I, for one, am looking forward to murdering my climate warming denying Conservative neighbors in cold blood for what little food and few valuables they may have as society collapses around us.

Change the combination on my luggage!

impaler: Sorry, somehow a space got in the google ngram viewer url in my last post (fark mispost, with fark's random 'add space' to typed URL thingy). Here's the actual graph. Not that there's much of a difference.

[books.google.com image 640x234]

What's that axis on the left supposed to represent?

Climate change was irreversible the minute we started having an atmosphere

wall of green bullshiat in 3, 2, 1....

Don't worry... peak oil is in a few months so we got this.

Climate change has been "irreversible after the next five years" for most of my life.

bingethinker: If we'd run out of oil in 2000, like they predicted 40 years ago, we wouldn't have this problem!

uhhh, we did run out of oil in 2000.

it is just that since we ran out of food in 1998, we have been too hungry to notice.

impaler: Yet the scientists forgot to write about it.

Derp!

Stop replying to the obvious troll

AdolfOliverPanties: [www.neverlosethehat.com image 250x254]


Yeah yeah yeah, we've heard it all before.

I will now watch this film, as I have not seen it in some time.

abb3w: djkutch: I dunno. We could plant some trees gobble up that stuff we exhale.

Might take a bit more than that. However, I'm confident a limited nuclear exchange would offset the warming effect, and that becomes increasingly likely once the climate effects reach the point of increasing geopolitical instability. Negative feedback loop, tending to stability, and probably a human population in at least the six digit range.


Then the Israeli/Iran war is going to be a good thing then? Should be some nuke action.

If you think hot is bad, wait until you try cold.

Does this mean in five years we'll stop having to listen to the climate alarmists whining about it? Oh good.

Does this mean that in five years these idiots will stop yapping about how doomed we are?

Meh, I don't buy it.
Then again I've been a long time proponent for the terraformation of mars. So long as you have gravity and the manpower to accomplish something, there shouldn't be such a thing as irreversible.

Which makes me wonder how they came to this conclusion.
Is it irreversible as in "we can't ever fix it" or irreversible because "we can't fix it by driving electric cars and buying solar panels from the companies I've invested in"?
If you're going to do jack squat about putting the brakes on the problem because you're afraid of geo-engineering, then I think we've long past the point where nature can compensate for mankinds existence. Saying we're five years away sounds more like your making a sales pitch for your favorite political party.
Not like either one will do anything in the next decade besides pander for votes.

To that end tho, nature is pretty darn resilient and will fix everything in the following million years after we've driven ourselves extinct. So it doesn't really matter if we stop using oil or if everyone goes vegan. The planet isn't going to kill us for our sins by turning into Venus-earth overnight.

The question is if we're going to do anything about the perceived problem while we still have the technology and resources on hand. Which is more in the ballpark of a century or two.

way south: Meh, I don't buy it.
Then again I've been a long time proponent for the terraformation of mars. So long as you have gravity and the manpower to accomplish something, there shouldn't be such a thing as irreversible.

Which makes me wonder how they came to this conclusion.
Is it irreversible as in "we can't ever fix it" or irreversible because "we can't fix it by driving electric cars and buying solar panels from the companies I've invested in"?
If you're going to do jack squat about putting the brakes on the problem because you're afraid of geo-engineering, then I think we've long past the point where nature can compensate for mankinds existence. Saying we're five years away sounds more like your making a sales pitch for your favorite political party.
Not like either one will do anything in the next decade besides pander for votes.

To that end tho, nature is pretty darn resilient and will fix everything in the following million years after we've driven ourselves extinct. So it doesn't really matter if we stop using oil or if everyone goes vegan. The planet isn't going to kill us for our sins by turning into Venus-earth overnight.

The question is if we're going to do anything about the perceived problem while we still have the technology and resources on hand. Which is more in the ballpark of a century or two.

Sir... I'm going to have to ask you to stop having a reasonable and sensible opinion. This is fark, think of the children.

So only five more years until I don't have to freeze my nuts off between November and April? I'll take what I can get, I guess.

Hasn't the climate of the Earth been in flux since the beginning of it's creation?

EnviroDude: The disadvantage of being young is that you were not around when the "Coming Ice Age" was the rage of the day (new window)

This is from the era when Time Magazine, the NY Times and other news media were still trusted.

The advantage of having an education is that you can tell the difference between peer-reviewed scientific papers and Time Magazine. Link

mpowelljr: Hasn't the climate of the Earth been in flux since the beginning of it's creation?

Watch out!
Packs of anthropogenic global warming meerkats will rip your flesh for that kind of rational thinking.

Sgt. Pepper: EnviroDude: The disadvantage of being young is that you were not around when the "Coming Ice Age" was the rage of the day (new window)

This is from the era when Time Magazine, the NY Times and other news media were still trusted.

The advantage of having an education is that you can tell the difference between peer-reviewed scientific papers and Time Magazine. Link

[He brandishes the Glorious Sword of Peer Review to bestow legitimacy!
Swoosh, swoosh!
Wow!]

Oh my.
To whom should I have my country send all of its money?
To whom should I send all of my money?

/Submitted this with a better headline.
//Peer review meerkats ripped my flesh.

Raincoats?

Here we go.
But wait, there's more!

Check out this gem:

"One wonders how many more worrying figures the world needs," commented Connie Hedegaard, the European Union's climate commissioner.

The report "shows that the world is heading for a fossil-fuel lock-in. This is another urgent call to move to a low-carbon economy," she said in a statement.

Setting a global price on carbon, slashing fossil fuel subsidies, boosting renewable energy and energy efficiency and revised tax codes are all tools for achieving that end, she added.

Well gee-whiz. The world will end if we don't give them money.
Just like in 2008 when members of congress were told that martial law would be declared and the global economy would implode if the banks didn't get billions of dollars NOW. NOW!

/Disaster capitalism, how does it work?
//The Shock Doctrine, read it and learn.
///Mosin-Nagant is your friend.
////The most ironic part is that the meerkats of peer review don't realize they are playing right into this plan.

Asa Phelps: I think it's hilarious that they propose to have a precision measurement of something that will affect us over a geological time scale.

While the sun will impose warming over a geological time scale man will impose it over a human time scale.

impaler: The climate is always changing, ergo 'climate change' is already irreversible. QED

Yeah, the headline is bad. The article isn't, though.

way south: Meh, I don't buy it.
Then again I've been a long time proponent for the terraformation of mars. So long as you have gravity and the manpower to accomplish something, there shouldn't be such a thing as irreversible.

Irreversible in that we can't undo it before we cross the safety limits.

You're heading down the road at 80 mph. Suddenly you see a hairpin turn ahead. Of course you have the power to shed your velocity/change your direction but do you have the power to it before you run off the road???

/Gotta run, I won't be following this thread.