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Not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly

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Post by defrost »

camillomiller wrote: post #3

I wholeheartedly agree, yet I don’t want this type of information delivered this way. It’s just not effective. My mind doesn’t need changing, I am vegetarian, I’m mindful about traveling, I don’t own a car. Yet individual responsibility is useless in the face of such a collective crisis, and now another day is ruined by the acknowledgment that I can do fuck all about this because I have no control over the power stru…

From the same author, being scared is half the fun, deep breath, relax, let the mountain wash over you:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gViRfoNmGOg

Re: Not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly

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Post by Klapaucius »

seebeegeebee wrote: post #7
spl757 wrote: post #6

People do not understand what the reality of large portions of land that are concentrated on the coasts are going to underwater sooner than anyone probably thinks. Exxon knew in the 70s, they wrote reports about it, that's all known and verifiable. It's the lag effect, stupid. The last time there was this much Co2 in the atmosphere, because most of the population lives near the coast, the place you are sitting and re…

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You're not helping.

Re: Not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly

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Post by Kim_Bruning »

seebeegeebee wrote: post #7
spl757 wrote: post #6

People do not understand what the reality of large portions of land that are concentrated on the coasts are going to underwater sooner than anyone probably thinks. Exxon knew in the 70s, they wrote reports about it, that's all known and verifiable. It's the lag effect, stupid. The last time there was this much Co2 in the atmosphere, because most of the population lives near the coast, the place you are sitting and re…

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You do have to take into account the europeans who all suffered through something like 5 heat waves this season. That's a bit hard to talk around.

Re: Not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly

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Post by Xmd5a »

fragmede wrote: post #8

because human psychology is what it is, 1.5 degrees C is the wrong number to cite. 1.5 degrees C converts to 2 million TWh of energy. 2 million TERA watt hours! 120 million Hiroshima bombs worth of thermal energy. Spread over 100 years, that’s about 3,400 Hiroshima-equivalents per day, continuously. That sounds way scarier than 1.5 degrees C.

The earth receives about 2800 Hiroshima-equivalents per second from the sun. Just keep the sun shining one second longer every day for one century is all it takes for the 1.5° delta we're observing today.

> human psychology is what it is

indeed

Re: Not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly

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Post by dfdxdydz »

seebeegeebee wrote: post #15
Kim_Bruning wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do have to take into account the europeans who all suffered through something like 5 heat waves this season. That's a bit hard to talk around.

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I don’t know where you live, but where I live multiple records were broken in multiple dimensions (peak day temperature, peak night temperature, number of consecutive days above X degrees, number of rivers dry etc.).

These heatwaves were not called summer back in the day because there was no heatwave like that before.

Where do you live?

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