As the world moves to the UN climate change conference in Paris at the end of the month, you can expect one or two articles to appear each day to demonstrate how the use of carbon by our evil ways is adversely affecting the environment in many ways.

A current story on CNN reports on a story published by the National Bureau of Economic Research is the climate change is killing our sex drive. They showed using data from 1931 to 2010 that days over 80 Deg F results in a 0.4% reduction in births 9 months later. They project that the increasing number of hot days from 30 now to 90 in a warmer climate could mean about 100,000 fewer births in the U.S. Among the things proposed is that the high temperature impair sperm function. They did not include any statistics on the effects of air conditioning, or report on how the birth rates are affected in Africa, where the temperature is warmer.

Another story is that LaGuardia Airport in New York needs to be rebuilt to accommodate up to 6 feet of sea level by 2100.   New York State officials are creating sea level rise regulations to help coastal communities prepare for the increase, which is to be a major impact from climate change. If greenhouse gas emissions are unchecked, most of the US population could be affected by the rising water. Seeing this is 75 years off, shouldn’t we be seeing an increasing sea level of about an inch per year rather than less than an inch per decade for the past century? Or will the increase occur after 2090 when we can’t rebuild quick enough when the flood starts.

On Nov 9, the headline said ‘Report: Climate Change could push 100M into extreme poverty by 2030.” The report says agriculture will be disrupted and will cause malaria and other diseases to spread. It further states the impacts will be borne by the poor that are not prepared to deal with climate shocks such as rising seas or severe droughts. Thus the solution is to send billions of dollars from the wealthy countries to the poorer countries.

I would expect an article or two each day this month about what “could” happen at some time in the future with very few specifics. Check the article to see whether anything is said to indicate the background of the article and whether there is any real science involved. Most are just some proposed hypothesis for a future in the mind of the reader.

For persons that accept these stores as accurate predictions of the future, I have a couple of bridges for sale.