Climate Change? Nahhh ...

The funniest thing is watching people freaking out over Facebook. Especially because they flip out over much smaller quakes.

 

You can read the paper yourself and decide if the news stories are hyperbole.

 

It is a little … interesting… the person who shrugs at climate change because what can we do anyway and don’t listen to scientists who are more priests than scientists is telling someone else who is shrugging his shoulders over a different thing and wondering what we can do to actually read an article because you need to gather and believe the information provided.

Verily I sayth unto you the word of the most highith Alma.

 

We had a tiny one by California standards about a dozen years ago. I was in bed asleep, and my dog came running down the hall whining, which woke me up. A second later, the house shook, and glasses in the cabinet started rattling. I thought two cars had crashed head on in front of the house, so I jumped up to look around. I obviously didn't see anything, figured I'd been dreaming, and went back to bed.
When I got up later and checked the news, we had had an earthquake.

 

So that's where they store the tequila!

 

When I was in Europe I got awakened by a jolt at about 3:30 a.m. I thought somebody was trying to wake me up. Turned out it was a 5.8 in the Netherlands.

It was completely silent, no Sensurround bullshit like in the movies.

 

It was silent? Usually I know there’s an earthquake because I hear the house more than I can feel it. Today I heard it before I felt it.

 

I rarely feel the dish-rattlers, even if I'm sitting down. It is surprising to get them here in northeast Georgia but the Appalachians have some active seismic zones.

The Loma Prieta? That sucker felt like the couch was moving up and down over six-foot swells, and we were a good 150 miles from the epicenter in Vacaville. If the Hayward Fault ever lets loose with a 7.0 or greater, the devastation will be mind-boggling.

 

hyperbole

Climate Pledges Are Falling Short, and a Chaotic Future Looks More Like Reality

Just 26 of 193 countries that agreed last year to step up their climate actions have followed through with more ambitious plans. The world’s top two polluters, China and the United States, have taken some action but have not pledged more this year, and climate negotiations between the two have been frozen for months.

Without drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the report said, the planet is on track to warm by an average of 2.1 to 2.9 degrees Celsius, compared with preindustrial levels, by 2100.

That’s far higher than the goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) set by the landmark Paris agreement in 2015, and it crosses the threshold beyond which scientists say the likelihood of catastrophic climate impacts significantly increases.

With each fraction of a degree of warming, tens of millions more people worldwide would be exposed to life-threatening heat waves, food and water scarcity, and coastal flooding while millions more mammals, insects, birds and plants would disappear.

 

hyperbole

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/25/flood-zone-homes-buyouts/

In this stretch of the Mid-Atlantic, waters are rising at among the fastest rates in the world — a U.S. government station in Myrtle Beach has recorded nearly 10 inches of sea level rise since the late 1950s, and the trend has accelerated in recent years. Add to that more intense hurricanes, torrential rainstorms, feverish development that alters water flow and other factors, and more and more communities like this one find themselves in the path of floodwaters.