Is now the time to talk about climate change

[imported_tajmahal]

That is the funniest thing I've read all week! SMOGZINN dumbed it down for you but apparently not dumb enough... to really clarify this dumbed down version of climate change you narrow it down to "having your cake and eating it too".................. YES DUDE .. THAT IS EXACTLY THE SAME THING AS CLIMATE CHANGE, YOU NAILED IT BRO. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I was replying to Smogzins reply to werepossum. Sorry if you didn't read it or it was too hard for you to understand.

 

[Paratus]

Let me present you some facts before giving my opinion on this:

97 percent: The percentage of scientists who agree that warming trends over the past century are very likely caused by human activity.

1950: Year when atmospheric CO2 levels broke records from the previous 400,000 years, sharply rising and continuing to grow.

8 inches: Rise in global sea levels over the last century. The rate of rise has nearly doubled in the last two decades.

16: Number of record-breaking hottest years since 2000. 2016 was the hottest year yet.

1.5 degrees: The average worldwide temperature increase in Fahrenheit compared to a century ago.

400 parts per million: Average concentration since 2016 of CO2 in the atmosphere, compared to 275 PPM for past 400,000 years.

9: The 9 most explosive fires in America's history have all occurred since 2000, with 2015 having the biggest fire (10.1 million acres burned) in American history.

19th century: When the heat-trapping nature of CO2 was first demonstrated.

30 percent: The increase in acidity of the world's oceans.

$180 billion: Estimated economic losses to the United States by end of the century if no action is taken on climate change.

So the point is not whether it's the right to talk about climate change or not. The question is how late are we?

Sources: NASA and EPA

Well put!

Although I think the economic losses are going to highly variable and much likely worse than $180B

 

[werepossum]

Climate change discussion at out level is a mostly political and emotional rage/debate anyway. Is it real? I believe so, but I'm tired of the ones making climate change into a religion grasping to link every weather event as proof of it.

Well said.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Worst April heatwave in Asia.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1649391034932113412

El Niño is back.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1649162271883509763

 

[UNCjigga]

I think we’re well past the point of doing anything preventive and at this point we should just be funding mitigation efforts. Like, too late to debate man made vs. planetary cycle—seas are going to rise, storms will be more intense, coral is bleaching, species will be disappearing. We’re not doing nearly enough to protect low lying areas like Florida and New Orleans or to protect global food crops. In a few years we could have transcontinental locust swarms, another Dust Bowl in the Midwest, and all kinds of new viral or fungal infections to deal with.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I think we’re well past the point of doing anything preventive and at this point we should just be funding mitigation efforts.

We must do both. We can only mitigate so much, and if we keep going as we have been it will eventually be beyond our ability to mitigate.

 

[hal2kilo]

It's like basic chemistry, once you lose equilibrium, no amount of ice is going to stop the reaction. We cannot give up though. Something, something, should of somethings 20 years ago.

 

[sandorski]

Sorry, there's a Record setting Heat Wave in Asia right now. It's too soon to talk about Climate Change.....

 

[brycejones]

So many posts in this thread that have aged so poorly.