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As Speaker Kevin McCarthy visited a natural gas drilling site in northeast Ohio to promote House Republicans’ plan to sharply increase domestic production of energy from fossil fuels last month, the signs of rising global temperatures could not be ignored. Smoke from Canadian wildfires hung in the air.

When the speaker was asked about climate change and forest fires, he was ready with a response: Plant a trillion trees.

The idea — simple yet massively ambitious — revealed recent Republican thinking on how to address climate change. The party is no longer denying that global warming exists, yet is searching for a response to sweltering summers, weather disasters and rising sea levels that doesn’t involve abandoning their enthusiastic support for American-produced energy from burning oil, coal and gas.
 
Hottest June on record

First, the environmental background: We’re only halfway through 2023, yet we’ve already seen multiple weather events that would have been shocking not long ago. Globally, last month was the hottest June on record. Unprecedented heat waves have been striking one region of the world after another: South Asia and the Middle East experienced a life-threatening heat wave in May; Europe is now going through its second catastrophic heat wave in a short period of time; China is experiencing its highest temperatures on record; and much of the southern United States has been suffering from dangerous levels of heat for weeks, with no end in sight.
Residents of Florida might be tempted to take a cooling dip in the ocean — but ocean temperatures off South Florida have come close to 100 degrees, not much below the temperature in a hot tub.


And while the rest of America hasn’t gotten that hot, everyone in the Northeast remembers the way smoke from Canadian wildfires led to days of dangerously bad air quality and orange skies.

Climate change around the world: In “Postcards From a World on Fire,” 193 stories from individual countries show how climate change is reshaping reality everywhere, from dying coral reefs in Fiji to disappearing oases in Morocco and far, far beyond.





But extreme weather events have always been with us. Can we prove that climate change caused any particular disaster? Not exactly. But the burgeoning field of “extreme event attribution” comes close. Climate models say that certain kinds of extreme weather events become more likely on a warming planet — for example, what used to be a heat wave we’d experience on average only once every few decades becomes an almost annual occurrence. Event attribution compares the odds of experiencing an extreme event given global warming with the odds that the same event would have happened without climate change.

Incidentally, I’d argue that extreme event attribution gains credibility from the fact that it doesn’t always tell the same story, that sometimes it says that climate change wasn’t the culprit. For example, preliminary analyses suggest that climate change played a limited role in the extreme flooding that recently struck northeastern Italy.
That was, however, the exception that proves the rule. In general, attribution analysis shows that global warming made the disasters of recent years much more likely. We don’t yet have estimates for the latest, still ongoing series of disasters, but it seems safe to say that this global concatenation of extreme weather events would have been virtually impossible without climate change. And this is almost surely just the leading edge of the crisis, a small foretaste of the many disasters to come.


Which brings me back to the “politicization of the weather.” Worrying about the climate crisis shouldn’t be a partisan issue. But it is, at least in this country. As of last year, only 22 percent of Americans who considered themselves to be on the political right considered climate change a major threat; the left-right gap here was far larger than it was in other countries. And only in America do you see things like Texas Republicans actively trying to undermine their own state’s booming renewable energy sector.

The remarkable thing about climate denial is that the arguments haven’t changed at all over the years: Climate change isn’t happening; OK, it’s happening, but it’s not such a bad thing; besides, doing anything about it would be an economic disaster.
And none of these arguments are ever abandoned in the face of evidence. The next time there’s a cold spell somewhere in America, the usual suspects will once again assert that climate change is a hoax. Spectacular technological progress in renewable energy, which now makes the path to greatly reduced emissions look easier than even optimists imagined, hasn’t stopped claims that the costs of the Biden administration’s climate policy will be unsupportable.
So we shouldn’t expect record heat waves around the globe to end assertions that climate change, even if it’s happening, is no big deal. Nor should we expect Republicans to soften their opposition to climate action, no matter what is happening in the world.


What this means is that if the G.O.P. wins control of the White House and Congress next year, it will almost surely try to dismantle the array of green energy subsidies enacted by the Biden administration that experts believe will lead to a major reduction in emissions.
Like it or not, then, the weather is a political issue. And Americans should be aware that it’s one of the most important issues they’ll be voting on next November.
 
