O Canada! Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land, glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee;
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee — wonderer1
Humans can move the plants that they want to move. This solves the problem for plants that can't move themselves. All of our food crops etc will be easy to shift. — Agree-to-Disagree
I think the main threat to global stability will be climate volatility. — frank
This new record comes as exceptional heat swept across much of the world, exacerbating deadly wildfires in Canada and Hawaii, and searing heat waves in South America, Japan, Europe, and the U.S., while likely contributing to severe rainfall in Italy, Greece, and Central Europe.
The climate is already very variable when you look at summer and winter. Animals and plants have evolved to cope with this variability. — Agree-to-Disagree
Russia and Greenland will open up as well. North Dakota will be nice. — frank
Perfect for the Flintstones and Asterix and Obelisk — unenlightened
And remember we talked about the potential shutdown of the AMOC. That would essentially destroy western Europe. — frank
Now, a new study finds the collapse of the current, which is known as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC, could happen far sooner than scientists have previously thought, possibly within a few decades, as a result of human-caused global warming.
— and getting away with knowing nothing. — Mikie
Doomsaying is probably on par with flattery as the most pathetically overused gimick in human history. — Merkwurdichliebe
Yea but Cassandra was right. — frank
It didn’t originate with Marcuse. You made that up. Which proves my point about denialist imbeciles. — Mikie
Modern man’s despoliation of the environment is global in scope, like his imperialism [...] Today human parasitism disrupts more than the atmosphere, climate, water resources, soil, flora, and fauna of a region; it upsets virtually all the basic cycles of nature and threatens to undermine the stability of the environment on a worldwide scale. (Marcuse 1964) — Marcuse 1964
Accounts of this kind can be repeated for virtually every part of the biosphere. Pages can be written on the immense losses of productive soil that occur annually in almost every continent of the earth; on the extensive loss of tree cover in areas vulnerable to erosion; on lethal air pollution episodes in major urban areas; on the worldwide distribution of toxic agents, such as radioactive isotopes and lead; on the chemicalization of man’s immediate environment [...] Pieced together like bits of a jigsaw puzzle, these affronts to the environment form a pattern of destruction that has no precedent in man’s long history on the earth. — Marcuse 1964
climate activism (even alarmism perhaps) can be bona fides scientifically justified. Morally likewise. What of denialism/contrarianism then? — jorndoe
Activism (and possibly alarmism) can be a bona fides reaction, with scientific justification, and moral guts. — jorndoe
(As an aside, you may entertain whatever view you like; around here you'll have to justify them unless you just want to talk about yourself.) — jorndoe
think her older brother is theboy who cried wolf — Merkwurdichliebe
Conspiracy theorists will believe anything except the one conspiracy that is actually happening - that the fossil fuel industry has been lying about knowingly killing us all for half a century, & our governments are still funding them to the tune of $13,000,000 every minute.
Now, even run-of-the-mill rainstorms are causing regular flooding in the city.
Residents are striving to stay in their water-damaged homes, while community planners are tasked with fortifying the city from future flooding -- not just from powerful hurricanes, but from everyday rainstorms that are now causing more nuisance flooding than in years past.
But the damage from Hurricane Sally, and the flooding that continues with the regular rainstorms in the years that have followed, threaten to throw her out of the historic home where she has lived since 2016.
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan
Now, even run-of-the-mill rainstorms are causing regular flooding in the city.
Residents are striving to stay in their water-damaged homes, while community planners are tasked with fortifying the city from future flooding -- not just from powerful hurricanes, but from everyday rainstorms that are now causing more nuisance flooding than in years past. — jorndoe
In a lengthy, six-pronged policy outline, Mr. DeSantis promised to remove subsidies for electric vehicles, take the U.S. out of global climate agreements — including the Paris accords — and cancel net-zero emission promises. He also vowed to increase American oil and natural gas production and “replace the phrase climate change with energy dominance” in policy guidance.
To the tune of 'Bad Moon Rising' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
I see CO2 a-rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightning
I see bad times today
Don't go 'round tonight
It's bound to take your life
I see CO2 on the rise
I hear hurricanes a-blowing
I know the end is coming soon
I fear rivers over flowing
I hear the voice of rage and ruin
Don't go 'round tonight
It's bound to take your life
I see CO2 on the rise
I hope you got your things together
I hope you are quite prepared to die
Look's like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye
Oh don't go 'round tonight
It's bound to take your life
I see CO2 on the rise — Based on 'Bad Moon Rising' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Sick, insane people. — Mikie
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