Climate Change Thread

[HopAlongBunny]

It has always been happening https://www.google.nl/search?client=...GNdVjz-px3j1M:

during the medieval warmth it was green furtile land

Maybe, the way I understood it, it was called Greenland to encourage people to settle there; Iceland was so-named to discourage settlement.
An early example of "truth in real estate development".

After a little bit of exercising my Google abilities it seems both explanations have support.
Thank you Fragony

[Fragony]

Your welcome, just bring an umbrella when it rains, we can't control this, it's really idiotic to think we can

[Sarmatian]

You are all aware that this a Putin's weapon test?

If you won't come to Mother Russia, Mother Russia will come to you.

[Fragony]

Something did come from Russia, the Syberian air. FFS it's cold, today slightly less but my hands are still blue after cycling in the morning, it has been really cold all week.

[HopAlongBunny]

Correlation not causation.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...on-east-coast/

Okay, they're not sure that warming in the Arctic causes cold spells down south, it just seems to happen that way.
The observation does not rule out some other, as yet unobserved or overlooked cause.
So "global warming" might make some of us cold, damn cold

[Beskar]

The Final Call for change.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45775309

[Montmorency]

https://www.livescience.com/63709-tr...7-degrees.html

A recently issued environmental report suggests that leaders in the Trump administration have already shrugged off the possibility of putting the brakes on climate change, a stance that embraces a catastrophic future for the planet.

Scientists have warned that if current levels of fossil fuel consumption continue unchecked, Earth could warm by as much as 7 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) by 2100.

And according to this report, that prediction is already accepted by the government as inevitable — and nothing will be done to prevent it [...]

Drafted in July, the environmental report was issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and its goal was to justify President Trump's proposal to freeze gas-mileage standards for light trucks and cars produced after 2020, according to The Washington Post.

Pushing to make vehicles more fuel efficient would reduce harmful emissions that contribute to global warming, while Trump's plan increases greenhouse gas emissions. But in a scenario where dire warming by 2100 was a foregone conclusion, Trump's policy wouldn't make that much of a difference, The Washington Post reported.

According to the report, turning the tide of runaway climate change would require "substantial increases in technology innovation and adoption," and attempting such sweeping and dramatic change — even with the stakes as high as they are — is "not currently technologically feasible or economically feasible."