pampango (16,853 posts)
7 Reasons Why American and the World Will Fail on Climate Change
I don’t believe the United States or the world will do nearly enough, nearly fast enough, to hold the rise in temperatures to safe levels. I think we’re ****ed. Or, at the least, I think our grandchildren are ****ed….
1) We’ve waited so long that what America needs to do is really, really hard — and maybe impossible: In the early 1990s, scientists converged on 2°C…. We’ve waited so long to begin cutting emissions that two degrees looks flatly impossible. We’re on track for 4°C of warming…. The question isn’t whether we’ll fail. It’s how badly we’ll fail….
2) The people most affected by climate change don’t get a vote: This map… the US… is one of the countries least affected by global warming…. Carbon emissions disproportionately benefit the US and disproportionately harm countries that are not the US….
3) We’re bad at sacrificing now to benefit later….
4) The effects of global warming are not easily reversible….
5) The Republican Party has gone off the rails on climate change….
6) The international cooperation required is unprecedented, and maybe impossible….
7) Geoengineering is nuts….
Not to be a killjoy, but it’s hard to believe that the consequences of the huge, unpredictable changes to the global climate can be safely reversed by further efforts to make huge, unpredictable changes to the climate. So what now?… I could make up a more optimistic story. I just don’t believe it…. On climate change, the truth has gone from inconvenient to awful. Right now we’re failing our future. And we will be judged harshly for it.
http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/06/05/morning-must-read-ezra-klein-7-reasons-world-will-fail-global-warming/
Depressing but it's hard to say that he is wrong.
Mission
Over the past 40 years, economic inequality in the United States has returned to levels last seen in the 1920s. Today, the United States is in the top quarter of the world’s most unequal countries. Economic mobility—a child’s likelihood of occupying a different position on the income ladder than his or her parents did—has fallen well behind Canada, Great Britain, and other advanced economies. And inequality has worsened over the course of the current economic recovery.
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I don’t believe the United States or the world will do nearly enough, nearly fast enough, to hold the rise in temperatures to safe levels. I think we’re ****ed. Or, at the least, I think our grandchildren are ****ed….
Over the past 40 years, economic inequality in the United States has returned to levels last seen in the 1920s. Today, the United States is in the top quarter of the world’s most unequal countries. Economic mobility—a child’s likelihood of occupying a different position on the income ladder than his or her parents did—has fallen well behind Canada, Great Britain, and other advanced economies. And inequality has worsened over the course of the current economic recovery.
One of the cultists favorite pleas.
Too bad they don`t give a shit about what grandchildren will face with something we really can freaking control...the national debt.
Too bad it's been cooling for the last 10+ years. I almost feel sorry for the Proglodyte................nah, not really.According to the lib theory of Co2 caused glow bull warming, that's impossible.
pampango (16,853 posts)
7 Reasons Why American and the World Will Fail on Climate Change...
2) The people most affected by climate change don’t get a vote: This map… the US… is one of the countries least affected by global warming…. Carbon emissions disproportionately benefit the US and disproportionately harm countries that are not the US….
DUmbass just admitted Gorebull Warming is total bullshit and totally designed as a leftist/communist wannabe tool to do great harm to the US.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
IF "carbon emissions" benefit the US more than other countries, WHAT'S THE F'N PROBLEM????
pampango (16,853 posts)
7 Reasons Why American and the World Will Fail on Climate Change...
2) The people most affected by climate change don’t get a vote: This map… the US… is one of the countries least affected by global warming…. Carbon emissions disproportionately benefit the US and disproportionately harm countries that are not the US….
You didn't actually think the DUmbasses would be FOR America, did you?
Well, that's it for me. Proof that Glowballs Warming is racist.
Oh my.....the lighter the skin of the collective population the ......uh......the white man keeping us down.(http://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/assets/4549217/climate_change_inequality_map.png)
-And that is exactly the angle the primitives will use next. "If you deny the reality of Global Warming (or whatever they call it now), you are a racist."
(http://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/assets/4549217/climate_change_inequality_map.png)
-And that is exactly the angle the primitives will use next. "If you deny the reality of Global Warming (or whatever they call it now), you are a racist."
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It's almost like a cooler than normal spring.
So we have some low temps that we can trade with you.
We could make a bundle off the idea like AlGore manBearPig did with carbon credits.
For just 3 easy payments of $39.99 each, I'll send you a quart of hot air I captured today.Alrighty then.
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Quoth the raven...
Why are you bringing Will Pitt's mother into this? :whistling:She's one of the delivery wh....uh......girls.
She's one of the delivery wh....uh......girls.
A 'shot girt,' right?