Sunday, November 25, 2018

When Will We Accept That Climate Change Is Real? /sites/enriquedans/

Enrique Dans Contributor                November 18 , 2018
Leadership Strategy Teaching and consulting in the innovation field since 1990
A street sign sits submerged in floodwater after Hurricane Florence hit in Bergaw, North Carolina, U.S., on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. President Donald Trump lauded the federal response to Hurricane Florence on Wednesday as he began a tour of areas in North and South Carolina hit over the weekend by high winds and torrential rain. Photographer: Callaghan O'Hare/Bloomberg© 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP

The US National Climate Assessment (NCA) has just published a report on the impact, risks and adaptation of the United States to climate change, and concludes, radically contradicting the opinion of the country’s irresponsible president, that the impact is already being felt and will be devastating in the near future, involving from tens of thousands of deaths to hundreds of billions of dollars in damages. And the Trump administration’s reaction to the report? To publish it on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, hoping it will go unnoticed. While the report highlights the growing cost of doing nothing, Donald Trump insists on doing exactly that: nothing.

We can expect more reports of this type as scientists join the dots of the global phenomenon we are experiencing: the stronger hurricanes, heat waves, fires and floods ravaging the planet are not a coincidence or bad luck, but are instead the result of a climate catastrophe. The mountain ranges in the west of the country retain less snow throughout the year and threaten the water supply of their basins. Coral reefs in the Caribbean, Hawaii, Florida and the Pacific territories are being bleached, seriously threatening the ecosystems they shelter. 

Fires devour increasingly larger areas in seasons that are getting longer and longer. Alaska, the only arctic state in the country, is undergoing rapid warming that is drastically changing its ecosystem, melting its coastlines and its permafrost tundra. And the Carolinas are still underwater from flooding brought on by Hurricane Florence. 

The 1,600-page report is the result of the collaboration of 13 federal agencies: more than a thousand people, including three hundred leading scientists in the field. It is not a report to take lightly or to dismiss as alarmist, unless you are irresponsible, an imbecile, or both.

The magnitude of the problem requires a broad consensus to launch immediate action. Immediate means now, not in 2040. With the right measures we can still produce tangible effects that will improve the situation: as we let time go by, this will be nigh impossible to achieve and the cost beyond calculation. Failing to take immediate action will mean greater impact that will be harder to counter.

We have to grasp this and stop making excuses: we’re no longer talking problems for our grandchildren, but effects we are all going to witness within our lifespan. Meanwhile, irresponsible sections of society prefer to look the other way, dismiss the experts, drag their feet, come up with unsustainable arguments or just plain lies: but the simple truth is that the catastrophe is already unfolding around us.

Thanx Enrique Dans
Crusader Jenny , Nanook & Knight Mika

5 comments:

  1. Hi Aunt Jeannie ,
    Uncle Harvey say go to the secret place
    Love
    Crusader Jenny

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  2. Thank you Crusader
    By the way, your post is great. The Trump government think they have buried this report because no one will pay attention right now. I don't believe that. All the intelligent people will read it and take it very seriously. And I hope they get angry enough to get the gov't co-operating and moving on programs to cut down carbon. I hope- I hope - I hope.
    Good job my Crusader
    Love Aunt Jeannie

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  3. November 26 ,2018
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  4. You are very welcome Aunt Jeannie,
    I also think people is listening , they realize that climate change has reached the crucial point , that we have to act now . There are people that's listening and working toward a better future .
    Mr Trump and his gang of stupid idiots brings up nonsense to throw people off guard .
    Aunt Jeannie , what they failed to realize , that tree huggers can think and do positive things at the same time , also we can think for ourselves .
    Think you Aunt Jeannie
    Love Crusader Jenny

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  5. Aunt Jeannie ,
    Mama said go to the secret place
    Love Jenny

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