The entire western U.S. is a disaster zone. There's not enough water in the world, which they're not going to get a drop of anyway, to compensate for the increased evaporation rates caused by temperature rise, as explained by the climatologist. This isn't a 10-year-off-in-the-future prediction, they're talking about right now.
You're off on one again, Fred. There is no "climate emergency" - it's all a load of old hogwash. If you stop looking at all the garbage online and start actually reading some old reference books, you will see that the level of CO2 in the atmosphere has remained *constant* since at least 1900. So all through the most polluted century in human history, with all the attendant motor vehicle emissions and smoke-stack manufacturing, all that CO2 was 'ingested' and converted into oxygen by nature's own mechanisms. The world is now and always has been, in perfect balance. To suggest otherwise is to propagate the Globalists' alarmist propaganda and play into their clutches.
Precipitation is erratic year-to-year on the west coast. There seems to be no long-term trend.
Of course if you spend enough time researching, there's plenty of gloom to be found or anticipated.
Cursitor Doom snipped-for-privacy@nowhere.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
You are an idiot. CO2 is on the rise, you stupid f*ck. You must be looking at 30 year old stupid f*ck denialist 'data'.
Climate change denial, again.
Still leaning hard on a cherry-picked antique inaccurate assessment, I see. Atmospheric chemistry is well understood and has moved forward a lot during the decades that have passed since that 'old reference' was printed.
You can find 'Obama born in Kenya' in some old printed work, too. Doesn't convince me.
That "old reference" was just, at first sight, an easily dismissable abberation. But comments from you and others prompted me to dig deeper and wider into it and I found nothing but supporting evidence to back it up - thousands of pounds and one year later on, that is. Al Gore's hockey stick is pure fantasy. CO2 is a *tiny* component of the Earth's atmosphere (~380ppm) yet if you ask the 'man in the street' he'll tell you it's next after Nitrogen in abundance. That is the extent of the ignorance there is in this matter - and indicative of the effectiveness of the brainwashing that the MSM has been shamefully engaged in.
I don't know nor care where Obama was born, but one thing I can say with 100% certainty: the birth certificate that was placed on the White House website in an attempt to settle the matter was a crude and obvious forgery. I would never have believed it if I hadn't downloaded it and examined it for myself. I still can't believe how they ever imagined they'd get away with passing off a dud like that. It just show the contempt they have for the American people. Same thing essentially as Joe Biden's 'victory' over Trump last November: another great big steaming pile of shit.
Not a line that goes down well in Australia at the moment. For the last few years we had a horrible drought, that lead to the 2019-2020 bush fires. This year we've had once in a century floods (but we probably won't have a wait another century for a rerun, since the 1C warming we've had already puts 6% more water vapour into the atmosphere above the oceans that surround us.
At a time when it was really difficult to measure atmospheric CO2 levels, and the measurement accuracy wasn't great. There's a reason why Keeling didn't start the Mauna Loa observations until 958 - the CO2 measuring gear he used - an infrared gas analyser - had only become available a few years earlier, and the preliminary work he'd done at more accessible locations had showed a lot of local variability.
The text-books you are putting your faith in are the garbage here.
Odd that it started going up smoothy as soon as we started measuring it continuously at Mauna Loa.
Only somebody as unbalanced as Cursitor Doom could imagine that.
Cursitor Doom much prefers the fossil carbon industry denialist propaganda. The people who make a lot of money out of digging up fossil carbon and selling it to be burnt as fuel are well aware that they are damaging the planet, but figure that they will make enough extra money out of keeping on doing it a bit longer to let them buy their way into some less affected country when the shit finally hits the fan. They've probably got that wrong. The climate crimes trials will probably see every last survivor hung, when they happen. With any luck Cursitor Doom will be hung as an accomplice (along with John Larkin).
It would be a harsh punishment for merely being an irresponsible idiot, but they will have contributed to the deaths of lot innocent people by then.
It wasn't Al Gore's.
If Cursitor Doom spent thousands of pounds getting hold of old papers published before 1958, he was scammed. The relevant journals are held in university libraries in al civilised countries - perhaps not in Cursitor Doom's extradition exempt tax haven - and any graduate student would be able to dig them out much more cheaply.
