This one deer got one and almost two of us.
That deer didnât look very stumbly to me.
More like this:
Or this:
In short, Bambi might be exaggerated a little.
I wish weâd never had such a âcloseâ relationship with that country. But $$$$$ I guess.
$$$ and 
The continued use of fossil fuel is a large part of our ongoing apocalypse watch, both environmentally and politically/militarily.
Well, I figured SSS = = $$$
Yikes. I canât believe thatâs a .gov domain with that kind of headline. Bureaucrats donât do stuff like that. They must be pissed.
much of part 2 will be familiar.
just 7°F (4°C) of warming âwould constitute the end of civilization as we know it.â [âŚ]
climate impacts that come from just one more degree Celsius of warming â for a total of 3.6°F (2°C) warming â will be catastrophic. [âŚ]
if we warm the planet 2°C that may be enough to trigger feedbacks that push the planet toward the irreversible âHothouse Earth.â That would mean catastrophic warming of 9°F (5°C)
Wasnât it just last month that much of the northern U.S. and southern Canada saw temperatures range almost 100°F in a day or two from around -50°F to 50°F? And when itâs 20°F out, raising the temperature 3-9° certainly doesnât sound catastrophic.
I feel like actually including the temperature deltas when talking about climate change is maybe a bad idea. Given that the numbers are so insignificant when compared to the high/low temperature range within a day, let alone seasonally, itâs counter-intuitive that such a small change would result in such massive and significant catastrophes. That feeds the climate change deniers. There must be a better way to communicate it? Maybe comparing sum global energy rather than energy at one point?
Sea level rise, climate zone shifts.
Thatâs the problem, isnât it, trying to explain temporal and spatial averages to people who donât even want to understand it even if they could.
I think we went through that but the anodyne phrase âclimate changeâ doesnât really cover the issues. Big ass-storms of all kinds, fun for all with porpoise-speaking clowns. Ckchxkctch! Have fun with yer hyperspace bypass and hypercanes. But then the panic obscures the issues and the offshore communities begin being bombed on a much smaller scale than the existential kind.
Except climate change deniers feed themselves. Seriously, I donât think it makes sense tying yourself up to avoid giving fuel to liars that are proven just as happy to burn whole cloth. Iâve seen more than one person regret such efforts here â scientists so cautious of being dismissed as alarmist, they ended up downplaying the urgency, only to be slandered anyway.
Far better to explain the truth. In fact, I think it might help to make it clear the temperature changes involved are relatively small, and the real issue is that small changes have big results. Because by now many people have heard that CO2 is a trace gas, just a tiny portion of a big atmosphere, and so suppose our emissions canât do that much. And in this sense, they wonât! It only absorbs a small portion of the infrared leaving our planet, and increasing it will only change temperature by a small percentage.
The thing is, for a planet at about 285 K, a one or two percentage change is the 3-6°C weâve been worrying about. You can see itâs in no way so big as to be out of reach. At the same time, if you think it sounds too small to be concerning, itâs really not that hard to put the consequences in context.
The 14°C (3 IAU) quoted in this article sounds genuinely soul-crushing to me, the first time Iâve seen a number that really suggests maybe nobody is going to make it. There is some solace in the fact that itâs a worst-case scenario, but suffice to say the way we have been doing things, that is different from it not being a case. I donât think I can genuinely consider it without tears.
But should anyone wonder if humanity is really capable of destroying its own home like that? Well, hey, itâs just a 5% increase. Thatâs the truth we need people to understand â our world is sensitive.
One former Italian Posadist is adamant that the ufology was never of major importance to them, and that appealing for nuclear war was of much greater concern.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Posadism
⌠itâs not too late!
I wish it were too late for that.