Environment Climate Change Impacts Are Here

[exe ex machina]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politic...e-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805

The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here

The worst predicted impacts of climate change are starting to happen — and much faster than climate scientists expected

By Eric Holthaus August 5, 2015

Historians may look to 2015 as the year when shit really started hitting the fan. Some snapshots: In just the past few months, record-setting heat waves in Pakistan and India each killed more than 1,000 people. In Washington state's Olympic National Park, the rainforest caught fire for the first time in living memory. London reached 98 degrees Fahrenheit during the hottest July day ever recorded in the U.K.; The Guardian briefly had to pause its live blog of the heat wave because its computer servers overheated. In California, suffering from its worst drought in a millennium, a 50-acre brush fire swelled seventyfold in a matter of hours, jumping across the I-15 freeway during rush-hour traffic. Then, a few days later, the region was pounded by intense, virtually unheard-of summer rains. Puerto Rico is under its strictest water rationing in history as a monster El Niño forms in the tropical Pacific Ocean, shifting weather patterns worldwide.

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[little graham]

Now tell them what our govs are doing to return the old weather patterns our economy relies on.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Yep, better find a ways to adapt. This Province has already spent $200m on wildfires this summer. I was reading an information sign down in a local park yesterday explaining how 14,000 years ago the whole area was under 2000 feet of ice with a great inland sea. Large scale climate change has happened before. It will always happen.

 

[exe ex machina]

Dunno if this has been mentioned but is it possible the polar axis is shifting?

 

[little graham]

Dunno if this has been mentioned but is it possible the polar axis is shifting?

If you study indigenous Australian astronomy, which dates back a few hundred thousand years, it's clear there's been several. Evidence is emerging of wide scale burning of forests to heat up the planet, all over this country. It's clear that these people thrived in a mini (at least) ice age.

 

[Catfish Alley]

I'm not sure I understand. Aboriginals burned forests to warm up the globe and bring on an ice age??

 

[Hudu Gurusingha]

Just waiting for some tool to say they're still not convinced climate change is real

 

[Catfish Alley]

Arguing the climate doesn't change would be a bit silly. Plenty of history of it happening.

 

[NotAMagpieBogan]

I never knew Rolling Stone did stories on Climate Change

 

[little graham]

Just waiting for some tool to say they're still not convinced climate change is real

Like the poster above you trying say our industry, deforestation and general pillaging of the planets eco system has in no way effected global warming?

 

[Long Live HFC]

Evidence is emerging of wide scale burning of forests to heat up the planet, all over this country.

hahahahahaaha.

 

[exe ex machina]

What he meant was there was evidence in Australia of indigenous people burning forests to keep warm....suggesting there was an ice age or similar at a time and location (Oz) previously thought not to have existed

 

[Long Live HFC]

What he meant was there was evidence in Australia of indigenous people burning forests to keep warm....suggesting there was an ice age or similar at a time and location (Oz) previously thought not to have existed

well he should learn to express himself more clearly. "to keep warm" is a much different proposition to "to heat up the planet". but even still, i doubt indigenous australians were setting entire forests alight to "keep warm", unless that's a roundabout way of saying they built camp fires from forest trees (which i don't feel is a remotely notable fact).

 

[Big Sauce 21]

El Nino's happen all the time

 

[The Passenger]

Yeah but last week it was freezing in whatever suburb Andrew Bolt lives in, and as far as I'm aware climate change is only important for the 5km radius in which you live in right?

 

[Smeg Head]

Yeah but last week it was freezing in whatever suburb Andrew Bolt lives in, and as far as I'm aware climate change is only important for the 5km radius in which you live in right?

Clearly that turd Bolt was sucking all the warmth out of the surrounding area like some kind of energy succubus.

 

[JuddsABlue]

AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED IVE GOT A HEATER AND AIRCON SO GAGF IM BURNING TYRES CAUSE I LIKE THE SMELL

 

[Shane Hird]

That road melting in India was impressive.

 

[theboxmike]

When will our politicians wake up? This includes Labor and Liberal. There should be no more debate but action on climate change.

 

[GOAUS!]

With this El Nino we're probably headed for our hottest year in recorded history. It's going to get harder for the sceptics to point to 1998 into the future.

The impacts will become a lot more prevalent in the future. Bangladesh will feel the brunt of sea level changes that's for sure.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Like the poster above you trying say our industry, deforestation and general pillaging of the planets eco system has in no way effected global warming?

Me? When did I say that? There is a lot of evidence of that occurring.

 

[Lester Burnham]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politic...e-change-nightmares-are-already-here-20150805

A separate challenge to U.S. law is being brought by a former EPA scientist arguing that carbon dioxide isn't just a pollutant (which, under the Clean Air Act, can dissipate on its own), it's also a toxic substance. ​

 

[ioppolo]

With this El Nino we're probably headed for our hottest year in recorded history. It's going to get harder for the sceptics to point to 1998 into the future.

The impacts will become a lot more prevalent in the future. Bangladesh will feel the brunt of sea level changes that's for sure.

Maldives are a chance to be wiped out entirely.

 

[krisholio14]

This is interesting reading....

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...h-kiribati-maldives-cyclone-marshall-islands/

 

[Smeg Head]

This is interesting reading....

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...h-kiribati-maldives-cyclone-marshall-islands/

One of the biggest problems isn't so much the dramatic island slipping under the waves scenario, but salt water encroachment on the fresh water sources on the islands. Can't live there without fresh water, and this is already happening a lot.