We do NOT need a taxpayer funded gov subsidy for leaf blowers and lawn mowers. And rising sea levels is not.something "impossible" to deal with. Just ask the places who are/have.
The rate of seal level rise is increasing. If unchecked, it will start rising faster than we can effectively deal with. Many, many coastal cities will have permanently flooded by 2050, and will more or less get destroyed during bad storms or hurricanes.
The cost to rebuild a city like NYC inland would be astronomical. It'd literally cost double the entire US yearly budget to rebuild the entirety of NYC somewhere else. That's just one city. 14 out of the 17 largest cities in the world are on the coast, and there are hundreds of other coastal cities. The amount of money and effort required to move all of those cities, all of those people, rebuild all of that infrastructure would be unfathomable.
So somehow to you, it's completely reasonable to literally relocate 1 billion people, rebuild entire cities and infrastructure, but completely out of line to ask people to use less polluting yard equipment?
Yes. Will the earth become unlivable - NO.
Actually, it will. It's not just rising sea level. It's climate. As we get warmer, weather will become more unpredictable and more intense. Constant hurricanes, tornadoes - even monstrous winter storms. It will become harder to farm, harder to heat and cool our homes ,and harder to live.
Scientists cannot predict with more certainty than a coin flip, whether or not it will rain at Pittsburgh international airport 1 month from now. But trust me bro, if we don't change CO2 outputs, these cities will be under water by these amounts in this many years. Seems arrogant, does it not?
No, it's not arrogant at all if you actually spend the effort to read the literature, instead of what pundits on Fox news say. Once again, weather is short term and unpredictable. Climate is long term, and is predictable. There is a ton of day-to-day and year-to-year variation, but by looking at long-term trends, we can see patterns and make very accurate predictions.
FWIW if we removed catalytic converters we could drop CO2 emissions, as H2O, CO2 and N2 are the primary outputs of that reaction.
Nice try, 'cept the NOx, HC and CO emitted by engines have higher GWP than CO2.
inefficient use of resources are the actual issues, carbon is a symptom.
...hence the banning of small, inefficient and highly polluting engines. You go on and on about how no one develops solutions - but there are tons of solutions all developed, ready to go. Tons and tons of people are pushing for more teleworking, reduced work-weeks, solar, wind, grid-storage, electric yard equipment and so much more.
But there is a tremendous push back from climate change deniers and old-school traditionalists.
Totally fine with moving towards phasing out fossil fuels. Let's do something beside talk about co2 and flying around the world in private jets to do so.
Scientists don't fly around in private jets. They do actual research.
Actual solutions. Not taxes. Not bans. Not consumer level enforcement. Let's do some R&D and start finding solutions. Step one is investing in the only remotely feasible alternative we have. Which is nuclear. We have a limited amount of time to find a solution to bypass fossil fuels with real solutions. When the last of the coal, natural gas, and oil are gone, it's too late. We won't have the resources to manitian society, let alone develop replacements.
The R&D is done, the solutions are here now and ready.
If NYC has to, it will simply make changes to deal with it. We dropped atomic bombs on Japan, completely decimated cities in Europe. Life went on. These people make it sound like on Sunday all was well, but Monday came and NYC found itself under 20 feet of water. I mean, lets be serious here - Dubai BUILT its own islands. Part OF Manhattan is man made. Challenges present opportunity. Its how you respond to those opportunities that matter. What’s the worse case scenerio? Manhattan is lost over the next 300 years? Ok - i guess they wont have to fix the potholes, they’ll be thankful we already raised all the low bridges, and New Jersey will see development on a scale its never seen before.. this idea that kids are being told they will have to struggle to survive like 10 yrs from now, that life as they know it will become some sci fi movie - cause the water level rose 20 - 30 millimeters in a decade (about an inch) - is ****** ludicrous.
It's only "ludicrous" because you don't understand it, and refuse to understand it. The sea level is rising, and the rate at which its rising is increasing. In 100 years, it will be 4 FEET higher than it is now. In just 50 years, it will be about 1.5 feet higher, which has HUGE implications on coastal cities - especially during storms.
Building a small island with pumped in dirt for a few homes is not the same thing as building a major city. Those islands require constant maintenance, and will be destroyed by sea level rise. They are not sustainable.
The implications of sea level rise aren't just the flooding of cities either. As glaciers melt, they will be pumping tons of fresh water into the ocean. The salinity of the ocean will change - which impacts deep ocean currents and marine life. The currents in the ocean drive our climate and the health of the ocean. Expect massive marine life die-offs, and radical changes in climate that could make once mild and temperate places completely inhospitable.
Seriously. Open a book. Stop listening to pundits on Fox News, CNN and NBC. Go to your local library, log onto Ebsco Host for free and start
READING THE LITERATURE - like I have. Every single point and question you, and 2ndGearRubber have made have been completely answered, debunked and refuted by scientists for decades.