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From 2015- 2022 there was an overall average cooling trend (except 2016 which was hottest on record) although slight, it was still cooling. Global alarmist said that you cannot extrapolate short periods of time to determine the effect of climate change on the planet. Surely these same people are now reiterating this position when contrasting one month vs 7 years.
 
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From 2015- 2022 there was an overall average cooling trend (except 2016 which was hottest on record) although slight, it was still cooling. Global alarmist said that you cannot extrapolate short periods of time to determine the effect of climate change on the planet. Surely these same people are now reiterating this position when contrasting one month vs 7 years.
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This is fact. Whenever and wherever weather events don’t seem extreme, they say you cannot focus on short term events, but when a short term event occurs, it’s proof of our demise. Have a bunch of bad hurricanes - proof. Don’t have any bad hurricane seasons for years - not proof. Bad hurricanes hit again? The evidence has returned!

Carbon credits? Lol. Electric cars? Lol. Wind and solar? Lol.

They spend a lot of time harping on fossil fuels as the enemy, but our move to nukes just creeps at a snail’s pace. The prohibitive regulations remain in place and alarmists have had to be dragged into the nuclear discussion. Why? Because the anti-nuke perspective, much like Kerry flying in private jets all around the world, defied their fear mongering.

Planting a bunch of trees is always a good idea. Building nukes is the answer to a “world on fire.”
 
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This popped up on my TOP STORIES feed this morning. Seems like there's no consensus that global heating is accelerating, but it apoears there is agreement that it is not decreasing.
apple.news

‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come — Guardian US

James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’
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I agree that Hansen was part of the problem. The early alarmists gave us timelines and warming charts that were grossly wrong and some gave us blatant disinformation. The article tells of the negatives of a warming climate, but none of the positives. It also suggests there is a political answer, but says nothing of nuclear energy. We are living in the midst of people running around with their hair on fire while they ignore the bucket of water in their hands. One might argue that running around with hair on fire is their objective.
 
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Let me know when there's a carbon tax. EVs are just virtue signaling.

And let me know when we're going to shut down China's coal plants. Discussing cc internal to the US is pi$$ing in the wind.

Me. I'll focus on productive things.

"... what has gone wrong—one might say, insane—in our EV policies.

If the goal were to reduce emissions, the world would impose a carbon tax. Then what kind of EVs would we get? Not Teslas but hybrids like Toyota’s Prius. “A wheelbarrow full of rare earths and lithium can power either one [battery-powered car] or over 90 hybrids, but, uh, that fact seems to be lost on policymakers,” a California dealer recently emailed me.

His numbers apparently originate with Toyota, setting off a small donnybrook in the green lobbying community. The same battery minerals in one Tesla can theoretically supply 37 times as much emissions reduction when distributed over a fleet of Priuses.

This is a shock only to those who weren’t paying attention. It certainly isn’t lost on government. Chris Atkinson, the Ohio State University sustainable transportation guru whose slogan I’ve cited before—“the best use of a battery is in a hybrid”—was a key official in the Obama Energy Department.

Our policies don’t exist to incentivize carbon reduction, they exist to lure affluent Americans to make space in their garages for oversized, luxurious EVs so Tesla can report a profit and so other automakers can rack up smaller losses on the “compliance” vehicles they create in obedience to government mandates.

Mining the required minerals produces emissions. Keeping the battery charged produces emissions. Only if a great deal of gasoline-based driving is displaced would there be net reduction in CO2. But who says any gasoline-based driving is being displaced? When government ladles out tax breaks for EVs, when wealthy consumers splurge on a car that burns electrons instead of gasoline, they simply leave more gasoline available for someone else to consume at a lower price. This may be a secret to you, the public. It’s not to economists.

In Joe Biden, alas, we have a president less likely than many to distinguish something that sounds good from something that actually does good. The press is not much better. Even when willing to acknowledge policy irrationality, it remains cloyingly committed to the electric car as a virtue signal.

