Trump would be down there personally with a fire extinguisher.

And isn't that what really matters?

Nero fiddles yet again. Have there been federal emergencies been called for? Where are all the firefighters that appeared magically during President Obama's presidency? There were horrible fires all over the West and he was doing everything in his power to stop them and save people's homes and industry. Dotard Donnie 2 Scoops had to play again.

The irony of rolling back climate change right next to the earth burns from drought is a bit much for me.

"The sky is falling" posts...without any effort to discuss what might be done about it...are a waste of bandwidth.

And India, Japan and Russia are in the top five.

Want to talk about that?

What the US does re co2 emissions is irrelevant at this point.


Eta: China is also the number one producer of carbon monoxide, sulfites and particulates.

The human race is fatally flawed and all the discussion in the world won't change that.

mother nature is kicking our a$$es.

republicans are still actively pissing on the 99% of climate scientists and their hard evidence for reality, while the GOP snuggles up in bed with the One Percenters: corporate-funded hack 'researchers' who claim climate change is "fake news."

republican lies about reality are clearly dangerous for America, as well as for the world. If they go on refusing to acknowledge reality or to speak truth about it, then they should do everyone else a bigly favor and just STFU.

...from nuclear war, nuclear power, from over-population, from this from that and here we are 50 years later still alive and kicking. Install of screaming the sky is falling, go to local town council meeting or school board meeting. Get involved in a local campaign.

be freaking useful

The earth has changed a lot in the past hundred years, even since I was a kid.

Wouldn't it be nice if 100 years from now the earth's natural environment resembled the one we now enjoy?

Instead our descendants will inherit raging higher energy weather systems, rising oceans, and greatly reduced biodiversity.

This thread is basically just a bunch of doom n gloom without a meaningful solution proposed. You must understand that people are starting to suffer from 'boy who cried wolf' fatigue on these issues. We were all gonna die from nuclear war, then we were all gonna die from bird flu, then it was ebola, then we were all gonna die in a war with nk, etc. I'm no climate denier, but there's no climate scientist alive who would say the California situation or hurricanes were a direct result of climate change. These events could have happened hundreds of years ago.

Cities and infrastructure lost to global warming will not be rebuilt and people will wander away as refugees unwelcome and mistreated in the islands of civilization that remain.

It's happening now. The effects of climate change, unsustainable human populations, and resource depletion are often masked by war. Damage caused by global warming is also a statistical measure. No single adverse weather of climate event can be attributed to it, it's measured by the frequency of these events.

I remember the Y2K computer problem. When the time came people were saying, see, nothing bad happened. But I know a lot of people who worked hard to make sure nothing bad happened. Maybe the "sky is falling" attention wasn't a bad thing, the information percolated up to the managers who controlled the resources to deal with the problem. Dealing with the problem wasn't cheap.

The Trump administration isn't going to do anything about global warming, but other world leaders and future administrations might.

For at least five billion more years. Then the Sun starts burning helium and becomes a red giant, engulfing Mercury, Venus, then Earth.

That is when the planet is doomed...like, no going back from there LOL- Then the sun becomes a White Dwarf and nobody will be there to care

The sun is getting brighter as it ages, and they believe within about one billion years it will have roughly 10 percent more output. That will trigger a true runaway greenhouse effect and the Earth will end up something like Venus long before the sun goes red giant and engulfs it.

Super volcano eruption at Yellowstone would be pretty devastating. Nuclear war, getting blindsided by a gamma ray burst, etc...

We will eventually evolved or go extinct as well, like 99% of all species before us.

I agree that the changes to the EPA rules are not going to be the end of the planet as postulated in the OP, but I would not count on us making it to our Sun's demise and the physical destruction of the planet.

And got only 11 recommends.

Even DUers don't want to acknowledge this most horrible outcome.