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Re: The Strongest El Niño Ever

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Post by zuzululu »

simmerup wrote: post #280
zuzululu wrote: post #214

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We've had the apocalyptic climate prophecies every decade and towards the end of each they move the goal post again and again. Then other scientists offer alternative views that point out that flaw and they are automatically not deemed as science despite the geological history of earth's magnetic poles shifting and recorded climate changes. The fuel we burn barely makes a dent on the overall climate change effect. Yo…

So you think this climate change is caused by the magnetic poles shifting?

you are aware that magnetic poles shifts have been happening on earth since its formation and continue to do so ?

Re: The Strongest El Niño Ever

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Post by zuzululu »

inigyou wrote: post #299
zuzululu wrote: post #216

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"We keep making predictions that never comes true maybe one day we'll be right when I won't be around to find out"

"sir you have cancer, you'll die in five years" five years later: "HAHA THE DOCTORS ARE ALL STUPID AND WRONG!" five more years: dead, of cancer

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Re: The Strongest El Niño Ever

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Post by zuzululu »

inigyou wrote: post #176
zuzululu wrote: post #149

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thats a silly take, this is totally different from some pending apocalypse that is repeatedly pushed back when it doesn't happen.

We don't know how much he'll drink before he gets cirrhosis. Now he's 60 and should have had it already. We still think he'll have it despite previously not predicting the timeline correctly.

You seem less interested in whether the analogy is accurate than in making sure or desiring someone is dead by the end of it. I do find it to be weird way to respond to low stakes banter.

argumentum ad cadaver

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Post by sdeframond »

Timon3 wrote: post #349
sdeframond wrote: post #141

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That works. A lot of people do that in their home when they have no other choice (renting the place, typically). It'd be better to block the sun before it hits the window though, so that the window itself does not get hot and heat the inside. Edit: people generally use emergency blankets, fyi. You can stick them to the glass with water.

I've read a few times now that applying reflective foil to the inside using water can lead to broken windows - though I can't remember any linking to statistics or studies, so it could also be false or very rare.

I didn't know! Google agrees with you so it must be true.

Re: The Strongest El Niño Ever

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Post by protocolture »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #335
protocolture wrote: post #269

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>It’s all so scary! I regret having a child. I dont get this. I would regret having a kid maybe if he turns out to not be resilient and up to the challenges posed by the changing climate and the shitty political situation. But those are things I can work with him on. Opsec can be taught. Political dissent can be taught. This thing can be turned around when the political class has been disposed of.

The point is it's too far gone. You can't teach much resilience for continent-wide crop failure.

Its not too far gone to turn around.

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Post by Windchaser »

fragmede wrote: post #241
throw-the-towel wrote: post #225

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I wonder if pork is better than beef for the environment.

Pork, by a bunch. Lower land use, lower greenhouse gas emissions, less water use.

Not ethically better, though. At least in the US, 99% of all pork is factory-farmed, and in much of that the pigs live their whole lives in a stall too small to turn around in.

Pigs are as smart as dogs, and have personalities and emotions. I am absolutely a carnivore, but I still balk at eating meat raised through a system that just about tortures intelligent animals.

Anyways: I eat a lot more chicken and plant protein these days.

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Post by windexh8er »

dredmorbius wrote: post #243
windexh8er wrote: post #208

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Unfounded comments that are nothing but a lie are OK. Yet, calling it out directly goes against the rules. In this case the response is warranted. Until people start to see what actually goes on in these data centers with respect to pollution (of many kinds) I don't have a problem being direct.

What the link I'd shared stated was "Please edit out swipes, as the site guidelines ask". It also states "Your comment would be fine without that ... bit." I frequently address poorly-founded comments myself. Just did immediately before this reply, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064763 > ( I'm doing so both staying within the guidelines and specifically calling out the idiocy displayed, though without re…

> You've been here long enough that all of this should be quite familiar to you.

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> (I'm not a mod, which is why I'd initially linked a mod's own admonition.)

Maybe stay in your own lane then, I explained myself and the unfounded lie. My response, in my opinion, is warranted.

Re: The Strongest El Niño Ever

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Post by dredmorbius »

windexh8er wrote: post #357
dredmorbius wrote: post #243

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What the link I'd shared stated was "Please edit out swipes, as the site guidelines ask". It also states "Your comment would be fine without that ... bit." I frequently address poorly-founded comments myself. Just did immediately before this reply, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064763 > ( I'm doing so both staying within the guidelines and specifically calling out the idiocy displayed, though without re…

> You've been here long enough that all of this should be quite familiar to you. ... > (I'm not a mod, which is why I'd initially linked a mod's own admonition.) Maybe stay in your own lane then, I explained myself and the unfounded lie. My response, in my opinion, is warranted.

Yes, the response is warranted. Appreciated even.

The swipe ("I'd suggest enlightening yourself") is not.

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Post by sdeframond »

whatevaa wrote: post #346
scarecrowbob wrote: post #250

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I don't know your situation but surely you've tried ventilating at night and then closing up the house at a specific time in the day? I only ask because when I moved from the US south to the high desert in NM (about 2KM) I had to learn how to time that transition. Very few folks here run A/Cs, we generally have homes designed to stay warm and during the summer usually fans go on about bed time and off in the morning,…

Ventilating at night doesn't work at all when nights are hot. And now it happens oftenly, not sometimes. That is a bigger problem than hot days. Also, all the activity you do inside your insulated home also increases temperature. Human body itself is a small space heater. At some point, you gotta get that energy out somehow, and if nights are hot, there is no way to do that except via a heat pump.

It may not be enough but it does work.

When it is 40C max by day and 22C min by night, for example, the outside is still cooler than the inside at night. So ventilating will have a real impact.

With this you might reach 25-26C inside in the morning and 29C by the end of the afternoon. It is hot but generally OK with fans, depending on humidity.

Then you can turn the AC on during daytime on top of that, which makes more sense than relying only on it.

Re: The Strongest El Niño Ever

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Post by AlecSchueler »

protocolture wrote: post #355
AlecSchueler wrote: post #335

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The point is it's too far gone. You can't teach much resilience for continent-wide crop failure.

Its not too far gone to turn around.

What are you basing that on? Even the most optimistic predictions are saying the best we can hope for this century is to slow down the damage being done.
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