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What we have going on here isn't an argument.
It's you saying whatever the hell you want on any given day that contradicts anything else you've said on any other given day because you have no principals.
You're like a monkey with a keyboard.
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These skeptics believe in climate change. Why is it so hard to convince them catastrophe is coming?
https://web.archive.org/web/20210827190516/https://www.houstonchronicl
e.com/business/energy/article/climate-change-global-warming-skepticism-houston-16410884.php
Jim Walzel doesn’t fit the profile of what most people would think of as a climate denier — a term he rejects.
A chemical engineer who made his money as a pipeline executive, Walzel lives in Houston’s West University neighborhood, populated with academics from nearby Rice University. He points to his COVID-19 vaccination card as proof he trusts in science, and says he has little doubt that fossil fuels are warming the planet.
But he’s not convinced that climate change will result in the cataclysmic future predicted by forecasters.
“I wouldn’t call myself a denier, but I am skeptical about the gravity of the thing,” he said. “I’m trying to look at the facts and say what’s the deal here. And from what I’m seeing the consensus of scientists is not as pervasive as you describe.”
Walzel’s views open a window on how and why climate skepticism persists, despite mounting evidence that global warming not only poses a serious threat to the planet but is already doing damage. In Houston, long the unofficial capital of the world’s oil and gas industry, such strains of thought are particularly persistent, often grounded in the work of a small cadre of scientists who fixate on legitimate uncertainties within climate science.
They do not question the fundamental notion that greenhouse gas emissions are raising global temperatures but rather that it will all end in catastrophe. Dismissed as kooks or contrarians, these scientists continue to find followings among those like Walzel who believe if the world is going to shift from fossil fuels in just a matter of decades, we better be certain on the science.
Go to NASA’s website, and it states 97 percent of published climate scientists agree that manmade carbon emissions have caused the planet to warm over the past century. But once you get past the consensus that the planet is warming faster than it would naturally, agreement fractures over how fast polar ice caps are melting or whether climate change will cause more hurricanes and heat waves — hugely complex questions that require looking decades or centuries into the future.
Climate skeptics, or realists as they prefer to be called, fixate on the details under debate, even though the overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree that global warming will go very badly unless mankind takes immediate action.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20210827190516/https://www.houstonchronicl
e.com/business/energy/article/climate-change-global-warming-skepticism-houston-16410884.php
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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On Monday, over 29 inches (742 mm) of rain fell in just 12 hours over northwestern Italy, rainfall rates never before seen in all of Europe.
A series of slow-moving storms stalled in the region Sunday into Monday, dumping over 36 inches (925 mm) of rain in the town of Rossiglione, about 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Milan.
For some context, 36 inches is roughly equivalent to the average rainfall one would expect in Seattle in a year. It would take London an average of 15 months to tally such rainfall.
A 6-hour deluge unlike any ever observed in Italy brought nearly 20 inches (500 mm) of rainfall, besting the national 6-hour record for all of Italy.
A warming globe allows room for more rainfall
The significant increase in heavy rainstorms observed around the world is becoming more evident.
As the global temperatures rise, extreme precipitation events will drop more water, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change.
More at https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/weather/italy-flood-oman-climate-change
/index.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Cool.
At least we should be able to take water scarcity off the table for ways we're all going to die.
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Quote:Desertification and drought will hit new areas that were formerly wet because too much water is going to other areas. Water scarcity is ON THE TABLE. https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-3/
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Cool.
At least we should be able to take water scarcity off the table for ways we're all going to die.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Whatever dude. Nobody cares.
They're going to care even less in December when they get November's Biden* natural gas price heating bill.
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Quote:Prometheus gave Man fire. This was insolence and Zeus punished Prometheus for making Man as powerful as the Gods themselves. That is not the end of the story. Over three hundred thousand years, Man burned everything flammable, changing Terra's climate. Zeus was displeased and decided to torture Prometheus more severely, but Prometheus, the bringer of fire and civilization to Mortals, had a solution to the change in climate: even more advanced technology than fire.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Whatever dude. Nobody cares.
They're going to care even less in December when they get November's Biden* natural gas price heating bill.
But Mortals refused to switch their civilization from fire to the latest technology because "Whatever dude. Nobody cares." Except for Mortal Engineers, the Average Man could not rightly understand tech more complicated than fire. Prometheus said that there was a way to encourage the switch without Man understanding why or how. Then Prometheus gave Zeus a flamethrower, bringing back human sacrifices of Trumptards, starting with Trump and 6ixStringJack. The smoke from Trump's burning fat pleased Zeus, but 6ix's odor stunk to high heaven, irritating the allergies of Zeus.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Prometheus-Greek-god
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You wish you smelled as good as me dude.
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People who bitch about climate change fall in one of either two categories.
1. People who don't pay for energy.
2. People who have so much money they don't understand how much energy costs.
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Quote:What We’ll Pay if Global Warming Continues Unchecked
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
People who bitch about climate change fall in one of either two categories.
1. People who don't pay for energy.
2. People who have so much money they don't understand how much energy costs.
https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/cost.pdf
Short answer: $trillions per year
To quote witty 6ix: "Whatever dude. Nobody cares."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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