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REAVERFAN

Monday, February 18, 2019 11:18 PM

Climate Advocates Underestimate Power of Fossil Fueled Misinformation Campaigns, Say Top Researchers
https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/01/18/climate-advocates-underestimate-
power-fossil-fuel-misinformation-campaign-brulle

In this most recent commentary, they lay out the pervasive nature of misinformation campaigns on climate change in the United States and how those campaigns captured Republicans.

Singled out in the paper are groups including the Heartland Institute, companies including oil giant Exxon, individuals like former Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team members Steve Milloy and Myron Ebell, and the vast network of groups funded by billionaire Robert Mercer and the petrochemical businesses controlled by Charles Koch and brother David Koch.

REAVERFAN

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:58 AM

Flood-affected farmers witness entire cattle herds wiped out by catastrophic deluge
When rain started falling in Queensland’s west, drought-stricken farmers cried happy tears — but that emotion quickly turned to heartbreak.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/floodaffect
ed-farmers-witness-entire-cattle-herds-wiped-out-by-catastrophic-deluge/news-story/f49ee8b2d5ed0cca27283afb45bf9477

It’s been more than seven years since the region received a substantial downpour but the monsoon — which saw clouds dump three years worth of rain in 10 days — is expected to cripple farmers for decades.

REAVERFAN

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 2:32 AM

Tennessee River found to be among the most plastic-polluted rivers in the world: 18,000 microplastic particles per cubic meter of water were found in its waters. “The finding was so surprising that the researchers double- and triple-checked the results, but the outcomes were the same.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/02/11/microplastics-po
llution-tennessee-river/2836430002/

Despite an order of magnitude’s difference between the two populations, Fath found that microplastic levels in the Rhine amounted to just 200 particles per cubic meter, meaning that levels in the Tennessee River were some 80 times higher.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 6:03 AM

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But a majority of Americans were unwilling to spend even $10 a month to address global warming; most drew the line at $1 a month, according to a poll conducted the previous month.

I think it's because nobody trusts our politicians and anyone working in government to actually use that money for what they say it's for, or to use it anywhere close to efficiently on the extremely small chance that they actually do.

Fuck them. They can spend untold billions per year on war, but they can't do this?

Do Right, Be Right. :)
They aren't willing to spend $10 more per month on the stuff they purchase, not just stuff the government purchases with their taxes. So, 6ixStringJack, you were right to believe we are all dead since Republican and Democratic voters won't make more than a token effort to save themselves. Living is too expensive. Death is cheaper. Let us all lay down and die in peace. And once you're dead, taxes are lower, too!

There are an estimated 1.1 trillion tonnes of proven coal reserves worldwide. This means that there is enough coal to last us around 150 years at current rates of production. Let's not wait 150 years; burn more coal now to hasten the end of life on Earth. www.worldcoal.org/coal/where-coal-found

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

$10 per month is trivial to you.

$10 per month is 1% of my take home pay and a much larger percentage of my disposable income after the bills are paid. Most people that make what I do don't have any disposable income.

I'm willing to pay that. But I would need to be convinced it wasn't just going into some rich asshole's pocket.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

REAVERFAN

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 6:30 AM

Are we on the road to civilisation collapse?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190218-are-we-on-the-road-to-civilis
ation-collapse

"Great civilisations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.

So concluded the historian Arnold Toynbee in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History. It was an exploration of the rise and fall of 28 different civilisations.

He was right in some respects: civilisations are often responsible for their own decline. However, their self-destruction is usually assisted.

The Roman Empire, for example, was the victim of many ills including overexpansion, climatic change, environmental degradation and poor leadership. But it was also brought to its knees when Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410 and the Vandals in 455.

Collapse is often quick and greatness provides no immunity. The Roman Empire covered 4.4 million sq km (1.9 million sq miles) in 390. Five years later, it had plummeted to 2 million sq km (770,000 sq miles). By 476, the empire’s reach was zero.

Our deep past is marked by recurring failure. As part of my research at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, I am attempting to find out why collapse occurs through a historical autopsy. What can the rise and fall of historic civilisations tell us about our own? What are the forces that precipitate or delay a collapse? And do we see similar patterns today?"

IMO, society will collapse worldwide, followed by all kinds of pain and suffering, then the last human on earth will die. 100 years, probably less.

A very small number of species will survive, and live into whatever comes after the extinction of the Anthropocene.

JO753

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 9:23 AM

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"Great civilisations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.

SiMaN haz sum interesting thingz to say about this: http://www.nqalf.com/SiMaN.html

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SECOND

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 7:12 PM

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$10 per month is trivial to you.

$10 per month is 1% of my take home pay and a much larger percentage of my disposable income after the bills are paid. Most people that make what I do don't have any disposable income.

I'm willing to pay that. But I would need to be convinced it wasn't just going into some rich asshole's pocket.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

The Social Security Administration has made optimistic estimations of life expectancy all the way to the year 2100.

Because of an outbreak of cynicism in the USA, maybe the S.S.A. needs to revise the estimates to show a higher death-rate in the year 2099?

Figure 1 shows historic and projected total male and female age-adjusted central death rates per 100,000 population.
www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Body.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

REAVERFAN

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 8:17 PM

I don't think that table takes certain facts into account.

Near Term Human Extinction in 5 Acts
https://www.fasterthanexpected.one/near-term-human-extinction/

SECOND

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 8:28 PM

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I don't think that table takes certain facts into account.

Near Term Human Extinction in 5 Acts
https://www.fasterthanexpected.one/near-term-human-extinction/

There have been massive death in the Americas in the past. It could happen again and the Social Security Administration would be both surprised and saddened by the mountains of corpses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigenous_peoples
_of_the_Americas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Genocide

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 9:09 PM

Why would this sadden the SSA? Just think of all that free money they got off of the back of American labor that they'll never have to pay back.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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