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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 25, 2018 - 07:19am PT
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how can you describe a radically changing climate and follow it up by pronouncing that its a hoax?
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 25, 2018 - 07:31am PT
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It was 80F in London the other day!
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Apr 25, 2018 - 08:01am PT
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It ain't easy being green.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 26, 2018 - 05:17am PT
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Tabasco is concerned:
https://earther.com/tabasco-sauce-is-in-a-battle-for-its-very-survival-1825510123
When we walk out of the warehouse into the sun and breathable air, though, we come across one of the few conspicuous changes Avery Island has seen over the past century: a 17-foot levee that encircles 38 acres of the Tabasco operation. The company was forced to make this $5 million investment in 2005 after Hurricane Rita nearly flooded the facility.
Even though it’s only 152 feet above sea level at its peak, Avery Island is one the highest points in the Gulf Coast. A two hour drive west of New Orleans, it sits atop an enormous salt dome that bulges from the earth, elevating the land above the swamps and bayous that surround it. A generation ago, it was unthinkable that this natural fortress could be overcome by water. But Hurricane Rita’s threatening surges were a symptom of an immense shift in the Gulf Coast, the result of decades of harsh land use practices and climate change.
“The waters are rising,” Osborn says.
Now, the McIlhennys are fighting to save the island to which their family history and business are inextricably linked.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Apr 26, 2018 - 08:39am PT
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Apr 26, 2018 - 11:13am PT
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The Delta is sinking faster than the waters are rising, a 1/3 inch per year. This due to corps of engineering "harnessing" the Mississippi, preventing spring floods and stopping or drastically slowing the recharge of sediments into the Delta. New Orleans is sinking, but so is the whole Delta coast, under it's own weight.
Atlantis in the making, and not strictly a child of climate change.
And it is also losing its coastline because of the lack of sediment, which means a storm surge comes further and further inland.
I don't see how it is going to be possible to give New Orleans reasonable flood protection over the next 100+ years. Same with southern Florida.
But I expect tax payers will pay hundreds of billions in a futile attempt.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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May 11, 2018 - 11:22pm PT
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One of the creepier conclusions drawn by scientists studying the Anthropocene—the proposed epoch of Earth’s geologic history in which humankind’s activities dominate the globe—is how closely today’s industrially induced climate change resembles conditions seen in past periods of rapid temperature rise.
“If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today?”
Finally, solid scientific PROOF that the Nephilim really existed!
And it's really a great relief, because the Nephilim caused comparable global warming back then, yet we're here today, so, well, you can draw the obvious conclusion for yourself.
I am thankful every day for the Nephilim. They show us the way.
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WBraun
climber
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May 14, 2018 - 05:49pm PT
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Nothing has changed.
The world is still st00pid as hell .......
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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May 14, 2018 - 06:03pm PT
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^^^ LOL, no doubt, my friend. No doubt.
Sadly, I must shake my head and admit that I'm no different. That's not "false humility." It's just an acknowledgement of the fact that I think that I live in the depths of a very deep, dank epistemic hole. Even my most closely-held beliefs are "it seems to me that...." I don't believe that human beings are capable of any better.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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May 18, 2018 - 08:19pm PT
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What will the duck eat when insects disappear...?
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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This morning.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6391/877
A 550,000-year record of East Asian monsoon rainfall from ¹⁰Be in loess
J. Warren Beck, Weijian Zhou, Cheng Li, Zhenkun Wu, Lara White, Feng Xian, Xianghui Kong, Zhisheng An
Abstract
Cosmogenic ¹⁰Be flux from the atmosphere is a proxy for rainfall. Using this proxy, we derived a 550,000-year-long record of East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) rainfall from Chinese loess. This record is forced at orbital precession frequencies, with higher rainfall observed during Northern Hemisphere summer insolation maxima, although this response is damped during cold interstadials. The ¹⁰Be monsoon rainfall proxy is also highly correlated with global ice-volume variations, which differs from Chinese cave δ¹⁸O, which is only weakly correlated. We argue that both EASM intensity and Chinese cave δ¹⁸O are not governed by high-northern-latitude insolation, as suggested by others, but rather by low-latitude interhemispheric insolation gradients, which may also strongly influence global ice volume via monsoon dynamics.
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