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Top 10 climate change myths (find the answer to your favorite)...

phxbillcee 10 Apr 14
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Great video. I reposted it on Fcebook. Now,I am wantign to watch is othr videos....

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We can't stop climate change. The water has been rising up for thousands of years. The deserts use to be green with trees. Eventually the earth will be flooded again. It was flooded before. Its just coming around again.

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Just like adherence to religion, deniers go off opinion and belief, so facts don't matter.

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Potholder's been banging his head against this particular wall for some time now. His data is as acute as his adversaries are addled. But still...

He's got a whole series on just "Climate Change", & the evidence is overwhelming, but money & short-sightedness wins out!

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The deniers will at some point come to realize that the damage done is already significant enough that a small increase in solar output or a massive CO2 emmission from a volcanic event will result it an epic change and the climate events that will cause devastation.

When we hit the "tipping point" odds are it will be far too late for any action to help.

I worry we may have reached that tipping point already without realizing it.

@MikeInBatonRouge, @phxbillcee Hitting the tipping point may not be the point we need to fear as much as that unexpected event that releases CO2 or a large aerosol that makes the climate change for a decade or so, then when it dissipates we get cooked because it allows the deniers to temporarily win the debate.

@MikeInBatonRouge unfortunately we’ve passed the tipping point. We’re at the “how bad will it get phase”, which is dependent on how much we mitigate our greenhouse gas emissions.

@Marz [scientificamerican.com]

Technically a lot of scientists think it is not too late in scientific terms.. it's wether we can change peoples habits and views is more the issue now .. Though the INGA foundation (funded and run by Mike Hands at Que Gardens) and soil technology and microbiology it is possible / proven thats we can also reforest rainforest .. It's just wether anyone is going to let us lol ! 🙂

@Nickbeee @MikeInBatonRouge The way I see the longer we delay changing the way we live, what consume and how we produce our food the harder it will be to repair the damage and mitigate the effects. At some doing these things will become impossible; we are not at that point yet nor do I know when that will occur. The biggest obstacle to doing anything is greed but, as thing get worse it will be eclipsed by the necessity to deal with the climatic change weather events and the misery they cause. These costs in resources will eventually overwhelm the ability to cope with them.

Marz, I agree with you. Living in Louisiana, where our coast continues to erode into the Gulf of Mexico at an alarming rate, I have listened to actual climate scientists say that, at least for Louisiana, it is almost certainly too late to preserve and restore our coast. We've screwed that one up royally. I don't blame religion for that one as much as bald-faced corporate greed that simply refuses to take financial responsibility for fixing the damage it has caused. So it has waged a protracted public campaign to confuse the issues on humans' impact on climate and environment in general. It's a mega-disaster. That is NOT hyperbole, btw, as I have a couple of times been accused of on this forum. (chuckle)

@MikeInBatonRouge The same thing is happening along the Arctic coast line in Northern Canada, communities like Tuktoyaktuk where the community is being threatened to be washed away. More than 1/2 a mile of coastline has been washed into the sea along with boat launches and fish processing facilities. This is due to the loss of the permafrost that held the ground together and the increased ice free days that allow the ocean to generate large waves. What is left after a storm is shallows and beaches strewn with huge boulders unnavigable by boats. The results of this is that the local economy is now in shambles and self-reliant employed people now find themselves living on canned food and government assistance. Much of the offshore ecosystem that provided the resource has been damaged by the sediment washed from the coastline.
I believe that what has happened to these Northern people is what is going to happen to millions of coastal fishing communities around the world and governments are totally unprepared to deal with the consequences of lost resources and displaced people.

Heathenfarmer, thanks for that example. It is both alarming and just plain sad. Meanwhile, we have many religious apologists for industry's widespread destruction of our environment. They thumb their noses at any show of appropriate alarm or any push to correct course. And they do this by claiming that destruction and chaos are simply signs of "The End Times," and they imply that is something to look forward to, rather than something to fight against. There aren't enough words for how dangerous that attitude is, nor how stupid. Because they still represent such large numbers, they are signaling loud and clear to industrial polluters to keep on their current greedy path, because they likely won't be held accountable, at least not until it really is too late. By then, assigning blame won't much matter. 😟

@MikeInBatonRouge There is always that problem that the deluded love their self fulfilling prophecies and work both consciously and unconsciously to destroy the world. At some point things will get so bad that the sane nations will choose to end the insane ones if they don't end their insanity but, I doubt that will come on time to prevent civilization's total collapse at that point there is no point in pointing fingers.
The big corporate polluters are still successfully playing the jobs card with a great deal of success to the point that even progressive governments are still choosing to ignore the reality of what is happening to keep people employed.

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