Climate change

[Transient]

We are not fucked.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

We're still fucked.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

On a side note, I don't know who's in charge of Alternet nowadays but it isn't like it used to be. Time to remove it from my news feed I think.

[losCHUNK]

http://www.alternet.org/environment/unp ... am-crosses

Nope http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/ ... f-control/

Even less doom and gloom \o/

[Ryoki]

On a side note, I don't know who's in charge of Alternet nowadays but it isn't like it used to be. Time to remove it from my news feed I think.

Noticed the same thing. Also Counterpunch; used to be a regular reader but they went full marxist a while back or something.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/ne ... 705?page=3

Can New York City be saved?

[AndyW]

34 degrees celsius in my appartment last night (around 3 o´c in the night), my whole bed-stuff was soaking wet.
Today i started to turn my cellar-room into a small workspace + sleeping place. Just have to figure out a way to connect to the internet

SAVE THE WOODS -EAT MORE BEAVERS!!!

[xer0s]

Would it be wrong if I started snagging up property that will be newly beachfront in 30 years?

[losCHUNK]

But under water in 40 ?

[xer0s]

Not my problem. I would resale by then...

[losCHUNK]

I don't think an end of the world scenario would an ideal time for the housing market.

[seremtan]

but thanks for being british enough to consider the effect of global climate catastrophe on house prices

gideon would be proud of you

[losCHUNK]

George Gideon Oliver Osborne, son of Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon and Felicity Alexandra Loxton-Peacock, educated at St. Paul's and Magdalen College, Oxford.

That's how he likes to be addressed.

[seremtan]

man of the fucking people

[U4EA]

Earth Temperature Timeline at xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1732/

[Κracus]

We might be living at the height of human technological achievement. The future looks bleak.

[John^Rocker]

look at that and tell me there arent elements of dark matter science.

the whole landscape is changing. whether you believe in global warming or not, emissions/pollution are bad for human health, even humans these days are bad for human health. because theyre lazy careless shtbags.

[seremtan]

http://www.sciencealert.com/photos-reve ... ethane-gas

Satellite images have revealed more than 200 strange, bright blue lakes in Russia's Arctic regions that are bubbling "like jacuzzis" as a result of leaking methane gas.

[Κracus]

We're fucked. When people ask why there's no aliens running around the galaxy, this is the reason. Beings that become self aware are too fucking stupid to avoid extinction.

[MKJ]

Based on that large control group we have, I'm sure.

[Κracus]

Look at the bright side though. We probably lived during humanities peak. In the billions of years, if not vastly more if you believe in an infinite universe, there has been no trace left that there has been another sentient species capable of leaving some kind of signal that they exist or existed meaning this is probably as far as they make it.

It's amusing to think of our voyager space craft though. I mean realistically we can't be the only ones to have figured out how to send satellites into space. Then you think of the scope of the universe and that the billions of galaxy's we can see, made up of billions of individual stars are actually just a fraction of what we see.

Fermi paradox is a bitch.

[losCHUNK]

...meaning this is probably as far as they make it...

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Not really, the fermi paradox has too many variables to make that a probable possibility. Variables like we are, in galactic terms, in the middle of nowhere and the time we have existed as a race is miniscule, fermi paradox is a good theory though that does acknowledge its own shortcomings.

Thing with it n all, it was created with a lack of data but if data was obtained (confirmed alien life) then it starts falling apart.

[seremtan]

also, we're way out in the sticks, galactically speaking. if there are any ¯\(º o)/¯ ALIENS ¯\(º o)/¯ in the galactic centre they probably can't see shit out here

[Doombrain]

Too many X-rays and black holes for life. Soz.

[Captain]

Probably a good time to revive this thread since Siberia's northern coast hit 40C in June. This in addition to the permafrost thawing—which will release billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere—and has caused drought, massive forest fires, and mosquito swarms, means we're well on our way to being truly fucked.

This year’s heat has already contributed to an environmental disaster, Russian officials say. A fuel tank near the isolated Arctic mining city of Norilsk burst in late May after sinking into permafrost that had stood firm for years but gave way during a warm spring, officials said. It released about 150,000 barrels of diesel into a river.

The Arctic has been heating more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, and annual temperatures in the region from 2016 to 2019 were the highest on record. But this year may be even hotter.

Temperatures in Siberia were 18.5 degrees Fahrenheit above average in May, the World Meteorological Organization said, “driving the warmest May on record for the entire Northern hemisphere and indeed the globe.”

Above the Arctic Circle, there has been no escaping the heat because the sun shines around the clock.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/worl ... hange.html