'Never-Ending' UK Rain Made 10 Times More Likely By Climate Crisis, Study Says (theguardian.com) 154
The seemingly "never-ending" rain last autumn and winter in the UK and Ireland was made 10 times more likely and 20% wetter by human-caused global heating, a study has found. From a report: More than a dozen storms battered the region in quick succession between October and March, which was the second-wettest such period in nearly two centuries of records. The downpour led to severe floods, at least 20 deaths, severe damage to homes and infrastructure, power blackouts, travel cancellations, and heavy losses of crops and livestock.
The level of rain caused by the storms would have occurred just once in 50 years without the climate crisis, but is now expected every five years owing to 1.2C of global heating reached in recent years. If fossil fuel burning is not rapidly cut and the global temperature reaches 2C in the next decade or two, such severe wet weather would occur every three years on average, the analysis showed. [...] The analysis, conducted by climate scientists working as part of the World Weather Attribution group, compared how likely and how intense the wet winter was in today's heated world with how likely it would have been in a world without high levels of carbon emissions. Warmer air can hold more water vapour and therefore produce more rain. Hundreds of "attribution studies" have shown how global heating is already supercharging extreme weather such as heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and storms across the world.
The level of rain caused by the storms would have occurred just once in 50 years without the climate crisis, but is now expected every five years owing to 1.2C of global heating reached in recent years. If fossil fuel burning is not rapidly cut and the global temperature reaches 2C in the next decade or two, such severe wet weather would occur every three years on average, the analysis showed. [...] The analysis, conducted by climate scientists working as part of the World Weather Attribution group, compared how likely and how intense the wet winter was in today's heated world with how likely it would have been in a world without high levels of carbon emissions. Warmer air can hold more water vapour and therefore produce more rain. Hundreds of "attribution studies" have shown how global heating is already supercharging extreme weather such as heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and storms across the world.
It was none stop... (Score:4, Interesting)
It still is (Score:2)
It was raining every other day here in london up until a week ago, we had a few days of spring, now it's raining again and it's been raining for 24 hours so far and counting.
Time to worry (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, so .... (Score:2)
How long until things return to "normal" after fossil fuel use is successfully cut to the levels they're wanting to see?
I think the fact is, you won't be able to get any kind of quick change to reverse these weather pattern changes, if in fact, they're right about the cause.
Maybe the next generation would see the reversal. But better to get used to all of this as what we've got to work with, IMO.
Re:Ok, so .... (Score:5, Insightful)
The reversal will be a very very long time in the future. There is a feedback loop happening which will prevent the average temperatures from dropping as fast as the rose. Couple that with humans rapidly altering the planet versus humans not doing anything notable to stop it. Historically, changes in climate occured gradually, so if left alone the change back to a lower temperature would be gradual as well.
An automobile analogy is de rigueur on slashdot. Imagine speeding in your car by jamming down the accelerator to pass another car. Now lift the foot off the accelerator. The car slows down much more gradually than it sped up.
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There is no getting used to the problem until it is fixed because the weather will just keep getting warmer as long as we're still adding large amounts of green house gasses to the atmosphere.
Are you serious? (Score:2, Insightful)
There is more rain. It must be climate change! There is a drought. It must be climate change! There are bigger storms. It must be climate change!
Eventually everyone will stop listening if everything is from climate change.
By the way, there is one thing that is constant in our world climate... it changes.
Re: Are you serious? (Score:2)
Re: Are you serious? (Score:2, Insightful)
Theres torrential rain, ah we've had it before! Theres a drought, meh, we've had droughts before.
Whenever someone mentions climate change causing more severe weather events some genius will pop up to remind us that weather existed before.
Well no shit. Point is numbnuts , the weather is getting more extreme very much oinline with rising global temps which in turn is inline with rising CO2 levels.
HTH.
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I love peeps who have to insult others to make a point.
I'm pointing out every time there is a natural anomaly, people just say climate change. If you say the sky is falling over and over again, no one will believe the message. If every time climate change is spoken it's extreme, then people will stop listening.
I think you will find it hard to prove there is more severe weather. Compared to what, and when? Not saying no to climate change, but if you are going to make a statement, it's on you to provide e
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"I think you will find it hard to prove there is more severe weather."
Keep believing that if it makes you feel better about driving your V8 SUV.
" it's on you to provide evidence."
