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The thing is, that's been mostly the case in those countries for a long time. The difference is that In the case of Uganda, it's actually regressing.

To mostly quote what I previously wrote: "If you take 140 (not 100) years as the amount of time, you're correct. The problem is, that you don't take into account the accelerated rate of rise over the last 40 years. "Earth’s temperature has risen by an average of 0.14° Fahrenheit (0.08° Celsius) per decade since 1880, or about 2° F in total. The rate of warming since 1981 is more than twice as fast: 0.32° F (0.18° C) per decade. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature

So they won't be stopped from getting to where they want to go; they won't be prisoners; they just won't be able to go through adjoining neighborhoods. This is in the interest of curbing congestion. In fact congestion pricing has long been a feature of many cities long before the 15 minute city idea.

You got any actual evidence to back this up?

More nonsense about someone trying to put a fence around you. Please share with us examples of where this is either the case or is being proposed.

Actually the explanation was provided by the great Irish physicist, John Tyndall, who discovered the greenhouse effect of various gases. Then the Nobel Prize winning Swedish physicist, Arrhenius, actually quantified the effects. But if you think that the low percentage of CO in the atmosphere somehow justifies your point, then consider that chlorofluorocarbons compose a percentage of the ozone layer that is only one tenth that of Carbon dioxide. Yet the reduction of the percentage thanks to the banning of chlorofluorocarbons has resulted in the ongoing recovery of ozone levels in the upper atmosphere.

Praise the Lord that we have you to be the measurer of all things! Rate of sea level rise around New Zealand doubles in past 60 years https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/16/rate-of-sea-level-rise-around-new-zealand-doubles-in-past-60-years 30 years of satellite data show that global sea levels are rising in absolute terms.. But local factors either magnify or diminish that effect. In some parts of the world, the land is sinking due to such factors as extraction of ground water as you noted.. In other parts it's rising due to such phenomena as the rebound effect. Land in some parts of the world is actually rising as it still recovers from the weight of the glaciers during the latest period of near global glaciation. But, again, in absolute terms, sea levels are rising and rising at an increasing rate.

Your theory, huh? You really want to dignify your evidence-free speculation as a theory? More like a notion, actually. There's a thing called Milankovitch cycles that do play a crucial role in climate change. But they operate over thousands of years. What's more if the solar theory was true then the entire atmosphere should be warming. But that's not the case. While the tropsphere were humans live has been getting warmer, the stratosphere has actually been getting cooler. This is mostly due to the fact that greenhouse gases delay the ascent of infrared radiation into the stratosphere, There was another theory floated that sunspots might affect the climate. And indeed there was a very weak connection noted until the mid 70's. At which point it was swamped by other factors. What's more that correlaton assumes that sunspots actually contribute to cooling, not warming. But the fact is that for previous solar cycles in the 20th and 21st century, sunspot activity has become progressively low. So, despite that, global warming has actually been faster over the last 40 years.

*Deleted post edited out* Because fossil fuel companies have been so benevolent? In fact, fossil fuel revenues have supported massive corruption and poor governance in developing nations.

Nuclear energy is hugely expensive. Even more expensive than projected because of huge cost overruns that plague their construction. And as we're seeing now in France, not nearly so reliable as its cracked up to be. And if the fossil fuel industry is so powerful, why is it that new power plant construction is predominantly wind and solar powered?

Well, at least #4 should be mitigated by the increasing reliance on solar and wind. As for the negative growth assertion, the EU has greatly decreased emissions, but its economy continues to grow. There is no necessary connection between fossil fuel use and economic growth.

If you take 120 (not 100) years as the amount of time, you're correct. The problem is, that you don't take into account the accelerated rate of rise over the last 40 years. T "Earth’s temperature has risen by an average of 0.14° Fahrenheit (0.08° Celsius) per decade since 1880, or about 2° F in total. The rate of warming since 1981 is more than twice as fast: 0.32° F (0.18° C) per decade. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature

There are lots of allegations here, including 6 degrees of separation "evidence" but no proof at all that Hunter Biden actually profited from any of these deals. Given that he was or still is under investigation by David Weiss, the Trump appointed US Attorney for Delaware, it's extremely dubious that Biden made any profit at all from the sale of his business. Certainly nothing on the scale suggested by Schweizer. Had that been the case, he would easily have been able to repay the loan made on his behalf to settle what he owed to the IRS. It's also important to note that Peter Schweizer, the author of these pieces, has a very dubious history. https://www.mediamatters.org/peter-schweizer/twenty-plus-errors-fabrications-and-distortions-peter-schweizers-clinton-cash

Thanks for the rant. Now can you share specific information about how Joe Biden profited from his elected position?

