Resisting Climate Hysteria

basilio said:

So Mick do you reckon highlighting how dangerous current extreme weather conditions are is hysteria ?
Something to be ignored or putdown in favour of cute diversions ?

What is this thread about Mick ? It was always a means to debase any intelligent discussion about climate change. It began with an article that postulated CC was way overblown and that climate scientists and anyone who acknowledged their efforts were just being "hysterical" . Labelling people as "hysterical" is the go to position of simply denying there is any problem and that in fact anyone who says there is is just "unstable" "hysterical". You may or may not be aware that this label was a common mechanism for 19th century husbands to have difficult wives put into asylums when they wanted them out of the way.

Maybe its well past the time to stop the name calling and look at the issue realistically.

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basilio said:

Windmill blades can be recycled. Past, present and future. As indeed they should be.

As of course should the vast reams of fossil fuel infrastructure that is routinely decommissioned every year not to mention the pollution produced during construction and operation.

How can companies recycle wind turbine blades?

cen.acs.org

A Danish wind turbine giant just discovered how to recycle all blades

Danish wind turbine maker Vestas says it’s figured out how to recycle all wind turbine blades – even ones already sitting in landfills.

electrek.co

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mullokintyre said:

Ya right Bas, thy should be recycled, but obviously they aint.
Mick

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basilio said:

Seriously. I reckon there is far, far more environmental damage in the fossil fuel industry than the confected sadness about windmills.
Yes they should be cleaned up. But hey lets look at the whole picture

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Smurf1976 said:

Trouble with all this is the politics.

I say that having followed the debate for a long time now. So many games played, so many missed opportunities, now the problem basically is going to be very hard to fix.

To be clear I'll blame both sides there. Both ends of the political spectrum have been too busy either denying the problem or opposing realistic solutions to it.

The whole thing's been nothing more than a game that, one by one, has seen pretty much everyone who ought be driving debate simply walk away shaking their head.

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wayneL said:

What problem?

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Algeria wildfires kill 34 people, including 10 soldiers​

Key points:​

• Ten soldiers are among those killed in the wildfires
• A major heatwave is sweeping across North Africa
• Thousands of firefighters are battling the subsequent fires

basilio said:

Things are getting hot and hysterical in Algeria.

Algeria wildfires kill 34 people, including 10 soldiers​

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Thirty-four people, including 10 soldiers, have been killed in forest fires in Algeria, as a heatwave spreads across North Africa.

Key points:​

• Ten soldiers are among those killed in the wildfires
• A major heatwave is sweeping across North Africa
• Thousands of firefighters are battling the subsequent fires

Some 7,500 firefighters were battling to bring the flames under control in the mountainous regions of Bejaia and Bouira, authorities said.
The interior ministry said it was continuing firefighting operations in the Boumerdes, Bouira, Tizi Ouzou, Jijel, Bejaia and Skikda regions.
About 1,500 people have been evacuated so far.
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Smoke rises following a wildfire in Bejaia, Algeria. (Reuters: Ammouri Abderahmane)
A major heatwave is sweeping across North Africa, with temperatures of 49 degrees Celsius recorded in some cities in neighbouring Tunisia.
In Tunisia, wildfires swept through the border town of Melloula.
Witnesses told Reuters that fires that had begun in mountainous areas had reached some people's homes in the town and forced hundreds of families to flee.
A civil protection official said that they had evacuated hundreds of the town's residents by land and by sea, in fishermen's boats and coastguard vessels.
Reuters

Wildfires in Algeria kill 34 people, including 10 soldiers

Authorities say thousands of firefighters are battling to bring the flames under control after a heatwave swept across the region.

www.abc.net.au

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UMike said:

Wanna see a graph of those deaths attributed to "Climate Change"

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wayneL said:

The real one, or the "adjusted" one?

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basilio said:

Bit of a waste for you really Wayne ? After all you don't take CC seriously and it seems that nothing that has been noted around off the scale temperature extremes and the results cuts any ice.

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wayneL said:

Another lie. You are a propagandist and a liar.

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