The scientific communities response to Climate Change denialism in the US Congress.
Getting xxxxing real
http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/science-groups-statement-congress/#13OfYKNXoEqI
So basically, what you're confirming here is that the IPCC has a history of getting their worst case scenarios wrong!
In fact a number of commentators suggest that prior to release the IPPC reports are massaged down to satisfy the respective government lobby (oil cartels etc) groups.
The rate of increase in global temperatures has been extremely fast. But ice sheets can't and won't melt at such a pace. Historically they have taken anything from hundreds to thousands of years to reflect the increase in global temperatures. In fact it was this belief that ice sheets are relatively stable that gave climate scientists hope that even if/when the ice sheets melted it might be way into the future even if that was 200 years away.
But new evidence, new facts has caused that theory to be revised. That is the basis of the National Geographic article which analyses these papers.
Because the past 50 years has seen such steep increases in temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctic quite new mechanisms of ice melting have been noticed. It is the evidence of these warm water flows under the ice caps and through the ice caps that gives glaciologists the concern that we face metres of sea level rise with the next 100 years rather than the longer time frame previously believed.
PS We don't need 20 metres of sea level in a century to destroy civilisation as we know it. 1-2 metres will be quite sufficient
PS We don't need 20 metres of sea level in a century to destroy civilisation as we know it. 1-2 metres will be quite sufficient
Talk is cheap luutzu!
If you want people to believe in yourself and your chosen religion then you need to be seen practicing rather than merely preaching!
Beside Jesus Christ himself, show me a religious person who practise what he preaches. ha ha
Serious man, we've gone through this before... people who raise the issue of CC and the danger it poses - they do it, aside from the obvious fact that they can read and think and care about the world their grandkids or their neighbours' inherit... beside that, they also raise the alarm bell because they do use, do enjoy, do want the life that's made better by advances in technology... tech like, planes, cars, trains, boats, air conditioners.
It's them liking it, wanting others to live in a world that could provide such... that they raise the issue. Ey, the world as we know it cannot be polluted; oi, there are other ways to generate electricity; other ways to fly and travel.
No climate fanatics say stop all these tech and good living stuff and get back to living like it was 5000BC.
Maybe it's not "us" that are hypocritical... maybe it's those who want to live and enjoy the good things in life, yet at the same time don't give two shiet about what an overwhelming number of knowledgable scientists are warning... maybe those are the hypocrits.
But naaaa... you travel man, you shouldn't talk about fossil fuel.
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there are other ways to generate electricity; other ways to fly and travel.
The rate of increase in global temperatures has been extremely fast.
Electricity - technically not hard, cost is the barrier.
Cars - technically harder depending on the usage. Easy for commuter travel but problems arise when someone does a 500km trip (and not being able to do so is a barrier to purchasing such a vehicle for many).
Planes - not totally out of the question but we're a long way from the point where we've got a non-liquid fuel alternative that works to power affordable and practical aircraft for the movement of people and goods as we know aviation today. Someday probably, but not now.
We could reduce the use of coal for electricity far more easily than we're going to reduce the use of oil for transport, particularly heavy vehicles and aviation. Gas is somewhere in the middle in terms of ease of replacement.
Now, you wouldn't want to be a country that had an energy strategy that involves selling coal in order to pay for imported oil now would you. Oh wait, I think I know of such a country.....
My house does not feature an air conditioner. I have never driven a motor vehicle other than my ride on lawn mower. My house is surrounded by trees and foliage.
In my entire life I have made a total of three domestic flights -two of which were business related.
Now explain to me again why I should believe in your commitment to your religion?
A sea level rise of 1 - 2 metres is going to destroy civilisation as we know it? REALLY basilio ??? Do you even read this nonsense you are drivelling? basilio
2 metres of sea level rise will make the following cities uninhabitable. (You don't have to flood an entire city to stuff it up. Submergence of key roads, key infrastructure, ports, sewage farms are sufficient to make the city useless.)
So clearly all the people will need to leave and find accommodation elsewhere. Does that sound like the destruction of civilization as we know it ? Can anyone see the society we currently have continuing with the steady simultaneous inundation of hundreds of large commercial, industrial and residential hubs on the coasts of every continent? Seriously ?
Say goodbye to
Brisbane, Shanghai. Maimi, most of The Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Hague, Antwerp, Hamburg, The Nile Delta, All of Bangladesh, Riga, St Petersberg, New York, London, Venice, Mumbai, Culcutta, Hue (in Vietnam) Ho Chi Minh City Guangzhou, Foshan, Yancheng, and lots and lots more.
But the really significant issue is that once we reach 2 metres it will be clear that the melting won't stop for a long time.
So where do we start rebuilding ? 3 metre line, 5 metre Line, 10 metre line? Once the ice caps start melting we are talking of anything between 6 - 20 metre rises in sea level.
