Cancer. Pollution. Mental disorders. Inflation. And of course famine and poverty. All of these seemingly different plagues on humanity have one thing in common: climate change is making them worse. Apparently.
Do I detect a soupçon of cynicism, nay sarcasm seeping into your prose? Shame on you. Reading the always-authoritative Wikipedia link to the Pinatubo eruption we see where Ms. Lagarde has excavated her claim linking price rises to climate change, I quote “Beginning June 6, a swarm of progressively shallower earthquakes accompanied by inflationary tilt on the upper east flank of the mountain, culminated in the extrusion of a small lava dome.[4]”. Inflationary tilt! There it is! The Science. So no need to be so sarcastic.
That eruption was a mere fly speck on the world! With a little extra work, atmospheric aerosols can lead to widespread famine. It just takes a bigger eruption or a little more work on geoengineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Creating famine is a bonus not a detriment to our great leaders. Curtailing our fertilizer supply and usage is one way to achieve that goal. Blotting out the sun another. I can hear them angerly pounding the table at their meetings in Geneva, "this added CO2 is producing too much food for the serfs, pushing food prices down, we've got to do something about it".
Couple of things. The piece reminded me of my first expat project in the emirates. Born and bred in UK i stepped out in to a May day at 44C. I am oil and gas and there was a massive flare near where i was working in the plant. Being British i ignored the heat and worked thru lunch on that first day. By 3 pm i had a reason to strp in to the site office to chat with the Operator engineer. I hit the ac air and suddenly felt faint. The engineer had me lie down on the floor and put wet towels over me (!!) and had me sip water. Yup, nearly killed myself by dehydration.
Secondly, i finished electroverse.info article on weird cooling and oncoming sunspot minimum with mention cosmic effects leading to increased volcanic and seismic activity! Maybe the aerosols you were looking for are on their way sans government intervention!
Have a nice now, y’all
Ps i moved to Texas in 1990 and now laugh in the general direction of 40C!
Humans are adaptable and that's one of our greatest assets, for sure. We're a bit like bacteria in that department, we can adapt to a wide variety of environments.
I rather enjoy 40c days (104f in USA) and hike around in my work and off time. Go slow, lots of water, many rest breaks. Not a fast-paced day, too slow for many: trouble begins when in a hurry. Watch the critters, they've got the pace down pat, adaptation. Maybe climate change will slow our hurried lifes and give us time to enjoy the critters.
Ostensibly the fossil fuel industry are the biggest advocates for carbon capture and geo-engineering technologies, not any national government or the EU. They are painting these technologies as safe and effective technical solutions that will address the disastrous consequences of runaway anthropogenic climate change (sorry for using such alarmist language).
Really they just view these technologies as a lifeline for them to keep extracting and the world to keep burning, that's why they are affiliated or directly involved with the vast majority of such projects! Surely with Bill Gates on board they must be onto something?
Fever pitch indeed, I don't think it will be long at all before the fossil fuel giants and billionaires resort to the lesser evil of blocking out the sun to prevent the dissolution of profits, our brave climate leaders! Let's hope they **see the light** before then.
Yes, carbon capture is a giant pork-barrel subsidy to Big Oil & King Coal, although it does have some benefits for enhanced oil recovery in oil well areas.
So why the giant subsidies for CCS, far more than nuclear gets, which unlike CCS, actually generates electricity that the economy needs? Carbon capture subsidies in IRA, cash or tax credit, $3.2B over 10yr for 38M tonnes CO2 vs 10.6 M tonnes/yr displaced by one 1.1GW NPP. A substantial subsidy of $85 p tonne which amounts to a 3 cents/kwh for CCGT, 5 cents for OCGT & 9 cents for Coal. Vs the IRA subsidy for NEW nuclear of 2.5 cents/kwh, limited to the first 10yrs of operation. Assuming the corrupt NRC will even let any NPPs be built.
I don't know her work all that well to disagree with it but this article is quite balanced and I agree with the scepticism she expresses. Thank you for sharing!
