Ruh roh...no more chocolate in 30 years due to climate change.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddri...e-to-go-extinct-by-2050/ar-BBHMHSQ?li=BBnb7Kz
http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddri...e-to-go-extinct-by-2050/ar-BBHMHSQ?li=BBnb7Kz
I agree that we shouldn’t pay for it all, but It is an issue that needs US leadership. We are the dominant player in the system that led to this. We need to throw some weight around and help set standards for other countries or the problem will only get worse. We can’t run from the issue. We do live on the same planet, and this is the only country with the true power effect change. People like to talk about our trade deficit with China, but one of the things that allows them to produce so cheaply is the fact that they basically get to pollute at will. And then who buys it all? We do. We have offshored a lot of our pollution, but that doesn’t mean we are free from responsibility.If the cost is equally distributed then let's talk. We have enough financial issues that we don't need to bail the world.
Then let's agree to say it's the policy GOP as a whole, since Congress passes the bill and Trump signs it.He cannot or Congress, who establishes the budget cannot?
I'm open to suggestions.Then let's agree to say it's the policy GOP as a whole, since Congress passes the bill and Trump signs it.
And Tardis hit the nail on the head. The fate of the this planet's warming climate will not respect political borders. It's folly to claim that China's pollution only affects the Chinese, or American pollution only impacts our future. This is a global threat that we will either overcome together, or not at all.
Whataboutism is the only fix we need.This is a global threat that we will either overcome together, or not at all.
Well, looks like those jobs will be moving to Mexico.The efforts are on full display in Beijing and nearby areas in the country's industrial heartland, which have been among the hardest hit by air pollution. The capital and cities in its orbit have been tasked with slashing harmful air pollutants by 25% before the end of the year.
China has put inspection teams to work across the region in an attempt to curb production at the most glaring rule violators. Some 180,000 companies are expected to be hit, according to Societe Generale figures.
We've done it before, so we don't need to look very far to see a successful framework. But that was a less polarized time. The question is whether we can do it again.I'm open to suggestions.
I'm shocked that somebody employed by the government would get away doing absolutely no work for 18 months. Slacker, there are thousands who have been doing that for years.He perpetrated his fraud largely by failing to show up at the EPA for months at a time, including one 18-month stretch starting in June 2011 when he did “absolutely no work,” as his lawyer acknowledged in a sentencing memo filed last week.
LOL! This says so much about government .... and the people who defend it.
Temperatures may have soared as high as 35 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) at the pole, according to the U.S. Global Forecast System model. While there are no direct measurements of temperature there, Zack Labe, a climate scientist working on his PhD at the University of California at Irvine, confirmed that several independent analyses showed “it was very close to freezing,” which is more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) above normal.
North Pole temp surges above freezing stunning scientists. Ouch.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...ter-stunning-scientists/ar-BBJCSJu?li=BBnb7Kz
Lukewarm is good for the Artic, right? Think about all the vegetation that will start growing and suck up all the CO2 gases.
The problem here is that Santa got hold of a big pot of baked beans.North Pole temp surges above freezing stunning scientists. Ouch.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...ter-stunning-scientists/ar-BBJCSJu?li=BBnb7Kz
https://www.apnews.com/fe90ca8e3cd84f07b4780fd8e297d5c1WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming is likely slowing the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, which has plunged to its weakest level on record, according to a new study.
The slowdown in the circulation — a crucial part of Earth’s climate — had been predicted by computer models, but researchers said they can now observe it. It could make for more extreme weather across the Northern Hemisphere, especially Europe, and could increase sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast, they said.
The slowdown also raises the prospect of a complete circulation shutdown, which would be a dangerous “tipping point,” according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Nature .
“We know somewhere out there is a tipping point where this current system is likely to break down,” said study co-author Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. “We still don’t know how far away or close to this tipping point we might be. ... This is uncharted territory.”
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, called AMOC, is a key conveyor belt for ocean water and air, creating weather. Warm salty water moves north from the tropics along the Gulf Stream off the U.S. East Coast to the North Atlantic, where it cools, sinks and heads south. The faster it moves, the more water is turned over from warm surface to cool depths.
“This overturning circulation redistributes heat on our planet,” said study lead author Levke Caesar, a physicist at the Potsdam Institute. “It brings heat from the tropics to the high latitudes.”
hopefully we will get john stossel's take on the science behind this
In the 1980s, oil companies like Exxon and Shell carried out internal assessments of the carbon dioxide released by fossil fuels, and forecast the planetary consequences of these emissions. In 1982, for example, Exxon predicted that by about 2060, CO2 levels would reach around 560 parts per million – double the preindustrial level – and that this would push the planet’s average temperatures up by about 2°C over then-current levels (and even more compared to pre-industrial levels).
Later that decade, in 1988, an internal report by Shell projected similar effects but also found that CO2 could double even earlier, by 2030. Privately, these companies did not dispute the links between their products, global warming, and ecological calamity. On the contrary, their research confirmed the connections.
if only someone could have pointed out folks were being willfully duped ...shell and exxon knew in the 80's what would happen and publicly denied knowing for decades while also funding public "research" to confuse and obfuscate the public
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...d-exxons-secret-1980s-climate-change-warnings
Aquaculture provides seafood in a warming world. But this global industry is taking a staple called sardinella from the mouths of people who need it the most.
Satellite data indicate that the waters off northern Senegal and Mauritania are warming faster than any other part of the equator-girdling belt called the tropical convergence zone, once known to sailors simply as the “doldrums.” This hidden-from-view climate change has had an ominous impact: A new study by researchers at the Marseille-based institute IRD-France found that the rising temperatures have pushed sardinella an average of 200 miles north since 1995.