But haven't you heard that the United States GDP is more than 4% this year, Thomas? This clearly shows that we are living in a capitalist utopia and that every other problem can be ignored as nothing is more important than the economy (let's not discuss the fact that this supposed growth is not trickling down tho, that's just a detail).
This is such a well written piece. Ironically, despite New York City being surrounded entirely by water -I seem to be the only New Yorker that cares about sea level rise when choosing an apartment. Not one other person I have encountered seemed bothered by the encroaching New York Harbor, Long Island Sound, Harlem, Hudson and Bronx Rivers. When searching for an apartment it was very important to me that I reside as high as possible, and my real estate broker laughed at me when I told him this. After much searching and waiting I found a second story apartment in the neighborhood of Kingsbridge Heights in The Bronx, NY at an elevation of 164 feet above sea level. About a month ago a major flood happened and New York City received record rainfall totals, some spots more rain than historically fell in an entire month fell in the matter of hours. Well, all of the trendy neighborhoods flooded and mine did not. I live in an area that some might equate with the term, "ghetto." It doesn't flood in the "ghetto."
There is no way to avoid the conclusion that capitalism is incapable of dealing with the problems associated with pollution. If there is money to be made by destroying ecosystems and extracting and burning fossil fuels, then it will happen. Unless capitalism is brought under control, there is no mechanism for fixing the problems that capitalism has caused.
What do you mean? Different gases have different absorption spectrum of electromagnetic waves. It is easily measurable and we've known it since the late XIX century
Only thing I can do is cite work that others did, and it sounds like you'd just hand-wave that as "appeal to authority". Yet I'm supposed to just accept anything that you assert without presenting any evidence.
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When Tony Ingraffea first posted outliers WAY out of projected "exponential increases," it was right after Obama's Pittsburgh "bridge fuel" G20. So, correlation ≠ causation was a typical response as this info was presented in "Gas Land 2" & "The Sky Is Pink?" Both of which, being FAR more accurate, that slick water FRACKING & ethane cracking & bitumen could easily cause abrupt increases, as AMOC slowed, ice caps melted & permafrost spewed methane fire-balls? We'd assumed Ukraine/ Nord Stream was to save FRACKING (all three times) but Chevron was told to shut down platforms off Gaza, by Likud, late Sept. HMMmm?
Methane release is either up or down, depending upon which entity is sampling & where (like FLIR recordings or satellite? It's like excess mortality, baseline year/ testing changes, during a pandemic, before midterms?) Acknowledgement of regulatory & academic capture or media complicity all got SEOd down Google's memory hole?
The data are bad for the continued state of our favorite (and only) planet to host life as known to us now.
I do not think the suggestion that a winter induced by a large scale nuclear weapon exchange might stave off the inexorable rise of the seas is particularly pleasant to contemplate. But desperate times call for desperate measures but desperate is not necessarily unpleasant.
We collectively in the developed North need to dramatically lower our daily energy use. One area that holds promising low hanging fruit is personal transportation. Forget about electric vehicles, start riding a bicycle. Real research should be devoted to the development of human powered vehicles.
Before you are tempted to sneer at the idea of cycling, consider that honestly we need to start localizing our lives. Our planet cannot afford commercial aviation and far flung delivery on demand.
Sucking up aquifers developed over geologic time to provide fossil fuels for extravagant life styles that are unparalleled in human history is beyond crazy!
We need to help Mother Nature by preserving fresh water and to stop using her atmosphere as a sewer.
Dramatic conservation and the curtailment of corporate capitalism are two fundamental steps to take starting now. There is no other alternative.
But haven't you heard that the United States GDP is more than 4% this year, Thomas? This clearly shows that we are living in a capitalist utopia and that every other problem can be ignored as nothing is more important than the economy (let's not discuss the fact that this supposed growth is not trickling down tho, that's just a detail).
