No procreating.You will help future generations by doing what today?
No procreating.You will help future generations by doing what today?
Water is very unique in that it expands as it freezes. Almost every other material/compound contracts during cooling and expands under heat. Water is the exact opposite. This is one of the major destroyers of pavements as the asphalt/concrete contracts in Winter, creating voids and cracks. Water gets in the cracks (thanks road salt!) and expands as it re-freezes.... causing pot holes.Water expands as it warms. That’s cause of most of the sea level rise at this time, not land water runoff.
Water is very unique in that it expands as it freezes. Almost every other material/compound contracts during cooling and expands under heat. Water is the exact opposite. This is one of the major destroyers of pavements as the asphalt/concrete contracts in Winter, creating voids and cracks. Water gets in the cracks (thanks road salt!) and expands as it re-freezes.... causing pot holes.
If you’re still in denial, fill a glass with as much ice as you can cram in it. Top it off with tap water to the brim. If you’re right, as it warms, the glass will overflow and you’ll have a small mess. If you’re wrong, the water level will decrease. Condensation on the outside doesn’t count as that’s a function of water vapor outside the ice/water mix.
Water is very unique in that it expands as it freezes. Almost every other material/compound contracts during cooling and expands under heat. Water is the exact opposite. This is one of the major destroyers of pavements as the asphalt/concrete contracts in Winter, creating voids and cracks. Water gets in the cracks (thanks road salt!) and expands as it re-freezes.... causing pot holes.Water expands as it warms. That’s cause of most of the sea level rise at this time, not land water runoff.
Swing and a miss. You didn’t do it, cause it takes over 30 mins to melt. Give it a go. You just might learn something.Well we can confirm you don’t know how water works
On one hand, we have a global warming trend that is certainly real, and we also have the concept of anthropogenic global warming, which is probably real. The fact is, however, that no one has yet been able quantify human influence on global warming, much less demonstrate that changing anything in our own behavior will slow the trend in any significant degree.I think that is the problem. Every catastrophe is a climate crisis. Venice floods and Australian wildfires are both presented as clearly climate related.
Read another article about prescribed burns that were not taking place in Australia that the author believed was the major reason for the wildfires. So it technically was a man-made problem but not the way the media was presenting it. Humans changing the environment can be real but there are other variables that are not being presented.
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking.
In the context of the subject of the thread, supporting politicians and policies that are centered around a sustainable future, regardless of whether or not they benefit me personally in my own lifetime. I think an attitude of "if it all falls apart, it'll be after I'm dead, so whatever" is ethically abhorrent.
In a more general sense, I do take the time to volunteer, working with children. That's completely outside the scope of politics though - I just think that's something that people should consider doing if they have the time on hand, and that's probably not what you had in mind.
Waving your white flag I see.
On one hand, we have a global warming trend that is certainly real, and we also have the concept of anthropogenic global warming, which is probably real. The fact is, however, that no one has yet been able quantify human influence on global warming, much less demonstrate that changing anything in our own behavior will slow the trend in any significant degree.
Then on the other hand, we have a whole lot of people screaming gloom and doom. They tell outright lies in some cases, they manipulate data to get their next pile of grant money in the name of science in others. Some - in significant numbers - misrepresent natural events and human failures in such superficial and easily discounted ways as those noted itt. They are bold-faced liars, demanding to be trusted. Ridiculous.
All these demands in the name of controlling us and our behavior here. Demands. A lot of money is to be made in different corners any time a market shift is forced. I’m sure it would make a great PoliSci project to connect the dots between the climate crusaders, their political partners, and their contributors, full circle.
We’ve had decades of political hacks telling us the virtues of leading by example in spreading Democracy, and the world beyond Western Europe laughs at us when we suggest and hate us when we push it. The climate agenda in goof jobs like the Paris Accord is the same thing, and they know it. But that’s fine by them. The planet will be in even worse shape when more of our goods are produced double-dirty half a world away and shipped here, but it’s a win/win for some. They make more money even as the dependency class is increased and they gain greater control. It’s a joke.