EV policy fulfills only one criterion of policy sustainability—it transfers consumer and taxpayer wealth to special interests in ways that voters can be conned into supporting.

The problem here is the problem with any plan to subsidize our way to emissions reduction. Humans are perfectly capable of consuming both renewable and dirty energy in ever-growing quantities if the price is right. The emissions data prove as much. How to explain, along the way, the coevolution of the climate empty gesture with climate rhetoric that increasingly shouts the unfounded claim that climate change threatens human survival? I explain it this way: When it became clear nobody was going to do anything about climate change, it became safe to engage in hysterical rhetoric about climate change.

At the very outset of my career, a wise mentor said of the then-new climate issue, “So what?” By which he meant he couldn’t see humanity giving up fossil fuels.

In my mind, I later amended this: By incorporating carbon taxes into its tax systems, global society might at least slow the rate of CO2 emissions while simultaneously improving the efficiency of its tax codes. It still seemed unlikely, but it wasn’t clear why. After all, politicians enact plenty of taxes. Governments have been advised for decades to adopt consumption taxes as a way to fund their welfare states without destroying the possibility of growth.

But here we are. The composition of the atmosphere is changing thanks to human activities. Compiling an annual average temperature for the Earth may be about as meaningful as averaging the numbers in a phone book. Unusual periods of warm, cold, wet or dry weather can happen in any climate. But as long as the universe is made of matter and energy, we should expect some effect on Earth from altering the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere."

www.wsj.com

Opinion | Of EVs and Heat Waves

To help with climate change, grind your Tesla into small particles and inject it into the atmosphere.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com
 
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Let me know when there's a carbon tax. EVs are just virtue signaling.

And let me know when we're going to shut down China's coal plants. Discussing cc internal to the US is pi$$ing in the wind.

Me. I'll focus on productive things.

"... what has gone wrong—one might say, insane—in our EV policies.

If the goal were to reduce emissions, the world would impose a carbon tax. Then what kind of EVs would we get? Not Teslas but hybrids like Toyota’s Prius. “A wheelbarrow full of rare earths and lithium can power either one [battery-powered car] or over 90 hybrids, but, uh, that fact seems to be lost on policymakers,” a California dealer recently emailed me.

His numbers apparently originate with Toyota, setting off a small donnybrook in the green lobbying community. The same battery minerals in one Tesla can theoretically supply 37 times as much emissions reduction when distributed over a fleet of Priuses.

This is a shock only to those who weren’t paying attention. It certainly isn’t lost on government. Chris Atkinson, the Ohio State University sustainable transportation guru whose slogan I’ve cited before—“the best use of a battery is in a hybrid”—was a key official in the Obama Energy Department.

Our policies don’t exist to incentivize carbon reduction, they exist to lure affluent Americans to make space in their garages for oversized, luxurious EVs so Tesla can report a profit and so other automakers can rack up smaller losses on the “compliance” vehicles they create in obedience to government mandates.

Mining the required minerals produces emissions. Keeping the battery charged produces emissions. Only if a great deal of gasoline-based driving is displaced would there be net reduction in CO2. But who says any gasoline-based driving is being displaced? When government ladles out tax breaks for EVs, when wealthy consumers splurge on a car that burns electrons instead of gasoline, they simply leave more gasoline available for someone else to consume at a lower price. This may be a secret to you, the public. It’s not to economists.

In Joe Biden, alas, we have a president less likely than many to distinguish something that sounds good from something that actually does good. The press is not much better. Even when willing to acknowledge policy irrationality, it remains cloyingly committed to the electric car as a virtue signal.

EV policy fulfills only one criterion of policy sustainability—it transfers consumer and taxpayer wealth to special interests in ways that voters can be conned into supporting.

The problem here is the problem with any plan to subsidize our way to emissions reduction. Humans are perfectly capable of consuming both renewable and dirty energy in ever-growing quantities if the price is right. The emissions data prove as much. How to explain, along the way, the coevolution of the climate empty gesture with climate rhetoric that increasingly shouts the unfounded claim that climate change threatens human survival? I explain it this way: When it became clear nobody was going to do anything about climate change, it became safe to engage in hysterical rhetoric about climate change.

