In his ludicrous article about how global warming protesters remind him of anti Semitic mobs, Avi Safran celebrated the polar bears who, thanks to warmer weather, now have lots of geese to eat. See he crows. Every Ying has a yang. The earth can care for itself. Even if hes right that global warming may not be a danger to the long term health of the planet, it most certainly is a danger to people who live in coastal areas. We can also use that pesky empirical evidence to demonstrate that higher temperatures are making floods, fires and droughts more frequent and severe. Again, the planet may be able to withstand this, but the people affected by the floods, fires and froughts cant. Extreme heat waves caused by climate change kill tens of thousands of people each year, and diseases once limited to the tropicd are finding hospitable conditions in regions that were once too cold to support them. So, yes, the earth might be able to take care of itself, but that doesnt necessarily bode well for the people that live on it.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 12:49:13 +0000
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