NASA climate scientist discusses climate change and natural disasters

Kate Marvel is a climate scientist that uses computerized climate models to predict Earth's future. She wrote a book called Human Nature. She starts out the book saying the following, "I’m angry that we’ve known that greenhouse gases cause global warming for more than a century and have done very little to stop emitting them. And then I remember where these emissions come from and feel appropriately guilty. I’m sad, desperately so, when I think about all the things we’ll lose. I’m afraid of the disasters I know are coming. I’m proud and surprised and hopeful and utterly in love with our beautiful world. I feel so much. Isn’t this unscientific? Aren’t researchers supposed to be perfectly objective, unemotional, and neutral made from equations and code."

Marvel discusses many of the emotions she and I'm sure other climate scientists feel about the fact that scientists have known for decades that our Earth is warming which will continue to cause fires, floods, and natural disasters. However, their voices and the very obvious scientific evidence is being ignored. Why would our political leaders ignore scientific evidence that says we will experience an increase in climate disasters if we don't stop burning fossil fuels? Marvel provides a much needed history lesson. She explains the following:

"In the 1970s, Exxon wanted to take advantage of federal science funding and investigate whether to diversify its energy strategy. The company built a thriving, impartial science program. And the information it gathered was not siloed or locked away. Exxon knew. The manager of science briefed the board of directors about the implications. If the company continued to sell its product, then global temperatures would warm, glaciers would melt, and the seas would rise."

Despite the scientific evidence, the leaders of ExxonMobil created a campaign to declare the opposite, denying climate change. The book says the following: "'Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate,' said the CEO of ExxonMobil in 1997. 'Science is not now able to confirm that fossil fuel use has led to any significant global warming,' he wrote in 2000, three years later. This was not true, and he knew it."

Exxon even created a global campaign to ensure humanity continued burning fossil fuels. A leaked memo in 1998 very clearly laid out their strategy saying the following: “Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science, and when recognition of uncertainty becomes part of the conventional wisdom.”

Marvel then says the following a few paragraphs later in the book, "In February 2017, the CEO of ExxonMobil became the sixty-ninth secretary of state of the United States. 'I think that’s still an open question,' he said of climate change. 'Our belief in the ability to influence it is based upon some very, very complicated climate models that have very wide outcomes.'”

Okay so I definitely get the picture here and I can certainly understand why climate scientists are angry. I'm angry also. Essentially, scientists have been telling political leaders for decades that the Earth is going to shit due to fossil fuels. However, because the fossil fuel companies have money, they are sitting in political leadership seats and denying climate change in order to get richer. Yikes, this is bad right?

Climate deniers like to use cold days or historical cold periods as an example as to why global warming isn't real. The fact is that the Earth is warming over time. Marvel says that the world is more than 2.3°F hotter than it was in 1900 and the temperature is increasing every decade. Scientists do realize that the climate naturally changes over time; however, Marvel says that the Earth's climate is not supposed to rise consistently for more than a century. Marvel also says, "Starting in the nineteenth century, carbon dioxide began to enter the atmosphere at rates unprecedented in at least 800,000 years". Scientists and politicians know this is due to greenhouse gases beyond a reasonable doubt. The biggest culprits being fossil fuels and deforestation.

So let's be real here. What does this mean? It means natural disasters. Marvel says the following, "I’ve had too many disasters to study lately: the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave that killed hundreds and boiled sea creatures alive in freakishly warm water, Hurricane Ida’s deadly flooding in New York City, more than two decades of brutal drought in the American West, the one-two punch of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. I’ve tracked heat waves and apocalyptic rainstorms that obliterate previous records. The statistics are staggering. To cite the 2023 U.S. National Climate Assessment, in the 1980s there was one (inflation-adjusted) billion-dollar disaster in the United States every four months. Now there is one every three weeks."

I think we all understand what it means when we hear that the Earth warming means more and more climate disasters until we make changes. Personally, I don't think the climate scientists are making this up and I don't think they are fear mongering. They are providing information which humans are choosing to ignore. But hey that's okay everyone has free will. The Earth will survive and be around for a while, the human species not so much. Over time the majority of humans will die from natural disasters. We all know this, we just don't want to say it outloud right? If you've read my blog then you know I researched and studied near death experiences and consciousness for three years so I know exactly what happens when we die. I'm not afraid of death; however, I find it really unpleasant that the majority of the human species will be wiped out over time due to climate disasters. Horrendous floods, droughts, hurricanes, fires, tornadoes, snow storms, heat waves, it all sounds very unpleasant, doesn't it?

I'm not trying to fear monger or cause stress here. I just want you to have the information because you won't find this in the mainstream news everyday. Why don't the mainstream news companies report this? You will find that mainstream news companies have received millions in advertising revenue from fossil fuel companies. As I've said in other blog posts, there is a very small percentage of wealthy humans that run the planet. Nonetheless, I have really great news for you! There are many more humans that want to do the right thing. The majority of humans are benevolent, they just need the information.

Humanity has solutions and renewable energy options. The issue is that the fossil fuel industry has historically had power and money. I believe that if people start talking about this issue and putting pressure on our political leaders then something will be done. This will take more humans that want change and a spread of information. Until more humans start talking about this it will continue to get worse.

As humanity wakes up and evolves, we will need to make big changes to our world. Every person matters and will be needed to build a new world. That's where you come in because your opinion matters and your soul chose to be on this planet at this time. My suggestion is we start talking about this issue and voicing our concerns. We start electing political officials that care about humanity and our planet. Personally, I think the human species is amazing and I would like us to survive, and someday even thrive and live in connected alignment with our beautiful planet.