Sundog

Not sure how you continually posting per capita emissions and historic emissions helps anything. The US can disappear tomorrow and 90% of the problem will still be there. Good luck on solving that 90%.

I'm not sure what this has to do with what I said. What incentive does China have today to keep building so many coal plants when there are so many other alternatives that weren't available in years past?

Basically zero coal plants have been built in Western countries over the last 20 years. China has built between 200 and 300 coal plants in the last 10 years Lol come on guys

Why are they even building coal plants then? This isn't 1960.

AI says over 300 million Chinese don't have indoor plumbing. They want their government to build as many coal plants as possible, climate change is very low on their priority list. I have to constantly remind people that climate change only becomes an issue for people only after all their basic needs have been met, and because the West has basically done that, you see the most activitism for climate change from Western countries.

It's ok, China is allowed to build coal power plants at a furious pace because they emit lower emissions per capita. They also industrialized later than us so even though all modern clean energy technology exists for all the people of the world, they're allowed to build a million coal plants for the next 50 years. The Earth understands.

Interesting. You want people to live at a lower standard than we currently have here apparently because that's one solution to climate change? But we also want as many people to come to the US and therefore adopt that standard of living which would result in an increase of emissions? Can't have it both ways. Is there a way for people to live at the standard of the average American and fix climate change? Because I'll tell you right now every single Chinese person (and everyone else around the world) wants to live at that standard and you can't do anything about it. Telling them they're noble because they live like peasants isn't going to convince them to forego their aspirations to live at the average standard of an American.

Earth doesn't care forky. All it knows is that 30% of global emissions comes from there so you NEED them on board.

I think many times people in the US have a level of self centered-ness. The USA is only responsible for like 10% of global emissions. The US can be completely greenhouse gas neutral tomorrow and the problem would have barely changed. A billion people still go to the bathroom in the fields, a few billion more don't have clean water to drink. They're not interested in nor care about climate change.

I'm very gung ho on switching to clean energy, but I don't think we'd even be in a position to DO the switch and have as advanced a civilization as we currently have if it wasn't for fossil fuels to begin with. I'm also very skeptical of any plans that clean energy advocates have that involve delaying the switch over for less advanced countries and that are anti nuclear. Since the technology exists today for EVERY country to switch over, then we should all do so. The Earth doesn't care where pollution comes from or how many years a particular nation has been industrialized. And any solution that doesn't involve expanded nuclear is not a serious one.

I went to Lake Placid during the first week of August 2004. My first day there was a regular weather day, I went in the pool and thebhigh was around 80 degrees. Then the hammer dropped and the following days lows were in the 40s and even one day in the 30s(!) with highs in the low 60s and with one day staying in the 50s! And it was a crisp cool 50s, not because of rain or something. Walking around town and smelling the wood burning and browsing the Christmas store it truly felt like late November.

It's not just ConEd's fault. They are taking advantage of our infinitely stupid government. "Let's shut down 20% of NYC's electricity supply that is already clean and immune to global price shocks with nothing in place to replace it!" That's just one example.

96 sounds like a lot until you see Ambient weather stations at 95 degrees on Staten Island and several others at 95 or 96 all around the airport, even in much quieter neighborhoods.

Sadly the speed with which this happened and the timing created a perfect storm for losses.

End of June heatwave wasn't so bad, we didn't even hit 100 once! Lol