Well…damn I feel bad for the people living in the Tampa area of Florida with hurricane Milton going from a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane overnight…sustained winds of 160mph with gusts to 200…and the reason it exploded like it has is the record heat in the Gulf of Mexico…and guess where that heat came from? If you listen to the governor of Florida, global warming does not exist and he has outlawed anyone in government from talking about it…so that will help surviving the hurricane, right? This just shows the stupidity of the climate deniers who infest our politics and are still attacking science every day…no matter if it’s climate change or vaccines, for some reason these morons believe that if they just ignore a problem like the idiot trump did with covid, it will just magically go away…I wonder if we’ll see desantis with his fingers in his ears going na,na,na to avoid having to hear how many have died because of assholes like all of the repubs…Helene killed over 200 and Milton is going to be worse…and yet the people in the hurricane’s path will keep voting for these assholes…geez…
Tag Archives: Climate change
Western NC is gone…
Well…I don’t want to hear from any damn repub again that global warming is a hoax after what the hurricane just did to western North Carolina….30 inches of rain in less than a day…whole towns wiped off the face of the Earth from flooding…no power, no water, no internet…every road closed and no way to get repair crews in to do anything until the flooding subsides and that could be days to a week…and where the hell is the reporting on the aftermath? It should be front page news on every paper and news site in the country but where is it on CNN? Scroll all the way past the trump news and elon news and the Koalas at risk articles and then you see one tiny little blurb and that’s it…millions of people at risk and they have an article on elon that is 10 times bigger than the reporting of this disaster…this was a supercharged hurricane that went from a tropical storm to a category 4 monster in one day with the temp in the gulf water the highest it’s ever been…so don’t bullshit me that the “science is not settled” as the repubs continue to bleat…the climate is changing fast in ways that can’t be predicted…who would ever have thought that half a state could be wiped out by a hurricane? Katrina was bad, but this one was far worse and unless we get off our butts and do something the east coast is going to be uninhabitable in my lifetime…they already can’t get house insurance in Florida and that is going to spread like it has to California where the major insurers have exited the market due to the climate change driven wildfires there…if you vote for repubs, this will only get far worse…geez…
Warmest year in 100,000…
Well…it’s cold and snowing outside so climate change can’t be real…I’ve actually read that in the media today and when I hear it, I wonder why people would say it…are they so ignorant they don’t understand the science behind it? You don’t make profit from it unless you’re an oil company so why would the ordinary person go out of their way to deny it’s happening? Is it they fell for the right wing propaganda? Look, scientists have been shouting that CC was happening for almost 50 years now and their predictions have been proven to be way too conservative…the climate is getting worse faster than they predicted and that results in the warmest year in 100,000 years happening in 2023…and the next 10 have happened since 2008…so yes, we are warming the planet and we are quickly approaching the point of no return as we do noting about it…as an aside, the best state to be in to survive this emergency is Michigan since we are far enough away from the oceans to not have to worry about strengthening hurricanes or sea level rise and we have the great lakes for a water supply…it is predicted that we are going to have 30-100 million people in this country as climate refugees in the next 50 years who are trying to find some place safe to live as the coasts become uninhabitable due to flooding…but year…climate change is a hoax….morons…
This isn’t normal…
Well…look, I’m an old guy and I have never seen what is happening with the climate in the entire world…I mean half of the world is on fire…Lahina is gone…a 20,000 population city in Canada is evacuated along with one that has a population of 130,000…evacuated because the fires are so intense that they can’t be stopped….the island of Tenerife is on fire and they are going to evacuate the whole damn island…and new fires are popping up every day with how warming has dried out the world…and now for the first time in 90 years, a hurricane is going to hit California Sunday as a category 4 storm that is going to dump 22 inches of rain in the desert and on Los Angeles….and that is going to cause billions in damage…and yet the climate deniers keep saying the excess CO2 in the air has nothing to do with it even though Arizona has had 37 days in a row over 110 degrees and no rain in that time and the highest level of CO2 in the air in the past 100,000 years…so yes, climate change is real and it is baking the planet…and it is not going to get better until we stop burning gas and oil…we need a war like push to de-carbonize the entire planet and go with renewables…they are cheaper anyway so let’s do it…geez…
Climate change is really real…
Well…I don’t understand how anyone can still think that climate change is not real…and it not just weather…weather changes all time is what the deniers say…but that does not explain how Phoenix has had 37 days in a row of over 110 degree highs…the arctic has even had hundred degree temps this summer…in South America, it’s the middle of winter and 9,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes it is over 100 degrees…temperatures that have never happened before…and this heat is melting the snow cover that people downstream depend on for water to survive in the summer…now that IS climate change, folks…these temperatures are higher than in Paris this summer that has caused heat emergencies all summer….we need to stop subsidizing the oil and gas companies and have a government program that will put solar cells on every house in this country…not low cost but free…I know that sounds socialist but the good things in this country comes from socialism…think roads, schools, and infrastructure….our taxes pay for that stuff and it can do the same for renewable energy…geez…
