Today's climate icon of the moment Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg denounced the world for all the people dying due to climate change. She says her childhood has been taken from her as a result.
Maybe I missed it. So maybe someone can tell me this:
1. Where are people dying due to climate change?
2. Who are the people dying due to climate change?
3. Why are these people dying due to climate change? What is causing it? How is a less than one degree rise in average global temperature leading to death?
Think about it for a moment. In most of the world, it is substantially warmer in Summer than it is in Winter. Do we see many deaths from the higher temperatures in the Summer?
Don't tell us that people caught in storms like hurricanes are the ones dying due to climate change. There's many fewer people dying due to storms of that sort than was the case 100 years ago. Hey, about 100 years ago, something like 6500 people died in and around Galveston, Texas alone due to a hurricane.
Don't tell us that people who died during a heat wave here or there are victims of climate change. Again, there have been heat waves as long as there has been a planet here.
So, someone try to answer these questions in an intelligent way. It sure won't be Greta who does that. She just gets angry and shouts.
Maybe I missed it. So maybe someone can tell me this:
1. Where are people dying due to climate change?
2. Who are the people dying due to climate change?
3. Why are these people dying due to climate change? What is causing it? How is a less than one degree rise in average global temperature leading to death?
Think about it for a moment. In most of the world, it is substantially warmer in Summer than it is in Winter. Do we see many deaths from the higher temperatures in the Summer?
Don't tell us that people caught in storms like hurricanes are the ones dying due to climate change. There's many fewer people dying due to storms of that sort than was the case 100 years ago. Hey, about 100 years ago, something like 6500 people died in and around Galveston, Texas alone due to a hurricane.
Don't tell us that people who died during a heat wave here or there are victims of climate change. Again, there have been heat waves as long as there has been a planet here.
So, someone try to answer these questions in an intelligent way. It sure won't be Greta who does that. She just gets angry and shouts.
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