[goodgoblin]

I'm sorry, but this is utterly unhinged. There is no evidence of weather patterns of any kind, much less indications that we are about to face "extreme-weather". What caused the weather which led to the dust-bowl? What caused the ice-age?

The climate of the earth has changed for millions of years w/o humans, and while certainly greenhouse gases impact the current trends, they aren't cause for apocalyptic concern.

I realize many people will probably vote this into oblivion, but I do not think there is a climate crisis at all.

[blisterpeanuts]

It seems like technological innovations and lifestyle trends are already reducing human greenhouse gas production:

- Residential and commercial buildings with solar panels;

- electric vehicles (albeit, the production of EV batteries is reportedly very dirty);

- more efficient consumption of oil/gas;

- CO2 capture and sequestration;

- backyard farming (raising chickens, composting, vegetable gardening);

- growing preferences for alternatives to red meat;

- work-from-home that reduces use of the roads and highways;

- widespread acceptance of plastics recycling;

and others.

I don't understand the use of the term "crisis" when we're already implementing pretty much every possible solution, and with some other cool solutions in the pipelines such as vastly improved batteries, better and safer nuclear fission reactors, electric aircraft, better and more efficient agriculture; better recycling of plastics, etc.

I would advocate continued and improved support for these approaches through tax incentives, research grants, and education. Also, we should spur economic growth, without which we can't afford to do any of the above. We can solve this without the need to panic.

[all2]

The dust-bowl wasn't specifically weather, it was farming practices (and apparently a drought).

> The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes (wind erosion) caused the phenomenon.

from Wikipedia

[drewcoo]

And the draining of aquifers more so than climate change, makes the dust bowl more and more likely to happen again.

https://theconversation.com/farmers-are-depleting-the-ogalla...

[goodgoblin]

thank you - I thought someone might make a comment like this, which is why I added the qualifier ("weather which led to the dust-bowl") to distinguish it from the human factors - but hey - it's cool - and I love that you used the word "aeolian" - thats a really cool word :)

my point was just that weird weather has been happening for a long time, and if you think about it, if the weather people can't predict whether it will rain or not 2 weeks from now, how can they possibly predict there will be more or less storms 5 years from now, 10 years, etc?

[bobsmooth]

And there are no consequences to thinking that because the users of this site will be the last to be affected by climate change.