Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "UN warns global temperatures set to rise 1.5 degrees in next five years" video.

  1. Not far behind you, Al. Agree with every word you wrote there. I tend to find those 40 and above who have proper anecdotal data on this (to go with the hard science stats) intuitively know there is something going wrong here in terms of an overheated planet. Having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that human activity is the greatest single contributor to the 1.5° warming we have witnessed these past 150/250 years.
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  2. We’re basically already there as there is a large lag effect in the climate and global warming situation. However, in this debate I do wish people would stop talking about ‘climate change’. The climate has been ‘changing’ for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is ‘global warming’, and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an inter-glacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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  3. Aye, Jimbo, but the only gas I’m smelling tonight is coming from your bullshit! 🤣
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  4.  @Gorbyrev  Yeah, but why should we have to resort to the Amsterdam solution if it can be obviated? Isn’t prevention better than the cure?
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  5.  @michaelrch  Nice try, Mike, but it’s not quite so cut-and-dried as you appear to make out. However, I more or less agree with your thrust, and I can’t be arsed arguing tonight.
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  6.  @Gorbyrev  I’ve just checked Jacobabad’s weather for the next fortnight and here are the forecast temps: 46°, 48°, 48°, 47°, 47°, 46°, 49°, 49°, 48°, 49°, 48°, 49°, 51°. Now I don’t know about you Mark, but if humans through fossil-fuel burning activity are significantly contributing to the warming of the planet (as 99% of the scientific consensus is agreed upon), doesn’t it behove us to decrease this fossil fuel use? As I said, add another 3°, possibly 5° at this rate and by the end of the century you’re talking temperature norms of 55° in certain latitudes! Not to mention the huge sea-ice melt which is currently predicted to raise sea levels by at least a metre by 2100. I’m with you on technological solutions to human issues, but surely we can act a bit before we have to take these technological solutions and literally fry and drown huge swathes of this planet out of human liveable existence.
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  7. Ty for that, Archimedes.👍
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  8. Those of us old enough, know even anecdotally from direct personal decade-on-decade experience that the planet is warming. No stats needed.
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  9. Ty Jeremy. 👌
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  10. Yeah, but if we’re not careful, Helsinki could become ‘Helsunki’!
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  11.  @Gorbyrev  Lol. So your logic in this case is just let the sea levels rise and we can reclaim land all over the world where those places lie at sea level harbouring about 300,000,000 people currently? 🤣 As I said: isn’t prevention better than the cure?
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  12.  @Gorbyrev  Have you ever actually lived between the Equator and the 35th parallel? You seem to be in some kind of northern ivory tower pontificating from on high with all your brave new world theories. I have lived in 5 countries in the latitudes I quoted, and let me tell you, the heat in these places is already brutal without adding another possible (very probable at this rate) 3° to this! People literally cannot live when it’s too hot. Go and live in Jacobabad for a year. It’s already unliveable in summer. 100 years down the line, it will be deserted. In fact, you don’t even have to go that far. This year, in April, I repeat in April it hit 40° in Andalusia. You seem very cosseted. Where have you lived?
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  13.  @AmericatheBeautiful-p4z  Questions: 1. Do you see any need at all to reduce fossil fuel use? 2. Do you believe in manmade global warming?
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