Big oil is a massive force bro as you well know. Trillions. They entirely fund the low IQ denialist movement. Fucked up but these dipshits swallow exxon, koch and other oligarchs cocks.Originally Posted by Mr Earl
Big oil is a massive force bro as you well know. Trillions. They entirely fund the low IQ denialist movement. Fucked up but these dipshits swallow exxon, koch and other oligarchs cocks.Originally Posted by Mr Earl
If you've ever done a postgrad in environment-related studies, or have worked with such people for a significant amount of time, you will come to notice that it's not in the interests of a typical PhD student or early-career researcher to go off-message. You have to put the same reworded para at the start of every paper, if you want to progress or have a career. It's all very well going on about "big oil", but it's not that common to see oil money directly going into academia. I know a prof whos got several million for a bp-related project, but this has to go through so many filters, and i can't see any sign that the output is influenced at all, the work people are doing and the papers have the same first paras, and O&G companies want that association for their csr scorecard. This fantasy the likes of bsnub (I've lost track of who amongst you is pro or against actually) has is just not borne out by evidence or experience - there's too much scrutiny - academic careers are precarious and people tend to follow the herd to pay their mortgage - "big academia" is more accurate, really. Yes they want money, but they can't afford to lose reputation by selling out to companies that the eco-mob want to make pariahs, because they need to maintain government support via the voters.
Honestly, you lot... just try an experiment - replace the "evil energy and plastics and industrial military complex" stuff from your little tirades and replace it with something utterly different, and re-read what you've written, and tell me it's not hysterical, paranoid, and silly. It sounds like a lurch to extremism because nobody really agrees with you... reminds me of how the Labour Momentum mob behave.
Maybe this is just a thing that Americans are susceptible too - I appreciate their education system and media is pretty mediocre by British standards.
Or maybe you too are falling for the oil company nonsense.
After all, that's why they spend millions:
To try and influence public and opinion and block any legislation that lets them drill, frack, burn and pollute whatever the fuck they want to, without any worries about the consequences to the environment and to people.
No. 1: ExxonMobil | Mother Jones
Meanwhile somboon thinks his allotment is saving the planet.
The greens, eh?Originally Posted by pulvarien
Whose initiative was the Climate Change Research Center, pulverian?
That's a lot of Marijuana. Seems you're getting a lot of use out of it. Are you a one or two harvest a year man.Originally Posted by Somboon
This somboon clown is psuedo. I know his tinfoiled lunacy anywhere.
^ Its all off of climate depot or some other similar sites like infowars he makes absurd claims and can never back it up with any credible evidence, exact same MO as psuedo. The other possibility is that its Albert. Those two spent a lot of time stroking each other off.
‘Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice’
Scientist Peter Wadhams believes the summer ice cover at the north pole is about to disappear, triggering even more rapid global warming
Why should we be concerned about an Arctic that is free of ice in summer?
People tend to think of an ice-free Arctic in summer in terms of it merely being a symbol of global change. Things happen, they say. In fact, the impact will be profound and will effect the whole planet and its population. One key effect will be albedo feedback. Sea ice reflects about 50% of the solar radiation it receives back into space. By contrast, water reflects less than 10%. So if you replace ice with water, which is darker, much more solar heat will be absorbed by the ocean and the planet will heat up even more rapidly than it is doing at present.
Sea ice also acts as an air-conditioning system. Winds coming over the sea to land masses such as Siberia and Greenland will no longer be cooled as they pass over ice and these places will be heated even further. These effects could add 50% to the impact of global warming that is produced by rising carbon emissions.
What will be the effects of this accelerating increase in temperatures?
The air over Greenland will get warmer and more and more of its ice will melt. It is already losing about 300 cubic kilometres of ice a year. Antarctica is adding to the melt as well. Sea-level rises will accelerate as a result. The most recent prediction of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is that seas will rise by 60 to 90 centimetres this century. I think a rise of one to two metres is far more likely. Indeed, it is probably the best we can hope for.
That may not sound a lot but it is really very serious. It will increase enormously the frequency of storm surges all over the world. We may be able to raise the Thames barrier in Britain but in Bangladesh, it just means more and more people will be drowned.
Global warming is generally associated with increased fossil-fuel burning and consequent rises in levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. But is that the only climate problem we face?
No it is not. We also have the issue of methane. Russian scientists who have investigated waters off their coast have detected more and more plumes of methane bubbling up from the seabed. The reason this is happening is closely connected with the warming of the planet and the shrinking of the Arctic icecaps.
How intense is methane as a heater of the atmosphere compared with carbon dioxide?
It is 23 times more powerful.
This Luxury Cruise Liner Is On The Front Lines Of Climate Change
This week, a massive, luxury cruise liner departed from Anchorage, Alaska, on the first leg of a 32-day cruise through the Northwest Passage.
The Crystal Serenity is carrying 1,070 passengers and 670 crew members. It has boutique shopping, a casino, a theater, and several bars on board. Its nine passenger decks tower over a hundred feet above the ocean surface. From these decks, passengers will see views that for centuries have been largely the provenance of intrepid explorers and a scant population of native people, clustered in hamlets that can be separated by hundreds of miles of Arctic tundra and icy waters.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Great, we could have another Titanic.
James Cameron will be licking his lips in anticipation.
from that linkOriginally Posted by S Landreth
So the bearded little bitch was funded by big oil ....555His chief industrial links in ice research have been with the offshore oil and marine transport industries. He received continuous support from British Petroleum Co. from 1976 until 1992 for his research group at SPRI, covering funding of a technician and support for the design and development of novel instrumentation for use in Arctic ice engineering,
I guess that ran out so he shifted his poncing to the global warming gravy train
Come on lads up your game this is getting too easy .
Good point - if the weather changes ..
Interesting to look at where the titanic hit the iceberg
1912 ? ie pre global warming
What the fuck was an iceberg doing, breaking off and floating all the way down there, way down south...
Maybe its because climate change is natural , has always happened always will
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic
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When the temperature hit 0 degrees in the middle of august in twente Holland last week where were the mountains? Sorry there aren't any and that's in the summer too. Of course it was the night.
weath·er
ˈweT͟Hər/
noun
the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
cli·mate
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noun
the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
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