Global Warming/Climate Change Super Thread

[ArmyRick]

Here is an interesting video that kind of looks at the ice age and now, and looks into margins of error and mistakes made by scientist.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

AN interesting watch

As soon as Al Gore got involved, I knew it was a ponzi scheme. It's just a long con, so far as I'm concerned. Anything dreamed up by politicians is suspect and they'll only push it as long as they can line their pockets. No more money? No more climate crisis.

 

[daftandbarmy]

"Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you read."

Mark Twain

Go science!

Despite gloomy headlines, our planet is getting cleaner and healthier

The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.

Key Takeaways

• Dreary, despondent headlines about pollution and climate change are the norm. But they are not painting a full or accurate picture.
• While Earth is still no Garden of Eden, many countries are making serious efforts to become clean and green. The results are scientifically notable but underreported by the media.
• Human ingenuity is the ultimate resource. In a world filled with bad news, that's a fact worth celebrating.

Despite gloomy headlines, our planet is getting cleaner and healthier

 

[Good2Golf]

"Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you read."

Mark Twain

Go science!

Despite gloomy headlines, our planet is getting cleaner and healthier

The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.

Key Takeaways

• Dreary, despondent headlines about pollution and climate change are the norm. But they are not painting a full or accurate picture.
• While Earth is still no Garden of Eden, many countries are making serious efforts to become clean and green. The results are scientifically notable but underreported by the media.
• Human ingenuity is the ultimate resource. In a world filled with bad news, that's a fact worth celebrating.

Despite gloomy headlines, our planet is getting cleaner and healthier

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Obama spent millions on an estate/compound on Martha's Vineyard. He's obviously not worried about climate change. I wonder why?

 

[daftandbarmy]

Obama spent millions on an estate/compound on Martha's Vineyard. He's obviously not worried about climate change. I wonder why?

I hope it's waterfront

 

[Fishbone Jones]

I hope it's waterfront

Marthas Vineyard is about 43' ASL, at its highest point, from what I read.

 

[Kirkhill]

'Nudder expert!

Paul Erlich

It was 1968 when Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, a book that declared with absolute certainty that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over.” Because so many people were living so close together and consuming so much of the world’s limited resources, the inevitable future was one of “mass starvation” on “a dying planet.” A year after the book’s publication, Ehrlich went on to say that this “utter breakdown” in Earth’s capacity to support its bulging population was just fifteen years away.

For those of us still alive today, it is clear that nothing even approaching what Ehrlich predicted ever happened. Indeed, in the fifty-four years since his dire prophesy, those suffering from starvation have gone from one in four people on the planet to just one in ten, even as the world’s population has doubled. More importantly, there have been great advances in fertilizer potency, the genetic modification of seeds, irrigation, and related farming techniques.

What did happen is that those who believed in Ehrlich’s predictions caused a different but very real suffering. According to Smithsonian Magazine, Ehrlich’s book inspired the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the World Bank, and other groups to undertake cruel depopulation programs throughout the 1970s and ’80s. In Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Indonesia and Bangladesh, millions of people were sterilized, often against their will.

In India, many states required sterilization in order for citizens to obtain water, electricity, ration cards, medical care, pay raises, and even an education. And in China, according to Smithsonian author Charles Mann, a “one-child” policy led to as many as 100 million forced abortions, often in unsanitary conditions, causing needless infections, sterility, and even death.

How the population scare predicted today’s climate hysteria

Paul Ehrlich was a false prophet; how long until we acknowledge the others in our midst?

thespectator.com

We're doomed! Doomed, I tell ye! ..... If we don't stop listening to experts.

 

[daftandbarmy]

'Nudder expert!

Paul Erlich

How the population scare predicted today’s climate hysteria

Paul Ehrlich was a false prophet; how long until we acknowledge the others in our midst?

thespectator.com

We're doomed! Doomed, I tell ye! ..... If we don't stop listening to experts.

It's an old refrain, sung from time to time throughout history...

Thomas Robert Malthus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ArmyRick]

Another WEF meeting is gathering in Davos. Get ready for some more insanely tunnel visioned, knee jerk reactionary thinking and decision making by ultra wealthy and political leaders all in the name of saving humanity from damaging the climate, colonialism, racism amd what other made up garbage they will go on about.

Its a giant echo chamber of morons.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

I hope it's waterfront

Michelle! We're gonna need more sand bags over here.

 

[Good2Golf]

Another WEF meeting is gathering in Davos. Get ready for some more insanely tunnel visioned, knee jerk reactionary thinking and decision making by ultra wealthy and political leaders all in the name of saving humanity from damaging the climate, colonialism, racism amd what other made up garbage they will go on about.

Its a giant echo chamber of morons.

Oooo…it’s so hot these days with global warming…and no air conditioning between the jet and the limo…

 

[Good2Golf]

'Ultra-polluting and socially-inequitable': Private jets descend on Davos

"The rich and powerful flock to Davos in ultra-polluting, socially-inequitable private jets to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors."

www.brusselstimes.com

 

[Colin Parkinson]

 

[daftandbarmy]

Another WEF meeting is gathering in Davos. Get ready for some more insanely tunnel visioned, knee jerk reactionary thinking and decision making by ultra wealthy and political leaders all in the name of saving humanity from damaging the climate, colonialism, racism amd what other made up garbage they will go on about.

Its a giant echo chamber of morons.

Looks like there are other subjects on the menu apart from climate stuff. 6 experts in Davos share what's on the horizon for 2023

I imagine the drugs available in the hospitality suites are pretty good too

 

[ArmyRick]

Another good one to view

 

[PMedMoe]

Another good one to view

"Koonin’s intervention into the debate about what to do about climate risks seems to be designed to subvert this progress in all respects by making distracting, irrelevant, misguided, misleading and unqualified statements about supposed uncertainties that he thinks scientists have buried under the rug."

A New Book Manages to Get Climate Science Badly Wrong

 

[FSTO]

If we were really fully invested in reducing GHG, then a fully electrical High speed and regional rail system should be the goal of this nation (and the United States). Also return to using ocean liners for trans oceanic travel (higher efficient engines or a combination of electric and sail?

A slow down of life as a result would be much appreciated by many in the world.

No I haven't had an early tot of rum! LOL!

 

[ArmyRick]

Here is a simple idea (among thousands out there I am sure). How about eliminating corn and wheat ethanol for fuel and use more gasoline? Or use rendered animal fats from slaughterhouse.

Crop ethanol is terribly inefficient and horribly polluting

 

[Remius]

Here is a simple idea (among thousands out there I am sure). How about eliminating corn and wheat ethanol for fuel and use more gasoline? Or use rendered animal fats from slaughterhouse.

Crop ethanol is terribly inefficient and horribly polluting

It also replaces valuable land for actual crops of food that would have otherwise been used for that.