For good overviews on what the climate change research actually says, I recommend the potholer54 YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/potholer54/videos
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Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure you, the guy who writes snarky tweets and codes web forms, have a lot more going for you in the annals of history than an internationally recognized titan of literature.
Lovecraft is sort of the B movies of literature: Fun as hell, inventive, wild, unexpected, crazy at times. But, not great literature.
Exactly, that's why Houellebecq was inspired to write a biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft%3A_Against_the...
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#233So if it all melts, we could see 1200ppm? That doesn't sound that scary.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, the Earth has been a lot warmer and colder in the past. We've had massive volcanoes going off for thousands of years, we've had iceball earth, we've had crocodiles and palm trees in the arctic. The Earth's systems always balance out over the long run. We don't stay trapped in ice ages or hot phases.
There's a really good George Carlin bit in one of his stand-ups about how the earth will be fine. Something along the lines of what you're saying; earthquakes, volcanoes, solar flares, etc. She's been around for a looong time folks. It's humanity that might be in for a bad day.
There's also this classic page: https://qntm.org/destroy
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I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Lovecraft is fundamentally about confronting modernism and the inevitable decay of humanity in the faces of forces beyond our control. Central to that is the decay of the Anglo-Saxon genetic stock. Xenophobic isn't quite the right word. Racist is closer, but even that misses the mark. Every story he writes is terrified of black voodoo savages, or toothless white hill peo…
Ur-tribalist, perhaps.
Wow, I just learned that I despise the prefix "ur-" far more than is reasonable.
Seriously though, why not call it "tribalist"?
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#236Maybe the neglected catastrophists of the 1940s are about to see their day. At any rate, the following article cites -many- sources as regards the 'Alaskan muck'.
https://steemit.com/velikovsky/@harlotscurse/in-alaska
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s not how evolution works. That’s like saying that a dog could easily kill a velociraptor because dogs are 65 million years “more evolved”.
To be pedantic dogs are pretty selectively bred by humans. Raptor vs Wolf might be more apt
Bacteria are pretty selectively bred by humans too :P
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
You got it backwards, birds are now dinosaurs. The world just got that much cooler. If you're not convinced, look through YouTube for videos of my favorite dinosaur, the raven.
Care to elucidate on the choice of ravens? I would go with cassowaries and emus as examples of "oh yeah they totally are dinosaurs"...
Mainly just that ravens are awesome, and velociraptors are awesome, so Q.E.D. Not really a scientific argument.
I do wonder how many Cretaceous critters were intelligent to the degree of ravens or dogs or primates, if any. We know they weren't as good at terraforming as we are, or there'd be some evidence in the strata. But the Cretaceous was longer than the current period, so I wouldn't be shocked if something we could call intelligent evolved.
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#239Wasn't this in An Inconvenient Truth? Old news
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#240There could be anything underneath all the permafrost, including new biodiversity which we haven't catalogued yet. NPR ran a story[0] where Russian animals such as reindeer infected with Anthrax had thawed out, and caused outbreaks where people had to get preventative treatments against it. As a future threat model, what if there's new viruses or bacterium contained under previously frozen earth for which modern medi…
> There could be anything underneath all the permafrost, including new biodiversity which we haven't catalogued yet.
This is stupid. A medical waste dump from "decades" ago leads to issues..... How do we jump to this science fiction and quotes below from NPR of unbelievable????
"Officials don't know exactly how the outbreak started, but the current hypothesis is almost unbelievable: A heat wave has thawed the frozen soil there and with it, a reindeer carcass infected with anthrax decades ago."
Waste dumps from the past cause issues in the future.. How on earth is this unbelievable? How is it even related to global warming? They dug a hole when it was cold, it got warmer in summer one year and defrosted?
It also only killed one person. And we were prepared for it. This makes for a crappy SciFi novel by any standards.