' The truth - We will go extinct, very soon.'
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We are heading for a New Cretaceous, not for a new normal
https://aeon.co/amp/ideas/we-are-heading-for-a-new-cretaceous-not-for-
a-new-normal
We have recently become aware of a red line that humans are going to hit long before we approach Cretaceous conditions. In 2010, researchers showed that our species cannot survive for more than six hours at what’s called a ‘wet bulb’ temperature of 35°C (95°F). Wet bulb here means 100 per cent humidity, so it’s not 35°C as we know it. But in the great Indian agricultural belts of the Indus and Ganges, high-40s temperatures combined with 50 per cent humidity (which equates to that wet-bulb temperature of 35°C ) are going to prevail within decades.
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We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/01/15/carbon-pollution-h
as-shoved-the-climate-backward-at-least-12-million-years-harvard-scientist-says/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0Tta0rc98LA2Sw19te002EzXrdyCqvqVzf7lQn00TjZUiRIO59_7w87nM&__twitter_impression=true
People have the misapprehension that we can recover from this state just by reducing carbon emissions, Anderson said in an appearance at the University of Chicago. Recovery is all but impossible, he argued, without a World War II-style transformation of industry—an acceleration of the effort to halt carbon pollution and remove it from the atmosphere, and a new effort to reflect sunlight away from the earth’s poles.
This has do be done, Anderson added, within the next five years.
“The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero,” Anderson said, with 75 to 80 percent of permanent ice having melted already in the last 35 years.
“Can we lose 75-80 percent of permanent ice and recover? The answer is no.”
The answer is no in part because of what scientists call feedbacks, some of the ways the earth responds to warming. Among those feedbacks is the release of methane currently trapped in permafrost and under the sea, which will exacerbate warming. Another is the pending collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, which Anderson said will raise sea level by 7 meters (about 23 feet).
“People at this point haven’t come to grips with the irreversibility of this sea-level rise problem,” Anderson said, displaying a map that shows the site of Harvard’s new $10 billion Allston campus inundated after 3 meters of sea-level rise. He followed that map with images of Manhattan shrunken by encroaching waters and Florida missing its southern tip.
“When you look at the irreversibility and you study the numbers, this along with the moral issue is what keeps you up at night,” Anderson said.
We are fucked.
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Don’t bother waiting for conservatives to come around on climate change
A new report examines the climate right. It doesn’t find much.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/4/26/18512213/climate-
change-republicans-conservatives
Though old-fashioned denial of climate change remains popular among the hardcore base (and President Trump), party elites are now beginning to squirm a bit and admit that “the climate is changing.”
But with a few exceptions — a bipartisan state bill here, a few tax credits there — Republicans have opposed all substantial climate and clean energy policy for decades. There was a period in the late 2000s when John McCain garnered press for backing a cap-and-trade bill, but it never had many votes in his caucus and never came within a mile of getting a vote on the floor. Then Barack Obama was elected, the right went into full backlash mode, and it’s been an unbroken wall of opposition since.
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Only 5 years left, huh?
That's unfortunate, since Trump is going to be president until 2024.
Timing's a bitch. Ammiright?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Most people believe climate change will cause humanity’s extinction
https://nypost.com/2019/04/22/most-people-believe-climate-change-will-
cause-humanitys-extinction/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site+buttons&utm_campaign=site+buttons&fbclid=IwAR1BLbX8zDoTQN9EgSO2EdoKTd2I4t6ak3Z86HherMz50iOpi0FRj_kvhU8
Three in four Americans think climate change will eventually result in the extinction of humanity, according to new research.
A new survey of 2,000 Americans aiming to reveal just how much “climate anxiety” people carry found that nearly half of Americans think climate change will result in the end of the world within the next 200 years.
Not only that, but one in five millennials think climate change will trigger the end of the world in their lifetime.
The one in five millenials are the informed ones.
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Quote:Stupid AF.^ Completely unable to read and understand an article.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Only 5 years left, huh?
That's unfortunate, since Trump is going to be president until 2024.
Timing's a bitch. Ammiright?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:
Originally posted by reaverfan:Quote:Stupid AF.^ Completely unable to read and understand an article.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Only 5 years left, huh?
That's unfortunate, since Trump is going to be president until 2024.
Timing's a bitch. Ammiright?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Explain this post.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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World’s largest ice shelf melting 10 times faster than expected as waters heat up
Research reveals growing impact of solar heating of Antarctic Ocean
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/ross-ice-shelf-antarctica-me
lting-climate-change-global-warming-sea-level-temperature-a8891506.html?utm_source=reddit.com
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Thought so.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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