re: Western Europe Is Experiencing Record Heat and Politicians Don’t Seem to Care

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And we should wish to stay there.

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Our ranking has gotten lower and lower with every passing year.

Again, what do you expect our government to do to dent the GLOBAL air pollution situation?

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But if you want to see the practical effects of unnatural climate change, look at Europe.

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Where are all the deaths in South America, Africa, the Middle East, and SE Asia? Do you know how fricking hot Tokyo gets during the summer, and has, every decade I've been alive?

You don't tend to think through your arguments very well.

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You think humans are so responsible that you’ll casually say it’s the trade off for modern life? That’s pretty wild, imo.

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That's not wild. Most decisions involve some sort of trade off.

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You don’t think bad people have gotten wealthier or more powerful off of fabricated climate data/causes? That reaches hoax level, imo.

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People have gotten rich off of denying it as well. Do you consider that a hoax as well?

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I swear I had a half decent point but I’m legitimately distracted by your trust of government. I cannot even fathom the government convincing me they have a good feel for climate change, what causes it, and how to help out with it. Or have our best interests at heart when they speak on it.

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If the alternative is leaving the decision to the Koch brothers and their ilk I'd hope you'd also have the same hesitations.

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Do we not enforce clean air act regulations? I guess I wouldn’t be surprised if we didn’t.

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It appears we selectively enforce them. Elon's Xai openly defied them. But he's bought himself a bit of protection it seems.

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You cannot tell me climate change is the threat that it is and not show me how relentlessly you’re willing to fix it.

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My opinion is that it's a threat on a much longer time horizon than the alarmists. And it's not just about it getting warmer. The climate system is much more complex than that. The biggest risk is likely the break down of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

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The AMOC doesn’t just move water around; it plays a huge role in transporting heat to different parts of the world. This means any changes in its circulation also affect weather and climate conditions up and down the Atlantic.2 And today, the AMOC is changing, thanks to warming oceans, increased rainfall, and melting sea ice.

The history of our planet reveals how dramatic these changes can be. “We know that the AMOC at times, during the ice ages, has collapsed. We know that the AMOC at other times was weaker,” says Raffaele Ferrari, a professor of oceanography at MIT.

So what is likely to happen today?

Data around whether the AMOC has already weakened in modern times is a bit uncertain, says Ferrari, because we only have direct measurements going back about a half century. But current information suggests the circulation may have slowed by as much as 15 percent since the 1950s.3

How much more it could slow—or even how accurate that 15% figure is—is still debated. But there is consensus that climate change is likely to further weaken the AMOC. Warming temperatures heat up the ocean, which makes water lighter, less dense, and less likely to sink. Meanwhile, increased rainfall and melting ice will add more freshwater to the ocean, reducing its salinity. “If there isn't enough increase in salinity and decrease in temperature, this water, instead of sinking down, will essentially veer to the right and come back at the surface,” says Ferrari. That would reduce the amount of heat released to the atmosphere—a crucial function of the AMOC, because it plays an important role in keeping Northern Europe’s climate mild, even at latitudes that are frigid in other parts of the world.

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Article from those really dumb people at MIT that know nothing about science

They're both stupid and useless questions

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Climate change

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I'm not really that concerned with what other countries are doing

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You sure?

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unnatural climate change

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You are dumb.