Science Global warming could be far worse than predicted, new study suggests

https://climate.nasa.gov/

 

[underscoredash]

Anybody who thought this would do anything is exceptional.

If China and India want to be superpowers, they must have a nice big war against each other, which will to trim a chunk of their populations and associated carbon footprints. That'll certainly help.

please stop you can only make me so hard

earth confirmed for mars 2.0

>Reduce carbon footprint
>Don't roll back modern technology and luxuries

Pick one

eugenics was an okay idea too

 

[PantsFreeZone]

I'll start giving a fuck about this horseshit when the faggots that push it stop flying private jets to their secret meetings where they decide the next way they are going to reduce the population of the world to 85 people.

 

[underscoredash]

I'll start giving a fuck about this horseshit when the faggots that push it stop flying private jets to their secret meetings where they decide the next way they are going to reduce the population of the world to 85 people.

most of the pollution comes from china and india unironically, if it were just white people running shit this would be less of a problem

 

[PantsFreeZone]

most of the pollution comes from china and india unironically, if it were just white people running shit this would be less of a problem

How fucking hilarious would it be if radioactive waste seeped deep into the planet and brought Hitler back from the dead, only this time he is Super Hitler and he ended up saving the Earth by gassing all the niggers, spics and chinks?

 

[underscoredash]

How fucking hilarious would it be if radioactive waste seeped deep into the planet and brought Hitler back from the dead, only this time he is Super Hitler and he ended up saving the Earth by gassing all the niggers, spics and chinks?

I just think we need less not to kill them all lol

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it'd solve a lot of problems though

 

[PantsFreeZone]

I just think we need less not to kill them all lol

Spoiler

it'd solve a lot of problems though

Pussy. Half measures won't save the Earth.

 

[Room312]

I might be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure the first Northern Ice Cap Melt-by date I can recall was 1995 or so.

Yeah, but as early as September 1972 journalists were printing 'Scientists predict new ice age' and predicting end of the century climate hardship.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MnMQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R4sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2204,1181394&hl=en

Would it really shake science up all that much, though? Call me optimistic, but I thought the whole point was to build theories and models based on availavle data, and when that data changes, so do those theories and models.

I think the loss of faith in science would be far-reaching. Not necessarily their fault (I blame journalists chasing doomsday stories more than anything) but decades of fear won't just be forgiven easily.

 

[BScCollateral]

This, combined with the constant Rapture/Nibiru bullshit I keep seeing on various tabloid sites makes me wonder if any of these people (scientists, religious nutbags, conspiracy freaks, journalists, take your pick) don't get off to telling people they're all going to die soon, unaware that we won't. At least not for a while.

Nobody has ever sold a newspaper or gotten elected by saying "That's not really a problem."

 

[BillionBisonBucks]

Long term, I'm sure global warming is gonna be a bitch and a half.

Short term, the Columbia Valley is the new Napa, except better. We put in Syrah and Malbec grapes, varietals that couldn't thrive here five years ago. Meanwhile, all of california is turning into Lancaster desert, and France is having their own severe issues. Washington and Oregon are about to be the new worldwide wine country, and I am pleased.

 

[Dysnomia]

Green the Sahara? We could feed Africa and this is bad why?

Also, sure none of our data matches, so instead of compliling it and making a strong case , let's just yell WORSE! Because that's how science works now, you don't build a point with facts and research you just scream louder and louder.

I've read something about there being a weird weather thing in Africa where the climate of the north and the south switches every 10,0000 years or so. But I don't know much about it or how true it is.

A green Sahara might be nice for the people. But what about the desert critters adapted to the current climate? I feel bad about them.

It's already getting way too hot too early in my neck of the woods. summer now starts in May when i remember May being much cooler on average when I was a kid. Now a 80-90 degree May seems to be the norm. April was a bit too cold now. And in between horrible cold snaps in winter the weather keeps fluctuating here. I observed forsythia blooming in my area in November. The forsythia flowers were stunted and a bit shriveled.

This can happen to forsythia if the weather confuses it too much: http://www.hortmag.com/weekly-tips/qa/confused-forsythia-blooms-in-the-fall-instead-of-spring

Forsythias, and many other traditionally spring-blooming plants, can flower in fall when their normal growing season of later spring and summer puts them under stress—such as extreme weather conditions of heat and/or drought. This stress can cause plants’ growth to slow or even stop. Once fall approaches and the weather begins to cool and regulate, the outdoor conditions might trick the plants into “thinking” it is time to flower.

But I've never seen it happen before. The summer was very hot.

We can already feed Africa. We can already feed India and China and all other countries with a bunch of destitute people running around. The food crisis has been solved, it's just that the "organic" crowd doesn't like the solution. But they have the cash to go to the local farmer's market and buy non-GMO, no-pesticide, only pure fertilizer wheat to mill and make their own flour and crap.

Problem with Africa is that those in power skim off a ton from the aid those countries receive from governments and charities. As corrupt as you think your local government is, it can't hold a candle to the pure unadulterated corruption in Africa. It's really quite impressive.

Everyone's terrified of GMOs thanks to these stupid sandal wearing hipsters with money to burn on overpriced organic produce.

Africa is such a huge failure. Wasn't one their countries refusing grain from us because of the GMO scare tactics used by people that don't understand GMOs?

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

>Reduce carbon footprint
>Don't roll back modern technology and luxuries

Pick one

Maybe if we moved away from our aggressively consumerist society where throwing out absolutely good and functional items is supported by the ultra-cheap production of trash in pollution-spewing places like China and in turn drives demand for constant production of millions of tons of new garbage destined for trash heaps on 6 months.

I'm convinced that that, more than anything, is what causes the majority of our pollution and waste and CO2 emissions.

Yes it would slow down the economies of most of those countries. Yes it would kill "jobs" for like 20% of the population along the whole chain of production. But its unsustainable anyway and that crash is going to happen at some point, might as well have it happen now when there's only 3 billion jobs being lost as opposed to 15 billion.

 

[Iodised Ant]

End of the flesh! End of the flesh!

 

[Flying_with_the_Penguins]

I've been told my entire life the world is ending 2-10 years from now, can they just stop? I understand admitting "we don't really know shit and we were wrong lol" would shake science, politics and journalism to it's core but the longer they put it off the worse it will be.

I personally would put the blame entirely on journalism for presenting it this way. Talk to any serious climate scientist, and they will tell you that the "end of human civilization" is about as unlikely a scenario as the Earth not warming at all.

 

[Eryngium]

I wish global warming would hurry its fucking ass up so I can enjoy my cottage year round in this frozen shithole.

Also Africans will be able to cook without electricity because everything will be on fire, effectively solving world hunger.

Im no scientist but that sounds like a win win in my book