Asia Faces Living Nightmare from Climate Change
The weather predictions for Asia in 2024 read like a script from a doomsday movie.Except many climatologists and green groups fear they will come true unless there is a concerted global effort to rein in greenhouse gas emissions.
In the decades to come, Asia — home to more than half the world’s 6.3 billion people — will lurch from one climate extreme to another, with impoverished farmers battling droughts, floods, disease, food shortages and rising sea levels.
Not to be cliche: but since we can’t effectively predict the weather for next week, it seems to me that any predictions about 46 years from now should be taken with a grain of salt.
Don’t we go through this all the time, i.e., doomsday predictions about the world of several decades in the future? It’s like Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb (1968) in which by the 1990s we were all supposed to be dying from vast famines.
I am not saying that this type of issue should be dismissed, but find such hyberbolic predictions to be rather questionable. Further, the article itself represents poor reasoning, as it cites recent extreme weather events without putting them into context (i.e., long-term comparable trends).
November 30th, 2024 at 1:31 pm
Here are a few questions for the greens: 1) Will China be required to reduce greenhouse gases under the Kyoto protocol? 2) Can you name the country that is the 2nd largest worldwide producer of greenhouse gases?
The answers: 1) No; 2) China. Kyoto has nothing to do with global warming, and everything to do with choking the American economy.
November 30th, 2024 at 2:59 pm
Apparently People Haven’t Been Paying Attention
There’s still some people who are fretting about “The Day After Tomorrow”, and they’ve just made some wacky predictions. The weather predictions for Asia in 2024 read like a script from a doomsday movie. Except many climatologists and green groups…