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World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2021-08-09 at 5:23 PM UTC
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2021-08-09 at 5:35 PM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump The bits of venus would hit earth, whether spread there soon after by the explosion or eventually by the solar wind.
no, the suns gravity will pull them back in and the gravity of mercury will spread it evently around the sun.
even if they fall to earth they'd burn up in the air. -
2021-08-09 at 5:37 PM UTC
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2021-08-09 at 5:52 PM UTC
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2021-08-09 at 5:55 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-09 at 5:58 PM UTC
Originally posted by RisiR † Ants make up 25% of the animal biomass on the planet. I'm pretty sure all ants combined could fix the Golden Gate bridge and that's not a metaphor. I just really think they could do it.
Well as they haven't fixed shit yet I doubt it very much...a fucking bolt made out of sand and saliva isn't going to hold very long. -
2021-08-09 at 6 PM UTC
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2021-08-09 at 6:16 PM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump You just like believing what you want to believe. Which is "these normies are all terrible and going to doom the world and I'm the good guy trying to save it". I'm sure it makes you feel special and morally superior.
You don't want to deal with uncomfortable politically incorrect truths, such as that normal people only care about what happens in their lifetime and in their region, and they aren't going to give up industrial civilisation, and that industrial civilisation is based on digging up fossilised carbon and burning it.
And what about people who are too dumb to even understand this shit? The world IQ is 82. That's an uncomfortable truth you choose not to believe.
You're wrong about me but that's not very surprising. -
2021-08-09 at 6:16 PM UTC
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2021-08-09 at 6:17 PM UTC
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2021-08-09 at 6:21 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe You're wrong about me but that's not very surprising.
if we were in the 1545 obbe would be the one enthusiastically nailing galileo the cross and lit him up.
if were in 1644 obbe would that guy at the forefront of the mob shouting death to the witches with torch in one hand and pitchfork on the other.
if we were in 1933 ... or maybe hes just a lame troll with all copy-pasted talk and none of those copy-pasted actions. -
2021-08-09 at 6:49 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny if we were in the 1545 obbe would be the one enthusiastically nailing galileo the cross and lit him up.
if were in 1644 obbe would that guy at the forefront of the mob shouting death to the witches with torch in one hand and pitchfork on the other.
if we were in 1933 … or maybe hes just a lame troll with all copy-pasted talk and none of those copy-pasted actions.
Or maybe.. he's an AI. -
2021-08-09 at 6:55 PM UTC
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2021-08-09 at 9:20 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny if we were in the 1545 obbe would be the one enthusiastically nailing galileo the cross and lit him up.
if were in 1644 obbe would that guy at the forefront of the mob shouting death to the witches with torch in one hand and pitchfork on the other.
if we were in 1933 … or maybe hes just a lame troll with all copy-pasted talk and none of those copy-pasted actions.
We are in 2021 and Obbe is uninterested in the impotent ramblings of a fake china man. -
2021-08-09 at 9:22 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe Kevin Anderson went through the IPCC's report that centered around a prediction of 1.5C by 2050, replete with all sorts of fantastical assumptions, such as every single country in the world developing effective NET's in the early 90's, with each subsequent year exponentially increasing the NET's ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
That's simply a farcical assumption made by the IPCC. Here's the talk where he walks through every single caveat and assumption, contrasting them to reality:
Even the world's most powerful corporations, the oil barons such as ExxonMobil researched into climate change, and what the effects would be, of not mounting a global effort of biblical proportions to avert it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_controversy
Here's a PDF that consolidates the current trajectory whilst staying within reality. Page 8 has the sobering statistics: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/148cb0_a1406e0143ac4c469196d3003bc1e687.pdf
There is also a satirical video, where a group researched into the effects of climate change and the reality we face, said in a no-holds-barred manner to a TV presenter:
The claims were fact-checked, and they're completely factual: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/climate-desk-fact-checks-aaron-sorkins-climate-science-newsroom/
We're facing societal collapse by 2030 due to a 1.5C rise. We're currently at around 1.2C rise in global temperatures, which is affected by the temperatures of the oceans (focus on just land temperatures and it's much higher): https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-how-the-world-warmed-in-2019
And everything is dying. Insects, for instance, have cratered, with the global biomass of insects having declined by 80%: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature
Insect populations are declining by 1-2% a year, which is directly correlated to reductions in biomass: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/2/e2023989118
Abundant evidence demonstrates that the principal stressors—land-use change (especially deforestation), climate change, agriculture, introduced species, nitrification, and pollution—underlying insect declines are those also affecting other organisms. Locally and regionally, insects are challenged by additional stressors, such as insecticides, herbicides, urbanization, and light pollution. In areas of high human activity, where insect declines are most conspicuous, multiple stressors occur simultaneously
There is no longer any meaningful amount of permanent sea ice in the Arctic: https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/2020/08/mosaic-climate-expedition-shares-scary-photos-north-pole
The photos clearly underline how several recent climate studies, predicting ice-free Arctic summers by 2035, is not a theoretical scenario but rather an unavoidable fact
This was predicted several decades ago, by looking at the current trajectory of year-round ice loss: https://www.arcticdeathspiral.org/#
All the green technologies that we've developed are to supplement existing oil and coal energy sources, both of which are also increasing: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions
Due to the increased temperatures of the oceans, fish are now suffocating to death as there are now vast, growing swathes of ocean where there's not enough oxygen for them to survive: https://www.iucn.org/theme/marine-and-polar/our-work/climate-change-and-oceans/ocean-deoxygenation
The current extinction event we're experiencing is the worst in all of Earth's history, by at least 10x: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
The current rate of extinction is 10 to 100 times higher than in any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of Earth.
