Posted on 09/23/2019 12:47:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Things take longer to happen than you think they will, but then they happen much faster than you thought they could.
The destructive impacts of the climate crisis are now following the trajectory of that economics maxim as horrors long predicted by scientists are becoming realities.
More destructive Category 5 hurricanes are developing, monster fires ignite and burn on every continent but Antarctica, ice is melting in large amounts there and in Greenland, and accelerating sea-level rise now threatens low-lying cities and island nations.
Tropical diseases are spreading to higher latitudes. Cities face drinking-water shortages. The ocean is becoming warmer and more acidic, destroying coral reefs and endangering fish populations that provide vital protein consumed by about a billion people.
Worsening droughts and biblical deluges are reducing food production and displacing millions of people. Record-high temperatures threaten to render areas of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, North Africa and South Asia uninhabitable. Growing migrations of climate refugees are destabilizing nations. A sixth great extinction could extinguish half the species on earth.
Finally people are recognizing that the climate is changing, and the consequences are worsening much faster than most thought was possible. A record 72 percent of Americans polled say that the weather is growing more extreme. And yet every day we still emit more than 140 million tons of global warming pollution worldwide into the atmosphere, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
I often echo the point made by the climate scientist James Hansen: The accumulation of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases — some of which will envelop the planet for hundreds and possibly thousands of years — is now trapping as much extra energy daily as 500,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs would release every 24 hours.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES:
Former Vice President Al Gore shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for his work to slow global warming. He is the author of, among other books, “An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming.”
Rich Al swims in his gold. Gets fatter by the day.
And Al Gore has such a record of winning.
He should be in China and India.
Manbearpig speaketh.
Run Al, run!!!
He’s Super Cereal!
what? I thought we were already supposed to be all dead and drowned by now according to this con man!
You first, Al. Lead by example.
gore should go sit in a chair where the polar bears are all sad, pick a correct temperature and command the climate to be static, King Canute style.
accelerating sea-level rise now threatens low-lying cities and island nations.
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Apparently not affecting coastal California where Gore bought a beach house or Martha’s Vineyard where The Kenyan from Indonesia bought a beach house.
The climate just changed three minutes ago here on The Jersey Shore.(3:50 pm.EST) It’s now Autumn. So long Summer. I love this time of year.
Al “My carbon footprint is larger than some country’s” Gore?
Largely, because immigration policies are ignoring public health. Wouldn't it be better to spread the treatment and eradication of diseases south, into the tropics, than to import them here to a more vulnerable population and extend the range of said illnesses?
He’d be a more effective candidate than any that are running.
Upstate NY here, and I looked at my thermometer and the temp is warmer than a few minutes ago. Global warming?
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