In 1979 I flew to Houston, Texas, got off the plane, after a couple of Bloody Mary's - bad mistake... also back then you had to walk the tarmac - my god I have died and gone to hell - was my first thought, as a wet blanket of hot air hit me in the face and practically took me to my knees. Never forgot that feeling. Today it will be 110 degrees in Texas - and good sense tells me to come inside after 10.30 am. This is Texas, this is summer and I am sorry that people just don't have good sense and that bad decision making ended their lives and I am sad that our governments, meant to protect us from our own stupidities, are making many similar decisions for us! By the way I thought climate change was killing sarcasm, and certainly any humor! Guess it hasn't infiltrated your brain too much yet! Maybe they have a vaccine for that!
Oh, yes, heat plus humidity is indeed hell and a combination I'm familiar with from spending a week every summer on the Romanian Black Sea cost in a flat with no air conditioning.
Hi all it has been a long time. The wife and I are 70+ years old and were laughing badly when once again just like the previous years, our media wants to put out climate change, even though our high temp records have not changed since 1920. I guess our memory is supposed to fail us year after year.
Having lived in Texas for 6 years it does indeed get hot year after year. Living in Arkansas the temps are almost the same, but we have the additional humidity to deal with. Today heat index is 109 tomorrow 120 degrees. Being in the military I have gone from freezing to 120 degrees in the shade and I am still here. Dying from heat related problems happens all over the world every single day. Because your either stupid and should not have been hiking in the first place or you lack access to shelter and water. We had to live in heat like that for months without modern amenities serving in the Middle East.
I am surprised you have not blamed Putin for the climate change like some British rags have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guess what they will blame Russia / Putin on cyber attacks when US grid with excess Solar and Wind that replace fossil-fuel plants fail to meet the demand.
I’m a lifelong Texan for more than 60 years. Always has been hot in the summer - always. But in the past people had the common sense to drink water and wear a hat. Unfortunately, common sense is not as common anymore.
Also, a lot of people have moved to Texas to escape oppressive situations in other states, but are surprised by the summer heat. Since they haven’t lived here for as long as the natives they jump to the conclusion that something is wrong. It will take a while but they will figure it out. They are smart people - They will become acclimatized!
Heh. Back around 2004 I was talking to the wife of an IBM executive who had moved here in the Spring or maybe Winter from Armonk. It was only early May or maybe April. She said she liked it here (Austin) but thought it was awfully hot. I think I managed to do the polite thing and not laugh in her face. I politely told here that we typically have thirty days of 100+ temperatures. This was during the extended drought we had back then.
I couldn't tell if I she looked concerned or disbelieving. Like, "Oh, my gosh, what have we moved into...."
How can you not know it gets hot in Texas in the summer? I don't expect wonders of geographical knowledge from Americans (sorry!) but we're talking about the same country, not central Africa or the Greek islands.
Yeah. That’s why cowboys wore hats and carried canteens out on the range as did the Vaqueros before them when Texas was part of Mexico. If people want to read about heat in Texas they should study up on the dust bowl in the 1930s. And that was before the towns where they measure the temperature had surfaces covered in heat absorbing pavement and concrete. Vegetation is much cooler than pavement (and solar panels).
What concerns me the most lately is that I have seen media reports recently purporting to verify the existence of actual government reports asserting the existence and discovery of artifacts that came from intelligent beings not of our planet.
The next thing these frickers are going to do is tell everybody that the aliens have landed and everybody needs to stay indoors.....
and people are going to believe it....and do it.....
Excellent article! Climate was not designed with us in mind. It will continue to exist with or without humans. Teachers now will have to accommodate the brats when they cannot do their homework because of climate change. Perhaps, may be "climate trauma stress disorder (CTSD)" might have to be included as one of the DSM IV clinical manual.
I live in central Texas (Austin). Yes, it's hot this Summer. One of the warmer Summers. But it's not exceptional. We've had plenty of Summers with thirty 100+F days in a row. Some times the 100+ starts in May. Some times we get lucky and the weather is mild into July. The latter are notable for their rarity.
I've been here since '75. I think it may be a little drier, but I can't see where it's warmer. And drier could easily be caused by Austin growing from 300K to 1M+ people. The urban heating drives off the cloud systems we need.