You might want to go learn about this great tool called Google.
https://news.sky.com/story/eng... [sky.com]
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Global warming was projected to result in more instances of extreme weather of all kinds, and that's what is happening.
>> one thing that is constant in our world climate... it changes
Nope, you are talking about local weather. Global climate had been fairly constant for the past several thousand years until the temperature recently started ramping up sharply.
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I'm noping your nope, so yup.
Global climate "fairly constant" for the past several thousand years eh? Got those records to prove that? Have some rain collection from 2000BC? Know how many hurricanes ran around and where in the 1600's?
Just the facts please.
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>> Just the facts please.
I've got to show facts but you didn't? Global temperature had been declining for about the past 8,000 years as shown by many studies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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There is more rain. It must be climate change!
Errr no, that's not what the article said at all. The literal reverse actually, it's a model showing that climate change is predicting more rain.
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How much you want to bet that when a drought comes it'll also be blamed on climate change, and they'll just dust off some other model which does make that prediction?
Oh yeah I'll take that bet gladly -but not betting against you. Because climate models show repeatedly more severe weather events. A drought is a severe weather event. Never ending rain is a severe weather event. The same model predicts both - in fact virtually all climate models predict both, no need to dust off anything.
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... or something?
That's exactly what man made climate change means: More weather extremes. And yes, more heavy rain ( because a hotter atmosphere can hold more humidity ) and more extreme heat and resulting droughts because it's _global_ _warming_.
Duh. ... holy cow ... ... Perhaps go back to TikTok(?), slashdot may be out of your league. Just sayin'.
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It's amusing to see someone say someone else is too dumb to participate in a discussion and then say:
1) climate change increases rainfall due to more heat
2) climate change increases droughts due to more heat
Unironically with no further explanation.
It's beautiful how you can believe those two things at once and present them right next to each in the same post and not see the problem.
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Please stop with the stupid cartoon. It explains nothing. He fucks with scales, he doesn't have precise data for anything before satellites, and isn't a climatologist or anything like it. He's an entertainer who writes cute cartoons.
There is nothing sciencey about his cartoon. The scale issues alone should be enough to disqualify and ignore the entire thing.
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FTA:
The WWA, like the IPCC, does not study climate in the abstract, they study "extreme" climate events in the case of the WWA, and climate "change" in the case of the IPCC. These organizations have a definite point of view and are trying to put some science behind their politics. These are not disinterested scientists just relating their findings without favor. As the quote indicates, they start with the belief that climate "change" is "already making life shittier".
It is perfectly possible to have a political opinion and be a scientist at the same time, but as a consumer of their reports, one needs to bear their apriori assumptions in mind. It's the kind of report that the Guardian and its readers would find agreeable, but certainly doesn't cover all the facts impartially.
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>> As the quote indicates, they start with the belief
Utter bullshit. He was describing the current situation as it is observed.
>> certainly doesn't cover all the facts impartially
So what are these impartial facts and where do they come from? The dirty energy industry?
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The "impartial facts" that are missing are all of those that are unrelated to extreme climate events -- because extreme events are the only kinds of events that the group who authored this report work on. That is their mission, there is nothing skeevy about it or hidden, it is just their context. As a result, they aren't going to tell you about anything outside of what they get paid to study.
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The prediction of AGW is not that everything will get worse everywhere all of the time. Get that out of your head immediately if you want to make sense.
The prediction is that things will become different, and more extreme on average. A few places might get better all the time, though that is unlikely because we're adding energy to a chaotic system. If you've ever complained that the weather report is inaccurate then you should be able to grasp what that means. It's going to be more inaccurate. But also, the
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>> all of those that are unrelated to extreme climate events
So you couldn't come up with any?
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You are not thinking critically. There is no such thing as an "indisputable" fact in science because the scientific method is an empirical discipline. The history of science is replete with individuals who overturned well-established findings. As Richard Feynman pointed out, all it takes is a single fact to prove a hypothesis is wrong. That is the nature of empiricism.
The authors of this report have a particular point of view, and they have structured their business to provide scientific support for that vi
So you mean weather ... (Score:3)
... as usual in the UK?
That's what you get for leaving the EU: Abandoned on an island where it constantly rains and you get your water out of two taps, either freezing cold or boiling hot!
It's mostly out of our control at this point. (Score:3)
Because... (Score:5, Funny)
....Britain has always been famously dry otherwise.
