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Brenda

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19. Can't yet decide if you're a comedian or something else.

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 07:59 PM

Sep 2025

You like to be contrarian, so let's examine your comments: "I think it was too late in 1950" then "Possibly earlier. Still though, we can slow it down."

What happened in 1950 regarding this discussion?

How can we slow it down?

What's the purpose of posting such things other than to sow some kind of seed of discontent or disagreement with my post?

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Senator Whitehouse: "It May Be Too Late" [View all] Brenda Sep 2025 OP

It's already too late. The politicians and corporations know that Autumn Sep 2025 #1

A Big Change is Coming MrWowWow Sep 2025 #2

Love Neil Young but I don't like the AI crap Brenda Sep 2025 #4

That video seemed a mockery - perhaps intentionally detrimental to the reality. erronis Sep 2025 #11

It is too late. Xolodno Sep 2025 #3

The linked article does discuss that. Brenda Sep 2025 #5

Not just flood zones... Xolodno Sep 2025 #7

... not just flood zones. Look at Appalachia (North Carolina) and Helene erronis Sep 2025 #12

Absolutely! Brenda Sep 2025 #14

Historically, insurance has been based on the concept of universal risk pools. sop Sep 2025 #55

Sheldon Whitehouse - when he speaks, I listen. yellow dahlia Sep 2025 #6

Sen. Whitehouse is our modern-day Cassandra. alwaysinasnit Sep 2025 #8

If it is, in fact, too late (and I agree that it is) then that needs to be seen as a start to a serious conversation... 0rganism Sep 2025 #9

Yes. Just like what Greta Thunberg and a lot of other people Brenda Sep 2025 #16

China produces about as much greenhouse gases as all the other industrialized nations combined Kaleva Sep 2025 #45

There are DUers who also haven't seen the light Duppers Sep 2025 #53

Global warming will only get worse JoseBalow Sep 2025 #10

Yeah, I used to work with Lonnie Thompson, I know. nt Brenda Sep 2025 #17

Yes, this is the scenario. But too late for what exactly? Stopping warming from going out of control? LymphocyteLover Sep 2025 #28

It would take a world wide effort never before achieved Kaleva Sep 2025 #46

So, we just give up? Just burn fossil fuels until we turn into Venus? LymphocyteLover Sep 2025 #50

I'm not giving up. I'm working on surviving what is coming Kaleva Sep 2025 #58

I think it was too late in 1950 Polybius Sep 2025 #13

Can't yet decide if you're a comedian or something else. Brenda Sep 2025 #19

The Industrial Age happened, and fossil fuels burned for 200+ years before we even vaguely attempted to reduce it Polybius Sep 2025 #31

The US has been reducing the amount of greenhouse gases it has been emitting Kaleva Sep 2025 #47

Not really Cirsium Sep 2025 #24

My opinion Timewas Sep 2025 #15

too late for what exactly? LymphocyteLover Sep 2025 #27

To stop Timewas Sep 2025 #42

And we won't see people here willing to back to 60 amp service panels Kaleva Sep 2025 #48

Probably not Timewas Sep 2025 #57

They don't HAVE to be in power though. New leadership is possible that cares about this. LymphocyteLover Sep 2025 #51

We were warned long ago, we knew what to do but moniss Sep 2025 #18

Al Gore's truth was both true and too inconvenient to accept n/t DFW Sep 2025 #33

And Al Gore won the Nobel Prize for saying it Captain Zero Sep 2025 #40

And mass starvation 2na fisherman Sep 2025 #20

Well said Brenda Sep 2025 #23

And even here on DU❗🤬 Duppers Sep 2025 #54

Indeed. markodochartaigh Sep 2025 #29

We're toast. It was a great planet at the right time, but short term self interest has doomed us. surfered Sep 2025 #21

No "maybe" about it. ananda Sep 2025 #22

Yes Kaleva Sep 2025 #35

I was 15 for Earth Day 1 BidenRocks Sep 2025 #25

Too late for what exactly? It's not all or nothing. It's not too late to stop warming that will LymphocyteLover Sep 2025 #26

On the other hand, markodochartaigh Sep 2025 #30

Sociatal collapse across most of the planet NickB79 Sep 2025 #32

It's also harmful to say it's not too late, that there's still a chance Kaleva Sep 2025 #37

It's all about water DFW Sep 2025 #34

No water I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2025 #36

They will find out too late DFW Sep 2025 #43

Lack of fresh water is an existential threat 2na fisherman Sep 2025 #39

I heard from some Israelis about desalinization DFW Sep 2025 #44

Bookmarking liberalla Sep 2025 #38

I've said for years. Insurance Companies will know. Captain Zero Sep 2025 #41

It has been obvious for years that Morbius Sep 2025 #49

It's not too late for governments to do all they can to try to slow warming through mass tree planting and the Doodley Sep 2025 #52

I believe every problem created by humans may be solved by humans Torchlight Sep 2025 #56