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Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland

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Post by danso »

xwdv wrote: post #107
crispyporkbites wrote: post #67

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Do you live on the same planet as me? The world is an incredible place and gets better every day! I look at my children and their experiences growing up and it’s far better than mine ever were. If I had the choice I’d be born today.

What experiences are that? Right now I see some fat kids with necks bent at 90 degrees staring mindlessly into a tablet watching some YouTube video of other people playing video games and shouting nonsense. Or babies and toddlers watching whole playlists of AI generated crap trying to get ad revenue. These kids are not getting a good start in life. Wouldn’t be surprised if the end of their lives doesn’t look much dif…

If you had to make an off-hand estimate of the total number of teens and children you've witnessed either in YouTube videos or watching YouTube, how does that number compare to the number of teens and children currently alive in this world at this moment?

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Post by RickS »

tjr225 wrote: post #97
RickS wrote: post #58

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Window mounted AC units are $100 - $200. It sits in a closet except for the 2 months a year that Seattle requires AC. A proper central air system would be overkill, but the small one is worth it. I wonder if window / removable units factor into the DOE's 75% number. From a real estate recordkeeping perspective, my home does not have AC, despite the previous owner permanently building a window unit into the side of th…

> except for the 2 months a year that Seattle requires AC Huh? 2 months out of the year AC is required ? Even if you can not, somehow, stand a week or two of 90-100 degree weather(with NO humidity!) without air conditioning, to months of required AC in Seattle seems like an insane exaggeration.

You're right, I was loose with my language there. It is never "required" in the way that eg Phoenix AZ would demand. It's a convenience. "Desirable" would have been a better word.

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Post by chrisco255 »

andrewstuart wrote: post #84
chrisco255 wrote: post #50

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No, it's not at all. Look, crop yields are way up in the past few years: Rice yields are up 40% since 1988: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/riceyl... Corn's up 60%: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/cornyl... Wheat is up 48% since '88: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/wwyld.... Cattle inventory looks steady: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Cattl…

You're giving historical stats. These are effectively irrelevant because they are from the time when the climate was still largely the same as it has been for hundreds of years. The question is - what will be the yields in a world in which the seasons are disrupted?

The seasons won't be disrupted mate. The seasons depend on the tilt of the Earth's axis as it rotates around the sun. The worst case scenario we're looking at is a shift in the fertile zones that crops can thrive in. That shift is far easier to deal with in a global warming scenario than a global cooling scenario. If we were to be entering an ice age, crop yields would go down and food supply would shrink. As it stands, warmth and CO2 are good for plants, so it's not likely to damage food supply at all.

Re: Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland

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Post by tjr225 »

RickS wrote: post #132
tjr225 wrote: post #97

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> except for the 2 months a year that Seattle requires AC Huh? 2 months out of the year AC is required ? Even if you can not, somehow, stand a week or two of 90-100 degree weather(with NO humidity!) without air conditioning, to months of required AC in Seattle seems like an insane exaggeration.

You're right, I was loose with my language there. It is never "required" in the way that eg Phoenix AZ would demand. It's a convenience. "Desirable" would have been a better word.

Right on.

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Post by Oletros »

benjamoon wrote: post #129
Oletros wrote: post #127

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Slowly rising? Have you seen the 100yr graph?

Yeah, it looks bad, but the y axis on the chart only represents 1 degree. This is kind of my point, it’s so easy to show a chart with a big uptick and if you don’t dig deeper you come away thinking we’re about to catch fire.

Because 1dgree is a lot, and the rate of change is the scary thing
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