The two hottest days ever recorded…
Well…I wonder what the climate deniers are going to say about this? Monday and Tuesday of this week were the the two hottest days since records have been kept…and climate scientists have physical records in the trees and ground that it is the hottest two days in the past 140,000 years…with the highest concentration of co2 since that time, too…so what is the repub response to getting to the tipping point where whole ecologies are going to die? To try to outlaw doing anything about it and giving more subsidies to the oil giants to keep dumping more and more garbage into the air….if we just took the money we give to the oil companies every year and invested it in renewables, we could start digging ourselves out of the hole the fossil fuel industry has dug for the planet. People are dying all over the planet and no one wants to do anything about…I fear for my grandchildren and the world they are going to have to live in…geez…
This is pretty cool…
Well…forgot about this little bit of news that was reported last week but I did want to talk a little about it…just last week, the owner of the clothing company Patagonia put the whole company in a trust so that all the profits, almost 100 million dollars a year, go toward fixing the climate crises that are ravaging the entire world…I mean how many times in your lifetime has there been a typhoon hitting Alaska like one did this week? And it’s nearly the end of September and it’s 84 degrees here in Muskegon? There really wasn’t any detail in the article on what the money will be used for but giving up a 2 billion dollar corporation is pretty damn cool and every penny that can be used to stop burning fossil fuel has to help…maybe I can get a grant to go solar here? That would be cool….
This is scary…
Well…just read a pretty scary article about the drought that has been widespread across the west where the rivers are essentially drying up with the lack of snow and rainfall and if conditions stay this way for much longer, places that depend on these rivers like Phoenix will become unlivable…and this is not something that is going to happen in the far future, but in the next decade or so. But that’s not the scary part, since droughts usually end at some point, water conservation and changes in lifestyle can get you through until the rains and snow come back….but this new study paints a much more dire picture, that climate change is causing the aridification of most of the west and the deserts that were once confined to the southwest are going to spread north to Colorado and that these changes are going to be permanent, making much of the west uninhabitable at the population density it now supports. and we have one party in this country that doesn’t even believe that any of this is happening, even though they can readily see that the Colorado river behind the Hoover dam is down almost 150 feet and towns that were flooded when the lake was filled are re-appearing since the water is so low. Soon, there won’t even be enough water to generate electricity from the dam and that will impact Las Vegas…but, they still do nothing…even repub reps from the states that are drying out still don’t care and are still blocking doing anything about it….one study says that with new information and data on the amount of heating it may already be too late to fix it even if we stop burning fossil fuels right now….but still the repubs will do nothing as the country burns…
Stupid people…climate is not weather…
Well…there are a bunch of memes going round out there about the polar vortex cold we’ve been having in the midwest over the past week or so and a lot of them show Lake Michigan freezing in one frame and then scenes from “the Day After Tomorrow” disaster film where the oceans freeze in the other…and they invariable try to use the cold weather as proof that climate change isn’t happening…and this crap is an ignorant right wing staple that starts with the idiot trump and winds it’s way through fox news and into the quite stupid trump followers. Hey, stupid people…weather is not climate…they are not the same thing and if you think climate change is not happening, give someone in Australia a call…and ask them about how hot it is this winter down under…..every damn record for high temps has been broken this winter all across Australia and most people there understand that this is not just weather that will change, as ours is here…when it is going to be 50 degrees with thunderstorms Monday…but it is long term, human caused climate change that will make a lot of Australia uninhabitable. Yes, it has been cold here…but any one weather event is just that…weather…which can be affected by climate change but no one that understands science would ever base conclusions on a sample size of one…something the science deniers on the right always do…just dumber than a box of rocks…geez…
Geez…trump is stupid…
Well…with the cold weather that is hitting the midwest, of course the stupident has to bleat out that it’s the coldest weather in history (it’s not) and then goes on to say that we could sure use some global warming right now…geez trump is stupid…and trying to score points with the idiot climate change deniers by his smug assed tweet. Okay, I’ll explain this one more time…as the arctic warms, from human action and burning fossil fuels, it disrupts the jet stream which then allows the polar vortex to split, this time into three parts that then results in cold air that would normally stay at the poles crashing down into the lower latitudes….the warming of the arctic has de-stabilized the weather patterns, making for large swings in temperatures…after this bitter cold, it is going to be 40 and raining Sunday…just showing how unstable the climate has become. But, as we know…the idiot trump only gets his “news” from fox and there must have been a denier or two on there this morning and trump just had to weigh in like a 5 year old…nope, a 5 year old in kindergarten knows more than trump….he is the most stupid person on the face of the Earth…impeach…