Cabe, please. Once the capitalists are overthrown and the government is sufficiently large, pollution and poverty will be eliminated
I have been wearing shorts over the past few days....anyone not looking at climate change is not paying attention or over 60 so like the debt can just laugh it off as an issue for other.
It's closer to "I already heard this, and it wasn't at all the least bit compelling the first few dozen times. Kindly go find someone who cares."
I thought you were a Marxist. Maybe I'm confusing you with someone else.Please be so kind as to direct me to even one post where I have endorsed Communism. There are numerous posts where I have explicitly said otherwise. ?
Am I supposed to take this post seriously? I don't think so.
Here's a handy flow chart. It also applies to something like 98% of the nonsense that conservatives in this forum post, but it is relevant here.
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Marxists fully reject my position, and if they were actually present in this forum, you'd see them emphatically say as much. I advocate for a "mixed economy" approach that uses both social and market solutions in tandem. A Marxist doesn't see capitalism as a "tool that has it's uses" - they reject it. I think that's ridiculous, not to mention impractical.
Yes, "you" in the generic sense. Lol.I presume you mean "you" generically as opposed to me because I didn't mention anything about that. I don't give a rat's . I'd just move. I'll be dead long before the poop hits the windmill, if indeed poop is being thrown. I was simply thanking you for the new information. BTW: now the canals are empty. Tide giveth and the tide taketh away.
Ah, there it is, the "slippery slope" argument that pulls in a bunch of silly games with semantics. Better worded than I would have guessed (+1 point for you!), but right on schedule.
It turns out the ice caps have been melting since the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago. Amazing breakthrough in Science to discover this!
What you posted was absurd, but humorously, it occurs to me that Marxists would try to make essentially the exact same sort of argument about people like me, only in the opposite direction and swapping out some terms. It's a funny world.
Am I supposed to take this post seriously? I don't think so.
Here's a handy flow chart. It also applies to something like 98% of the nonsense that conservatives in this forum post, but it is relevant here.
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I have been wearing shorts over the past few days....anyone not looking at climate change is not paying attention or over 60 so like the debt can just laugh it off as an issue for other.
Ok. This is one of your dumber posts. That is saying a lot.Am I supposed to take this post seriously? I don't think so.
Here's a handy flow chart. It also applies to something like 98% of the nonsense that conservatives in this forum post, but it is relevant here.
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Water is very unique in that it expands as it freezes. Almost every other material/compound contracts during cooling and expands under heat. Water is the exact opposite. This is one of the major destroyers of pavements as the asphalt/concrete contracts in Winter, creating voids and cracks. Water gets in the cracks (thanks road salt!) and expands as it re-freezes.... causing pot holes.Crusaders said:
Well we can confirm you don’t know how water works
If you’re still in denial, fill a glass with as much ice as you can cram in it. Top it off with tap water to the brim. If you’re right, as it warms, the glass will overflow and you’ll have a small mess. If you’re wrong, the water level will decrease. Condensation on the outside doesn’t count as that’s a function of water vapor outside the ice/water mix.
Swing and a miss. You didn’t do it, cause it takes over 30 mins to melt. Give it a go. You just might learn something.
All that info come from tree ring data and ice core samples?
Ugh. When water freezes, it expands. This is a fact that has existed since the big bang. The mere fact that anyone believes it doesn’t is an intellectual idiot. ... Google it if you can type it.Cru is right. We're discussing Global WARMING. I don't think what happens below freezing point is the discussion. At 25-30C, water has expanded about 0.5% (if I recall correctly) from the freezing point volume. Moving molecules and all that.
The upper layer runs about 20C on average and is a couple hundred metres thick with fairly consistent temperature. Below that is the thermocline which decreases in temp until it reaches the lower, also a fairly consistent temp.