The arid plains of Cornwall stretch up into the steppes of Mercia and the barrens of Northumbria, and the sweltering City of London is a jewel set amidst the stark, toppling dunes of Surrey and Kent. Sure, you can find an occasional oasis along the old Roman roads, for example the large one near Chester, on Watling street, but they are also common hunting ground for the nomadic tribes of camel-mounted Scots sweeping down from the Scotian Maghreb.
Britons famously invented a garment to catch precious moisture, called Stilsuits, which they wear to cross the most desolate of areas, where great Sandworms are always a danger.
How can we import British physics? (Score:3)
The seemingly "never-ending" rain last autumn and winter in the UK and Ireland was made 10 times more likely and 20% wetter by human-caused global heating, a study has found.
The Orthodox Warmists tell us that ongoing drought in my region comes from the same cause. Why don't our laws of physics work in the same way yours do, at least for a year or two?
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"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"
never ending rain where I live? (Score:2)
Washington State ... (Score:2)
Bloody Londoners (Score:2, Insightful)
I live in the North. Things here were absolutely fine. But hey, a little bit more rain down South and, suddenly, the doomsayers are out and the world is ending. This reminds me of how UK approaches other issues like poverty and distribution of money from taxes. As long as something doesn't affect London, "everyone" is fine, Londoners and our government don't give a monkeys about the rest of the country as long as they are in the clear. Serves them well this time.
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Sounds like DC, New York, Chicago, LA.
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The large amount of London hate comes from a deep seated feudal belief that people who have less land are worth less. Londoners have very little land, but the London Metro area is about 1/4 of the entire country population wise. If London acts like it has that, then people lose their shit, because, Londoners per person should have less influence. Because they all live so close together, in a tiny little area. i.e.have less land.
Londoners and our government don't give a monkeys about the rest of the country
Hardly know where to begin with this nonsense (Score:2)
Hardly know where to begin with this nonsense.
There is no "global heating". This is the Guardians hysterical style guide kicking in again. There is a modest amount of global warming, some of which is probably due to human CO2 emissions. A point of view you will not find in the Guardian, but you will in the IPCC reports. Not that anyone writing for the Guardian ever reads them!
Then we have "climate scientists working as part of the World Weather Attribution group". The group exists solely to attribute a
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I would add that anyone watching the BBC weather coverage can see the weather systems graphically displayed every half hour as they move across the country. The BBC seems to have left the Met Office for its weather coverage and gone to the Meteo Group - or at any rate, an alternative provider of weather info.
The result is that its science and its weather reporting seem to be coming from different planets. The science reporting is all about the doom of the climate crisis, and every bit of weather is due to
having no long term memory is bad (Score:2)
10 times (Score:2)
Previously, the likelihood was 15%. Now it is 150%.
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A "wetter" [place_goes_here] doesn't mean the water was wetter, it means that the fucking *place* was.
If it rains on 20% of days, and then suddenly it starts raining on 40% of days- that place is now wetter.
Educate yourself, asshole. [cambridge.org]
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From the summary
lol.
Dumbfuck. The context for this sentence that confuses you so badly would have been available, had only you clicked the link.
FTA:
Winter downpours also made 20% wetter and will occur every three years without urgent carbon cuts, experts warn
If a typical winter downpour drops 5cm of rain, and this year, the typical winter downpour dropped 10cm of rain, The rain was indeed made wetter.
Example, from Cambridge Dictionary:
We had heavy/light rain all day.
Gee Whiz, are they saying that there was an excess of deuterium in that water?!?!
I love it when you're stupid- it really makes my whole fucking day, lol.
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I used the place as an example of how you didn't understand the meaning of the word wetter.
I used the above to demonstrate that you don't understand the meaning of the word rain.
You are so excellently stupid, lol.
Re:Why only bad news?? (Score:5, Insightful)
Climate change easily can do both. Ie, the "climate" and "change". Which means, the climate is changing, and not acting at all like normal. And yes, we DID hear that it was climate change due to the floods, absolutely we did.
The problem with warming is that it's warming on average around the globe. Not just warming in cold places where they want it to be warm. The earth is very large, to one degree change in global temperatures on average is a massive amount of energy. That energy has to go somewhere. It means hot places are hotter. It means that a cold snap can still happen even though the average is higher. The oceans in particular are warmer. This means more violent storms, storms holding more water, bigger warm fronts colliding into the cold fronts, bigger hurricanes. Those strong fronts might block rain as well, causing draughts.
