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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so tired of blaming Trump for everything, or blaming Biden, or whomever. Natural disasters happen, people die, it’s horrible and devastating but it’s not always someone’s fault. If that lake had a history of flooding, why was a children’s camp built right there beside it?[/quote]

Trump is pushing an energy strategy that contributes to making this worse. And he’s gutted NOAA and FEMA to boot. But it’s the Texas government and officials who are, again, most directly responsible for these children’s deaths. They continue to fail their children and “thoughts and prayers” over their deaths. [/quote]

Can we make this easy enough for MAGA to understand?  Let's play connect the dots:

1. Many GOP politicians get big donations from oil and gas  and coal companies.

2. These politicians support laws that help fossil fuel companies (like oil, gas, and coal).

3. At the same time, they make it harder for clean energy (like wind and solar) to grow.

4. Burning fossil fuels puts carbon into the air.

5. Too much carbon traps heat, which warms the air and oceans.

6. Warmer ocean water (especially in places like the Gulf of Mexico) causes more water to evaporate into the air.

7. This leads to stronger storms and hurricanes.

8. Stronger storms bring more flooding, damage, and deaths.

A fifth grader would be able to understand all of this.  MAGA doesnt have a compelling excuse for not understanding it.[/quote]

Wow, you must be really smart.

Explain how we had strong hurricanes before carbon energy use.

Whole you’re at it, also explain the ice ages, more recently the LCO-MWP, the YD, and the entire pre-KT Boundary climate.

I’m sure this will be a piece of cake for someone who’s as well informed as you. [/quote]

Are you genuinely a climate change denier? You're comfortable living in this depth of ignorance...or do you just feel it's your duty to champion the GOP disinformation?[/quote]

Do I [i]sound[/i] ignorant? Do I use the [i]terminology[/i] of an ignorant person unfamiliar with the subject matter?

To the contrary, not only do I understand that the climate IS changing, I, unlike many of you, understand that there is no such thing as a stable climate - one which many of you seem to think resembles what we had prior to about 1986 or so, when the talk of another ice age approaching was finally replaced by the talk of coming global warming.

Climate changes. Sometimes it changes incredibly quickly. It has done so before homo sapien sapien even existed.

Are we causing the climate to change by putting C02 into the atmosphere? Of course we are. And? It’s going to change anyway, regardless of whether we contribute to it or not. We are just one more factor. And we will adapt to it. We will migrate, we will move, we will innovate. That’s what humans do.

Besides - with the pathetically low birth rates in industrialized countries, within another century or two, we’ll either have so few humans left on Earth that they will no longer affect the climate, OR, we’ll be so overrun with the masses from undeveloped countries by then that none of them will even care anymore about the climate.

Either way, anthropogenic climate change is a nonissue is the year 2225. [/quote]

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