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Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part VIII 9

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

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Why do you support that position? The one where the oligarchy knows best?
 
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It's easy... look up the definition of oligarchy and many governments fall into that category.

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When the internet was beggining to catch universities used to publish their entire libraries for free. Microfilms were searchable. History was familiar. Today, everything is unprecedented because there is no history anymore.

Recently, it has been decided that it is dangerous for the general public to have access to free information.
 
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Greg... how can a question be a lie? Maybe a statement can be one.

Tug... many of the sites I visit have CSV data available for free download.


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concur... a bit of hyperbole... not the entire world, turned upside down... so, is there a need for concern?

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That is more than hyperbole. It is a concerted effort to spread a cultist philosophy by spreading untruths. When the unwashed buy the lies, the cultists make a lot of money.
 
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Cherry picked local events. And lies "Sea level is now rising at about double the rate it did in the 1990s,"

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Nope, same old rate back to 1965

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A different set of numbers; maybe not quite the same... it might be 'speeding up'.

"Rising seas is one of those climate change effects. Average sea levels have swelled over 8 inches (about 23 cm) since 1880, with about three of those inches gained in the last 25 years. Every year, the sea rises another .13 inches (3.2 mm.) Research published in February 2022 shows that sea level rise is accelerating and projected to..."


"The global mean water level in the ocean rose by 0.14 inches (3.6 millimeters) per year from 2006–2015, which was 2.5 times the average rate of 0.06 inches (1.4 millimeters) per year throughout most of the twentieth century. By the end of the century, global mean sea level is likely to rise at least one foot (0.3 meters) above 2000 levels, even if greenhouse gas emissions follow a relatively low pathway in coming decades."


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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

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Oooo...sea level could rise a foot over the next 80 years! The horror! The horror!
Given the rate of technological advancement, does anyone here seriously believe this would be a calamity? Of course, it's still assuming the trend of the last 50 years continues that long, which is nothing but speculation.

There's also the small matter of the satellite measurements diverging from the tide gauge measurements, which probably means the tide gauge measurements have some error. Looks to be about an inch over 20 years, with the tide gauge erring on the high side. If that's been consistent for awhile, the rise in sea level may only be a short term trend, since that is pretty much the entire rate of rise over the last century.
 
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For the earth, not heating up, that's a lot of ice.

"Just in time for Earth Day, a team of scientists funded by nasa and the European Space Agency has released the results of what might be thought of as the ice sheet’s latest checkup. The patient is not well. Over the past three decades, the researchers found, the rate of ice loss from Greenland has increased sevenfold. In one particularly warm year—2019—Greenland shed four hundred and forty-four billion tons of ice; these tons contained enough water to flood the entire state of California to a depth of three feet. Melt from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, too, the researchers found, has been accelerating; since the early nineteen-nineties, the rate of ice loss from West Antarctica has more than doubled. The new figures “are pretty disastrous really,” one of the scientists, Ruth Mottram of the Danish Meteorological Institute, told the Associated Press."

Water rise may be only one of a few issues to watch for. As it was noted earlier, people can relocate.



54C, that's a little toasty and may not be the 'upper end'. It will be interesting to see if California can match that... but they have air coditioners... or do they have the power to drive them? All sorts of potential issues.

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They are funded by the governments around the world, and peer reviewed by scientists paid for governments around the world. Makes sense that there is little action being undertaken by the governments around the world. Businesses, milking this cow, are free enterprise companies... meanwhile, the earth continues to heat up.

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“Funded by governments…and peer reviewed”

This is meant to reassure us?
 
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