So for all those North Dakotans happy that it will be warmer in exchange for putting Florida under water - also note that you will get twice as many mosquitoes!
Re:Why only bad news?? (Score:5, Informative)
>> No amount of green energy can keep up with this growth
You're just making all that up. Electricity consumption in the USA hit a plateau in about 2007. There has been a marginal increase recently and it was filled by renewables. Same in the EU.
>> When the rain came and refilled the aquifers and lake mead it was quiet
Nope, you are just poorly informed. Atmospheric rivers periodically hit the US west coast, and the frequency and intensity are increasing. "as the atmosphere warms with climate change, it will be able to hold increasing levels of moisture. As a result we expect to see more frequent and stronger atmospheric rivers"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/a... [bbc.co.uk]
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>> No amount of green energy can keep up with this growth
You're just making all that up. Electricity consumption in the USA hit a plateau in about 2007. There has been a marginal increase recently and it was filled by renewables. Same in the EU.
I don't know if I believe the most extreme projections, but at least in the US forecasts for electricity use are increasing sharply. Low single digit growth year over year for a decade at least. Which doesn't sound like much, until you realize that's something like a dozen large power plants worth of electricity per year just in growth, not counting natural attrition or a desire to replace fossil power with renewables. This has very much not been the case for about 20 years. The load forecasts in that ti
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>> on renewable energy alone
But nobody in this thread claimed that would or should be the case. Meanwhile nuclear power is going nowhere, so don't even get started on that.
Re: Why only bad news?? (Score:2)
Believing that the economy can somehow exist in a severely damaged planet is like believing your boat can float even after we put a bunch of holes in the hull.
Re: Why only bad news?? (Score:3)
We have to do that eventually, otherwise the non renewable energy sources will run out. Not possible in the short term though.
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There are positives to warming.
Careful, you will bring the ire of moderators with opinions like that.
It's self correcting.
There's a lot of things that are self correcting here, including the climate. Humans survived to today because the climate has been so stable for so long. Certainly we've seen periods of cooling and warming but for the most part the climate on the planet has been stable enough that life hasn't been sterilized off the surface by boiling heat, freezing cold, or some other life ending event like the atmosphere getting stripped away by sola
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Even if climate change is beneficial to some places, that just means they will be getting a lot of climate refugees turning up in the next few decades.
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America was not "designed" for anything. Things just kind of happened.
It did not just happen. Laws were passed etc. the zoning and road design laws are actively hostile to good cities. In fact the road design users are actively hostile to cars and even more hostile to other forms of transport. You have generally terrible public transport and make up for it with very dangerous roads.
These things precisely are designed. You can't just make a road, it must conform to the regulations.
We can still have "walkable
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With the development of aircraft we saw trade and communication change yet again, rail travel was replaced by air travel. Over and over there's people that want to bring the rail systems of Europe to the USA, but that's not likely to ever happen. Not for anyone alive as I write this. The rail systems of Europe were designed for Europe, and given the much larger expanses of the USA, and the much lower population density, we can't sustain a European style rail system in the USA. We have airplanes now, and the interstate highway.
1. Europe is slightly larger than the US.
2. Population density in the US is about 35/km2. The Nordic countries is half that and there are a lot of trains and railway lines in Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Re: Why only bad news?? (Score:3, Informative)
" There are positives to warming. "
Not a net positive.
The cold places that get warmer won't become nice all the time. They will get COLDER sometimes, and inconveniently warm other times, with more chaotic weather.
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Not to mention you can't grow any significant amount of crops due to poor or no soil. You can't have millions of acres of wheat growing in Siberia no matter how good the climate may be, and the same goes for the northern part of Canada. They may have vast tracts of uninhabited land, but you can't grow crops there.
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Could you imagine if we were born in the ice age and had your same views. We would never know how nice normal weather would be like without winter coats year round
That would be a great rebuttal if we were currently in an ice age.
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Population growth? Where? Certainly not in post industrial economies.
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That must have been sarcasm that just flew over my head, everyone know
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Lots of below replacement birth rates to go around.
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-... [cia.gov]
Try selecting SE Asia, North America, and Europe.
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There are positives to warming.
For example, it is predicted that the Middle East could become too hot to support human life, and that Florida would disappear completely. How soon can we get these effects to happen?
