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Carbon is a big contributor to climate change, there is no doubt about that. But there is other causes:
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Half of Americans Think Climate Change Is a Sign of the Apocalypse
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...te-change-is-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/383029/
Snowmageddon, snowpocalypse, snowzilla, just snow. Superstorm Sandy, receding shorelines, http://climate.nasa.gov/effects/. Hurricanes Isaac, Ivan, and Irene, with cousins Rammasun, Bopha, and Haiyan.
The parade of geological changes and extreme weather events around the world since 2011 has been stunning. Perhaps that's part of why, as the Public Religion Research Institute reported on Friday, "The number of Americans who believe that natural disasters are evidence of the apocalypse has increased somewhat over the past couple years."
As of 2014, it's estimated that nearly half of Americans—49 percent—say natural disasters are a sign of "the end times," as described in the Bible. That's up from an estimated 44 percent in 2011.
This belief is more prevalent in some religious communities than others. White evangelical Protestants, for example, are more likely than any other group to believe that natural disasters are a sign of the end times, and they're least likely to assign some of the blame to climate change (participants were allowed to select both options if they wanted). Black Protestants were close behind white evangelicals in terms of apprehending the apocalypse, but they were also the group most likely to believe in climate change, too. Predictably, the religiously unaffiliated were the least likely to believe superstorms are apocalyptic—but even so, a third of that group said they see signs of the end times in the weather.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...te-change-is-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/383029/
Snowmageddon, snowpocalypse, snowzilla, just snow. Superstorm Sandy, receding shorelines, http://climate.nasa.gov/effects/. Hurricanes Isaac, Ivan, and Irene, with cousins Rammasun, Bopha, and Haiyan.
The parade of geological changes and extreme weather events around the world since 2011 has been stunning. Perhaps that's part of why, as the Public Religion Research Institute reported on Friday, "The number of Americans who believe that natural disasters are evidence of the apocalypse has increased somewhat over the past couple years."
As of 2014, it's estimated that nearly half of Americans—49 percent—say natural disasters are a sign of "the end times," as described in the Bible. That's up from an estimated 44 percent in 2011.
This belief is more prevalent in some religious communities than others. White evangelical Protestants, for example, are more likely than any other group to believe that natural disasters are a sign of the end times, and they're least likely to assign some of the blame to climate change (participants were allowed to select both options if they wanted). Black Protestants were close behind white evangelicals in terms of apprehending the apocalypse, but they were also the group most likely to believe in climate change, too. Predictably, the religiously unaffiliated were the least likely to believe superstorms are apocalyptic—but even so, a third of that group said they see signs of the end times in the weather.
Climate Connections
http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/climate-connections/
http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/climate-connections/
Opinion: If the Right is wrong on climate change, the Earth burns http://www.marketwatch.com/story/if...mate-change-the-earth-burns-2014-11-22?page=1
[IMO, ghostwritten by BBC3.]
Yes, the Right has no Plan B. None. Big Oil, GOP ideologues, conservative billionaires are absolutely convinced that they do not need a back-up plan: Capitalism is the solution to all of America’s problems. Capitalism is the one and only solution to all the problems in the world. No backup needed, ever.
But still, ask yourself: What if global warming becomes irreversible ... and the Righteous Right has no Plan B. Unfortunately once Planet Earth passes the point of no return, it’s too late ... climate’s out of control ... irreversible.
What if later it turns out that the gang of the McConnell-Boehner GOP, Big Oil’s Exxon Mobil, the Koch Bros and other conservative billionaires, and their army of well-financed lobbyists, climate-science deniers and senators like Oklahoma’s James Inhofe — really are all totally wrong? Dead wrong?
What if by 2050, in just one generation, after we add three billion more humans, what if Planet Earth does pass a point of no return and global warming becomes predictably irreversible? What if then our Planet Earth can no longer cool? Can no longer revert to historic temperature patterns? What if our planet just keep getting hotter? Wars over water, food. Turning into parched deserts? Into predictable 1,000-year dust bowls?
We’re doomed ... not just the 67 billionaires who already own half the world ... but every last one of the 10 billion humans living on the planet in 2050.
Actually ... it’s already too late ... we’re in denial ... it is too late, we just can’t admit it!
