How to be a climate and COVID denier by calling warnings, “panicked fearmongering.”

Melting from the Arctic — and the Greenland ice sheet in particular — is the largest contributor to global sea level rise. 

“If you look at where humanity lives, a great proportion of humanity lives at the coastlines worldwide.

“The megacities are along coastlines: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco.”

And that’s just sea-level rise. What about other problems?

The environmental conditions in the Arctic affect weather systems across the world.

The North and South poles act as the “freezers of the global system,” helping to circulate ocean waters around the planet in a way that helps to maintain the climates felt on land, Moon said.

“What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.”

The jet stream, a band of strong winds moving west to the east created by cold air meeting warmer air, helps regulate global weather.

In the continental U.S., the jet stream forms where generally colder and drier Arctic air meets warmer and more humid air from the Gulf.

But as temperatures in the Arctic warm, the jet stream, fueled by the temperature differences, weakens.

Rather than a steady stream of winds, the jet stream has become more “wavy,” allowing hot temperatures to extend usually far into the Arctic and frigid temperatures further south than usual.

The variability in the climate in the Arctic, specifically the weakening of the polar vortex, keeps cold air closer to the poles,

It likely led to the Texas freeze in February that led to millions without power and hundreds of deaths.

The study cited an “increasingly frequent number of episodes of extremely cold winter weather over the past four decades” in the U.S., despite temperatures rising overall.

As though sea level rise, species extinction, and more extreme weather aren’t bad enough, we also should look at disease:

Mosquitoes and other biting insects transmit many of the most important, devastating, and neglected human infectious diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, chikungunya, and West Nile virus.

Economic development and cooler temperatures have kept mosquito-borne diseases out of wealthier Northern Hemisphere countries, but climate change promises to tip the scales in the other direction.

As temperatures rise, malaria could be coming to your neighborhood.

And then there’s food:

Recent research suggests that adverse weather has canceled up to 30% of the expected increase in European crop growth.

But it is worrying that the most pronounced changes tend to be in countries, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, that are at high risk of climate impacts on food availability and affordability.

This is particularly clear in the case of barley, maize, millet, pulses, rice, and wheat.

The countries most at risk of food shortages are also worst affected by rising temperatures.

This seems to bear out the finding from the world’s premier climate science advisers, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that the higher average global temperatures and more extreme weather events associated with climate change will reduce the reliability of food production.

No, Messrs. Lomborg and Peterson, the warnings about COVID and global warming should not be written off as simply “panicked fearmongering.”

When you disseminate false information from such right-wing sources as Fox News, Breitbart, QAnon, Donald Trump, and the GOP, you not only stain whatever reputations you may have, but you endanger lives.

If you prefer to follow the anti-science, right-wing, unorthodox voices,, you have my permission to inject yourself with ivermectin, bleach, and hydroxychloroquine, and by all means, avoid vaccination.

But please stop writing harmful nonsense.

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