At the very outset of my career, a wise mentor said of the then-new climate issue, “So what?” By which he meant he couldn’t see humanity giving up fossil fuels.

In my mind, I later amended this: By incorporating carbon taxes into its tax systems, global society might at least slow the rate of CO2 emissions while simultaneously improving the efficiency of its tax codes. It still seemed unlikely, but it wasn’t clear why. After all, politicians enact plenty of taxes. Governments have been advised for decades to adopt consumption taxes as a way to fund their welfare states without destroying the possibility of growth.

But here we are. The composition of the atmosphere is changing thanks to human activities. Compiling an annual average temperature for the Earth may be about as meaningful as averaging the numbers in a phone book. Unusual periods of warm, cold, wet or dry weather can happen in any climate. But as long as the universe is made of matter and energy, we should expect some effect on Earth from altering the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere."

www.wsj.com

Opinion | Of EVs and Heat Waves

To help with climate change, grind your Tesla into small particles and inject it into the atmosphere.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com
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I actually like the idea of hybrids, used to drive one as my GOV while working for the passenger travel office at Ft. Sill. Conserved gas and emissions driving around Sill (mainly used for that) but was also used and had enough power to travel to TDY locations off post/out of state. Was a spacious vehicle too. Wife drives one now for her job as a military contractor on post. Hybrids could for the foreseeable future be a compromise for both sides until a more efficient replacement can be found. Current EV's are not the answer given all of the problems facing them already.
 
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I actually like the idea of hybrids, used to drive one as my GOV while working for the passenger travel office at Ft. Sill. Conserved gas and emissions driving around Sill (mainly used for that) but was also used and had enough power to travel to TDY locations off post/out of state. Was a spacious vehicle too. Wife drives one now for her job as a military contractor on post. Hybrids could for the foreseeable future be a compromise for both sides until a more efficient replacement can be found. Current EV's are not the answer given all of the problems facing them already.
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I have never owned a hybrid, but test drove a Lexus hybrid GS back in the day and it was nice.

My EV has been a dream. So convenient and faster than anything on the road. Not going to the gas station is a beautiful thing. I charge it 2 times a week and it’s requires the same effort as plugging in your cell phone.

My only bitche would be range is only 350, but it only effects me 2 times a year max. And this one ill effect is having to supercharge for 30-40 minutes on long trips over 300 miles, while I eat food and walk around.

Supercharging stations could easily be powered by Hydrogen fuel cells as well
 
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I actually like the idea of hybrids, used to drive one as my GOV while working for the passenger travel office at Ft. Sill. Conserved gas and emissions driving around Sill (mainly used for that) but was also used and had enough power to travel to TDY locations off post/out of state. Was a spacious vehicle too. Wife drives one now for her job as a military contractor on post. Hybrids could for the foreseeable future be a compromise for both sides until a more efficient replacement can be found. Current EV's are not the answer given all of the problems facing them already.
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Also good for energy independence. The cars we drive are not the real issue. The footprint for all cars is relatively low.

0.6 percent of the world’s cars are EV. We cannot increase that percentage quickly. Fuel efficient cars, like hybrids, are better immediate answers. EVs are not going to get cheap fast. They are luxury cars for people who can afford them. We don’t have the infrastructure to support them, if that were not true. Plus, with the grid as it exists and the amount of mining required for the creation of the EV, we are not impacting CO2 emissions very much with EVs.
 
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I'm leaving this discussion for a while & will come back to see if nuke power is completely embraced over coal. Everything else is, as I already said, pi$$ing into the wind.
 
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I'm leaving this discussion for a while & will come back to see if nuke power is completely embraced over coal. Everything else is, as I already said, pi$$ing into the wind.
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Not true. It all counts. Just like when you’re trying to buy a house. Every penny counts. Every house that converts to solar counts

Green Hydrogen power can power the grid at zero emissions. And…..the green H2 can be produced in ‘merica.
 
