12-05-2020, 06:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-05-2020, 08:25 PM by Bob Butler 54.)
(12-03-2020, 12:04 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: The Republican base is awake and has been awake for years.
They are dreaming of being awake. Not the same thing.
(12-03-2020, 12:04 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: So, what's coming Bob? Is climate change coming or is climate change here forever? I assume climate change is here forever.
Climate change is here. Thing is, the trend is naturally towards cooler. If we weren't releasing greenhouse gasses so much, the Milankovitch Cycles would be shifting us cool. We should be sliding into an ice age. As it is, we are heading in the warm direction. A lot of the carbon that vegetation has been slowly isolating from the atmosphere as coal, oil and gases are being put back in the atmosphere. This has shifted us back towards the tropical climate that was so common when there were dinosaurs roaming around.
As far as I can tell, the elites are delaying practical fusion until the profits from selling fossil fuel are gone. Our releasing of greenhouse gasses could suddenly stop. But, we are getting close to a number of tipping points. If a bit more ice melts exposing darker sea rather than white ice to the sun, if a bit more methane thaws (a greenhouse gas), the sudden stop in burning things could be too late. Too eek out the last gasp of profits, the conservative instinct is to ignore the problem and stay the same.
I suspect the elites are clinging to their profits a little too much. Global Warming will be with us indefinitely.
(12-03-2020, 12:04 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Well, if we are going to die and the world is going to starve or die of thirst or be flooded out of house and home due to rising seas, the 1st priority should be exterminating China?
They will do it to themselves. We have to worry about our own elites. Tribal thinking, dividing the world between us and them and working up xenophobia about them, is not the solution but part of the problem. Being obsessed with violence you are too busy with tribal thinking to see it, but it is so.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
