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We Live in an Ice Age?
January 22, 2018 at 2:38 pm
https://geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey-...uses-them/
so despite our efforts to keep thing nice and toasty with fossil fuels and carbon dioxide emissions, this sliver of an interglacial comfort zone will come to an end. All we need now is some garlic bread. We got the chili.
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RE: We Live in an Ice Age?
January 22, 2018 at 2:53 pm
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(January 22, 2018 at 2:38 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: this sliver of an interglacial comfort zone will come to an end.
One way or another....and regardless of which way it ends this time..we're not prepared - but we could be! Simple things, simple..useful..profitable things could establish a foundation for our persistence now so that when drastic change does come again, even rapid change...it won't register much more than an inconvenience. It's just a bonus that we could increase our QOL from this day to that day in preparation.
Alot easier to put the work in now...before the mass migrations begin and I'm standing on your lawn with a rifle demanding kerosene. 
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RE: We Live in an Ice Age?
January 22, 2018 at 4:23 pm
We live at the point in the long cycles that should be glacial. A look at the window confirms that predictions are iffy.
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RE: We Live in an Ice Age?
January 22, 2018 at 6:07 pm
(January 22, 2018 at 2:53 pm)Khemikal Wrote: (January 22, 2018 at 2:38 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: this sliver of an interglacial comfort zone will come to an end.
One way or another....and regardless of which way it ends this time..we're not prepared - but we could be! Simple things, simple..useful..profitable things could establish a foundation for our persistence now so that when drastic change does come again, even rapid change...it won't register much more than an inconvenience. It's just a bonus that we could increase our QOL from this day to that day in preparation.
Alot easier to put the work in now...before the mass migrations begin and I'm standing on your lawn with a rifle demanding kerosene.
Here in my town there won't be a migration. Most likely, they'll be flipping through their bibles trying to find a way to shoehorn sub freezing weather into prophecies about the second coming.
What kind of preparations can we make? A one way ticket to Ecuador. Is the equator wide enough to fit all of humanity, minus the rapture freaks?
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RE: We Live in an Ice Age?
January 22, 2018 at 6:09 pm
(January 22, 2018 at 4:23 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: We live at the point in the long cycles that should be glacial. A look at the window confirms that predictions are iffy.
No, we live at a point in time WE are not helping, but hurting.
It is TRUE that the planet will do what it does as it always had. What humans are needlessly doing is pouring gas on the fire.
We stupidly think competition is like a cheetah, and that fast repeated burning of fossil fuels is speeding up what the planet would do on it's own.
We knew as far back as the late 1890s that the amount of CO2 humans were producing was bad.
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RE: We Live in an Ice Age?
January 22, 2018 at 6:16 pm
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(January 22, 2018 at 6:07 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Here in my town there won't be a migration. Most likely, they'll be flipping through their bibles trying to find a way to shoehorn sub freezing weather into prophecies about the second coming. Good, I snuck up on alot of people with their noses buried in the quran too. Makes the whole thing easier. Believers pray when they should fight.
Quote:What kind of preparations can we make? A one way ticket to Ecuador. Is the equator wide enough to fit all of humanity, minus the rapture freaks?
Production under cover for our food crops. Massively increased R ratings as a requirement for all new building (most likely not even possible with stick frame housing). Dedicated city siting and planning. The transition of all necessary infrastructure away from climate sensitive input dependencies.
Don't even get my started....
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RE: We Live in an Ice Age?
January 22, 2018 at 7:50 pm
Changing the pH of the sea water is going to be a FAR worse problem than changing the climate.
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RE: We Live in an Ice Age?
January 22, 2018 at 7:56 pm
(January 22, 2018 at 6:09 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (January 22, 2018 at 4:23 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: We live at the point in the long cycles that should be glacial. A look at the window confirms that predictions are iffy.
No, we live at a point in time WE are not helping, but hurting.
It is TRUE that the planet will do what it does as it always had. What humans are needlessly doing is pouring gas on the fire.
We stupidly think competition is like a cheetah, and that fast repeated burning of fossil fuels is speeding up what the planet would do on it's own.
We knew as far back as the late 1890s that the amount of CO2 humans were producing was bad.
Do you have "non sequiturs only" across the top of your computer?
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RE: We Live in an Ice Age?
January 22, 2018 at 8:08 pm
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(January 22, 2018 at 7:50 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Changing the pH of the sea water is going to be a FAR worse problem than changing the climate.
May as well get used to catfish, tilapia, prawns and crappie now.
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RE: We Live in an Ice Age?
January 22, 2018 at 8:09 pm
Prawns are forbidden . . . .
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