A crucial ocean circulation is showing signs of instability. Its shutdown would have serious impacts on our weather. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/06/world/climate-gulf-stream-collapse-warning-study-intl/index.html we are ****ed if we don’t do something. Our planet is literally getting cooked as we speak. Look at the heat and fires out west. Look at the flooding in Europe. How can people on the right stick their heads in the sand and still think climate change is not real. We are contributing to our very own destruction and some people are too greedy and self centred to care about it.
Acid rain was solved with government action and improved technology that reduced the amount of sulfur being emitted. It also helped that we aren't as dependent on coal as we were back 40 years ago.
What does that have to do with what has been posted? What part of climate change you have issue with?
I'm pretty sure we can't do much about this. It's mostly caused by snow melting at our ice caps. Even if we cut emissions growth to zero, that's nowhere near reducing temperature rises. Better find a good God, hold onto Him/Her/They tight, and pray for the best. We can pretend we're little ants again. 2000 was snooze for the twenty years before. This is fine.
Believing in climate change does not solve climate change. That is religion. Taking action to reduce emissions matters. Do you still drive an ICE vehicle? Im fine with talking about emissions and climate change. But lets be careful about chicken littleing over flooding and fires. There is much more to it than blaming climate change. Many of these fires would never happen if it wasn't for human intervention.
I drive a hybrid actually and I limit my driving also have a electric mower. Ignoring the signs and down playing it’s importance is far lethal.
Where do you think we came from? Mars. We destroyed that planet so we came to earth. Next stop Venus. Lol.
I wonder if this and others (ozone for another example) international agreements and gov actions would have a chance in today's social-political environment.
No chance. Amazing that the ozone hole got mostly repaired even. You know who benefits most from global warming actually? It's Russia. All that land becomes a lot more farmable.
Trump said Climate Change doesn't exist! I believe him because he knows more than the scientist!** **I actually believe in Climate Change...Just mimicking the response of Trump Supporters on this board and elsewhere. And Faux News....
The Montreal Protocol mainly worked because DuPont, the main CFC patent holder and producer, had a replacement product after a decade or so fighting the original Nobel Prize winning study. It's part of the reason why rich countries could pay up and poor countries were allowed to make their own CFCs. Instead of being a part of the problem, they became the solution. Thus the disinformation "tobacco" campaign was shut down. Contrast that with oil and plastics, where recycling was thrown as a half assed unprofitable mud baby delivered at the doorsteps of taxpayers and municipalities in order divert public attention from the wholesale trashing of our earth...well DuPont deserves an achievement award and a round of applause. The other thing I vaguely remember from my 15 yr Old env science degree is that it takes a decade or so for that stuff to completely circulate the globe (like 1 year for it to circulate a hemisphere?) and some last between 50 and 150 years. So we're still dealing with **** from the 90s. Oh right, the real lesson is a matter of whether or how we can dislocate property holders from mostly worthless piles of dirt/sand with a resource underneath worth hundreds of millions. Otherwise they're fighting tooth and nail for their survival and it's only natural they'll run every play in the book to survive.
Sadly probably not. You would have people screaming about "Socialism!" and "Taking away our Freedoms!" on op-eds and the floor of Congress over cutting down sulfur emissions. Worse I suspect if the bans on lead were being debated now we might see the same thing also.