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vhcat70 said:
Let me know when there's a carbon tax. EVs are just virtue signaling.

And let me know when we're going to shut down China's coal plants. Discussing cc internal to the US is pi$$ing in the wind.

Me. I'll focus on productive things.

"... what has gone wrong—one might say, insane—in our EV policies.

If the goal were to reduce emissions, the world would impose a carbon tax. Then what kind of EVs would we get? Not Teslas but hybrids like Toyota’s Prius. “A wheelbarrow full of rare earths and lithium can power either one [battery-powered car] or over 90 hybrids, but, uh, that fact seems to be lost on policymakers,” a California dealer recently emailed me.

His numbers apparently originate with Toyota, setting off a small donnybrook in the green lobbying community. The same battery minerals in one Tesla can theoretically supply 37 times as much emissions reduction when distributed over a fleet of Priuses.

This is a shock only to those who weren’t paying attention. It certainly isn’t lost on government. Chris Atkinson, the Ohio State University sustainable transportation guru whose slogan I’ve cited before—“the best use of a battery is in a hybrid”—was a key official in the Obama Energy Department.

Our policies don’t exist to incentivize carbon reduction, they exist to lure affluent Americans to make space in their garages for oversized, luxurious EVs so Tesla can report a profit and so other automakers can rack up smaller losses on the “compliance” vehicles they create in obedience to government mandates.

Mining the required minerals produces emissions. Keeping the battery charged produces emissions. Only if a great deal of gasoline-based driving is displaced would there be net reduction in CO2. But who says any gasoline-based driving is being displaced? When government ladles out tax breaks for EVs, when wealthy consumers splurge on a car that burns electrons instead of gasoline, they simply leave more gasoline available for someone else to consume at a lower price. This may be a secret to you, the public. It’s not to economists.

In Joe Biden, alas, we have a president less likely than many to distinguish something that sounds good from something that actually does good. The press is not much better. Even when willing to acknowledge policy irrationality, it remains cloyingly committed to the electric car as a virtue signal.

EV policy fulfills only one criterion of policy sustainability—it transfers consumer and taxpayer wealth to special interests in ways that voters can be conned into supporting.

The problem here is the problem with any plan to subsidize our way to emissions reduction. Humans are perfectly capable of consuming both renewable and dirty energy in ever-growing quantities if the price is right. The emissions data prove as much. How to explain, along the way, the coevolution of the climate empty gesture with climate rhetoric that increasingly shouts the unfounded claim that climate change threatens human survival? I explain it this way: When it became clear nobody was going to do anything about climate change, it became safe to engage in hysterical rhetoric about climate change.

At the very outset of my career, a wise mentor said of the then-new climate issue, “So what?” By which he meant he couldn’t see humanity giving up fossil fuels.

In my mind, I later amended this: By incorporating carbon taxes into its tax systems, global society might at least slow the rate of CO2 emissions while simultaneously improving the efficiency of its tax codes. It still seemed unlikely, but it wasn’t clear why. After all, politicians enact plenty of taxes. Governments have been advised for decades to adopt consumption taxes as a way to fund their welfare states without destroying the possibility of growth.

But here we are. The composition of the atmosphere is changing thanks to human activities. Compiling an annual average temperature for the Earth may be about as meaningful as averaging the numbers in a phone book. Unusual periods of warm, cold, wet or dry weather can happen in any climate. But as long as the universe is made of matter and energy, we should expect some effect on Earth from altering the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere."

www.wsj.com

Opinion | Of EVs and Heat Waves

To help with climate change, grind your Tesla into small particles and inject it into the atmosphere.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com
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China is the worst carbon emitter, but we get the silver medal in emitting the most carbon globally.

Chinas target for carbon neutral is 2060. Ten years behind our 2050 years target.
 
warrior-cat said:
Out of context. Turning the other cheek is in reference to believing in Jesus and trying to live like him. If you profess it and someone slaps you for it you show them the other cheek. It has nothing to do with politics or worldly arguments which would allow us to be walked on.

