Global Weirding: Humans Have Caused Chaos on Earth (Newsweek)

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Global Weirding: Humans Have Caused Chaos on Earth
BY JESS THOMSON ON 9/2/22 AT 10:52 AM EDT
Newsweek

Humans have disturbed the climate to such a great extent that we have created chaos on Earth, scientists say. Climate change as a result of burning fossil fuels, deforestation and pollution has caused an intensification of weather and hydrological extremes, which will continue to worsen.

Weather records around the world are being broken almost annually. The U.K. saw its hottest ever summer this year, Pakistan is experiencing some of the worst flooding in its history, and China's Yangtze River is so dry from drought that the government is preparing to cloud-seed to make it rain. Wildfires have been plaguing California and Oregon all summer, causing mass evacuations and worsening atmospheric pollution. Several important reservoirs across the U.S., including Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are inching towards dead pool level, upon which their hydroelectric dams will no longer be able to generate power, leading to electricity shortages in the regions nearby.

… “Our planet is hotter, our forests are burning, and we're losing more lives and homes every year. The overwhelming scientific consensus is that this dangerous rise in global temperatures is caused by human activity, primarily from burning fossil fuels.” Auroop R. Ganguly, director of the Sustainability & Data Sciences Laboratory, told Newsweek this increase in extreme weather events has become known as "global weirding".

"On the hydrometeorological hazards side, heat waves are getting (and are further projected to get) even hotter, cold snaps persisting even if growing less frequent, heavy precipitation getting heavier, and so on. The impacts can be far-reaching across multiple sectors such as ecosystems and coastal processes, aspects of the water-energy-food nexus, infrastructures and urban lifelines," he said….The reason for so many systems being affected to such a degree is that they are intertwined. When one changes due to our actions on the planet, they all do, and they feed into each other in ways that are very difficult to predict.

More here
https://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-causing-climate-chaos-weather-extreme-events-1739426

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1. We should not have been put here. We should have been put on a hearty planet that

Would be better.

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2. We should have listened in the 1970s to Jimmy Carter

https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/jimmy-carter-climate-change-malaise-speech-1980-backlash.html

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4. Of course we should. He was right about everything.

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3. Don't worry, we have a magic, all-powerful sky daddy who's going to protect us

from anything REALLY bad happening.

I mean, unless of course teh hermerseckshuls and trans people and abortion-floozies get their way.

Then the sky-god will be angered, and leave us all to burn.

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5. It is really is something

how much effort is spent by the GOP exercising power and control over people’s lives while the existential crisis is boiling on the front burner.