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Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean
merbs writes: The ocean is in the midst of radical, manmade change. It can seem kind of crazy that one of the most immense properties on Earth—the ocean washes over 71 percent of the planet—could be completely transformed by a swarm of comparatively tiny, fleshy mammals. But humans are indeed remaking the ocean, in almost every conceivable way. The ocean we know today—that billions swim, fish, float, and surf in—that vast planetary body of water will be of an entirely different character by the end of the century: hotter, higher, trashier, and more acidic.
...of course no mentioning of, oh say, your actual reasoning!
Personally I've had enough with the dire predictions that never come true. This one in particular seems fishy (no pun intended) because it's already known that the oceans have been more acidic in the past few thousand years, and yet aquatic life remains.
But, changes that people really don't like tend to bring about a response. The Cuyahoga river for example was so toxic that it was completely devoid of fish, and the water itself was flammable, whereas now some 44 species inhabit it.
It precludes him from lecturing us about the need to make sacrifices, eat bugs while he eats steak, etc, etc. He can suffer through regular commercial flights with all the TSA goodies, wait for his damn bags, and take a cab like the rest of us. He trivializes and actually discredits the issue with his private jet and limos, merely symbolic as it is to you. Damn right he can walk!
And for you, city boy, it's back to the farm... Off to Hootersville for you!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Misanthropes and power hungry idiots in environmentalists clothing. They're a bigger danger to the environment than any other segment of humanity because they're standing directly in the way of real solutions.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
That is because Gore and pals are set to become carbon billionaires by selling indulgences, which of course means that things that might actually make a difference, like recycling tech, building a "people's car/truck" that gets 50 MPG+ for under $20K and then using a "cash for clunkers" style program to get all the poor folks out of older gas guzzlers? Well that is off the table because Gore and his friends at Goldman Sachs couldn't print money at the barrel of a gun while giving their rich pals free passes....err..."carbon offsets" and we can't have THAT now, can we?
What I can't believe is how many on the left is willing to buy his bullshit, can you name ONE THING, just one, that he is proposing that he hasn't already set himself up to become insanely rich if it comes to pass, just one? Well if everybody in the west gives me just 1 dollar a year why I'll cure climate change within a century using my magical AGW wands! Of course it won't work, but neither will Gore's plans but it'll make me rich and that IS the real goal of this, to make a few a lot richer with a reverse robin hood...right?
If you guys want to listen to somebody about AGW? Ed Begley Jr, and wadda ya know, nearly all his ideas are sensible. But then again he drives an electric car, lives in a modest home and takes coach instead of a personal fleet of SUVs to a personal Lear Jet to his McMansion with an indoor basketball court that uses more AC in a month than a half a dozen families of five do in a year like Gore...but its all good, right? After all Gore pays himself carbon indulgences from his own shell corp thus getting credit for moving money from his left to right pocket...that saves the world too,right?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.