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I can recall days riding a motorcycle in LA on a 43 C day experiencing burned legs

The LaTimes says: "In Los Angeles, average maximum temperatures are expected to increase by as much as 5 degrees by midcentury, along with an increase in extreme temperatures and extreme heat days, according to the state’s most recent climate change assessment."

East of Los Angeles, roofs across the Chaffey Joint Union High School District once reached 140 F (60 C).

This will happen more and more, as our planet warms up rapidly due to the greenhouse effect. And it will not stop at 60 C.

The water is evaporating rapidly, as the planet is warming up at an ever accelerated rate.

Are we the most stupid species ever to have existed?

Einstein used to say that he is aware of only two infinite things - the universe and human stupidity, but he is not sure about the first.

Humans cause methane emissions by burning fossil fuels, engaging in large-scale agriculture and filling up landfills.

oil and gas should continue

Why?

Not until fusion

Why should solar energy wait for fusion?

Oil and gas should be replaced by solar energy and nuclear energy.

African nations are losing up to 5% of their GDP every year as they bear a heavier burden than the rest of the world from climate change, a new report says, after one of the continent's hottest years on record.

If we continue to deny the climate crisis, and fail to curb it, the GDP of the African, Asian, Europen, American and Australian nations will drop to zero.

I was taught at school in the 1970's

You can find many sources to read about the greenhouse process. The explanation is not complicated, and most people can grasp it.

Our planet continues to warm up in an accelerated pace, but we humans stick to our denial of this obvious fact. Wh adhere to burning carbon, when solar energy is now cheaper. We adhere to petrol wagons, when EVs are superior in every way. What a stupid race we are. Both stupid and suicidal.

 it involves giving up on conveniences they have grown to take for granted.

Wrong. It involves blissful modernization and enhancement of good life.

Toyota should start manufacturing EVs.

The attitude towards the "climate change", which is actually a process of rapid warming, should be curbing it, not "adapting" to it. Curbing the warming process is easy, because solar energy is now cheaper than energy produced from burning of carbon, and because electric transportation is now superior over petrol transportation in every aspect. We only have to decide that we want to survive. The denial of the climate crisis and the adherence to carbon are stupid and suicidal.

What is going on?

What is going on is that the denialists prevent us from solving the problem. They intimidate even the scientists.

the national and state governments' mindless rush toward wind and solar is driving up the cost of power

Solar Energy is now cheaper than energy produced from burning carbon. Also, when the planet burns down due to the greenhouse effect, this will entail a cost - the loss of our civilization.

There have been hotter periods where the Earth was ice free and you had things like ferns growing in Antarctica

To which periods do you refer?

but Japan is hot and wet, not hot and dry.

Exactly. The climate crisis that we experience is characterized by a rapid increase of the temperature, accompanied by a rise of the humidity. This crisis is not similar to anything that our planet has experienced in the past.

This gives us lots of lovely greenery

This greenery will burn down, and rise to the atmosphere in the form of CO2, when the temperature reaches a high enough value.

The rice will be replaced into a new type that can withstand a slightly higher temperature. But the temperature will continue to increase rapidly, so what then? Trying to adapt to the climate crisis is futile. Instead, we must curb the climate crisis, if we wish to survive.

The denial of the climate crisis is stupid and suicidal.

he himself very clearly states that what I believe you are refering to, a so-called "runaway greenhouse", is not possible here on Earth.

This is not precise.

Would you mind substantiating it with a source

Read, for example, what James Hansen has said.

But feel free to supply one that supports your 40°C temperature increase

I do not think that the temperature will increase in 40°C degrees in 1000 years. It will increase much more dramatically. A runaway phenomenon will take place, unless we get out from the carbon age quickly, and move to solar power and to nuclear power, as well as to electrical transportation.

most climate models estimate an increase of 6 to 8°C above pre-industrial levels in the next 1000 years

Which models predict so?

At a tiny outpost in the wine world, Ireland's handful of winemakers are cautiously eyeing long-term growth potential as climate change warms up its cool climate.

This transient moment is good for the Irish vintners. But the warming process due the greenhouse effect does not stop. Will it be still good for the Irish when the temperature rises to 50 degrees Celsius?

The shift towards solar energy and electrical transportation must advance vigorously, if we want to survive.

"Water pollution is one of the biggest threats to the reef outside of climate change"

The ruining of our planet by ourselves is a revelation of endless stupidity.

History is irrelevant in the face of the heat problem and climate crisis. The only way to tackle the heat and the rapid warming process is to get out of the carbon age, leave it behind, and move to solar energy and to nuclear energy. This is feasible and easy.

Wildfires are one of the positive feedback loops that accelerate the malignant greenhouse process: The burnt organic materials rise to the atmosphere in the form of CO2. The enormous amounts of added CO2 cause a further rise of the temperature and this, in turn, causes more wildfires. This runaway vicious cycle heralds the very near excruciating end of our beautiful planet.

deniers think uncertainty means hoax

There is no uncertainty. The fact that CO2 causes a greenhouse effect is as certain as the fact that the Earth is a ball and not a flat disk, and as the fact that 2+2=4. Even though "top level peer reviewed scientific articles" have been published which claim that 2+2=4 is not certain, and is just an unproven hypothesis.