Earth's Hottest Month

[Jstpssng]

Gee Ray firing BOTH BARRELS and hits the bullseye!
Man that is the TRUTH
Gospel, Gee Ray. Pure GOSPEL

Some of us have been saying that for years, yet it don't make the polluting any more acceptable.

 

[Hay Dude]

Well, you can always warm up, but you can't always cool down. I pick cold over hot.

One of the main concerns with warming temps is rising sea levels. If that happens, much of the population is in low-lying coastal areas, and will have to move. Also, if that happens, brackish water creeps into low-lying areas that are currently used for food crops, making the land useless for those crops.

That doesn't affect people directly that live higher up from sea level, but will effect hundreds of millions of people at or near sea level around the world.

Look up how many people freeze to death compared to how many people die from heat.

Study: Cold kills 20 times more people than heat

The study analyzed over 74 million deaths across 13 countries.

www.usatoday.com

Worldwide, COLD kills 20 times as many people as HEAT

 

[NoTrespassing]

Kevin.... this is an easy one. A very easy one. You could have just searched it yourself.

HEAT kills many, many, many times more humans than cold. In a cold climate, there is still a growing season for food production, and you can easily keep warm all winter. In a baked, dry, hot environment, people cannot cool off, cannot grow food well, cannot find enough water.

It's really pretty basic chemistry and physics to measure and understand that humans are now taking enough fossil fuels out of the ground and burning them to substantially alter the CO2 concentration in our atmosphere, which has a very logical and proven effect on heat retention in the oceans and air. What is not proven, is exactly how much of our recent warming and climate shifts are due to our human contribution. It is simply illogical to say it has had no effect, but any good scientist will acknowledge that greater, natural trends could also be underway.

Nonetheless, virtually the entire global scientific community now overwhelmingly agrees that humans are contributing heavily to the real climate changes observed. So what are you deniers and skeptics really trying to win here? Avoiding guilt for your personal contributions?

Green energy and reasonable regulation of industry does not kill jobs. It just changes them, with new opportunities arising. If you are willing to chance torching the entire earth because you're simply afraid of change, or just want your political tribe to win, well that's a pretty sad critique on human nature. We have to make this shift in energy use together, so please don't make the majority drag you along so reluctantly.

deezler, I beg to differ! Your speculation that "heat kills many, many, many times more humans than cold" is patently incorrect!

Cold weather is 20 times as deadly as hot weather, and it's not the extreme low or high temperatures that cause the most deaths, according to a study published Wednesday.

The study found the majority of deaths occurred on moderately hot and moderately cold days instead of during extreme temperatures.

"Although the risk of mortality due to extremely cold or hot days is actually higher, they are less frequent," said lead author Antonio Gasparrini of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

The study — published in the British journal The Lancet — analyzed data on more than 74 million deaths in 13 countries between 1985 and 2012. Of those, 5.4 million deaths were related to cold, while 311,000 were related to heat.

Because the study included countries under different socio-economic backgrounds and with varying climates, it was representative of temperature-related deaths worldwide, the study said. The sharp distinction between heat- and cold-related deaths is because low temperatures cause more problems for the body's cardiovascular and respiratory systems, it added.

Study: Cold kills 20 times more people than heat

The study analyzed over 74 million deaths across 13 countries.

www.usatoday.com

 

[NoTrespassing]

Beat me to it by 1 minute Hay Dude! good one

 

[Hay Dude]

Some of us have been saying that for years, yet it don't make the polluting any more acceptable.

No it doesn’t, but losing all our industrial capacity isn’t acceptable, either.

 

[Midniteoyl]

When the global temps rise and the ice melts (as long as the 'conveyor' doesn't shut down completely), the Earth will get wetter, not dryer and more desert like. More tropical in most areas, with potentially more areas for food production.

 

[Hay Dude]

I would think more warmth would also grow more life sustaining vegetation. Plants process CO2 and exhale oxygen and help feed the ever increasing world population

Is warming ALWAYS bad?

 

[Jstpssng]

No it doesn’t, but losing all our industrial capacity isn’t acceptable, either.

As I've said in the past, a global economy requires a level playing field. Any country we buy from should follow similar environmental restrictions, their agriculture shouldn't be allowed to use any pesticides which are banned here; they should have to follow the same civil rights laws which apply to this country. Otherwise they shouldn't be allowed to import to this country.

 

[Hay Dude]

As I've said in the past, a global economy requires a level playing field. Any country we buy from should follow similar environmental restrictions, their agriculture shouldn't be allowed to use any pesticides which are banned here; they should have to follow the same civil rights laws which apply to this country. Otherwise they shouldn't be allowed to import to this country.

Then Good luck doing without about everything you use everyday

 

[MoKelly]

As I've said in the past, a global economy requires a level playing field. Any country we buy from should follow similar environmental restrictions, their agriculture shouldn't be allowed to use any pesticides which are banned here; they should have to follow the same civil rights laws which apply to this country. Otherwise they shouldn't be allowed to import to this country.

Sounds like America First. Do it our way or the highway!

MoKelly