How much climate anxiety do you have?

[trixare4kids]

Are you feeling the figurative and literal heat yet?

How can I vote for none?

 

[Jay Falcon]

Smart people know the answer. Dumb people, including most politicians, don't.

What happened? Why are all the smart people silent on how to end wars?

Or is it maybe you're just full of shit?

 

[Big Brother]

What happened? Why are all the smart people silent on how to end wars?

Or is it maybe you're just full of shit?

Smart people know how to get out of and avoid wars. Dumb people don't and wouldn't understand if someone smart told them how. I refuse to waste my time discussing something so serious as war with stupid people who don't understand, and who don't want to understand. Troll somewhere else.

 

[Jay Falcon]

Smart people know how to get out of and avoid wars. Dumb people don't and wouldn't understand if someone smart told them how. I refuse to waste my time discussing something so serious as war with stupid people who don't understand, and who don't want to understand. Troll somewhere else.

Like I said, you are 100% full of shit.
Your weak-ass trolling has been exposed.

 

[Rumpelstil]

I do have some anxiety

 

[Glitch]

Are you feeling the figurative and literal heat yet?

The weather has been pretty consistent for the few decades that I have lived in south central Alaska. With Summer temperatures averaging between 65°F and 75°F. With an occasional spike into the 80°Fs, or a drop into the 50°Fs. Winter temperatures in my area average between +10°F and +20°F. With an occasional spike into the +50°Fs, or a drop into the -20°Fs.

The amount of precipitation during the Winter varies considerably. I have had Winters with as little as 36" of total snow, and Winters with as much as 133" of total snow. Overall, I get about 14" of total precipitation, with about half of that in the form of snow (1" of precipitation = 10" of snow). Most Winters range between 70" and 80" of total snow. The Winter of 2022-2023 we had 104.6" of total snow, which is unusually high (the seventh snowiest Winter on record).

Overall, the melting of the permafrost has resulted in a significant increase in arable lands. The number of farms in Alaska has double since 1990.

 

[PoS]

How can I vote for none?

Yup. Only idiots would have anxiety over the climate.

 

[longview]

Yup. Only idiots would have anxiety over the climate.

I cannot completely agree, but when we start to move back into a glacial period, and we will at some point.
Society will need to be a lot better organized than we are now.
This current interglacial is a blessing, and warmer is better, but to quote Game of thrones, "Winter is coming"!

 

[Big Brother]

Yup. Only idiots would have anxiety over the climate.

Absolutely, these leftist idiots have no anxiety about provoking Russia into WWIII and causing a nuclear winter, but are scared to death about fluctuations in the weather that have been going on for about 4.6 billion years.

 

[Glitch]

Yup. Only idiots would have anxiety over the climate.

What makes me nervous (in order of severity) are forest fires, large earthquakes, and nearby active volcanoes. Although, I certainly took the climate into consideration when I purchased my property, as well as other factors - like the reach of a large tsunami, and the location of the nearest fire station.

The climate has been remarkably consistent in my neck of the woods since I moved to Alaska 32 years ago. The only two unusual events were the 1996 and 2012 typhoons that came to die in Alaska. This is another very strong typhoon season this year, so we may see yet another typhoon in Alaska sometime around September. It very rarely happens, but it does happen.

 

[Loulit01]

I'm worried for my granddaughters. I'm old, been there, done that. I have a survival plan so not worried for myself.

 

[Donatello]

Are you feeling the figurative and literal heat yet?

I think all the political Trump vs Biden rhetoric is peanuts compared to the threat from climate change. In perspective, the political dance amounts to small meaningless peanuts.

 

[Lovebug]

We've significantly cut the electricity usage in our home through being more conscious of how we do things. As a family we use a lot more public transport than we used to. We've help reforest 25 - 30 acres of marginal farm and wetlands so far and still working on it. I've installed solar on the boat to cut generator running time.. I run the boat a lot more at displacement speeds which more than doubles the fuel economy All our family cars are now 4cyl vehicles except for my low usage Sunday driver. So not scared enough yet to make any seriously life impacting changes, but enough that our new tree planting, plus existing trees, are getting close to a full offset of our carbon emissions according to the calculators.