“Karl Marx had it right,” said celeb economist Nouriel Roubini in the Wall Street Journal: “At some point, capitalism can destroy itself. ... We thought that markets work. They are not working. What’s individually rational ... is a self-destructive process,” for capitalism.
So ask yourself again: What if the Right is wrong? If capitalism fails? It’s too late? Unfortunately, it’ll also be too late for a Plan B.
So listen closely, capitalists are self-destructing capitalism, sabotaging American democracy, destroying the global economy. Get it? We won’t have to wait till 2100. Self-destruction is happening now, today, and will be completed in the next generation, by 2050, mid-century. Here’s how Chris Hedges, author of “Empire of Illusion” recently put it in Truthdig:
“The ideologues of rapacious capitalism, like members of a primitive cult, chant the false mantra that natural resources and expansion are infinite ... it all will come down like a house of cards. Civilizations in the final stages of decay are dominated by elites out of touch with reality.” They “strain harder and harder to sustain the decadent opulence of the ruling class, even as it destroys the foundations of productivity and wealth.”
“This failure to impose limits cannibalizes natural resources and human communities. This time, the difference is that when we go the whole planet will go with us. Catastrophic climate change is inevitable ... There will soon be so much heat trapped in the atmosphere that any attempt to scale back carbon emissions will make no difference. Droughts. Floods. Heat waves. Killer hurricanes and tornados. Power outages. Freak weather. Rising sea levels. Crop destruction. Food shortages. Plagues.”
Capitalists will never limit their free-market capitalism?
“Exxon Mobil, BP and the coal and natural gas companies,” warns Hedges, “will never impose rational limits on themselves. They will exploit exploit, exploit. Collective suicide is never factored into quarterly profit reports.” The Righteous Right is on a “collective suicide” trajectory, dragging the entire world over the cliff with it. No wonder Roubini says that capitalism will inevitably self-destruct. It’s blind, arrogant, obsessed.
“Resistance may ultimately be in vain,” warns Hedges: Capitalists will self-destruct Planet Earth. Solution? Global revolutions. For “to resist is to say something about us as human beings. It keeps alive the possibility of hope, even as all empirical evidence points to inevitable destruction. It makes victory, however remote, possible. And it makes life a little more difficult for the ruling class, which satisfies the very human emotion of vengeance.”
Get it? Even though we’re facing “inevitable destruction,” due to “collective suicide” of capitalism, it’s time to go beyond just protesting like Bill McKibben’s global 350.org network of peaceful activists. It’s time to wake up, and see the odds of successful revolutions are very high now: Just a few thousand disorganized billionaires versus 7.3 billion humans who will soon wake up realizing they really have nothing to lose on a planet that by 2050, as Jeremy Grantham warns, will not be able to feed 10 billion humans anyway. Solution: revolt.
Years ago Hedges began commenting on out-of-control capitalism and the consequences of extreme inequalities in the world. This same widening economic gap witnessed by leaders like Pope Francis, Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Tom Piketty, author of “Capital in the 21st Century.” Writing in Truthdig, Hedges wrote, “This is What Revolution Looks Like,” anticipating game-changing revolutions ahead for Capitalist America. Listen:
“Welcome to the revolution.” It’s already happening. “Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak. They are as dead and useless to us ... They have no ideas, no plans and no vision for the future.”
The ‘Anatomy of a Revolution’ is alive, happening, near the flashpoint
Hedges then references historian Crane Brinton’s book, “Anatomy of a Revolution,” focusing on “the preconditions for successful revolution.” They include: “discontent that affects nearly all social classes ... widespread feelings of entrapment and despair ... unfulfilled expectations ... a unified solidarity in opposition to a tiny power elite ... a refusal by scholars and thinkers to continue to defend the actions of the ruling class ... an inability of government to respond to the basic needs of citizens ... a steady loss of will within the power elite itself and defections from the inner circle ... a crippling isolation that leaves the power elite without any allies or outside support.”
But reading these first nine “preconditions” in the context of today’s chaotic America, our do-nothing Washington, our out-of-touch capitalists, it seemed obvious that these “preconditions of a revolution,” alone, aren’t sufficient, not yet anyway.
But then a bell rang, He got our attention with his tenth precondition, a “financial crisis,” which should remind all Americans of the damage from the 2008 bank credit collapse that pushed Wall Street into de facto bankruptcy and cost investors over $10 trillion. So add in the tenth “precondition ... a financial crisis,” and with that, we have “fulfilled the preconditions.”
