The upside of climate change

[repoman]

we have to be worried about getting the wet bulb above 35 celsius. That is fatal for humans.

 

[barbos]

Well, you would literally die without portable (oil powered no doubt) A/C unit. Right now you can cool yourself down by perspiration.

Not without portable drinking water.

Most of Earth is uninhabitable for humans without some level of technology. Arabia particularly so.

These fuckers were living there before oil discovery. People would die without water regardless of the temperature.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

At this point we (primarily China and USA - Canada is a tiny factor in this) could stop polluting altogether, and climate change is still going to happen. We've started a process we can't stop. We can make it not as bad, but we can't stop it. It is too late. We ARE going to have a serious change and there really will be some parts of the world that lose big, and some that have some benefit. Canada is one of the latter.

I don't see any argument in your entire post.

Probably because I'm not making an argument. I'm simply pondering about the silver lining of climate change. Believe it or not, its not ALL bad news.

And the damage and benefits are not at all evenly or fairly distributed. Canada, Russia, Scandinavia, northern USA stand to benefit (mostly rich countries) and Africa, China, and South America stand to suffer the most dramatically. China being the only one of those that have contributed in a big way to the problem. If you compare who did the damage vs who gets hurt, its really a horribly unfair picture. But we DO have winners and losers here. And Canada is one of the big winners.

Climate change is unstoppable.

Change maybe, but the magnitude? We still have no idea what thresholds may be passed that'll really make things much worse. Ocean currents and methane release in permafrosts would be two major things. Right now it seems to be whether we need to spill water over the emergency spillway or whether the dam is going one way or the other.

Pointing out that Canada and parts of the USA are going to have a better climate is not much consolation to the rest of the North America, nor is it a reason to stop acting to mitigate the worst effects.

It is also ignorance preaching intelligence. Climate is more than temperature!

 

[barbos]

I recently read that despite all the CO2 humans pumping right now, this global warming is temporary and ice age will come as scheduled. So Canada is doomed no matter what.

 

[blastula]

The next glaciation is on the order of tens of thousands of years.

 

[Elixir]

So, Cheato is about to announce our withdrawal from the Climat Change Agreement (probably).

I can think of only two reasons he would want to do that:

* Obama
* Uncle Vlad

He wants to un-do everything Obama did because he hates black people, especially when they show him up.
Vlad will love seeing the USA set itself outside of the global community, as always. So this is a win-win for Cheato.

It becomes more apparent every day that Vlad has MAJOR dirt on him, and can have him removed (and probably jailed) at his own whim.

 

[repoman]

live:

 

[blastula]

The amazing climate results show? Did climate get a rose?

 

[repoman]

No, the climate is fired.

 

[funinspace]

Make our planet great again

Well, since there wasn't a thread on this topic in Circustown, I thought I'd just post this here....

It seems the new French President Macron is willing to play a little verbal hardball. Speaking in English was interesting, as this article summarized some of the points.
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/6/1/...p-paris-agreement-make-our-planet-great-again

Knowing an American audience would be watching and listening, he went straight for the national security implications of climate change. “If we do nothing, our children will know a world of migrations, of wars, of shortage. A dangerous world,” the French leader said.
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And last — but definitely not least — Macron caps off his little speech by calling on Americans, the French, and other allies to “make our planet great again.”

I think I'll have to find a copy of the whole speech...sounds entertaining.

 

[starwater]

It's appalling that one infantile, emotionally immature individual can make decisions that effect the entire planet. Good news is that it will take 4 years and we will vote in a new president by then.

 

[repoman]

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Worst photoshop ever.

 

[KeepTalking]

Well, it was done by TMZ, pretty much anything they do can be categorized as "worst ____ ever".

 

[repoman]

I am not a fan of TMZ too much. But the TMZ watermark was on the original.

Also, TMZ is almost never wrong for the "big stories" - that I don't care about...

 

[KeepTalking]

I am not a fan of TMZ too much. But the TMZ watermark was on the original.

Did TMZ do the photo shoot? The original was pretty bad as well.

Also, TMZ is almost never wrong for the "big stories" - that I don't care about...

Can we at least agree that TMZ qualifies as one of the worst TV shows ever?

 

[repoman]

Did TMZ do the photo shoot? The original was pretty bad as well.

Also, TMZ is almost never wrong for the "big stories" - that I don't care about...

Can we at least agree that TMZ qualifies as one of the worst TV shows ever?

They probably did the most damaging coverage of it.

The show is terrible, but when they say a celebrity is dead you can bank on it.

 

[ZiprHead]

There's a TV show called TMZ???