what are y'all saving from the wild to deal with coming crisis?

[Willowspirit]

Good times huh?

Three weeks in the ICU. I was subjected to surprising indignities and never want to play that again. To top it off I missed my daughter’s wedding!

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

I am reading this and thinking of the incredibly high temps in France right now.

That only lasted 3 days, and the heat in France was worse in 1911 when 41,000 people (mostly babies) died during a 70-day heat wave. Paris reached 50C in 1930 (the recent high was 45.8C). Europe is now experiencing anomalously colder weather for this time of year, a higher anomaly than the recent heat spike was. East Netherlands just recorded its coldest ever July temp. Step outside of your bubble and do a little research. The early part of the 20th century was brutally hot compared to today.

 

[Stiletto]

@Stiletto
I have noticed your name but was ignorant of your location, now I know. Thank you for writing.

Thank you! I read on this form a lot more than I write.

It is good that we can communicate around the world.

I wholeheartedly agree!

 

[ocap]

Thank you! I read on this form a lot more than I write.



I wholeheartedly agree!

I have only been near you once, 20 hours in Malaga, I believe the year was 1974 (U.S.Navy)

 

[clembone]

That only lasted 3 days, and the heat in France was worse in 1911 when 41,000 people (mostly babies) died during a 70-day heat wave. Paris reached 50C in 1930 (the recent high was 45.8C). Europe is now experiencing anomalously colder weather for this time of year, a higher anomaly than the recent heat spike was. East Netherlands just recorded its coldest ever July temp. Step outside of your bubble and do a little research. The early part of the 20th century was brutally hot compared to today.

Kindly cite to some sources for your conclusions, if possible. Global warming causes wild fluctuations in weather patterns, with many places having both record cold and record hot spells, along with surprising wet spots and droughts.

Overall, however, the planet is heating up:

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1

Earth-orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale. This body of data, collected over many years, reveals the signals of a changing climate.

The heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases was demonstrated in the mid-19th century.2 Their ability to affect the transfer of infrared energy through the atmosphere is the scientific basis of many instruments flown by NASA. There is no question that increased levels of greenhouse gases must cause the Earth to warm in response.

Ice cores drawn from Greenland, Antarctica, and tropical mountain glaciers show that the Earth’s climate responds to changes in greenhouse gas levels. Ancient evidence can also be found in tree rings, ocean sediments, coral reefs, and layers of sedimentary rocks. This ancient, or paleoclimate, evidence reveals that current warming is occurring roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming.3

 

[ocap]

"Antarctica"
I was there, we found petrified wood. The temperature was warmer once for period long enough to grow a tree.

 

[clembone]

according to the Scientific American:


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earthtalks-global-warming-harsher-winter/





Dear EarthTalk: Don’t all these huge snow and ice storms across the country mean that the globe isn’t really warming? I've never seen such a winter!
-- Mark Franklin, Helena, MT

On the surface it certainly can appear that way. But just because some of us are suffering through a particularly cold and snowy winter doesn’t refute the fact that the globe is warming as we continue to pump carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1997. And the National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Administration (NOAA) reports that recent decades have been the warmest since at least around 1000 AD, and that the warming we’ve seen since the late 19th century is unprecedented over the last 1,000 years.



“You can’t tell much about the climate or where it’s headed by focusing on a particularly frigid day, or season, or year, even,” writes Eoin O’Carroll of the Christian Science Monitor. “It’s all in the long-term trends,” concurs Dr. Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Most scientists agree that we need to differentiate between weather and climate. The NOAA defines climate as the average of weather over at least a 30-year period. So periodic aberrations—like the harsh winter storms ravaging the Southeast and other parts of the country this winter—do not call the science of human-induced global warming into question.

The flip side of the question, of course, is whether global warming is at least partly to blame for especially harsh winter weather. As we pointed out in a recent EarthTalk column, warmer temperatures in the winter of 2006 caused Lake Erie to not freeze for the first time in its history. This actually led to increased snowfalls because more evaporating water from the lake was available for precipitation.

But while more extreme weather events of all kinds—from snowstorms to hurricanes to droughts—are likely side effects of a climate in transition, most scientists maintain that any year-to-year variation in weather cannot be linked directly to either a warming or cooling climate.

 

[clembone]

"Antarctica"
I was there, we found petrified wood. The temperature was warmer once for period long enough to grow a tree.

In addition to warmer climates, millions of years ago, due to continental drift, Antarctica was in a warmer place, nearer the equator.

"During the 1960s, the mechanisms behind continental drift finally became understood and our modern theory of plate tectonics was born. As with other continents, sea floor spreading in some places and subduction in others has caused Antarctica’s position to change over geological time; and hence Antarctica hasn’t always been located over the South Pole. Indeed in the distant geological past, the pattern and configuration of tectonic plates has been very different from today. For example, about 450 million years ago the crust that makes up England was in the Southern Hemisphere while crust making up Antarctica straddled the equator!"
https://discoveringantarctica.org.u...nd-sea/tectonic-history-into-the-deep-freeze/

 

[ocap]

In addition to warmer climates, millions of years ago, due to continental drift, Antarctica was in a warmer place, nearer the equator.

"During the 1960s, the mechanisms behind continental drift finally became understood and our modern theory of plate tectonics was born. As with other continents, sea floor spreading in some places and subduction in others has caused Antarctica’s position to change over geological time; and hence Antarctica hasn’t always been located over the South Pole. Indeed in the distant geological past, the pattern and configuration of tectonic plates has been very different from today. For example, about 450 million years ago the crust that makes up England was in the Southern Hemisphere while crust making up Antarctica straddled the equator!"
https://discoveringantarctica.org.u...nd-sea/tectonic-history-into-the-deep-freeze/

 

[AllenK RGV]

The Environmental Protection Agency:
What is Sustainability?
Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. To pursue sustainability is to create and maintain the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony to support present and future generations.

Learn more about sustainability and how EPA incorporates it into its work in the National Reseach Council's report, Sustainability and the U.S. EPA.

Heheh quoting the same government that brings you the food pyramid? Veganism is a thing and runs completely counter to the food pyramid, now I am no vegan but don't mind eating at vegan restaurants.