Climate Change/Mass Extinction Megathread

[mongers]

These are not the options. We will get trillions of dollars of economic losses no matter what. It's between having our current civilization going into the future or a significaly reduced numbers of humans on this planet.

False choices?

[crazy canuck]

These are not the options. We will get trillions of dollars of economic losses no matter what. It's between having our current civilization going into the future or a significaly reduced numbers of humans on this planet.

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.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Current carbon intensity of electricity maps and graphs for the UK :

https://www.carbonintensity.org.uk/

Currently only 23 gCO2/kWh in the NW of England; 182 down your way mongers 

So right now is a good time to do one's laundry and recharge the car in NW England.

[mongers]

Current carbon intensity of electricity maps and graphs for the UK :

https://www.carbonintensity.org.uk/

Currently only 23 gCO2/kWh in the NW of England; 182 down your way mongers 

So right now is a good time to do one's laundry and recharge the car in NW England.

Thanks RH, interesting.

I don't think one can underestimate just who selfish people can be with regard to the environment, as long as the lights switch on they want it make anywhere else, rather than something that might spoil the view on their Sunday afternoon drive.   

[fromtia]

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.

[Admiral Yi]

Who was the intelligence NCO who fired his boss?  Can't remember his nick. 

He's the only climate change skeptic i can think of.

[dps]

Who was the intelligence NCO who fired his boss?  Can't remember his nick. 

He's the only climate change skeptic i can think of.

Yo.

[Syt]

Who was the intelligence NCO who fired his boss?  Can't remember his nick. 

He's the only climate change skeptic i can think of.

Hansmeister

[Razgovory]

Here's the guy.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpEdsh6VqA

[Admiral Yi]

Yo.

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

[Valmy]

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

[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.

[Syt]

I repeat: Hansmeister.

[Oexmelin]

Yo.

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

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

[viper37]

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?