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  Science News article: ‘Case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans

  by Disillusioned JW in

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  a news article has the headline of " ‘case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans"; see https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/19/case-closed-999-of-scientists-agree-climate-emergency-caused-by-humans .

  the article says in part the following.. 'the scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate has passed 99.9%, according to research that strengthens the case for global action at the cop26 summit in glasgow.. the degree of scientific certainty about the impact of greenhouse gases is now similar to the level of agreement on evolution and plate tectonics, the authors say, based on a survey of nearly 90,000 climate-related studies.

  this means there is practically no doubt among experts that burning fossil fuels, such as oil, gas, coal, peat and trees, is heating the planet and causing more extreme weather.. a previous survey in 2013 showed 97% of studies published between 1991 and 2012 supported the idea that human activities are altering earth’s climate.. this has been updated and expanded by the study by cornell university that shows the tiny minority of sceptical voices has diminished to almost nothing as evidence mounts of the link between fossil-fuel burning and climate disruption.. the latest survey of peer-reviewed literature published from 2012 to november 2020 was conducted in two stages.

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  @joey: I never thumb up or down. So definitely not me, I like a good discussion.

  The number of people dying from exposure to cold in developed countries is 20x higher than the people dying from exposure to heat according to the Lancet. They also found that less people die during extreme weather events, while more people die when there are gradual changes in temperature (basically it’s the boiling frog analogy).

  This number of deaths from exposure has been drastically reduced since the beginning of the industrial revolution due to things like mechanical heat and air conditioning but it’s a lot harder and expensive to heat a cold winter than a few hot days in summer.

  People in Australia and places in Europe (Germany and France especially) died a lot from heat exposure last few years because rolling blackouts and poor energy production, basically the green movement towards renewables causes old people homes to be without air conditioning during extreme weather, a condition we haven’t seen since the 1970s.

  In California, wildfires are caused by the green movement as well, they demanded no forest management for decades and now the entire underbrush is a dead wood tinderbox. In Australia, 75% of the fires were started by arsonists last year, from kids to climate change activists, dozens of people were arrested. A 2008 study found that in Australia about 85% of fires were triggered by human activity - this includes arson, but also carelessness or recklessness.
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  Science News article: ‘Case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  a news article has the headline of " ‘case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans"; see https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/19/case-closed-999-of-scientists-agree-climate-emergency-caused-by-humans .

  the article says in part the following.. 'the scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate has passed 99.9%, according to research that strengthens the case for global action at the cop26 summit in glasgow.. the degree of scientific certainty about the impact of greenhouse gases is now similar to the level of agreement on evolution and plate tectonics, the authors say, based on a survey of nearly 90,000 climate-related studies.

  this means there is practically no doubt among experts that burning fossil fuels, such as oil, gas, coal, peat and trees, is heating the planet and causing more extreme weather.. a previous survey in 2013 showed 97% of studies published between 1991 and 2012 supported the idea that human activities are altering earth’s climate.. this has been updated and expanded by the study by cornell university that shows the tiny minority of sceptical voices has diminished to almost nothing as evidence mounts of the link between fossil-fuel burning and climate disruption.. the latest survey of peer-reviewed literature published from 2012 to november 2020 was conducted in two stages.

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  @joey: The question is not whether it happened, the question is what to do about it.

  The other question is whether it matters all that much, weather is not getting more extreme, it’s getting better. A lot less people are dying from extreme weather events, we can survive heat waves much better than we can cold waves.

  But as a result of the improving climate more people are building in tornado alleys and flood plains more often. California wildfires have been preventable for hundreds of years by native Americans, only in the last few decades do we see an uptick, after their electorate decided it wasn’t environmentally friendly to cut trees around power poles and do controlled burns.

  We will eventually run out of oil, but we will run out of rare earth minerals used in solar panels and wind turbines and electric motors first.
  

  There is a solution: deregulate nuclear energy, the entire energy sector and deregulate the shipping/transportation industry. You will instantly create opportunity for the market to find a better solution.
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  Alec Baldwin Shot a Woman Dead

  by Simon in

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  so alec baldwin shot a woman dead on set and seriously injured another man.. what do we put this down as?

  a tragic accident?

  maybe ... except that implies no one was to blame.. the more you find out, the more it seems that this was due to negligence and lack of attention to safety.

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  @Pete: yes they can. But that costs money. But they’ll berate you for not wanting to pay more taxes.
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  Science News article: ‘Case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans

  by Disillusioned JW in

  1. social
  2. current

  a news article has the headline of " ‘case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans"; see https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/19/case-closed-999-of-scientists-agree-climate-emergency-caused-by-humans .

  the article says in part the following.. 'the scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate has passed 99.9%, according to research that strengthens the case for global action at the cop26 summit in glasgow.. the degree of scientific certainty about the impact of greenhouse gases is now similar to the level of agreement on evolution and plate tectonics, the authors say, based on a survey of nearly 90,000 climate-related studies.

  this means there is practically no doubt among experts that burning fossil fuels, such as oil, gas, coal, peat and trees, is heating the planet and causing more extreme weather.. a previous survey in 2013 showed 97% of studies published between 1991 and 2012 supported the idea that human activities are altering earth’s climate.. this has been updated and expanded by the study by cornell university that shows the tiny minority of sceptical voices has diminished to almost nothing as evidence mounts of the link between fossil-fuel burning and climate disruption.. the latest survey of peer-reviewed literature published from 2012 to november 2020 was conducted in two stages.

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  The article is misleading, 99.9% of scientists agree that climate change is a thing. Not nearly all of them agree humans are causing it and most of them don’t agree that this is a huge ends-of-the-world thing.

