GordonS Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 1 hour ago, Florentine_Pogen said: Will Phoenix, Arizona become the first major metropolitan area to be abandoned by humans in the USA ? https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/28/americas-hottest-city-phoenix-00158243 "Relentless heat led to 645 deaths last year in Maricopa County, the most ever documented in Arizona’s biggest metropolitan area. The soaring number of heat mortalities — a 1,000 percent increase over 10 years — comes as temperatures reach new highs amid exploding eviction rates in the Phoenix area, leading to a collision of homelessness and record-setting heat waves." In Arizona they would generally regard the deaths of homeless people as a feature, not a bug. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 On 27/07/2023 at 10:26, jamamafegan said: @virginton this morning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66304220 Nothing to see here! People might think I'm coming across as some sort of raving doom merchant but the evidence of an imminent climate catastrophe really is there for all to see. It's irrefutable. On 27/07/2023 at 10:41, virginton said: Typically good timing of the Met Office to insist that last summer, definitely last summer is the sign of climate change. Not this abysmal and below average July, with the first half of August already looking more likely than not to follow the same path of course - these months are of course not relevant because Reasons. Another example of advocates having a strong position and then fucking up their message by conflating short-term weather with long-term climate, only as and when it suits them. This breeds cynicism and contempt for the underlying analysis. Bump. Looking forward to the Met Office fitting the current and utterly pathetic excuse for 'summer' into its analysis - what with it being an equally valid evidence point as the Big Scary Heat Doom Summer of 2022. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 http://theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/15/climate-crisis-making-days-longer-study Quote The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, used observations and computer reconstructions to assess the impact of melting ice on the length of the day. The rate of slowing varied between 0.3 and 1.0 millisecond per century (ms/cy) between 1900 and 2000. But since 2000, as melting accelerated, the rate of change also accelerated to 1.3ms/cy. “This present-day rate is likely higher than at any time in the past few thousand years,” the researchers said. “It is projected to remain approximately at a level of 1.0 ms/cy for the next few decades, even if greenhouse gas emissions are severely curbed.” If emissions are not cut, the slowing rate will increase to 2.6 ms/cy by 2100, overtaking lunar tides as the single biggest contributor to long-term variations in the length of days, they said. Oh no! What catastrophic consequences would this change of up to 1.6 milliseconds over 100 years have on human civilisation as we know it? Spoiler A: Absolutely none whatsoever, but why let that get in the way of a truly bonkers 'climate crisis' narrative repeating the Millennium Bug fallacy. But what about Quote "All the datacentres that run the internet, communications and financial transactions, they are based on precise timing. We also need a precise knowledge of time for navigation, and particularly for satellites and spacecraft.” A: All such systems already calibrate and recalibrate timing: using degrees of precision that were not fully established until after the age of spacecraft and satellites was underway. So further utterly insignificant adjustments over a century will be incorporated just as every other one has been for over 50 years. With no planes falling out of the sky or global financial systems collapsing in the process. That such utterly risible horseshit is being peddled as a serious issue rather than a purely academic curiosity says it all about the deranged ideology of the environmental movement in the Western world. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 I remember in the summer of Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. 40C was fucking freezing. You needed a jaiket. Polar Ice caps were a treat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbitterandgrumpy Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 7 hours ago, virginton said: http://theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/15/climate-crisis-making-days-longer-study Oh no! What catastrophic consequences would this change of up to 1.6 milliseconds over 100 years have on human civilisation as we know it? Hide contents A: Absolutely none whatsoever, but why let that get in the way of a truly bonkers 'climate crisis' narrative repeating the Millennium Bug fallacy. But what about A: All such systems already calibrate and recalibrate timing: using degrees of precision that were not fully established until after the age of spacecraft and satellites was underway. So further utterly insignificant adjustments over a century will be incorporated just as every other one has been for over 50 years. With no planes falling out of the sky or global financial systems collapsing in the process. That such utterly risible horseshit is being peddled as a serious issue rather than a purely academic curiosity says it all about the deranged ideology of the environmental movement in the Western world. Ok, ok, calm down. This is a strange thing to get so worked up about. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peil Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 10 hours ago, virginton said: http://theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/15/climate-crisis-making-days-longer-study Oh no! What catastrophic consequences would this change of up to 1.6 milliseconds over 100 years have on human civilisation as we know it? Reveal hidden contents A: Absolutely none whatsoever, but why let that get in the way of a truly bonkers 'climate crisis' narrative repeating the Millennium Bug fallacy. But what about A: All such systems already calibrate and recalibrate timing: using degrees of precision that were not fully established until after the age of spacecraft and satellites was underway. So further utterly insignificant adjustments over a century will be incorporated just as every other one has been for over 50 years. With no planes falling out of the sky or global financial systems collapsing in the process. That such utterly risible horseshit is being peddled as a serious issue rather than a purely academic curiosity says it all about the deranged ideology of the environmental movement in the Western world. Everything ok at home there mate? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted July 24 Author Share Posted July 24 Whilst is pisses down in West Fife tonight the globe has just broken the average surface temperature set in 2022 twice this week the trend from the 1940s to now doesn’t look so great. More practically being in Chinese cities with temperatures north of 40 degrees C must be absolutely vile. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 Indeed. Your £2 Primark t-shirts are killing planet. Buy local and save a whale. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Read this week that global warming is increasing turbulence for flights and that it is only going to get worse and/or more frequent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 Bloody climate, blocking our roads, stopping folk getting to work. 5 years in the nick for the scum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 28 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Bloody climate, blocking our roads, stopping folk getting to work. 5 years in the nick for the scum. Hopefully Just Stop Oil had just glued themselves to the road. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 6 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Bloody climate, blocking our roads, stopping folk getting to work. 5 years in the nick for the scum. We should be thinking about making roads 4G. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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