Climate Change is a SCAM (yes, it really is people!) The whole idea was concocted by the UN / WEF / Club of Rome / Trilateral Commission in the 70s via "Limits to Growth" ideology and later convened in 1992 at the conference in Rio; 1) lets stop calling them fossil fuels because we are not in 5th grade anymore (not to mention where they drill for oil nothing lives or has lived) and as dirty and corrupt as Big Oil and Big "anything" is HYDROCARBONS (not fossil fuels) are the most abundant, reliable and cheap form of energy we have UNLESS Nuclear fusion is offered to all; try looking into Thomas Gold's book " Deep Hot Biosphere - Myth of Fossil Fuels" 2) Fossil Fuels was a term coined by Rockefeller Standard Oil (their logo used to be a dinosaur) to create scarcity and nothing more; the term is based on what all living things posses: water, oxygen and carbon and since all living things die and oil / fossil fuels posses all three it must be scarce 3) The earth creates / generates its own water and hydrocarbons; 4) OH molecule (aka Hydroxyl Radical) which is the "laundry detergent of the atmosphere" detaches methane from carbon 5) Tree Bark also consumes methane at the ground level 6) Carbon is not a pollutant its the gas of life without carbon there is no planet and life; carbon is not a global warming agent in fact NO GAS is a global warming agent because any / all gas needs to be excited by pressure / force and that pressure is the SUN people and since we have built in "night and day" by the earth gas cools too quickly to cause any problems 6) UN Sustainable Goals / Climate Green Scam is all bout more restrictions, less freedoms, depopulation, total control of all living things on the planet; The real enemy thru the globalist eyes is humanity itself - 7) Look into Dane Wigington research on geoengineering which has been happening for over the past 75 years; there is nothing natural about our weather nowadays: Lahaina, North Carolina, Texas, Acapulco, Canada etc were all part of weather manipulation tactics hiding behind the BS story of the "Climate is killing us" - LASTLY; The planet doesn't need saving, we didn't create it nor can we destroy it, we just need to harmonize with it; Civilizations come and go over millenniums and yet the planet keeps offering; If we remove Imperialism you remove ALL mainstream narrative problems - You know what isnt listed on the bullshit 17 UN Sustainable Goals "NO MORE WAR" instead they say "Peace" because WAR is Peace and Slavery is Freedom" Good luck and be vigilant people!
Sorry, but only delusionals can be hopeful about anything right now. And i don't get why climate scientists are trying at the same time to fight doomersim and give reason to doomers.
1. Many of the destructions we were facing in the past and are facing right now are irreversible. "Clear skies, pristine air, abundant nature, and food and water for all" is a thing of the past.
2. The situation will deteriorate whatever we do. At best, we can slow down the acceleration of the deterioration, but not the deterioration itself, and even less cancel it.
3. A liveable future is now a sweet utopia. As i said above, it will worsen whatever we do, and if you take account of the current situation, we are locked in a future you wouldn't wish to your worst enemy.
4. The climate is far from being our only existential threat, there are many other ones that does not need climate crisis to exist: other forms of pollution, financial collapse, geopolitical tensions, right-wing populism, etc... Why focusing only on climate ?
5. Speaking of right-wing extremism, they are progressively taking the power everywhere in the world. I wouldn't be surprised if in the next years climate policies are buried and climate activism become virtually impossible.
In '72, when the Meadows report came out, hope was possible. Not anymore.
Great piece. I just want to let you and the other commenters know that one really powerful thing you can do is to move your retirement money and any other investments to sustainable funds. We talk to people all the time about this (you can see our advocacy at tillinvestors.com) and we're absolutely convinced that it's a game changer.
The carbon intensity of electricity generation in the U.S. decreased by nearly 40% between 2000 and 2020 due to replacement of coal with natural gas and renewables.
It's extremely speculative to say the Canadian or Hawaiian fires are the result of climate change. In the case of Hawaii there was a lot of dry grass that had grown up over old pineapple plantations, and in Canada even age tree plantations build up dead branches on the forest floor. Both of these situations are tinderboxes and would be tinderboxes regardless of the climate.
And note, I am not a global climate change denier. I believe the ICC models are pretty accurate that we are looking at roughly 2.5 degrees F. change in the next 20 years. That is not nothing, but it is within the temperature variation seen between El Nino and La Nina years at least in north America. Yes eventually we will have to act to bring about a post fossil fuel society, because we are going to run out of fossil fuels in roughly 50 years if nothing else. Yes ending fossil fuel industry subsidies is just a good idea in general as subsidies distort markets. But the whole "climate emergency" rhetoric is pure sophistry being promoted by technocrats with self interested agendas.
Gosh, really? I was raised In Edmonton Alberta Canada. My birthday is the end of May. 60 years ago, we never knew if we could celebrate my birthday with a spring picnic at Emily Murphy park or if there would still be a foot of snow in the back yard.
Now, it is the middle of Fire Season. Yes, the fires are from global climate change.
This is wonderful and so inspiring. Thank you so much.
