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“Sinking atolls

I hate to put this so bluntly, but in all probability nothing can save the Pacific island of Tuvalu. Like a slowly boiling kettle, the oceanic system has very long response time to changing conditions, and the seas will go on slowly rising for centuries even if all greenhouse gas emissions stopped tomorrow. With Tuvalu already experiencing regular flooding events due to past sea level rise-as I documented in High Tide-this extra rise in the world’s oceans will sound the death knell for this fascinating and lively island society.”

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet:

Tuvalu is growing.

“Here we present analysis of shoreline change in all 101 islands in the Pacific atoll nation of Tuvalu. Using remotely sensed data, change is analysed over the past four decades, a period when local sea level has risen at twice the global average (~3.90?±?0.4?mm.yr^?1). Results highlight a net increase in land area in Tuvalu of 73.5?ha (2.9%)”

Patterns of island change and persistence offer alternate adaptation pathways for atoll nations | Nature Communications

“Over the next several decades, the Western United States and the semi-arid region from North Dakota to Texas will develop semi-permanent drought”

James Hansen 2012

Opinion | Game Over for the Climate – The New York Times

There is no indication drought is increasing in those states.

Palmer Drought Severity Index (Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas)

ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cirs/climdiv/climdiv-pdsidv-v1.0.0-20231206

“I do not wish to seem overdramatic, but 1 can only conclude from the information that is available to me as Secretary General, that the Members of the United Nations have perhaps ten years left in which to subordinate their ancient quarrels and launch a global partnership to curb the arms race, to improve the human environment, to defuse the population explosion, and to supply the required momentum to development efforts. If such a global partnership is not forged within the next decade, then I very much fear that the problems I have mentioned will have reached such staggering proportions that they will be beyond our capacity to control.”

U THANT, 1969

The Limits to Growth. A report for the Club of Rome’s project on the predicament of mankind.

“The Common Enemy or Humanity Is Man

In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which demands the solidarity of all peoples. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap about which we have already warned, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”

Club of Rome 1991

The First Global Revolution A Report By The Council Of The Club Of Rome Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider Random House, Inc. Pantheon Books ( 1991)

“Exhaled human breath can contain small, elevated concentrations of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), both of which contribute to global warming. “

Measurements of methane and nitrous oxide in human breath and the development of UK scale emissions – PubMed

The geophysical profession exists largely to find and produce oil.

Geophysicist salary in United States

The American Geophysical Union has been feeding the anti-fossil fuel agenda for a long time, and now the crocodile has come back to eat them.

Position Statement on Climate Change | AGU

Will the American Geophysical Union Cut All Ties With the Fossil Fuel Industry? – Inside Climate News

There is no indication that any of the things these people are protesting have suffered ill effects from the use of fossil fuels.

Crop Yields – Our World in Data

Crop Yields – Our World in Data

Global Tropical Cyclone Activity | Ryan Maue

Catherine McKenna (Former Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Canada) explains how to market global warming to the public.

“Anyone who’s responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America,” Biden said in the opening remarks of the showdown that comes just 12 days before the election.”

Biden: Anyone Responsible For So Many Covid Deaths ‘Should Not’ Be President | Barron’s

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

“Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday said China will “overachieve” in its pledge to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060”

Gore believes China will ‘overachieve’ on emissions goal | The Hill

Gore is concerned about Australia however.

Annual CO? emissions

12:20 AM · Dec 16, 2023

The same weather California has always had is now “The erratic reality of climate change”

The Extreme Weather of 2023, Visualized | by Foursquare | Foursquare | Nov, 2023 | Medium

“EXCEPTIONAL YEARS.
A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FLOODS AND DROUGHT.

BY J. M. GUINN.  March 4, 1889

If there is one characteristic of his State, of which the true Californian is prouder than another, it is its climate. With his tables of mean temperature and records of cloudless days and gentle sunshine, he is prepared to prove that California has the most glorious climate in the world, Should the rains descend and the floods prevail, or should the heavens become as brass, and neither the former nor the latter rains fall, these climatic extremes, he excuses on the plea of exceptional years, It is with the record that these exceptional years have made that I propose to deal in this paper. Equable conditions, whether climatic or social, have nothing of the tragic in them, and history delights in the tragic. While Central and Southern California have been about equally affected by floods and droughts, my record of their effects applies principally to Southern California.

EXCEPTIONAL YEARS: A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FLOODS AND DROUGHT