Global Warming's Terrifying New Math

https://longreads.com/2017/10/19/we-should-be-talking-about-the-effect-of-climate-change-on-cities

maybe some of you animated shorts oscar geeks already knew about this but it belongs on this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0YSFvPTm2A

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/28/alarm-as-study-reveals-worlds-tropical-forests-are-huge-carbon-emission-source

Heh

heh. oooof.

the good news is that at least in the united states, our new industrial scientist leaders in the government probably won't ever read that study, therefore it doesn't exist

http://blog.ucsusa.org/michael-halpern/the-epa-science-advisory-board-is-being-compromised-heres-why-that-matters

i need to go back to bed and just start the day over. the world is fucked imo

yr Fourth National Climate Assessment has arrived

https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/executive-summary

civilization has always been too much anyways

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/03/trump-administration-releases-report-finds-no-convincing-alternative-explanation-for-climate-change/?utm_term=.f6d0d60e8515

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/the-zombie-diseases-of-climate-change/544274

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/05/donald-trump-accused-blocking-satellite-climate-change-research

re the Science Advisory Board:

One of Pruitt’s other appointees to this board, from which he has purged most of the scientists whose findings inconvenience his longtime benefactors, is this guy Robert Phalen, who runs a lab at Cal-Irvine that studies the health effects of air pollution. Phalen, it seems, believes that we are coddling our children with too damn much fresh, clean air. From The Independent:

Speaking to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012, Mr. Phalen told the audience: “Modern air is a little too clean for optimum health.” Mr. Phalen has also argued that the risks associated with modern particulate matter are “very small and confounded by many factors”. In a 2004 study, he wrote that, “neither toxicology studies nor human clinical investigations have identified the components and/or characteristics of [particulate matter] that might be causing the health-effect associations”.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a13381482/air-too-clean-epa-official-trump/

I bet that cunt really believes his own papers and snorts a bit of asbestos and w/ diesel fumes for breakfast, just to get his required impurity levels up. Clean water is killing us! Drink bin-juice mixed with surgical spirits!

There is an extensive literature on hormesis, and I think one can make a persuasive case for ambient radiation or some banned but persistent organic pollutants as harmless in human health. I've never seen it applied to atmospheric particulates. If there's any benefit to atmospheric particles, it occurs *well below* levels seen by industrialized societies.

it's almost like scott pruitt appointed someone to head the SAB who doesn't know what they're doing! but why would he do that?!

can the UN charge him with crimes against humanity or something

“neither toxicology studies nor human clinical investigations have identified the components and/or characteristics of [particulate matter] that might be causing the health-effect associations”.

This is effectively saying that we know that particulate matter in the air is associated with really nasty health effects, but until we can isolate the exact mechanisms by which particulate matter ruins people's health, he's perfectly happy to ruin lots of people's health.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/opinion/climate-capitalism-crisis.html

...the hope that we can empower intelligent people to positions where they can design the perfect set of regulations, or that we can rely on scientists to take the carbon out of the atmosphere and engineer sources of renewable energy, serves to cover over the simple fact that the work of saving the planet is political, not technical. We have a much better chance of making it past the 22nd century if environmental regulations are designed by a team of people with no formal education in a democratic socialist society than we do if they are made by a team of the most esteemed scientific luminaries in a capitalist society. The intelligence of the brightest people around is no match for the rampant stupidity of capitalism.

new trump budget guts climate science studies (graduate and pro) anyways. MAGA

this problem will outlive the trump era y'know

not necessarily, if civilization ends prior to trumpski's russkie trot

you know we're not that lucky

:(

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21731397-stopping-flow-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-not-enough-it-has-be-sucked-out

ugh

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112017/arctic-sea-ice-extent-record-chukchi-bering-sea-alaska-ocean

http://grist.org/article/let-it-go-the-arctic-will-never-be-frozen-again/

earth had a good run

Off that URL: "Never" is a long time. So we'll skip the next glaciation, scheduled by Milanković to start in about a thousand years. Another will come around in ~100,000 CE. By then, most of the emissions will be safely sequestered a diatoms and other organics in the ocean depths, but any humanity surviving won't be able to do this again, as all the accessible fossil fuel will be long gone.

100 million years after that there will be more fossil fuels! this time made from humans

we'll make great pet(roleum)s

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/why-did-two-thirds-of-this-weird-antelope-suddenly-drop-dead/550676/

ugh

https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/mercers-gop-climate-change-denial?utm_term=.ibamVaWxpB#.byPYmN9P36

$4 million is pocket change :)

Not that further documentation was needed, but yes 45 was wrong in saying the polar ice caps are back and stronger

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jan/29/donald-trump/trump-gets-polar-ice-trend-backwards/

beautiful clean coal

wow finally some good news

A Trump nominee says carbon dioxide can't be pollution because "Our flesh, blood, and bones are built of carbon." https://t.co/PBmDfCNRnk

— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) January 31, 2018

hahaha fuck

fuckin science, how does it work

"the gas of life"

you can't drown in water. water can't hurt you. our bodies are MADE of water.

think about it.

if you're thirsty, just drink yourself

I wonder if they can goad her into huffing compressed CO2 at the next hearing.

maybe try CO instead

and if you're dirty, then go take a bath xxxpost

scott pruitt wants to focus everyone on the most environmental question of our time: his uncertainty about what our target temperature should be in the year 2100.

from january 2018:

”The climate is changing. That’s not the debate. The debate is how do we know what the ideal surface temperature is in 2100?... I think the American people deserve an open honest transparent discussion about those things,” said Pruitt, who has frequently cast doubt on the causes and implications of global warming.

from a recent interview:

The EPA administrator said that humans are contributing to climate “to a certain degree”, but added: “We know humans have most flourished during times of warming trends. There are assumptions made that because the climate is warming that necessarily is a bad thing.

“Do we know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100 or year 2018?” he told a TV station in Nevada. “It’s fairly arrogant for us to think we know exactly what it should be in 2100.”

makes u think

this is where you find yourself after "debating" for several hours with a climate denier: somehow arguing about whether we know exactly what the temperature should be in 2100 (i will say YES, we should, duh, but the whole point is to make you take a position and then move the argument there)

this marks the 30th fucking anniversary of james hansen testifying to congress that global warming has begun, btw

sorry, 2018 does, not today. june 24, 1988.

where else is it 75 degrees in february?

besides NYC?

Today's high in DC of 82 was 33.5 degrees above normal. That's the 6th greatest positive temperature departure on record using current normals. https://t.co/dJgiXIhC6O pic.twitter.com/vMeEtbrfto

— Ian Livingston (@islivingston) February 21, 2018

Tis the season for Rebuilding the Arctic icepack. With temperatures hovering around 20-30 Fahrenheit, rather that the normal -30, we're in for another year of records.