^^^
We pay attention to what we are doing and using, we are letting nature take back what was previously cultivated, we plan our trips wisely.
No hysterics.

 

[Glitch]

I'm worried for my granddaughters. I'm old, been there, done that. I have a survival plan so not worried for myself.

If your worry is over the climate, it is misplaced. There are other things that you should be much more concerned about. For example, medical malpractice and mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the US, after heart disease and cancer.

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Your granddaughters are far more likely to die after visiting a hospital than they are likely to die from a climate-related cause. Eliminate your emotional hysteria and put it into rational perspective.

 

[Loulit01]

If your worry is over the climate, it is misplaced. There are other things that you should be much more concerned about. For example, medical malpractice and mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the US, after heart disease and cancer.

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Your granddaughters are far more likely to die after visiting a hospital than they are likely to die from a climate-related cause. Eliminate your emotional hysteria and put it into rational perspective.

I will give your free advice all the consideration it's worth.

 

[multivita-man]

Not sure if it's really anxiety anymore. It's more like acceptance of what appears to be the inevitability that we will fail to take our environmental destruction seriously until it is too late.

If one subscribes to the idea that people are just like any species and that we are bound to the laws of the universe and the laws of the natural world like any other, then the population curve applies. That being so, I predict that when things break, they will break spectacularly and very, very suddenly. By suddenly, I mean that we will experience a global population decline in the billions within a decade. It's just a matter of when at this point.

 

[Loulit01]

Not sure if it's really anxiety anymore. It's more like acceptance of what appears to be the inevitability that we will fail to take our environmental destruction seriously until it is too late.

If one subscribes to the idea that people are just like any species and that we are bound to the laws of the universe and the laws of the natural world like any other, then the population curve applies. That being so, I predict that when things break, they will break spectacularly and very, very suddenly. By suddenly, I mean that we will experience a global population decline in the billions within a decade. It's just a matter of when at this point.

I think the climate's been changing slowly but the changes will get faster and harsher. A snowball effect is coming

 

[CLAX1911]

Are you feeling the figurative and literal heat yet?

Nope it's been hotter.

 

[Steve Case]

Are you feeling the figurative and literal heat yet?

There wasn't a "None" category so I didn't vote.

Sorry to be so late with my comment, I was out of contact
with the internet enjoying the smoke filled skies of Canada.

 

[CLAX1911]

I just try to efficiently use resources and learn how to deal with weather extremes. The very same things our ancestors had to deal with.

Won't matter what you do China is burning more coal then ever much of what you do doesn't make any difference.

 

[multivita-man]

I think the climate's been changing slowly but the changes will get faster and harsher. A snowball effect is coming

Once the feedbacks start taking effect, these changes will happen rapidly and we won't be able to react in time. It may not even matter what we do at that point.

The immolation of boreal forests is releasing a massive amount of carbon into the atmosphere, in addition to the amounts that we're releasing through industrial activity. That's one example of a feedback.

The polar ice caps melting and the melting of frozen tundra, which in turn threatens to both release massive amounts of methane and also instantly cause dramatic rises in sea levels are additional feedbacks.

Once these feedbacks happen, we're talking about dramatic changes in weather and the weather will become a lot more extreme and a lot less predictable. Modern civilization exists because we have had 10,000-12,000 years of climate stability. Without that, we can't support probably a third of the population we now have.

 

[bongsaway]

How much climate anxiety do you have?​

None

Ignorance is bliss is what I hear.

 

[bongsaway]

I went with not much because I've already been baking with florida's summers for over thirty years and I'm seventy. I can't change my environment but I can add to the negative as little as possible. We had solar installed a year or so ago and our next vehicle will be a hybrid.

 

[Mycroft]

Ignorance is bliss is what I hear.

My lack of anxiety is not based on ignorance. In fact, it's based on the opposite.

 

[Big Brother]

Won't matter what you do China is burning more coal then ever much of what you do doesn't make any difference.

And just think, India is starting to rapidly develop and Africa will soon be free of western imperial powers as it aligns with China and it too will finally start to develop. All these billions of people want to have McMansions, massive cars, eat beef every meal, fly all over the globe, and enjoy all the luxuries of developed society.