It's getting warm

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Reefer2 wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2019 1:38 pm JT does not have the kahunas to fight this.
His best buddy is running it.

Or did you miss that part?
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That shady fucker gerald butts. His fist is the one up trudys arse manipulating the jaw
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California burning again: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... er-outage/

But not to worry; I hear Trump is promising federal assistance, provided of course that they give him some dirt on Biden...
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More than 11,000 scientists have signed this article, warning that climate change is greater and happening faster than previously predicted:

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv ... 88/5610806
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Per wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:51 pm More than 11,000 scientists have signed this article, warning that climate change is greater and happening faster than previously predicted:

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv ... 88/5610806
LOL, an online poll signed by the likes of Micky Mouse and creatures from Harry Potter. Even after removing 34 names, 11,000 is shows a huge non-response rate. This is as bad as the 97% BS number.

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Severe flooding in Venice that has left much of the Italian city under water is a direct result of climate change, the mayor says.

The highest water levels in the region in more than 50 years would leave "a permanent mark", Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro tweeted.

"Now the government must listen," he added. "These are the effects of climate change... the costs will be high."
This latest Acqua Alta occurrence in Venice is the second highest tide in recorded history. However, if we look at the top 10 tides, five have occurred in the past 20 years and the most recent was only last year.

While we should try to avoid attributing a single event to climate change, the increased frequency of these exceptional tides is obviously a big concern. In our changing climate, sea levels are rising and a city such as Venice, which is also sinking, is particularly susceptible to such changes.

The weather patterns that have caused the Adriatic storm surge have been driven by a strong meridional (waving) jet stream across the northern hemisphere and this has fed a conveyor belt of low pressure systems into the central Mediterranean.

One of the possible effects of a changing climate is that the jet stream will be more frequently meridional and blocked weather patterns such as these will also become more frequent. If this happens, there is a greater likelihood that these events will combine with astronomical spring tides and hence increase the chance of flooding in Venice.
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Former heads of the New South Wales, Queensland, Victorian and Tasmanian fire services met in Sydney on Thursday after fires that killed four people tore through the the Australian east coast this week.

They said the climate crisis was making bushfires deadlier and bushfire season longer, and the federal government needed to act immediately.

“Just a 1C temperature rise has meant the extremes are far more extreme, and it is placing lives at risk, including firefighters,” said Greg Mullins, the former chief of NSW Fire and Rescue. “Climate change has supercharged the bushfire problem.”

“Bushfires are a symptom of climate change,” said Neil Bibby, the former chief executive of Victoria’s Country Fire Authority.

“Firefighters are the immune system that gets rid of that symptom. But [the problem is] still there.”

Mullins said he and 23 other fire and emergency chiefs had been trying to have a meeting with the prime minister, Scott Morrison, since April because they “knew that a bushfire crisis was coming”.

Instead, he said current fire chiefs had been locked out of discussions and were “not allowed” to mention climate change.

Former emergency services chiefs – (from left): Bob Conroy, Lee Johnson, Mike Brown, Neil Bibby and Greg Mullins – say the government “fundamentally doesn’t like talking about climate change”.
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Former emergency services chiefs – Bob Conroy, Lee Johnson, Mike Brown, Neil Bibby and Greg Mullins – say the government “fundamentally doesn’t like talking about climate change”. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP
“This government fundamentally doesn’t like talking about climate change,” Mullins said. “We would like the doors to be open to the current chiefs, and allow them to utter the words ‘climate change’. They are not allowed to at the moment.

“The Grenfell fire in London, people talked about the cause from day one. Train crashes they talk from day one. And it is OK to say it is an arsonist’s fault, or pretend that the greenies are stopping hazard reduction burning, which is simply not true.

“But you are not allowed to talk about climate change. Well, we are, because we know what is happening.”

Bibby, who was in charge during Victoria’s Black Saturday, said politics was the reason the government was ignoring the former fire chiefs’ advice.

Other interstate fire chiefs were outspoken about the effect global heating has on bushfires.

Lee Johnson, the former commissioner of Queensland Fire and Emergency Services wanted immediate action.

“I’m here for my children and grandchildren,” he said. “In Queensland in the last couple of weeks we have seen unprecedented fires.”

Bob Conroy, former fire manager of NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, said: “The fires are impacting on areas that haven’t known fires for millennia.”

Mullins said the bushfire emergency was underlaid by a climate emergency.

“On the 6th of September, southeast Queensland and NSW experienced record fire weather, never before experienced in September. On the 8th of November, again we had record-breaking fire weather in NSW.

“And on the 12th of November, for the first time ever, Sydney experienced catastrophic fire danger. Fires are literally off the scale on this warming planet.”
The former fire chiefs had two requests for the government: more resources for firefighters; take on “the fundamental problem” of climate change.

Mullins said he was told the energy minister, Angus Taylor, would speak to him and the water minister, David Littleproud, has set a meeting.

“None of us can understand why climate change in Australia is so political,” he said. “In the UK, the conservatives, Margaret Thatcher, said years ago this is a major problem.”
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"evolution"
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Our solar system's 200 million year lap around the Milky Way.

So in context, much of central BC was forming 200 million years ago as submarine volcanoes along an East West orientated island arc in a tropical environment. Think of current Indonesia/Philippines.

Humans only occupy 1/200th of that orbit.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/bigthink.c ... s.amp.html
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We should be able to win the Cup before humans finish their first lap, eh?
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Topper wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:37 am Our solar system's 200 million year lap around the Milky Way.

So in context, much of central BC was forming 200 million years ago as submarine volcanoes along an East West orientated island arc in a tropical environment. Think of current Indonesia/Philippines.

Humans only occupy 1/10th of that orbit.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/bigthink.c ... s.amp.html
So all we have to do is find a way to stop the Milky Way's rotation.

Now we're getting somewhere!

We should probably start with more taxes for research on dat dere...
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micky107 wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:09 am I think I Found You, Per :)
I thought your link would take us to one of those Antichrist Greta sites...
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5thhorseman wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2019 9:25 am We should be able to win the Cup before humans finish their first lap, eh?
You believe humans will complete a lap?
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Topper wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2019 10:35 am
5thhorseman wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2019 9:25 am We should be able to win the Cup before humans finish their first lap, eh?
You believe humans will complete a lap?
Global warming/cooling happens at a slow enough rate that we can adapt. Unless we do ourselves in first.
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5thhorseman wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2019 10:56 am
Topper wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2019 10:35 am
5thhorseman wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2019 9:25 am We should be able to win the Cup before humans finish their first lap, eh?
You believe humans will complete a lap?
Global warming/cooling happens at a slow enough rate that we can adapt. Unless we do ourselves in first.
Mammals are usually good for a million years, a few rarely make 10 million.
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