Check out the effects of various increases in sea level around the world
http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/
This website offers a very detailed analysis of the evidence behind the various scenarios of possible sea level rise.
http://ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/sea-level-rise
If CC is a religion, there won't be any need to do research and conclude base on probabilities. Us religious nuts would just say it and it shall be.
Come to think of it, isn't that what the deniers are doing?
Na, can't be climate change... climate always changing. So there, can't be.
By your logic... if you have a proper flushing toilet you wouldn't care whether the neighbours take a dump outside your lawn or not? Shouldn't care whether some poorer people downstream might be affected by raw sewage since it can't possibly be yours?
You going to run for political office or what? Same kind of mentality dude.
2 metres of sea level rise will make the following cities uninhabitable. (You don't have to flood an entire city to stuff it up. Submergence of key roads, key infrastructure, ports, sewage farms are sufficient to make the city useless.)
So clearly all the people will need to leave and find accommodation elsewhere. Does that sound like the destruction of civilization as we know it ? Can anyone see the society we currently have continuing with the steady simultaneous inundation of hundreds of large commercial, industrial and residential hubs on the coasts of every continent? Seriously ?
Say goodbye to
Brisbane, Shanghai. Maimi, most of The Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Hague, Antwerp, Hamburg, The Nile Delta, All of Bangladesh, Riga, St Petersberg, New York, London, Venice, Mumbai, Culcutta, Hue (in Vietnam) Ho Chi Minh City Guangzhou, Foshan, Yancheng, and lots and lots more.
But the really significant issue is that once we reach 2 metres it will be clear that the melting won't stop for a long time.
So where do we start rebuilding ? 3 metre line, 5 metre Line, 10 metre line? Once the ice caps start melting we are talking of anything between 6 - 20 metre rises in sea level.
Check out the effects of various increases in sea level around the world
http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/
This website offers a very detailed analysis of the evidence behind the various scenarios of possible sea level rise.
http://ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/sea-level-rise
1) When glaciologists are looking at the meltdown of billions of tons of ice we are not talking of weeks, years, even decades. Really big ice mountains- hundreds/thousand of years ... but
Can anyone see the society we currently have continuing with the steady simultaneous inundation of hundreds of large commercial, industrial and residential hubs on the coasts of every continent?
What the FTSE has my toilet got to do with your religion?
Oh don't tell me! Let me guess! They're both full of it! Right?!
Electricity - technically not hard, cost is the barrier.
Cars - technically harder depending on the usage. Easy for commuter travel but problems arise when someone does a 500km trip (and not being able to do so is a barrier to purchasing such a vehicle for many).
Planes - not totally out of the question but we're a long way from the point where we've got a non-liquid fuel alternative that works to power affordable and practical aircraft for the movement of people and goods as we know aviation today. Someday probably, but not now.
We could reduce the use of coal for electricity far more easily than we're going to reduce the use of oil for transport, particularly heavy vehicles and aviation. Gas is somewhere in the middle in terms of ease of replacement.
Now, you wouldn't want to be a country that had an energy strategy that involves selling coal in order to pay for imported oil now would you. Oh wait, I think I know of such a country.....
Yea, the world won't be able to completely get off of fossil any time soon; and some area are harder and all that... but there are alternatives right now, and there will be alternatives if we start putting serious effort into it.
I mean, household solar panels costs a fortune a decade or so back, they're very cheap and quite affordable now. Battery and storage like Tesla's wallpack weren't even available until recently.
With some incentives, more R&D, more investment, and more uptake of just these two options alone, we could economically power at least half of household electricity need all year. The other half? Some solar farm in the US could provide power more cheaply than gas-powered station already.
Imagine the rate of progress and what new alternatives we can come up with if CC is taken seriously. But yea, slowly does it... we got another hundred years.
A $650 million wind farm with 96 turbines will be built in Victoria's southwest, making it the largest in the state.
The approval of the Dundonnell project means 300 direct and indirect jobs will be created during construction, and the turbines will generate 1000Gwh of clean energy each year.
"There's nothing ugly about wind farms, because there's nothing ugly about jobs. The world is shifting to renewable energy and Victoria can't get left behind," Premier Daniel Andrews said on Tuesday.
Walk through your logic dude.
What you're saying is that since you don't have much of a carbon footprint, you're not responsible for, and do not care about, the cause and consequences of CC.
That's like walking down a street full of raw sewage, you just wade through it and not raise any issue because... well, because those aren't your shiet and so why should you or anyone care about the street being clean.
That's how ridiculous your thinking is if we replace carbon footprint with raw sewage.
Talk is cheap luutzu!
If you want people to believe in yourself and your chosen religion then you need to be seen practicing rather than merely preaching!
I said nothing of the sort whatsoever!
What I did say was:
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