Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Global Warming Is Already Here

This article sharply points out that, not only is global warming real, it is already here and having negative impact on America.

Report Says Severe Weather to Increase as Earth Warms
Juliet Eilperin, of The Washington Post: "As humans emit more greenhouse gases, North America is likely to experience more droughts and excessive heat even as intense downpours and hurricanes increase, according to a report issued today by the US Climate Change Science Program. The 162-page study, which was led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, provides the most comprehensive assessment yet of how global warming has helped to transform the climate of the United States and Canada over the past 50 years, and how it may do so in the future."

So if you were wondering why large amounts of the Midwest are underwater in the middle of summer, and the crop yields have been depressed at least 15% already ... that's why.

Dear Washington Guys: Here is a map. Your hands are on the ends of your arms. Start searching for your arses. Then we'll talk about how to extract your heads.
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  • 6 comments
wyrmwwd

wyrmwwd

June 21 2008, 00:34:47 UTC 13 years ago

They haven't been ignoring this, they have been profiting from their ability to get us to ignore it. And now, they are looking for ways to profit from our ignorance.

Let's see if I am right. I'll bet, when the Iraq war finally gets cut off, Haliburton starts rebuilding flood ravaged American cities. Cheney's boy have to have somewhere to work!
ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

June 21 2008, 16:50:42 UTC 13 years ago

Some businesses have been profiting from some results of climate change. Many, however, have suffered mightily. One reason that the insurance industry is going berserk and doing horrific things is because it's been hit so hard by escalating disasters -- each sector in a different way.
wyrmwwd

wyrmwwd

June 21 2008, 17:11:04 UTC 13 years ago

For the general, overall economy, it has been, and will continue to be, devastating. I am referring to the last 8 years of tantrum that this country has been throwing. Remember earlier in the Bush Administration? Everyone was buying those Hummers, gas was cheap and plentiful, and we (the royal we... not me, and probably not you) went into this orgy of consumerism. And, the party line was, "global warming is a myth". Now, I have never believed this. I have always believed that, eventually, we were going to run out of petroleum and the prices were going to shoot up, and global warming was going to cause a climate change that was going to result in the melting of the polar ice caps and a lot more liquid water in the global ecology, which would then lead to drastic weather changes that would result in flooding in some places and drought in others. However, as I watched, there were people who argued effectively against that belief, and the people do made the most effective cases were, strangely enough, people who profited from it, like, for example, the oil companies.

This has been extremely short sighted and foolish, and, just like the financial institutions that are now paying for their irresponsible practices, everyone, including the people who profited before, are going to pay for the irresponsible practice of mindless consumerism over the last 8 years.

There seems to be a Perfect Storm brewing of petroleum shortage, climate change, and financial disaster occurring all at the same time. It is an interesting time to be alive.
stars_in_return

stars_in_return

June 22 2008, 02:32:28 UTC 13 years ago

It was surprising to think that more people haven't acknowledged it. I have been noticing it all over the place for a long time, and I can feel the difference in nature. How could people not feel it?
ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

June 22 2008, 02:42:51 UTC 13 years ago

Some people never had much opportunity to connect with nature, being raised away from it. The effects can be devastating. Other people had the connection once, but lost it, or chose to block it out -- often because perceiving the state of the world today is intensely painful due to the mess it's in.
stars_in_return

stars_in_return

June 22 2008, 02:51:37 UTC 13 years ago

True.