It didn’t take long for EM to get around to our economy as some sort of justification for ignoring the seriousness of what we are doing to our global life supporting climate system. What confuses me EM, how the hell is ignoring an imminent destructive threat going to help economic sustainability? What world will we be handing over to our children the next few decades? Doesn’t that concern you at all?
If you or anyone else could explain how that train of Republican logic works, I sure would appreciate a lesson.
The other point I will touch on in this installment is EM’s refusal to recognize the deliberate and strategic Republican attack on serious science. But first let me jump ahead for a moment to EM’s key sentence.
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- "me not wanting to cripple the national economy"
EM, have you never thought about how much weather impacts every aspect of the things that make our lives and economy hum?
Our society and the biosphere that sustains us developed under the current climate regime - cranking up our atmospheric insulation, warming up and energizing our climate engine, think simple unavoidable physics, no way around it, we are already facing the cascading consequences of increasingly extreme wind and rain extremes, long lived heat ‘domes’ and droughts, followed by torrential downpours that can be more damaging than the withering drought was. But, not just heat, also localized extreme cold events because of warm air mass excursions into the Arctic which in turn displaces the frigid Arctic air mass which blows down into temperate zones, a product of our planet’s Jet Streams, which are getting more meandering and erratic with every year on account of various geophysical changes over the past decades due to global warming.