Water vapour is a more potent green-house gas, but it equilibrates with the oceans within a few weeks. The main stream media has been entirely correct in emphasising the importance of CO2. Of course, the man in the street will nominate oxygen as the second most abundant element in the atmosphere after nitrogen, but admitting that would have messed up Cursitor Doom's rhetoric. Most of us know that argon (at 0.93%) is the third component with CO2 as the fourth.
Which is to say the Cursitor Doom doesn't want to believe it. He much prefers his conspiracy theories, no matter how implausible, to the mundane truth.
Gosh, last month you wanted to see my flung in prison for my views yet now you want me executed! You are becoming increasingly unhinged, Bill. Seriously, get professional help.
Not here; chilly and humid. We leave the heat on all year.
I explored America seriously for 7 months before I moved here.
No roaches, no mosquitoes, no air conditioners, hardly any pollen, great food, great women, ocean beach, and skiing three hours away.
Weird.
Cursitor Doom seems to be one with the mental problem. Earlier, I'd suggested that he'd skipped out of the UK with money that he'd accumulated in some illegal scheme, and taken up residence in a place from which he couldn't be extradited, where he'd been able to stash his laundered loot. If Interpol had ever worked out how to catch up with him they'd have flung him into prison for his crimes - not his views.
In this instance I was suggesting that climate change denial might become a capital crime, if climate change keeps on progressing at the current rate and starts killing even more people than it does now. That would make people who are silly enough to fall for climate change denial propaganda accomplices.
As I said in my post - and Cursitor Doom has snipped
<It would be a harsh punishment for merely being an irresponsible idiot, but they will have contributed to the deaths of lot innocent people by then.>
You are an utter imbecile.
A complete fantasy from start to finish, Bill. I did *not* "skip out of the UK" with *any* money I wasn't fully entitled to. I was in fact living in Germany at the time I decided to leave as a consequence of the then government's intentions to bring in a wealth tax in a desperate attempt to prop up the Euro, the survival of which was very doubtful. This was back in 2011, when Mario Draghi was forced to make his infamous "we'll do whatever it takes" speech to calm the markets. I didn't fancy having my capital seized and bet against the hedge funds in some grand wager, that's all. I was fully entitled to do that, too. Nothing whatsoever illegal about it. You should be aware that the suggestions you made are defamatory, whether they were made with malicious intent or not: libelous and actionable in both our jurisdictions. I would politely request you to keep your fantasies to yourself in future.
You want people who challenge the State's dogma executed. Showing your true colours now, Bill. Uncle Joe and Mao would have been proud of you.
On 20/04/2021 19:20, Cursitor Doom wrote: <snip>
You couldn't make it up. But wait... Crusty Oldloon just did!
Who will preside over these proceedings? The Flying Pig is fully booked, but I hear things are a bit slack for the Tooth Fairy.
Surely it must warm up whenever the fog lifts?
London is the preferred venue for international libel actions:
We typically get a week or so of warm weather, "indian summer" in October. The wind reverses to from the east, so it's hot and dry and hazy.
It's bright and sunny now at 3PM, and it's 56F at my house in Glen Park [1], humidity 68%. We're in the Alemany Gap, a break in the coast range where the cold wind off the ocean rips through. Sometimes we can go out in a tee shirt without hypothermia.
I grew up in New Orleans and could never stand the heat and humidity, much less the ragweed. When I reached the Age Of Reason (32) I got out.
Engineers are lucky in that we are pretty mobile.
[1] being gentrified by grossly over-paid Google software engineers. Think $1000 per square foot and sometimes much more.
John Larkin claims to be a capitalist who believes in the free market. If Google software engineers were being grossly over-paid, Google would go bust.
Henry Ford got the same kind of criticism for paying the guys on his production lines more than his competitors paid theirs.
Ford is still with us. The competitors didn't do as well. You pay the people who do the critical work at least enough to let you hang onto them, and sometimes you pay them a bit more so that you can suck in good people from your competitors. That's capitalism 101.
John Larkin might just be one of the competitors - everybody needs good software engineers, even if they can't monetise their output on the scale that Google can manage.
SL0WMAN regularly libels people on this newsgroup (I am one of them) wrongfully assuming that no one will take action against him, probably because his assets are so minimal. He may also think that he is physically isolated by thousands of miles of ocean. This concept is fatally flawed:
Since SL0WMAN lives in Sydney, and writes ALL of his libelous comments in Sydney, he is definitely subject to OZ libel laws. Perhaps SL0WMAN should consider getting libel insurance.
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