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My California desert climate area has been wonderful the past 3 years. Steady but intermittent rain (no floods, time for ground to soak the aquifer). Summer breezes that I haven't seen which clear the smog. I don't know if it's climate change or just weather.
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I’m blaming Iowa for going woke as they reason why they got fucked up by tornadoes recently.
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You just get bad government.
God works in mysterious ways.
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Mysterious indeed. Or maybe you're reading him wrong
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I didn't vote in your bad government. In no way did I curse anyone with bad government. The locals voted for it. I've lived in similar places that consistently voted for bad government and weird... they got bad government. I moved. Now I occasionally see news and articles about my former area and just chuckle and move on.
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I didn't vote in your bad government.
The quality of government is in the eye of the beholder. I think it's just fine.
I make a fuckton of money, and things here are really goddamn nice.
When I visit my family in OK and AR, everything you see looks nastier than the nastiest part of the biggest city here, so meh.
They talk about my cost of living being high- and it is- but my disposable income is more than they make in a year... so who really gives a fuck?
Again- eye of the beholder. You have a right to shop around for one that you don't think s
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Are you in Portland? How's your crime rate? My buddy watched shit burning and crazy assholes running around fucking shit up a few houses down from his place during the summer of love because some drug dealer OD'd. Sounds great.
California misses me. I paid them millions in taxes and bailed before owing them another million. I don't miss them at all.
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Are you in Portland?
Seattle.
How's your crime rate?
Lower than where my sister lives in AR.
My buddy watched shit burning and crazy assholes running around fucking shit up a few houses down from his place during the summer of love because some drug dealer OD'd.
My sister watched a dude burn his ex-wife's house down and get away with it because he was friends with the judge. Sounds awesome.
California misses me.
Uh huh ;)
I paid them millions in taxes and bailed before owing them another million. I don't miss them at all.
Na, you didn't, lol.
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Yeah you live in crazy crime vile.
A single instance of corruption is nothing like the crime in your city.
And yes I did.
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Yeah you live in crazy crime vile.
Crimeville? lol.
The City of Seattle's crime rate is barely above that of the entire state of Arkansas.
A single instance of corruption is nothing like the crime in your city.
Sure, except the crime rate there is also 50% higher than Seattle.
And yes I did.
Come on, dude. You don't need to lie to kick it.
We all see your posts. You have the IQ of a finely tuned fry chef. Don't be sad. Own what you do.
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You don't understand what a rate is. Ok.
I don't need to lie. That's correct. I've paid California more taxes than most people will earn in a lifetime.
You must be poor because it doesn't take that much. With a 13% tax rate it only takes about 8 million in one year to owe California a million dollars. Why would I lie about that? It isn't that much for someone who worked in Silicon Valley their entire life and had a single IPO. My Amazon and FB buddies make roughly a million every year in total comp just
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You don't understand what a rate is. Ok.
Sure do, lol. Care to demonstrate how I don't? ;)
I don't need to lie. That's correct. I've paid California more taxes than most people will earn in a lifetime.
In my experience, people who consistently make junior high level spelling mistakes, and regurgitate just the laziest fucking conspiracy theories are generally not very successful.
So I'm looking at probabilities here- is it possible that you are highly successful? Sure, it is.
However, given the data, it's far more likely that you're just another sad little fuck trying to make up for his life's failings by pretending to be something he isn't on the internet,
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Wow that was really long. There was no point in reading it all but a point by point of everything I said across 2 screens? Damn, dude, your jelly is not my problem and your experiences are very limited.
All I really caught skimming was, "fuck, this guy I hate did way better in life than me and I can't stand it! REEEEEEE!!!!1111"
Better luck next life if you believe in reincarnation but as they say karma is a bitch; don't expect better next time.
My claims for anyone working in SV for decades are pretty minor
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Wow that was really long. There was no point in reading it all but a point by point of everything I said across 2 screens? Damn, dude, your jelly is not my problem and your experiences are very limited.
lol. I've seen far more clever cop-outs than that. You're not fooling anyone, dude.
All I really caught skimming was, "fuck, this guy I hate did way better in life than me and I can't stand it! REEEEEEE!!!!1111"
Then your reading comprehension is as was suspected, lol.
Better luck next life if you believe in reincarnation but as they say karma is a bitch; don't expect better next time.