Climate engineering... When Gore did his thing, an Oceanographer (or other flavor of ocean scientist) proposed seeding the oceans with iron to super-charge algae growth and absorb/convert CO2. Sounds pretty benign to me. Might even help bulk up depleting fisheries. The "green" weenies immediately jumped all over him and dismissed the idea as unthinkable.
But now climate engineering is okay?
Twenty-two people died in Big Bend from 2010 to 2020. Two dying this year is about average. It's barren, dry, hot, and very, very large. Not to mention rugged. I am not at all surprised that folks will go there with too little water and over estimate how far out they can safely hike.
When I was in Athens in 1987 temperatures were cresting 120F and folks were falling over dead. I don't see it being that hot this year. Must be the new ice age....
Here in Oz it’s f’ing cold. I’d like a little bit of that “global warming” we were all supposed to be afraid of until they decided to call it “climate change”. Wtf.
It’s colder than usual, and yes, these days I no longer like the cold. So much so I’ve headed north :) Probably sun spots which no one is talking about. Amazing how they cane forecast the temperature in 30 years time but they can’t forecast next month’s inflation rate :)
I've also noticed how my tolerance to various previously acceptable temperatures has changed but it's heat I've got trouble with. Surprisingly, I've grown more tolerant to cold. Probably because I no longer have to endure 30+ minute waits at the bus stop to get to university/work.
Of course climate change causes inflation ... or rather the blinkered ideological response to it such that we pay far more for energy than we used to. At least that’s my experience, the “promise” of cheaper renewable energy has never materialised
Scepticism of Climate Alarmism is a mental health issue caused by climate change.
Do I detect a soupçon of cynicism, nay sarcasm seeping into your prose? Shame on you. Reading the always-authoritative Wikipedia link to the Pinatubo eruption we see where Ms. Lagarde has excavated her claim linking price rises to climate change, I quote “Beginning June 6, a swarm of progressively shallower earthquakes accompanied by inflationary tilt on the upper east flank of the mountain, culminated in the extrusion of a small lava dome.[4]”. Inflationary tilt! There it is! The Science. So no need to be so sarcastic.
This article is dripping with sarcasm. And sarcasm is caused by climate change. You should have that checked out...
Thanks for injecting some humor into the absurdities we live through daily.
Oh yes - I forgot. Probably climate variation induced amnesia.
That eruption was a mere fly speck on the world! With a little extra work, atmospheric aerosols can lead to widespread famine. It just takes a bigger eruption or a little more work on geoengineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Creating famine is a bonus not a detriment to our great leaders. Curtailing our fertilizer supply and usage is one way to achieve that goal. Blotting out the sun another. I can hear them angerly pounding the table at their meetings in Geneva, "this added CO2 is producing too much food for the serfs, pushing food prices down, we've got to do something about it".
Now that's discouraging. Maybe they could blow up a few volcanoes at the same time to make a difference, I guess...
Couple of things. The piece reminded me of my first expat project in the emirates. Born and bred in UK i stepped out in to a May day at 44C. I am oil and gas and there was a massive flare near where i was working in the plant. Being British i ignored the heat and worked thru lunch on that first day. By 3 pm i had a reason to strp in to the site office to chat with the Operator engineer. I hit the ac air and suddenly felt faint. The engineer had me lie down on the floor and put wet towels over me (!!) and had me sip water. Yup, nearly killed myself by dehydration.
Secondly, i finished electroverse.info article on weird cooling and oncoming sunspot minimum with mention cosmic effects leading to increased volcanic and seismic activity! Maybe the aerosols you were looking for are on their way sans government intervention!
Have a nice now, y’all
Ps i moved to Texas in 1990 and now laugh in the general direction of 40C!
Humans are adaptable and that's one of our greatest assets, for sure. We're a bit like bacteria in that department, we can adapt to a wide variety of environments.
