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Stop Calling it Climate Change. Start Calling it Global Warming.

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8ullfrog:
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/10/expert-identifies-what-caused-a-massive-die-off-of-alaskas-snow-crabs.html

Enough with the pandering. People who would complain about the term "Global Warming" would gladly see us dead.

And honestly, it's looking like it will happen in our lifetime.

The planet will survive, but will we?

goldshirt*9:
The Earth is over populated,S every now and again Mother Earth throws something at us to depopulate a few million or so.
Trouble is we are very good at preventing this.
Agent Smith stated
"“I´d like to share a revelation that I´ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realized that you’re not actually mammals.

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way can survive is to spread to another area.

There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.

Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we… are the cure.”

smokester:
I'm interested to see if the U.K has the extremely high temperatures we've seen on the last handful of years. This May has the  lowest, high temperature (that just sounds wrong) for the last 7or 8 years.

My point is that I'm really in line with this thread and that climate change isn't solely to do with warming, and that a lot of new regulation I have to deal with is probably overkill.

We have the leakiest homes in Europe  (relating to heat) but we now have a new set of regulations to do with "overheating". Maybe "lowest high" isn't that stupid after all.

8ullfrog:
My state has emissions goals that are fully divorced from reality. They are attempting to ram things through by making driving inconvenient if not impossible. Bike lanes in residential neighborhoods have resulted in traffic nightmares, and more and more an entire anti-car movement becomes more popular.
One particular favorite they have is that we should shut down arteries and turn them into open air markets. One wonders how the products in this roadless society would be delivered. Presumably during the dark hours to avoid offending sensibilities.

Whats worse, they're bless'ed annoying about it. In our area there has been a big push for public transit. People who do not want to utilize public transit avoid it like a plague, which would be funny if there were not periodic TB exposure warnings about public transit.

I stupidly got into one such argument where a user said that "People around the world utilize public transit with no problems."
I replied that we have a current WORK STOPPAGE in public transportation in our city, and that bus drivers are driving routes approximately when they feel like it. That's per MTS, not just some anti-union claptrap. It's official guidance. They suggest "alternate transit plans."

I asked if those qualified as problems.

The user confidently restated exactly that.

I did not reply.

6pairsofshoes:
There really is a concerted effort to get people to stop using cars here.  Diverters to prevent through vehicular traffic, restricted parking, intrusive bike lanes on major traffic arteries (when there was already a comprehensive system of "bicycle boulevards" in place) have rendered some commercial districts so unfriendly that some motorists go out of their way to avoid them.  I am one. 

I will drive blocks out of my way to avoid traversing these "enlightened" efforts to force people out of their cars.  I rarely use public transit because it's generally inconvenient.  I'll take the subway to the city and back, but the bus system in my area is kind of silly, since I can walk or bike most places and any other destination would literally take hours instead of the 20 minute car ride because of the need to transfer between multiple bus lines.  I drive when I need to go places that would otherwise take hours via public transit or when I have to buy groceries in quantities.  Otherwise, I can walk to most shops.  But I'm lucky in that regard.

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