This is why I said decades to come. IF we do not get control of this the weather is going to keep changing to try to make things right. We can see a serious escalation of severe weather events that will help to clear mans issues to climate change. More can be done to set things right again.
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Comments: I know there is global climate change but I am always suspicious that there is anything much that can be done about it. I think a lot of it is just about money and ways to get money by somehow trying to stop the inevitable from happening. Climate change will occur no matter what we do.
Yes climate change does occur naturally but we humans have sped this up somewhat. We need to stop and look at what we are doing to this planet and look for better ways of doing stuff and making sure that we lessen the impact that we are having on this world.
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I agree with what you say but I also agree that this is a money driven thing to some extent and people and institutions are getting very rich off of global climate change. Now, getting rich isn't a problem, unless you are over hyping something to cash in. This is what I fear is going on… I don't know it's going on but I fear it's going on.
I say that because we have Governments that have totally bought into this phenomena paying the institutions doing the research a tremendous amount of money. And as long as these institutions come up with data that we are on verge of global catastrophe time they continue getting money. Then we have companies whose business it is to develop 'clean' energy and ways to reduce emission to 'arrest' global climate change paying these same institutions to come up with data… and amazingly that data shows how important what they are are doing is to the environment. To me, that's like commissioning the wolf to make sure the fox doesn't get in the hen-house.
Yes it is very easy to hype this up and make some great money on it to try to find ways to take some of the pressure off the changes. I ask you this. When have you seen a year where the weather average has below average? Or the storms less intense on average? We are seeing the north polar ice cap have more open water than ice. Greenland is becoming green again instead of covered in glaziers. Hurricanes are starting sooner and ending later. Weather itself if changing a lot. See rise is happening as more and more ice on both polar caps are becoming less and less. It does not take much research to find some of this out.
Sure there is money to be made but climate change is real. We are going to experience things like water shortages in the future and coastline erosion. Those aren't simple things, loss of real estate and the most basic necessity of the planet could mean war and civil unrest.
Hotspots show that vegetation alters climate by up to 30 percent. A new study that analyzes global satellite observations shows that vegetation alters climate and weather patterns by as much as 30 percent. The researchers used a new approach and found feedbacks between the atmosphere and vegetation can be strong, explaining up to 30 percent of variability in precipitation and surface radiation. Source 4b.