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Comment by Joan Denoo on April 7, 2019 at 1:25am

Why it’s time to think about human extinction | Dr David Suzuki

Dr. Suzuki says to 

1. Vote as though humanity is at stake, because it is; 

2. Consume wisely with clean water, air, and soil in mind; 

3. Create community, including family, neighbors, nation, and Earth. 

Comment by Joan Denoo on March 14, 2019 at 3:54pm

Are you able and willing to sit and do nothing about human-caused climate change, Donald?

Comment by Joan Denoo on March 14, 2019 at 3:16pm

Donald, I understand and agree with your statement that global warming and cooling occurs as a result of forces, natural, that we cannot control. 

However, are you denying that Homo sapiens influence the onset of air pollution? Are these natural events?

USA Coal impacts: air pollution  

China Coal pollution

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/sep/13/china-starts-moving-aw...

We know that when a change occurs, whether ice ages or warming ages, they happen abruptly.

Will it be different this time?

Can we do anything to prevent either event?

What are you doing to prepare yourself and your children from abrupt climate change?

What do you recommend the public does? 

Comment by Donald L. Engel on March 14, 2019 at 1:51pm

I wonder what their thoughts are going to be when they take all these actions, and the globe continues to warm at about 1.5 degrees per century as it has been for the past few centuries.  I wish I were young enough to be there, and listen to them.

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Comment by Grinning Cat on March 14, 2019 at 1:07pm

Some visions of a world in which we've brought the worst of global warming to a halt in 2050, and ways to get there:

It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change (NPR Morning Edition; text, photos, and audio)

One of the sections is titled "The Urbanization Of Everything (A Desire Named Streetcars)".

Comment by Donald L. Engel on February 8, 2019 at 5:34pm

We're getting close to previous warm period peaks, but not quite there yet.

Comment by Joan Denoo on February 8, 2019 at 3:33pm

Fossil fuels: wood, coal, natural gas, and oil, used to produce heat, energy, and products create polluted soils, water, and air, they overload the atmosphere and trap heat which drives the Earth’s temperature up. These exist as human-created events. 

The Earth’s magnetic poles may change, the rhythms of day and night may change, the seasons may change, the growing zones may change, the Earth may crack open and exhaust fire and brimstone. 

With these changes, the Earth continues to have trapped CO2 gas, an overloaded atmosphere and trapped heat that drive’s the Earth’s surface temperature to change and produce patterns of airflow and prevailing winds to change. 

The real question is, can we thrive, and more importantly, can we survive these changes?

Comment by Grinning Cat on December 8, 2018 at 8:07am

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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on November 29, 2018 at 5:08pm

I've said that, as a senior, climate change won't effect me much.

Andrea Dutton

 ... while the majority of Americans understand that global warming is happening, only a fraction of them believe that it will affect them personally. Some of the elderly people who have come to listen to me speak about climate change shrug it off, telling me it’s something that they won’t have to worry about in their lifetime.

As it turns out, 25 percent of the population in Paradise, CA was over the age of 65. And last year after Hurricane Irma swept across the Florida peninsula, several residents of a nursing home in Hollywood (FL), literally cooked to death in the sweltering heat while the power was out.

Climate change affects all of us. In our lifetimes. Even if you live in a place called Paradise or Hollywood. [emphasis mine]

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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 26, 2018 at 2:44pm

Super Typhoon Yutu appears to be the fifth-strongest storm ever to make landfall globally, and the second-strongest ever to hit U.S. soil. Yutu lashed Tinian and Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory. “Tinian has been devastated.” said Mayor Joey P. San Nicolas in a video posted to Facebook.  Around 52,000 people live on the islands, with the majority based in Saipan and some 6 percent in Tinian. [order changed, light editing]

Worst storm in nearly 100 years leaves U.S. islands devastated

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