Climate Change

[jackpot269]

It's funny you don't understand that one event does not make a year. Yearly average temps are increasing at a record rate. Not being smart enough to understand this speaks volumes.

[Itsamazing777]

Oh look Hareeba is lying (no surprise) about not seeing blocked posts. How else would he know to talk about the polar vortex when only Dwight and myself referred to it?

Another lie from this pathetic coward.

[Hareeba!]

The polar vortex can move south when the jet stream weakens, allowing the cold air to break free and move south. This can happen when the polar vortex is disturbed by natural turbulence or climate change.

Natural disturbances

• Turbulence
• Natural turbulence from below can move upward and disturb the polar vortex. This can cause the vortex to break down, slip off the North Pole, or split into multiple rings.
  
  Weather events

• A weather event can disrupt the low-pressure system of the polar vortex. This can cause the jet stream to weaken, allowing high-pressure systems to push the cold air south.

Climate change

Warming Arctic: Climate change has caused the Arctic to warm, which has led to a loss of Arctic sea ice. This has weakened the jet stream, making it more likely for the polar vortex to move south.

[Itsamazing777]

Arctic polar vortex is set to bring temperatures as low as -23°F (-31°C) to northern US. It could be the coldest in over 300 years.

[JAKEPEAVY21]

This is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like.
More frequent and more intense fires.



Since 1932 15 of the top-20 largest wildfires in California have occurred since 2010.
Global warming leads to climate change that makes these fires more intense.

Let's say it is climate change. Why weren't Newsome, Bass and the officials much more prepared for a yearly occurrence with the wild fires and santa ana winds in California? All of their policies cut the funds and did little to nothing to mitigate the damage of these yearly occurrences. It was just a matter of time until something like this happened.

They are so worried about what color and what sexual orientation everyone is and all the DEI nonsense that they let the most basic and important things go by the wayside. If I ever get caught in a fire, I couldn't care less what color, sexual orientation or who the firefighters are sleeping with....all i care about is can they do the job and everything required to save lives/fight the fires.

[DwightShrute]

Australia records hottest-ever spring

Arctic polar vortex is set to bring temperatures as low as -23°F (-31°C) to northern US. It could be the coldest in over 300 years.

[turbobets]

Billionaires Spew More CO2 Pollution in 90 Minutes Than Average Person in a Lifetime

"The extreme emissions of the richest, from their luxury lifestyles and even more from their polluting investments, are fuelling inequality, hunger, and—make no mistake—threatening lives."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaire-emissions?utm_campaign=en-oil_20220202&utm_content=318489450&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-15193285&s=09

It's not just the super rich. Most high income households consume so much more than the average household. Not judging just saying. My girlfriend is a good example. Lectures me about destroying the environment because I eat meat but she orders more useless shit from amazon than any one person needs.

[Hareeba!]

So climate change denialists, explain why.

[jt315]

The Pacific Palisades, Eaton, LA fires is what happens when we ignore what 99% of scientists have been telling us: Climate change is real — and whatever the costs are to pivot, if we do not pivot from industries that damage the environment, it's going to cost us 1,000x more.

You spelled incompetence wrong .

[Hareeba!]

The Pacific Palisades, Eaton, LA fires is what happens when we ignore what 99% of scientists have been telling us: Climate change is real — and whatever the costs are to pivot, if we do not pivot from industries that damage the environment, it's going to cost us 1,000x more.

[Itsamazing777]

Several weeks ago I recommended to place a wager on Florida voting for Kamala.

That was when the odds were somewhere in the order of +6.00.

Now they are somewhere in the +9.50 range. I jumped in too soon . But I still think it's extra good value.

Don't wait much longer. The markets will soon come to their senses.

What a dumbass.

[Hareeba!]

This is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like.
More frequent and more intense fires.



Since 1932 15 of the top-20 largest wildfires in California have occurred since 2010.
Global warming leads to climate change that makes these fires more intense.

[Hareeba!]

Billionaires Spew More CO2 Pollution in 90 Minutes Than Average Person in a Lifetime

"The extreme emissions of the richest, from their luxury lifestyles and even more from their polluting investments, are fuelling inequality, hunger, and—make no mistake—threatening lives."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/billionaire-emissions?utm_campaign=en-oil_20220202&utm_content=318489450&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-15193285&s=09

[Itsamazing777]

[Hareeba!]

