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Record Number of Americans See Climate Change As a Current Threat (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: More Americans are very worried about global warming and say the issue is personally important to them than ever before, according to a new poll released Tuesday. The polling may indicate that extreme weather events -- coupled with a series of grim scientific findings -- over the past year are starting to change peoples' minds about climate change, which could have significant implications for any significant climate legislation passing Congress. The key finding from the new survey from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication is that Americans increasingly view global warming as a present-day threat to them, rather than an issue that will affect future generations. Nearly half of Americans (46%) said they personally experienced the effects of global warming -- a 15-point spike since March 2015.
"Denialist pollution source owners' propaganda efforts failing, American idiots slowly pulling their collective heads out of their asses and realizing changes must be made quickly, or this is going to get much worse."
Just because your life doesn't appear to be directly affected doesn't mean the lives of others aren't. Rising sea levels are affecting island nations. Significant portions of the great barrier reef around Australia have died off. Severe droughts in various regions around the world are forcing people to relocate. Huge numbers of insects populations and species are dying off which is going to have detrimental effects on the food chain in those regions.
Droughts and abnormal temperatures also affect crop yields, which affects the price of everything at the grocery store. Sure, there are other factors that affect grocery store prices, but climate change is certainly a contributing one.
Right now? Probably not a hell of a lot unless you live in California or the southeast US. The worst is that you're likely needing to run the A/C a bit more during the summer and pay a bit more on your electricity bill.
Let's assume you don't think climate change is a problem, or at least not enough of one for the government to take action because of negative economic effects.
Consider then what happens in the future, even the near future. Climate change is linked to changing weather patterns and an increase in destructive storms ( https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/our-changing-climate/changes-hurricanes ). These storms have an economic cost - businesses destroyed, homes destroyed, cleanup, reconstruction. Right there, that's insurance companies and the government involved. If the insurance companies don't go bankrupt from the increased cost then they'll definitely be passing on the cost in the form of higher premiums to their customers. Government money only goes so far, so either programs will be cut or taxes will go up.
Let's not forget that the changing weather patterns are also going to affect agriculture, fishing... A large chunk of our food production. Farmland becomes unusable due to drought, heating oceans disrupt the ecology and trigger mass die-offs. ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/priyashukla/2018/07/26/oceans-expected-to-become-more-acidic-than-theyve-been-in-14-million-years/ )
Oh! How about another potential problem: like to go outside? You could also be at a higher risk of contracting Lyme or other tick-borne diseases because the weather is more favourable to them now in two ways. Either it's extending the amount of time ticks are active during the year (they go dormant below either 2 or 4 C, I forget which) or extending the territory they normally inhabit farther north because those latitudes are now more hospitable to them. ( http://www.vdci.net/blog/lyme-disease-3-reasons-it-is-on-the-rise-in-the-northeast )
These are just a few things off the top of my head. So unless you were being sarcastic in your post, this shit is 100% real and even if it has no impact on your daily life right now, I can guarantee it'll become your concern soon enough.
Which island nations are losing area, are ending up underwater?
Miami Beach, FL
60% of republicans want Medicare for all, 90% of democrats do too. Even a poll on Fox News bore this out. Yet somehow all the right talking heads on tv say communists are the only ones that want socialized healthcare. The real reason we don't have it, or a lot of the other issues we all agree on is America is a representative democracy that only seems to represent moneyed interests and not citizens.
More Do-Nothingism.
"Both China and Russia would be more than willing to keep burning fossil fuels for a competitive advantage over the free world..."
Yeah, except for the Paris Agreement of 2015, the Cancun Agreement of 2010, the Copenhagen Agreement of 2009, the Bali Action Plan of 2007, the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, and the Rio Accord of 1992. All of which were systematically undermined and rejected by the political Right in the US.
China and Russia are on board. It's you who are not on board. After years of (collectively) denying that there even was a problem, now we see the endgame. "There isn't any way to avoid what's coming..."
So once again it is, "I've got mine and F-U."
BTW, that's loser talk.
Liar
https://skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.