@AverageJoe1 saidWhat an amazing cluster of stupid statements.
All of the publications that I have seen have shown $300B for startere and then going up to about $50T.....to hold fast a few degrees different than now. How about spending that money on preparoing to live in a climate a few degrees hotter.....in the year 3000?
Put me down as spendng all that money on charitable concerns and advancement of the masses? We could even ...[text shortened]... , unless we print money as the libs want to do, but of course they don't think that concept through.
There has been a certain amount of 'hype' over climate change, especially when it comes to short-term weather events. The worst weather in the US recently was in the 1930's - drought, dust-bowl, hurricanes, etc.
“Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” – Paul Harvey
The worst years for rainfall in my area (Raleigh, NC) were 1921, 1925, and 1933. We normally get 45 in of rain, and those years it was around 30 in. We haven't had anything like that since. Last year we got 54 in of rain. So our rain is OK, which means we are broadly speaking OK.
@AverageJoe1 saidI don't need A/C in the winter, either, and I live in a desert.
But I’m saying that as temp cools, we won’t need money to cool it anymore. So wouldn’t the climate lunatics get out of the street and go make themselves useful? Or do you think they will think that they would figure more money available for their frolic and recreational sex?
Hey did you see where Pelosi said “ We have to let the public ,,,the PUBLIC know what is in their ...[text shortened]... yranny? I’ll run it by SHouse. Her exact words, saw it.
Marauder refers to us all as The People.
Rather not see 130F temps before I die.
@spruce112358 saidHah, Raleigh, eh?
There has been a certain amount of 'hype' over climate change, especially when it comes to short-term weather events. The worst weather in the US recently was in the 1930's - drought, dust-bowl, hurricanes, etc.
“Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” – Paul Harvey
The worst years for rainf ...[text shortened]... r rain is OK, which means we are broadly speaking OK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0PQ1cOlCJI
I spent about 9 months of my life in a little podunk town called Goldsboro about 50mi from Raleigh in the spring/summer/fall between 3rd and 4th grade. I figure that's where I picked up my penchant for saying "y'all".
@spruce112358 saidRight?
Why does anyone live in a desert? There is no water to drink, you can't grow crops, and there is no shade. This always puzzled me. 😆
We get by on what used to be a robust river system and reservoirs.
We also ship in water for farming from the Colorado River via the Central Arizona Project canals.
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@Suzianne saidAin't that near the University of Pickles? Mount Olive? 😆
Hah, Raleigh, eh?
I spent about 9 months of my life in a little podunk town called Goldsboro about 50mi from Raleigh in the spring/summer/fall between 3rd and 4th grade. I figure that's where I picked up my penchant for saying "y'all".
I think I bought me some boiled peanuts in Goldsboro once. I was on the way somewhere.
Saw a yella dog, too.
@Suzianne saidI once jumped across the Colorado River and almost didn't get wet. 😆
Right?
We get by on what used to be a robust river system and reservoirs.
We also ship in water for farming from the Colorado River via the Central Arizona Project canals.
I shouldn't have done that with a backpack. It had just snowed.
@spruce112358 saidWell writ and explained, (I've given you a thumb - up) Given the choice, I'd get rid of us and keep the penguins and polar bears, but such things are beyond my gift....It would seem a terrible waste to have evolved our big brains, out - competed all of the other 'Homo' species and become self - aware, and we're now aware that we're screwing with the only planet upon which we can live. ("Oh look, we're trashing our own planet, that's a shame" ) Can't have everything I suppose...
Yay! I get to post my climate assessment again!
#1: CO2 Does Not Drive All Climate Change
Warm and cold periods on Earth have alternated every 100k years for the last ~800k years at least.
This happens due to the Milankovitch cycle - earth's angle to the sun in a complex procession. Ice cores show that CO2 and temperature move together, but at most, CO2 m ...[text shortened]... h.
Bottom Line: Earth is likely to become warmer and wetter. But no, we are not all going to die.
@Indonesia-Phil saidMy friend likes to call it “a problem with the human source code.” The fact that strong belief in something - regardless of whether that thing is true or false - can produce euphoria in us.
Well writ and explained, (I've given you a thumb - up) Given the choice, I'd get rid of us and keep the penguins and polar bears, but such things are beyond my gift....It would seem a terrible waste to have evolved our big brains, out - competed all of the other 'Homo' species and become self - aware, and we're now aware that we're screwing with the only planet upon wh ...[text shortened]... live. ("Oh look, we're trashing our own planet, that's a shame" ) Can't have everything I suppose...
@spruce112358 saidProlly in Colorado where it's a little nothing-type creek-river.
I once jumped across the Colorado River and almost didn't get wet. 😆
I shouldn't have done that with a backpack. It had just snowed.
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@Suzianne saidMy grandma lived right on the banks of the Colorado river and it wasn't exactly a raging torrent there either, in Arizona. It was a wee cold to swim in though🙂 You only do that sort of thing once....
Prolly in Colorado where it's a little nothing-type creek-river.
Now the KERN river, THAT is a torrent.
I watched patrol boats going upstream, engines full out, going like 3 miles an hour upstream. Beautiful river though.
@sonhouse saidNo, the Colorado is unique. It finally peters out to nothing once it gets to its delta near Rocky Point in Mexico. The Grand Canyon takes most of its energy, and downstream dams (through the Mohave Desert), starting with Hoover Dam, hold back lots of water to make lakes for sport. Even Glen Canyon Dam, above the Grand Canyon, holds back lots of water.
My grandma lived right on the banks of the Colorado river and it wasn't exactly a raging torrent there either, in Arizona.
@Suzianne saidIt is like the Jordan river in Israel, it gets all used up by the Israeli's and not much at all left for the Palestinians.
No, the Colorado is unique. It finally peters out to nothing once it gets to its delta near Rocky Point in Mexico. The Grand Canyon takes most of its energy, and downstream dams (through the Mohave Desert), starting with Hoover Dam, hold back lots of water to make lakes for sport. Even Glen Canyon Dam, above the Grand Canyon, holds back lots of water.
There are places along the Jordan that are peaceful and beautiful but it is not being given at all to the Palestinians.
@AverageJoe1 saidTheres money wasted by ignoring it too. The whole world warms two degrees? Everyone sees their air conditioning bill go up, disease bearing tick populations are moving north, storm patterns change to hit areas where infrastructure wasn't designed to insulate.
https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/05/antarctica-ice-sheet-grows-the-first-time/
The ice is not melting,,,,,,it is INCREASING. Does this herald an ice age? Have we wasted (notify Musk DOGE) our money on this Climate AOC thingy???
Climate change is happening regardless, but it's happening faster because of humans. The dollar value estimates of mitigating climate change is much less than not doing anything.