There AREN'T 'real problems to do with the climate'. The climate currently is entirely within the normal envelope over millennia, let alone over geological time. What there ARE problems concerning are soil destruction, water mis-management and claiming that concrete-covered cities represent 'normal historical weather stations'.
Re: Climate change caused by mankinds activities is real. 20 years ago I went SCUBA diving at El Nido to see 37 of the reknown best sites. There was a coral grave yard. Local Philipinos said the sea temperature had risen 2 degrees killing the huge ancient coral formations. Prof. Ian Lowe, AO gave a 1 hour speach I was in attendance. In 25 years available fresh drinking water is down 25%, global fish catch is down 20%, dead oceans have doubled, 100 million hectares of forests gone, green house gases CO2 & methane have doubled in the last century, wildlife species is down to equivalent of the 5 mass extinctions. Oceans are preciptously close to emitting CO2 as they have absorbed so much. Ignorance is not bliss it's dangerous. Stopping new technology is horse & buggy mentality. CATL China's battery maker now your EV can travel 1,000 kms on ONE CHARGE. I'd prefer to be on the right side of change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Lowe
Margi Bingley20 September 2019 at 15:31 Thank you. As a SCUBA diver of 33 years I've watched the beauty of the equatorial reef systems diminish. Half of them have gone in the last 30 years. I've witnessed that. When in El Nido, Palawan Islands, PPN it was disheartening to observe the '57 best dive sites in the world' according to Jaques Cousteau - gone. The giant coral he spoke of and filmed were not there in 2005. I asked the dive guides to take me to the BIG coral. He replied - "the ocean temperature has risen 2 deg. killing the coral. Then we had a typhoon with strong ocean currents and that broke it up." Not one of my Sydney high society friends SCUBA dived. So when I bought this topic up on my return they were totally disinterested. When in Sri Lanka I saw the coral reef system had been removed by the locals for construction use. That area was where the most people died from the Boxing Day tsunami. Where the reefs were in tact nobody died. I stayed in a hotel that was protected by the reef. That is what people don't get. Everything is connected. Some of nature protects us. As we destroy nature we will become more exposed
There AREN'T 'real problems to do with the climate'. The climate currently is entirely within the normal envelope over millennia, let alone over geological time. What there ARE problems concerning are soil destruction, water mis-management and claiming that concrete-covered cities represent 'normal historical weather stations'.
ReplyDeleteRe: Climate change caused by mankinds activities is real. 20 years ago I went SCUBA diving at El Nido to see 37 of the reknown best sites. There was a coral grave yard. Local Philipinos said the sea temperature had risen 2 degrees killing the huge ancient coral formations. Prof. Ian Lowe, AO gave a 1 hour speach I was in attendance. In 25 years available fresh drinking water is down 25%, global fish catch is down 20%, dead oceans have doubled, 100 million hectares of forests gone, green house gases CO2 & methane have doubled in the last century, wildlife species is down to equivalent of the 5 mass extinctions. Oceans are preciptously close to emitting CO2 as they have absorbed so much. Ignorance is not bliss it's dangerous. Stopping new technology is horse & buggy mentality. CATL China's battery maker now your EV can travel 1,000 kms on ONE CHARGE. I'd prefer to be on the right side of change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Lowe
ReplyDeleteMargi Bingley20 September 2019 at 15:31
DeleteThank you. As a SCUBA diver of 33 years I've watched the beauty of the equatorial reef systems diminish. Half of them have gone in the last 30 years. I've witnessed that. When in El Nido, Palawan Islands, PPN it was disheartening to observe the '57 best dive sites in the world' according to Jaques Cousteau - gone. The giant coral he spoke of and filmed were not there in 2005. I asked the dive guides to take me to the BIG coral. He replied - "the ocean temperature has risen 2 deg. killing the coral. Then we had a typhoon with strong ocean currents and that broke it up." Not one of my Sydney high society friends SCUBA dived. So when I bought this topic up on my return they were totally disinterested. When in Sri Lanka I saw the coral reef system had been removed by the locals for construction use. That area was where the most people died from the Boxing Day tsunami. Where the reefs were in tact nobody died. I stayed in a hotel that was protected by the reef. That is what people don't get. Everything is connected. Some of nature protects us. As we destroy nature we will become more exposed