Robert Ariail for October 14, 2018

The RWNJ’s love fireworks.

Been following the burning of that fuse for over 50 years now, since anthropogenic climate change was identified in the Med and Europe as Man’s activities.

“But doing anything about it would be ruinous to our economy.”

Like the alternative wouldn’t be?

Pour on the coal, say the Republicans.

Maybe Carole King was right, ’It’s Too Late Baby’.

We are on the threshold of disaster! Please get up and vote on November 6, 2018. This may be our last chance to change what we know if coming!

The part I like is you can only pretend so long. When your driving thru 2 feet of water it gets harder and harder.

Population tripled in 75 years. Four Horsemen will fix it.

Until all you hypocrites stop… driving… having more than 1 child.. enjoying air conditioning and heat in your home and place of work.. buying groceries.. clothes..any travel other than on foot.. All the hand wringing in the world will not solve the problem.

I.. you.. we.. are the problem.

Trump: Fake global warming created by the angry “Mob” dem’s.

And Ariail hasn’t even included the acidification of the oceans, the home of the primary producers of the planet, in his fuse. BTW, with climate change comes a change in what defines the “survival of the fittest”. Maybe H. sap wn’t be so fit in the coming world.

Want more planetary destruction? Then keep voting republican!

Actually, Alberta has hit the nail on the head. Population explosion is what is driving all of this madness. Until about 150 years ago – maybe a bit longer – people had big families because so few children survived. A third of the children died before they were three and half never saw their fifth birthday. Population was stable; the survival rate equaled the death rate. In fact, some places actually saw a reduction in population. Now, modern medicine makes it possible to raise all of your children to adulthood, which is a good thing, but also a curse. We do need to stop having to many children! The worst of it is that the nations with the highest birth rates are the ones that can least afford more mouths to feed.

The difficult bit for many people is that we won’t just magically warm everywhere. There will be no obvious moment to which we can point and say “BOOM! Global warming!”

Instead, there will be a host of different small things happening everywhere, and a few big things happening periodically. The ice cap shrinks in summer and re-freezes in winter – but now it’s shrinking more every summer and re-freezing less every winter. The Sahara Desert is slowly growing. Some dry areas are now getting arid, with longer droughts. Others get more rainfall – some enough to be helpful, many getting pounded (and hard, heavy rain washes away topsoil, so it isn’t what farmers prefer!).

The jet stream is shifting; flying over the North Atlantic is now consistently bumpier than it used to be (I’ve experienced that myself, having taken that route frequently over the past 25 years). Some think the Gulf Stream will shift, and depending on the direction it will either drop the UK into the deep freeze, or warm it further – but in either case what we will see incremental changes every year, every season: “wow, this is a warmer summer [or colder winter] than usual.” And every year worse.

And we get stronger hurricanes – there has been debate over whether there will be more of them or not, but they are definitely going to be stronger, because ocean warmth is fuel for hurricanes.

Here in Boston, the predictions are that we will get more snowfall, but at less frequent intervals. Why? Because warmer air carries more moisture. It will snow less frequently because of warmth (more rain), but when we DO get snowfall, there will be more of it because we have more moisture to freeze into snow. (This is exactly the pattern here for the past several years, incidentally.) This has secondary and tertiary effects: business being slowed for major snowfalls, more money spent on clearance, schools closing, etc. Imagine those small changes everywhere – and the prices we will pay every day…

The earth will be just fine, as soon as it rids itself of the filth that is destroying it. Problem is we are that filth.

At the rate we’re going, when cockroaches feed on the last remaining climate change denier, the argument will end.

Sorry Bob I beg to differ – sea levels are NOT rising and higher temperatures are beneficial for Farmers in many cases

@squiggle9: making stuff up again, I’m afraid. Sea level rise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise

I spend my vacation at a beach every year – there is a coral reef just off the beach at 10 AM it is barely covered – just like it was 15 years ago. Lies Lies Lies