ago
It is the hottest year globally on record. Period.
The year 2014 was the hottest on record, part of a “warming trend” that appeared set to continue, the UN’s weather agency said Monday.
Average global air temperatures in 2014 were 0.57 degrees Celsius (1.03 degree Fahrenheit) higher than the long-term average of 14 C (57.2 F) for a 1961-1990 reference period, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a statement.
“Fourteen of the 15 hottest years have all been this century,” said WMO secretary general Michel Jarraud.
“In 2014, record-breaking heat combined with torrential rainfall and floods in many countries and drought in some others — consistent with the expectation of a changing climate,” he added.
Global sea-surface temperatures also reached record levels.
http://news.yahoo.com/un-confirms-2014-hottest-record-101032311.html
You can’t call it a “lie” unless you have some proof it is false.
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
Just a note, with amphibians, it’s more about pH than temperature, btw.