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Climate Change: What was to be Done?
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The Internet Makes You Stupid
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Jan 10, 2016 19:44
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Climate Change: Subsidizing Euthanasia with Carbon Credits
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Apr 10, 2016 10:13
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I'm still trying to figure out what exactly constitutes a "climate-related death," given that any acute atmospheric effect capable of causing an immediately quantifiable harm is by definition weather.
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May 16, 2016 23:12
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Placid Marmot posted:Various sources suggest very large mortality, both already and increasingly in the future, [...] Oh I get all that. It's just that when someone tries to tie a direct causal relationship to a specific number of deaths per year to a concept like climate that is defined by a very large temporal sample, all sorts tenuous links can be invented or ignored by people with an agenda. On top of that, "climate-related" is a different from "climate change-related." The maker of the chart seems to be mistaking our technological adaptations to our environment in the last century for a reduction in the harshness of said environment. It's either that, or they're trying to imply that we've gotten better at protecting ourselves from nature so it's no biggie if it gets worse, which is pretty loving nutty.
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May 17, 2016 13:41
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Would the world financial markets even be able to handle the writing-off of all those oil, gas and coal revenues that will suddenly vanish from the books? This is assuming the mandated total changeover to renewables, let's say in a fantasy world where humanity actually wakes up. A pretty significant chunk of all money in circulation is borrowed against unburned fossil fuels that, if utilized, will most certainly doom our civilization. That's one hell of a catch-22.
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May 19, 2016 16:32
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Mother Nature is having hot flashes and wants her kids to move out already for cryin out loud.
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Aug 12, 2016 10:42
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I would have loved to see the look on Trump's face when his military intelligence briefing told him that climate change is real and that it's a major national security issue and of great strategic importance.
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Nov 13, 2016 03:27
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There hasn't been a single day with high temperatures below 50°F in Green Bay, WI, for the entirety of November. Thirteen of those days have been above 60°F. This is not necessarily unprecedented for our climate, but there has certainly been an increase in the frequency of these "not unprecedented" situations. One fun aspect of this unusual pattern has been a nearly daily occurrence of complex sun halos for the last two weeks. One had 22° and 46°(!) halos, parhelia, supralateral and circumzenith arcs, and an upper tangent arc.
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Nov 18, 2016 18:50
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Bushfires
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Nov 22, 2016 11:01
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It's good to see the US competing with China again.
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Dec 1, 2016 02:14
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1°C increase: It's only one degree! Natural variations!! 1°C decrease: Temperatures PLUNGE and PLUMMET Climate Change is FAKE
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Dec 1, 2016 22:50
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I'll put my chips in the pink triangle.
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Dec 2, 2016 06:04
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rscott posted:Batteries would have to have something like 10x the energy density than the current bleeding edge to compete with jet fuel, that doesn't seem to be in the pipeline I always tell people that the future would be here by now if we had better batteries.
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Dec 17, 2016 05:54
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In the dead middle of Arctic night no less.
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Feb 1, 2017 21:00
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Billions will die, but what about small businesses!
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Feb 2, 2017 01:16
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Haha, worse yet, what if everyone kept driving cars and burning coal and gas for energy!
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Feb 2, 2017 05:30
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Accretionist posted:Hmmm. It seems the original proposition to compact all human biomass into a giant cube and drop it on New York would be more feasible, and likely more effective in the long term.
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Apr 1, 2017 05:21
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Rime posted:10ppm in 8 months is a bit of a spike. Sheesh. There's a yearly cycle that varies by about that much.
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Apr 22, 2017 04:34
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Evil_Greven posted:Even so, it's been going up about 2 ppm/yr lately. Oh, for sure, but I was just pointing out a possible misinterpretation
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Apr 22, 2017 22:12
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