Bottom line, Hedges opened with, “Welcome to the revolution.” Clearly, since hitting the bottom in March of 2009, Hedges like many on Wall Street has been expecting another crash, bigger than 2008, bigger than the earlier one in 2000, after the irrational exuberance of the dot-com mania.
Jeremy Grantham predicts one for 2016, around the next presidential election. Other major Wall Street players are also anticipating a major crash ahead. And when it happens, all 10 “preconditions” are met ... and the revolutions will ignite. Then we’ll have some loud responses to the question: No Plan B? What if the Right is wrong?
[IMO, ghostwritten by BBC3.]
Yes, the Right has no Plan B. None. Big Oil, GOP ideologues, conservative billionaires are absolutely convinced that they do not need a back-up plan: Capitalism is the solution to all of America’s problems. Capitalism is the one and only solution to all the problems in the world. No backup needed, ever.
But still, ask yourself: What if global warming becomes irreversible ... and the Righteous Right has no Plan B. Unfortunately once Planet Earth passes the point of no return, it’s too late ... climate’s out of control ... irreversible.
What if later it turns out that the gang of the McConnell-Boehner GOP, Big Oil’s Exxon Mobil, the Koch Bros and other conservative billionaires, and their army of well-financed lobbyists, climate-science deniers and senators like Oklahoma’s James Inhofe — really are all totally wrong? Dead wrong?
What if by 2050, in just one generation, after we add three billion more humans, what if Planet Earth does pass a point of no return and global warming becomes predictably irreversible? What if then our Planet Earth can no longer cool? Can no longer revert to historic temperature patterns? What if our planet just keep getting hotter? Wars over water, food. Turning into parched deserts? Into predictable 1,000-year dust bowls?
We’re doomed ... not just the 67 billionaires who already own half the world ... but every last one of the 10 billion humans living on the planet in 2050.
Actually ... it’s already too late ... we’re in denial ... it is too late, we just can’t admit it!
“Karl Marx had it right,” said celeb economist Nouriel Roubini in the Wall Street Journal: “At some point, capitalism can destroy itself. ... We thought that markets work. They are not working. What’s individually rational ... is a self-destructive process,” for capitalism.
So ask yourself again: What if the Right is wrong? If capitalism fails? It’s too late? Unfortunately, it’ll also be too late for a Plan B.
So listen closely, capitalists are self-destructing capitalism, sabotaging American democracy, destroying the global economy. Get it? We won’t have to wait till 2100. Self-destruction is happening now, today, and will be completed in the next generation, by 2050, mid-century. Here’s how Chris Hedges, author of “Empire of Illusion” recently put it in Truthdig:
“The ideologues of rapacious capitalism, like members of a primitive cult, chant the false mantra that natural resources and expansion are infinite ... it all will come down like a house of cards. Civilizations in the final stages of decay are dominated by elites out of touch with reality.” They “strain harder and harder to sustain the decadent opulence of the ruling class, even as it destroys the foundations of productivity and wealth.”
“This failure to impose limits cannibalizes natural resources and human communities. This time, the difference is that when we go the whole planet will go with us. Catastrophic climate change is inevitable ... There will soon be so much heat trapped in the atmosphere that any attempt to scale back carbon emissions will make no difference. Droughts. Floods. Heat waves. Killer hurricanes and tornados. Power outages. Freak weather. Rising sea levels. Crop destruction. Food shortages. Plagues.”
Capitalists will never limit their free-market capitalism?
“Exxon Mobil, BP and the coal and natural gas companies,” warns Hedges, “will never impose rational limits on themselves. They will exploit exploit, exploit. Collective suicide is never factored into quarterly profit reports.” The Righteous Right is on a “collective suicide” trajectory, dragging the entire world over the cliff with it. No wonder Roubini says that capitalism will inevitably self-destruct. It’s blind, arrogant, obsessed.
“Resistance may ultimately be in vain,” warns Hedges: Capitalists will self-destruct Planet Earth. Solution? Global revolutions. For “to resist is to say something about us as human beings. It keeps alive the possibility of hope, even as all empirical evidence points to inevitable destruction. It makes victory, however remote, possible. And it makes life a little more difficult for the ruling class, which satisfies the very human emotion of vengeance.”
