Global warming :: is it just a 'chinese hoax' like trump told us or is it serious?

Across the West, extreme drought is already taking a toll this year and summertime heat hasn't even arrived yet. Drought conditions worsened in the Southwest over the past week, the US Drought Monitor reported Thursday.

Extreme and exceptional drought, the two worst designations, expanded across New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado -- all states that are part of the Colorado River basin.

Behind storm surge, flooding from rainfall is the second-biggest killer in landfalling hurricanes and tropical storms. Tuesday's study suggests the threat has already been increasing over the past few decades, and will likely increase more in the future, because warmer air can hold more water vapor, which leads to higher rainfall rates.

As humans continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the Earth will continue to warm and hurricane impacts will become worse, scientists say.

Undeniable by educated people around the globe.

"What that means is not only is climate change impacting
our hurricane season, but it's also impacting the most
extreme storms a little bit more," Kevin Reed, a climate
and hurricane scientist at Stony Brook University and
lead author of the study, told CNN.
"So the key takeaway is that climate change is here,
and that it's already affecting our hurricane seasons."

Lake Mead is in the worst shape of its history, but many millions depend on it.

Only severe emissions cuts will avoid climate extremes - U.N. report

REUTERS -
 Despite climate change warnings issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1990, global emissions have continued to rise in the last decade, reaching their highest point in history.

The result: global emissions are on track to blow past the 1.5 degrees C warming limit envisioned in the 2015 Paris Agreement and reach some 3.2 degrees C by century's end.

At this point, only severe emissions cuts  in this decade  across all sectors,  from agriculture and transport to energy and buildings, can turn things around, the report says.

Even then, governments would also need to bolster efforts to plant more trees and develop technologies that could remove some of the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere after more than a century of industrial activity.

@fubah2

If John Wayne were still alive, he would feel so proud of seeing his photo on all of your posts... no doubt he would want to look you up in order to congratulate you in person...no doubt you get some sort of perverse thrill out of using it? 

As the historic drought continues there is very little if anything anyone can do to increase the amount of fresh water.  Water rationing will only help a little to conserve what remains.

As the historic drought continues there is very little if anything anyone can do to increase the amount of fresh water.  Water rationing will only help a little to conserve what remains.

If accurate, and I have no valid reason to doubt this, then in our lifetime we are in for a world of hurt, which will make today's gas prices look insignificant by comparison.

Why do we have all this talk on impending doom yet totally shut up when China is mentioned??? 

It's like spendind thousands going green while your neighbor starts burning tires. 

1. China, with more than 10,065 million tons of CO2 released.
2. United States, with 5,416 million tons of CO2
3. India, with 2,654 million tons of CO2
4. Russia, with 1,711 million tons of CO2
5. Japan, 1,162 million tons of CO2
6. Germany, 759 million tons of CO2
7. Iran, 720 million tons of CO2
8. South Korea, 659 million tons of CO2
9. Saudi Arabia, 621 million tons of CO2
10. Indonesia, 615 million tons of CO2

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270500/percentage-change-in-co2-emissions-in-selected-countries/

Since 1990 China's carbon output has risen 300% with no end in site! 

https://e360.yale.edu/features/despite-pledges-to-cut-emissions-china-goes-on-a-coal-spree

You think the United States can change Climate Change??? You think Lake Mead is down because of what Americans do??? 

How about world population? 

@UNIMAN

China may be producing more CO2 than the USA, but we are producing more than twice as much CO2 per capita than China and we should do more to cut back and set a good example.

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/

That is a key point, DbW

Meanwhile the planet continues to warm at an unprecedented rate in human evolution...

Across the West, extreme drought is already taking a toll
this year and summertime heat hasn't even arrived yet.

Drought conditions worsened in the Southwest over the past week, the US Drought Monitor reported Thursday. Extreme and exceptional drought, the two worst designations, expanded across New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado -- all states that are part of the Colorado River basin.

New Mexico's drought has been steadily intensifying since the beginning of the year, and extreme or exceptional drought now covers 68% of the state.

Further West, water officials in Southern California are now demanding that residents and businesses limit outdoor watering to one day a week, after a disappointing winter with very little rain and snow. It's the first time they've implemented such a strict rule.
"This is a crisis. This is unprecedented,"
said Adel Hagekhalil, general manager of the Metropolitan Water
District of Southern California.
"We have never done anything like this before, because
we haven't seen this situation happen like this before.
We don't have enough water to meet normal demands for the
six million people living in the State Water Project dependent areas."

we r the worst in the world per capita

HEADLINES today ...

Scientists reported earlier this year that the West's current
megadrought is  the worst in at least 1,200 years!

Southern Californians are already seeing unprecedented
water restrictions ahead of the summer.

*all Joe Biden's fault??

The two largest reservoirs in California
are already at 'critically low levels'
and the dry season is just starting

(CNN)
Against the backdrop of the water crisis in the Colorado River Basin, where the country's largest reservoirs are plunging at an alarming rate, California's two largest reservoirs — Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville — are facing a similar struggle.

Years of low rainfall and snowpack and more intense heat waves have fed directly to the state's multiyear, unrelenting drought conditions, rapidly draining statewide reservoirs. And according to this week's report from the US Drought Monitor, the two major reservoirs are at "critically low levels" at the point of the year when they should be the highest.

This week, Shasta Lake is only at 40% of its total capacity, the lowest it has ever been at the start of May since record-keeping began in 1977.

its all joe bidens fault 

Disaster looms there for sure.  The state which produces the largest amount of homegrown produce for Americans.

We have three years to curb emissions
to avoid climate catastrophe, UN report

YAHOO NEWS -

The world needs to cut carbon emissions by a quarter by the year 2030 to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change, according to the latest report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Governments and industries must make sure to level carbon emissions by 2025.
Even then, the world will need to invest in CO2 removal factories and other technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the sky.

But even with all these measures in place,

the world can still expect a bare minimum temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next few decades - a grim outcome that will eviscerate most of the world’s coral reefs and make many low-lying regions uninhabitable.

Well then, we are not going to make it.

UN chief says Ukraine War
is a 'wake-up call' to ditch fossil fuels
as WMO releases damning climate report

REUTERS - Wed May 18

(CNN)The world's oceans in 2021 grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record, while melting ice sheets helped push sea levels to new heights, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday, prompting a call to action from United Nations chief António Guterres.

Oceans saw the most striking extremes as the WMO detailed a range of turmoil wrought by climate change in its annual State of the Global Climate report.

Speaking at the launch of the WMO report:
"The global energy system is broken and bringing us ever closer to climate catastrophe. Fossil fuels are a dead end — environmentally and economically," he will say, according to prepared remarks.

"The war in Ukraine and its immediate effects on energy prices is yet another wake-up call. The only sustainable future is a renewable one. We must end fossil fuel pollution and accelerate the renewable energy transition, before we incinerate our only home," he said, adding "time is running out."

It won't happen over night.  It will take time to transition, and there will still be some need for fossil fuels, but this change must occur, not just for our planet but to bring down oil demand and therefore prices, as well as reduce the dependency of any nation on that of another for sources of energy.   Thanks to Putin's war, Europe is actively seeking alternatives to Russian oil & gas, while increasing their drive toward sustainable clean energy.

almost half of america is more worried about gas prices than the future of our planet which is in very serious jeopardy and getting worse by the day