What I can do to Reduce the Effect of Climate Change in the Future

Like I said, make whatever changes / improvements you want in your life, but DO NOT force others to agree with you, or do as you have done.

My new place is ideally suited for wind & solar, the hardware is becoming more affordable, and if the government would butt out, and let the free market do it's thing - the hardware will become very affordable.

I would say so much "funny" about being green, as willfully ignorant.

Me for instance. I did a year ago buy a hybrid, a Prius. I am aware of the mining of the nickel, etc. However, I factored in that I keep my cars around 3 times longer than the average person. In fact, this might actually be the last car I ever buy. I looked out long term in this purchase. That, factored in the the small amount of gas I'm using, and personal savings, caused me to decide this was the best choice for me, and the planet. I also balanced this in with the fact that I have no intention in the foreseeable future of getting a new cell phone, which is also damaging in it's production, of ever getting an ipad, or any other purcahses of that type, and added that into the equation. I tend to walk pretty lightly on the planet.

A lot of people simply don't think about a lot of stuff, as far as their impact.

For instance, a few years ago my city banned single use plastic bags. That's great. However, so many people lost their minds running around making sure they had complete matching sets of cloth bags, which retailers were selling at a pretty penny. Me? I'm still using the ones (and will be for many years) the free ones they were giving away everywhere in the months before the start of the ban...including one I got for getting my colonoscopy. I have enough of them, and no more. Sure they were manufactured as well, but at a significantly less environmental impact than ones produced so one could appear stylish when buying cottage cheese.

Oh God, here's a good one. I had to go to a Bed Bath & Beyond yesterday. I saw this...

http://pawpods.com/

An "environmental friendly" bamboo and rice husk casket for a goldfish, bird, other pet.

God forbid the pet decompose naturally underground and feed a multitude of other life forms. Let's gear up production and use whatever machines, fuels, materials, that somehow aren't discussed in their marketing.

I saw this at the store, and my jaw dropped. A young couple were walking by, and I laughingly showed it to them. The woman looked at me, and then looked up in the most puzzled way..."But it says environmentally friendly"

Jesus Wept.

3. What do you-think (-hope)--will happen in the future?

A. Find a way to put electrons in a box and move them from one place to another.

B. Discover a way to make batteries without lead or carbon.

C. Admit defeat in Hydrogen fuel adaption and work on controlling the 17,970 tons of spent Nuclear fuel rods in America -and pray nothing goes wrong in the meantime.

As far as A is concerned: 3-4 decades away.

A far as B is concerned: 10-30 years away.

Just because something looks cute on a power point slide will not make produce anything usable.

Global Warming? Snow Falls in Sahara Desert for First Time in Almost 4 Decades

the maximum amount of moisture in the atmosphere increases exponentially with temperature , or for you non-opposible thumb types, the warmer the atmosphere, the more moisture the air can hold and thus, the more potential for precipitation.Snow is what? precipitation!
'Jever hear the term "its too cold to snow"?

Notice how we seem to be getting these heavier snowfalls in the snow-belts and areas that receive little snow are now getting some?
Its because of the additional moisture in the air brought about by what? Warmer temperatures.

Dry air = less precipitation
Moist air = more precipitation
The temperature determines what form the precipitation appears as.
Liquid, frozen, or a mixture.

It's not difficult

How about this?
https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/snow/science/formation.html

Lawrence Solomon: Proof that a new ice age has already started is stronger than ever, and we couldn’t be less prepared

Until earlier this year I too was a "humans arent measurably affecting the warming climate" scientist. I now believe the data is much too convincing in favor . Solomon has been a "cherry picking quote miner" for a lot of his writing.

PA, Solomon has rovided NO PROOF. Its all speculative writing.

I think Ive explained it pretty clearly. If youre unable to understand or wish to take it on your clueless worldview, be my guest.

There is no proof humans are measurably affecting the climate.

Yeah, I was sure you need the situation simplified.

that clip of yours doesnt really explain anything to the Fuggl's.He insists that its evidence against GW when it snowed in the Sahara desert. He wants things simple and cartoonish.

Heres a series from SCience Skeptic

There is nothing that supports anyone's claim that human activity causes changes in the climate.

I once thought the same. However, the amount of circumstantial evidence is as strong as for any working hypothesis and its approaching theory status.

Almost all scientific evidence is circumstantial, however Climate is showing us its changes in several recent genertions.

I'm sure there is an element of human contribution to climate change. I don't know how much.

But if it is a significant problem:
More babies and Chinese & Indian poor people wanting a taste of the good life are the biggest contributors to the problem in the future.

So what are ya gonna do

Overpopulation is a real global threat.

Overpopulating in your own country with your own people is one thing, but allowing your problem to freely spill into another country is tantamount to an invasion of another country.

Look, Frug. I'm no scientist but even I can understand this much.

1) Carbon dioxide resists the transmission of infrared radiation. It reflects heat. This can be demonstrated in a laboratory.

2) The suns radiation consists of a wide range of wavelengths. The light (visible and invisible) pass through the atmosphere and hit the ground. When the radiation hits the ground it is converted to heat. This heat then radiates upward into the atmosphere. If the atmosphere reflects the heat, the heat will be trapped near the ground. (that's why cloudy nights are warmer than clear nights).

3) The amount (expressed as a percentage) of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has been slowly increasing ever since the end of the last ice age, very slowly. About 150 years ago the increase has sped up dramatically. This has been demonstrated by analyzing samples of atmosphere trapped as bubbles in glacier ice from various points in history and pre history.

Now think about what has been happening in the world over the past 150 years. deforestation and rapid increases in the amounts of fossil fuels being burned.
And if you want more evidence of climate change, just look at what the insurance companies are doing regarding properties near any coast or large body of water.
I think even you can put two and two together and get four, despite your Uncle Donny telling you it's only three.

I'm not buying this climate fraud, and I stand by my comment.

Common sense denialists be damned.