BOGOTA AIRPORT FINAL APPROACH RUNWAY 13, AUGUST 1995
ADAPTION
Bogota, Colombia, five degrees north of the Equator, elevation 2,600 meters, (8,500 feet), has a fantastic climate averaging 20° C, (68° F), with 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night year-round. (Changing daylight savings time twice a year would be ridiculous!) Everything is lush green. Does that seem to be too good to be true? Well, yes. Colombia has occasional volcanos and torrential rains that can cause flooding and catastrophic mudslides. (They are safely out of the hurricane belt.)
Supporters of the climate change consensus are unnecessarily pessimistic about the human capability to adapt. Tribes have thrived in surprisingly diverse climates. TR397 sees no problems with increasing carbon dioxide outside of historic, natural variations.
To what degree humans can adapt is open, but we have been surprised about the degree sea animals have proliferated in undersea volcanic activity areas with hot and acidic water conditions. (Search the Kavachi Volcano and "Sharkcano”.)
ANTHROCATASTROPHOLOGY
(If not in your spell checker, please add, "anthrocatastrophology" – the study of human caused catastrophes.)
The worst anthrocatastrophe is war. Fukushima was a natural catastrophe made worse by human gross misunderstanding of low-level radiation. Chernobyl was an anthrocatastrophe caused by a socialist country trying to make weapons grade plutonium for nuclear bombs to compete with a capitalist country who already had thousands of nuclear bombs. (For the possibly coming ultra-anthrocatastrophe.)
The now ongoing anthrocatastrophe is the fear for their future laid upon our younger generation of kids by misguided climate change predictions. Note we are talking global catastrophes. Greenpeace and others have blamed recent storms, droughts, and wildfires on our inaction to curb fossil fuel use. There is no evidence that this recent activity is outside normal climate variations.
For at least 3000 years humans have lived on all land areas of the Earth except for Antarctica, in zones from sub-freezing to scorching hot, low temperatures -40°C & F (where the two scales cross), to 50° C. 122°F
The Maya built magnificent structures and created notable artwork on the Yucatan peninsula in a hot and humid climate with no electricity. In 1994, on a trip to Cancun, I left a beautiful airconditioned hotel and visited a Mexican neighborhood of 200,000 people who lived without electricity or running water in their homes. (A water truck delivered a few gallons of water each day to a cistern they each had.)
In what is now Colombia, (South America), archaeologists have found evidence of human occupations going back 12,000 years. They all got to choose the climate they like best as Colombia has the most diverse climate regions in the world. Do you want it a little cooler? Move up the mountainside a thousand feet.