Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Oh, is Trump going to draw us another one?

 

Dammit, that should have been MY high school football team's helmet!

 

Those folks in 1616 obviously liked reading doom and gloom stone carvings.

 

They probably did.

I think it’s hilarious that anyone here would claim climate change/extreme weather stories are begrudgingly clicked on. Anything weather gets clicks. The first post on this thread is weather. I’d argue a third of the posts on this thread are remarking about the weather.

 

It’s all they clicked on. Almost religiously.

 

Damn it. Another mouthful of coffee that I have to now clean off the floor.

 

Many aspects of paleo religions were deeply concerned with climate and astronomical patterns. Ancient people sometimes turned to religious leaders for guidance on when signs in the sky indicated time for planting, when the rainy season would likely begin, etc. And, when climate and other disasters occurred, some of those folks would plead with religious figures for deliverance from their suffering.

So, aside from the almost farcical notion that because someone is serious about an issue, it thereby becomes that person’s “religion,” it might be interesting to remember that, at the ancient core of what evolved into what some folks worship today was a deep connection to climate and the role it played in peoples’ lives.

 

If I'd written "because someone is serious about an issue, it thereby becomes that person's 'religion,'" I'd agree with you.

I didn't write that. I wrote this:

We’re closer to a climate doomscape at the moment, where the end of the world - as expressed through a series extreme weather events and earthquakes and fires and literally all natural calamities imaginable, because it’s all climate change - is nigh, yet able to be staved off by a combination of relatively minor, US-based energy solutions that will make travel of any kind harder and more expensive. There’s a fundamental contradiction between the repeatedly stated extremity of the situation and the gnat-on-an-elephant solutions. The embrace of that contradiction, lest the climate gods be angered, gives off the strong scent of religion.

 

The guy who wrote the crudités ad copy probably tried to defend it for a while as well. Can’t you just take your L like a man?

 

It should be mentioned that most rivers in the northern hemisphere are at their lowest points in August - but still. When we have finite water and an ever growing population that requires water for themselves and to grow food to eat and sanitation - we at least need to do a better job of water management.

 

I prefer the guy with the hat and briefcase from the Secret City Half Marathon.

 

That may or may not hold true for anything east of the Mississippi/Appalachians, because of summer thunderstorms rather than snow melting. However, a very minor quibble when looking at drought conditions on a world-wide scale.

For example, northeast Georgia gets more precip in June, July and August than the rest of the year combined. However, December and January (cold fronts courtesy of our Canadian cousins) are the fourth and fifth-most rainy months. Visit in the spring or fall and you usually won't need an umbrella.