Climate Change/Mass Extinction Megathread

[viper37]

It seems as if the steely eyed independent minded climatologists/Anne Coulter fans have drifted away from languish a bit or perhaps moved on to more exciting conspiracy theories. As the general mood on here is trending "We are super fucked" I recommend that we have a poll asking our gentle readers to choose which dystopian science fiction nightmare our world is set to fall into.

For starters it could be Children of Men, sad Clive Owen anxiously wandering a grimy UK overwhelmed by some sort of refugee crisis.

The most likely candidate for me though is Zardoz - a far future world split between a tiny group of omnipotent "Eternals" who manipulate the larger population of wild eyed "Brutals" to murder each other in large numbers. Also Sean Connery has a battle-jock-strap of some kind, which is what I would choose for the apocalypse.

Either The 100 or the new show on Netflix (IO, I think).

[viper37]

Yo.

That's not it.  Something with an H, maybe German sounding.

You may be right. I can't quite remember his name either.

Hansmeister, as Syt said.  There may have been another Republican or two in the earlier days following the Mass Exodus from Paradox.

There was an anti-evolution guy, maybe he was a climate change denier too, I cannot remember.

[Admiral Yi]

You may be right. I can't quite remember his name either.

Burgermeister Meisterburger?  That rings a bell.

[Habbaku]

Hortleister I think.

[Eddie Teach]

I thought his name was Vinraith.

[Valmy]

Wasn't Siege? He had a problem with the moon landing...

Siege was a moon conspiracy guy. Hans was the climate change denier. He'd bring up some studies from the 70s where scientists predicted global cooling (according to him) as proof that climate science was a fraud. He was also one of those sects of christians that believed that the end times would come when the Jews converted to Christianity. I think he also got into a weird stalking thing with Malthus.

Yes. The sect being Roman Catholicism in his case

[HVC]

Wasn't Siege? He had a problem with the moon landing...

Siege was a moon conspiracy guy. Hans was the climate change denier. He'd bring up some studies from the 70s where scientists predicted global cooling (according to him) as proof that climate science was a fraud. He was also one of those sects of christians that believed that the end times would come when the Jews converted to Christianity. I think he also got into a weird stalking thing with Malthus.

Yes. The sect being Roman Catholicism in his case

Man even the catholics are hardcore in America hah

[viper37]

Wasn't Siege? He had a problem with the moon landing...

Siege was a moon conspiracy guy. Hans was the climate change denier. He'd bring up some studies from the 70s where scientists predicted global cooling (according to him) as proof that climate science was a fraud. He was also one of those sects of christians that believed that the end times would come when the Jews converted to Christianity. I think he also got into a weird stalking thing with Malthus.

Yes. The sect being Roman Catholicism in his case

Are you sure? Two non priest catholic as hardcore as Mike Pence in one country?   

[Eddie Teach]

Hans and who's the other one? Mel Gibson?

[crazy canuck]

If we devoted significant resources now to developing a new electrical grid with electricity generated from green sources, there could be an economic boom and we could avoid the most significant losses.

oh sure.  All wee need is for most of English Canada to accept hydro-electricity from Quebec and ditch their coal&gaz plants.

Easy peasy?

Last I checked BC was in English Canada and it does not have coal or gas plants.  But you are correct that there is no way we will accept hydro from Quebec - we have our own

So here, ya easy peasy.

[HVC]

Ontario gets like 40% from hydro and the rest from nuclear IIRC

[Valmy]

Ontario gets like 40% from hydro and the rest from nuclear IIRC

So it is Manitoba that is burning all the coal eh? Bastards.

[HVC]

Or those shifty newfies

[Razgovory]

So are we all playing some sort of joke on Syt here?

[Grey Fox]

Ontario gets like 40% from hydro and the rest from nuclear IIRC

Aren't the nuclear plants being decommissioned? That's a big 60% We could build together but the RoC doesn't like to work with HQ.