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Creative Speculation

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bucolic_frolic

(51,558 posts)
Tue May 12, 2020, 05:45 PM May 2020

What are YOU worried about? [View all]

I'm wondering where folks think things are headed. Whatever that means for you.

I'll start this off. I'm thinking we're really on a roll into things that could never happen, things out of nowhere, things only historians told us about, and things our grandparents never heard of.

Ready?

I'm wondering if we could have monstrous winter snowfalls around the world because ... Mother Earth has heated up and the atmosphere is carrying lots of moisture. Did you read the post on DU the other day about reaching heat and humidity above the threshold of human survival far quicker than anyone thought?

Well, now, with all that moisture, we've reduced energy use due to COVID-19 by a whopping amount. I don't know how much, but people report clean air for the first time since 1958, and the Atlanta Federal Reserve predictive arm says GDP could be off 34% in the second quarter. So we have cooling that will meet all that moisture from global warming.

I think we could see a Jack London "Call of the Wild" type winter, snowfalls of 7, 8, 10, 14 feet in parts of the US.

So do you want to worry about it along with me?

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