"If you do not believe in climate change, you should not be allowed to hold public office"

ttystikk

ttystikk

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Fogdog said:
What geoengineering actions have been done?
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Starting with the subject of this thread, I'd say burning billions of barrels of fossil fuels and spewing their byproducts into the sky would be a great place to start.

Paving millions of square miles of the Earth's surface is another one.

And then there's the less visible ones, like dumping incredible amounts of trash and sewage into the oceans, pouring millions of tons of fertilizers on the ground and letting it run off into rivers, oceans, groundwater...

The greatest mass extinction of species of plants and animals in the last 65 million years is happening due to our activities.

I'm not suggesting these were done intentionally but I am saying we're altering our environment in fundamental ways without a care for the consequences- until we don't like the consequences. By then it's a bit late.
 
esh dov ets

esh dov ets

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Fogdog said:
Geoengineering is a fucking nightmare. Experiments are fine but I really hope we don't take it to a planetary scale.
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this is insanity. it's like we need to clean our house so we lite a smoke bomb. we need to cool off but instead of putting out the fire we flood the rest of the house.. any body got more similes and metaphors ?
 
SneekyNinja

SneekyNinja

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ttystikk said:
Starting with the subject of this thread, I'd say burning billions of barrels of fossil fuels and spewing their byproducts into the sky would be a great place to start.

Paving millions of square miles of the Earth's surface is another one.

And then there's the less visible ones, like dumping incredible amounts of trash and sewage into the oceans, pouring millions of tons of fertilizers on the ground and letting it run off into rivers, oceans, groundwater...

The greatest mass extinction of species of plants and animals in the last 65 million years is happening due to our activities.

I'm not suggesting these were done intentionally but I am saying we're altering our environment in fundamental ways without a care for the consequences- until we don't like the consequences. By then it's a bit late.
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All that asphalt...

It totally couldn't act as a heat sink or anything.
 
twostrokenut

twostrokenut

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ttystikk said:
Starting with the subject of this thread, I'd say burning billions of barrels of fossil fuels and spewing their byproducts into the sky would be a great place to start.

Paving millions of square miles of the Earth's surface is another one.

And then there's the less visible ones, like dumping incredible amounts of trash and sewage into the oceans, pouring millions of tons of fertilizers on the ground and letting it run off into rivers, oceans, groundwater...

The greatest mass extinction of species of plants and animals in the last 65 million years is happening due to our activities.

I'm not suggesting these were done intentionally but I am saying we're altering our environment in fundamental ways without a care for the consequences- until we don't like the consequences. By then it's a bit late.
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There are an estimated 8.7 million species on earth. 86% of those on land and 91% of those at sea have yet to be discovered, described and cataloged. So the fact is that we are simply unaware of the existence of the vast majority of species, yet you contend we are responsible for a mass extinction, are you not giving us too much credit?
 
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Pacific islanders entire tourism based economy is breaking from rising tides, bleaching coral, and increasing number of major weather events...
 
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