Warning people about a coming hurricane is important, but hyping it for ratings is not news.

Didn't the MSM also spend 5 days on Trump's Sharpie map? Like a dog with a bone, they just couldn't let go.

So what if Trump said Dorian might hit Atlanta? Geez Louise. The MSM was telling us it was going to wipe out the east coast of Florida and that didn't happen.

A warming climate would be more even heating of the atmosphere and the ocean. Global warming would result in less severe storms, more crops, less deaths, and a very slight rise in ocean levels. Nearly all the rise in the oceans come from land masses loses ice. Greenland and Antarctica are the two biggest land masses covered by glaciation. They are increasing in ice, or staying level. All of the ocean rise happened after the last ice age, and has now petered out. CO 2 is the planets way of making more food for more animals, including people. Even North African deserts are now beginning to bloom again.

CO 2 is the planets way of making more food for more animals, including people. Even North African deserts are now beginning to bloom again.

Maybe you could make it sound terrible if you tried.

Warmer eras have been better for the ecology of the planet and the wildlife in previous eras.

We are seeing fewer huger hurricanes making landfall in recent years, nothing like some of those like Katrina or the big Florida hurricanes 10-20 years ago. It may just be the usual variation in weather though, not climate. And we have also been at record lows in sunspot activity.

I think there is a small but real potential for much cooler weather in coming decades. The earth is not so fragile as the climate alarmists would try to persuade us to believe.

"Some clouds did some things." -Mullah Omar

Whatever the climate will be, we will adjust to it. We're not going to stop China or India or Indonesia or Africa or South America from rising. So there will be pollution and there will be CO2. And we're not going to get rid of industrial civilization ourselves in order to make space for the rest of the world to pollute. Rather, there will be pollution, and it will be bad for awhile, and then future generations in each country will want to live greener, just exactly as they have in the already-industrialized world, and things will be cleaned up.

People have poor memories. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, London was known for it's "pea soup" fog and cloudiness, thanks to all of that coal being burnt. Today, the skies of London are blue again.

When I grew up in Detroit in the 1960s, the skies were grey all the time, as the factories belched out smoke to produce the cars, steel, railroad engines, chemicals and every other thing that made America able to build itself up. The car plants have largely shuttered now, and the ones that remain are much cleaner, and the skies of Detroit are often blue again, the grey pall that used to simply be "Detroit weather" all the time is gone. Lake Erie used to be "dead" - that's what everybody said. Today, right downriver from Detroit you can swim in it, and eat fish out of it. The "dead" lake resurrected itself. Is it as clean as it was in 1700? No. But's it's cleaner than it was in 1960.

Similarly, today in Eastern China, they have "Detroit weather" and "London fog". The sun is a disk obscured by the clouds for days and weeks at a time. China will eventually have blue skies again, and not because somebody throws an "All Back Full" bell on their economic engine. They'll go through the dirty phase, build the machines to put everybody to work, and then build cleaner and cleaner replacements. It'll take 50 years, like it did in Detroit - maybe less time because we know how to do it now. And in that time, no, the ice caps will not all melt, the coasts will not be drowned. There will be pollution, people will get sick from it for awhile, and their grandchildren will live in a Chinese world that is cleaner than today. Ditto for India. Ditto for Brazil, and parts of Africa one does not even imagine now.

That doesn't mean that we should not strive to make things cleaner. It DOES mean that all of the breathless hyperventilating about how we're ALL GONNA DIE IF WE DON'T X, Y and Z is just nonsense. We're not going to do X,Y and Z, and we're all gonna die ANYWAY, no matter what we do. Countries have to industrialize - it's the only way out of the agricultural trap. Then they have to post-industrialize - it's the only way out of the industrial trap. And so on.

These things will each come in turn, and there's no point in fretting over them. Don't push the river, it'll flow by itself.

People have poor memories. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, London was known for it's "pea soup" fog and cloudiness, thanks to all of that coal being burnt. Today, the skies of London are blue again.

Yes, the "miasma" that plagued all the early medical journals and textbooks. Until the microscope came along and everything changed and Lister invented Listerine and the standard of surgeons washing their hands and instruments thoroughly in hot water and/or disinfectant before touching their patient.