The climate change consensus extends beyond climate scientists

[freebeard]

I found this fascinating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSx9KsMCGGI

Especially the part about baboons kidnapping pupies and domesticating them.

[sendler]

Living In The Future's Past movie.
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Amazing film making. Stunning cinematography and editing. Brilliant audio capture and music design. A complex story that needs to be contemplated by more people, more often. Essential concepts for all humans to understand going forward.
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https://youtu.be/3nAXVP0u7GI
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[freebeard]

A disjointed montage with no correlation to the monologue.

one of the problems with philosophy is
that it isn't just in your head

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I've already posted evidence before about cold killing more than heat. You can skew the figures any way you wish based on how you define cold and heat related death. If you consider freezing crop failure causing food prices to rise, and causing malnutrition related disease, that would be one abstract way to show that cold is worse than heat... that's the same level of abstraction it takes to go from heat > mosquitos > malaria > people bitten by malaria carrying mosquitos > people dying of malaria (heat).

If we're talking about direct causes of death, cold freezes people to death with more frequency than heat smothers them.

Really though, it's plainly obvious that humans thrive more in these temperatures compared to the temperatures that brought about ice ages. Not frozen is generally better for humans. The more not frozen the planet is, the better we do.



I was only familiar with the phrase through Chrome, but guessed it had come from Star Trek.

Some species are evolutionarily selected for freezing.They'll be extinct without it.
Once man left Equatorial Africa all bets were off as far as survival goes.If you find yourself freezing to death,there was choice involved on your part.
I can't at all agree with your assessment that a more not frozen planet is better.
There's a growing body of observational evidence that points to the contrary.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I'm actually finding no graphs to support the notion that more people die of hyperthermia than hypothermia.





I'm not subscribed to a tribe, so I have no stake in the debate other than to seek understanding and truth. I appreciate being provoked, and reply in kind. Winning an argument has got nothing to do with it.

Appreciate the data,however they provide no context.No conditions for which the conclusions were drawn.
We might want a couple-three pages of text to flesh out the methodologies used to create the graphs.
If these deaths all occurred in the developed world,we'd have the context of housing,or street people,commuting exposure,traffic accident-related death by exposure,drug-overdose-death-by exposure,etc.
We'd also have a sense of mitigations like urban misters proliferation,free electric fan and window air conditioning programs.
This winter,Chicago offered municipal buses as emergency warming structures for homeless people.
Many cold victims die in their cars,stuck in blizzards.
Power lines go down in storms,knocking out power to residents.Rolling brownouts/blackouts.
Farm workers dropping dead in fields from heat-related kidney failure.Construction workers fainting from heat stroke and falling to their death.
All these potentialities need to be spelled out in these graphical representations.

[freebeard]

Not to mention rubber on black ice.

[aerohead]

*Heat stroke: core temperature 104-F,perspiration ceases,organ failure,death.
*104-F,photosynthesis ceases.
*2003,Italy: 18,000 die in heat wave
*2003,France: 14,000 die in heat wave
*2003,Europeverall,52,000 heat-deaths.
*2006,Congo: heat-related hunger and disease erode democracy
*2008-2018,El Salvador: 2,500 cane cutters die of heat-related renal failure,unable to remain hydrated enough in the fields.
*2008-2018,El Salvador: 90% coffee crop failure due to heat.
*2010,56,000 die in Russian heat wave-related events.40% of grain crop fails.Food exports suspended.Food prices skyrocket in Middle East lading to civil war.
*2014 record heat USA
*2015 record heat USA
*2016 record heat USA
*June,2016,British Royal Navy Type-45 destroyers flee 90-F Persian Gulf waters
*2017 record heat USA
*2017 Pacific heat 'blob'-atmospheric rivers,Pineapple-Express,flooding
*2018 record heat USA
*Heat-warming-pine beetle infestation-tree kill-'fuel'-wildfires
*Wild fires,fire fighters,heat exhaustion
*2019 Pacific heat,atmospheric rivers,flooding,mudslides,houseslides.

[sendler]

Originally Posted by freebeard

A disjointed montage with no correlation to the monologue.

True. The dialog and script of the Living In The Future's Past movie suffer from too many cooks in the kitchen. But as someone who appreciates the art of film making, I'm very impressed with the production. And it does contain some valid information that can soaked up along the way.

[sendler]

Hagens has thrown together a series of short videos explaining energy/ economy/ psychology (ecology to follow next week) that his Dean of the Honors College at University of Minnesota pushed him to produce. Every incoming freshman is now required to view them.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLL...pLsA/playlists
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[aerohead]

At 6:03 I threw out a caution flag:
*carpooling with your existing ICE beater is better than buying a hybrid
^he shows an EV,not a hybrid,which is a slam against EV (specifically Tesla)
^carpooling with any car would improve its passenger-miles-per-gallon,or equivalent.
^driving with an EV,or carpooling with an EV would potentially be carbon free.Impossible with an EV.
^in light of global climate change,discouraging the use of EV might not be the best messaging.
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At 6:44 I threw another flag.
'Very happy' seems like a very subjective metric on which to base a survey.It lacks scientific rigor.There is no such thing as a happi-o-meter,from which to obtain empirical data.
It doesn't pass the smell test.
I think Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman would have laughed themselves silly if they'd lived to see this.
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Otherwise I'm okay with it.