New gov't report admits climate change ain't so bad

"Martha, do you really think global warming is a threat?"

Donald Trump is once again the President-elect and already things they are a changin' in the country faster than Al Sharpton cries "racist." So it stands to reason that the climate activists are a bit worried while we all know the climate is changing, it isn't the emergency it had been labeled.

A report required by the U.S. government per the 2022 Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act has given us an assessment of the various risks humanity faces and climate change was like a teaspoon of water in the ocean. Actually less so, the issue didn't get mentioned.

Global catastrophic and existential risks are dangers that could potentially destroy or severely damage human society. It's important to tackle these issues to make sure humans can continue to live and thrive in the future. 

Because these risks are so serious, in 2022, Congress passed a law called the Global Catastrophic Risk Management Act. This law says that the Secretary of Homeland Security and the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) need to work together to figure out what these big risks are and how bad they might be. The Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, along with FEMA, asked for help from the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center to study these risks. The report we're discussing now contains the results of that study.

This report gives an overview of what we currently understand about the dangers linked to six major threats:

Artificial Intelligence - The potential for AI to become dangerously autonomous or misused. 

Asteroid and Comet Impacts - The risk that our planet could be hit by a massive space rock or comet, causing widespread destruction. 

Sudden and Severe Climate Changes - Quick and drastic shifts in the Earth's climate that could disrupt ecosystems and human life. 

Nuclear War - The possibility of a nuclear conflict that could lead to global devastation. 

Severe Pandemics - Outbreaks of diseases that could spread rapidly and kill many people, whether they start naturally or are created through genetic engineering. 

Super-volcanoes - The eruption of a super-volcano, which could cover vast areas in ash, block sunlight, and lead to a global cooling effect.

The summaries in this report discuss these points for each threat:

How Likely and How Bad: When possible, we estimate how likely each event is to happen and how severe its impact could be. 

What Causes It and What We Don't Know: We look at what drives these risks and what uncertainties or unknowns exist around them. 

Future Trends: We consider whether the risk might grow, shrink, or change in the next ten years.

But climate change? Not so much--well, not at all the threat they claimed.

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