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What’s the hottest the Earth’s ever been?

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Post by jessaustin »

parkingrift wrote: post #56
jessaustin wrote: post #41

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Our society no longer seeks practical solutions.

I feel pretty confident we'll get to the level of desperation needed to act on this comically cheap and effective stop-gap.

I'm not so sure. People who run the world DGAF about Kiribati or whatever. Rather, they really like mysterious and complicated schemes for transferring resources to themselves. E.g., all of USA's stupid wars. Also e.g. delayed availability in USA of covid antigen testing. Or also e.g., "carbon capture". "Every crisis is an opportunity."

Just look at the BS they excrete whenever they're forced to address albedo modification at all. [0] "Albedo modification is cheaper and actually possible, but if we do it rather than this much more expensive and totally ineffective thing then we'll have to keep doing it until we can figure out how to emit less carbon, which will never happen so just give us all the money while the world cooks." I'm paraphrasing but that's just because they don't want to publish anything so explicitly embarrassing to humanity.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/150210-na...

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Post by ftrobro »

egberts1 wrote: post #54
ftrobro wrote: post #17

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First we would need to create a huge magnetic field protecting Mars from the solar wind that has blown away the atmosphere Mars previously had. https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/how-did-mars-lose-its-atm... https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/how-to-give-mars-an-atmos...

how do we know that the magnetic field is a product not just the iron core of the Earth but perhaps large quantity of selected molecule in the atmosphere? Nitrogen or oxygen?

Earth's magnetic field follows the flow of magma inside Earth (not the solid iron core). There would not be any pole reversals if the magnetic field was created by something constant like the distribution of molecules in Earth's atmosphere.

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-poleReversal...

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Post by kbelder »

eloff wrote: post #31
CJefferson wrote: post #30

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I can't imagine anything most countries could reasonably do to prepare for 5c, what type of things would you suggest?

If you're Bangladesh, give up on being a country and join India so your people at least have somewhere to migrate to. If you're New Orleans, time to give up on being a city. Start preventing new construction. Incentivize people to leave. Things like that really if we're going to get honest with ourselves about where things are headed.

If you're Canada, get ready for good times.

Re: What’s the hottest the Earth’s ever been?

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Post by mrlonglong »

Interesting article, but one thing let it down, it didn't give the Celsius equivalent for the temperatures quoted in Fahrenheit, I think it would have been nice to have those in brackets for those who can't quite make the mental contortions converting from one to the other. Apart from that quite fascinating to see that life did find a way to exist in temperatures higher then today or in the past.

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Post by Helmut10001 »

egberts1 wrote: post #55
Helmut10001 wrote: post #52

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Can you explain how you reached this conclusion?

Perhaps it’s the science. Climate Emergencies 1966 - Oil gone in 10 years 1967 - Dire famine forecast by 1975 1968 - Overpopulation will spread worldwide 1969 - Everyone will disappear in a Cloud of Blue Steam in 1989 1970 - World will use up its natural resources by 2000 1970 - Urban citizens will require gas mask by 1985 1970 - Nitrogen buildup will make all lands unusable 1970 - Decaying pollution will kill all th…

You summarize a random number of clickbait news headers from the past 60 years. If this is your main source of information, I would seriously reconsider my behavior for collecting and reviewing relevancy and quality of information.

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Post by egberts1 »

Helmut10001 wrote: post #65
egberts1 wrote: post #55

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Perhaps it’s the science. Climate Emergencies 1966 - Oil gone in 10 years 1967 - Dire famine forecast by 1975 1968 - Overpopulation will spread worldwide 1969 - Everyone will disappear in a Cloud of Blue Steam in 1989 1970 - World will use up its natural resources by 2000 1970 - Urban citizens will require gas mask by 1985 1970 - Nitrogen buildup will make all lands unusable 1970 - Decaying pollution will kill all th…

You summarize a random number of clickbait news headers from the past 60 years. If this is your main source of information, I would seriously reconsider my behavior for collecting and reviewing relevancy and quality of information.

that’s the science for you over 60 years.

I still remember Al Gore’s purchase of a San Francisco waterfront property.

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Post by eloff »

kbelder wrote: post #63
eloff wrote: post #31

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If you're Bangladesh, give up on being a country and join India so your people at least have somewhere to migrate to. If you're New Orleans, time to give up on being a city. Start preventing new construction. Incentivize people to leave. Things like that really if we're going to get honest with ourselves about where things are headed.

If you're Canada, get ready for good times.

Minus forest fires and other extreme weather events. Tough to say it will be positive, but more so than for other countries, apart from Russia.
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