This US summer is 'what global warming looks like'

[Nihil]

92. "just another individual who is Tea Party level ignorant and loud"

Your own words describe you perfectly (or, I should say, "... describe your behaviour
in this thread perfectly" as I don't recall you from any past threads).

The abuse being thrown at people who express themselves in more poetic
or emotive terms than you'd personally choose is unnecessary and only serves
to illustrate the irony of your comment.


> Assuming an otherwise hospitable environment

"Assuming"

The thread is about the difficulties - the "less than hospitable" nature - of the recent
weather and how that has been triggered by climate change drive by human behaviour.
It is about the failure of that assumption - a failure brought about by the actions
of people who cling desperately to the assumption because to recognise the situation
would require genuine change and such people are incredibly fearful of change.


> just about any species will go through cycles where its numbers explode,
> then get pared back when it exceeds the carrying capacity of an environment.

We are already in the overshoot part of the cycle and that applies whether you
describe it in your words ("get pared back&quot or other peoples' ("shaking off parasites&quot .


> as if our instinctual drives make us somehow more evil than other species

It's not the "instinctual drives" that make (some of) us more evil than any
other species, it is the choices being made by nominally intelligent people.
(Yes, even those with "degrees" like you & me.)


A lioness isn't evil when it kills an antelope.

A killer whale isn't evil when it uses a live seal cub as a means of training
its offspring how to hunt.

A human who chooses to destroy creatures, habitats, even whole ecosystems
for the sake of numbers in a spreadsheet, for the further accumulation of
nebulous intangibles or for share certificates or dollars - that is evil and that
is what has lead to the situation that more people are gradually (so gradually)
realising that we are all in.