Your ignorance is showing...again.
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You beat me to it thanks
 
Here's a few global signs that the heat the United States is experiencing this summer is something much more significant than just a heat wave.

  • June was the hottest ever in NOAA's climate record: Earth's average global temperature in June was 1.89 degrees above average, making it the hottest June in the 174-years global climate record. It also marked the 47th-consecutive June and the 532nd-consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th-century average, according to the National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Administration.
  • The past seven years have been the Earth's hottest: The years between 2015 and 2021 were Earth's warmest on record "by a clear margin," according to research by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, a group affiliated with the European Union. So far, 2021 was the planet's fifth-warmest year on record. The two warmest years, according to the Copernicus group, were 2020 and 2016.
  • 2023 could be the warmest on record: “It is actually almost a certainty that this will be the warmest year globally,” Michael Mann, a climate scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, told USA TODAY. The current record for the warmest year is 58.69 degrees over the global land and ocean, set in 2016, during the last El Niño. Last year's global average was just below that, at 58.44 degrees.
  • The Atlantic Ocean hit its highest temperatures since records began in 1850: Surface temperatures in the North Atlantic have hit "unprecedented" temperatures, almost 3 degrees warmer than typical for summer. The figure – the highest since in a series of temperature recordings that go back to 1850 – broke records "by a wide margin," according to England's Meteorological Office.
 
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Here's a few global signs that the heat the United States is experiencing this summer is something much more significant than just a heat wave.

  • June was the hottest ever in NOAA's climate record: Earth's average global temperature in June was 1.89 degrees above average, making it the hottest June in the 174-years global climate record. It also marked the 47th-consecutive June and the 532nd-consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th-century average, according to the National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Administration.
  • The past seven years have been the Earth's hottest: The years between 2015 and 2021 were Earth's warmest on record "by a clear margin," according to research by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, a group affiliated with the European Union. So far, 2021 was the planet's fifth-warmest year on record. The two warmest years, according to the Copernicus group, were 2020 and 2016.
  • 2023 could be the warmest on record: “It is actually almost a certainty that this will be the warmest year globally,” Michael Mann, a climate scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, told USA TODAY. The current record for the warmest year is 58.69 degrees over the global land and ocean, set in 2016, during the last El Niño. Last year's global average was just below that, at 58.44 degrees.
  • The Atlantic Ocean hit its highest temperatures since records began in 1850: Surface temperatures in the North Atlantic have hit "unprecedented" temperatures, almost 3 degrees warmer than typical for summer. The figure – the highest since in a series of temperature recordings that go back to 1850 – broke records "by a wide margin," according to England's Meteorological Office.
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I’m old enough to remember when all the expert organizations said that the Wuhan China Flu came from a bat.
 
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Iirc this was already retracted when it was pointed out it was an obvious lie. Pretty sure I already pointed that out once.

Of course it doesn't stop climate religious zealots from just spewing out anything and everything to push their agenda

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If all you libs were that concerned you would ALL turn off your AC’s and stop driving and flying. But you’re not.
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John Kerry and al gore are two of the worst. When their actions display concern, I will get more concerned
 
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It was sort of happening before, but ever since Trump became president the MSM has been all in on a misinformation campaign. And it’s soooo obvious. CNN is the absolute worst in this regard. They are doing a propaganda campaign on climate change. And of course they are not covering ways to solve it through technology.
 
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It was sort of happening before, but ever since Trump became president the MSM has been all in on a misinformation campaign. And it’s soooo obvious. CNN is the absolute worst in this regard. They are doing a propaganda campaign on climate change. And of course they are not covering ways to solve it through technology.
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Because solving it isn't on the agenda. Solving it means clicks go away, massive spending bills stop getting passed, and overreaching power grabs have to end.

There is no value in solving the problem. The problem is the value.
 
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A dangerous 19th straight day of scorching heat in Phoenix set a record for U.S. cities Tuesday, confined many residents to air-conditioned safety and turned the usually vibrant metropolis into a ghost town.