  Given that modern computers can search through the entire compendium of research papers, just selecting 3000 of them seems a bit of a sampling bias and it is likely they came to their results through P-hacking.
  

  The IPCC is a body that (actually) reads 14,000 papers annually to come to their conclusions (this study only picks some keywords to do their “analysis”).

  If you read the full IPCC report (and not just the media interpretation) they conclude that global warming can be stabilized, they peg it at ~2C over pre-industrial levels with moderate interventions and they also conclude the current 1C can not be reduced and only be stopped if we stopped emitting completely today, if we took severe action, we’re still looking at 1.5C. If we continued growing in emitting at current rates (which is unlikely) then the worst case scenario is 4C. They also have some comments on the socio-economic impacts of each of the solutions and basically we will have to learn to live with 2C if we want to be realistic.
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  Very cool 20 I got in change this week.

  by mickbobcat in

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  got this cool 20 in change this week.

  i may frame it.

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  @titch: I agree it’s juvenile, people did it during Trump as well, from both sides, some would taunt the left, others would add some kind of threat to the then sitting President. You can still buy stamps that were made for this activity that mention Trump.

  I do think, that unless this renders the currency unusable, it is basically a First Amendment issue.

  The reason people are doing this though is because they feel they have no voice, so they are writing it on money, chanting it at football games, because the media doesn’t cover it and social media actively suppresses it.

  Yesterday Mexico was invaded by thousands of immigrants and beat up the national guard, stole their gear and vowed to fight at the US border, they are heading over to Del Rio. Meanwhile thousands are already here and have also started a campaign of assaulting and evading border officers. Why is that not a story? Why is Biden and Kamala (who is supposed to be in charge of the border crisis) hiding? People are getting to know, by word of mouth, and Texas will soon see even more death and a de-facto war with the cartels that arm and bring these people.
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  Alec Baldwin Shot a Woman Dead

  by Simon in

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  so alec baldwin shot a woman dead on set and seriously injured another man.. what do we put this down as?

  a tragic accident?

  maybe ... except that implies no one was to blame.. the more you find out, the more it seems that this was due to negligence and lack of attention to safety.

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  @cyberjesus: in defense of your ideological heroes, you made false equivalences, Simon already pointed that out. If someone criticizes you, don’t take it personal, learn instead why they are.

  What you and a lot of other people are dealing with around this is cognitive dissonance, there are people making defenses for this person because he was a hero for their cause caught up in the exact behavior that said person was berating others for engaging in.
  

  It’s the cult leader that got caught with the little boys, or the politician that is found taking money from foreign government, in this case it’s an anti-gun advocate accidentally shooting a person in a fit of anger.

  And it opens up this can of worms that the left, Hollywood and the media in general is trying to hide. They say they dislike violence, that corporations should pay their workers and their fair share or they should strike, they dislike guns and nobody has a reason to need one, they say guns are unsafe. Then they make movies that glorify violence, they don’t pay the necessary skill and disregard worker strikes and complaints, use real guns and don’t even have a basic training on guns. It demonstrates they know nothing about the thing they rail against.

  THIS is how it’s supposed to be on a real movie set: https://youtu.be/LCzDQvX0hAY

  THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REGULAR (voter) LEFT, I would consider myself a liberal in the regular sense and I’d gladly debate guns and crime on another thread. But the Democrat left, the one Baldwin belongs to however is like the JW version of Christianity, they’ve gone so far they are completely off their rocker they believe they are perfect, know it all and are untouchable, until something points at them that they’re also flawed.
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  Alec Baldwin Shot a Woman Dead

  by Simon in

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  2. current

  so alec baldwin shot a woman dead on set and seriously injured another man.. what do we put this down as?

  a tragic accident?

  maybe ... except that implies no one was to blame.. the more you find out, the more it seems that this was due to negligence and lack of attention to safety.

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  Just read an interesting article from an attorney who said based on current information we have, Baldwin will probably be at least civilly (negligence) and potentially criminally (manslaughter) liable.

  All the fingers point at him, because he is the co-producer and the one that pulled the trigger. He is responsible for having safety personnel, training of the actors in safe handling of firearms etc
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  What’s your favorite smoothie?

  by Iamallcool in

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  any takers?.

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  Strawberry daiquiri smoothie
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  Can non JWs be witnesses in a committee meeting?

  by mickbobcat in

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  i am not sure but i know where non jws have been brought in for a witness to a judicial meeting.

  what is the official policy on this?

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  I do remember that it is possible to use a worldly person as a witness, but the word of a baptized witness would trump whatever a worldly person says. So they can be used to corroborate a thing, but they are below even baptized female children in the ranking.
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  Alec Baldwin Shot a Woman Dead

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  so alec baldwin shot a woman dead on set and seriously injured another man.. what do we put this down as?

  a tragic accident?

  maybe ... except that implies no one was to blame.. the more you find out, the more it seems that this was due to negligence and lack of attention to safety.

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  @Simon: there are a lot of things that don’t make sense about the story. Directors don’t hand over guns, armorers do. Armorers require 2 people, 1 licensed and 1 assistant that check the gun for whatever is loaded, neither were on set. It seems to have been a live bullet in a real gun, there were multiple guns. Anyone that has ever worked with real guns knows you don’t just pull the trigger without checking, even if you are alone at a range.

  A lot of safety went out of the window to get this movie going. Greed, incompetence and disregards for the “hourly” employees, that kind of paints the entire left wing today.

  The fact the investigation isn’t just returning with the facts means things went awfully wrong to get to that point.