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Are you kidding? The Swedes are down right savages. Ever hear of Swedish meatballs? They originated in Finland. Cultural appropriation in the extreme!
Did they really mix horses in those meatballs?
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I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
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No, it was a mod error (copy-paste failure or something like that - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39170137 ). Submitters can't change URLs once they've submitted.
Nice error that have caused removal of the topic from the top.
I'm not sure I'm understanding you, but this thread spent 9 hours on HN's front page.
Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
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> Finland achieved energy self sufficiency last year thanks to a good combination of nuclear Is this a fission plant that uses fuel mined in Canada, Kazakhstan, and Australia?
I think you are implying that this self sufficiency is illusory To which I would respond that France could hold two years with its uranium reserves if the world stopped selling it Uranium. Gasoline reserves in comparison would last three months.
Illusory? Perhaps.
Certainly 'self-sufficient' is inaccurate, given the reliance on external inputs.
If other nation states are also not self-sufficient for fissionable materials, and/or other fuel types, then I would also not call them self-sufficient on power generation.
Sure, there are degrees of reliance on providers of fuel types, but no need to muddy the waters about self-sufficiency. (f.e. Australia could be self-sufficient on solar, wind, coal, fission, I suspect - at least in terms of raw materials.)
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> The thing that always stood between the world and climate action was the fact that fossil fuels were the best energy source. this has not been true since 1951
What’s not true? Fossil fuels are and will be the best energy source for a long while.
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If gas was magically $16 a gallon tomorrow, it would amplify inflation. Markets and their workers would demand wage increases, which would of course trickle to everything else. And yes, imagine what this would look like at $20 a gallon :/
There's a fascinating book that explores this exact thing, in $1/gal increments. Worth reading.
Well you gotta drop the book name with that nugget!
Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
#876I live in the south of france, and I really need to move to a cooler region in france. Summer are very long, nights are hot, makes it hard to sleep well. I don't have enough money to install AC. Mobile AC is too noisy. I have been postponing for 4 years now. I am reading The Ministry Of The Future, it's a great book. India will be the first to suffer from this.
I live in the south of spain, and AC is already a necessity in the summer. Days with 40° and nights with 30° are becoming increasingly common.
Also the water comes out of the tap at like 35-38°, unheated. I've had plants die when watering them with this. At this rate I'm going to have to install some sort of water cooler too.
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There's a fascinating book that explores this exact thing, in $1/gal increments. Worth reading.
Well you gotta drop the book name with that nugget!
https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/20-gasoline-don-t... is a short opinion piece on it with some links and such.
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World society is just a bunch of individuals so some have to do something. Re global regulation you need to get the main players like the US, China and Russia to agree some sort of policy which is tricky but might be possible if people lobby their politicians.
There is already a global agreement that the US keeps getting out of. China has already solved their problem and significantly improved air quality in its cities, and is the world biggest builder of nuclear power plants. They ceased being a problem already.
This is obviously not true?
Re: I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
#879I never worried about it, but do worry about science lacking the knowledge of millions of years of climate change being put into a few hundred.
I don't quite get your point? Assuming I'm interpreting it correctly: https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/ice-cores-an... : The oldest continuous ice core records to date extend 123,000 years in Greenland and 800,000 years in Antarctica. Ice cores contain information about past temperature, and about many other aspects of the environment. Crucially, the ice encloses small bubbles of air that contain a sam…
That's exactly my point. Having studied it - what you're telling us represents about 0.025%.
Never would I take a stance at such a low percentage - it isn't representative.
Even after millions of years, it isn't a significant portion of what climate is and was.
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I don't quite get your point? Assuming I'm interpreting it correctly: https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/ice-cores-an... : The oldest continuous ice core records to date extend 123,000 years in Greenland and 800,000 years in Antarctica. Ice cores contain information about past temperature, and about many other aspects of the environment. Crucially, the ice encloses small bubbles of air that contain a sam…
That's exactly my point. Having studied it - what you're telling us represents about 0.025%. Never would I take a stance at such a low percentage - it isn't representative. Even after millions of years, it isn't a significant portion of what climate is and was.
Millions of years of past tracking of a baseball (assuming one could last that long) has little bearing on the trajectory when thrown yesterday.
We're informed by past conditions and responses - but the most recent conditions (climatic parameters steady state wrt decadal means for past several thousand years + most recent hundred years of atmospheric change) are what matters now wrt AGW.