Get it? Even though we’re facing “inevitable destruction,” due to “collective suicide” of capitalism, it’s time to go beyond just protesting like Bill McKibben’s global 350.org network of peaceful activists. It’s time to wake up, and see the odds of successful revolutions are very high now: Just a few thousand disorganized billionaires versus 7.3 billion humans who will soon wake up realizing they really have nothing to lose on a planet that by 2050, as Jeremy Grantham warns, will not be able to feed 10 billion humans anyway. Solution: revolt.
Years ago Hedges began commenting on out-of-control capitalism and the consequences of extreme inequalities in the world. This same widening economic gap witnessed by leaders like Pope Francis, Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Tom Piketty, author of “Capital in the 21st Century.” Writing in Truthdig, Hedges wrote, “This is What Revolution Looks Like,” anticipating game-changing revolutions ahead for Capitalist America. Listen:
“Welcome to the revolution.” It’s already happening. “Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak. They are as dead and useless to us ... They have no ideas, no plans and no vision for the future.”
The ‘Anatomy of a Revolution’ is alive, happening, near the flashpoint
Hedges then references historian Crane Brinton’s book, “Anatomy of a Revolution,” focusing on “the preconditions for successful revolution.” They include: “discontent that affects nearly all social classes ... widespread feelings of entrapment and despair ... unfulfilled expectations ... a unified solidarity in opposition to a tiny power elite ... a refusal by scholars and thinkers to continue to defend the actions of the ruling class ... an inability of government to respond to the basic needs of citizens ... a steady loss of will within the power elite itself and defections from the inner circle ... a crippling isolation that leaves the power elite without any allies or outside support.”
But reading these first nine “preconditions” in the context of today’s chaotic America, our do-nothing Washington, our out-of-touch capitalists, it seemed obvious that these “preconditions of a revolution,” alone, aren’t sufficient, not yet anyway.
But then a bell rang, He got our attention with his tenth precondition, a “financial crisis,” which should remind all Americans of the damage from the 2008 bank credit collapse that pushed Wall Street into de facto bankruptcy and cost investors over $10 trillion. So add in the tenth “precondition ... a financial crisis,” and with that, we have “fulfilled the preconditions.”
Bottom line, Hedges opened with, “Welcome to the revolution.” Clearly, since hitting the bottom in March of 2009, Hedges like many on Wall Street has been expecting another crash, bigger than 2008, bigger than the earlier one in 2000, after the irrational exuberance of the dot-com mania.
Jeremy Grantham predicts one for 2016, around the next presidential election. Other major Wall Street players are also anticipating a major crash ahead. And when it happens, all 10 “preconditions” are met ... and the revolutions will ignite. Then we’ll have some loud responses to the question: No Plan B? What if the Right is wrong?
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McCright AM, Dunlap RE, Xiao C. The impacts of temperature anomalies and political orientation on perceived winter warming. Nature Clim Change;advance online publication. http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2443.html
Although perceptions of common weather phenomena moderately align with instrumental measurements of such phenomena, the evidence that weather or climatic conditions influence beliefs about anthropogenic climate change is mixed. This study addresses both foci, which are important to scholars who investigate human–environment interactions and observers who expect greater exposure to weather or climate extremes to translate into stronger support for climate change adaptive measures and mitigative policies. We analyse the extent to which state-level winter temperature anomalies influence the likelihood of perceiving local winter temperatures to be warmer than usual and attributing these warmer temperatures mainly to global warming. We show that actual temperature anomalies influence perceived warming but not attribution of such warmer-than-usual winter temperatures to global warming. Rather, the latter is influenced more by perceived scientific agreement; beliefs about the current onset, human cause, threat and seriousness of global warming; and political orientation. This is not surprising given the politicization of climate science and political polarization on climate change beliefs in recent years. These results suggest that personal experience with weather or climate variability may help cultivate support for adaptive measures, but it may not increase support for mitigation policies.
