Climate Change, Too Late To Beg Politicians - Time To Follow The Pentagon And Begin Preparation For The Inevitable.
As for climate change, I worked on it for decades even in an official capacity as an emergency management coordinator.
It is too late to change what will happen
by 2050. Politicians simply can't move
fast enough, even countries which agreed with
the Paris agreement have totally failed to
to meet the goals they agreed to.
It is time to stop wasting time, money, and effort
on fighting short term climate change and
focus our energy on preparing for inevitable
financial and social changes we or our
descendants will face.
Working to make long-term changes would be
useful but that will occur naturally
as Red states are washed away (GRIN).
I wrote a book about this and am working on
the second volume now.
"Preparing for Climate Change
Coastal flooding will cost the U.S. billions of dollars within two decades."
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second edition ebook https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYTG6ZC
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As far back as 2014 the U.S. military saw climate change as the
biggest strategic threat they faced.
In 2010 the Pentagon saw global climate change as a force multiplier.
http://trumancenter.org/doctrine-blog/7-real-consequences-of-climate-change-as-told-by-the-pentagon/
1. More frequent and intense severe weather abroad will require disaster relief efforts, increasing requests for U.S. assistance.
2. Prolonged droughts here at home will affect base operations, decreasing the readiness of our troops.
"Utah wildfires Millions of Americans have already felt firsthand the effects of longer and more extreme droughts, and the military is no exception. Essential training exercises that involve live ammunition have been suspended for months on end due to fire risk, meaning that troops are not getting the preparation they need."
3. Scarce resources will threaten to collapse weak governments, strengthening extremist groups.
4. Warming temperatures will increase the range of tropical diseases, spurring more global health crises.
6. Rising ocean tides and other climate change consequences will damage military facilities here, costing an already budget-constrained military millions of dollars in adaptation efforts.
(30 of our military sites will require significant adaptation measures)
2020
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second edition ebook https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYTG6ZC
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There are 300,000 coastal U.S. properties which, if purchased today with a 30-year mortgage, will be worthless by the end of the mortgage and by 2099 will cost the United States more than $1 trillion of lost property value. The complete situation including bank failures and infrastructure destruction will be much worse.
This booklet is about how you and your community can prepare for climate change.
You'll find the latest measurements and estimates to help families, investors, and government officials prepare for the inevitable.
Whether you believe the earth is warming because of human action or not, this booklet is still for you.
Whatever the cause, whatever you believe, everyone can see:
Summers are getting hotter
Storms are getting worse and more frequent.
Floods are getting worse.
The growing seasons are changing.
Glaciers are melting.
And the sea is rising - records go back for centuries.
This booklet is NOT an argument about what causes climate change.
This is also NOT about whether or how we can combat climate change. It is almost certainly too late to make any useful changes and the climate will continue to change for at least the next 50 to 100 years with consequences stretching into the next millennium.
This booklet is about how you and your community can prepare for climate change.
You'll find the latest measurements and estimates to help families, investors, and government officials prepare for the inevitable.
Whether you believe the earth is warming because of human action or not, this booklet is still for you.
Whatever the cause, whatever you believe, everyone can see:
Summers are getting hotter
Storms are getting worse and more frequent.
Floods are getting worse.
The growing seasons are changing.
Glaciers are melting.
And the sea is rising - records go back for centuries.
This booklet is NOT an argument about what causes climate change.
This is also NOT about whether or how we can combat climate change. It is almost certainly too late to make any useful changes and the climate will continue to change for at least the next 50 to 100 years with consequences stretching into the next millennium.
Comments
to accepting the reality but are now pointing out that there have
been earlier periods of very fast and drastic changes
in world climate.
Certainly that is true,
just ask the dinosaurs.
What they don't say is that previous
rapid changes in climate have ever been
GOOD for the dominant species.
That won't last long because I will stop posting thoughts
if no one participates, I can get paid to publish
elsewhere. If no one is getting anything out of
this blog I won't waste my time.
But I did copy out all my "contributions"
before I stopped contributing to the censored
AAAS posts. So, they are still there and I will
pick one or two to repost here to see if there is
any interest in those with the censorship OFF.
which is rapidly retreating because the coastal wetlands are
critical to the ecosystem.
Of course New Orleans is already below sea level in places which
means it should never have been rebuilt.
My book concentrates on preparing for the inevitable rather
than looking at micro differences.
"Preparing for Climate Change: Coastal flooding will cost the U.S. billions of dollars within two decades.ebook https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYTG6ZC
Contrary and other comments welcome, this isn't AAAS.