Jesse Watters Mocks Biden and Suggests Climate Change Hasn’t Killed Anyone, Despite Evidence to the Contrary
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Jesse Watters Mocks Biden and Suggests Climate Change Hasn’t Killed Anyone, Despite Evidence to the Contrary
Posted: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 23:17:31 +0000
Fox News’ Jesse Watters expressed skepticism about President Joe Biden’s comments regarding the threat posed by climate change, arguing that climate change had not actually caused any deaths.
In a speech to American soldiers in the United Kingdom on Wednesday, Biden said that when he was vice president, the Joint Chiefs of Staff told him climate change was “the greatest physical threat facing the United States.
“This is not a joke,” Biden told the soldiers. “You know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest physical threat facing America was? Global warming.”
Gen. Mark Milley , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, clarified the Pentagon’s position Thursday. “Climate change does impact,” he said, “But the president is looking at a much broader angle than I am.”
On Thursday’s edition of the The Five , Greg Gutfeld asked Watters, “Jesse, how stupid do you have to be to say right after a pandemic caused by an engineered virus that climate change is the number one threat?” [Note: it has not been proven that Covid-19 is an “engineered virus.”]
“You have to be pretty stupid, Greg,” replied Watters. “Are you calling the president stupid?”
“I would never do such a thing,” said Gutfeld.
“Leave it to me.”
Watters then suggested climate change hasn’t caused any deaths.
Usually, when I think threats, I think of death and money. So, climate change has killed how many people? Zero? The China virus killed 600,000 in this country alone, and you add the fentanyl that they bring over to Mexico. The cartels push that up here. Hundreds of thousands of fentanyl deaths here. What? Islamic terror, you count the overseas wars, you’re talking tens of thousands of American lives lost. Russian hacking. Tens of millions of dollars, maybe over a hundred million dollars.
So yeah, it’s not a joke. No one’s laughing, except we are, at Joe Biden.
The World Health Organization estimates that climate change causes more than 150,000 deaths each year.
A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change just two weeks ago cites human-made climate change as the culprit in 37% of global heat-related deaths from 1991 to 2018. In a sampling of 732 cities across the globe, researchers found that more than 260,000 were caused by higher temperatures from anthropogenic climate change in just those cities during that timespan.
The World Health Organization estimates that between 2030 and 2050, “climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress alone.”
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I saw a tv news story the other day stating that the southwest US is in a prolonged drought and they will have to start rationing water. The drought is the result of climate change the news story said.
By the end of this century 120 degree days will be common throughout that region and not just in July and August.
Who in their right mind wants to live in that environment?
Weather events and their effects have indeed killed untold numbers humans and animals world wide.
At present, no provable evidence linking these events with "climate change" has been established.
I would suggest that anyone worried about the coming climate catastrophe learn to adapt to and live with it.
Bingo.
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The West is the driest it's been in 1,200 years — raising questions about a livable future
Trees are dying . Riverbeds are empty. Lake Mead's water level dropped to its lowest point in history , and Utah's governor asked residents to pray for rain .
Water is increasingly scarce in the Western U.S. — where 72 percent of the region is in "severe" drought, 26 percent is in exceptional drought, and populations are booming.
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Insufficient monsoon rains last summer and low snowpacks over the winter left states like Arizona, Utah and Nevada without the typical amount of water they need, and forecasts for the rainy summer season don't show promise.
This year's aridity is happening against the backdrop of a 20-year-long drought. The past two decades have been the driest or the second driest in the last 1,200 years in the West, posing existential questions about how to secure a livable future in the region.
It's time to ask, "Is this a drought, or is it just the way the hydrology of the Colorado River is going to be?" said John Entsminger, the general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
A parched Sin City
Greater Las Vegas is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the country, home to more than 2.2 million people, and it gets just over 4 inches of rain in a good year.
Around 90 percent of the water comes from Lake Mead, the reservoir on the Colorado River formed by the Hoover Dam, which is currently 36 percent full.
The drought has been so persistent that the Southern Nevada Water Authority and many other groups in the region have spent the last 20 years preparing for a drier future.
"It isn't sneaking up on us," Entsminger said. "Since 2002, our population has increased close to 50 percent, about 750,000 people in the last 19 years or so, and over that same time our aggregated depletions from the Colorado River have gone down 23 percent."
The good news, he said, is that per capita water consumption is down by 40 percent. Indoor water is recycled in southern Nevada, where residents are paid to replace grass with drip-irrigated landscaping.
That is one of the region's many ways of confronting a 21st century Colorado River with significantly less water than it had a century ago.
Entsminger said the region needs to "drastically increase our conservation and rethink how we are using almost every gallon of water in order to accommodate that kind of future development."
That includes a new law that will declare more than 30 percent of the grass illegal in southern Nevada .
"The future of the Colorado River in the 21st century is almost certainly significantly less water than we had in the 20th century," he said, and it will require collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico. "The challenge before us is how seven states and two countries can all cooperate to figure out how to get by in the coming decades with significantly less water than we thought we had."
'Bull's-eye of global warming'
Grass bans won't save the West, especially a place that is in the middle of the desert and surging in population, like Phoenix.