I rather enjoy 40c days (104f in USA) and hike around in my work and off time. Go slow, lots of water, many rest breaks. Not a fast-paced day, too slow for many: trouble begins when in a hurry. Watch the critters, they've got the pace down pat, adaptation. Maybe climate change will slow our hurried lifes and give us time to enjoy the critters.
https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Palm+Desert+CA?canonicalCityId=b3cdce3ab2585cef068846f8a516fc8804b98edda5fb5adeb369966d7d34efb9
Ostensibly the fossil fuel industry are the biggest advocates for carbon capture and geo-engineering technologies, not any national government or the EU. They are painting these technologies as safe and effective technical solutions that will address the disastrous consequences of runaway anthropogenic climate change (sorry for using such alarmist language).
Really they just view these technologies as a lifeline for them to keep extracting and the world to keep burning, that's why they are affiliated or directly involved with the vast majority of such projects! Surely with Bill Gates on board they must be onto something?
Fever pitch indeed, I don't think it will be long at all before the fossil fuel giants and billionaires resort to the lesser evil of blocking out the sun to prevent the dissolution of profits, our brave climate leaders! Let's hope they **see the light** before then.
Yes, carbon capture is a giant pork-barrel subsidy to Big Oil & King Coal, although it does have some benefits for enhanced oil recovery in oil well areas.
So why the giant subsidies for CCS, far more than nuclear gets, which unlike CCS, actually generates electricity that the economy needs? Carbon capture subsidies in IRA, cash or tax credit, $3.2B over 10yr for 38M tonnes CO2 vs 10.6 M tonnes/yr displaced by one 1.1GW NPP. A substantial subsidy of $85 p tonne which amounts to a 3 cents/kwh for CCGT, 5 cents for OCGT & 9 cents for Coal. Vs the IRA subsidy for NEW nuclear of 2.5 cents/kwh, limited to the first 10yrs of operation. Assuming the corrupt NRC will even let any NPPs be built.
I'm sure you disagree with Naomi Klein on all sorts of things, but I'm interested to know your thoughts on an article of hers from quite some time ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/geoengineering-testing-the-waters.html
I don't know her work all that well to disagree with it but this article is quite balanced and I agree with the scepticism she expresses. Thank you for sharing!
In 1979 I flew to Houston, Texas, got off the plane, after a couple of Bloody Mary's - bad mistake... also back then you had to walk the tarmac - my god I have died and gone to hell - was my first thought, as a wet blanket of hot air hit me in the face and practically took me to my knees. Never forgot that feeling. Today it will be 110 degrees in Texas - and good sense tells me to come inside after 10.30 am. This is Texas, this is summer and I am sorry that people just don't have good sense and that bad decision making ended their lives and I am sad that our governments, meant to protect us from our own stupidities, are making many similar decisions for us! By the way I thought climate change was killing sarcasm, and certainly any humor! Guess it hasn't infiltrated your brain too much yet! Maybe they have a vaccine for that!
Oh, yes, heat plus humidity is indeed hell and a combination I'm familiar with from spending a week every summer on the Romanian Black Sea cost in a flat with no air conditioning.
Hi all it has been a long time. The wife and I are 70+ years old and were laughing badly when once again just like the previous years, our media wants to put out climate change, even though our high temp records have not changed since 1920. I guess our memory is supposed to fail us year after year.
Having lived in Texas for 6 years it does indeed get hot year after year. Living in Arkansas the temps are almost the same, but we have the additional humidity to deal with. Today heat index is 109 tomorrow 120 degrees. Being in the military I have gone from freezing to 120 degrees in the shade and I am still here. Dying from heat related problems happens all over the world every single day. Because your either stupid and should not have been hiking in the first place or you lack access to shelter and water. We had to live in heat like that for months without modern amenities serving in the Middle East.
I am surprised you have not blamed Putin for the climate change like some British rags have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guess what they will blame Russia / Putin on cyber attacks when US grid with excess Solar and Wind that replace fossil-fuel plants fail to meet the demand.
Oh, well, I like things simple but not It's Putin's fault simple. That's too simple for me. :D
Sorry Irina, I meant to write, I am surprised they did not blame Putin for climate change
Well, some did blame him for the UK's net-zero failure, so you're right to be surprised. :D
I’m a lifelong Texan for more than 60 years. Always has been hot in the summer - always. But in the past people had the common sense to drink water and wear a hat. Unfortunately, common sense is not as common anymore.
