Posted on Mar 26, 2019
New Climate Books Stress We Are Already Far Down The Road To A Different Earth
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It was a telling moment: David Wallace-Wells, author of the new book The Uninhabitable Earth, was making an appearance on MSNBC's talk show Morning Joe. He took viewers through scientific projections for drowned cities, death by heat stroke and a massive, endless refugee crisis — due to climate change. As the interview closed, one of the show's hosts, Willie Geist, looked to Wallace-Wells and said, "Let's end on some hope."
The disconnect speaks volumes about where we are now relative to climate change. With his new book, which has quickly become a bestseller, Wallace-Wells wants to be the firefighter telling you your house is going up in flames right now. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming's perspective can be neatly summed up through its opening line: "It's worse, much worse, than you think." Geist, standing in for all of us, seems stunned by the scale and urgency of the problem and wants to hear something that will make him feel better.
The disconnect speaks volumes about where we are now relative to climate change. With his new book, which has quickly become a bestseller, Wallace-Wells wants to be the firefighter telling you your house is going up in flames right now. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming's perspective can be neatly summed up through its opening line: "It's worse, much worse, than you think." Geist, standing in for all of us, seems stunned by the scale and urgency of the problem and wants to hear something that will make him feel better.
New Climate Books Stress We Are Already Far Down The Road To A Different Earth
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There's so much information and misinformation about climate change that the most prudent thing to do is to follow the money. In the 70s it was global cooling and we were all going to freeze to death in less than 20 years. Next came global warming which is easily debunked by pointing out that it's based on data collected since the collapse of the Soviet Union and comparing it to prior data. The problem with this methodology is that the collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in the loss of 50 percent of the cold weather reporting stations in the world. The studies today that indicate that man has a significant effect on the climate are all paid for by governments and industries that profit from it.
Climate change is occurring but man has little to no effect on it.
Climate change is occurring but man has little to no effect on it.
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There is a lot of alarmism intended to politicize the issue. That the issue is so politicized makes it difficult to discuss without some sort of polarity - as if we can dictate what "mother nature" and the universe do, and when.
However, there is so very much we could and should all be doing to stop fouling our own collective nest and our individual nests also, which can actually make a good difference.
However, there is so very much we could and should all be doing to stop fouling our own collective nest and our individual nests also, which can actually make a good difference.
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