People subcontract out judgment to people they trust. Obama is the most respected politician in the US. If he acts like climate change won’t affect his own life, how is everyone else supposed to look at it? That's the Obama House Syndrome. 11/11
A pal pointed me to this core sample maybe a quarter-mile from Obama’s new house: https://t.co/cOuNUsyXyN
It goes down 262 meters (860 feet) and finds *no* bedrock. 100% sand and clay.
So… Obama spent $11.5M on a house right by the sea on an island that's a heap of sand. 4/11
The house (red dot) is on a kind of interior lagoon called the Great Pond in the village of Edgartown. Here’s a topo map of the area. The house’s elevation above sea level is ~8 feet. 3/
Source: https://t.co/UPSUnr2QAK
Ex-President Obama, surely the most climate-concerned president ever, bought a house last fall in Martha’s Vineyard. Here’s a picture—nice house! Right on the edge of the ocean. $11.5 million was the price, supposedly. 2/11
Q: And what requires the greatest amount of govt spending?
A: Fighting climate change
Except The Sun is by far the largest factor of Earth's climate. The Sun is 99.86% of the mass of OUR ENTIRE solar system. The Sun is responsible for the temp swings from winter to summer...
@Alana_Levy No. To offset The Sun's affect on Earth will require many many times the amount spending all the U.S. has spent over last century combined. Just 10,000years ago, 1 mile high of ice above Chicago. The Sun varies and goes thru cycles that directly affect us.
@MarcGWOpie @judy_copithorne No. A mile of ice above Chicago during last ice age is more than "not much"...
Variation from winter to summer in lower Canada is 60degrees Celsius EVERY YEAR. That's more than "not much".
@RynShell@CreativeDeduct Or more technically - Earth's wobble and Northern/Southern hemispheres tilting away from or towards The Sun is responsible for winter and summer.
The key is the proximity to that massive nuclear furnace 3 rocks away from Earth - The Sun.
@RynShell@CreativeDeduct Humans affect on our climate is miniscule relative to The Sun.
The Sun is by far the largest factor of Earth's climate. The Sun is 99.86% of the mass of OUR ENTIRE solar system. The Sun is responsible for the temp swings from winter to summer...
Or more technically - Earth's wobble and Northern/Southern hemispheres tilting away from or towards The Sun is responsible for winter and summer.
The key is the proximity to that massive nuclear furnace 3 rocks away from Earth - The Sun.
Q: And what requires the greatest amount of govt spending?
A: Fighting climate change
Except The Sun is by far the largest factor of Earth's climate. The Sun is 99.86% of the mass of OUR ENTIRE solar system. The Sun is responsible for the temp swings from winter to summer...
@shoran4321@JodyDahrouge@RobynUrback @Jinx_production No. When The Sun disappears at night, temperatures plummet. In winter, Earth's northern hemisphere tilts away from The Sun and in Canada we drop below -30Celsius. In summer, tilts towards The Sun and we exceed +30C.