53% of parents say climate change affects their decision to have more kids

Re:53% of parents say climate change affects their decision ... by wrycoder on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @06:00PM (#36411286)

You can keep saying it, but that doesn't make it true. The global troposphere has increased its temperature by only 0.52C in the last forty years. Local climate change is a reality and happens continuously. Changing humanity's CO2 output won't significantly affect it. The "trillions in cost" is due to civilization putting pressure on marginal areas, like Florida, by overbuilding directly on the hurricane-prone coastline and on land that is actually subsiding. Global sea levels are rising about one foot per century during the top of the current interglacial era. Here in New England, we handle nine foot tides daily.

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Re:53% of parents say climate change affects their decision ... by pfisch on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @06:54PM (#36411868)

sigh. You can see the global temperatures rising. Wildfires in Canada were out of control this year. Last year it happened in Australia. These temperatures and this level of fires aren't normal occurrences.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/....

We didn't overbuild in the florida keys because that isn't even possible. But the government is buying out people because it isn't viable anymore.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-c...

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Re:53% of parents say climate change affects their decision ... by aapl88889 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:14PM (#36413941)

There are 13,458 florida keys homes sold recently according to Zillow. The prices for the homes are almost at record highs. The homes bought from the "Voluntary Home Buyout Program" were for homes impacted by Hurricane Irma not by rising sea levels.

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Re:53% of parents say climate change affects their decision ... by pfisch on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @11:39AM (#36419957)

Ok I'll do this one more time with you.

Solar output has been decreasing as global temperatures increase.

Over 20 years ago scientists weren't just predicting temperature increase, but also making a wild prediction that global temperatures would not revert back to the mean and would increase well beyond our temperatures. That has happened.

You can't be sure at all that global warming is false based on the available information. If you are wrong and we do nothing humanity will cook.

I don't personally want a leopard to eat my face. I don't spend my whole life doing climate research. The people who do say this is happening, and they were right 20 years ago predicting the global temps would increase over our previous max.

The people saying global warming wasn't going to happen were wrong. They are heavily funded by the people releasing all the greenhouse gasses. They lack credibility and they have a worse track record.

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