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@DarthDimi, you seem well informed on GW etc., would you recommend anything worth reading about it?
Thanks, I still haven't got round to watching that :)I was thinking of something more academic :)
@tanaka123, A good place to start is one of Isaac Asimov's many essays on the subject. Let me post a link to a very good one, albeit one that's already 27 years old:
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-12-26/news/vw-585_1_carbon-dioxide
I have several books in my possession that deal with global warming in a few chapters. Here are some links:
- A great academic book IMO:
http://www.amazon.com/21st-Century-Astronomy-Full-Third/dp/0393931986/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1450527377&sr=8-3&keywords=21st+century+astronomy
- Another great academic book:
http://www.amazon.com/Environmental-Science-William-Cunningham/dp/0073532541/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1450527414&sr=1-7&keywords=environmental+science
- Exquisite book about people who deliberately or not are still in denial:
http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-Dark/dp/0345409469/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1450527463&sr=1-5&keywords=pale+blue+dot+carl+sagan
ecowatch.com/2015/10/19/donald-trump-climate-change-tweets/
Gosh, he's such an idiot. Where I am right now the temperature is 9 degrees Celsius. When I was a kid, this time a year it would be between 0 and -15 and full of snow.
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"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. (D. Trump)"
Yes, because everybody wants a president who's also a conspiracy theorist. I bet we never landed on the Moon either, mister Trump? In fact, I bet the Moon is just a flat disk suspended over our flat Earth by the God of the Heavens just a few days before Adam and Eve met a talking snake? Oh, and said snake may have told them that all Muslims are terrorists, right?
For those of us who have brains and actually use them, Global Warming was first warned for in the 19th Century. (That's more than a hundred years ago... 1 0 0. Trump's IQ may not go quite that far so I prefer to spell it out in numbers.) The first signs of climate change as a direct consequence of increased industrialisation were mentioned decades before WWI! But scientists are always ignored by those who lack the brainpower or the will to study and understand them. A heliocentric solar system, a curved Earth, a sort-of-infinite universe, plate tectonics, atoms, genetics, ... So many obvious notions were proposed by science, then met with fierce opposition (causing talented scientists to be burned at the hands of the Church, to be mocked, to be robbed of their dignity...), yet time and again, science was proven right. Not Religion, not superstition, not anti-science politics... but science itself. However, I digress.
So, back in the 19th Century the first couple of papers on Global Warming and the risks and dangers involved were published but clumsily ignored. Where was China back then? Was China an economical threat back then? In fact, where was America in the 19th Century? Still more or less a country trying to recover from the painful and embarrassing history of slavery and the oppression and extermination of natives. It was a country that built railways and churches and chapels... When the first signs of Global Warming were being processed scientifically, the Chinese were nowhere to be found on a global political scale and U.S. manufacturing was still, at best, promising but hardly prolific.
Furthermore, if we want to do something about Climate Change, the Chinese will have to put out more than any other country. Representing an unethically large population and still thriving on a highly polluting industry, China will be one of the major corner stones in our battle against Climate Change, perhaps even more so than the USA. Ergo, Trump's argument is false. I bet many Chinese politicians and industrialists would be a lot happier if the GW debate was silenced this very instance. A good president would propose a collaborative effort in fighting GW. Donald Trump, by this logic, would not be a good president. But I'm stating the obvious.
"This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice. (D. Trump)"
That logic is a beautiful example of what it's like to be a complete kookoo. The French used to say, "On se trompe" when politely indicating that someone has gone bug-nuts. Now they can say, "On se trump", meaning you're making a total monkey of yourself. Following Trump's reasoning, we might as well suggest that traffic laws henceforth cease to exist. That way more people can die in reckless driving accidents and thus we proactively help the overpopulation problem.
Let me spell it out once more: Global Warming isn't just about a rising temperature, it's about a disturbed and confused weather system. If we lose our stable weather patterns, all sorts of large-scale effects must take place, thereby wiping out species, destroying crops, attacking land masses with unpredictable winds and water waves of Biblical proportions. In another billion years, when our Moon has moved away from Earth far enough (the Moon is moving away from us at a rate of 3 cm per year), Earth will lose its most important balancing tool and its axis will start tilting erratically. Our weather system will be messed up worse than Lindsay Lohan's makeup after a night out with Britney, Paris and a bag of coke. Not a single human structure can survive such a planetary chaos! The same thing can happen sooner if we let our weather slip out of control. It should be said that all we have taken for granted, like mean temperatures and their seasonal patterns, are in fact feeble and vulnerable phenomena. And since we have put more people on this planet than it is able to feed and provide with energy and raw materials and process in terms of pollution and waste, it's no surprise that we have gradually but definitively been destabilising Earth in almost every conceivable way.
So indeed, it will get colder in many regions, it will get hotter in others, and the hot-cold seasonal shifts will become more erratic, less predictable and more intense. Entire crops will be lost, nature will provide us with less of its fruits, animal species will be destroyed, water will end up where it isn't needed and become absent where it is most wanted... Our entire global economy will crumble, wars will ensue, many will die and then many more and perhaps, who knows, the minor few who survive the centuries of self-destruction that will come very soon can learn from past mistakes, adapt to an angry planet that will need a very long time to find some peace and quiet again and rebuild human society, not based on fossil fuels and military exposition, but on values we in our infinite clumsiness haven't even begun to contemplate.
People like Trump are textbook examples of Medieval foolishness, inspired by superstition and religious madness, casting a 1000 year shadow over science, delaying a bright future based on rationality and modesty vis-à-vis nature, not on bias based on skin colour or on the insatiable hunger for power, glory and gold. To my American friends, I can say only this: please, do not vote Trump. I don't want the 1930s and 40s repeated...
and to make Hillary look good.
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True, but there are over 100 million of them in America. It is an illness that is dragging us all backward.
Quite. 8-|
Well, is it? My fuelling costs are going down.
Thanks for the reply, you certainly get some very extreme weather conditions in the US.
That doesn't sound good for California!
Blimey, that's an amazing photo, showing only a little puddle of water left, that could soon be gone.
Is it a common thing for Miami to get such large flooding?
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Well, i suppose you can take a boat, to go into town there at the present time. :)