Global Warming
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About a month ago we were out seeing my wife's family, and I got in a big conversation with my father in law, as usual, about politics. He hates Obama, hates democrats, and truly believes Fox News shows "the other side of the story (as truth)."
We got to talking about global warming; he pretty much believes that man has nothing to do with it simply by telling me that there's more ice than ever before in Antarctica (thus it isn't melting, those global warming isn't really happening.)
Luckily Vice News on HBO did an entire episode after that about the impacts on Antarctica. It was great to learn how the deniers skew facts about sea ice vs land ice - exactly what my father-in-law is falling for. Sea ice is cyclical. There's more in winter months formed from water already in the ocean. There's less when it melts, but there's no change in water volume for sea ice. Land ice that's melting, on the other hand, directly impacts the volume because it's water that wasn't in the ocean at first, but gets added it.
That's pretty much 3rd grade science at work there in terms of understanding what happens when you add more ice/water to water that was already there. So it's really frustrating and almost offensive to see it be politicized the way it is, especially by people who don't benefit in any direct way from the policies or stances their elected leaders take to deny what's happening.
And I'll even say this: let's say man doesn't have anything to do with it. It's just the global environment. The outcome is the same: water levels rise, coastlines change, populations are displaced, resources are affected, and people have to scramble to solve a likely unsolvable problem.
What would it hurt to think about how we'd tackle that problem? What would it hurt to hypothesize how the geography of Florida would change if ocean level rise gets bad in 20-30 years? What would it hurt to develop an action plan to deal with those affects?
- Learn to swim.dasohr
- I am more concerned about pollution n deforestation.yurimon
- he's right to hate on bama, but fox?yurimon
- Exactly Yurimon! Pollution and deforestation: what would it hurt us to take better care of this planet? How can that be politicized?mg33
- Monies bradasohr
- where do we start?yurimon
- you (gov/industry) start buy ditching old polluting technologies and using renewable energy.lowimpakt
- they say electric cars dont make a difference, plus big corps instead of curbing pollution just move to countries with no environmental protection laws.yurimon
- e-car biggest hoax since snake oildasohr
- your father in law sound like my mommoldero
- maybe sometimes ur mom is right. you ingrate. lolyurimon