Phoenix is the "bull's-eye of global warming, heating up and drying out," said Andrew Ross, a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and author of a book about Arizona's largest city called "Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City."
Before it was Phoenix, the Hohokam Indigenous people lived on the land for centuries. "They had a wonderful irrigation network system, and they subsisted in the desert with their canal network for more than a 1,000 years," Ross said, but severe drought forced them to abandon the site. Phoenix is built atop the ruins of the Hohokam people's city, and the canal system that brings water to Phoenix was built on the path first used by the Hohokam.
"The allegory is built into the city," Ross said. The test is whether history repeats itself.
Phoenix is a growth-obsessed city dominated by single-family-home real estate development . "You can't look at the long-term future of those developments without concluding that the challenges will only get greater by the year and with every new subdivision of low-density tract housing that's built," Ross said.
When he was writing his book on Phoenix 10 years ago, someone described Phoenix to Ross as a city of "people who are building homes for the people who are building homes." The metro area's population is almost 5 million, and it's expected to grow by around 2 million in the next 30 years.
Utah is in a similar situation. Its population grew by 18.4 percent over the past decade, making it the country's fastest-growing state, according to the latest census data.
The state government recently allocated $280 million for water projects, $100 million of which is for conservation. Farmers, who consume the most water in the state, are no longer flooding fields to irrigate them; instead, they're using more targeted and less wasteful irrigation methods. Utah is so dry that state officials might totally ban fireworks, fearing wildfires.
"I've already asked all Utahns to conserve water by avoiding long showers, fixing leaky faucets, and planting water-wise landscapes. But I fear those efforts alone won't be enough to protect us," Gov. Spencer Cox recently said in a statement.
To adapt, cities must acknowledge that drought "is not a temporary condition we can expect to go away, but rather something we have to deal with," said John Berggren, water policy adviser for Western Resource Advocates, based in Boulder, Colorado.
What does a sustainable Colorado River system look like? "We have a long way to go" to answer that question, Berggren said.
Panic time?
While it's easy to imagine that the drought spells apocalypse, experts say what prolonged drought really requires is the appropriate response and a willingness to adapt.
A report this spring from Arizona State University's Kyl Center for Water Policy argues that "the perception that Arizona is worst off among the western states is wrong."
Irrigated agriculture consumes 74 percent of the state's water supply . But as populations boom, more farmland is becoming neighborhoods, driving down water use.
"Farming in the Sun Corridor faces a genuine crisis, but that does not necessarily translate into urban shortages," the report said. "Of course, the fact that the Sun Corridor's dominant city is named after a bird that periodically immolates itself clearly invites scrutiny."
It's not that Phoenix won't have water in 20 years, but rather that to ensure that it does, industry might need to rethink why Arizona, which is mostly desert, is one of the top three market-vegetable-producing states.
Berggren said it's time to start strategizing, suggesting that states might need to pay farmers to plow their land without seeding it temporarily to destroy weeds and conserve moisture in the soil.
"If push comes to shove, they might need to go out and buy water rights from farmers, and those farms might go out of business," he said. That's not an idea to take lightly, and also not one to disregard. "We can have thriving communities, growing communities, diverse communities in the West. We just have to do it in a different way."
Here is an map of the US showing all states and the drought conditions. You'll see that not only CA. but NV, AZ, UT, OR, WN, MT, ND and west TX are in either extreme drought or exceptional drought the two highest categories. All of those areas produce a huge amount of the food and cotton that we use on a daily basis.
US has had several severe droughts throughout our history.
Found this VERY interesting read. You are correct. And they weren't in any one location.
Sounds like more than a passing drought.
Of course, we have, but nothing of this scale.
By regions or years? Droughts happen.
We are talking about the American West which is the driest it's been in 1,200 years. It's also where much of the food for the US is grown.
The maps shows droughts in areas that don't normally suffer droughts like the Mid-Atlantic and South East.
It's too bad Arkansas can't sell water to the drought states. We've been suffering flooding the past few days
That sounds like a serious situation to me.
So is over population. An ever growing population living where water resources are scarce already. But no one wants to talk about over population; just keep bringing in more.
I would like to talk about it. How about comprehensive sex education and free condoms?
One of the major problems is that people/farmers rarely consider saving water, turn on the faucet and you have water. That is not how it works, water is a finite commodity as farmers are once again finding out. The farmers will be the first affected and they are already fallowing 1/4 to 1/3 of their fields. The next step since many of the states being most severely affected will be the cost of food.
No we cannot, time to fish or cut bait as the saying goes.
Ken Burns is getting too old to make another Dust Bowl documentary.
Another thing that has not been mentioned is the hydroelectric power generated by the Hoover dam. It's been cut back a number of times since 2005 the last time being 2015 when some of the blades were changed out to deal with lower water levels and they are anticipating another cut this year or next. The dam provides the vast majority of electric power to southern Nevada.
And stopping legislative attempts to unduly restrict abortion?
Maybe we are going about this in the wrong way and we can get 'conservatives' on board by blaming it on Biden.
Brilliant !
Hey, over at another article they are praising Amnesty International for a report on China, when was the last time you saw the 'right' praise that Soros ridden organization?