Nov. 19, 2023
Will Yucatan’s coastal towns & resorts be underwater by 2035 … or 2050 … unless we change?**
Here’s a fun graph from 4 yrs ago … 2019 … that ironically does not include the last 4 years of additional pollution from all the car trips, consumer goods shipped (transportation) … international jet trips …
Notice how we now ~already~ now have an excess of over 870 Gigatonnes of CO2 in our atmosphere … added since just 1989 … by the Americans/Canadians et al consuming 20X times more per person and emitting 20X times more pollution per person … than other countries … just since 1989.
The 784 Gigatonnes of Atmospheric CO2 accumulated in all of history before 1989 … versus … 870 Gigatonnes of Atmospheric CO2 pollution emitted by our “modern” USA/Canadian lifestyles since 1989 – points to some needs for change.
Is it time to ride your bicycle … here in nice FLAT Yucatan … since each tankful of gas burned in our car, dumps-out over 300 pounds of fresh-pollution?
Is it time to buy LOCAL ?
… since Transportation (cars, trucks, ships, jets) are the single biggest polluting emitters.
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Why is this especially important in Yucatan?
(and in Florida, Kim)
**Dr. James Hansen (NASA’s top climate scientist) has published 2 landmark reports this past year showing that ALL of Chuburna through Dzilam del Bravo can be UNDERWATER by as early as 2035 … as it is likely that the Yucatan coastline will move inland as much as 5 km by 2050,
unless we make BIG changes in the next 5 years.
Top scientists are offering solutions to rapidly cool the planet … yet we need the politicians to just step out of their unscientific path-blocking-ways.
Science & Facts versus Non-scientist Politicians Hype:
** “(Hansen’s) new paper warns that warming could exceed 1.5 C by the end of the 2020s and 2 C by 2050. A gradual global decline in air pollution, driven by (politicians) TIGHTENING environmental regulations …”
IOW … Coal burning currently COOLS the planet, because the aerosols it creates … block sunlight … putting the planet in the shade … just like how good it feels when we step out of the direct sunlight, instead into the cool shade of a tree.
Science versus politicians hype:
“(Hansen’s) new paper warns that warming could exceed 1.5 C by the end of the 2020s and 2 C by 2050. A gradual global decline in air pollution, driven by (politicians) TIGHTENING environmental regulations,”
… Shade … is good!
And YES … We do have options … like cooling the planet with harmless blackboard chaulk aerosols, sprayed into the stratosphere annually.
Readers can notice that Dr, James Hansen’s last 2 reports this past year are saying that Chinas COAL fired plants are COOLING the planet, due to the planet-COOLING aerosols that they emit.
Science versus politicians hype:
“(Hansen’s) new paper warns that warming could exceed 1.5 C by the end of the 2020s and 2 C by 2050. A gradual global decline in air pollution, driven by (politicians) TIGHTENING environmental regulations,”
https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889
Next: .. Fortunately, the solution of reversing global warming in just a month … could be paid for with just 3% of the USA’s mega-Military spending.
As the 1993 Mt. Pinatubo eruption showed, adding aerosols to the stratosphere could COOL the planet in just a month… providing 1½ yrs of cooling … for just $30 billion dollars.
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**What are the solutions?
Seriously, when each individual USA-nian emits as much pollution as 20 people from other countries … which group of people should we focus on changing? … So, we need the biggest consumers-biggest pollutors on the planet (USA-nians and Canadians), to change
**What are the solutions?
Seriously, when each individual USA-nian emits as much pollution as 20 people from other countries … which group of people should we focus on changing? … So, we need the biggest consumers-biggest pollutors on the planet (USA-nians and Canadians), to change
Next: .. Fortunately, the solution of reversing global warming in just a month … could be paid for with just 3% of the USA’s mega-Military spending.
As the 1993 Mt. Pinatubo eruption showed, adding aerosols to the stratosphere could COOL the planet in just a month… providing 1½ yrs of cooling … for just $30 billion dollars.
Then … targeted cooling efforts (using aerosol) in the polar regions, could RE-FREEZE them … stabilizing them … in just 1 season.
Cheers,
Dr. Steven M. Fry
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Surviving Yucatan 
It would have helped the article to plot the rise in sea level too, not just CO2.