Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?

Global warming is real but if it goes the other way you don't hear about it much. After the warm year of 2016 the earth cooled off a little, maybe from La Nina.


Global Warming: Media Ignore Sharp Drop In Global Temperatures Over Past Two Years

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[slimslob]

Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?

Global warming is real but if it goes the other way you don't hear about it much. After the warm year of 2016 the earth cooled off a little, maybe from La Nina.


Global Warming: Media Ignore Sharp Drop In Global Temperatures Over Past Two Years

Forty years ago what is now the "global warming" crowd were at that time predicting an impending ice age. The cause? The use of fossil fuels. The truth is that climate is best described as turbulence in motion, that is it is always changing. Sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly and there is very little that humans can do to change it, and nothing on a permanent basis.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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'Off the charts': Weather disasters have cost the US $750 billion over past 5 years


A historic deep freeze that crippled Texas. A deadly hurricane that wreaked havoc from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast. A record-shattering heat wave and historic drought in the West. And a devastating, out-of-season tornado outbreak that tore through towns in the Central and Southern US.

Those are just a handful of the 20 weather and climate disasters the United States experienced in 2021 that cost at least $1 billion each, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

When taken together, billion-dollar disasters carried an incredible economic toll of $145 billion last year.

"2021 was, in essence, watching the climate projections of the past come true," Rachel Licker, a senior climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists. "The fingerprints of climate change were all over many of the billion-dollar events that hit the US this year."

Last year was the second consecutive year with 20 or more billion-dollar disasters, something that had never occurred before 2020's record-breaking 22. But the price tag in 2021 was $50 billion more and the extreme weather was far more deadly. At least 688 people died in the 20 events last year, NOAA reports, which was more than double the death toll of 2020.

"What's concerning about 2021 is it's yet another year in a series of years where we have both a high frequency, high cost and a large diversity of these extreme events that affect people's lives and livelihoods," Adam Smith, a climatologist with NOAA who led the report.

"Over the last five years, the United States has experienced almost $750 billion of damages from these billion-dollar disasters, which is really off the charts," he said. "And 2022 may not be any different."

Smith points to a spate of factors that are contributing to the growing economic toll, including a rise in population and assets in harm's way and increased vulnerability given where and how structures are built.

And, he said, climate change is "amplifying and making more severe some of these extremes that lead to billion-dollar disasters."

President Joe Biden in April pledged to slash planet-warming fossil fuel emissions in the US. Democrats' Build Back Better package contains $555 billion in climate and clean energy provisions that analysts say would significantly cut emissions and ultimately result in fewer and less-extreme climate disasters.

That funding -- designed to be applied over the course of 10 years -- pales in comparison to what the US is now spending on disasters.

As negotiations over that bill drag on in the Senate and global temperature continues its alarming rise, Licker said 2021 showed us that rapid and robust changes are necessary to limit the number of billion-dollar disasters that will strike the US in the future.

"We've known about these risks for so long, it didn't have to be this way," she said. "Hopefully 2021 and NOAA's new report will serve as a wake-up call for decision-makers across the country. While the time to act was yesterday, we can still make meaningful changes to the course that we're on."

NOAA also reported Monday that the average temperature in the US last year was 55 degrees, making 2021 the fourth-warmest year since record-keeping began 127 years ago. Precipitation was slightly above average in 2021, but drought conditions -- particularly in the West -- remained steady and significant throughout the year.

Scientists have found climate change is not just increasing the severity of extreme weather -- it is interrupting typical patterns and causing wild swings between dry and wet extremes. After months of prolonged drought, California was hammered by extreme rain in so-called atmospheric river events that caused destructive flooding during the last couple of months of the year.

"The third most costly disaster in 2021 was the Western wildfires, in excess of $10 billion," Smith said. "And with these late-year events, like what happened in Colorado, we'll probably have to up that even further in our first-quarter analysis this spring."

As in the US, extremes are becoming more frequent and more intense around the world due to the climate crisis.

A recent report by the World Meteorological Organization found that an extreme weather event or climate disaster had occurred every day on average somewhere in the world over the last 50 years, a five-fold increase in frequency over that period. Globally, the economic toll of these disasters has climbed seven-fold since the 1970s, the WMO reported.

The 20 billion-dollar disasters of 2021


Hurricane Ida, August 29-September 1: $75 billion
Winter storm and Texas deep freeze, February 10-19: $24 billion
Western wildfires: $10.6 billion
West drought and June heat wave: $8.9 billion
Tornado outbreak and severe weather, December 10: $3.9 billion
Texas and Oklahoma severe weather, April 27-28: $3.3 billion
Southeast tornadoes and severe weather, March 24-25: $1.8 billion
Midwest derecho and tornado outbreak, December 15: $1.8 billion
Ohio Valley hail storms, June 17-18: $1.7 billion
Texas hail storms, April 12-15: $1.5 billion
Eastern severe weather, March 27-28: $1.4 billion
Louisiana flooding, May 17-18: $1.4 billion
Southern tornadoes, severe weather, May 2-4: $1.3 billion
Central US severe storms, June 24-26: $1.3 billion
North and Central US severe weather, August 10-13: $1.3 billion
Tropical Storm Fred, August 16-18: $1.3 billion
California flooding and severe weather, January 24-29: $1.2 billion
Tropical Storm Elsa, July 7-9: $1.2 billion
Central US severe storms, July 8-11: $1.1 billion
Hurricane Nicholas, September 14-18: $1 billion

[nathicana]

Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?

