Ending The Age Of Stupid

Are those visual aids actual photos?

The earth has been warming for thousands of years.
There were glaciers covering North America at one time.
Nobody denies that. Not even those 'evil' boogeyman republicans.
You want some more money to stop it, right?

They are computer-generated images combining photos from multiple satellite passes in polar orbit.

What I want is for my country to answer the challenge of a warming planet and rising seas. I want my country to develop renewable resources of energy so we produce less CO2. If you think we don't support the current system with taxpayer money, you're fooling yourself. I just want my country to make a different set of choices.

That's an honorable endeavor. But…What's wrong with a warmer planet? That would mean less energy needed to warm homes in the winter. Fewer
fireplaces burning, and power plants, means cleaner air.

The way some people frame this thing makes you think if we don't do something we're all going to die in the next 10 years. Seriously.
Do you like fear tactics?

Fear tactics? Almost the entire population of Bangladesh will be forced to migrate by a 1-foot rise in sea level. That's not fear, that's fact. What you would gain in a 2-degree increase of global temperatures is nothing compared to the losses from extreme weather — warmer air holds more moisture. So what you call “scare tactics” are the realities of life on a warmer planet. In fact, the biggest problem in getting governments to address this issue is the NON-immediacy of the dangers. It's always punted to a future government because there are more immediate problems; but this problem will get us all unless we act.

It will get us all? Really?

Is that a fact?

It will certainly affect us all. Growers already have to adjust to new climate conditions and states are dealing with eroding coastlines. You may not think a drought in Texas or a lost sandbar in South Carolina affect you, but they do — in food prices, lost tourism, and other economic loss. That's to say nothing of island nations displaced by the rising sea levels; where do they go, and who pays for them since their economy is underwater?

What states are dealing with eroding coastlines? Louisiana?
Is this something new to you? Growers are adjusting? Do you have some examples?
How have deserts developed thousands of years ago? Climate change? Probably….

Also, with more moisture in the air, and more CO2, vegetation thrives.

A lost sand bar in South Carolina?

Less beach = less tourism. You don't think that, spread over all the coastal states, will have an impact on you?

Changing weather patterns mean you'll get drought in formerly rainy areas and rain in formerly dry areas. “Vegetation” may not be the vegetation you want.

States and coastlines: http://www.lloyds.com/News_Centre/Features_from...

Growers adjusting: http://www.newsweek.com/id/216175

You might be interested to know that one desert's advance spelled doom for the Roman Empire: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/JustOneThing/s...

Again, you can think this has no impact on you, but it does. It will have even more impact on your kids.

I was going to leave a different comment, but after reading many of the comments posted here I find that I'm dumbfounded by how people “think” sometimes.