We're Past the Point of No Return for Climate Change

PostmodernProphet said:
lol dude....your generation fucked itself over long before anyone even thought of doing it......I mean seriously, some of you still think Reddit is a place!......
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There will come a time when the Snowflake Generations will realise that they can no longer blame others for their faults.

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Say what you will about climate change, but Leo D's new movie on the matter is scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. I'm watching it for that reason alone.
 
There's science climate change then there's political climate change.

How many lefties have already blamed the current hurricane in Florida on climate change?
 
philly rabbit said:
There's science climate change then there's political climate change.

How many lefties have already blamed the current hurricane in Florida on climate change?
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Yet they were also claiming that the fact there hasn't been a hurricane for 10 years on climate change as well.

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Milagro said:
Yet they were also claiming that the fact there hasn't been a hurricane for 10 years on climate change as well.

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Its immensely galling to have assholes, such as Gore and Obama who are only interested in the power climate change policy gives them by espousing a twisted interpretation of climate science. But it is obnoxious to read and listen to morons like DeCaprio who champion their support.
 
Mr.Badguy said:
Say what you will about climate change, but Leo D's new movie on the matter is scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. I'm watching it for that reason alone.
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11 questions the obsequious press ought to ask DiCaprio but won't!

http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/questions-press-leonardo-dicaprio/

J Craft said:
Its immensely galling to have assholes, such as Gore and Obama who are only interested in the power climate change policy gives them by espousing a twisted interpretation of climate science. But it is obnoxious to read and listen to morons like DeCaprio who champion their support.
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It is amazing that American near-illiterates get confident enough from licking their masters' arseholes, to suppose they know better than anyone who has studied the subject of climate. As to the terrible destruction in Haiti, unusual weather events have always been predicted by all those who tell us about global overheating, as everyone else knows.
 
iolo said:
It is amazing that American near-illiterates get confident enough from licking their masters' arseholes, to suppose they know better than anyone who has studied the subject of climate. As to the terrible destruction in Haiti, unusual weather events have always been predicted by all those who tell us about global overheating, as everyone else knows.
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There hasn't been a hurricane greater than a category 2 for a decade till now, if you are so fucking clever then tell me why that is?
 
signalmankenneth said:
Earth is in the danger zone, and every day we burn fossil fuels brings it closer to destruction.

If you watched cable news at all this weekend, you probably heard a lot about Donald Trump's bad week and how it was a turning point in the presidential campaign. But you probably didn't hear anything about another big turning point, one that demonstrates how little time we really have left to stop climate change.

Last week, the Scripps Institute of Oceanography announced that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has stayed above 400 parts per million throughout the entire year up to this point.

We've crossed the 400 parts per million (or PPM) threshold before -- sometimes for weeks at a time, sometimes for months -- but the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere usually dips at the beginning of autumn, something [3] that just hasn't happened this year.

As a result, scientists now think that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will stay above 400 parts per million permanently.
That's right -- permanently, as in forever, at least in human terms.

This is, to paraphrase Vice President Joe Biden, a big "effing" deal.

The last time there was this much carbon in the atmosphere, human beings didn't even exist, at least not in our current form. And just for some perspective, 400 parts per million is already about 50 parts per million more than what most scientists consider "safe" levels of CO2 concentration.

So yeah, things don't look good at all for planet Earth.

Couple this with vanishing Arctic sea ice, rising sea levels and the fact that 2016 has already been the hottest year on record, and things look even worse. As if it wasn't already obvious before, it should be now: We are rapidly running out of time to stop climate change. We're already in the danger zone, and every single day we keep pumping fossil fuels into the atmosphere just pushes us closer towards total climate devastation.

The situation may even be worse than most people realize.

James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, now argues [4] that the 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels threshold -- that most international institutions say is the baseline of how much warming we can take -- is "nonsense" and "a prescription for disaster."

Hansen now argues that we need to lower the limit of "acceptable" warming by a whole degree to 1 degree Celsius -- a number we're already eight-tenths of the way to reaching [5] globally, and that we passed years ago in the Arctic.

So that's the situation we're in. It's very obviously a dire one. Which raises the question: what do we do about it?

With global climate change rapidly reaching the point of massive worldwide destruction of the environment that sustains our lives, how do we stop it in its tracks and maybe, just maybe, reverse some of the damage we've already done?

Well, first we keep the carbon in the ground by ending all subsidies and imposing a worldwide carbon tax on the production, emission and use of all greenhouse gasses.

Then we do what we should have done decades of years ago -- we leave fossil fuels behind once and for all.

This is more possible now than at any time in our history. As the Department of Energy recently concluded, the cost of the five leading clean energy technologies has fallen between 40 and 94 percent since 2008 alone.

As dark and gloomy as the situation is, we have an opportunity here to create a much better future that is very well within our grasp.
Let's get to work before it's too late.

By Thom Hartmann

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Thank God. I'm tired of all this suspense!! ;)
 
J Craft said:
Its immensely galling to have assholes, such as Gore and Obama who are only interested in the power climate change policy gives them by espousing a twisted interpretation of climate science. But it is obnoxious to read and listen to morons like DeCaprio who champion their support.
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