Greece is facing a war with climate change after a summer of devastating storms, ferocious wildfires and scorching heat. NBC News’ Keir Simmons spoke with flood victims in the country and the prime minister on the impact of the crisis.
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The only reasonable approach to climate change is for you who are worth less than $100 million to be put into Cryogenic freeze. We will revive you once we are certain you were not the cause of killing our planet.
So, Greasy government setting fires and blaming it on climate change. so they can steal the citizens money. And NBC and mister Lester joke.wii confirm the lies for communist Greece.😂😂😂😂😂🖕🏿NBC 😂😂😂
Advisory, trust the Lord Jesus Christ. God made the earth, and no man will ever have control over it. God bless all, Israel and the animals in Jesus name, amen. Almost home.
It’s NOT climate change ok it’s Judgements!
Unless the population comes down, there's nothing you can do about it, might as well live life like there's no tomorrow.
MSNBS spreading lies again.
It’s done by the governments there is no climate change 😂
Talk to India, China, Brazil, and the Africa nations and see if they are willing to make climate change. They won't. Never rely on government to help you unless you enjoy being let down. You need to always prepare on your own for emergencies.
King James Version – Revelation 8:7 ( Revelation chapters 8 to 16 has begun)
Hogwash. The weather changes all the time. I've been on this planet for 70 years and the weather has not changed at all. Some years hot, some years cool, some years wet, some dry. It's cyclical.
And always remember, the corporate ultra rich won't do a thing to help stop global warming. It's up to government, but government is mostly influenced by the corporate ultra rich, so you will have to nudge your government. Considering the mess government made of the Pandemic, because they allowed government to be manipulated by the greed of big pharma to sell vaccines— the people have to keep a close eye on government, or else they will be exploited again by the ultra rich as they were during the pandemic.
Arson is not climate change.
In Greece it’s not called Climate Change but bureaucracy and corruption are at fault for the floods neither did the pumps work because never maintained and the money for the generators for keeping the pumps working when the electricity went down got lost on the way. Most of the area used to be a lake which was dried out to become farmland I think in 1967
As regards flooding, the U.N. IPCC admits having “low confidence” in even the “sign” of any changes—in other words, it is just as likely that climate change is making floods less frequent and less severe. In a study on the climate impact on flooding for the USA and Europe, published in the Journal of Hydrology, Volume 552, September 2017, Pages 704-717, the study found:
‘The number of significant trends was about the number expected due to chance alone.’
‘Changes in the frequency of major floods are dominated by multidecadal variability.’
‘The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded (Hartmann et al., 2013) that globally there is no clear and widespread evidence of changes in flood magnitude or frequency in observed flood records.’
‘The results of this study, for North America and Europe, provide a firmer foundation and support the conclusion of the IPCC that compelling evidence for increased flooding at a global scale is lacking.’
Global burned area has decreased by one quarter this century! The World is burning less.
For the whole of Canada, there is no trend in burn acreage for the period 1980-2021. The previous highest burn acreage was in 1989. Over that same period the trend for number of fires was slightly downwards (CNFDB). Note that 2020 had the lowest recorded burn acreage and number of fires, so can that record be attributed to man-made climate change?
Burn acreage was much, much, higher in the US during the 1920's, 30's and 40's. It peaked in 1930 at well over 50,000,000 acres. The trend is downwards (1926-2020 NIFC US) eventhough CO2 has increased exponentially. For 2000 onwards the average burn acreage is much less than 10,000,000 acres. The number of fires has also declined. Remember CO2 was increasing all the time. Burn area for US so far in 2023 including Maui is 3rd lowest on record.
Data for Siberia seems harder to come by. However, for the period 1997-2016, the trend was highly variable (by a factor of 4) but the trend for the annual burn acreage was downwards (Global Fire Data).
For the Amazon (2003-2019), 2010 was the record year for fire emissions with all subsequent years lower by at least ½.
When it comes to wildfires there is nothing unusual about this summer's fire season in Europe (look it up on the EFFIS website). Besides all this the forest fire record in Southern Europe e.g. Greece, is related to the previous winter rains, not summer temperatures. Wetter winters encourage more plant grow, which forms more fuel for fires when it dries out. Mediterranean summers are always hot and dry enough to allow fires to spread.
Furthermore, with regard to the IPCC, they have not detected or attributed the number of fires or the burn acreage to man-made climate change. Also IPCC only has medium confidence ( that's a 50-50, so toss a coin) that weather conditions that promote wildfires (fire weather) have become more probable in southern Europe, northern Eurasia, the USA, and Australia over the last century. Note that annual Global Wildfire Carbon Emissions have been declining dramatically since 2003, with 2022 being the lowest on record (Copernicus).
"With higher CO2, increased tree cover leads to reduced fire ignition and burned area, and provides a positive feedback to tree cover" (Chen et al, 2019), so burning fossil fuels actually leads to less forest fire!
Global burned area has decreased by nearly by 24.2% in 20 years (Chen et al, 2023).
The World is burning less!
There is no climate crisis…there isn't even any evidence for it.
This is weather not climate.
Wild fires?
If world leaders are worried about climate change, they probably shouldnt provoke putin in hopes he will launch his nukes
Oh brother! Stop lying to everyone, it’s not climate change, please everyone turn to your bibles, stop falling for the lies from the god of this world and go study the one and ONLY truth before it’s too late for you
In a few words The Book Revelation according Apostle John is getting fulfilled. We have not seen nothing yet what is coming and no man can stop what is about to come. God bless us all. Amen
Let me guess…America is going to give them billions of dollars to fix it all
Now go, write it before them on a tablet, inscribe it on a scroll, so in the future it will endure as a witness. These are rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the LORD’s teaching, who say to the seers, “Don’t foresee,” and to the visionaries, “Don’t report truthful visions; tell us flattering things; envision deceptions; get out of the way; step off the path; let’s have no more ‘holy one of Israel.’”
Isaiah 30:8-11 CEB