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Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5

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On 2018-08-08 11:12 AM, mixed nuts wrote:
> On 8/8/2018 1:39 PM, Checkmate wrote:
>> Warning! Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading posts by
>> Checkmate!  In article <1nt7tnb.64pi48jhlzq0N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>,
>> snipeco.2@gmail.com says...
>>> Paul "NerdyBoi" Derbyshire in his Professor kensi Kensington Fu.D.
>>> costume confidently declared:  "The sky is falling!"
>>>
>>> It's secondhand news time again in Pembroke, Ontario:
>>>
>>>> Signatories to the Paris climate agreement ? every country in the 
>>>> world,
>>>> unless and until the US drops out in 2020 ? agreed to what is by now a
>>>> familiar goal: "holding the increase in the global average 
>>>> temperature to
>>>> well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to 
>>>> limit
>>>> the temperature increase to 1.5°C."
>>>>
>>>> How important is that difference, though? How much worse would 2 
>>>> degrees
>>>> be than 1.5? Is it worth the extra effort ? and it would be a truly 
>>>> heroic
>>>> effort ? to limit temperature rise to that lower target?
>>>>
>>>> <https://www.vox.com/energy-and-enviroment/2018/1/19/16908402/global-warming-2-degrees-climate-change> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Save your breath, Paul, and your typing fingers.
>>> It's far too late to do anything about it now,
>>> we're well past the tipping point.  We should
>>> just stop worrying about it and just get on with
>>> business as usual.
>>>
>>> If it -really- worries you, make Plans for
>>> Teh Disaster when it actually arrives (RSN).
>>>
>>> P. S.  Fuck off, Paul.
>>
>> True, and no one is capable of "adjusting" or "manipulating" global
>> warming by declaring that we can simply "hold" temperatures to any
>> arbitrarily-determined level like we have our hands on some giant global
>> thermostat.  This is where science meets hubris.
> 
> Only billionaires have the knowledge and experience to manipulate global 
> temperatures correctly.  Scientists are not billionaires.
> 
i brought you here from a support group because ,
you're so easy to manipulate , janithor too

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This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 kensi <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid> - 2018-08-08 07:57 -0400
  Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-08-08 13:12 +0100
    Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 % <persent@gmail.com> - 2018-08-08 07:27 -0700
    Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-08-08 09:53 -0500
    Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 Checkmate <ricksabian1@gmail.com> - 2018-08-08 10:39 -0700
      Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2018-08-08 14:12 -0400
        Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 % <persent@gmail.com> - 2018-08-08 11:14 -0700
          Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2018-08-08 14:37 -0400
            Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 % <persent@gmail.com> - 2018-08-08 11:44 -0700
              Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 Janithor <Janithor@comcast.net> - 2018-08-08 14:52 -0700
      Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-08-08 19:38 +0000
  Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 "elpyes1969@outlook.com" <elpyes1969@outlook.com> - 2018-08-08 12:14 +0000
    Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-08-08 19:38 +0000
      Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 Your Friendly Neighbourhood Puppy Whistle Holder Emeritus 🐶笛 <root@127.0.0.1> - 2018-08-08 14:46 -0500
        Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2018-08-08 19:56 +0000
  Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 Frizzleshnits <fn@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-08 06:50 -0600
    Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 kensi <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid> - 2018-08-08 09:44 -0400
  Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-08 10:37 -0400
    Re: This graphic explains why 2 degrees of global warming will be way worse than 1.5 kensi <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid> - 2018-08-08 11:16 -0400
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