Better luck getting someone to buy your bullshit ;)
My claims for anyone working in SV for decades are pretty minor. See a shrink about your feelings of inadequacy. You're really quite childish.
Incorrect. They are a flat out, objective, and easily disproven lie.
Why are you so insecure about yourself? When I was 16, I worked a deep fryer. It's not that bad of a job- I bet your family is very proud of you.
Re: This just in from America's finest news source (Score:2)
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It will be above freezing for the entirety of August.
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I'll give you million to one in your favor that a volcano won't pop up in the middle of London for the entire year 2025.
Will you take that bet? No?
It's because you're straw manning your pals. Unpredictable doesn't mean completely and utterly random in this context. But you knew that.
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Of course I know that and the numbnuts who I'm speaking too know that too.
And WTF it's not a straw man, that's literally the point. You can't predict details of weather but the climate is much more predictable.
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The climate is more predictable over long term than weather, yes, but that doesn't mean every unusual event is caused by human made climate change.
History is chock full of brutal events going back to the beginning of recorded time long before humans had any real effect on global climate. Sometimes shit happens. What they're saying is they tired of hearing how every fucking thing is AGW. It rains, it doesn't rain, it's a hurricane in hurricane season, it's a light hurricane season, Jfc I've even seen clai
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The climate is more predictable over long term than weather, yes
Good.
that doesn't mean every unusual event is caused by human made climate change.
So? who said it was?
Climate alarmism is just as real a thing as climate denialism. The latter is the correct logical response to the former.
No it is not.
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As usual you're not even coherent enough to remember what you said or what your're talking about.
You were criticising me, personally, apparently for comments made by other people. Cool. That makes sense.
So yes, when every damned thing is climate change, it is appropriate to take the cynical view and dismiss all of it until they stop the gas lighting.
No that's still mindblowingly stupid.
Climate change is real, real enough that it's at the level of fact. If your feelings are hurt so badly by people talking ab
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You're all the same
you all? the Jews? Some other group?
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Leftist clowns. What do Jews have to do with climate change? Are you replying on the right article? Drunk, maybe?
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What do Jews have to do with climate change?
I'm a Jew. You referred to me as "you all". So I went with the most obvious identifying grouping. Not an unreasonable assumption to make, given it wasn't obvious (as usual) who or what you're talking about.
Anyway, apparently you think it's "leftist" to accept observable facts as facts and not deny them because someone hurt my feelings.
You know what, I agree with you!
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Be honest; how many of you actually believe the climate doom and gloom anymore?
Yeah I do. Having gone from one extreme weather event to another in recent years does that to people. Those once in 50 year events seem to be occurring far more regularly, as predicted by climate change. Just about everyone who went through a drought or heatwave recently believes it as well, which as predicted are getting worse and more frequent with climate change. So do the people on the ski slopes, the ones who have seen as predicted a relatively steady decline in the usable ski season. As do people in c
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I went through way worst storms and storm stories on news growing up. Entire towns washed away. Blizzards every winter. Now it's like record highs!! (and you see the temperatures and they're basically just summer temps) and you remember back when it was over 110 in Indiana or 122 in Arizona and you laugh.
Sigh, you are cherry picking data again. Global warming isn't disproved by the fact that the actual highest record was back in the 30s. One freak event does not make a trend. TREND. I don't believe I need to point out the word trend to someone with a UID as low as yours, but here we are. Global warming isn't about this year being the hottest. It's about what was once freak events becoming very fucking regular.
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You should be well prepared for what's coming. I certainly hope you live long enough to use your rightly earned weathering. And also supes tight skills of observation, nay, deduction and insight. Was that both ways?
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Yes, I do believe it. I'm old enough to remember winters used to be colder. Dry heat waves used to a 1-2 event during summer. Now they're arriving once a month... Lot of of other little things that I notice.
If anything, in a few decades the general outcomes will be much worse than what most people understand right now.
Who funds the Competitive Enterprise Institute? (Score:3, Informative)
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I mean no they weren't. (Score:2)
If you're running out of money because you spend $1000/day on hookers & blow so you cut back to $500/day yeah, you're still screwed, it just takes longer and you should probably cut the hookers & blow out entirely.
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Which predictions were right?
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Is the blackjack ok though?
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The Tornados in the UK have been retired and replaced with the Eurofighter Typhoons
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Gen 4 or gen 5? On paper the gen 5 look really interesting. I'd like to see what they put on the air when they're ready.