The city's record streak of 110 degrees Fahrenheit or more stood out even amid sweltering temperatures across the globe. It reached 117 degrees by 3 p.m.
Human-caused climate change and a newly formed El Nino are combining to shatter heat records worldwide, scientists say.
No other major city – defined as the 25 most populous in the United States – has had any stretch of 110-degree days or 90-degree nights longer than Phoenix, said weather historian Christopher Burt of the Weather Company.

KOSOVO SANCTUARY HELPS BROWN BEARS FIGHT HEATWAVE WITH FROZEN FRUIT, COOL POOLS
"When you have several million people subjected to that sort of thermal abuse, there are impacts," said NOAA Climate Analysis Group Director Russell Vose, who chairs a committee on national records.
For Phoenix, it’s not only the brutal daytime highs that are deadly. The lack of a nighttime cooldown can rob people without access to air conditioning of the break their bodies need to function properly.

With Tuesday’s low of 94 F, the city has had nine straight days of temperatures that didn’t go below 90 F at night, breaking another record there, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Salerno, who called it "pretty miserable when you don’t have any recovery overnight."
On Monday, the city also set a record for the hottest overnight low temperature: 95 F. During the day, the heat built up so early that the city hit the 110 mark a couple minutes before noon.
Dog parks emptied out by the mid-morning and evening concerts and other outdoor events were cancelled to protect performers and attendees. The city’s Desert Botanical Garden, a vast outdoor collection of cactus and other desert plants, over the weekend began shutting down at 2 p.m. before the hottest part of the day.

billboard says 111 degrees

A digital billboard displays a temperature of 111 degrees on July 17, 2023, in downtown Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
In the hours before the new record was set, rivers of sweat streamed down the sunburned face of Lori Miccichi, 38, as she pushed a shopping cart filled with her belongings through downtown Phoenix, looking for a place to get out of the heat.
"I’ve been out here a long time and homeless for about three years," said Miccichi. "When it’s like this, you just have to get into the shade. This last week has been the hottest I ever remember."
Some 200 cooling and hydration centers have been set up across the metro area, but most shut down between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. due to staffing and funding issues.

The entire globe has simmered to record heat both in June and July. Nearly every day of this month, the global average temperature has been warmer than the unofficial hottest day recorded before 2023, according to University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer. U.S. weather stations have broken more than 860 heat records in the past seven days, according to NOAA.
Rome reached an all-time high of 109, with record heat reported throughout Italy, France, Spain and parts of China. Catalonia smashed records reaching 113, according to global weather record keeper Maximiliano Herrera.
And if that’s not enough, smoke from wildfires, floods and droughts have caused problems globally.

In addition to Phoenix, Vose and others found less populous places such as Death Valley and Needles, California; and Casa Grande, Arizona, with longer hot streaks, but none in locations where many people live. Death Valley has had an 84-day streak of 110-degree temperatures.
HEAT WAVE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY THIS WEEK LEADING TO INCREASED RISK OF HEART ATTACKS, DEATHS, ACCORDING TO WMO
The last time Phoenix didn’t reach 110 F was June 29, when it hit 108. The record of 18 days above 110 that was tied Monday was first set in 1974.

"This will likely be one of the most notable periods in our health record in terms of deaths and illness," said David Hondula, chief heat officer for the city. "Our goal is for that not to be the case."
Phoenix City Parks and Recreation workers Joseph Garcia, 48, and Roy Galindo, 28, tried to stay cool as they trimmed shrubs. They work from 5 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to avoid the hottest time of the day.
"It gets super hot out here and sometimes we have to take care of the public," said Galindo, adding he sometimes find people passed out on the grass. "A lot of these people aren’t drinking water."

Retired Phoenix firefighter Mark Bracy, who has lived in the city most of his 68 years, went on a two-hour morning climb Tuesday, up and down Piestewa Peak, which is 2,610 feet high.
"I’ve been going up there regularly since I was in the Cub Scouts, but it was never this hot back then," said Bracy. "We’ve had hot spells before, but never anything like this."
Dr. Erik Mattison, director of the emergency department at Dignity Health Chandler Regional Medical Center in metro Phoenix, recalled a hiker in his 60s who was brought in last week with a core body temperature of 110 degrees.

