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Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S., Dispelling Doubts About Climate Change
A poll released Tuesday showed that more people are starting to believe climate change is credible, partly due to the frigid weather which has gripped the United States.
The poll released by Associated Press showed that 48 percent of respondents found the science of human-induced climate change more convincing when the poll was taken in November 2018 than they did five years ago, compared to 14 percent who thought it less convincing.
Eighty-three percent of those polled who believe in climate change want the federal government to take actions to mitigate it, and 80 percent want their state governments to act, the survey found.
More people than expected supported a carbon tax to help curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to the survey.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/23/c_137768179.htm
Prolonged, Life-Threatening Cold to Grip Midwestern US This Week as Polar Vortex Plunges South
The coldest weather in years will put millions of people and animals throughout the midwestern United States at risk for frostbite to occur in minutes and hypothermia during the final days of January.
The deep freeze continued across the Upper Midwest on Sunday with temperatures plummeting well below zero in the morning. The low of 45 below zero F [-43°C] in International Falls, Minnesota, shattered the day's record of 36 below zero F [-38°C] from 1966.
As harsh as Sunday morning was, the worst is yet to come as the polar vortex gets displaced from the Arctic Circle and dives into the Midwest in the wake of the disruptive snowstorm starting this week.
https://news.yahoo.com/prolonged-life-threatening-cold-grip-165320957.html
Climate Change Cooks up Ideal Conditions for Snow
Look at all that snow in the Alps; has global warming taken a break? Alas, no, it turns out that the recent record-breaking dumps of snow across much of southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria are more likely a consequence of global warming. Why? Balmy temperatures in the North Sea and Baltic Sea are cooking up the ideal conditions to create snow.
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Global warming enhances the current snowfall … Anomalously high sea surface temperatures in the North Sea and Baltic are loading winds from the north with moisture,” tweeted Stefan Rahmstorf of the University of Potsdam last week.
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(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday January 28 2019, @12:16PM (5 children)
Investment into biodomes, archeologies, etc. Self contained
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @12:18PM
*arcologies
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @03:44PM (3 children)
Nerd fantasies. In a capitalist system, you need a business plan, investors, next quarter, IPO, and profit profit profit. Gotta suck the wealth out of the working class so that "environmentalist" pseudo-left posers like Algore can jet around from McMansion to McMansion and those ever important conferences to meet up with the other pseudo-left posers and have their caviar and expensive wine. Oh, and don't forget to hire some strippers! We can't come up with ineffective feel-good climate policy without those strippers!
In capitalism, all that matters is the bottom line, and caring for our planet and fellow human beings does not make for a good bottom line.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @04:01PM (2 children)
Yet another person who doesnt know what capitalism is. What you describe is what happens when you put government in charge of research and politicians in charge of marketing, ie crony-corporatism/socialism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @04:46PM (1 child)
Oh look, another person who hasn't the first clue about capitalism. I think you do not know how close capitalism came to total collapse and how the social-democrats kept capitalism alive on life support for decades after that. Look at the numbers. 1968 is the year the neoliberals won over the social-democrats.
The only thing you know about capitalism you learned from Atlas Shrugged. Why not chance a journey out of your mom's basement now and then?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @07:32PM
I've never read atlas shrugged. I just know the definition of capitalism.