Thirty years after the alarm bell was rung, scientists overwhelmingly agree we are currently “near the brink” of total climate breakdown (“Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide” in the Aug. 10 edition of the Daily Journal). One need only take stock of climate events across the globe to accept this pronouncement. We are witnessing record extremes of seasonal temperatures, widespread drought, large devastating wildfires simultaneously in multiple locales, and tropical storms in unprecedented numbers and of unprecedented ferocity.
Our oceans are dying due to excessive acidification while also rising due to the rapid melting of the polar ice cap, and the sixth mass extinction event is well underway. The IPCC report makes it clear that all of this happening at once is not coincidental. It is all due to unfettered human activity that is disconnected from the natural world and disrespectful of it.
If this is what it is to be near the brink, it is terrifying to imagine what it will be like if and when we reach the brink, something that is, unfortunately, increasingly likely. It begs the question, “How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see?”
Let us hope the answer to that question is not just “blowin’ in the wind.”
Ms. Normoyle, or others of the same opinion, perhaps you can educate us as to what you are doing to address this so called “climate breakdown.” There are many folks who write about these supposed global warming-caused disasters yet nobody seems to want to address the fact that there are emerging nations that are, or will be greater, emitters of these so called greenhouse gases. They do call it global warming for a reason, and not USA warming. There are also many folks who can’t explain why Earth has gone through a number of Ice Ages, but not one “Steam” Age or why three million years ago temperatures and CO2 levels were higher, yet there were no humans driving cars, no plastic, no air conditioning and no aerosols. I look forward to some useful responses.
There is no climate crisis. Our climate is only going through an expected and welcome warming since the end of the Little Ice Age in 1860. The earth is greening more according to pictures from space since 1960. The earth's climate is controlled by the Sun’s cycles and has been changing between ice ages and warmings periods long before man’s emissions. CO2 and temperatures are about the lowest in the last 460 mill years.
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Ms. Normoyle, or others of the same opinion, perhaps you can educate us as to what you are doing to address this so called “climate breakdown.” There are many folks who write about these supposed global warming-caused disasters yet nobody seems to want to address the fact that there are emerging nations that are, or will be greater, emitters of these so called greenhouse gases. They do call it global warming for a reason, and not USA warming. There are also many folks who can’t explain why Earth has gone through a number of Ice Ages, but not one “Steam” Age or why three million years ago temperatures and CO2 levels were higher, yet there were no humans driving cars, no plastic, no air conditioning and no aerosols. I look forward to some useful responses.
There is no climate crisis. Our climate is only going through an expected and welcome warming since the end of the Little Ice Age in 1860. The earth is greening more according to pictures from space since 1960. The earth's climate is controlled by the Sun’s cycles and has been changing between ice ages and warmings periods long before man’s emissions. CO2 and temperatures are about the lowest in the last 460 mill years.
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