human actions, global climate change, global human solutions
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Quote:Oh, I understand you quite well. I also know that our economic system.... which is not capitalism, BTW.
SignyM:
You get the "unintentionally funny" award!
SECOND: Signym, misunderstanding makes it difficult for you ...
Meanwhile...
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SECOND: As oil and gas industry's profits soar, corporations can afford to fight climate change
Do you think you're talking to a climate change denier? If you do, then YOU misunderstand. It's just that I think the "fixes" for the problem, just like the "fixes" for Covid, are being driven by a different agenda.
For example, the whole drive to ban nitrogen-baded fertilizer.
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Quote:People have told me they are much smarter than I am. They make fatal decisions and go bankrupt or die from a preventable illness/accident or any of a thousand different missteps that could have been avoided if they actually were smart. These self-described smart people will keep burning fossil fuel because of habit (since fire is Man's oldest and most familiar technology) which will be the ultimate fatal decision.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Dumb. You are so dumb.
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Originally posted by second:
People have told me they are much smarter than I am.
A lot of people. Lots and lots of people.
Pretty much everybody but Ted.
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Quote:They are.
SECOND: People have told me they are much smarter than I am.
You're not smart, SECOND. What you are is sociopathically selfish. Your virtue is limited to SIGNALLING bc you're a nasty man who not only never does anything good, you take pleasure in harassing and hurting people IRL.
No wonder you have to lie to yourself 24/7/365.
BTW lying to yourself is stupid.
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So, now for the virtue-signalling ban on nitrogen -based fertilizer.
At issue is nitrous oxide (N2O) gas, which is emitted by bacteria in the soil and water.
60% comes from NATURAL sources. Of that, 60 pct comes from soils under natural vegetation and most of the remainder from the ocean. No
https://whatsyourimpact.org/greenhouse-gases/nitrous-oxide-emissions
A significant amount comes from either deliberately set* or accidental forest fires. (* burning forests to clear the land for farming or ranching as happens in Brazil, or for palm oil plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and SE Asia.
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Over the last decade, it seems that the regional distribution of biomass burning has increased worldwide, as well as the length of burning time. The result is a continuing increase in the release of emission products, and an increase in the severity of their impact on climate and on the environment. Scientists estimate that in just a few months the burning that took place in 1997 in Indonesia released as many greenhouse gases as all the cars and power plants in Europe emit in an entire year...
Nitrous oxide (N2O) concentrations have been increasing at about 0.3 percent per year for the last several decades. Yet, nitrous oxide has a lifetime of 150 years in the atmosphere, which contrasts sharply with the 10-year lifetime of methane. A single nitrous oxide molecule is the equivalent of 206 carbon dioxide molecules in terms of its greenhouse gas effect. Biomass burning accounts for about 2-3 percent of the total amount of tropospheric nitrous oxide.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/GlobalFire/fire_3.php
Fertilizing with too much ammonia doesn't do anyone any good. It creates both an air and water quality problem. But nitrate fertilizers are ok AFA global climate change is concerned.
Now, about some solutions:
Better forest management. Not "burn it down". Not "snuff out all fires" and not "let it burn". 'Nuff said.
Reforestation.
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Further, we show that applications of biochar during reforestation can partially compensate for project emissions.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99395-6
Regenerative farming.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2022-2-summer/feature/dirt-first-car
bon-farming-regenerative-agriculture
Capping big methane leaks
https://news.stanford.edu/2022/03/24/methane-leaks-much-worse-estimate
s-fix-available/
Dialing our warmongering waaaay back
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/10/pentagon-us-military-e
missions-climate-crisis
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Nearly two dozen Republican state treasurers around the country are working to thwart climate action on state and federal levels, using the tax dollars they control to punish companies that want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Over the past year, treasurers in nearly half the United States have been coordinating tactics and talking points, meeting in private and cheering each other in public as part of a well-funded campaign to protect the fossil fuel companies.
The treasurers of Louisiana and Arkansas have pulled more than $700 million out of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, over objections that the firm is too focused on environmental issues. At the same time, the treasurers of Utah and Idaho are pressuring the private sector to drop climate action and other causes they label as “woke.”
And treasurers from Pennsylvania, Arizona and Oklahoma joined a larger campaign to thwart the nominations of federal regulators who wanted to require that banks, funds and companies disclose the financial risks posed by a warming planet.
At the nexus of these efforts is the State Financial Officers Foundation, a little-known nonprofit organization based in Shawnee, Kansas.
The Republican treasurers skirt the fact that global warming is an economic menace that is damaging industries like agriculture and causing extreme weather that devastates communities and costs taxpayers billions in recovery and rebuilding. Instead, they frame efforts to reduce emissions as a threat to employment and revenue, and have turned climate science into another front in the culture wars.
In November, as major banks and corporations at a global summit in Glasgow were promising to take climate action, the Republican state treasurers were huddling at a State Financial Officers Foundation conference in Orlando, Fla., talking about ways to stop them.
At the meeting, the group’s chief executive, Derek Kreifels, made a presentation about a new law that had been signed by Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a Republican. It prohibited state agencies from investing in businesses that have cut ties with fossil fuel companies.
Riley Moore, the West Virginia treasurer, went on to offer a classic denial of the overwhelming scientific consensus that the continued burning of oil, gas and coal will lead to planetary catastrophe.
“The climate has been changing in the world since Earth was created,” Mr. Moore said. “Whether these greenhouse gas emissions are contributing to the warming of the globe, I’m not sure I necessarily agree with that.”
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220806005401/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/08/05/climate/republican-treasurers-climate-change.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Nobody cares.
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Quote:It’s hot outside. It’s been hot outside pretty much everywhere this summer. On five continents. In China, which is less than halfway through a predicted 40 days of extreme heat. In the United Kingdom, which recently set its new all-time heat record. In Seville, which for the first time named a heat wave. (Hi, Zoe.) And in the United States.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
Daily temperature records are being broken year-round. It’s another heat wave, another extreme heat wave, but it’s kind of boring. If these things become so common, they’re just not that interesting.
The heat has become so regular that it no longer interests us and yet the fact of its regularity is exactly why it should.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I'm 42 years old. I'm not some dumb shit late Millennial or GenZ'er.
We've had hotter summers. All the way back in the 80's too.
Get fucked.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm 42 years old. I'm not some dumb shit . . .
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