Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Scientists warn 1 million species threatened with extinction" video.

  1.  @jaziel3684  Yet the pressure of too many humans on the planet doesn't concern you? Without the advanced agriculture that you decry, this planet would not be supported the huge number of humans that exist today. If you have more than one sibling, your family made things worse.
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  2.  @2-dsynctium773  I didn't know that Christains worked out the age of the earth using weird calculations. I just assumed that they used the Jewish year as their start date. (Currently the year is 5779.) Your comments are informative, if rather caustic, and long. If you honestly expect most of these ignoramuses to read them all, you overestimate them. Those literate ones who do read them, are probably already in your camp. It might interest you that most rabbis, even many Orthodox ones, are less dogmatic about the age of the earth. They dodge the question by stating that g_d's day is not man's day. So the first day of creation could stretch to millions and millions of years. Since the story of creation, in Bereshit, is the correct chronological order, scientific findings do not totally contradict the story. However, when I asked a rabbi how polar bears got to the ark, in the story of Noach, all he could say was "That's an interesting question." He promised to think about, and get back to me. He died before he did.
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  3. So, you want the planet so hot that humans all die off? What I hear is the planet is hotter than any time in which humans existed.
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  4.  @macnutz4206  Hey, I'm an American, and old one, and I agree with you. I've worried about pollution and overpopulation since I was eight Predictions of this have been made since the 60s. I had hoped, when the degradation of our atmosphere started causing weather disasters, we'd see the error of our ways. But, drought, fires, tornadoes, cyclones, flooding, etc. cannot change the minds of those unwilling to see.
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  5. Maggots clean wounds, but what are mosquitoes besides a disease spreading vector?
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  6. Zero carbon now refers to what we dump in the atmosphere. It would be wise, if we want to continue living as a species, to keep our carbon in our biosphere, and stop pumping it into the atmosphere. That is not an oxymoron. An oxymoron is two mutually exclusionary ideas combined. Some example that I've heard are military intelligence or christian charity.
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  7. Global warming and climate change is the same thing, and the problem was first recognized in the 1920s. The hole in the ozone layer was real, but getting rid of fluorocarbons allowed the hole to close. Acid rain was also a real thing, but requiring sulfur scrubbing fixed the problem. And global cooling in the 70s. That was when I was a science student at UCLA, nobody there was worried about global cooling, just warming. There was one man who feared all the carbon we were pumping into the atmosphere would block out the sun. The rest of climate scientists were sure that global warming was the problem, and they were right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3S0fnOr0M&feature=BFa&list=PL029130BFDC78FA33&index=37
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  8.  Christopher Biddle  Well said. Many forget the cause of the Syrian war was drought in the wheat belts of the US and Russia raising the price of flour. Bread became too expensive, and the Syrian people protested their famine, Assad had the army attack his own people. If he'd just dug into his coffers, and bought them some bread, there would not have been a war.
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  9. And greedy people who have too many children.
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  10.  @bigbad9583  Yes, producing batteries is hard on the environment, but not as hard on the environment as the fossil fuels that would be burned instead.
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  11. How about we have just enough children to replace ourselves, and stop overburdening the planet.
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  12.  @davids11131113  You don't have to forgo electricity. You can buy from green sources in any advanced city. Where I live our electricity comes from a hydroelectric plant. My mother put solar panels on her roof and sells her electricity to PG&E. If our government would give low interest loans to those who want solar panels, I bet a lot of people would do so.
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  13. What about the mammoths, the Japanese river otter, the Dodo, etc? There are at least 111 species we have extinct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Species_made_extinct_by_human_activities
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  14. It's the same one. The hope is repetition will help it finally sink in.
