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The US heat dome is a warning for the 2024 elections

I'm old enough to remember "climate cooling" which was another attempt to scare people.
 
Every time it's hotter than normal or there's a hurricane or a blizzard, the climate change people blame climate change.
 
Dozens of bodies were discovered in Delhi during a two-day stretch this week when even sundown brought no relief from sweltering heat and humidity. Tourists died or went missing as the mercury surged in Greece. Hundreds of pilgrims perished before they could reach Islam’s holiest site, struck down by temperatures as high as 125 degrees.

Scorching heat across five continents set 1,400 records this week and showed how human-caused global warming has made catastrophic temperatures commonplace.

For some 80 percent of the world’s population — 6.5 billion people — the heat of the past week was twice as likely to occur because humans started burning fossil fuels and releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, according to data provided to The Washington Post by the nonprofit Climate Central.

Nearly half that number experienced what Climate Central considers “exceptional heat” — conditions that would have been rare or even impossible in a world without climate change.

“What is really standing out is how many [heat waves] are happening at the same time,” said Andrew Pershing, the nonprofit’s director of climate science.

WPo

Sounds like we need more air conditioning.
How many more nuclear reactors should we build?
 

No one would describe Saudi Arabia in the summer as chilly, but pilgrims at this year’s Hajj experienced something unusual even for this largely desert nation. According to the Saudi weather service, temperatures at the Grand Mosque in Mecca reached an astonishing 125 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday; 2,700 people reportedly were overcome by heat exhaustion, and dozens of pilgrims died from the temperatures.

If you have grandchildren and you want them to see a bright future, you will not vote for trump. He has vowed to roll back all environmental efforts to battle climate change. His view into the future extends no farther than the end of his orange nose. With trump is is all about power and money. He is thinking of his Saudi friends and their dependence on fossil fuel revenue.

Within five years, we may be seeing 120+ degrees temperature in the US, on a regular basis. Then the repubs will come up with another excuse to deny climate change.
Is that before or after Guam tips over?
 
Yup. He, like all Republicans and Conservatives want to see their grandchildren die. Excellent campaign strategy. Go with it.
that is the plan , is it not?

trump sets up the conditions described in revelation, return of the jews (voluntatily? i hope) , rebuild the temple and then jesus seperates good evangelical sheep from us goats?
 
As is, so far, always the case, the "failed predictions" deniers claim have failed are not the predictions of climate scientists or were predictions made with serious qualifications that deniers ignore. But let's take a tour of your list.

You begin with Paul Ehrlich. Ehrlich was an ecologist. He didn't know diddly squat about climate science or much of anything else except how to sell books. Ehrlich is the author of the first four of your predictions.

The next three predictions come from a biologist, an "organizer" and another ecologist.

Next comes Kenneth Watt, a retired zoologist.

Next we get the Boston Globe, The Guardian, Time and Newsweek. Being reputable news sources, their articles have reasonable sources.

The first is James Lodge of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) who, in 1970, warned that unaddressed air pollution could obscure the sun and reduce temperatures by the first third of the 21st Century. The problem with this prediction, of course, is that air pollution WAS addressed.

Next is a 1974 article by Anthony Tucker, the Guardian's Science Correspondent claiming that satellite data show that fall and winter are getting longer.

Time magazine from 1974 gets an entry for an editorial wondering if the bizarre and unpredictable weather the world had seen lately is indication of a coming ice age.

Next is a Newsweek article citing unnamed scientists to wonder aloud if the Earth is approaching a new ice age.

The next four are New York Times articles.

So, we've covered the first 18 of your "failed predictions" and found only one authored by someone even faintly resembling a climate scientist and his prediction was perfectly valid when made and failed because the air pollution that concerned him 54 years ago was dealt with. Not one, so far, is making predictions about global warming.

Surely we've seen enough of this claptrap.
 
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