Warmer with a Chance of Pestilence (Climate Change - Is it Really That Big a Deal?)

Three Equals Five

It’s getting hot in here. And apparently there is some disagreement between Mike, Jon, Tom, and our guest Mandy about climate change and associated affects. We discuss polls indicating climate change being a very important issue, UN State of the Climate report, whether global climate change is happening, areas getting warmer and some areas getting cooler, the average temperature of earth going up or down, environmental measurement equipment and accuracy, statistical error, Alex Jones, Antarctic rain forests, every grandparent agrees the earth is cooling, thinking about aliens, Bill Gates’ eugenics and population control work, whether global warming is bad, earth warming creating more habitable zones and food production, ocean level rise being slow and manageable, Water World, volcanic eruptions, increased moisture slowing earth rotation, increased desertification, earth heating up not being good, everything is a tradeoff, relative concern of those making measurements, using metal to measure distances, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, installing rain gages, depending upon measurements of others, blinky little lights and headlight fluid, Centigrade versus Celsius, reported temperature changes, greenhouse gases and aerosols, glaciation and natural lakes, whether we can we have stasis, first world countries and ocean level rise, geopolitical system based around oceans and navigable waters, Appalachia and other mountain regions, Denver is safe, vested interests whipping up the masses, dominant world powers for the past several thousand years have all been coastal, the Mongols were not coastal, Julius Caesar and Mesopotamia, the Bronze Age Collapse and trade, increased pestilence harming versus temperature and rainfall/moisture increase benefiting third world countries, more water and marshes, less deserts, permafrost melt releases bacteria/viruses, younger people most concerned about climate change, gloom and doom, forty year old kids, affluent kids talk about climate change, lithium strip mines, birds aren’t real, older people have learned to adapt, pandemic response negatively affecting younger people, climate change not a big deal, affluent kids not walking the walk, sustainability in third world countries, science versus engineering perception, journalism schools not being collocated with engineering schools, public misunderstanding of science versus engineering, science is pursuing knowledge whereas engineering is solving problems, reporting on problems but not solutions, safe drinking water and adequate food production, exponential temperature increase, the 1970s ice age and energy crisis, temperature is a measure of the energy level, atmospheric water vapor increasing with temperature increase, increases in hurricanes and tornadoes, more water vapor does not necessarily mean more frequent or intense storms, correlation versus causation, rate of adaption to climate change, people grasping for control of their lives, Santa Cruz versus Manhattan, expensive homes along the ocean coasts, beating mother nature, recycling being worse than not, nuclear energy is sustainability solution, Jimmy Carter was right, moral disgust, Spotted Owls and shutting down logging, bringing back Saber Toothed Tigers, sustainability a worthy goal, learn to code, modern space race should be energy independence and sustainability, science as religion, do your own research, question everything, and trust nothing.
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United Nations Current State of the Climate
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/reports
Precipitation and Aerosol
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02036

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