ocean conditions are changing due to Rapid Global Climate Shift

Wall Street Journal | Are Polar Bears Really Disappearing?

 

The National Journal | The Scary Truth About How Much Climate Change is Costing You

 

Huffington Post | Climate Change Chatter, 3rd Edition

 

"[The United States has] reduced carbon emissions in this country more than any other country in the world in the last 10 years."
-- House Energy & Commerce energy and power subcommittee Chair Ed Whitfield (R-KY), arguing in the House on Tuesday that there's no need for action on climate "


Sure, but eliminating 10 million domestic jobs and subcontracting the carbon emissions out to China is easy.

Republicans live in caves.

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If you read the entire article, instead of just that particular quote from it, it gives a more balanced and less optimistic picture -- one that boils down to, 'we don't really know what the future holds for polar bears; there's good news and bad news.' Here's another excerpt from from the same article:

 

"Despite the many real bits of heartening news, bad omens abound. Declines in polar-bear body condition have been widely observed. Recently it has become far less common to see adult females bearing twins or triplets. As Lily Peacock, a bear researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey, puts it, "Some populations appear to be doing OK now, but what's frightening is what might happen in the very near future."

What's really frightening is people who want us to pay for what THEY fear maybe the future, which they can't foretell.

Worry is the interest paid on trouble, before the principle is due!

 

Of course the US is less energy-efficient compared to West European countries. Oil is cheap in the US, and enterprices and consumers are rational. When the price for oil and electricity in the US catch up with the current prices in EU, the US economy will adjust and become more energy-efficient. Enterpices and consumers might talk idealistically but they will choose the most cost-effective option just the same.

The average commuting distance in the US is 16 miles (25 km) and in the UK 13 km. Commuter behaviour will change with significantly higher prices on energy, especially the CO2-emitting kind. Co-ordinating the commuting with your neigbour and using electric cars for short distances are two measures that could reduce the energy used for this purpose with half while saving money for the commuters, and I would say that the suffering is tolerable. No need for a drastically changed lifestyle. Bicycles are excellent alternatives for distances up to 10 km or so, provided that the city planning has accounted for bicycles. Americans and Eupropeans in general are too fat and lazy anyway so some exercise will do people good.

All in all I think that the fear that we radically will have to change our lifestyles is unfounded. A large car with a combustion engine can still be around to use when needed, when the small electric car doesn't fit the bill. We will have to adjust our lifestyles somewhat, and some of it is for the better. No need to evacuate the countryside or the suburbs. Standard of living and quality of life are not proportional to energy consumption. In my opinion, adjusting to a significantly reduced energy consumption is one of the lesser challanges mankind has faced. Adjusting to a significantly warmer globe could be a much more difficult challange.

Erik

 

New York Times | Plugging In, Dutch Put Electric Cars to the Test

 

Huff Post | Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed, Mr. President

 

CBC News | Working less would slow climate change, group argues

 

Blah blah blah. For every post by another you respond with 40 lines of liberal newsprint. Boring.

 

I feel sooo sorry for you. Maybe you and your buddies can view these boring posts as a stimulating challenge to find solid evidence to support your point of view.

New York Times | Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?

 

what do you make if this article? links from the article to interesting climate topic data presentations.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterfe...lobal-warming-alarmists-the-earth-is-cooling/

 

I get thrown out of Internet Explorer every time I try going to that article, or to anything else at Forbes. I'll try again using Firefox when I get off work and fire up my laptop.... But meanwhile, the headline and first paragraph seem to be a bald-faced lie. Global temperatures have not been cooling for more than ten years.

I assume the rest of the article contains some sort of fancy softshoe and legerdemain to back up the claim, but it's a bogus one. Globally, the ten hottest years on record have all occurred since 1998, with 2005 and 2010 as the hottest.