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"Heat makes people sick. Heat makes people die," Mattison said.
"And it’s not just older people," he added. "We’ve seen professional athletes fall ill in the heat during training camp."

Phoenix’s heat wave has both long and short-term causes, said Arizona State University’s Randy Cerveny, who coordinates weather record verification for the World Meteorological Organization.
Long-term high temperatures over recent decades are due to human activity, he said, while the short-term cause is high pressure over the western United States.
That high pressure, also known as a heat dome, has been around the Southwest cooking it for weeks. When it moved, it moved to be even more centered on Phoenix, said National Weather Service meteorologist Isaac Smith.

The Southwest high pressure not only brings the heat, it prevents cooling rain and clouds from bringing relief, Smith said. Normally, the Southwest’s monsoon season kicks in around June 15 with rain and clouds. But Phoenix has not had measurable rain since mid-March.
"This heat wave is intense and unrelenting," said Katharine Jacobs, director of the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions at the University of Arizona. "Unfortunately, it is a harbinger of things to come."
 
Janice dean of Fox calls the heat wave unprecedented

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Strong-to-severe storms are expected to bring not only damaging winds, hail and a risk for tornadoes, but more heavy rain on saturated ground.

Potential record high temperatures

Potential record high temperatures Thursday in the West, South (Credit: Fox News)
Areas stretching from the central Plains to the mid-South, Great Lakes and Northeast should be on alert for weather advisories and warnings.
Heat expands eastward

Heat expands eastward on Monday across the U.S. (Credit: Fox News)
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Florida heat index




Florida heat on Thursday (Credit: Fox News)
Meanwhile, the dangerous – and, in many cases, unprecedented – heat wave continues for sections of the West, the South and into Florida through the weekend.

Janice Dean joined FOX News Channel (FNC) in January 2004 where she currently serves as senior meteorologist for the network. In addition, she is the morning meteorologist for FNC’s signature morning show, FOX & Friends (weekdays 6-9AM/ET) as well as contributes to FOX Weather, FOX News Media’s free ad-supported streaming television ("FAST") weather service. Click here to listen to "The Janice Dean Podcast."
 
Kingseve1 said:
Janice dean of Fox calls the heat wave unprecedented

Janice Dean | Fox News

Strong-to-severe storms are expected to bring not only damaging winds, hail and a risk for tornadoes, but more heavy rain on saturated ground.

Potential record high temperatures

Potential record high temperatures Thursday in the West, South (Credit: Fox News)
Areas stretching from the central Plains to the mid-South, Great Lakes and Northeast should be on alert for weather advisories and warnings.
Heat expands eastward

Heat expands eastward on Monday across the U.S. (Credit: Fox News)
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Florida heat index




Florida heat on Thursday (Credit: Fox News)
Meanwhile, the dangerous – and, in many cases, unprecedented – heat wave continues for sections of the West, the South and into Florida through the weekend.

Janice Dean joined FOX News Channel (FNC) in January 2004 where she currently serves as senior meteorologist for the network. In addition, she is the morning meteorologist for FNC’s signature morning show, FOX & Friends (weekdays 6-9AM/ET) as well as contributes to FOX Weather, FOX News Media’s free ad-supported streaming television ("FAST") weather service. Click here to listen to "The Janice Dean Podcast."
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Summer is hot! Next hour, water is wet! 🤡
 
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I meant from @Kingseve1 or engender throws out starts over and over again without providing solutions. It’s pointless, anyone can point out problems, so give us answers.
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I like your position and ability to compromise. You believe there is a problem, but you’re not buying into a solution.

I believe there is a problem and I believe there is a solution. I believe the solution will be a net positive for the economy, but more importantly a net positive for our air and soil.
 
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I can definitely compromise as I think both parties are overall greedy shitbags that don’t give a scintilla of a poo about any of us.

I just don’t see how it will be possible right now without spending way too much money while China and India are throwing double birds in the air.
 
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