I live in the South. It has not been catastrophic. There are plenty of examples of worse times for heat and drought in the South during the past four centuries.
And videos also show the Antarctic sea ice greatly increasing. Nothing unusual or scary here. Just the natural cycles of ice decrease and increase at opposite poles.
We have to get trucks and particularly airplanes off oil The IEA Is Skeptical Electric Cars Will End the Age of Oil Anna Hirtenstein ahirtens November 3, 2016 — 4:07 AM CDT Updated on November 3, 2016 — 5:52 AM CDT Share on FacebookShare on Twitter An electric automobile sits connected to a charging plug. Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg Oil demand growth coming from trucks, jets - not cars Electric cars made up less than 1% of total sales last year Electric cars won’t cause oil demand to peak anytime soon, according to International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol. “The oil demand growth is not coming from cars, it’s from trucks, aviation and the petrochemical industry and we don’t have major alternatives to oil products there,” Birol said at the Energy for Tomorrow conference on Thursday in Paris. “I don’t buy the argument that electric cars alone will cause a peak in oil demand at least in short and medium term.” The IEA chief’s comments add moderation to recent forecasts and warnings on the potentially disruptive effects that electric vehicles will have on the oil industry. Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimates that plug-in cars will displace 13 million barrels of oil a day by 2040. Fitch Ratings reported reported Oct. 18 that battery technologies used by electric cars could trigger a “death spiral” for investors with securities linked to fossil fuels. The number of electric vehicles on the roads has risen sixfold since 2014 with 550,000 new plug-in cars sold last year, according to the IEA. Electric automobiles made up less than one percent of all new cars sold last year. ... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...sn-t-buy-that-electric-cars-will-displace-oil
Sea ice. Antarctica has land also. Why do you keep repeating deceptive falsehoods? The earth as a whole is losing ice rapidly. It IS unusual. No question. Only an ignorant fool would say otherwise. See.... cause here's the thing....ice melts as it gets warmer and it's getting unusually warm unusually quickly. There now you know two things. Like I said, there is not a rational right winger on this board. Maybe capt obvious. Maybe.
The original article was about sea ice in the Arctic in a video. So I responded with information regarding sea ice in Antartica. Both the sea ice and land ice are increasing in the Antarctic including the ice mass. Information has been posted about this regularly and you can no longer deny it.
Possibly, increased snowfall in Antarctica due to the warmer air holding more moisture is causing some ice growth, but you cannot deny that the earth as whole is losing ice or that the earth is rapidly warming due to the increased greenhouse effect of rising GHG levels. Mostly due to the 40% increase in CO2 due to man's activities.
All the warming and cooling of the earth is solely due to natural cycles and not AGW. You are going to look foolish in 30 years when the cooling cycle starts and the public is worried about the next ice age. If the earth warms then what is the problem. Mankind has thrived in warmer times and suffered in cold cycles. To back your fantasy... maybe you should book your dream tropical vacation to Greenland for 2040.