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 Post subject: Re: The Environment Thread
PostPosted: Sat January 15, 2022 3:41 pm 
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A severely corroded pipeline burst and spilled more than 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel near St. Bernard Parish, just east of New Orleans.

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The South Col Glacier on the tallest mountain in the world (above sea level) is losing ice at an alarming pace. Ice that formed over a span of approx 2,000 years has melted in just approx 25 years.

The research, published in Nature Portfolio Journals Climate and Atmospheric Science, said the findings confirmed that human-induced climate change has reached the highest points on Earth.

The team of scientists collected samples from a 32-foot-long ice core in 2019. On the expedition, they also installed automatic weather stations to see if the world’s highest glaciers were being impacted by the climate crisis. ‘The answer is a resounding yes, and very significantly since the late 1990s,’ said expedition leader Paul Mayewski to CNN. Mayewski added, ‘It’s a complete change from what has been experienced in that area, throughout probably all of the period of occupation by humans in the mountains. And it’s happened very fast.'

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'Unthinkable': Scientists Shocked as Polar Temperatures Soar 50 to 90 Degrees Above Normal

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A new set of maps from the U.S. Drought Monitor show that nearly the entire American West, with the exception of parts of the Pacific Northwest, is experiencing drought conditions.
On the pictured maps, areas of yellow are ‘abnormally dry,’ while bright orange signifies ‘severe drought.’ Areas in red and burgundy signify ‘extreme drought’ and ‘exceptional drought,’ respectively.
Approx 95% of the state of California is experiencing severe or extreme drought. As reservoirs like Lake Mead and Lake Powell, which supply both water and electricity to the Western U.S., continue to lose water, the drought is only expected to worsen.
NASA scientist JT Reager told CBS News, ‘We’re just starting to see the dominoes fall. It’s drier, we’re starting to see less water in our reservoirs, and we have fires, and in California, there’s just this series of consequences that we anticipate.’

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Are water pipelines from flood plains not a part of the infrastructure plan?

Is desalination a thing? I think it worked in sim city back in the day. Same with Fusion power plants.


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Scientists warn future temperatures will test humans' ability to survive

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Are water pipelines from flood plains not a part of the infrastructure plan?

Is desalination a thing? I think it worked in sim city back in the day. Same with Fusion power plants.



The salt has to go somewhere. Most of these plants just take in ocean water, remove the salt from a fraction of the water, and spit the leftovers back into the ocean killing everything near the discharge. Not what SimCity made it out to be.

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Not what SimCity made it out to be.

WHAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa??

Seems like we could refine that process some. If we were interested.


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Welp.

Have you ever wondered why banks and financial institutions don’t seem to act with the future of the planet in mind? According to this HSBC Bank exec, ‘Who cares if Miami is 6 meters underwater in 100 years? Amsterdam’s been 6 meters under for ages and that’s a really nice place. We will cope with it.’

Stuart Kirk, the head of responsible investing at HSBC Bank, gave a speech on May 19, 2022, about how the financial risks of climate change are exaggerated. HSBC has reportedly suspended him, and the bank’s CEO Noel Quinn released a statement on LinkedIn saying, ‘I do not agree – at all – with the remarks made at last week’s FT Moral Money Summit…Our ambition is to be the leading bank supporting the global economy in the transition to net zero.'

An internal investigation is reviewing the speech and the slideshow, which were reportedly approved within the company ahead of the presentation.

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Surely to warrant being suspended he must have said/done something else besides express belief in the ability of humans to adapt in response to climate change.

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Well this guy has 2 kids so I guess the question (in either form) answers itself.

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Earth should have a few hundred years left, so not our kids’ problem either.


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Jumped into a thread about climate change yesterday to ask why sea levels weren't rising everywhere and why it was happening at such a minor pace. Got some pretty good arguments for and against. Everyone brought their pet facts and figures. Anyway, what's up with sea levels?

For the record, I believe in climate change, and it will probably kill us all eventually. I just don't believe in science. I gained the truth from personal experience and intuition.

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BurtReynolds wrote:
Jumped into a thread about climate change yesterday to ask why sea levels weren't rising everywhere and why it was happening at such a minor pace. Got some pretty good arguments for and against. Everyone brought their pet facts and figures. Anyway, what's up with sea levels?

For the record, I believe in climate change, and it will probably kill us all eventually. I just don't believe in science. I gained the truth from personal experience and intuition.


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Scots team’s research finds Atlantic plankton all but wiped out in catastrophic loss of life

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Switch to all those renewables and watch the evil try and convince you it was a mistake...






Well, that's embarrassing. Laughed off the stage atleast.



Germany’s top energy regulator said the country can last just 2.5 months without Russian gas, and there will be a ‘difficult’ autumn and winter ahead

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