Over the last five years or so, the firefighting budget has almost doubled from 2bn in 2019 to 3.8 bn now. Looking at one particular year is not a good appraisal.
Trump, of course, says global warming is a hoax.
Serious question , is Kristine Larson's salary included in that 2024 figure?
I am bemused when people think that global warming is a hoax however more so when people attribute , hurricanes , tornado's , earthquakes , wildfires and volcano eruptions both in frequency and intensity on human C02 generation activity such as burning coal and gas to generate electricity as if we wouldn't have these events to the same degree if we didn't.
Bushfires , cyclones , heavy rainfall , floods , droughts, earthquakes etc were long standing before we built our first coal fired power station both in frequency and intensity many times over many years more so.
What we have got much better at is responding to these events and proofing ourselves for the countless events to come before the Sun has no more hydrogen.
The climate is a complex beast , whose many mysteries that still exist like why people contract cancer of some sort and dementia of some sort of if they live ling enough who answer lies well beyond , geophysics , geology , astrophysics , meteorology and yes the myriad of climate " scientists employed by the governments of the day to scrap for grants to research , oceanographers and the list goes on and on and on.
What is the impact of water on climate on the only planet in our solar system that currently supports life , the sun , the oceans , mountains , earths changing orbit around the sun , the atmosphere , our magnetic field and the list goes on.
if its true that post industrial revolution we have gone from 2.8ppm to 4.1ppm of CO2 in our atmosphere is man burning coal and gas is the sole / main cause if at all in the increase in average global temperature since 1870 given all the knowledge explained and not explained we have on the many factors that impact climate and the lack of knowledge that still exists on how all those factors interact.
if so why do we through the UN and other bodies continue to place little pressure if any on China and India to go nuclear?
Did you know water vapor is commonly regarded these days as a greenhouse gas?
Trump is very foolish for thinking the climate does not change but in geological terms all the best data and evidence to date suggests that a planet that was much cooler and I mean much cooler even cooler than our moon is for half its orbital and rotational cycle when Co2 levels in the atmosphere were much larger than most experts state there is now is in some phase of cooling ( with the usual increases along the way ).
He just wants to get out of the Paris Agreement which to date has achieved little of note other than add a lot to the planets carbon footprint.
Co2 gets a bad wrap IMO , I love it , its plant food and partly responsible for the fact we all still don't live in caves , rubbing sticks together to stay alive , in fact if were not for carbon there would be no sticks at all.
The more CO2 the better as the more people we can feed and to think otherwise is selfish and self -centered and condemning the poor to more misery.
As to how we power all developed nations and emerging nations into the future that is a debate for another day but one thing I know for sure is that relying on wind , sun and batteries alone to achieve it will send you back into those caves.
Net Zero don't make me laugh , what would concern me more is how we respond to the next global pandemic far more virulent than Covid or if Yellowstone was to unleash its fury.
Now Yellowstone would cause some significant climate change both short and long term but I wouldn't blame it us naughty humans building coal and gas power stations on the earths surface would you?
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