America mysteriously hit a deadly tipping point -- and no one knows why Thom Hartmann

[justaprogressive]

Sometime in the past year, this tiny planet we live on in an obscure corner of our Milky Way galaxy went through some sort of tipping point, a “state change” of sorts, and now things are different from how they’ve been at any other time in the 300,000 year history of the human race.

Nobody knows for sure what that change or tipping point is.



But regardless of the why/how, something has definitely happened in the past year or so that has pushed our atmosphere’s state of equilibrium out of an older, stable range and into a newer, warmer, and apparently far less stable state.

It’s so dramatic and so shocking that scientists — typically not prone to hyperbole — publishing in the peer-reviewed journal BioScience about this anomaly open their article with:

“Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory.
“For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that release harmful greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
“Unfortunately, time is up. We are seeing the manifestation of those predictions as an alarming and unprecedented succession of climate records are broken, causing profoundly distressing scenes of suffering to unfold. We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity.”

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[Stargazer99]

1. Maybe mother nature is getting rid of her fleas (man)

Man in his selfishness will kill the planet unless he is stopped

[Think. Again.]

4. Yup...

...this planet, the ONLY place in the universe that we know is host to life, has a very successful way of keeping the necessary balances that we as a species are throwing way off.

The planet works in timescales that are outside of our daily comprehension, but the planet will always work toward keeping problems like human activity in check. If we don't push it too, far too fast, that is.

[Timewas]

5. Nah

The planet will be fine,humanity and a lot of animals will be gone.

[Cherokee100]

9. Best photo

Best photo, I've ever seen concerning climate change, was of a piece of burned charcoal. That pretty much covers it.

[Blues Heron]

2. And yet we think nothing of driving to the store to pick up some milk - 3000 pounds of steel on the move

for a quart of milk. Do the math - 3 watts of greenhouse gas radiative forcing per square meter, is the same as an array of 1000 watt space heaters covering the entire earth, all land area and all seas, all mountains, every desert, every glacier - about 60 feet apart in all directions. An unimaginable number of heaters all blasting away 24/7. You are going to feel that eventually.

[Think. Again.]

3. K&R

[Ponietz]

6. Maybe it's rotational shift of the earth's core

[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/science/earth-core-reversing-spin.html

[Farmer-Rick]

11. There is no evidence this correlates with weather or climate changes

From your link:

"Precisely nothing apocalyptic will result from this planetary spin cycle, which may have been happening for eons."

So, no respected scientists are saying this is causing global heating and an increase in unstable weather patterns.

It's excessive carbon in the atmosphere because a few filthy-rich people are making nation scale wealth out of digging up, selling and burning fossil fuels. Capitalism and the filthy-rich capitalist are causing this.

We could switch tomorrow to renewables but we wont because the filthy-rich rich still want more of your wealth in their pockets.

[ananda]

7. Geezus, we know exactly why!

Every fucking reason: CO2 emissions, pollution,
greed, over population, etc.

[rubbersole]

8. But, but I might be uncomfortable...

..if my personal immediate atmosphere isn't exactly 72 degrees.

[Farmer-Rick]

12. No, that really isn't the main cause

I mean it is a part of it. But you could stop today and it won't help the climate. Half a nation could stop today it today and it would be a drop in the bucket.

It's industry. It's the freight ships burning tons of dirty oil. It's the coal fired plants and factories. It's the trucks and fossil fuels trains going cross country. It's utility companies still using fossil fuels. It's the oil and gas corporations regional monopolies using capitalism to kill us all.

[Nasruddin]

10. Been here before

The planet's probably been here before ... but we (our species, or even our ancestral species) haven't.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. No, the planet hasn't been here before. We're changing it faster than it ever has.

[appalachiablue]

13. Thanks for posting. Can't say we weren't warned,

for 40 years. Humans, what a species.