Although perceptions of common weather phenomena moderately align with instrumental measurements of such phenomena, the evidence that weather or climatic conditions influence beliefs about anthropogenic climate change is mixed. This study addresses both foci, which are important to scholars who investigate human–environment interactions and observers who expect greater exposure to weather or climate extremes to translate into stronger support for climate change adaptive measures and mitigative policies. We analyse the extent to which state-level winter temperature anomalies influence the likelihood of perceiving local winter temperatures to be warmer than usual and attributing these warmer temperatures mainly to global warming. We show that actual temperature anomalies influence perceived warming but not attribution of such warmer-than-usual winter temperatures to global warming. Rather, the latter is influenced more by perceived scientific agreement; beliefs about the current onset, human cause, threat and seriousness of global warming; and political orientation. This is not surprising given the politicization of climate science and political polarization on climate change beliefs in recent years. These results suggest that personal experience with weather or climate variability may help cultivate support for adaptive measures, but it may not increase support for mitigation policies.
Moral Collapse in a Warming World
http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2014/moral-collapse-in-a-warming-world/
In his definitive book A Perfect Moral Storm, ethicist Stephen Gardiner argues that the way forward in a climate-changed world is so difficult in part because we “do not yet have a good understanding of many of the ethical issues at stake in global-warming policy.”
We remain confused about such vital questions as who should take responsibility for the current condition, how to preserve equity between generations, and how best to think about our responsibility toward nonhuman animals.
The resistance of governments to taking action, attempts by various players to throw sand in the eyes of the public, and specious arguments used to justify an unwillingness to do what is necessary all add to our moral bafflement.
There are three kinds of actors in this process of subversion: those who tell the lies, those who repeat the lies, and those who allow themselves to be seduced by the lies.
http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2014/moral-collapse-in-a-warming-world/
In his definitive book A Perfect Moral Storm, ethicist Stephen Gardiner argues that the way forward in a climate-changed world is so difficult in part because we “do not yet have a good understanding of many of the ethical issues at stake in global-warming policy.”
We remain confused about such vital questions as who should take responsibility for the current condition, how to preserve equity between generations, and how best to think about our responsibility toward nonhuman animals.
The resistance of governments to taking action, attempts by various players to throw sand in the eyes of the public, and specious arguments used to justify an unwillingness to do what is necessary all add to our moral bafflement.
There are three kinds of actors in this process of subversion: those who tell the lies, those who repeat the lies, and those who allow themselves to be seduced by the lies.
Are Humans Going Extinct?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27714-are-humans-going-extinct
Somescientists, Guy McPherson included, fear that climate disruption is already so serious, with so many self-reinforcing feedback loops already in play, that humans are in the process of causing our own extinction.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27714-are-humans-going-extinct
Somescientists, Guy McPherson included, fear that climate disruption is already so serious, with so many self-reinforcing feedback loops already in play, that humans are in the process of causing our own extinction.
How should a Christian view global warming?
http://www.gotquestions.org/global-warming.html
http://www.gotquestions.org/global-warming.html
Inhofe's Grand Climate Conspiracy Theory: It's All About Barbra Streisand
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/james-inhofe-barbra-streisand-climate-change-hoax
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/james-inhofe-barbra-streisand-climate-change-hoax
Climate change: Protect the world's deltas
Sea-level rise and river engineering spell disaster, say Liviu Giosan and colleagues.
http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-protect-the-world-s-deltas-1.16428
Sea-level rise and river engineering spell disaster, say Liviu Giosan and colleagues.
http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-protect-the-world-s-deltas-1.16428
Global Rise Reported in 2013 Greenhouse Gas Emissions
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/s...-global-rise-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions.html
Global emissions of greenhouse gases jumped 2.3 percent in 2013 to record levels, scientists reported Sunday, in the latest indication that the world remains far off track in its efforts to control global warming.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/s...-global-rise-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions.html
Global emissions of greenhouse gases jumped 2.3 percent in 2013 to record levels, scientists reported Sunday, in the latest indication that the world remains far off track in its efforts to control global warming.
‘Can Climate Change Cure Capitalism?’: An Exchange
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jan/08/can-climate-change-cure-capitalism-exchange/
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jan/08/can-climate-change-cure-capitalism-exchange/
THE ETHICS OF CLIMATE HOPE: A RESPONSE TO ELIZABETH KOLBERT
http://thischangeseverything.org/the-ethics-of-climate-hope-a-response-to-elizabeth-kolbert/
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http://thischangeseverything.org/the-ethics-of-climate-hope-a-response-to-elizabeth-kolbert/
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