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The excellent Ian Plimer says it's not CO2, it's water vapour:
The excellent Ian Plimer says it's not CO2, it's water vapour:
There will always be people who line themselves up against another scientist, according to their own internal biases.here are some thoughts on Ian Pilmer from leading climate scientists, for example:
"Peter Landschützer, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology:
The entire article is just a list of inaccurate and false claims made by the author, contradicting the best scientific evidence (e.g. from measurement records) we have today."
https://climatefeedback.org/evaluat...ents-long-list-of-false-claims-about-climate/
Absolutely!So take your pick of 'experts' you wish to believe.
Absolutely!
Select the scientists who talk the most sense.
Yes...we have hellish bush fire seasons down here and the big ones, ones that burn millions of acres used to be 20-30 years apart until the seventies where it started to get closer. Now it is almost every year...totals like 2002 (94 million acres), 2003 (3 million) 2006 (2.5 million acres), 2009 (1 million), 2011 (2 million), 2019 (46 million acres)...Once, then not again for 61 years, then not again for 13 years, then not again for 6, then not again for 5, then 2....
There seems to be a trend.
That is quite simply all we can do.Maybe all we can do is ride it out the best we can.
As a futuristic green initiative, Saudi Arabia is going to build a huge megacity, called 'The Line'.
It looks like something Syd Mead imagined.
https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/theline
It's so huge... can anyone envisage the problems? It might be big enough to cause certain weather events or produce its own climate issues.
And not everybody will be wealthy enough to live in this shiny city.
Probably the super rich look on it as a reflection of their wealth status!I'm sorry but that's completely ridiculous.
Considering the expense of making it - with no natural features to assist - only the mega-rich could live in it. And there's not that many in that class to fill even a portion of it. Sure, you could pad a bit with service workers, maintenance teams etc. but they'd have to pay to work there, rather than be paid (including 'room and board').
Think of what a magnificent target that'd be for a terrorist organisation.
Think of the materials it'd require.
It's the pipe dream of architects and billionaires looking for things to spend a day's wage on. Like gem-encrusted mobile 'phone cases and gold foil-wrapped filet steak from the rarest cattle.
"Gee - Whiz!"A year of extremes.
The warmest year on record has been recorded by the Republic of Ireland's weather service Met Éireann.
The Irish Climate Report 2023 created by the service, external shows the average annual temperature rose above 11C (51.8F) for the first time, beating the previous warmest year of 2022.
It was also a year of extremes, with the warmest June and the wettest March and July also being recorded.
The figures followed an EU climate change report in November which said it was "virtually certain" that 2023 would be the warmest year on record, globally.
The Met Office has not yet released figures for 2023 for Northern Ireland. But Northern Ireland recorded its warmest ever June in 2023 in a series going back to 1884. It recorded a mean temperature of 16C, three degrees above normal for the time of year, external. It was also the wettest July on record for Northern Ireland in a series going back to 1836. In July, 185.4mm of rain fell, beating the previous record of 185.2mm of rain in July 1936.
It has also been a stormy year with 11 named storms in 2023 including three in December- Elin, Fergus, and Gerrit. The arrival of Storm Gerrit on Wednesday marked the earliest in the season that a storm named with the letter G arrived.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dyprzd9yeo
There is discussion of it in the 15 minute city thread.Construction of the 100-mile, 9 million population linear city is now seriously underway, but its still going to take a few years before it looks like the publicity shots I reckon:
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Perhaps The Line merits a thread to itself?
https://english.alarabiya.net/infoc...-latest-on-THE-LINE-first-neighborhood-update
A year of extremes.
The warmest year on record has been recorded by the Republic of Ireland's weather service Met Éireann.
The Irish Climate Report 2023 created by the service, external shows the average annual temperature rose above 11C (51.8F) for the first time, beating the previous warmest year of 2022.
It was also a year of extremes, with the warmest June and the wettest March and July also being recorded.
The figures followed an EU climate change report in November which said it was "virtually certain" that 2023 would be the warmest year on record, globally.
The Met Office has not yet released figures for 2023 for Northern Ireland. But Northern Ireland recorded its warmest ever June in 2023 in a series going back to 1884. It recorded a mean temperature of 16C, three degrees above normal for the time of year, external. It was also the wettest July on record for Northern Ireland in a series going back to 1836. In July, 185.4mm of rain fell, beating the previous record of 185.2mm of rain in July 1936.
It has also been a stormy year with 11 named storms in 2023 including three in December- Elin, Fergus, and Gerrit. The arrival of Storm Gerrit on Wednesday marked the earliest in the season that a storm named with the letter G arrived.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dyprzd9yeo
Unclear what that has to do with the wave story.Just found this report (believe it's up to date) . . .
https://earthquaketrack.com/p/united-states/california/recent
Nothing - 'twas a whoopsie moment,' my error - I was searching for any earthquake/seaquake reports and clicked on the wrong thing! (Was previously looking at, 'Rogue Waves' - 'Hunck' #92)Unclear what that has to do with the wave story.