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Climate change and the catastrophe of Trumpism : Comments
By Sam Ben-Meir, published 25/7/2017In its attack on the very foundations of science, Trumpism constitutes an epistemic disaster: we are facing a crisis in terms of knowledge and objective inquiry.
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Sea ice levels are taken pretty well on a daily basis by satellite.
Craters created by exploding pingos is not something that is imagined.
The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an incredible rate creating a huge cold area South of Greenland.
A yacht sailed both passages of the fabled North West passage last year.
Two ice breakers sailed all the way to the North Pole last year.
If I was to suggest that the record temperature recorded in Iran was 50.2C earlier this year, and went on to state that was showing climate change I would be jumped upon. You clearly do not understand why I suggested 2046 as a time to acknowledge Ocean cooling.
I'm fully aware that people are dying from cold; I'm also very aware that people are hospitalised through high temperatures which in a number of cases has caused death through heat stroke.
Millions die from fossil fuel emissions mainly in Asian countries. Often you will see Asians when visiting Australia wear a filter over their nose even when air quality is quite good in Australia.
Oklahoma is about to build the second largest wind farm in the world. Battery technology is continually improving, coal is on the way out whether you like it or not. Check out Tony Seba who discusses how old technologies are superseded at a rapid rate. Check out the economics of renewables in comparison to coal.
There are hidden health costs in relation to coal in Australia and overseas ... respiratory problems and changes in disease vectors.
The Abbott government sent the auto mobile industry offshore with huge job losses. Australian defence building infra-structure has been sent off shore; so, yes I'm aware governments have not been helpful in preserving Australian jobs.