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I could have chosen any one of a number of clips that are on the BBC website this morning. According the BBC weather chappie, just before 07:00, there is a third hurricane on its way !
Climate change deniers like Trump, need to have a good long look at themselves.
I could have chosen any one of a number of clips that are on the BBC website this morning. According the BBC weather chappie, just before 07:00, there is a third hurricane on its way !
Climate change deniers like Trump, need to have a good long look at themselves.
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Not sure about global warming, but there's an awful lot of coverage of the destruction in Aruba this morning, compared to the floods in Bangladesh. Surely someone should be accusing the media of racism again?
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read it mikey, he's denying that man kind is the cause. Have you seen any of the educational stuff on the creation of the continents by professor Iain Stewart regarding the unimaginable forces that shaped and are still shaping the continents? Watch those and tell me if you think the puny efforts of mankind have any effect whatsoever. Rise of the continents, originally BBC now on Eden. Watch it and learn.
Returning to the hurricanes and Trump, he has, at least, requested for the necessary short-term funds to be released. Technically he can't just give out the funds himself, but it shouldn't be a difficult matter for Congress to pass the necessary emergency action. More will be needed if Irma reaches Florida.
The short-term response is the priority right now.
The short-term response is the priority right now.
"Have you seen any of the educational stuff on the creation of the continents by professor Iain Stewart regarding the unimaginable forces that shaped and are still shaping the continents?"
Have you seen what that same Iain Stewart says about Climate Change?
"Until a few years ago, I was a bit of a climate sceptic. Geologists are only too aware that the climate is always changing and that our planet has experienced very different conditions in the past – warmer, wetter, drier, and colder; far more carbon dioxide in the air; higher sea levels and the rest.
We geologists are used to these changes happening over non-human timescales – hundreds of thousands to millions of years – so it took me a while to latch on to the notion that it was the rate of change that was important. I was really gob-smacked when I saw the ice cores from Greenland and was able to put my finger on the point in the core when the planet switched out of an ice age and into a warm period over the course of a single season. At most, this fundamental change may occur over one to three years, but it's certainly not five or 10 and it's definitely not the centuries to hundreds that I learned about when I did my geology degree 20 years ago.
What is truly scary about climate change is not any of the specific scenarios of rising seas or melting ice, but the sense that our planet's climate exists on a knife-edge balance and we really don't understand what pushes us over the edge, which makes our great chemistry experiment with the world's oceans and atmosphere all the more short-sighted."
Have you seen what that same Iain Stewart says about Climate Change?
"Until a few years ago, I was a bit of a climate sceptic. Geologists are only too aware that the climate is always changing and that our planet has experienced very different conditions in the past – warmer, wetter, drier, and colder; far more carbon dioxide in the air; higher sea levels and the rest.
We geologists are used to these changes happening over non-human timescales – hundreds of thousands to millions of years – so it took me a while to latch on to the notion that it was the rate of change that was important. I was really gob-smacked when I saw the ice cores from Greenland and was able to put my finger on the point in the core when the planet switched out of an ice age and into a warm period over the course of a single season. At most, this fundamental change may occur over one to three years, but it's certainly not five or 10 and it's definitely not the centuries to hundreds that I learned about when I did my geology degree 20 years ago.
What is truly scary about climate change is not any of the specific scenarios of rising seas or melting ice, but the sense that our planet's climate exists on a knife-edge balance and we really don't understand what pushes us over the edge, which makes our great chemistry experiment with the world's oceans and atmosphere all the more short-sighted."
// read it mikey, he's denying that man kind is the cause //
To be fair TTT, he isn't. He's saying he actually doesn't believe it's happening at all. However, I'm with Naomi on this. It will happen whatever. We should probably be spending more time figuring out how we're going to survive it rather than trying to stop it.
To be fair TTT, he isn't. He's saying he actually doesn't believe it's happening at all. However, I'm with Naomi on this. It will happen whatever. We should probably be spending more time figuring out how we're going to survive it rather than trying to stop it.
Trump is the bible of climate change because, no matter what you want him to say, he's said it. It exists, it doesn't exist, it's influenced by man, it isn't influenced by man. He says whatever is expedient or funny at the time. He usually calls it "global warming" because that makes some of the points easier to score.
Trump does not give a monkey's about climate change. All that Trump cares about is Trump - everything else follows from that.
So all in all it's pointless to bring Trump's opinions into any climate change discussion. Hence I'll stop there.
Trump does not give a monkey's about climate change. All that Trump cares about is Trump - everything else follows from that.
So all in all it's pointless to bring Trump's opinions into any climate change discussion. Hence I'll stop there.
