IPCC climate report (& general climate change thread?)
#21
Posted 12 October 2018 - 08:08 PM
Fairly sure Holland will vanish too
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#22
Posted 12 October 2018 - 09:04 PM
No I remember more of the article now. It said that some of continental plates will bounce up too which will mean some coastal cities height above sea level will increase dramatically. So it's all to play for basically.
Here's the link - https://theguardian....merge-coastline
Disclaimer - I read this a while ago and haven't been sleeping or re-read it before this post so may be talking bollocks.
Here's the link - https://theguardian....merge-coastline
Disclaimer - I read this a while ago and haven't been sleeping or re-read it before this post so may be talking bollocks.
This post has been edited by Mezla PigDog: 12 October 2018 - 09:04 PM
Burn rubber =/= warp speed
#23
Posted 12 October 2018 - 11:19 PM
"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
#24
Posted 13 October 2018 - 09:14 AM
Alternative Goose, on 12 October 2018 - 03:06 AM, said:
I thought the rain forest as the world's lung was rejected a long time ago? I remember some class where it was put forth that the rain forest is a closed ecology. The oxygen the forest produces is mostly consumed by the fauna that breaks down all that vegetation.
It's more that it puts carbon back into the ground because the trees break down into peat. They absorb carbon to grow and then don't release it when they die (as opposed to dry forests which tend to burn).
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Grief, FFS will you do something with your sig, it's bloody awful
worry said:
Grief is right (until we abolish capitalism).
#25
Posted 13 October 2018 - 09:20 AM
Well, I'd propose to do both. Dry forests may burn but they grow back. And as far as I understand it, they are more efficient carbon scrubbers than the rainforest.
This post has been edited by Alternative Goose: 13 October 2018 - 09:21 AM
#26
Posted 14 October 2018 - 05:26 PM
haven't done any more research into this. But if they can make it cost efficient this seems like a great thing
eta Nat Geo article on it
This post has been edited by Macros: 14 October 2018 - 05:29 PM
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#27
Posted 14 October 2018 - 08:28 PM
Climate change terrifies me because we're so fucking unprepared. Even now, those in power with the greatest will to change are only slowly moving towards moves to stop or limit it, when increasingly huge portions of the scientific commentary is shouting, directly or indirectly, that mitigation is great okay but what we need to start thinking about RIGHT THE FUCK NOW is what to do when it goes wrong. It feels like we should no longer be putting our priority on mitigating the change itself, as important as it still is to do that, but on mitigating the damage the change will do because otherwise billions of people will die.
Like, the world is going to change. In our lifetimes. Not just a little bit, it's quite likely going to be the biggest civilisational shift since the industrial revolution, and if we don't anticipate it and start reacting in advance, that shift is going to be devastating.
Like, the world is going to change. In our lifetimes. Not just a little bit, it's quite likely going to be the biggest civilisational shift since the industrial revolution, and if we don't anticipate it and start reacting in advance, that shift is going to be devastating.
This post has been edited by polishgenius: 14 October 2018 - 08:28 PM
I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
#28
Posted 15 October 2018 - 12:53 AM
Our best minds are on it:
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
#29
Posted 15 October 2018 - 07:42 AM
Macros, on 14 October 2018 - 05:26 PM, said:
haven't done any more research into this. But if they can make it cost efficient this seems like a great thing
eta Nat Geo article on it
I did a PhD on this technology.
It's a lovely idea, but the laws of thermodynamics leave you battling uphill. It will probably be a small part of whatever solution is come up with but unless the technology massively improves (and someone does some really clever engineering) it is always going to lag behind other forms of renewable and good battery technology. Renewable methane as an energy storage device is a bit more likely.
#30
Posted 31 October 2018 - 09:16 PM
https://www.washingt...-global-warming
Summary: the oceans are retaining way more heat (60% more) than previously believed, making even the IPCC report's timeline rosier than the likely reality.
Summary: the oceans are retaining way more heat (60% more) than previously believed, making even the IPCC report's timeline rosier than the likely reality.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
#31
Posted 01 November 2018 - 06:33 AM
What if every boat has to have an ice cube maker strapped to the side, so it keeps making the sea a large iced drink?
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#32
Posted 01 November 2018 - 07:28 AM
Maybe we could just have a global cooling day and let all our freezer doors stand open for 12 hours. That should fix it.
#33
Posted 01 November 2018 - 08:22 AM
STOP GLOBAL WARMING, START GLOBAL COOLING
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#34
Posted 27 November 2018 - 11:22 PM
We are, in the most literal sense, doomed.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
#35
Posted 04 February 2019 - 10:30 PM
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
#36
Posted 05 February 2019 - 05:54 AM
worry, on 04 February 2019 - 10:30 PM, said:
I don't understand why people care about this. Who cares if all the Himalayan ice melts?
