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alexk307

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    Comment #49244306

    > I’d like to get it to 1750 You want to bring humanity back into the little ice age?

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    Comment #49215488

    What is Climate repair? What is your company doing to repair the climate?

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    Comment #49211379

    > Before that [Holocene], for hundreds of thousands of years in the Pleistocene era, humans (and our hominid ancestors) spent most of their time running from drought, fires, floods…

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    Comment #49211197

    Not to mention that if we limited access to fossil fuels today, billions of people would be dead within months. If we turned off the spigot, billions would starve and civilization …

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    Comment #49183422

    OP's shining example of Mexico is essentially as obese[0], and far less educated[1] than Americans on average. It's embarrassing to be this blind to the state of things when you ha…

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    Comment #48994552

    Right - and that data does not suggest anything close to what OP was saying. [1] https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0216 [2] https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…

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    Comment #48947893

    > In the past thousand years, we have never seen a single season where 4% of Canada's entire forest area burned down You cannot possibly know this, you do not have accurate records…

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    Comment #48677598

    Sad but you unfortunately need to make a profit as a public company at some point. In 8 years since going public, they've had essentially one marginally profitable year surrounded …

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    Comment #48445405

    While I'm empathetic to the overall theme of the post, the strawberries are a terrible example and takes away from the message. Strawberries are delicate little fruits that until a…

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    Comment #48311183

    This seems like a no-brainer. Tax 10-15k ultra wealthy people who park their cash in second homes in exchange for ~$500M/year in revenue.

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    Comment #48111803

    There's a bit of a difference between "enforcing social norms" and telling a user to ingest prescription drugs to combat nausea from the other drugs that it told the user to take. …

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    Comment #47757906

    > extraordinary amount of labor in order to modify our environment to save civilization from sea level rise and to be able to repair damages caused by natural disasters Do you real…

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    Comment #47629149

    Which is a good thing because solar + batteries is literally the easiest way to make profit currently, and will get more profitable year over year.

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    Comment #47629135

    This is just incorrect. The politics in the US say one thing but the market is going in the other direction. 2026 additions to the US grid will be almost entirely renewables - 6.3 …

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    Comment #47326898

    It really doesn't - my source shows average summer temperatures (Th - Tl / 2). This does not say that those regions are experiencing high temperatures that are that much warmer, bu…

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    Comment #47326684

    Pretty sure global warming is referencing the global affects, not regional ones. You can't make a global argument based on local temperature increases just like you can't make an a…

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    Comment #47282048

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/summer-temperature-anomal... Somewhere on the order of 1-2C if you start from the 1850s.

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    Comment #47281260

    Most of the increase in local temperatures are overnight lows in the Winter. I'm not sure there's any peer-reviewed mechanism to suggest that daytime Summer highs will increase 20F…

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    Comment #47280866

    There isn't enough fossil fuels in the ground for us to burn to cause a 20F+ increase in annual summer temperatures globally...

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    Comment #47263992

    In the reference period 1999->2020, the instruments used by NHANES to track this data changed at least 3 times, they don't account for other changes to the general population that …

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    Comment #45186326

    > As climate breakdown accelerates, rainfall patterns are changing fast, and water will increasingly become less available at certain times of year. As Sir David King, a former UK …

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    Comment #44762063

    Not according to the IPCC: > Climate models consistently project environmental changes that would support an increase in the frequency and intensity of severe thunderstorms that co…

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    Comment #44747710

    But that's not what the paper says. It says Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) has gotten worse, not all types of turbulence. In this case, the flight flew through a convective storm. Even…

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    Comment #44747652

    That paper has nothing to do with the incident in question. You're referencing a BBC article that references a paper stating that Clear Air Turbulence is getting worse [1] > Turbul…

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    Comment #44521597

    But I was told that it was solely Climate Change that was responsible for these price hikes and that it was only going to get worse: - https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/cof…