'Climate apartheid' to push 120 million into poverty by 2030, UN warns in new report
The world is facing a "climate apartheid" between the rich who can protect themselves and the poor who are left behind, the UN has warned in a new report.

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12 years left before ultimate calamity - we getter get crackin'

Bad news? Right. All they have to do is tell the bleating masses that OMG glaciers expanding is a sure sign of climate change! The hysteria will still generate power and money for the climate pimps.

Eastern Washington used to be in Asia. If the continents can change so can the climate.

Umm, what?

Here's a pretty cool animation about how the continents have been moving around for the last ~ half billion years. Notice that polar icecaps are NOT the norm.


Link to original video: https://youtu.be/g_iEWvtKcuQ

Well, yeah, plate tectonics, but umm, what?

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Here's a pretty cool animation about how the continents have been moving around for the last ~ half billion years

Where can I get the forecast model illustration for the next 100 million? I'm trying to plan some land investments.

Here's what a real expert on climate change thinks:


Link to original video: https://youtu.be/fA5sGtj7QKQ

Just admit the truth. Global warming is real. It happens. Then global cooling happens. Then warming. Then cooling. Then crazy people try to tell you you can keep either from happening by extorting money from other gullible people.

Try and explain it that way to the “true believers”.

The weather is the weather is the weather.

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A prediction: Winter is Coming.

Yeah, it does that every year, after Fall.

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Here's what a real expert on climate change thinks:
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Link to original video: https://youtu.be/fA5sGtj7QKQ

I watched that entire episode of "Life, Liberty, and Levin" and this guy was outstanding! Quiet, knowledgeable, and professional. He was very secure in his statements, and his credentials were impressive.

flashguy

I have never understood exactly why our current climate is considered the best for the planet forever.

Seems a bit self righteous and self important to me.

If you like vegetation like trees and things, hotter with more CO2 would be the better choice.

If everything we do goes "green", rest assured the world will go brown.

With our ever increasing human population, we need more vegetation, ie food and oxygen et al.

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Here's a pretty cool animation about how the continents have been moving around for the last ~ half billion years. Notice that polar icecaps are NOT the norm.


Link to original video: https://youtu.be/g_iEWvtKcuQ

Fascinating! Thank you posting. Saudi Arabia moved quick ‘recently’. FL was below sea level for some time. Just sayin’

and this little gem was posted on Fox News this morning...

There is no doubt that climate change is an issue that needs to be discussed and addressed. But alarmist headlines and personal agendas only give climate change deniers more ammunition in the fight against real science that tells us we need to pay attention to climate change.

In response to a report from a European Satellite Agency, everyone from CNN to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is howling from the rooftops about June being "the hottest month ever recorded on Earth."

The report has been interpreted to show that the global average temperature this June was about 0.18 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the previous record set in June 2016.

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According to the same headlines and tweets, experts say that climate change is to blame.

Let’s take a look.

First, many have mistakenly called it the hottest month ever recorded. What the report actually said is that it was the hottest June ever recorded, not the hottest month.

Second, technically speaking, yes, it is the hottest June "ever recorded." But recordings are only officially recognized back to the 1880s.

During the Hadean period billions of years ago, Earth had a surface temperature of 450 degrees Fahrenheit. We do not have enough reliable data from historical times, and we simply don’t know what the temperatures were to the level of precision we have today.

That still leaves us with the thought that this June was the hottest in the past 139 years. Is that true?

Maybe.

Whether 2017 was warmer or cooler than 2015, or 2014 or 2013 really doesn’t prove anything. The only way to see a pattern is to look at long-term temperature changes spanning hundreds of years, along with many other measurements.

When average global temperatures are taken, there is always a margin of error on the measurement. It is impossible to find the one true value. There is always a plus or minus associated with the finding (and sometimes the plus or minus is greater than the alleged increase or decrease).

For instance, an old NASA press release projected that 2015 would be the hottest year ever. The agency predicted it would break the record by .02 degrees Celsius. However, the margin of error was plus or minus 0.1 degrees Celsius, larger than the projected increase.

In other words, they had no idea what was going to happen.

Now, after a significant amount of searching, I couldn’t find the statistical details of this on the Copernicus Climate Change Service’s (European Commission) website (where the official statement of June’s heat wave came from), but I can promise you, there is a plus or minus attached to the 0.18 increase.

Let’s give these measurements the benefit of the doubt and say that this June was .18 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the previous hottest June. Even if true, it is basically irrelevant to decision-making.

Variation is the spice of life, and it exists abundantly in nature. Whether 2017 was warmer or cooler than 2015, or 2014 or 2013 really doesn’t prove anything. The only way to see a pattern is to look at long-term temperature changes spanning hundreds of years, along with many other measurements.

Yes, the trend is warming. Yes, carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and we know its concentration has increased drastically since the industrial revolution. Yes, we know it is harmful.

But if we are so desperate to get our points across that we embrace alarmism, we demean the real science that tells us that we do need to pay attention to the environment, and we inevitably give climate change deniers enormous ammunition.

Climate change zealots vilify climate change deniers for denying science. Unfortunately, much of the time, they do exactly the same.

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Yes, the trend is warming. Yes, carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and we know its concentration has increased drastically since the industrial revolution. Yes, we know it is harmful.

We know no such thing. Carbon dioxide is what green plants take in and convert to carbohydrates, releasing pure oxygen back into the air. Botanists around the World have been worrying that we don't have enough CO2 in the air now to fully support the plant life we have, and we need more plant life. CO2 is not a "pollutant"--it is part of the circle of life.

flashguy

You people are all science deniers!!!

Just wait until MSM outlets start focusing on methane hydrates. Their collective heads will explode when they acknowledge the possibilities if and when these ice cubes "melt"; rest assured we're safe.

As an aside the energy potential of gas hydrates is enormous, recovery is the challenge.

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Just wait until MSM outlets start focusing on methane hydrates. Their collective heads will explode when they acknowledge the possibilities if and when these ice cubes "melt"; rest assured we're safe.

As an aside the energy potential of gas hydrates is enormous, recovery is the challenge.

Yeah, it's kind of difficult to completely seal in a lake.

flashguy

The hottest June where? Cause it sure wasn't the hottest June here in Utah.