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Cincydawg

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5348 on: November 02, 2021, 08:13:29 AM »
Yeah, that deteriorating state of our oceans looks like a possible Big Deal to me, coupled with loss of habitat on land, possible melting of permafrost, plastics in everything, the list is pretty long.  Developing countries are dependent on electricity for said development and should somehow be allowed to do that if the rest soaked up the carbon budget.  They are going to do it, India and Africa if they retain political stability for any time.

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5349 on: November 02, 2021, 09:11:11 AM »
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5350 on: November 02, 2021, 09:16:52 AM »
Quote from: MarqHusker on November 01, 2021, 11:37:14 PM
Speaking of water hazards, playing in a tough guy outing this week for cash.  From the tips,  nasty pins, and a afternoon high of 50.  Morning temps are set to be about 30.    Tee off at 11.

Teams of 3 will play scramble format with another group of 3 (sixsomes).  Paramutuel betting,  skins, and payouts for top 3 teams. 

The way I'm playing this will just be fun.  I guess the only advantage I'm bringing to the team is having years of experience in playing in these conditions.    This is pretty much every HS golf tournament we had in the spring.
good times - yes the tough guys fair better in these tournaments
I usually forgo the Budweiser and go to bourbon or rye with shots of something for anti-freeze
actually 45-50 isn't bad if it's sunny and little wind

if it's damp, cloudy, and windy - just try to survive
Good luck
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5351 on: November 02, 2021, 09:34:17 AM »
Hell with that - bet on football :victory:
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5352 on: November 02, 2021, 09:39:20 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on November 01, 2021, 11:13:02 PM
my great great grandkids will be dry, if I have any grandkids
I had read years ago some mystic or near death experiencer who saw the future said Nebraska/ Iowa and other parts of the midwest would be safe havens.There would be a big earthquake along that fault in the middle of the country that cracked like 170 yrs ago or whatever.But it's football season so the hell with all of that
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5353 on: November 02, 2021, 10:24:10 AM »
Quote from: Temp430 on November 02, 2021, 08:10:34 AM
If you're looking to be scared there's better options out there than Global Warming or Climate Change.
I personally think the biggest fears from climate change aren't rising sea levels. That's mice nuts in the grand scheme of things. 

The biggest fears are twofold:

  • What happens if we hit a climate "tipping point" where feedback loops throw the globe's climate out of stasis and causes the earth's sixth mass extinction? The food chain is complex and interdependent, and we don't know what sort of outcomes would happen if it gets shaken up by climate.
  • What happens if climate doesn't have such dire consequences as the above, but climate starts screwing with agriculture such that we can't manage to feed the 9+ billion people expected to be living in 2050? What if we can only feed 6-7B people? What does that do to geopolitics? Will there be war and conflict?  


I don't know the likelihood of the above. What I do know is that "worst case scenario" here is FAR worse than most people can or want to imagine. 
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5354 on: November 02, 2021, 10:27:17 AM »
Solid points and hope you are mistaken
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« Reply #5355 on: November 02, 2021, 10:28:03 AM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on November 02, 2021, 10:24:10 AM
I personally think the biggest fears from climate change aren't rising sea levels. That's mice nuts in the grand scheme of things.

The biggest fears are twofold:

  • What happens if we hit a climate "tipping point" where feedback loops throw the globe's climate out of stasis and causes the earth's sixth mass extinction? The food chain is complex and interdependent, and we don't know what sort of outcomes would happen if it gets shaken up by climate.
  • What happens if climate doesn't have such dire consequences as the above, but climate starts screwing with agriculture such that we can't manage to feed the 9+ billion people expected to be living in 2050? What if we can only feed 6-7B people? What does that do to geopolitics? Will there be war and conflict? 


I don't know the likelihood of the above. What I do know is that "worst case scenario" here is FAR worse than most people can or want to imagine.


The guy rooting for Earth to get wiped out by an asteroid is concerned about the runaway greenhouse effect? 

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5356 on: November 02, 2021, 10:39:12 AM »
Well he's a humane eschatologist and would prefer that the apocalypse be quick, rather than long and drawn out.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5357 on: November 02, 2021, 10:46:46 AM »
he also didn't state that he was worried
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5358 on: November 02, 2021, 10:47:43 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on November 02, 2021, 10:39:12 AM
Well he's a humane eschatologist and would prefer that the apocalypse be quick, rather than long and drawn out.
Exactly. Decades of societal unrest, war, mass starvation, and human misery? Complete economic breakdown. The few remaining humans [as I expect some would survive] being returned to a stone-age level existence? 

I may not like people, but I don't wish that on anyone. 

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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5359 on: November 02, 2021, 10:49:01 AM »
except maybe Hoosiers and the Irish
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5360 on: November 02, 2021, 10:49:55 AM »
Or the Husker Prick Squad 🤣
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #5361 on: November 02, 2021, 11:01:12 AM »
Boilers don't have much to hate about the prick squad, although I was working in Logansport, IN in 1995.  Mike Alstott's senior season, reaching for the hypesman.

Flying on the corporate jet in and out of West Lafeyette

Prick Squad was close to peaking
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