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  15. Those 40 year old predictions were based on us continuing on the same path. Some people made minor changes to improve things, which lengthened the time frame. But, the glaciers and ice caps are shrinking, not growing. The global temperature is rising, and that rise is accelerating. You can be an ostrich, and try semi-clever arguments to nay-say the evidence. But, that does not change things. We have had longer droughts, many more wildfires, more extreme tornadoes, more extreme hurricanes, more extreme monsoons, etc. etc, etc, in the last decade. I'm old enough to remember what it was like in the 70s, and even the place that I've lived have far more extreme temperature ranges. IN the town I grew up in, the temperature never went over 85F. People whose ranches had been in their families for over 200 years said it was always like that. Now, not a summer passes that doesn't see 105F. Los Angeles had snow last year. This is exactly what the climate scientist you poo poo predicted, extremes.
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  16.  @WhoopityDoo  Hey, that's mean. It's not their fault that they were born stupid.
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  17.  @tomjones6422  I doesn't cost a cent to use a comma or two, and it would make your diatribe more readable.
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  18. Yeah, he put a former coal lobbyist in charge of the air we breath and water we drink.
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  19. Global warming will not make the planet greener. It will make most of the world too dry and hot to sustain life. We will have fewer plants, fewer animals, and only the poles will be inhabitable.There is no upside to global warming.
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  20. Over population is a major cause of the problem. Oh yeah, and only an idiot thinks a fetus is a baby.
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  21. @Hailie Leonard Polar bears are in the Arctic. But, otherwise, spot on.
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  22.  @dw6796  It was happening before Trump. The Paris Accords were before Trump. And then that fool wanted to take us out of them. They were too little, but better than nothing. But anything Obama did, Trump has to erase. Obama wants to clean the air, so Trump has to make it dirty. Obama wanted safe drinking water, so Trump wants it toxic. Obama wants to save the planet, so Trump must see it burn.
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  23. But Amazon often offers you the option of packaging in cardboard, not plastic. So, less trash in the landfill.
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  24. As long as it doesn't affect him, he doesn't care.
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  25. Sure, the UN is a bunch of bigots, but US government scientists say the same. This is affecting the whole world. Do you want the Kinneret to always be below the red line?
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  26. I don't know where you live, but where I am the winter was frighteningly mild. This time of year, we normally have two or three rainy days a week. Yet, it has not rained for three weeks. And too much of anything is not great. There is too much CO2 in the atmosphere for plants to use. As with the desertifacation of Mediterranean areas and deforestation, there are fewer plants to use that CO2.
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  27. What does overpopulation have to do with climate change? Everything The more people consuming resources, the more forests are cut down for agriculture to feed them, the more cattle are grown to feed them, the more cars, trains, planes and power plants burning fuel and pumping carbon into the atmosphere, the more carbon sequestering oceans are warmed and over-fished, the more pollution and plastics are dumped in those oceans, the more human activity, the worse the problem becomes.
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  28. My guy always says, "Wait till all of India has A/C."
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  29. But, it is not the US, nor Europe, that is causing the overpopulation. Can your policy fly in the Catholic and Muslim countries, where large families are common?
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  30. The climate change problem has resulted from feeding the masses, preventing and curing illness, and building homes. There are just too many people for the planet to support. We can cut our carbon output, but that only solves one of the symptoms of overpopulation. Spending the climate change fund to make the problem worse would be insane!
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  31. Nobody claimed the world will end. But, if you like eating fish with a lot of microplastics, keep on using those plastic straws and single use plastic containers.
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  32. Well put!
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  33. You wrote "reasonable, sensible people that can see threw the BS". Are they shit flinging monkeys? That doesn't sound so sensible to me.
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  34.  Clay Potter  The best aid we could send the third world is birth control. Oh, but wait, the Republicans made that illegal. Darn.
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  35.  @dennismenace4188  You look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3S0fnOr0M&feature=BFa&list=PL029130BFDC78FA33&index=37
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  36.  @reallyfranknews4553  So, like 2%. Not impressive.
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  37. The fact that the temperature is not 0 K at night shows it does support warmth.
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  38. What discipline did you study? And I don't count political science as science, despite the name. It, like Sociology, is a fuzzy study. My fields of study were microbiology and computer science, not atmospheric science. So I am not an expert in climate change. Are you?
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  39. I've got news fro you, you are the same species as Democrats. When they go, so do you.