Or how about this National Climate Assessment: Great Plains’ Ogallala Aquifer drying out https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/national-climate-assessment-great-plains’-ogallala-aquifer-drying-out

Bankers applaud as GOP senator dismisses calls for regulations after SVB collapse Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana garnered applause from a room full of bankers on Tuesday after he dismissed calls for tougher regulations following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. "There are a lot of talking heads out there who are saying that the solution is more regulation, and I strongly disagree," Daines said in remarks to the American Bankers Association's Washington Summit, an annual gathering of bank CEOs and other top executives. The Montana Republican went on to defend a 2018 law that progressive lawmakers and experts have said is at least partly responsible for the recent bank failures. https://www.salon.com/2023/03/22/bankers-applaud-as-senator-dismisses-calls-for-regulations-after-svb-collapse_partner/ And the Titanic cruises on.

This is what reasoning backed by evidence looks like: Early climate modelers got global warming right, new report finds Climate skeptics have long raised doubts about the accuracy of computer models that predict global warming, but it turns out that most of the early climate models were spot-on, according to a look-back by climate scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA. Of 17 climate models published between the early 1970s and the late 2000s, 14 were quite accurate in predicting the average global temperature in the years after publication, said Zeke Hausfather, a doctoral student in UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group and lead author of a new paper analyzing the models. “The real message is that the warming we have experienced is pretty much exactly what climate models predicted it would be as much as 30 years ago,” he said. “This really gives us more confidence that today’s models are getting things largely right as well.” https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/12/04/early-climate-modelers-got-global-warming-right-new-report-finds/

False. "The supposed "global cooling" consensus among scientists in the 1970s — frequently offered by global-warming skeptics as proof that climatologists can't make up their minds — is a myth, according to a survey of the scientific literature of the era. The '70s was an unusually cold decade. Newsweek, Time, The New York Times and National Geographic published articles at the time speculating on the causes of the unusual cold and about the possibility of a new ice age. But Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center surveyed dozens of peer-reviewed scientific articles from 1965 to 1979 and found that only seven supported global cooling, while 44 predicted warming. Peterson says 20 others were neutral in their assessments of climate trends." https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4335191&page=1

Thank you for providing absolutely no facts to back up your assertion.

Really? Tell that to the citizens of America's southwest where water levels on the major electric generating reservoirs are approaching the point where they won't produce electricity. Tell them how everything on the Colorado river is just fine. And while you're at it, tell them that Saudi owned farms that are draining the aquifer so they can grow alfalfa to feed their dairy cows in Saudi Arabia are nothing to worry about.

I know of nowhere that such a mandate is being proposed. This kind of allegation comes from conspiracy theorists who would rather fictionalize than take the time to read what 15 minute city programs are really about.

Next thing you know, they'll want to impose speed limits on cars.

You do much driving in big cities?

You kind of blew your cover here about asking an honest question. The ‘15-minute city’ backlash is part of the great climate change conspiracy theory Last month, protesters against a new low-traffic neighbourhood system took aim at “15-minute cities” there. They argued that the proposals to reduce reliance on cars are a Trojan horse for controlling citizens’ movement through QR codes and other forms of digital surveillance. On Facebook, a group founded a few weeks ago to protest against 15-minute cities has more than 20,000 users who have posted empty claims that the ideas are communist or Nazi in nature, or make comparisons to the dystopian fiction of The Hunger Games. https://www.ft.com/content/93d58155-5a4e-4135-ac6f-00d5a3c8e4d1

More than 99.9% of studies agree: Humans caused climate change https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/10/more-999-studies-agree-humans-caused-climate-change