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clifff
Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
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Humanity is facing the final, western corporate capitalist, fossil fuel initiated, catastrophic Arctic methane hydrate destabilization and Permian style methane blowout - firestorm that will culminate in 1 to 8 years (2020 to 2027).
We will all be boiled alive like lobsters in a massively humid atmosphere and converted into stardust.
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Malemute
Noam Chomsky: The Future of Organized Human Life Is At Risk Thanks to GOP's Climate Change Denial
Yeah. Let's put it all on the GOP.
No doubt, there'd be no risk if not for those nasty old Republicans.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Anybody watch 60 Minutes last night?
There be some hope.
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Yeah. Let's put it all on the GOP.
No doubt, there'd be no risk if not for those nasty old Republicans.
Ok, so they aren't the only bad guys in town. Since Hitler wasn't entirely responsible for all the atrocities of WWII, we will give him a pass?
It is almost impossible to find any Republican Senators or House members that will go on camera saying climate change is a serious issue that the country needs to address.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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how many watts to refrigerate?
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jan 10, 2019 - 07:44am PT
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Good question. I imagine were it to work, it would be at some reduced efficiency? and probably quite constrained in application. Still, with CO2's relatively high sublimation temp, it's a tantalizing consideration. 60 Minutes last week had a similarly interesting story - that one about an older amateur scientist / inventor attempting to break down cellulose efficiently into usable product.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 10, 2019 - 08:33am PT
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These are all nice stories,
all of these ideas have been worked on in some detail for a while.
Not saying people shouldn't be thinking up schemes, but they shouldn't be surprised
if someone else had thought them up previously. A real shame that we don't usually
publish articles about "failed" ideas.
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Jan 10, 2019 - 09:23am PT
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I know an old lady
She swallowed a fly
But I don't know why
She swallow the fly
I guess she'll die
I know an old lady
Who swallow a spider
It wiggled and jiggled
And tickled inside her
She swallowed a spider
To catch the fly
But I don't know why
She swallowed the fly
I guess she'll die
I know and old lady
Who swallowed a bird
Isn't that absurd
To swallow a bird?
She swallowed the bird
To catch the spider
Who wiggled and jiggled
And tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider
To catch the fly
But I don't know why
She swallowed a fly
I guess she'll die
I know and old lady
Who swallowed a cat
Just imagine that
She swallowed a cat
She swallowed the cat
To catch the bird
She swallowed the bird
To catch the spider
Who wiggled and jiggled
And tickled inside her
And she swallowed the spider
To catch the fly
But I don't know why
She swallowed the fly
I guess she'll die
I know an old lady who swallowed a dog
Ooh, what a hog
She swallowed the dog
She swallowed the dog
To catch the cat
She swallowed the cat
To catch the bird
And she swallowed the bird
To catch the spider
Who wiggled and jiggled
And tickled inside her
And she swallowed the spider
To catch the fly
But I don't know why
She swallowed the fly
I guess she'll die
I know an old lady
Who swallowed a goat
She just opened her throat
And swallowed a goat
She swallowed the goat
To catch the dog
She swallowed the dog
To catch the cat
She swallowed the cat
To catch the bird
And she swallowed the bird
To catch the spider
Who wiggled and jiggled
And tickled inside her
And she swallowed the spider
To catch the fly
But I don't know why
She swallowed the fly
I guess she'll die
And I knew an old lady
Who swallowed a minister
Isn’t that sinister?
To swallow a minister
She swallowed a minister
To catch the goat
And she swallowed a goat
To catch the dog
And she swallowed a dog
To catch the cat
She swallowed the cat
To catch the bird
And she swallowed the bird
To catch the spider
That wiggled and jiggled
And tickled inside her
And she swallowed the spider
To catch the fly
But I don't know why
She swallowed the fly
I guess she'll die
I know an old lady
Who swallowed a rhinoceros
Isn't that preposterous!
To swallow a rhinoceros
She swallowed a rhinoceros
To catch the minister
She swallowed the minister
To catch the goat
She swallowed the goat
To catch the dog
She swallowed the dog
To catch the cat
She swallowed the cat
To catch the bird
And she swallowed a bird
To catch the spider
That wiggled and jiggled
And tickled inside her
And she swallowed the spider
To catch the fly
But I don't know why
She swallowed the fly
I guess she'll die
I know an old lady
Who swallowed a horse...
She's dead of course
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Jan 22, 2019 - 12:12pm PT
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CO2 is actually expensive and useful in oil production. It is miscible with oil at relatively low pressures. Companies now hook into methanol plants and buy their emissions to recover much more oil in place than saltwater floods.
Regular power plant emissions aren’t pure enough.
There are vast pressure depleted gas reservoirs that could be used for sequestration. It would not be cheap, though. Our only real solution is to halt most of our emissions. That will never happen while oil is the cheapest and most dense form of energy. We are all guilty.
You can’t just grow more trees. When organic material decomposes, all of that carbon simply releases back into the atmosphere. Nature has sequestered carbon in the form of carbonate rocks. Prior to the evolution of photosynthesis we had a CO2 rich atmosphere. Like the white cliffs of Dover, tremendous amounts of carbon are permanently tied up in limestones. CaCO3.
That is a slow process, though, and we are emitting more carbon than the oceans can tie up.
Basically, our grandchildren are screwed. In the far future, oil will have run out. The damage will have already been done, though.
Climate change deniers are just like those who put complete faith in creationism. They are hopelessly blind.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Jan 22, 2019 - 12:16pm PT
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The simpleton deniers are able to campaign based on lies and often win.
How about that.... all those simpleton deniers getting the better of the best and brightest of the scientific community.
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Gunks Ray
Trad climber
Gunks
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Jan 22, 2019 - 01:38pm PT
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How about that.... all those simpleton deniers getting the better of the best and brightest of the scientific community.
It's usually pretty easy to win an argument if your side is telling people exactly what they wanted to hear anyway.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Jan 23, 2019 - 07:29am PT
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Jan 23, 2019 - 07:34am PT
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s December coal output climbed 2.1 percent from the year before, government data showed, hitting the highest level in over three years as major miners ramped up production amid robust winter demand and after the country started up new mines.
Cranes unload coal from a cargo ship at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China December 8, 2018. Picture taken December 8, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
Miners produced 320.38 million tonnes of coal in December, according to data released on Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics. That is the largest volume since June, 2015.
China approved more than 45 billion yuan’s ($6.64 billion)worth of new coal mining projects last year, much more than 2017, official documents show.
That came after the country closed old and more-polluting coal mines as part of its battle to clean up the environment.
“Coal mining capacity coming online will lead to another increase in output this year after boosting December output to a more than three-year high,” said a Beijing-based coal analyst with a major broker. He declined to be identified as he was not authorised by his company to speak to media on the matter.
The new projects stoked overall coal output last year, with annual production rising 5.2 percent to the highest since 2015 at 3.55 billion tonnes.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-china-economy-output-coal/chinas-coal-output-hits-highest-in-over-3-years-as-mines-start-up-idUKKCN1PF0DI
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 23, 2019 - 07:37am PT
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since when does a cartoon substitute for actual science?
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Jan 23, 2019 - 11:52am PT
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The concern is too late and too little to change our Neanderthal consumer desires and habits. An environmental ethic is a relatively new ethic compared to say a two thousand year old Christian morale ethic. It turns into finger pointing one-upmanship. Were doomed. Cheers.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Jan 29, 2019 - 07:04am PT
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Donald J. Trump
In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Warming? Please come back fast, we need you!
Brrrr
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