Climate Change? Nahhh ...

I think quite a few people believe severe climate change - and the attendant problems - is coming, and it’s being taught that way in schools.

Policy Change is coming whether the masses want it or not. What happens once it comes, I guess we’ll see.

 

The columnist, Danny Westneat, leans to the left on quite a few issues and has taken the region’s Trumpists to task many times.

But to his credit, he’s also a frequent critic of Gov. Inslee — especially when he falls short of his Green Energy promises and wishy washy approach to drug abuse and crime.

 

Yeah.

We already did this with cleaner air and cleaner water and we made all the same excuses.

 

There might be if they can build the Solar Towers upward efficiently and effectively.

But solar requires a lot of land. Way more than the Mojave Desert, too. The Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana...saddle up.

 

The scale of this is far different and will require far greater sacrifices.

 

Sure.

You mean like the worldwide ban on DDT or CFCs?

C'mon.

 

Damned if you do . . .

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cleaning-up-air-pollution-may-strengthen-global-warming/

https://www.sustainability-times.co...leaner-air-is-contributing-to-global-warming/

 

Maybe!

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has established a number of possible future climate trajectories, assuming different levels of climate mitigation efforts and greenhouse gas emissions. It has accounted for future aerosol reductions in all of these scenarios, Samset noted, but with very little variation in the amount of reduction assumed.

Because it's still uncertain exactly how quickly aerosol emissions will decline in the future, some scientists believe a greater variety of possible scenarios should be investigated.

"I think we need to have more variety in those projections, since even matching up the real world today with the emissions projections from 2000 that we used last time shows a significant mismatch," said Schmidt, the NASA scientist (who was not involved with the new research), in an email to E&E News.

What remains clear, though, is that the full extent of human-caused global warming is still revealing itself—and the future may be more severe than the past would seem to suggest.

and

However, some pollutants have been helping cool Earth down. As scientists have recently discovered, aerosols are quite beneficial. Natural ones like ash, pollen, and dust reflect sunlight into space, keeping it from excessively heating the planet. They also help clouds form more water droplets, which cools things down as well.

The problem lies in artificial aerosols and high amounts of toxic natural ones. Formaldehyde, methylene, and benzene are frequently present in household products and pose long-term dangers. These severely diminish air quality over time and can cause damage to the respiratory and central nervous systems, kidneys, and liver.

 

Or you can just build solar onto existing structures.

 

But the real problems start when a family in Kansas has to put an insulating jacket around the water heater.

 

Rarely has such a seismic change been so painless and easy to execute!