Republicans continue their march to totalitarianism

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You’ve got to be kidding. You want a list?
I’ll give you a list that is a little more representative of global resources and consumption.

ENVIRONMENT

2,772,320 Forest loss [this year] (hectares)

3,732,293 Land lost to soil erosion [this year] (hectares)

19,545,791,293 CO2 emissions [this year] (tons)

6,397,015 Desertification [this year] (hectares)

5,220,166 Toxic chemicals released in the environment [this year] (tons)

FOOD

880,270,933 Undernourished people in the world

1,763,987,556 Overweight people in the world

865,646,315 Obese people in the world

19,207 People who died of hunger [today]

$ 421,437,218 Money spent for obesity related diseases in the USA [today]

$ 118,727,207 Money spent on weight loss programs in the USA [today]

WATER

2,479,311,162 Water used [this year] (million Liters)

448,886 Deaths caused by water-related diseases [this year]

762,348,750 People with no access to a safe drinking water source

ENERGY

293,345,949 Energy used today (MWh), of which:

249,712,636- from non-renewable sources (MWh)

44,175,341- from renewable sources (MWh)

1,838,120,294,977 Solar energy striking Earth [today] (MWh)

60,165,189 Oil pumped today (barrels)

1,362,979,101,152 Oil left (barrels)

14,214 Days to the end of oil (~39 years)

1,067,025,988,625 Natural Gas left (boe)

56,159 Days to the end of natural gas

4,272,476,055,354 Coal left (boe)

147,327 Days to the end of coal

more…https://www.worldometers.info/

And you talk about whale oil? Please.

p.s. do click the link. These numbers are RW running numbers.

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You mean IPCC, correct?

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What question am I suppose to answer. You say this, give a link, but never ask a question.
I’ve read your other posts after that, they make no sense.

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Here we go. Assassination attempt on trump

Oh my fcking god.

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I read that. Despite what I say about him, there is still a human under all that vileness. This was uncalled for and unnecessary. It’s also another reason there needs to gun laws in this country. Just because someone doesn’t like him does not mean they have the right to shoot him or anyone else at a political rally.

God had nothing to do with this, f’ing or not.

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Trump will use this to further show strength and biden as weak and old.

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Oh, please! I seriously doubt it will change anything. As far as I can tell on FB, people seem to be cheering the shooter, instead of saying, “I rather see the dotard in prison than shot in public.” Personally, I want to see the dotard going to prison, not shot nor do I want to see him in office again. Despite being a vile orange creature, he’s still a human being, whether or not I want to call him that and shooting him is uncalled for. It only proves we need gun laws.

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You think this wont lead to trump rising up even more in the polls???

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Only a partisan fool, with absolutely no interest in learning about the facts can ignore the CO2 connection. Or to figure out that humanity has been pumping millions of years worth of solar energy into Earth’s climate system over the course of years.
Or that Earth is undergoing an extreme transition toward an entire news and energized climate system not seen in millions of years.

The anti climate science campaign is founded by deadbeats who hated paying taxes - don’t give us no BS about the politics of sober climate scientists, when it’s the know-nothings forcing politics via deception and strategic lies and slander upon the scientists.

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You are being very conservative here.

The first plants (carbon scrubbers) appeared some 460 million years ago and in 3 centuries we have used all that sequestered carbon, except for some 40 years worth. After that, no more oil!

A new UO study confirms what earth scientists have long suspected: Plants first appeared on land about 460 million years ago, in the middle of a 45-million-year-long geologic period known as the Ordovician.

Geologist helps confirm date of earliest land plants on Earth

This needs its own thread.

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What is your interest in Climate Change? Does it put you in the Elite Class? Does it make you think people are dumb and you are smart? Do you think you are saving the world?

I have asked you for your predictions of when Climate Change will become as big of a force as Global Warming. I get nothing. Obviously, you can’t debate the issue. If you got a dollar for every alarmist computer dump you have posted. You would be up to your neck in money.

