Climate Change

Quite sadly, often when humans are faced with the unknown. They display negative or indifferent reactions. This is also called fight or flight. Is classically seen, right here. Then, when that fails, devolves into a pissing contest. @ this point, logic goes out the window. I dont see any pointed ears, here.

 

Accurate.

 

Yes! I'm thinking about our apathy to Yugge buget deficits juxtaposed with commited passion about climate change in The West; juxtaposed with carbon enthuasiam in far away lands.

 

Kinda like mask wearing, the illness will inevitably persist. Because not enough ppl, wear em. Not to even mention hand hygiene. & y'all cant imagine the blatant spitting, & the accompanying apathy & even support of it. Same goes for coughing fake or otherwise.

 

If so many people weren’t in the cult of ignorance DT for example and believing on line gibberish. Anti vaccine conspiracy junk as well. Wearing masks are effective when people stop believing crap. Their “freedom” at our expense is despicable.

 

If the masks or vaccines actually work as advertised, then YOU wear a mask and get a jab and stop worrying about other people lol…

 

As if infectious diseases, pandemics, viruses and bacteria worked that way in human populations.

 

Y'all ever seen fim the trigger effect? To me, it epitomizes how quickly we can sink. Doesnt really take much, sometimes even just a lil steady rain will do it. Ever heard song try this in a small town? There is ofcourse another side to that. Because some small towns are unimaginably bad.

 

Some folks are just lucky enough to live in a sorta bubble.

 

I'm never clear on what your point is.



I hope we don't end up living in bubbles like this!

 

Though, of course, climate change/global warming is, indeed, a very serious issue, one that must, if not totally stopped, be, at least be put in check.

Many, though, think that climate change is something entirely man-made.

Think of the the dinosaurs........what drastic climatic changes might have been responsible for their eventual extinction?

Of course, no humans then existed.

What serious climatic effects might the volcanoes have wreaked?

Also, recall the last Ice Age; in my area of northeastern NJ (opposite upper Manhattan) the towering, craggy Palisades were created due to the massive upheaval of rock as the glaciers retreated northward.

Think of how much of the Northern Hemisphere was still encased by huge glaciers at the time when early humans (such as the Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals) were living.

My point?

Though humans have indeed greatly inflamed and aggravated our climate over the course of many, many years, they were not responsible for the drastic changes in climate, thousands.........millions.........of years ago.

Think, also, of all the serious damage done to the ozone layer (and our fragile atmosphere in general) with several decades of space expeditions.

While we cannot change the past, we CAN indeed work together for a better future, not only for ourselves, but for the planet we all come "home"...................

 

Yup--it's the only home we have or are ever likely to have.

 

.....strange that cleaner waterways CAN often bring about a negative impact on things.

For instance, in New York Harbor, the Hudson is now (thankfully) so much cleaner than it had been for many, many decades, a wood-boring parasite (that could not survive in polluted waterways) has been making inroads now into the Hudson, causing serious damage to the pilings of wharves and piers.

On the plus side, in the past several years, we've seen an increase in "exotic" marine line in the area,including those ever-playful, graceful dolphins!

Loons and commorants have also been becoming more and more commonplace in the greater NY Harbor area........

 

Awesome to hear this, gg, fascinating place. I've actually heard of folks sailing north on the hudson, even to this day, is this true?

Aside from some of the more kooky beliefs.
One of the more blatant ones is a 6000 yr old earth. & yeh even tho many evidences point otherwise. There are remaining residuals from all that, which are still widely accepted. Was mentioned here, sentience only being 300,0000yrs old? This is a shining example of a bubble. A stark residual of this. Is that tech of a form beyond stone, ain't very old either. Also no magic, whatsoever & i'll deliberately make short sentence. Not that long ago. Hypnosis was considere magic, & there are residuals too, from that. I'm actually having difficulties pointing out how deep these bubbles go. Txpical male clothing, how utterly bland it's been, longtime. Well mostly anyway, there are exceptions. Such as the rhe return of male knickrs-capris sometime in early '80's.

 

Within the last few weeks, a British gentleman swam the length of the Hudson (over 300 miles!) from the Hudson's source at "Lake-Tear-In-The-Clouds" all the way down to the tip of Lower Manhattan, covering a number of miles each day (with rests in-between)

He was interviewed on a morning news program here in the NYC-area just recently, and he kept on commenting that he had no idea that the river was now so clean.

A bald eagle even kept him company, for part of his waterborne journey! (many eagle's nests are nestled into the crags and crevices of the New Jersey Palisades, alongside the river.

Regarding the history of the Earth itself, I have read much (and have seen artistic renditions) of the creation of the Moon.

Most astronomers/geologists believe that, when the Earth was still in a semi-molten state, the gravitational pull of the Sun gradually began causing a huge "chunk" of mass to pull away from the Earth, giving the semi-liquid planet a "dumbell" shape.

Eventually, this mass broke free altogether, and then drifted away into space, eventually being caught in Earth's orbit and becoming the Moon.

Scientists also believe that the vast area where the Pacific Ocean is today, was where the the semi-molten mass of the Earth broke away, to become the Moon..............

 

Alotta folks may not be aware of this. But the moon or selene or artemis, etc., actually has a thin shallow atmosphere. & lunar gravity, isn't uniformly consistent. & there are many other lunar anomalies. & there's a 2nd moon.

 

Even today, over 50 years after Man first set foot on the Moon, there is still an aura of mystery surrounding it.

Most folks do not even know of the terms "waxing","gibbous", or "waning", regarding the Moon's phases.

The Moon has always been my favorite celestial object (I've always been greatly interested in astronomy)

When the Moon is at either full or "new" (this is when the Moon is not visible) this translates into the "astronomical high tides", which can further aggravate costal flooding at times of high tide during storms.

Also, mention must be made of the effects of the recent Canadian wildfires on our air quality; here in the greater NYC-area, the sky, on one day a few months back, was an eerie, deep orange; it was so dark that streetlights came on and I had to put on my lights, as my apartment was a dark as late twilight.

The Moon was a deep, burnished, reddish-orange, that was very dramatic to view.

Too, look at the effects on such poor air quality on folks with breathing issues.

These days, it seems we are all bit players in a science-fiction movie......