Climate Change is a SCAM (yes, it really is people!) The whole idea was concocted by the UN / WEF / Club of Rome / Trilateral Commission in the 70s via "Limits to Growth" ideology and later convened in 1992 at the conference in Rio; 1) lets stop calling them fossil fuels because we are not in 5th grade anymore (not to mention where they drill for oil nothing lives or has lived) and as dirty and corrupt as Big Oil and Big "anything" is HYDROCARBONS (not fossil fuels) are the most abundant, reliable and cheap form of energy we have UNLESS Nuclear fusion is offered to all; try looking into Thomas Gold's book " Deep Hot Biosphere - Myth of Fossil Fuels" 2) Fossil Fuels was a term coined by Rockefeller Standard Oil (their logo used to be a dinosaur) to create scarcity and nothing more; the term is based on what all living things posses: water, oxygen and carbon and since all living things die and oil / fossil fuels posses all three it must be scarce 3) The earth creates / generates its own water and hydrocarbons; 4) OH molecule (aka Hydroxyl Radical) which is the "laundry detergent of the atmosphere" detaches methane from carbon 5) Tree Bark also consumes methane at the ground level 6) Carbon is not a pollutant its the gas of life without carbon there is no planet and life; carbon is not a global warming agent in fact NO GAS is a global warming agent because any / all gas needs to be excited by pressure / force and that pressure is the SUN people and since we have built in "night and day" by the earth gas cools too quickly to cause any problems 6) UN Sustainable Goals / Climate Green Scam is all bout more restrictions, less freedoms, depopulation, total control of all living things on the planet; The real enemy thru the globalist eyes is humanity itself - 7) Look into Dane Wigington research on geoengineering which has been happening for over the past 75 years; there is nothing natural about our weather nowadays: Lahaina, North Carolina, Texas, Acapulco, Canada etc were all part of weather manipulation tactics hiding behind the BS story of the "Climate is killing us" - LASTLY; The planet doesn't need saving, we didn't create it nor can we destroy it, we just need to harmonize with it; Civilizations come and go over millenniums and yet the planet keeps offering; If we remove Imperialism you remove ALL mainstream narrative problems - You know what isnt listed on the bullshit 17 UN Sustainable Goals "NO MORE WAR" instead they say "Peace" because WAR is Peace and Slavery is Freedom" Good luck and be vigilant people!
Sorry, but only delusionals can be hopeful about anything right now. And i don't get why climate scientists are trying at the same time to fight doomersim and give reason to doomers.
1. Many of the destructions we were facing in the past and are facing right now are irreversible. "Clear skies, pristine air, abundant nature, and food and water for all" is a thing of the past.
2. The situation will deteriorate whatever we do. At best, we can slow down the acceleration of the deterioration, but not the deterioration itself, and even less cancel it.
3. A liveable future is now a sweet utopia. As i said above, it will worsen whatever we do, and if you take account of the current situation, we are locked in a future you wouldn't wish to your worst enemy.
4. The climate is far from being our only existential threat, there are many other ones that does not need climate crisis to exist: other forms of pollution, financial collapse, geopolitical tensions, right-wing populism, etc... Why focusing only on climate ?
5. Speaking of right-wing extremism, they are progressively taking the power everywhere in the world. I wouldn't be surprised if in the next years climate policies are buried and climate activism become virtually impossible.
In '72, when the Meadows report came out, hope was possible. Not anymore.
Great piece. I just want to let you and the other commenters know that one really powerful thing you can do is to move your retirement money and any other investments to sustainable funds. We talk to people all the time about this (you can see our advocacy at tillinvestors.com) and we're absolutely convinced that it's a game changer.
Every single person who has lost someone to heatdomes, forest fires, flooding or wind storms should join together and sue Big Oil for Wrongful Death.
There are signs of hope and there have been some articles recently in both the NYTimes and the Washington Post that are encouraging.
"The clean energy future is arriving faster than you think"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/12/climate/clean-energy-us-fossil-fuels.html?
In the Washington Post, Harry Stevens recently posted a corrected version of his article on which states have the cleanest electricity based on carbon intensity, https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/clean-energy-electricity-sources/?itid=sf_climate_climate-lab_article_list
The carbon intensity of electricity generation in the U.S. decreased by nearly 40% between 2000 and 2020 due to replacement of coal with natural gas and renewables.
It's extremely speculative to say the Canadian or Hawaiian fires are the result of climate change. In the case of Hawaii there was a lot of dry grass that had grown up over old pineapple plantations, and in Canada even age tree plantations build up dead branches on the forest floor. Both of these situations are tinderboxes and would be tinderboxes regardless of the climate.
And note, I am not a global climate change denier. I believe the ICC models are pretty accurate that we are looking at roughly 2.5 degrees F. change in the next 20 years. That is not nothing, but it is within the temperature variation seen between El Nino and La Nina years at least in north America. Yes eventually we will have to act to bring about a post fossil fuel society, because we are going to run out of fossil fuels in roughly 50 years if nothing else. Yes ending fossil fuel industry subsidies is just a good idea in general as subsidies distort markets. But the whole "climate emergency" rhetoric is pure sophistry being promoted by technocrats with self interested agendas.
Gosh, really? I was raised In Edmonton Alberta Canada. My birthday is the end of May. 60 years ago, we never knew if we could celebrate my birthday with a spring picnic at Emily Murphy park or if there would still be a foot of snow in the back yard.
Now, it is the middle of Fire Season. Yes, the fires are from global climate change.