You remember the Green New Deal, right? It was the one which AOC’s chief of staff said wasn’t even about climate change
Talk to me again about how a Green New Deal “goes too far to address the problem” https://t.co/kgK1A7jLtR
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 22, 2020
This would be the same GND that has been around since February 2019, and has not been voted on in the House. I can’t even find any discussion on it in committee. Nor has AOC demanded a vote on it. And, remember, she pitched a fit when it was voted on in the GOP controlled Senate, where every Democrat voted present, including the Senate sponsor, Ed Markey. Heck, she even forgot that Markey sponsored it, wondering why they were voting on HER bill introduced in the House. She also can’t explain how her GND would stop tropical systems. Unless forcing Everyone Else to take the train (you don’t think she takes the train, right? Nothing so plebeian for her, she surely flies first class).
Meanwhile, the Earth will soon be above 130F all the time
Earth was 130 degrees this week. It will be much hotter one day.
As a heat wave roasted the western United States this week, temperatures in California’s Death Valley soared to a blistering 130 degrees Fahrenheit, marking the hottest temperature measured anywhere on Earth since 1931 and the third hottest day ever recorded on our planet, period.
“Recorded.” How far back does that go? And there really weren’t that many fossil fueled vehicles in 1931, and CO2 was well below the so-called doom threshold of 350ppm.
But Earth has seen warmer days in its past and it will experience them again in the future. During so-called hothouse periods, when the atmosphere was supercharged with greenhouse gases, the planet was much warmer than it is today and the worst heat waves were correspondingly nightmarish. And while human carbon emissions haven’t pushed Earth into a new hothouse state yet, climate change is making heat waves more frequent and severe, meaning Death Valley’s extreme temperatures are unlikely to stand for long. Earth won’t be as scorching and uninhabitable as Venus anytime soon—temperatures there are hot enough to melt lead—but heat that challenges the limits of human tolerance will occur more often as the century wears on, scientists say.
And in the very, very distant future, Earth might actually become like Venus.
So, um, what caused it to be so much warmer in the past, and why is that different from today? They don’t even attempt to say why there is a difference, they just expect people to take it on ClimaFaith.
