This is perhaps one of the most dishonest pieces you can possibly read from the Cult of Climastrology this year, and that’s saying something considering the entire issue is based on a bedrock of lies and falsehoods
What We’ll Lose to Climate Change in 2017
And you thought 2016 was a bad year.Climate change has become so severe and so obvious that geologists, who typically deal on timescales of millions of years, have hastily named a new epoch: the Anthropocene. Earth’s human-made sixth mass extinction has altered ecosystems even as other ecosystems have been more directly wiped out. The world has been thrown into fast forward and the whiplash will forever change how our planet functions.
It’s important to reiterate that the fossil fuel consumption that causes much of global warming is hardly the only thing throwing ecological systems into disarray. Humans also cause trouble by cutting down forests to make way for farms and cities, polluting air and water with toxic chemicals, and hunting and fishing animals to the brink of extinction or worse. Climate change is more than a CO2 PPM reading.
These human-caused changes are nothing new — we’ve been sculpting ecosystems for tens of thousands of years. But our population has grown so significantly and so quickly while developing tools of unprecedented power, that we’re altering the landscape at an outrageous speed. And when ecosystems are lost, they stay lost. Whatever we build and however we strategically reverse engineer livable spaces, what’s gone is gone.
Hyper-alarmist, and, apparently professional spinner, Jacqueline Ronson, then provides the things that will be lost
- Precisely 100 Feet of Alaska’s North Coast (yes, this is possible, but, it’s not anthropogenic)
- The White Rhino and Thousands of Other Species (the white rhino population was decimated due to hunting, not ‘climate change’. Many other species are in trouble due to mankind, but, again, not to Hotcoldwetdry, so, a falsehood)
- 1000 Square Miles of Surface Water (this is in reference to the Aral Sea, which she blames on ‘climate change’, even as she mentions the real cause, diversion of water for agriculture. There are other reasons, as well, such as poor management and Soviet policies)
- 1,000,000,000,000 Square Feet of Arctic Ice (Warmists keep making this claim, and now she’s yammering about the Arctic being ice free by 2045. She even claims “For every metric tonne of Carbon dioxide humans release, 32 square feet of ice is lost.” So, then how is the Antarctic growing?)
The Cult is nothing if not utterly dishonest.
