The climate change movement: July 28, 1995 to August 14, 2020 RIP

[freebeard]

There's no point in talking about serious issues with people who don't take them seriously.

We haven't given up on you yet. But don't think we're doing it just for you.

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We do it for the lurkers. [waves hi]

I shall answer my own question:

Describe the 'Laws of Nature" you reference, pleez.

Tersely; Synergetics.

Short story long; Mother Gaia doesn't use the Cartesian Coordinate system. That is a lens or frame through which we observe Universe. Which induces misconceptions, which compound to the point where, as Firesign Theatre said long ago -- "Everything You Know Is Wrong"

Any questions?

edit:
Old Lady Nature doesn't use pi, but curiously neither does Turtle Graphics.

https://stackoverflow.com › questions › 64647096 › how-to-draw-a-circle-using-turtle-in-python
How to draw a circle using turtle in python? - Stack Overflow
How to draw a circle using turtle in python? Ask Question Asked 2 years, 7 months ago Modified 1 year, 6 months ago Viewed 6k times 0 I wanted ask how can I draw a circle using turtle module in python just using turtle.forward and turtle.left? I use the code below: for i in range (30): turtle.forward (i) turtle.left (i) turtle.done ()

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Originally Posted by redpoint5

No, not at all, just as I don't believe human existence depends on not burning fossil fuels. We have evidence that humanity existed long before fossil fuels were utilized, just that it was nasty, brutish, and short.

Clearly more people exist as a result of fossil fuel exploitation, so that suggests human existence is helped by it, not hindered.



There's no such consensus, and the most well regarded climate scientists make no such existential claims. Science is not the process of consensus; it's the process of making increasingly accurate predictions based on observation.



Sure we can. We thrive despite destabilized weather.



I'll need some help unpacking this a bit more, but I'll take a stab at it anyhow...

I make 2 claims:

1. most of us wouldn't exist if fossil fuels were never exploited
2. human existence does not require use of fossil fuels

So my wants would never even exist if humanity didn't exploit fossil fuels because I'd have never been born. I'm grateful that fossil fuels were exploited resulting in my existence and the resultant wants.

As for humanity's needs, they consist primarily of reproduction, survival, and productive work.



Very true. All technology derives from nature and therefore has a relationship with ecology.

Defining "progress" is the subjective bit.



My viewpoint will always be the default one, so long as humans are around. That viewpoint being the necessity to impact the natural state of the world from one which is less hospitable to human flourishing, to one that is more hospitable to human flourishing.

We could all choose to live in teepees, going around raiding other primitive tribes, and generally having a small impact on nature, but nobody chooses to live that way when given the option.

The law of nature is "dog eat dog", so I am opposed to it. Since industrialism creates cooperation which "overrules" the law of nature, I'm for it. Would rather have a smartphone than someone's scalp adorning my necklace.



I don't think that's a helpful rephrase, and I'm skeptical that you're asking in good faith. I'll assume good faith as a default, and answer the question.

The Environment is not sentient, and therefore cannot be abused. That means nobody has ever abused The Environment, and never will.

Indeed. About 95% of people on earth consume food grown with synthetic fertilizer, where ammonia is derived from natural gas and coal. It all started in the 1880s.

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The "settled soyence":
Global warming will make snowy winters (not the porn star) a thing of the past.
Headline 2000: “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past� | GlobalWarming.org

Reality:
But global warming can't even make snowy summers a thing of the past.
Meanwhilst in Yosemite


Feet of snow in the summer, and snow that crushes buildings made in places where they expect it to snow feet at a time in the winter does not point to tipping point warming.

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[freebeard]

The first 4:44 is about what is a season. Then --The Milankovitch Cycles

Disaster is precipitated by confluent events.

The Crazy Prediction Of A New Ice Age Coming: Milankovitch Cycles

With a helpful pop-up definition of climate change from the United Nations(?)

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Hottest days ever be like:

[freebeard]

[Cue ominous Game Of Thrones music]

[redpoint5]

Global warming is the cause of any unusual weather, including snow in the summer. That snow allowed people to break their arms skiing; ergo global warming is responsible for broken bones. You see, global warming can only cause bad things to happen.

[freebeard]

Global Warming is caused by Climate Change!

[Piotrsko]

That's a picture from back when it was cold. Yesterday's TV news had people in bathing suits, everything more that 100ft from the snow ( which was trucked in from the top according to the presenter) was a lovely shade of living green.

Pretty sure falling down on that stuff is painful this time of year. Definitely aint powder.