As an example for how much faster the current extinction event is, the previous record holder took 20,000 years to decimate 90% of all of the Earth's species: https://news.mit.edu/2011/mass-extinction-1118
The end-Permian extinction occurred 252.2 million years ago, decimating 90 percent of marine and terrestrial species, from snails and small crustaceans to early forms of liserds and amphibians. “The Great Dying,” as it’s now known, was the most severe mass extinction in Earth’s history, and is probably the closest life has come to being completely extinguished. Possible causes include immense volcanic eruptions, rapid depletion of oxygen in the oceans, and — an unlikely option — an asteroid collision.
While the causes of this global catastrophe are unknown, an MIT-led team of researchers has now established that the end-Permian extinction was extremely rapid, triggering massive die-outs both in the oceans and on land in less than 20,000 years — the blink of an eye in geologic time. The researchers also found that this time period coincides with a massive buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which likely triggered the simultaneous collapse of species in the oceans and on land.
With further calculations, the group found that the average rate at which carbon dioxide entered the atmosphere during the end-Permian extinction was slightly below today’s rate of carbon dioxide release into the atmosphere due to fossil fuel emissions. Over tens of thousands of years, increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide during the Permian period likely triggered severe global warming, accelerating species extinctions.
Contrast that to the decline of wildlife populations in just the past 40 years: https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/living-planet-report-2018
On average, we’ve seen an astonishing 60% decline in the size of populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians in just over 40 years, according to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018. The top threats to species identified in the report link directly to human activities, including habitat loss and degradation and the excessive use of wildlife such as overfishing and overhunting.
The latest statistics, which go from 1970-2016, shows that four years ago it had risen to a 68% reduction in wildlife population: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/science-update/wwf-living-planet-report-2020-reveals-68-drop-wildlife-populations
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Living Planet Report 2020, published today, sounds the alarm for global biodiversity, showing an average 68% decline in animal population sizes tracked over 46 years (1970-2016).
The polar vortex has collapsed: https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/polar-vortex-collapse-winter-weather-europe-united-states-2021-fa/
A Polar Vortex collapse sequence has begun in late December 2020, with a major Sudden Stratospheric Warming event on January 5th, 2021. We will look at the sequence of these events, and how they can change the weather in Europe and the United States in the coming weeks.
Due to the increased water temperatures, it was discovered that arctic rivers are accelerating sea ice loss in a positive (i.e, BAD) feedback loop: https://scitechdaily.com/increased-heat-from-arctic-rivers-is-melting-sea-ice-in-the-arctic-ocean-and-warming-the-atmosphere/
As the arctic's temperature increases, the melting ice releases trapped methane in a positive feedback loop, with the arctic ice containing 1/4 of all of the Earth's methane. Higher temperatures = Ice melts faster = Faster release of methane = Higher temperatures = Ice melts faster: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/08/antarctica-methane-leak-microorganisms/
For the first time in human history, the arctic can be navigated through by ships without ice breakers: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-tanker-cuts-a-previously-impossible-path-through-the-warming-arctic/
The little year-round Arctic sea ice that is left, is now host to algae: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210129110942.htm
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2021-08-09 at 9:24 PM UTC
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2021-08-10 at 3:06 AM UTC
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2021-08-10 at 3:20 AM UTC
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2021-08-10 at 8:16 AM UTCObbe go fuck yourself you low paid ass GG scale
