Goodbye Houston.....

Goodbye Houston…New Orleans…Miami

The inhabitants of our planet cannot continue along the same path we are now treading. If we do, there will be such a reduction in the quality of life for the peoples on Earth that life for huge numbers of the Earth’s population will be at risk, but as the 16 year-old young lady from Sweden, Greta Thunberg said, ”Adults don’t care.” Of course she was right and as one reporter wrote about her address to the United Nations, “She called them a bunch of jerks.” That exactly right and if you’re sitting on your hands doing nothing about global warming, you are at risk of being a jerk! And as Greta said to that bunch of bureaucrats, "People are dying and dying ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth," she said, as she fought back tears. "How dare you!"  

It seem to me, prophesy is being fulfilled, as just in Sweden, over 100,000 schoolchildren have joined her crusade with thousands more school age kids around the world joining every day…..”And a child will lead them.”

It’s hard to separate science from politics, but in spite of what you hear and read, basic science should be a non-political item. Anyone who doubts settled science in place of political rhetoric should rethink their position in the light of the obvious, and climate change caused by global warming is as certain as gravity.

As multiple 500 year storms tear Houston apart, are we seeing one of the countries great cities becoming unlivable? I’ve lost count of how many 500-year-storms the city has suffered through in the past 5 years. How many more will it take before there is a mass exodus? Of course, New Orleans and Miami will also become inhabitable and the Bahamas will be history, and what is even more unthinkable is the worst is yet to come! That’s right, and after another 20 years, when only a few flat earth non-believers are remaining, it will be too late. The atmosphere will be so carbon-dioxide toxic that large areas of the world will suffer from extreme drought while other parts of the globe have constant torrential rain. The remnants of our coastal cities will be under constant flooding and evacuations to the interior of the country will send a torrent of refugees into the center of countries around the world. Venice will only be a memory.

The hottest September on record tells us that global warming is only getting worse; and tornadoes, where they haven’t had them in years, are sweeping the country. But we are not only asleep at the wheel, we are cascading off into the ditch as fast as we can. We pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord stating, “We don’t want to do anything that would harm our economy.”  And then to pile stupidity upon stupidity our government is suing California because its new pollution standards are tougher than the recently drastically reduced Federal Standards. Yes, instead of going forward in trying to combat the inevitable warming of the Earth’s Atmosphere, we are doing everything we can to increase the problem.

The California wildfires have destroyed thousands of houses, and of course a big part of the annual wildfire problem this year is because of record hurricane winds. Just consider 80 mile per hour winds on top of an exceptional dry season and add flames to that. The record hurricane force winds are a direct result of global warming, and the extreme drought in California, which is contributing to the disaster, is also caused by global warming. On the flip side, Colorado and Wyoming set October records for low temperatures, and the recent November cold snap set hundreds of low temperature records nationwide. Huh? Yes, that is exactly what scientists have predicted as side effects of our plant’s warming. We can look forward to a winter where one week we will set a record for the warmest January day on record, and before the month is out, a record low-temperature snowfall will pound us----and it will only get worse.

Yes, our severe weather will only get worse, and what’s even scarier is, the scientists who predicted this global disaster are stating that the situation is deteriorating much faster and with more severe weather than they expected. With that in mind, and considering the past five years of weather events, as soon as 20 years from now, we can expect an exodus of Biblical proportions to begin from coastal cities, and within another 15 years after that these coastal cities will become uninhabitable. Yes, that does sound like a doomsday scenario, but consider, if someone had predicted exactly the weather we have encountered recently, ten years ago, we would have dismissed them as an alarmist.

Of course, while isolated weather events such as flooding, hurricanes, and tornadoes are terrible for the local inhabitants, they really don’t affect the majority of the world’s citizens. However, the overall result of global warming, which is more sinister and is not as noticeable, is the real danger confronting us. The population of the Earth is currently around 7.7 billion people and it is increasing yearly. As it stands right now, just trying to provide food for that many people is taxing the arable land available for food production. If the scientists are right, and as the earth’s temperature increases, the amount of land available for food crop production will dramatically be reduced as droughts eliminate huge swaths of land, and in other areas torrential rains will make food production difficult. The world will face a tremendous shortage of food supplies, and as coastal residents abandon the cities and lands that will be submerged by rising sea levels and record storms, the world will face frantic people by the millions who won’t be able to find food. Chaos will ensue and the world’s civilizations will be reduced to a constant economic war of the haves and haves nots.

Is this the world we want to give our grandchildren? Actually, is this the world we want to give our children? The clock is ticking and every minute wasted in denying global warming will contribute to the impending disaster. 

Of course what we need are more Greta Thunbergs’ who just received a major environmental prize. She turned down the $52,000 prize money with this statement: “The climate movement does not need any more prizes. What we need is for our rulers and politicians to listen to the research,” 

She should have been invited to the White House, but instead our President, who walked right by her and snubbed her at the United Nations, invited a “hero” dog to the White House. It was slightly wounded in the Special Forces attack that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi the ISIS leader. I’m all for hero dogs, but to snub a 16 year-old hero girl, who is trying to do what she can to keep our world a better place in which to live, shows us we have our priorities in the wrong place.

God help us!