We have been hearing about climate change for a very long time. Measurements have been taken and accurate predictions made . Industry, governments and citizens either totally ignore this information or make promises and do nothing to reach the goals.
Recently a report was issued by 100 scientists ahead of the Climate Change conference.
In 2021 enough years have gone by where climate predictions have been made that we can measure the damage and provide evidence that a change is occurring.
This year we have had many examples of weird and wacky weather that is evidence of climate change. We have been abnormally hot and dry. Other areas have had major flooding. I will not be surprised if we have flooding some day.
I'm sure that people who spend much of their time outdoors can see evidence of climate change.
There are some very frightening predictions. I live in Alberta, Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. Our water supply depends on the melting of the glaciers. Predictions are being made as to when these glaciers will have melted. What do we do with out water. We have many acres irrigated to produce more food.
Since I live close to the Rockies I have spent much time hiking in the mountains. In the 1930's a rough road was pushed through from Jasper to Banff. Up until that time the pass the road goes through had been covered by a glacier. Today there is very little left of that glacier. Travel between Banff and Jasper had been by horse and the used Jonas Pass, the next pass to the east to make the trip.
Looking down on some of the front ranges that don't have glaciers.
So with less precipitation and higher temperatures the glaciers in the Rockies will disappear.
So the earth is not being looked after by a very irresponsible population.
Will this conference on climate change bring about any results.
You are correct the Climate is changing, not sure what can be done about it:(
ReplyDeleteThey know what to do . It's just how do we get the countries to get busy and do their part.
DeleteSadly, we have that faction in the U.S. that just won’t believe the science. I just hope it’s not already too late for our grandchildren.
ReplyDeleteI don't think climate change will be easy to stop or turn around.
Deleteit’s so weird because we had a get together a few days ago (for the last time for a while because our COVID numbers jumped up) with another couple and I told them I needed help coming up with ideas for what to write about on my blog. They said I should write about climate change. And here you had already done it.
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ReplyDeleteI hope we have a better chance now with our current administration, it may be a bit late for action. Take care, have a happy new week!
Most governments have done nothing and Canada is a good example.
DeleteI think that the climate change conference in Glasgow will produce some fine words and promises that will later be broken. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns!
ReplyDeleteYour last sentence sums things up very accurately. I enjoyed your post on climate change the other day. It's a far from simple solution.
DeleteI hope it makes a difference, but I am not confident. Too many are more concerned with making money.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, the powers that be, continue to churn out resource-wasting shoddy stuff, that needs to be bought over and over and over again. Everything's junk! Junk that's encased/packaged in layers of plastic.
DeleteIndustry is a very big problem.
DeleteLots of talk but little action is my expectation.
ReplyDeleteWe've had too many examples of talk and no action.
DeleteI agree with all the comments posted here already. I don't think anything will change and we will watch our planet burn and flood until it is much too late.
ReplyDeletethese are two very destructive forces. People don't seem to realize what would happen with limited water or food.
DeleteIt is extremely serious, and we've known about it for a long time. I just saw that an American evangelist has said not to worry bc God would soon make a new Earth. Yeah, sure.
ReplyDeleteThat guy has been reading revelations for too long.
DeleteThe evangelist has a very valid point. However, until the Lord Jesus returns, we're supposed to continue being good stewards to His planet.
DeleteThe recent reports of climate change have been nothing but alarming to anyone who is listening. I fear it will be ignored too long too do anything about it.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if we will get to a point where climate will look after itself?
DeleteI wish I had an answer. These problems are going to take a long time to resolve, if we can resolve them at all.
ReplyDeleteSide note: I've been on that road between Banff and Jasper, and I've visited the Athabasca Glacier, so I know exactly where you mean! When I was there, in 1990, you could walk up to it and I think even on it, but I wonder if that's still true. It's probably much farther from the road now!
It's a long way from the road. You can go across the glacier in huge tracked buses. It's too dangerous to walk on the glacier.
DeleteThe earth is changing and too many of us are not. Disasters are already happening and more will come. I am not hopeful but I don't know what to do about it.
ReplyDeleteWith the time I have left I will not be witnessing the worst or even the beginning of the worst. However, deterioration will happen.
DeleteRed, you sure asked an excellent question. It seems to me that humans are slowly waking up to what most of our climate scientists have been warning us about for several years now. The answers are going to require us to change many of our behaviors and lots of us are reluctant to do that. However, when we see something like our town may soon run out of water ... well, that may motivate us to do something. We will have to see. By the way, may I suggest a follow up report on Hiawatha House? On May 5, 2016, you reported about the Fort McMurray Fire. The fire ended up destroying most of the town. I am curious what has happened there since. Have things returned to normal?
ReplyDeleteThings have more or less returned to normal but there are still problems left over. They have tried to make some land zone changes. There have been problems with insurance. There have been no more fires. a couple of other towns have been destroyed by wild fires, They should have learned a few things from the fire.
DeleteI am presently reading a book on the Dust Bowl years of the southern plains. There are many parallels, including the rampant lack of people to grasp what they're doing wrong.
ReplyDeleteThere's a classic novel written by a prominent American writer. I can't think of the title of the book or the author. You will probably know the book I'm talking about.
DeleteI hope the conference on climate change will bring about some changes but I am afraid it may be more talk than action. I hate that so many people refuse to believe that it is a real thing and very serious. I wonder if part of the problem is that we now have a generation of people expecting "instant gratification" for just about everything. Fighting climate change takes a lot of hard work over many years. There is no "instant gratification". I fear someday many people will be very sorry but it will be too late then.
ReplyDeleteEvery little person has a part to play, and every big government. We cannot do it alone.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we already know what is coming, and we've had some doozies of a preview this past year. And no, nothing will change. We will continue to devastate our wonderful planet. :-(
ReplyDeleteGlobalization has brought us many problems. We can get he good for a low price because of competition.
ReplyDeleteSince that report came out, I read an opinion piece that was interesting. The author talked about the conundrum of countries not pushing to reach their carbon reduction goals because OTHER countries won't do it. No one wants to go first, including Canada. The author also said that to do our part to stop global warming, Canada could heavily tax imports from countries that don't take their commitments seriously, or we could just go ahead and live up to the commitments we've made. His final thought was - Or we could do both. Yes! That. We need to do that.
ReplyDeleteCanada is actually one of the worst producers of CO2 in the world on a per capita basis. If our population was as high as China's our total output would be prodigious. I'm not sure Canadians realize that. Here is my source: https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/
Personally, I am not at all optimistic that mankind will save itself, even though it has the means to do so and the warning that we need to do it. And it comes down to many humans being too focused on today's gratification. In many countries it's complicated by humans understandably being focused on today's survival, which is a whole other problem.
we all know that world is in the hands of capitalists ,people who have bottomless well of lust and greed inside them ,they have been ignoring scientists predictions so far and surly they will do so for years until they find no one to buy what they sell .
ReplyDeleteaccording to some program on tv nature can heal itself within far less time that it took to destroy ,question is are we giving it a break ?
It's something that I have taken a particular interest in and read everything that comes my way. Very interesting post Red. We're all in this together.
ReplyDeleteYou already know what I think. I don't think anything will happen until major populations have already been displaced and by then, it will be way to late to halt this for decades if not generations. It's going to be a bumpy ride for some of my descendants.
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