Last evening EWEISSENBACH posted a great link to STANFORD SOLAR CENTER, which because of the conversation that was taking place at the time, the first thing I did was check on WHO, WHAT, WHY, etc emphazing the financial support and they get their support from NASA and government grants. One of my concerns was the politicizing of this subject and there certainly does not appear to be any chance of that.
The site has a number of great and certainly top flight links which will direct you to many worthwhile studies.
I thank EWEISSENBACH for such a link and recommend anyone who truely cares to investigate it.
As of now, for me, climate change does exist....HAS existed forever basically and will continue to exist. Our growth, not the USA..the world...is about the largest contributor at present. The consequences, many of which we have already felt and dealt with, can be quantified for the future...again, we have been dealing with these changes for a time, but with technological advance, we can better determine the future. They could be serious, and probably can be dealt with by the world population now.
You notice words like COULD, PROBABLY are words that you find quite a bit in many of the studies I looked at...they are not me trying to be coy. The seriousness, and timing of the consequences are not a finite thing, but are real.
I still want to continue reading especially the possible timing and consequences and what can be done to slow, alter or whatever word may apply.
At this point, this issue moves up in MY priorities but not one that LEADS my list. We have a number of issues that will destroy us well before climate change that we need to address. That does not mean to ignore, but move forward recognizing our financial restraints. I do not know of UN moves in this regard, but perhaps showing some leadership there may help.
I notice the conversation here has taken a turn, and since it does apply somewhat to what I am posting now......one thing that I think will destroy us quicker than climate change is our societal changes which someone alluded to in an earlier post. NOT, in my opinion, in any way related to rich versus poor, but the breakdown of our entire moral compass. The rich versus poor by the way is not new...I am presently reading "THE BULLY PULPIT" which is the actual history of T. Roosevelt and WH Taft, and the same exact conversation about rich versus poor taking place now but set in 1900 era..great book to get serious depth, background, and context for what is happening today.
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