Global Warming: "Pseudoscientific Fraud"

[Uncle Ted]

Hawking says that we Earthlings all need to become preppers and find a safe place on some other planet... and, thanks to global warming, we only have 100 years left to do it!

Stephen Hawking: "I Am Convinced That Humans Need to Leave Earth"

Back in May, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking made yet another doomsday prediction. He said that humanity has 100 years left on Earth, which knocked 900 years off the prediction he made in November 2016, which had given humanity 1,000 years left.


With his new estimate, Hawking suggested the only way to prolong humanity's existence is for us to find a new home, on another planet.


Speaking at the Starmus Festival in Trondheim, Norway on Tuesday, Hawking reiterated his point: "If humanity is to continue for another million years, our future lies in boldly going where no one else has gone before," he explained, according to the BBC.
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https://www.sciencealert.com/stephen...s&limitstart=1

[Jeff Lebowski]

Hawking says that we Earthlings all need to become preppers and find a safe place on some other planet... and, thanks to global warming, we only have 100 years left to do it!

https://www.sciencealert.com/stephen...s&limitstart=1

Steven Hawking is dumb.

Yeah. I went there.

[falafel]

Steven Hawking is dumb.

Yeah. I went there.

Isn't he more than 51% machine at this point? I wouldn't be surprised if this were a calculated move to open up space for the robot overlords.

[creekster]

Steven Hawking is dumb.

Yeah. I went there.

It's like listening to Gwyneth Paltrow for political advice. Just because somebody is good in one area is no guarantee it crosses to all areas.

[BigFatMeanie]

What I find fascinating is how apocalyptic Christians and liberal-enviros, who normally wouldn't be caught dead together, both think the end is near.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Old CW: "Scientists are lying about global warming."

New CW: "Scientists are secretly causing global warming."

http://www.disclose.tv/news/nasa_sat...pulated/139829

Damn those sneaky scientists!

[Jeff Lebowski]

This is really interesting:

https://eos.org/editors-vox/preventi...=EosBuzz081117

Would be cool if we found a way to science our way out of this mess.

[snowcat]

This is really interesting:

https://eos.org/editors-vox/preventi...=EosBuzz081117

Would be cool if we found a way to science our way out of this mess.

This angle for dealing with carbon emissions looks promising. I currently produce metal carbonates, but I highly doubt is a carbon negative process.

[frank ryan]

U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials

Directly contradicting much of the Trump administration’s position on climate change, 13 federal agencies unveiled an exhaustive scientific report on Friday that says humans are the dominant cause of the global temperature rise that has created the warmest period in the history of civilization.

Over the past 115 years global average temperatures have increased 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, leading to record-breaking weather events and temperature extremes, the report says. The global, long-term warming trend is “unambiguous,” it says, and there is “no convincing alternative explanation” that anything other than humans — the cars we drive, the power plants we operate, the forests we destroy — are to blame.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/c...te-report.html

Let's make sure we don't gather more information!

Donald Trump accused of obstructing satellite research into climate change
Republican-controlled Congress ordered destruction of vital sea-ice probe


President Trump has been accused of deliberately obstructing research on global warming after it emerged that a critically important technique for investigating sea-ice cover at the poles faces being blocked.

The row has erupted after a key polar satellite broke down a few days ago, leaving the US with only three ageing ones, each operating long past their shelf lives, to measure the Arctic’s dwindling ice cap. Scientists say there is no chance a new one can now be launched until 2023 or later. None of the current satellites will still be in operation then.

The crisis has been worsened because the US Congress this year insisted that a backup sea-ice probe had to be dismantled because it did not want to provide funds to keep it in storage. Congress is currently under the control of Republicans, who are antagonistic to climate science and the study of global warming.

“This is like throwing away the medical records of a sick patient,” said David Gallaher of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. “Our world is ailing and we have apparently decided to undermine, quite deliberately, the effectiveness of the records on which its recovery might be based. It is criminal.”

The threat to the US sea-ice monitoring programme – which supplies data to scientists around the world – will trigger further accusations at this week’s international climate talks in Bonn that the Trump administration is trying to block studies of global warming for ideological reasons.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...hange-research

[Moliere]

Articles like that one are hilarious. I like how they pin the ageing polar satellite issues on Trump. If anything, it’s more Obama’s fault than it is Trump’s. If we can’t get another satellite in orbit for another 6 years and the ones up there are already well passed their shelf lives then what the hell was Obama doing not fixing this issue when he had a fully Democratic Congress? Shame on Obama!!


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[Uncle Ted]

Scientific American says pollution is good... it helps cool the climate:

Cleaning Up Air Pollution May Strengthen Global Warming

New research is helping quantify just how big that effect might be

Pollution in the atmosphere is having an unexpected consequence, scientists say—it's helping to cool the climate, masking some of the global warming that's occurred so far.


That means efforts worldwide to clean up the air may cause an increase in warming, as well as other climate effects, as this pollution disappears.


New research is helping to quantify just how big that effect might be. A study published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters suggests that eliminating the human emission of aerosols—tiny, air-polluting particles often released by industrial activities—could result in additional global warming of anywhere from half a degree to 1 degree Celsius.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...lobal-warming/


I am doing my part in cooling the climate by driving a diesel instead of one of those damaging EVs.

[beefytee]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/m...te-change.html

California has about 56 million acres of rangeland, the single largest type of land use in the state. If compost made with manure was applied to just 5 percent of that area, they calculated, it would offset emissions from about 80 percent of the state’s agricultural sector — all the cows raised, crops grown, fertilizer applied and tractors driven in California.

[BigFatMeanie]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/m...te-change.html

Dude in the article is named John Wick!? But the NYT is wrong about him. He's not a former construction foreman turned hobby rancher. He's a deadly assassin!

[cowboy]

Talk about an article that is clearly written by someone who knows little about chemistry and nothing about agriculture.

Speaking of idiots, I just returned last week from NE Arizona, where the Navajo tribe will lose millions of dollars because the coal power plants can't afford to comply with the new C02 regs. Does anyone know what percentage of global emissions are reduced by eliminating coal generated power in the US and bankrupting an entire industry?

[BigFatMeanie]

This could probably be cross-posted to the Random Stuff Worth Reading on the Internet thread, but the parallels between the "impact vs volcano" debate and the climate change debate are fascinating to me.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...debate/565769/