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Global Warming & Climate Change: The Phenomenon

Wanna bring down global temperatures? Ground all passenger planes for two years. Instant cooling.

Nah: How else would Dame Emma Thompson - net worth $50,000,000 - be able to buy an £18,000 ticket to fly from America to Britain, in order to lecture me on that SqueezyJet flight to Italy I took two years ago? She would have to forego the beef carpaccio washed down with Laurent Perrier champagne that she enjoyed on the flight, before haranguing us about going veggie to save the planet.

maximus otter
 
Nah: How else would Dame Emma Thompson - net worth $50,000,000 - be able to buy an £18,000 ticket to fly from America to Britain, in order to lecture me on that SqueezyJet flight to Italy I took two years ago? She would have to forego the beef carpaccio washed down with Laurent Perrier champagne that she enjoyed on the flight, before haranguing us about going veggie to save the planet.

maximus otter
Yes, it's interesting that such people never get the irony or understand the hypocrisy.
 
I reckon that it's our seas and oceans that is the basis for the earths increased heat retention.

Oceans and seas will radiate 12% of their heat into space, via the atmosphere, and the atmosphere will radiate 59% of its heat into space.

The important thing though, is, can we do something about it.

The other thing is, that until corporations with dollar signs in their scope stop laying waste to the ground, forests and oceans, Nothing of note can really be changed.

And that, as far as I'm concerned, should be the focus....
 
Sweet wrapper and plastic bags found in the deepest ocean dive ever:
Rubbish news

This is a real problem. Recycle as much as you can.

I'm surprised they didn't find some glitter down there.

Somebody brings a single glitter-bearing object into your house and you'll be spotting little sparkles out of the corner of your eye until kingdom come.
 
Here's a Ted talk by a glaciologist studying Greenland

Ice melt from Greenland alone will cause sea level to rise from 20cm to 1m or more in the next 80 years. Impossible to say for sure but according to the science it's going to happen.

 
l remember years ago seeing some Beeboid in Greenland, pontificating about a glacier having receded so far that the ruins of a Viking-era farm had been exposed, and how Global Warming was going to kill us all in ten fifteen twenty years before long, mark my words!

The only point he didn’t cover was why the glacier had retreated so far 1,200 years ago that the Vikings had been able to build a farm there in the first place.

Odd, that.

maximus otter
 
Reporting on the environment may prove lethal.

Thirteen journalists who were investigating environmental issues have been killed in recent years, according to a new study from the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The CPJ says many more journalists covering climate change are facing violence, intimidation, harassment, and lawsuits. As it investigates another 16 deaths, it believes the tally of murders may be as high as 29.

The Guardian points out that such a figure would make this field of journalism “one of the most dangerous after war reporting”.

The CJP report, entitled Green Blood, has focused particularly on the mining industry. Three journalists have died while reporting on the sector in the Phillippines.

There have also been deaths in Tanzania, which has slipped 25 places on the World Press Freedom Index produced by Reporters Without Borders. It now ranks 118th out of 179 countries.

“Journalists [in Tanzania] are attacked without reason,” Ryan Powell, a media development specialist working in Africa, said. “Police will harass journalists, and people do not interfere.”

India is revealed to be one of the most dangerous places to be an environmental journalist – three of the 13 identified as having been killed were from the country.

https://www.theweek.co.uk/101792/en...letter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
 
l remember years ago seeing some Beeboid in Greenland, pontificating about a glacier having receded so far that the ruins of a Viking-era farm had been exposed, and how Global Warming was going to kill us all in ten fifteen twenty years before long, mark my words!

The only point he didn’t cover was why the glacier had retreated so far 1,200 years ago that the Vikings had been able to build a farm there in the first place.

Odd, that.

maximus otter
This is an extremely interesting question, and one that deserves to be framed from the point of view of a curious layman who knows that highly trained scientists with masses of data are likely to know better than him rather than that of a small minded man sitting in an armchair pontificating at the TV.

I know that the Greenland ice sheet is known to have both decreased and increased considerably over time, and seems to respond to relatively small changes in global temperature. So when the Norse settlers first arrived, what conditions did they find? Why was Greenland a worthwhile place for them to settle? I've read somewhere that it's thought they failed to respond to changes in climate, which is why their settlements ultimately failed. But what evidence have we that current changes in the Greenland ice sheet are due to anthropogenic climate change, and not part of an ongoing natural process? Enquiring minds want to know! Smaller minds, as ever, only care about anything as far as it supports views they've already set their hearts on. I'll do some research when I get the chance, but I suspect the answers won't be simple.
 
Yeti habitats under threat from climate change.

Declassified Cold War–era spy satellite film shows that the melting of hundreds of Himalayan glaciers has sped up in recent decades.

An analysis of 650 of the largest glaciers in the mountain range revealed that the total ice mass in 2000 was 87 percent of the 1975 mass. By 2016, the total ice mass had shrunk to only 72 percent of the 1975 total. The data show that the glaciers are receding twice as fast now as they were at the end of the 20th century, report Joshua Maurer, a glaciologist at Columbia University, and colleagues June 19 in Science Advances.

The primary cause for that acceleration, the researchers found, was warming: Temperatures in the region have increased by an average 1 degree Celsius from 2000 to 2016.

Meltwater from Himalayan glaciers are a source of freshwater to hundreds of millions of people each year. However, recent studies examining changes in glacier mass from 2000 to 2016 have shown that this store of freshwater is shrinking, threatening future water security in the region (SN Online: 5/29/19).

https://www.sciencenews.org/article..._medium=email&utm_campaign=editorspicks062319
 
Nah: How else would Dame Emma Thompson - net worth $50,000,000 - be able to buy an £18,000 ticket to fly from America to Britain, in order to lecture me on that SqueezyJet flight to Italy I took two years ago? She would have to forego the beef carpaccio washed down with Laurent Perrier champagne that she enjoyed on the flight, before haranguing us about going veggie to save the planet.

maximus otter

This is from a left perspective but I reckon you'll like parts of it.

Climate hysteria
In April the streets of London were brought to a standstill in a protest in support of the demand to recognise an alleged ‘climate emergency’.

https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1256/letters/
 
Bit of an eye-opener - this man argues that grazing cattle on desertified land actually makes it green again:
 
Didn't temps rise by 2 deg in 3 days after 9/11 when all flights in US airspace were band?
due to the vapor trails no being there to reflect the sun,
 
Scary photos
The link above will take you to news that wildfires are blazing out of control - across the Arctic (even Greenland). They've released the same amount of carbon dioxide during the hottest June since records began as Sweden does in a year. On the bright side, at least they might kill the dormant frozen deadly viruses.
 
Scary photos
The link above will take you to news that wildfires are blazing out of control - across the Arctic (even Greenland). They've released the same amount of carbon dioxide during the hottest June since records began as Sweden does in a year. On the bright side, at least they might kill the dormant frozen deadly viruses.
That is very worrying. The vegetation in those areas will take a long time to grow back.
 
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