Global warming

rhanishane

Just because this is hilariously true😂 im sure you will enjoy haha
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157552656142971&id=9480502970

brianlux

It blows me away how much plastic is everywhere- almost everything found in a grocery store, the vast majority of toys today, cars, appliances, computers, TVs... all (or nearly all) crap.

And then there's records.  Damn, that's a tough one.  I do buy used vinyl when I can and only sell used LPs.  I suppose no matter how I try to justify it, there is a bit of hypocrisy there I suppose.    But none of my records are crap, I will say that for them. 

Meltdown99

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1107632786876391425

Only an outright plastic ban will solve the problem.  

PJ_Soul

Some decent news for a change, but I don't have high hopes.

Federal judge casts doubt on Trump’s drilling plans across the U.S. because they ignore climate change

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/03/20/federal-judge-casts-doubt-trumps-drilling-plans-across-us-because-they-ignore-climate-change/?utm_term=.4609ea3724eb&wpisrc=al_news__alert-hse--alert-national&wpmk=1

Meltdown99

Billionaires back Canadian company to build first ‘negative emissions’ plant
https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/billionaire-backed-carbon-engineering-to-build-first-negative-emissions-facility?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1SQS34o6Ti3dW_QwOMTCfnZHdRO1t48B_YjuZvsoZ5ipmjWoZJFc4GI_s#Echobox=1553180465

brianlux

Meltdown99 said:

Billionaires back Canadian company to build first ‘negative emissions’ plant
https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/billionaire-backed-carbon-engineering-to-build-first-negative-emissions-facility?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1SQS34o6Ti3dW_QwOMTCfnZHdRO1t48B_YjuZvsoZ5ipmjWoZJFc4GI_s#Echobox=1553180465

I hope it works!  Here's just one reason why:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2019/03/alpine-glaciers-another-decade-of-loss/

Alpine glaciers: Another decade of loss

Preliminary data reported from the reference glaciers of the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) in 2018 from Argentina, Austria, China, France, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and United States indicate that 2018 will be the 30th consecutive year of significant negative annual balance (> -200mm); with a mean balance of -1247 mm for the 25 reporting reference glaciers, with only one glacier reporting a positive mass balance.

brianlux

I've been following some threads elsewhere regarding climate and it seems as though recently there have been some strange weather anomalies in various parts of the world- unusual cold and rain here in parts of California, excessive heat in northern Russia near the arctic ocean and so forth.  One thing that needs to be made clear is that local weather and global climate are two different things.  No one can make an accurate, intelligent comment about global climate based on local weather.  But looking at the bigger picture, one can get a sense that something is astir in the bigger climate picture.  In studying the true science of weather, the picture becomes clearer still.

And yet the denial still goes on.  It's as though we are about to fall off a cliff and some are still claiming that we might be spared catastrophe because, after all, gravity is just a theory- and it might even be a hoax.  Well, to deniers all I can say is, "good luck with that.."