Let’s look who has made predictions that you back.

2016 Al Gore. Greenhouse gas emissions are now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 400,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth.

In 2022 Gore say at the world economic forum that continued carbon emissions into the atmosphere would destroy the planet and lead to widespread calamities.

“We’re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gas] into it every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth,” Gore said. “That’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees.”

Gore in 2009 predicted a 75% chance the Arctic Ocean would be ice free in the summer by 2014. In 2006 that the ocean was getting ready to rise 20 feet.

The claim has been that it takes thousands of years for CO2 to leave the atmosphere. Can you do math? The CO2 level is 426ppm. We should be over 3000ppm by now.

"The climate movement’s real weakness is that, besides the intellectual bankruptcy of what they’re trying to do, is that they’re led by these clowns like Al Gore and John Kerry and Joe Biden," Steve Milloy, a senior legal fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute and publisher of JunkScience.com

Look at some of the common factors. Countries line up to join the climate agreements. The further away the country is from one world order and the handout of US dollars. The less involved in following and meeting climate goals. What kind of science do you call that – political science?

Watch Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov.

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At the rate of population growth, we are going to need 600,000,000,000 pound of carbon to grow humans. Do we need a human carbon reseve?

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C’mon man, get real.
It is human use of fossil fuels that are sequestered deep underground over hundreds if millions of years. Oil, Coal, Methane (natural gas).

The exhaust from all industrial use of that carbon energy is putting all the sequestered CO2 back into the atmosphere recreating the atmospheric condition of the time of the dinosaurs.

https://www.iberdrola.com/sustainability/what-is-anthropocene#

What nature had safely buried, we dug up and put it back in the atmosphere.
To plants CO2 is food. To man CO2 is poison. To the earth CO2 creates a green house effect.

I’ll put to in your terms. Mankind is actually playing out the allegory of Adam and Eve , eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge, and as a consequence will be kicked out of paradise (earth), i.e. at best millions dying, at worst extinction.

The Anthropocene epoch!

The Anthropocene shows the power — and hubris — of humankind, several scientists said.

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A crystaline creature in Star Trek came humans “ugly bags of mostly water”. If love to see the calculation behind that number.

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Mike science doesn’t get understood via hand waving.
And disingenuous handwaving is all you offer.

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This is the sort of simplification that drives scientists batty. Why? Because it’s simply not true. There are several ways (cycles) that CO2 is sequestered. Plants, soil, and oceans sink CO2 fairly quickly. This accounts for about 15% of total CO2 sequestration in good times when oceans and higher latitude forests are full of life (The Amazon forest is not the lungs of the planet that many thought it was). The rest takes from a few hundred to tens of thousands of years. As we continue to dump CO2 into the atmosphere via burning of fossil fuels, natural sequestration cannot keep up. Where did you come up with 3000ppm?
Is this an existential matter? Probably not. Not for everyone. But it is existential for many. It will continue to get worse. Oceans will continue to decrease in pH. The climate changes we are seeing now will get worse. This isn’t my opinion. It is what the scientific evidence tells us.
One other thing. We are not likely to run out of oil. But that won’t matter when the price of oil is prohibitive. Pretty much everything around you is a petroleum product.
Our biggest environmental problem is misinformation.

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From both parties for the science calls for far more significant reductions in the use of FFs and sooner than both parities policies are prepared to deliver.

And you are a science loving guy Gary !!!

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I am twenty time more concerned about our government killing us than Climate Change. Don’t you get that 15M people just died.

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just a guess on population growth. 16lbs of carbon per 120lbs of human.

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15 million people just died? From what?

You never looked at that chart from worldometers , did you?
Here it is again. There is a whole section people dying from environmental causes.

WORLD POPULATION

8,121,845,333 Current World Population

71,970,613 Births this year

247,158 Births today

32,565,942 Deaths this year

111,837 Deaths today

39,404,671 Net population growth this year

135,321 Net population growth today

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