Jimbo wrote:
Stop with the panic. It'll be all right.
Why do I somehow feel less than reassured?
Jimbo wrote:
Stop with the panic. It'll be all right.
Powehi wrote:Jimbo wrote:
Stop with the panic. It'll be all right.
Why do I somehow feel less than reassured?
Jimbo wrote:Powehi wrote:Jimbo wrote:
Stop with the panic. It'll be all right.
Why do I somehow feel less than reassured?
Think of global warming and the rising seas like slow zombies and how there really is no excuse to be a victim. You can pretty much just walk away from the them and - - - What if Trump's wall was a sea wall? Start building it now and if 2050 is the date when something is supposed to happen we'll be ready for that zombie.
Jimbo wrote:Copehead wrote: That paper is tangentially about climate change too.
Of course it is. Doesn't have to be full on climate change to get some cred.
It's utter horseshit. It's eugenics. It's the tulip bulb panic. It's Russiagate.
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Jimbo wrote:Copehead wrote: That paper is tangentially about climate change too.
Of course it is. Doesn't have to be full on climate change to get some cred.
It's utter horseshit. It's eugenics. It's the tulip bulb panic. It's Russiagate.
I was watching surfing on TV. Surfing will be featured in the Tokyo Olympics and I saw how the Japanese contingent practices and competes. All I could think of was how fine those waves looked. No one was complaining about climate change and how the waves were disappearing. A bitchin wave is a bitchin wave. So I just Googled surfers and climate change and the top thing was Climate Change for Surfers: Why It Matters and I will post the link. Just about everything is "will happen" etc. and there was no complaining about disappearing waves - currently. Oooooh ... 2050 ...
https://911surfreport.com/the-edge-volume-48/
Diamond Dog wrote:Do you understand the word 'averages'?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1oThere is no consensus on if climate change will have any influence on the occurrence, strength or duration of El Niño events, as research supports El Niño events becoming stronger, longer, shorter and weaker.
Diamond Dog wrote:Of course.
But you appear to be suggesting that those who argue that climate change is happening take the temperature of Glasgow last week and compare it to the rainfall in Bangladesh a decade ago and then cross reference the sea level in Antarctica from a weekend back in 1972 and extrapolate that as climate change/global warming.
Positive Passion wrote:Diamond Dog wrote:Of course.
But you appear to be suggesting that those who argue that climate change is happening take the temperature of Glasgow last week and compare it to the rainfall in Bangladesh a decade ago and then cross reference the sea level in Antarctica from a weekend back in 1972 and extrapolate that as climate change/global warming.
Errmmm....42?
Diamond Dog wrote:Of course.
But you appear to be suggesting that those who argue that climate change is happening take the temperature of Glasgow last week and compare it to the rainfall in Bangladesh a decade ago and then cross reference the sea level in Antarctica from a weekend back in 1972 and extrapolate that as climate change/global warming.
Diamond Dog wrote:Of course.
But you appear to be suggesting that those who argue that climate change is happening take the temperature of Glasgow last week and compare it to the rainfall in Bangladesh a decade ago and then cross reference the sea level in Antarctica from a weekend back in 1972 and extrapolate that as climate change/global warming.
Jimbo wrote:Kinda, yeah. And well stated, DD.
Sneelock wrote:In Dahl Jamail’s latest “climate disruption dispatch” he starts with Iceland having a funeral for the first Iceberg lost completely to the climate crisis. Then he makes his case.
https://truthout.org/articles/alaskas-s ... d-history/
It’s so discouraging that people still need to be convinced.
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Mike Boom wrote:Evangelical Robert Jeffress spiritual adviser to Trump (when he is not promoting Civil War) ...
"Somebody needs to read poor Greta Genesis, Chapter 9," he said, "and tell her the next time she worries about global warming, just look at a rainbow. That’s God’s promise that the polar ice caps aren’t going to melt and flood the world again.”