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  40. Yeah, xeriscape. I did that with my first house in LA. I had little money, so all the labor was mine. Went back to look at it two weeks after I'd sold it, all the careful landscaping was again lawn. I like the fact you assume many can afford food to go and coffee to go. I brew my own coffee and drink it out of a ceramic mug. Not only is there no waste (the old grounds go in the compost) but I don't waste gas going to Starbucks (burnt beans). And my current lawn, I mow myself with an electric mower. Since my electricity comes from a hydro-electric plant, no emissions. Why don't you grow your own food? That saves transport emissions. And sew your own clothes? I have a spinning wheel you can buy, and a treddle sewing machine. Unless you are living off the land, and totally self sufficient, don't preach.
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  41. Yes, and two thirds of the change from 1880 has occurred since 1975. So half a degree from 1880 to 1975 and a whole degree between 1975 and now. That shows a rapid escalation of the temperature increase. Measurement in 1880, as now, are always taken in the shade. Also, it wasn't like one guy one place who measured the temperature. There were countless reading in many places, and the average was taken. That increase in sample size drastically lowers the deviation. Even by 1880 they had developed extremely accurate thermometers. For pity's sake, the laws of thermodynamics were produced in 1850. Charles Law was developed in 1780. You need decent thermometers to do that work.
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  42. You posted the same BS above. Two thirds of the change from 1880 has occurred since 1975. So half a degree from 1880 to 1975 and a whole degree between 1975 and now. That shows a rapid escalation of the temperature increase. Measurement in 1880, as now, are always taken in the shade. Also, it wasn't like one guy one place who measured the temperature. There were countless reading in many places, and the average was taken. That increase in sample size drastically lowers the deviation. Even by 1880 they had developed extremely accurate thermometers. For pity's sake, the laws of thermodynamics were produced in 1850. Charles Law was developed in 1780. You need decent thermometers to do that work.
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  43. https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment
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  44. Don't be purposely obtuse. Of course, zero carbon means pump zero more carbon into the atmosphere, not the biosphere. And polar bears are not thriving, they are starving. I don't care for that species at all, but they are a marker species. And my mother can run her house and car on the solar panels on her roof. Los Angeles runs its buses on solar generated electricity. We have the technology to make transportation that produces zero carbon, we just haven't employed it.
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  45. Back in the 60s, some people realized that the main problem was there are just too many people, and it was going to get worse. Blame the ones who did not subscribe to Zero Population Growth. Think how much better the planet would be if we still had the world population of 1965. Kudos to China for addressing the problem, when no other country did.
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  46. Nobody ever said computer glitches were going to end the world. People were worried that code written in the 60s and 70s would not survive the transition to 2000 because it was poorly written. Businesses, especially banks, were worried that their computers would be problematic. But, programmers went through all that Fortran and Cobol code, and fixed it. It will be a lot harder to fix the atmosphere.
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  47. It's the truth. The biggest problem facing our planet is human overpopulation.
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  48. Drought, due to climate change, dry out the flora and make forest fires more common and extreme.
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  49. And a lot of things were changed. You can't fool those of us who were doing science in the 70s.
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  50. So, you claim that the rise in carbon in the atmosphere, which started rising just as the Industrial Revolution took hold, was due to the planet heating. Do you also claim that the Industrial Revolution itself was caused by the planet heating? And when you light a campfire, and the area around that fire becomes warm, do you think that the warmth caused the campfire to ignite? And why did the planet warm oh so gradually prior to the Industrial Revolution, and rapidly pick up pace the more we burned fossil fuels? Did we start burning more coal because it got warmer? Did warmth make up build more factories? Then why were they mostly built in colder lands?
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  51. I can't wait until 2020, when anyone but Trump is elected. And, when he no longer has the protection of the office of president, he will be arrested for his crimes.
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  52.  @MrMichaelBCurtis  Let me correct that to make it true. No intelligent person does not believe in human caused global warming
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  53. When will you get tired of repeating the same lies?
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  54. And yet, hunter gatherer societies require much more land per capita than agricultural societies.
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