Things to think over and simplify: Climate Shift,
We changed the term 'Global Warming' to 'Climate Change' because, way to many folks were assuming that if it wasn't hotter where they lived, that it wasn't happening. So here's the real deal. Between the current time frame when the earth started warming, this time, and until the time in which the growing tempreture hits its peak plateau and stabilizes, the once, somewhat predictable weather patterns will now be more chaotic until the shift occurs complete, to a significant slow down, leaving the planet significantly warmer, for now i.e. ice caps melted. It's true that the earth has had natural chaotic shifts in the past, volcanic induced, ice agic, ones & even a mini ice age in Europe about 1650 and many before. I've seen, witnessed and heard from others first hand of these more current, dramatic & chaotic weather systems & patterns, just on my/ their travels and where I/they live , even more so in the past 3 years. Just a few examples are, St Augustine Florida, a place we frequeunt regularly, statiscally has hurricanes every 17 years, had ones in 2016,2017, 2018, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, also frequented, had a triple Nor’easter in 2018 and the entire cape coast had been destroyed by storms in 2016-2018 as well, our winters, here in Illinois, have been very unpredictable & especially cold for our area, with dramatic shifts for almost a decade, a friend was telling me of the chaotic shifts in rainfall, causing dangerous flash flooding throughout Texas & then you have the massive/beyond comprehension/destructive force of the drought/bushfires in Australia, 2019-2020, that have inevitably sent whole species of animal and plant into the extintion.
However, with this noted, it should also be noted that human expansion has been responsible for the extinction of 500 species since the 1900s, 60%, of all animals just since 1970s, 600 plants in the past 250 years and then there's deforestation, which is an extremely complex issue. It's Oxygen/Osmosis, so we need to address it though. Human world population was approximately 500 billion in 1500ad and 1650 billion in 1900ad, that kind of growth consumes everything in its path and emits/creates an enormous amount of waste. So while climate shifts happen naturally, it's also true that our human activities have sped this one up and will continue to do so, unless we have an intervention. Remember the hole in the ozone, we took steps & intervened with what scientists had discovered was causing it. Now in 2019 its at its record smallest since its discovery in 1982. Long story short, the majority of academics & scientists of all types/sorts agree on these issues, thus, they are who we should be listening to and those that support a fact based reality.Facts based on logic, logic is math and math logic. A CLIMATE SHIFT is happening, you are living in it, there are things we can do collectively to slow it down and perhaps even reverse some of it it’s more negative effects, but time is of the essence, there is a point of no return, for much of the life here, including the human population.
Simply, we have many of the tools at hand to accomplish the goal. The primary deficit lies with having the correct people in charge. Those who are not indifferent to, but concerned with the well being of all life here on earth.
Thanks for listening, be part of the solution, Richard
'Artemis, Stranded' 18"x14" oil by Richard Sperry (2018) This was one of the scenes after a triple Nor’easter ravaged the Cape Cod, MA coastline. In spring 2018 we visited Ptown Cape Cod Ma. It was a couple months after the triple Nor’easter but the damage was done and is still recovering. Here’s one of the fishing boats still hung up on a breaker wall.
