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

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Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> 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. 

Nope, not at all.

What matters is observable, net negative effects.

So far no flooded cities, no massive crop failures, no pile of bodies...

-- 
Jim Pennino

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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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