Another broken record — brought to you by fossil fuel lies and corruption delivered at industrial scale.

[Hareeba!]

Not terrified by this graph?
That’s because you’ve been deliberately confused & distracted by inanity, culture wars & conspiracy theories spread by a media & politics in the pocket of psychotic billionaires who are gutting our society & our futures for grotesque personal profit.

[Hareeba!]

Australia records hottest-ever spring

Australia has recorded its hottest spring on record, with temperatures averaging about 2.5C above pre-industrial levels.

· The Bureau of Meteorology found spring was at least 1C warmer than any spring from last century, in only the second time the 2.5C barrier has been breached for an entire season (ABC);

· South-west Queensland in particular shattered records, with the seasonal mean exceeding 3C above the long-term average;

· The season was also particularly wet, with a mean national rainfall of 92mm, 28% above average – mostly due to record falls through northern WA;

· BoM is also forecasting warmer than average day and night temperatures across the country this summer (ABC);

· Australia is already enduring a wild start to summer, with Queensland simultaneously hit with a scorching heatwave and heavy flooding that swept away cars across Brisbane and the Gold Coast (Nine);

[delpiero10]

Biggest scam ever

[DwightShrute]

• In 2022, the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) saw the highest coral cover in 36 years, according to the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS):
• • Northern region: The average hard coral cover increased to 36% from 13% in 2017.
  • Central region: The hard coral cover increased to 33% from 12% in 2019.
  • Southern region: The cover fell to 34% in 2022 from 38% in 2021.
  
  The increase in coral cover was driven by Acropora corals, which are the most common type of coral on the GBR. The recovery was made possible by:
  
  • Fewer acute stresses: There were no severe cyclones and the number of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks decreased.
  
  
• Lower heat stress: The 2022 mass bleaching event was less severe than previous events.

[Hareeba!]

[Hareeba!]

Tell me what you think needs done

Quite simply those in power need to urgently take a good look at all the evidence, listen to the science rather than moneyed lobbyists and take action to replace reliance on fossil fuels with renewables as soon as practicable. No more new fossil fuel mining or power plants.

[RudyRuetigger]

If you’ve got kids it’s worth keeping in mind that pretty much all the science is pointing to our society having collapsed before they are the age you are now.

Tell me what you think needs done

[Hareeba!]

If you’ve got kids it’s worth keeping in mind that pretty much all the science is pointing to our society having collapsed before they are the age you are now.

[Hareeba!]

The Philippines has raised its highest storm alert and evacuated thousands of people as it braces for Super Typhoon Usagi, the fifth storm to hit the country in three weeks https://aje.io/wrq2cz

[slewfan]

Planet-heating pollutants in atmosphere hit record levels in 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/planet-heating-pollutants-in-atmosphere-hit-record-levels-in-2023?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

I believe this is all the ''HOT AIR'' coming out of the White house, Fake news and the Democrat party's Hollywood endorsements.

[DwightShrute]

[slewfan]

https://youtu.be/tqcDyHdbYd4?t=98

[Hareeba!]

[Hareeba!]

Planet-heating pollutants in atmosphere hit record levels in 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/planet-heating-pollutants-in-atmosphere-hit-record-levels-in-2023?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

[Hareeba!]

Several weeks ago I recommended to place a wager on Florida voting for Kamala.

That was when the odds were somewhere in the order of +6.00.

Now they are somewhere in the +9.50 range. I jumped in too soon . But I still think it's extra good value.

Don't wait much longer. The markets will soon come to their senses.

[Hareeba!]

[b1slickguy]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">MIC DROP: Rep. Thomas Massie blows John Kerry&#39;s &quot;man-made global warming&quot; propaganda completely out of the water.<br><br>&quot;I think it&#39;s somewhat appropriate that somebody with a pseudoscience degree is here pushing pseudoscience in front of our committee today.&quot; <br><br>Credit:… <a href="https://t.co/KKV1vlf6uT">pic.twitter.com/KKV1vlf6uT</a></p>&mdash; Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) <a href="https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1846801082124542220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >October 17, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Hareeba!]

The devastating winds and torrential rains that Hurricane Milton delivered to Florida were made far worse by human-induced climate change, a team of international researchers reported on Friday.

