jedrider wrote:Sorry Guy McPherson.
Po Taa Weeet!
theluckycountry wrote:jedrider wrote:Sorry Guy McPherson.
Yeah, I wonder what rock he's hiding under today.
AdamB wrote:Well, he'd be looking for a place where people can't think, can't build cars, are mining slaves and whatnot, where he would have easy pickin's among the wimmins? This one could be that rock.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:Ayer's rock is an interesting place, I once thought I might visit it someday but alas health and wealth would no longer allow such an expedition.
vtsnowedin wrote:I wonder what the mineral content of that rock is? If there was say gold or uranium in the center could you tunnel under and into it and hollow it out leaving the outside undisturbed?
Or is it just a lump of granite best left alone? Yes I understand the aborigines place religious significance on it so it is untouchable just mulling the impossibilities.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Weather forecasters faced unprecedented levels of trolling during this month's extreme heat in the UK, according to leading figures in the industry.
The BBC's team received hundreds of abusive tweets or emails questioning their reports and telling them to "get a grip", as temperatures hit 40C.
BBC meteorologist Matt Taylor said he had never experienced anything like it in nearly 25 years working in weather.
The Royal Meteorological Society condemned the trolling.
Most of the abuse seems to have been prompted as links were made between the heatwave and climate change.
The UK saw record high temperatures on 19 July, with 40C exceeded for the first time. Dozens of locations saw temperatures above the previous UK record of 38.7C and 15 fire services declared a state of emergency because of a surge in blazes.
The Met Office estimated the heatwave had been made 10 times more likely because of climate change.
FamousDrScanlon wrote:I find it interesting, like a living experiment, watching how desperate humans react when their ideology/faith starts to fall apart.
FamousDrScanlon wrote: Climate change might be the single biggest threat to human existence and deniers got it wrong wrong wrong. You can't get any more wrong than that.
AdamB wrote:Peak oil was supposed to be the single biggest threat to human existence when the first couple were claimed this century, climate change is where many of them fled to after the previously mentioned embarassment.
jedrider wrote:AdamB wrote:Peak oil was supposed to be the single biggest threat to human existence when the first couple were claimed this century, climate change is where many of them fled to after the previously mentioned embarassment.
Interesting how the two swords of Damocles are made of the same stuff.
jedrider wrote:I've always wondered whether if humans had limited their populations, would they have achieved as much before one of the swords fell?
I think that is the only question worth asking at this point in our predicament.
Tanada wrote:
Ayer's rock is an interesting place, I once thought I might visit it someday but alas health and wealth would no longer allow such an expedition.
jedrider wrote:I've always wondered whether if humans had limited their populations, would they have achieved as much before one of the swords fell?
I think that is the only question worth asking at this point in our predicament.
"Mass extinctions resulting from supervolcanic activity were found to be due chiefly to enormous, rapid emissions of carbon dioxide, as opposed to the gentle, glacially slow natural carbon cycle; and opposed to other phenomena related with super-eruptions. Sudden, massive release of CO2 and other greenhouse gases seem to have pushed the global environment beyond a tipping point, acidifying the oceans and lifting temperatures to deadly levels."
“A new study published in the journal Nature Communications Biology has recently reported on a previously undocumented mass extinction event that occurred after the transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene geological period, approximately 30 million years ago.
The event was caused by dramatic climate change that transformed the swampy lands of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula into icy landscapes, and resulted in the extinction of 63 percent of the Earth’s species.”
“Huge volcanic eruptions 233 million years ago pumped carbon dioxide, methane and water vapour into the atmosphere. This series of violent explosions, on what we now know as the west coast of Canada, led to massive global warming. Our new research has revealed that this was a planet-changing mass extinction event that killed off many of the dominant tetrapods and heralded the dawn of the dinosaurs. ”
High-altitude Alpine ski resorts have abandoned their summer seasons after record temperatures turned glaciers to slush.
Only one resort remains open after Zermatt, in Switzerland, closed its slopes. The closure of Europe’s biggest glaciers is a blow to professional skiers, who use the high-altitude slopes for summer training.
Tignes, next to Val d’Isère in France, has been open for only 14 days this summer. It closed more than a month ahead of schedule. Hintertux in Austria is now the only summer ski resort open in the Alps.
FamousDrScanlon wrote:Alps resorts see summer ski season melt awayHigh-altitude Alpine ski resorts have abandoned their summer seasons after record temperatures turned glaciers to slush.
Only one resort remains open after Zermatt, in Switzerland, closed its slopes. The closure of Europe’s biggest glaciers is a blow to professional skiers, who use the high-altitude slopes for summer training.
Tignes, next to Val d’Isère in France, has been open for only 14 days this summer. It closed more than a month ahead of schedule. Hintertux in Austria is now the only summer ski resort open in the Alps.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/alps ... -5qzh633fz
OMG now the ski resort owners are in on the climate hoax. By my back of the envelope calculations that brings the number of hoaxters up to 3.9 billion people at a cost of roughly 9 trillion per year. Obviously theses climate hoaxers have no limits on how much money or lives they will ruin to fool that near extinct troop of humans (sub) known as climate change deniers.
FFS even Hollywood would reject that script on the grounds that no audience would be able to suspend their disbelief THAT much.
"Many who survived the floods are finding themselves in destroyed communities. Scores of people have lost their homes. Some remain stranded because of washed-out roads, without access to clean water or electricity, unable to reach loved ones because of lost cell service and unable to receive critical supplies, including medication.
And as those communities struggle to recover, they face another weather threat this week: scorching heat."
It’s the third 1-in-1,000-year rain event in the Lower 48 states in about a week
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If it seems like a barrage of extreme rain events has been wreaking havoc across the country over the past week, you’re not imagining things. The latest resulted from an overnight deluge in central and southeastern Illinois, with some areas registering 8 to 12 inches of rain in less than 12 hours.
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It’s the third 1-in-1,000-year rain event in the Lower 48 states in about a week.
"California water prices are at all-time high as a severe drought chokes off supplies to cities and farms across the Golden State.
The price of water on the Nasdaq Veles California Water Index touched $1,144.14 an acre-foot on June 27 — up 56% since the start of the year. The index tracks the average price of water-rights transactions in five markets in the state.
In some pockets of California, water is even more costly -- hovering around $2,000 an acre-foot in the Westlands region...."
Interesting how the two swords of Damocles are made of the same stuff.
Human society is at maximum resiliency as nature (that we depend upon) is at minimum resiliency.
I've always wondered whether if humans had limited their populations, would they have achieved as much before one of the swords fell?
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