Climate change is the biggest threat to our way of life
By Lethbridge Herald on July 7, 2023.
Editor:
Why did two-thirds of Wednesday’s (June 28) Lethbridge Herald poll participants indicate they felt that Canada does not need to react more strongly to climate change? Do they think it is OK to allow the world to get so hot that animals and humans cannot survive? Do they think that they themselves will not be impacted? Have they not noticed the news that 487 Canadian forests are now burning, and that the smoke from these fires is currently causing health problems even in large American cities? Do they realize that the effect of climate change is causing glaciers to shrink and sea levels to rise, to cause animal numbers to dwindle or become extinct, to cause areas of the world to become unlivable because of the increasing heat and/ or lack of water. Research shows that the planet hasn’t been this hot in at least 1,000 years.
We all depend on the dominant economy of our area, which is ranching and farming. Our climate here in Alberta is also semi-arid, and climate change is the biggest threat to our way of life. Do we think that we, or our families are going to be forever unaffected? Really?
But even if you personally are not certain that all the climate change research is true, would it not be safer to take specific safeguards we know to be effective now, (just in case), instead of risking our world with your uncertainty? Maybe people think that they don’t need to react to climate change because it hasn’t yet affected them yet, personally, or they just don’t know what they can do to help – (a reasonable reaction). If so, we encourage you to watch a new Netflix production by David Attenborough and Johan Rockström, Breaking Boundaries: The Science of our Planet. Or, read No Miracles Needed by Mark Z. Jacobson (2023), and follow their advice.
Attenborough and Rockström admit we have already advanced beyond some “tipping points” on climate change, but doing nothing or too little seems to us to be both practically and morally wrong.
June and Jim Tagg
Lethbridge
8-7
I guess i can be called a climate chsnge denier, if you are blaming it on us Canadians. We have absolutely no control over volcano eruptions worldwide, which spew many times more CO2 than the largest cities on the globe.
And then there’s China…..
And then there are Chinese volcanoes! …
Thank goodness we don’t have to take any responsibility for our emissions (amongst the highest in the world). I would hate to be guilted into shutting off my Ram2500 in the parking lot with the AC on while I’m shopping for crap I don’t need in the mall.
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/videos/canadas-2001-climate-predictions-revisited/
Oh I give up, time to start looking for a steel reinforced umbrella and change my name to Mr. Little. And yes Sophie, we are going to teach China a lesson.
But then I digress as I personally feel that this behaviour is far more threatening to our way of life, but then what do I know.
https://lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbridge-news/2023/07/07/mini-bomb-caused-by-drug-mishap-destroys-fruit-stand/
Climate change is a natural cycle and our (mans) input to the overall dynamics are minimal at best. I offer the following article which provides an alternative theory that we have no control over. The idea that the carbon tax will save us is utterly absurd – we have essentially no control over the earths climate.
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-alternative-we-ignore-to-our-peril/
Yes and when you ask for results of all the taxation collected to fight CO2 reduction there is none. When I watch the news and there is the usual drivel of armageddon climate change and then watch the weather where they say it is 26 C and the hottest day on record was 34 in the 1930’s I too become a non cultist to the god of climate change
“Minimal at best”?
Natural cycle? – certainly.
But, Mankind’s industrial activity beginning around the mid 1700s, is also directly associated with a changing climate landscape. It is no coincidence that increasing CO2 emissions ( yes it it a greenhouse gas), is associated with climate change of which a warming climate is but one consequence.
To suggest otherwise is patently false.
Not surprised to see the majority of the comments from nutjob climate change deniers. They need to keep stating their utter nonsense so they can feel good about their minuscule level of knowledge on climate change.
Manmade climate change is 100% real!!! Climate change is happening 100 times faster than it normally does. It should take 1000’s of years for the climate to change as much as it has in the past 20 years. To say otherwise is just juvenile, temperamental idiots spewing garbage. Almost certainly the same Neanderthal gang that backs trucker blockades.
Nice to see all the nut job client cultists chime in with refuting evidence and maintaining that standard bearer of stupidity and condescension by attacking anyone who may have a different opinion Get lost cultists.
Quit following the MSM propaganda…notice how fast they switch which ever agenda they are told to…nonstop climate this climate that….causing increased cancers, affecting our eyes, dogs are more aggressive, its a different BS story multiple times a day. It’s beyond pathetic the amount of people who just follow the narrative they are given. Recall the covid propaganda and how well the vaccines worked – total lies.
The chance that any adult selected at random from a group, finished in the bottom half of their science class is 50%. That expectation goes out the window if the group comprises climate-change deniers.
Top of my class in university with a earth sciences degree actually. Manmade climate change is a hoax and no matter how hard they tax us, not going to make a difference.
From Liberty University?
The UN’s own scenarios don’t predict a future where humans and animals cannot survive. Endless catastrophizing does nothing to help your cause.
Sea level rising is millimetres a year at best. Far easier to adapt because we cannot change the weather.
Please review your notes on the difference between weather and climate.
Let me fix that for GHG – WE cannot change the climate.
Ooops. Already did …