It's not like 1/4 of the world's population need to eat food or anything.
There was a ContraPoints video which introduced the idea of framing action against climate change as "a nationalist agenda to prevent more brown refugees in the future", which I think is the only climate action that has the slightest chance of success in the US.
Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori
#sarcasm
Pro patria mori
#sarcasm
#37
Posted 05 February 2019 - 11:04 PM
That's funny, but in the sad-funny kind of way.
If you don't wanna read the article, the timeline for the collapse is 50-100 years and the sea level rise is 2 feet.
If you don't wanna read the article, the timeline for the collapse is 50-100 years and the sea level rise is 2 feet.
They came with white hands and left with red hands.
#38
Posted 05 February 2019 - 11:37 PM
There's a great and optimistic quote by famed philosopher and genuinely happy person Frankie Boyle which sums up the forthcoming decades for everyone;
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If you pay close attention to how the world's going, you'll know that environmentally you should reuse your plastic bags, to suffocate your children
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#39
Posted 06 February 2019 - 02:25 AM
The best way to slow global warming is not to have kids. People are the single largest fixable part of the solution.
So I propose taxing people for each kid they pop out. Run commercials that having children is the biggest and worst thing you can do to the world. You had 3 kids! Didn’t you even consider the greater environmental impact and utter waste each child will bring.
Counterpoint: The government should limit each family to one kid in advanced countries and try to sterilize people who are willing younger. Mandate only certain people should.
Make it part of pop culture. Global Warming is a menace!! Laws and Taxes fix problems so more of these!!
https://www.project-...er=accesspaylog
https://www.google.c.../amp/1113923002
https://www.google.c...enting.amp.html
Etc etc etc..
Maybe the governments can come together and offer a mass sterilization and only let a few breed. Hmm....
-Nic
(You all know my thought process over this and it’s mass hysteria)
I know I am doing my part!!
So I propose taxing people for each kid they pop out. Run commercials that having children is the biggest and worst thing you can do to the world. You had 3 kids! Didn’t you even consider the greater environmental impact and utter waste each child will bring.
Counterpoint: The government should limit each family to one kid in advanced countries and try to sterilize people who are willing younger. Mandate only certain people should.
Make it part of pop culture. Global Warming is a menace!! Laws and Taxes fix problems so more of these!!
https://www.project-...er=accesspaylog
https://www.google.c.../amp/1113923002
https://www.google.c...enting.amp.html
Etc etc etc..
Maybe the governments can come together and offer a mass sterilization and only let a few breed. Hmm....
-Nic
(You all know my thought process over this and it’s mass hysteria)
I know I am doing my part!!
-If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone
#40
Posted 06 February 2019 - 02:59 AM
Nicodimas, on 06 February 2019 - 02:25 AM, said:
The best way to slow global warming is not to have kids. People are the single largest fixable part of the solution.
So I propose taxing people for each kid they pop out. Run commercials that having children is the biggest and worst thing you can do to the world. You had 3 kids! Didn’t you even consider the greater environmental impact and utter waste each child will bring.
Counterpoint: The government should limit each family to one kid in advanced countries and try to sterilize people who are willing younger. Mandate only certain people should.
Make it part of pop culture. Global Warming is a menace!! Laws and Taxes fix problems so more of these!!
https://www.project-...er=accesspaylog
https://www.google.c.../amp/1113923002
https://www.google.c...enting.amp.html
Etc etc etc..
Maybe the governments can come together and offer a mass sterilization and only let a few breed. Hmm....
-Nic
(You all know my thought process over this and it’s mass hysteria)
I know I am doing my part!!
So I propose taxing people for each kid they pop out. Run commercials that having children is the biggest and worst thing you can do to the world. You had 3 kids! Didn’t you even consider the greater environmental impact and utter waste each child will bring.
Counterpoint: The government should limit each family to one kid in advanced countries and try to sterilize people who are willing younger. Mandate only certain people should.
Make it part of pop culture. Global Warming is a menace!! Laws and Taxes fix problems so more of these!!
https://www.project-...er=accesspaylog
https://www.google.c.../amp/1113923002
https://www.google.c...enting.amp.html
Etc etc etc..
Maybe the governments can come together and offer a mass sterilization and only let a few breed. Hmm....
-Nic
(You all know my thought process over this and it’s mass hysteria)
I know I am doing my part!!
No, the best way is to make companies accountable for the externalities of their actions.