Chris Dunagan of the Kitsap Sun did some digging to come up with a response to a reader who was not convinced of the problems of global warming.
Because of the holidays, I did not get an immediate response from several climate experts I contacted following Nels Sultan’s comments about sea level rise in a blog post regarding “king tides.”
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Of course we can scientifically document rising sea levels, ocean acidification, melting glaciers, collapsing ecosystems, rapidly rising extreme weather, spreading droughts, wildfires, pestilence, disease, social turmoil – all accelerating and all advancing at rates faster than expected. Worse still, climate tipping points are closer than they appear in our rearward-thinking political mirrors, such as the melting of the Arctic tundra, which will start releasing its staggering accumulation of carbon beginning in eight years or so.
Climate damage lags atmospheric CO2 levels, so decades of rising pain are baked into the cake, even if we were to stop spewing anthropogenic carbon by noon today. But we’re not stopping. The human machine is exhausting carbon in ever higher amounts, all the while entertaining a political movement that denies science and puts our very survival at risk.
Political science, not climate science, will seal our fate.