Record-high global temperatures, boosted by the burning of fossil fuels, helped power the storm as it traveled across the balmy waters of the Gulf of Mexico, according to the World Weather Attribution group’s analysis released Friday morning. Those conditions boosted Milton’s rainfall between 20 to 30 percent and wind speed by 10 percent compared with a scenario without human-caused climate change.

“[T]he results are compatible with those obtained for other hurricanes in the area that have been studied in the scientific literature,” the researchers wrote. “We are therefore confident that such changes in heavy rainfall are attributable to human-caused climate change.”

The type of torrential rainfall from storms like Milton was twice as likely because of the 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming the world has experienced since the middle of the 19th century, WWA said. Milton delivered nearly 19 inches of rain in St. Petersburg, causing what meteorologists described as a 1-in-500-year flood in the city that sits on a peninsula at the mouth of Tampa Bay.

The findings come just days after the same research group found climate change also intensified Hurricane Helene, which like Milton intensified rapidly as it barreled toward the U.S. coast. Helene was the deadliest storm since 2017, killing more than 230 people across six states.

Attribution science, as the discipline is known, has matured in recent years and gained wider acceptance among the scientific community, according to the National Climate Assessment, a federal governmentwide anthology of climate science and impacts. The group’s findings on Helene and Milton back up broader research by scientists that suggest a hotter planet will fuel more intense cyclones whenever they form.

Despite the growing body of science showing the effects climate change is having on making hurricanes more powerful, scepticism remains among many politicians, such as Republican Florida Gov. Ron Desantis, who has downplayed climate change and dismissed any link to the storm this week, saying, “It is hurricane season.”

Those remarks came after Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, another Republican, drew ridicule from members of both parties for her post on X saying, “Yes they can control the weather.” She added, “It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

The team of researchers and scientists at the WWA compare and model extreme weather against a scenario in which no human-driven warming existed to determine how climate change influences those events.
Many of the conditions that sparked Helene remained in place for Milton, the researchers said. Climate change made the abnormally warm Gulf of Mexico waters that served as an engine for the rapid intensification of both cyclones 400 to 800 times more likely. Milton’s ascension over two days from tropical depression to Category 5 hurricane, with wind speeds clocking up to 180 mph, was particularly fast.

The group acknowledged some limitations in the quick analysis just a day after Milton made landfall. The researchers said not all observation-based datasets were updated and could not “reliably estimate how rare the heavy rainfall in the path of Milton was.” It also did not use climate models as it did for Helene.

The researchers instead relied on assessing trends in observed data, where in 3 of 4 datasets they found heavy one-day rainfall events like Milton are twice as likely with 1.3 degrees Celsius of warming and 20 to 30 percent more intense. The fourth dataset conveyed larger changes.

That the hurricanes made landfall just two weeks apart highlights the growing concern among emergency managers and climate scientists that compounding events driven by a turbocharged atmosphere are straining disaster response capacity.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has said it was able respond to both Helene and Milton simultaneously, though the agency spent nearly half the disaster relief in eight days that Congress has allocated for the next 12 months.

Helene slammed an inland area of the Southeast largely unaccustomed to hurricanes, worsening its impact as it washed away roads and destroyed scores of homes. Milton killed comparatively fewer people, but its full toll is not yet known.
“Both the rapid intensification and the fact that emergency personnel were still continuing with the recovery from Helene made preparations difficult,” the WWA analysis said.

The Biden administration in August informed Congress the fund would need more appropriations to carry out fiscal year 2025 obligations, though lawmakers are not expected to take up any new funding measures until after the election.

Another blow would strain the coffers — and weeks of hurricane season remain.

While forecasts by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that 2024 would be the most active hurricane season in decades did not materialize as expected, the recent hurricanes have brought tremendous devastation and sizable financial losses. AccuWeather estimated between $160 billion and $180 billion of damage and economic loss from Milton, and $225 billion to $250 billion for Helene.

[turbobets]

Nothing to see here. Climate deniers just don’t want to take responsibility for fukking up the planet.

I doubt there are very few U.S. citizens that have reduced their impact on the envronment to a point where they have earned the right to lecture others about taking responsibility for the planets climate.

[Mr KLC]

I dont know what that means either


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for me, I don't trust our government at all so until we fix that, I cant believe anything they say.

I finally watched CBS this morning today and it was full of propaganda for liberals