This is such a well written piece. Ironically, despite New York City being surrounded entirely by water -I seem to be the only New Yorker that cares about sea level rise when choosing an apartment. Not one other person I have encountered seemed bothered by the encroaching New York Harbor, Long Island Sound, Harlem, Hudson and Bronx Rivers. When searching for an apartment it was very important to me that I reside as high as possible, and my real estate broker laughed at me when I told him this. After much searching and waiting I found a second story apartment in the neighborhood of Kingsbridge Heights in The Bronx, NY at an elevation of 164 feet above sea level. About a month ago a major flood happened and New York City received record rainfall totals, some spots more rain than historically fell in an entire month fell in the matter of hours. Well, all of the trendy neighborhoods flooded and mine did not. I live in an area that some might equate with the term, "ghetto." It doesn't flood in the "ghetto."
There is no way to avoid the conclusion that capitalism is incapable of dealing with the problems associated with pollution. If there is money to be made by destroying ecosystems and extracting and burning fossil fuels, then it will happen. Unless capitalism is brought under control, there is no mechanism for fixing the problems that capitalism has caused.
okay, but we all know that carbon dioxide and anything mankind does has nothing to do with the weather, right?
because carbon dioxide has zero effect on temperatures.
What do you mean? Different gases have different absorption spectrum of electromagnetic waves. It is easily measurable and we've known it since the late XIX century
Does too
Lol, prove it, without appeal to authority, e.g. - 'the IPCC said so'.
Only thing I can do is cite work that others did, and it sounds like you'd just hand-wave that as "appeal to authority". Yet I'm supposed to just accept anything that you assert without presenting any evidence.
You're not discussing in good faith. Goodbye.
Ooh! I know the conclusion for what we should do! Start a war!
When Tony Ingraffea first posted outliers WAY out of projected "exponential increases," it was right after Obama's Pittsburgh "bridge fuel" G20. So, correlation ≠ causation was a typical response as this info was presented in "Gas Land 2" & "The Sky Is Pink?" Both of which, being FAR more accurate, that slick water FRACKING & ethane cracking & bitumen could easily cause abrupt increases, as AMOC slowed, ice caps melted & permafrost spewed methane fire-balls? We'd assumed Ukraine/ Nord Stream was to save FRACKING (all three times) but Chevron was told to shut down platforms off Gaza, by Likud, late Sept. HMMmm?
https://vimeo.com/44367635
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PGfIjCG-zB4
Thanks for the links. Anyone else?
Thomas
Methane release is either up or down, depending upon which entity is sampling & where (like FLIR recordings or satellite? It's like excess mortality, baseline year/ testing changes, during a pandemic, before midterms?) Acknowledgement of regulatory & academic capture or media complicity all got SEOd down Google's memory hole?
https://www.fractracker.org/2018/03/waiting-on-answers/
https://www.catf.us/2023/05/updated-analysis-shows-dramatic-variation-methane-emissions-among-us-oil-gas-producers/
The data are bad for the continued state of our favorite (and only) planet to host life as known to us now.
I do not think the suggestion that a winter induced by a large scale nuclear weapon exchange might stave off the inexorable rise of the seas is particularly pleasant to contemplate. But desperate times call for desperate measures but desperate is not necessarily unpleasant.
We collectively in the developed North need to dramatically lower our daily energy use. One area that holds promising low hanging fruit is personal transportation. Forget about electric vehicles, start riding a bicycle. Real research should be devoted to the development of human powered vehicles.
Before you are tempted to sneer at the idea of cycling, consider that honestly we need to start localizing our lives. Our planet cannot afford commercial aviation and far flung delivery on demand.
Sucking up aquifers developed over geologic time to provide fossil fuels for extravagant life styles that are unparalleled in human history is beyond crazy!
We need to help Mother Nature by preserving fresh water and to stop using her atmosphere as a sewer.
Dramatic conservation and the curtailment of corporate capitalism are two fundamental steps to take starting now. There is no other alternative.