A few days ago, my car’s thermometer registered 108 degrees. My landscaper-husband and I have lived in New Mexico for more than three decades and have never known high temperatures like these. He can’t work outside in such heat; I can only last for short spurts. Our (rented) house has no air conditioning. To get through this unprecedented month, we hang out in cafes or the library or sleep through the afternoons. Mainly, we wait for cooler weather.
I think you’re explaining that Earth systems have changed. Warmed/warming sea levels now create loops that increase climate chaos—and this situation is a root problem. (Yes? No?) Is there any chance of reducing the seas’ temperature? If so, by doing what? As I see it, popular “solutions”—solar PVs, industrial wind, batteries, e-vehicles—give the illusion that people of means can continue our current levels of production and consumption. But these solutions require fossil fuels and extractions for their manufacture; they generate waste from cradle-to-grave. Given Earth systems’ changes, what do you consider constructive now?
A warming oceans and the increasing water vapor which is itself a greenhouse gas. The tipping point? The self-sustaining - Exponentially increasing glosed loop of warming? Any thoughts?
I think you’re explaining that Earth systems have changed. Warmed/warming sea levels now create loops that increase climate chaos—and this situation is a root problem. (Yes? No?) Is there any chance of reducing the seas’ temperature? If so, by doing what? As I see it, popular “solutions”—solar PVs, industrial wind, batteries, e-vehicles—give the illusion that people of means can continue our current levels of production and consumption. But these solutions require fossil fuels and extractions for their manufacture; they generate waste from cradle-to-grave. Given Earth systems’ changes, what do you consider constructive now?
personally I would welcome economies with limits to SELFISHNESS
A warming oceans and the increasing water vapor which is itself a greenhouse gas. The tipping point? The self-sustaining - Exponentially increasing glosed loop of warming? Any thoughts?