Also, a lot of people have moved to Texas to escape oppressive situations in other states, but are surprised by the summer heat. Since they haven’t lived here for as long as the natives they jump to the conclusion that something is wrong. It will take a while but they will figure it out. They are smart people - They will become acclimatized!
Heh. Back around 2004 I was talking to the wife of an IBM executive who had moved here in the Spring or maybe Winter from Armonk. It was only early May or maybe April. She said she liked it here (Austin) but thought it was awfully hot. I think I managed to do the polite thing and not laugh in her face. I politely told here that we typically have thirty days of 100+ temperatures. This was during the extended drought we had back then.
I couldn't tell if I she looked concerned or disbelieving. Like, "Oh, my gosh, what have we moved into...."
How can you not know it gets hot in Texas in the summer? I don't expect wonders of geographical knowledge from Americans (sorry!) but we're talking about the same country, not central Africa or the Greek islands.
Yeah. That’s why cowboys wore hats and carried canteens out on the range as did the Vaqueros before them when Texas was part of Mexico. If people want to read about heat in Texas they should study up on the dust bowl in the 1930s. And that was before the towns where they measure the temperature had surfaces covered in heat absorbing pavement and concrete. Vegetation is much cooler than pavement (and solar panels).
What concerns me the most lately is that I have seen media reports recently purporting to verify the existence of actual government reports asserting the existence and discovery of artifacts that came from intelligent beings not of our planet.
The next thing these frickers are going to do is tell everybody that the aliens have landed and everybody needs to stay indoors.....
and people are going to believe it....and do it.....
I wish I could say they wouldn't go that far, that's totally bonkers but I honestly can't.
Excellent article! Climate was not designed with us in mind. It will continue to exist with or without humans. Teachers now will have to accommodate the brats when they cannot do their homework because of climate change. Perhaps, may be "climate trauma stress disorder (CTSD)" might have to be included as one of the DSM IV clinical manual.
It's very likely that it will be included as the new name for climate anxiety.
I live in central Texas (Austin). Yes, it's hot this Summer. One of the warmer Summers. But it's not exceptional. We've had plenty of Summers with thirty 100+F days in a row. Some times the 100+ starts in May. Some times we get lucky and the weather is mild into July. The latter are notable for their rarity.
I've been here since '75. I think it may be a little drier, but I can't see where it's warmer. And drier could easily be caused by Austin growing from 300K to 1M+ people. The urban heating drives off the cloud systems we need.
Climate engineering... When Gore did his thing, an Oceanographer (or other flavor of ocean scientist) proposed seeding the oceans with iron to super-charge algae growth and absorb/convert CO2. Sounds pretty benign to me. Might even help bulk up depleting fisheries. The "green" weenies immediately jumped all over him and dismissed the idea as unthinkable.
But now climate engineering is okay?
Twenty-two people died in Big Bend from 2010 to 2020. Two dying this year is about average. It's barren, dry, hot, and very, very large. Not to mention rugged. I am not at all surprised that folks will go there with too little water and over estimate how far out they can safely hike.
When I was in Athens in 1987 temperatures were cresting 120F and folks were falling over dead. I don't see it being that hot this year. Must be the new ice age....
Here in Oz it’s f’ing cold. I’d like a little bit of that “global warming” we were all supposed to be afraid of until they decided to call it “climate change”. Wtf.
Yeah, that's why they changed it, so they can accommodate the cold, too. Clever.
Is it colder than usual or you just hate the cold? :)
It’s colder than usual, and yes, these days I no longer like the cold. So much so I’ve headed north :) Probably sun spots which no one is talking about. Amazing how they cane forecast the temperature in 30 years time but they can’t forecast next month’s inflation rate :)
It is indeed amazing. :D
I've also noticed how my tolerance to various previously acceptable temperatures has changed but it's heat I've got trouble with. Surprisingly, I've grown more tolerant to cold. Probably because I no longer have to endure 30+ minute waits at the bus stop to get to university/work.
Another great article Irina!
Thank you!
Of course climate change causes inflation ... or rather the blinkered ideological response to it such that we pay far more for energy than we used to. At least that’s my experience, the “promise” of cheaper renewable energy has never materialised