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

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On 12/13/2018 6:59 AM, Odd Bodkin wrote:
> <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.

Hey Boinker, are you dying of cancer? Just two years to live? Say, just 
how old a geezer are you anyway. You got Bert beat?

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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

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