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TSwizzle said:
The U.S. Global Change Research Program is now headed by Matthew Wielicki, a former University of Alabama geochemist, according to his public postings on social media and confirmed by a second person familiar with the program, granted anonymity over fears of reprisal.
Wielicki, who calls himself a “professor in exile” and who frequently critiques climate science on social media, will be in charge of the program’s primary product, the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment, a comprehensive report released every four years that shows how American infrastructure, lives and the economy are affected by climate change. Reached by phone, Wielicki, who has been soliciting ideas on X for what he should include in the next version of the assessment, said he’d like to speak about his work but only if the White House allows. The White House did not make him available for an interview, but sent a statement. “For too long, the USGCRP has been used as a vehicle for political agendas instead of sound science,” a White House spokesperson said in a statement. “We look forward to restoring the USGCRP and ensuring it fulfills its legal mandate.”
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Politico

A move in the right direction in my opinion.
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That's called having a persecution complex.
 
Santa Monica beach, pretty much closed.



Not because of climate change but because the “homeless” just shit where they like and it ends up in the ocean.

Glad we banned plastic bags and plastic straws.
 
TSwizzle said:
Santa Monica beach, pretty much closed.



Not because of climate change but because the “homeless” just shit where they like and it ends up in the ocean.

Glad we banned plastic bags and plastic straws.
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Did you want the homeless to shit into plastic bags and straws?
 
We appear to live in a world where we have both the super rich, with wealth beyond the wildest dreams, mansions, luxury, and the homeless sleeping on sidewalks. What a strange world it is.
 
Instead of fighting, I"m going to try to explain to those who don't seem to understand climate change, exactly what it is, the evidence for it etc. Before I add the link, let me add that it seems as if one person here thinks we are expecting the climate to change in a matter of a few years, but the fact is, the climate used to take tens of thousands of years to change, but now it's changing at a rapid pace, in other words, hundreds of years or now just decades. Get it?

Btw, I've read that over 97% of climate scientists now accept the data regarding human caused climate change. If one is interested and honest, one will do their own DD from reliable scientific sources and read the overwhelming evidence with an open mind, instead of denying what is becoming more obvious each year. So, if any denialist reads this I hope their response would be intelligent and not just an emoji.

While I was never in denial, what helped me see this sad reality even more was by attending a lecture from a geologist. He showed charts that showed how the climate began changing more rapidly since around the time of the Industrial Revolution, the invention of the car etc. In other words, he demonstrated how certain things influence climate change. That lecture was about 25 years ago, and I can see things gradually getting worse since then, including the rapid warming of the ocean, the ice glaciers melting, extreme heat waves in places like Europe etc. To put it like Neil de Grasse Tyson does: "The good thing about science is that it's true whether to not you believe it." Sadly, climate change as the result of human activity has been proven to be true, whether or not you believe it.

https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/evidence/

The rate of change since the mid-20th century is unprecedented over millennia.​

Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 800,000 years, there have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods, with the end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.
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The current warming trend is different because it is clearly the result of human activities since the mid-1800s, and is proceeding at a rate not seen over many recent millennia.1 It is undeniable that human activities have produced the atmospheric gases that have trapped more of the Sun’s energy in the Earth system. This extra energy has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land, and widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and biosphere have occurred.

Do scientists agree on climate change?
Earth-orbiting satellites and new technologies have helped scientists see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate all over the world. These data, collected over many years, reveal the signs and patterns of a changing climate.

Scientists demonstrated the heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases in the mid-19th century.2Many of the science instruments NASA uses to study our climate focus on how these gases affect the movement of infrared radiation through the atmosphere. From the measured impacts of increases in these gases, there is no question that increased greenhouse gas levels warm Earth in response.

Ice cores drawn from Greenland, Antarctica, and tropical mountain glaciers show that 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 10 times faster than the average rate of warming after an ice age. Carbon dioxide from human activities is increasing about 250 times faster than it did from natural sources after the last Ice Age.3
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There are numerous articles from actual scientific sources that give more information about climate change, its influences and what can be done to slow it down. It's sad that the current people in power in the US prefer to live in denial when the evidence is so clear, but I guess it's so much easier to live in denial and keep destroying our habitat and the wildlife that we depend on for survival. It doesn't matter if one person here lives in denial, but when those running government fail to do anything to slow down climate change, the younger and future generations will suffer greatly.
 
I spread the word around Seattle. If you are homeless Santa Monica is the place to be. Sun, surf, and a temperature that hardly changes.
 
For those who don't like reading:
earth_temperature_timeline.png

https://xkcd.com/1732
 
I think we got a couple of inches in an hour or so last night. Delightful, but there’s quite a muddy mess.
 
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