Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > sci.physics > #718150

Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think

Show all headers | View raw

<jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com> wrote:
> Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> wrote:
>> <jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com> wrote:
>>> Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> <jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com> wrote:
>>>>> sam.wormley@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>> Burning hundreds of millions of years of sequestered carbon in a couple
>>>>>> of centuries is not without its consequences.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Humans may be reversing the climate clock, by 50 million years
>>>>>> https://phys.org/news/2018-12-humans-reversing-climate-clock-million.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Incase you missed this paragraph:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> All of the species on Earth today had an ancestor that survived the
>>>>>> Eocene and the Pliocene, but whether humans and the flora and fauna we
>>>>>> are familiar with can adapt to these rapid changes remains to be seen.
>>>>>> The accelerated rate of change appears to be faster than anything life
>>>>>> on the planet has experienced before.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Read more at:
>>>>>> https://phys.org/news/2018-12-humans-reversing-climate-clock-million.html#jCp
>>>>> 
>>>>> A temperature rise that can only be detected with laboratory grade thermometers
>>>>> and statistical analysis is not a threat to anything in the real world.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Depends on whether you're talking about a threat to living individuals, who
>>>> will certainly die before the impact is significant, or to a species, who
>>>> may well die from the impact.
>>> 
>>> Both of which are pure speculation that the impact will ever become
>>> significant.
>> 
>> Well, that's the thing about precision measurements with those fancy
>> thermometers you speak about, as well as long timebase records. You can
>> extrapolate with some pretty good precision.
> 
> Such extrapolation has been to date far less than precise.
> 
>> Kind of like knowing where
>> Saturn is going to be 35 years from now, in case you want to launch a probe
>> in that direction.
> 
> Why would it take 35 years to get a probe to Saturn?
> 
> Is this the same science that speculates that tiny temperature changes
> are a coming apocalypse?

Yeah, I get it. Nothing that is in a range beyond my lifetime matters.
Nothing behind the next 24 months matters. Stay in the moment. 

> 
> <snip remainder>
> 



-- 
Odd Bodkin -- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

Back to sci.physics | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think sam.wormley@gmail.com - 2018-12-06 13:16 -0800
  Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think Boris Mohar <borism_void_@sympatico.ca> - 2018-12-07 04:50 -0500
  Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-12-10 14:37 -0800
    Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-12-11 08:00 -0800
      Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-12-12 12:17 +0000
        Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-12-12 04:45 -0800
    Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think sam.wormley@gmail.com - 2018-12-12 13:34 -0800
      Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2018-12-12 23:01 +0000
        Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-12-12 23:29 +0000
          Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2018-12-13 00:22 +0000
            Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-12-13 01:23 +0000
              Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2018-12-13 03:29 +0000
                Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-12-13 11:59 +0000
                Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-12-13 15:54 -0500
                Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2018-12-13 23:43 +0000
        Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-12-13 15:45 -0500
      Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-12-13 12:59 -0800
        Robots will replace us. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-12-13 14:36 -0800
          Re: Robots will replace us. Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-12-13 14:55 -0800
    Re: Starting to look grim - Global warming will happen faster than we think "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-12-14 09:49 -0800

csiph-web