This is nowhere near as drastic of the warming of the ice age.
We were an ice planet before that
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Iâm talking about pace. We are a few decades into this. Those cycles took far longer.
We have no clue where this is headed or how it will compare. We are just getting started.
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Most of the damage is done at the micro-level as in the Houston example I gave but I donât see Alaska becoming a beach resort destination anytime soon which WAS the reality in the other exampleâŠyes, albeit much slower.
Yeah, âGeezerâ is definitely appropriate.
Please, please genius, please right here repudiate with detail the findings of climatologists world-wide.
And be sure to support a criminal who makes naughty comments about his daughter. Just your type.
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Groundwater levels in aquifers, or underground layers of water-bearing rock or sediment, have been declining globally since 1980, and the rate of decline has accelerated since 2000. A 2024 study published in Nature found that between 2000 and 2022, 71% of the 1,693 aquifer systems studied experienced declining groundwater levels. Groundwater level declines have accelerated in 30% of the worldâs aquifers⊠The declines were particularly pronounced in agricultural regions with dry climates.
Instability in weather, increasing population, increasing temperatures will not increase declining aquifers everywhere especially as it translates into agricultural production.
Your âsimpleâ illogical anaolgies (being nice with that assessment) rear their head again. The warming period for the Ice Age lasted 10,000-15,000 years. The diminishing levels of groundwater has only been ongoing for about 50. Utilizing the significant but incremental reduction in ice that created things like the Great Lakes is not even remotely comparable as a quantitative comparison with the depletion and ongoing depletion of groundwater.
And since you have a bit of bias in your perspective, the United States is experiencing a groundwater crisis as aquifers are being depleted faster than they can be replenished. And more than half of the countryâs aquifers are losing water, and for about 12% of them, the rate of decline has accelerated in the 21st century. A 2023 New York Times investigation found that 45% of over 80,000 groundwater wells surveyed across the country have shown a significant decline in water levels since 1940, and 40% of those wells have reached record lows in the past decade.
In the past decade is not comparable to 10,000 to 15,000 years.
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I would generally consider myself a conservative republican but I believe in human induced climate change. That is definitely one area I disagree strongly with the republican platform on. Call me a minority I guess. Although I will say I donât necessarily agree with the democratic desire of the US ramming through a massive green new deal when you have the likes of China, India, and the developing world polluting like crazy. The last I checked, the GLOBAL climate is, well, a global interconnected system. If the US does âsomeâ to help but these others do âmoreâ to hurt then what are we really doing here? Yes the US emits alot of CO2 and we can probably do some things to improve it but China, India, and the developing world are emitting MORE year over year. THAT is the FIRST problem to tackle in an aggressive way if you ask me to have a meaningful effect. In general, it is a VERY complex scientific and political issue.
I will note that perhaps I am in the republican minority because I majored in Environmental Science at the GREAT University of Houston 
(I was like the 2nd or 3rd graduate in the schoolâs history in that major since it was new back in 2008 when I graduated). I also do a lot of reading on the global climate as it is an interest of mine (I majored in it so yeahh). Iâm confident I know more about the topic than 99% of people (other than scientists working directly in the field obviously).
FWIW, I personally think scientists are underestimating the rate at which the climate is and will change on us.
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I agree 100% but those are micro level causes
The United States needs to implement SLOW GROWTH policies because the demand on the ecosystem + infrastructure is too great right now and unfortunately letting in tens of millions of undocumented people is taxing our country even more and speeding up this process
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Hereâs the thingâŠIâd prefer that the earth not destroy itself, with or without our help, because that would meanâŠ
âŠweâre all dead.
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If we follow the life cycles of Earth (Before Humans even stepped foot on it) , 99% of all species on Earth (including pre-species to the homosapiens) have already gone extinct and so will humans, at some point.
Its how Mother NatureâŠor GodâŠor whoever you believe in⊠wants it.
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Iâd prefer we not supercharge it if we are in a natural pattern.
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And be sure to point out to any untold number of people that they should cut, trim and landscape their own yards.
Absolutely!
We are just using these people as pawns of the rich.
Hire them for jobs at 50 cents on the dollar (in cash) market value and then use the money they pump into the economy (as uneducated consumers) to buy our goods/products, pay rental fees for our rental properties, while they raise our stock prices benefiting the shareholders (on stocks they donât own), etc.
Anyone who supports illegal immigration is no better than a slum lord, in my book.
All that jazz about âtaking them in/asylumâ is a smoke screen to making the rich RICHER off of them.
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Be sure to admonish golf course owners in this regard.
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What a stance. Extinction is inevitable.
Maybe we can be better than other species. Are we going to be dinosaurs and just let the astroid hit? No lets be humans and discover a way to save ourselves and preserve the planet we have.
We will survive and thrive. Human ingenuity is an amazing thing. We self correct and get better.
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Not if we deny it or claim its just a natural cycle
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I mean some will just kind of a percentages thing of who gets to survive and thrive. Of course my other opinion is that there is strict age limit on taking non-believers or non-solution providers seriously. As they are on their way out and their stake in fates is greatly reduced.
Like most things, the people calling the shots tend to be the ones that wonât have to deal with the fallout.
Climatologist do not all agree, so the left and right pick and chose who they want to believe. Science being what it is we should question all findings as not absolute. Having over 30 years of environmental experience with water issues I agree with you on aquifer depletions being a problem for humans now and in the future. But we can find and have solutions, but nothing all can agree with. So you agree that the reservoir and river dam removal actions should stop⊠right? Till another day.
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1 does not equal 5,000.
Always the futile effort to show reality as a level playing field.
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