• Overall, we would rate Investors Business Daily Right Biased based on right-leaning economic and market positions. We would also give them a High factual rating on strictly investing and market news. However, editorially IBT is clearly a Questionable source with the promotion of right-wing conspiracy theories and numerous failed fact checks. In sum, we rate them far-right Biased and Mixed for factual reporting.

History

Founded in 1984 by entrepreneur and stockbroker Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute to write pseudo-scientific propaganda.
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IBD is owned by Data Analysis Inc and is funded through advertising, subscriptions, and investment product sales.


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In review, Investors Business Daily primarily reports on economics, markets, and investing. They also report on politics, especially through their editorial section with an extreme right-wing bias. There is the moderate use of loaded language in their articles that significantly favors the right, such as this: For the most part, IBD sources its market information to credible mainstream and government websites.

Investors Business Daily strays from the consensus of science regarding climate change, and they have made outrageous and false claims,kept him alive to old age.
Failed Fact Checks

• IBD editorial board claims that cap-and-trade is unpopular in AmericaFALSE
• Private health insurance not banned on page 16 of the House billPANTS ON FIRE
• FALSE
• Was it recently revealed that the U.S. found uranium in Iraq after the invasion in 2003FALSE

Overall, we would rate Investors Business Daily Right Biased based on right-leaning economic and market positions. We would also give them a High factual rating on strictly investing and market news. However, editorially IBT is clearly a Questionable source with the promotion of right-wing conspiracy theories and numerous failed fact checks. In sum, we rate them far-right Biased and Mixed for factual reporting. (6/14/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 1/18/2021)
Source: https://www.investors.com/

This is from climate.nasa.gov. The title of the piece is "Nope, Earth Isn't Cooling" so I can't refute the basic premise of global warming. Facts are facts though.

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

[slimslob]

Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?

You see the tip of the blue arrow point at the extreme left? That is where SalesServiceGuy exists on the political bias scale. To him everyone else is right biased. He hates to be told the truth.

[slimslob]

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Renewable fuel production heats up in Kern | News | bakersfield.com

[copiertec]

Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?

What are your thoughts on this video? Is it fake? I never seen snow that did not melt with fire.

[slimslob]

Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?

What are your thoughts on this video? Is it fake? I never seen snow that did not melt with fire.

A couple of things that I noticed, It is definitely not plastic. Plastic would melt and even might burn. Why did she make her "Snow ball" out of snow on her car and not from snow on the ground? Both lighters were putting out carburizing flames hence the orange flame and carbon being deposited on the "snow ball"

[copiertec]

Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?

A couple of things that I noticed, It is definitely not plastic. Plastic would melt and even might burn. Why did she make her "Snow ball" out of snow on her car and not from snow on the ground? Both lighters were putting out carburizing flames hence the orange flame and carbon being deposited on the "snow ball"

Good observations, Slim. I was wondering the same thing as well, why not pickup some snow from the ground as well. I am wondering if she had something on her hands as well?

[slimslob]

Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?

Good observations, Slim. I was wondering the same thing as well, why not pickup some snow from the ground as well. I am wondering if she had something on her hands as well?

The way the snow on the ground looked it was almost like it was filmed on a sound stage.

[copiertec]

Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?

The way the snow on the ground looked it was almost like it was filmed on a sound stage.

I keep on watching her left hand. It's in the pocket, fiddling around, then I noticed it's closed as she is walking. I've heard reports of this "fake snow" in the past, but I remain somewhat skeptical.

[Phil B.]

Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?

I keep on watching her left hand. It's in the pocket, fiddling around, then I noticed it's closed as she is walking. I've heard reports of this "fake snow" in the past, but I remain somewhat skeptical.

The whole thing is skeptical.

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[slimslob]

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Cornerstone Biden 'Climate Change' Order

[Phil B.]

Re: Do you believe that Climate Change is real and caused by mankind?

Federal Judge Strikes Down Cornerstone Biden 'Climate Change' Order

The judge was right in his decision.

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[SalesServiceGuy]

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The judge was right in his decision.

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President Biden signed an executive order rejoining the Paris climate accord within hours of taking the oath of office, fulfilling a campaign pledge. The move undoes the U.S. withdrawal ordered by predecessor Donald Trump, who belittled the science behind climate efforts, loosened regulations on heat-trapping oil, gas and coal emissions, and spurred oil and gas leasing in pristine Arctic tundra and other wilderness.

... the Judge's order changes nothing other than the $ number used to calculate the cost of not doing anything to slow climate change.