Why storms are getting stronger

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Why the strongest storms are getting stronger (via PBS News Hour)

GWEN IFILL: For more on what we learned about this typhoon and concerns heard in Warsaw and elsewhere, we turn to two who watch this closely. Kevin Trenberth is a climate scientist at the government’s National Center for Atmospheric Research. And Jeff…

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3 thoughts on “Why storms are getting stronger”

  1. Things will ony get worse if we l keep burning crap to stay warm, light our homes, and transport ourselves around. The question is what will be destroyed first; the earth’s ecosystem, the world’s economy or the governing process? Is there a Capitalist out there who’d like to answer that question please?

  2. imhotep, if we did ask a Capitalist those questions, we would get three lousy answers. First, we would be told there is no ecosystem, only a market that will always provide all the raw materials we could ever want at ever increasing yields. Then we would be told that the governing process, which will soon be done by Corporations, not nations or states, under clever policies such as the Trans Pacific Partnership, will be wonderful because it will replace old fashioned and inefficient processes like republics or people voting. And the economy will be wonderful because Capitalism will go on forever until the 99% have nothing and the 1% have everything.

    If we asked a non-capitalist, we would be told that the governing process at the national and state level is in a deplorable condition now. We would be told that the world economy will soon be a non-sequitur, as an unmistakable and catastrophic collapse will see the end of the financial portion of the world’s economy. This will be quickly followed up by the loss of the consent of the governed in anything to do with who or what governs them.

    Any large scale corporation or institution will soon prove to be unworkable. The only pockets of local production that remain will be from those places where people take steps now to preserve remnants of their local resource base.

    Whether these little pockets of local eco “sanity” and production can maintain the Earth’s ecosystem is probably too much to ask.

  3. Sad to say, both of you are right.
    What’s the solution?
    Will the peasants revolt in time to stave off disaster?

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