Vegan Kel Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 I feel so sorry for MK Ultra kids and even more sorry for those taken in by them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted October 1, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted October 1, 2019 315 billion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica has just produced its biggest iceberg in more than 50 years. The calved block covers 1,636 sq km in the area - a little smaller than Scotland's Isle of Skye - and is called D28. The scale of the berg means it will have to be monitored and tracked because it could in the future pose a hazard to shipping. Not since the early 1960s has Amery calved a bigger iceberg. That was a whopping 9,000 sq km in area. Amery is the third largest ice shelf in Antarctica and is a key drainage channel for the east of the continent. FULL REPORT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Greta is right to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6666 Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 What are people's opinions on Extinction Rebellion? Are they just a bunch of cunts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber Pyfish+ Posted October 3, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted October 3, 2019 I called it off with a girl I was seeing a couple months back because she looked a bit like Greta. Still laugh when I see her face on my timeline on Instagram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azeem Posted October 3, 2019 Author Share Posted October 3, 2019 The sixth mass extinction has been initiated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted October 3, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted October 3, 2019 Greenbrier Valley floods: Confronting climate change in Trump's coal country It was the day the UK voted to leave the European Union but nobody cared about that in White Sulphur Springs. On 23 June 2016, the residents of this small West Virginia town were fighting to survive. They had been engulfed by a flash flood after torrential rain described by the US National Weather Service as a "one-in-a-thousand-year" storm. Water, mud and debris coursed down from the steep, thickly-forested slopes of the Appalachian mountains into Greenbrier Valley where the town sits. It smashed into homes and businesses, rupturing gas lines and setting properties ablaze. One video posted on a local news website showed a burning house, ripped from its foundations, floating through the town. By the time it was all over, 23 people across West Virginia were dead, most of them in Greenbrier County. FULL REPORT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted October 5, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted October 5, 2019 Polarstern icebreaker begins year-long Arctic drift German Research Vessel Polarstern has found a location to begin its year-long drift in Arctic sea-ice. The ship, which will head the North Pole's biggest scientific expedition, will settle next to a thick ice floe on the Siberian side of the ocean basin. The precise location is 85 degrees north and 137 degrees east. Hundreds of investigators will use it as a base from which to probe the impacts of climate change at the top of the world. "After a brief but intensive search, we've found our home for the months to come," said expedition leader Prof Markus Rex, from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). "It may not be the perfect floe but it's the best one in this part of the Arctic and offers better working conditions than we could have expected after a warm Arctic summer." Scientists begin 'biggest ever' Arctic expedition Arctic glaciers 'shrinking by 300m each year' Greenland's ice faces melting 'death sentence' FULL REPORT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 On 03/10/2019 at 03:17, Spike said: Greta is right to be honest. She is right but I'm still not sure she's helpful in any way at all. Just making the believers feel better about themselves and further demonizing anyone who wasn't onside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted October 8, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted October 8, 2019 'Ozone hole vigilance still required' The recovery of the ozone layer over Antarctica cannot be taken for granted and requires constant vigilance. That's the message from Dr Jonathan Shanklin, one of the scientists who first documented the annual thinning of the protective gas in the 1980s. This year's "hole" in the stratosphere high above the White Continent is the smallest in three decades. It's welcome, says Dr Shanklin, but we should really only view it as an anomaly. The better than expected levels of ozone have been attributed to a sudden warming at high altitudes, which can occasionally happen. This has worked to stymie the chemical reactions that usually destroy ozone 15-30km above the planet. "To see whether international treaties are working or not, you need to look at the long term," Dr Shanklin told BBC News. "A quick glance this year might lead you to think we've fixed the ozone hole. We haven't. And although things are improving, there are still some countries out there who are manufacturing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the chemicals that have been responsible for the problem. We cannot be complacent." FULL REPORT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted October 12, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted October 12, 2019 Climate change: Big lifestyle changes are the only answer The UK government must tell the public small, easy changes will not be enough to tackle climate change, warn experts. Researchers from Imperial College London say we must eat less meat and dairy, swap cars for bikes, take fewer flights, and ditch gas boilers at home. The report, seen by BBC Panorama, has been prepared for the Committee on Climate Change, which advises ministers how to cut the UK's carbon footprint. It says an upheaval in our lifestyles is the only way to meet targets. The government has passed a law obliging the country to cut carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050. FULL REPORT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted October 12, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted October 12, 2019 Why migrating to another planet is a stupid and implausible idea Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor, whose work detecting exoplanets recently earned him a share in the Nobel prize for physics, says humans will never migrate beyond our own solar system. Maybe it’s time we started taking this whole “climate change” thing seriously. The first exoplanet with the potential to host life as we know it, meaning it was orbiting a star similar to the one we call ‘the sun,’ was discovered by Mayor and fellow Nobel winner Didier Queloz in 1995. In the time since researchers have confirmed the existence of more than 4,000 exoplanets. But we won’t be making the trip to any of them, says Mayor. He told Agence France-Press: If we are talking about exoplanets, things should be clear: we will not migrate there. These planets are much, much too far away. Even in the very optimistic case of a livable planet that is not too far, say a few dozen light-years, which is not a lot, it’s in the neighbourhood, the time to go there is considerable. We are talking about hundreds of millions of days using the means we have available today. Rather than concern ourselves with dreams of colonizing planets throughout our galaxy and beyond, Mayor says “We must take care of our planet.” He told AFP that he wanted to dissuade people from thinking of migration as a viable solution to existential threats, telling reporters he felt the need to “kill all the statements that say ‘OK, we will go to a livable planet if one day life is not possible on earth.” He went on to call such sentiments “completely crazy.” And he’s right. The current space race may not be a direct response to climate crisis science, but it’s turning out to be a fantastic distraction from the actual, scientifically proven catastrophe unfolding here on Earth. We shouldn’t be online picking out curtains for some future mansion we hope to live in one day while our studio apartment is burning down around us. Because, if exoplanets are off the table (barring some far-future tech like quantum warping), then we don’t really have any other options. The Moon? It’s not big enough. Mars? Let’s examine that one briefly. The red planet is uninhabitable. Despite Elon Musk’s assertion that ‘nuking’ it would kick-start the atmosphere, there’s no current technology capable of “terraforming” it to make it livable. There’s a reason why people haven’t fled the crowded streets of New York, Paris, and Bangladesh to stretch their legs in the wide-open expanses of Antarctica. Because uninhabitable means you can’t survive without accommodations that don’t occur naturally. The challenge of surviving on Mars is almost infinitely more difficult than living on Earth‘s south pole. When we imagine these ventures, the ones where we send brave explorers off to carve out a new home for humanity (Battlestar Galactica anyone?), we’re not thinking about the billions of ‘regular people‘ who don’t have ‘the right stuff,’ to survive in the harsher-than-anything-on-our-planet reality of space. There’s no doubt we’ll eventually set up small colonies on the Moon and Mars, but feeding and housing billions of people? If we’re trying to preserve the species, we need to fight the climate crisis head-on. Building cosmic arks won’t save us. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/why-migrating-to-another-planet-is-a-stupid-and-implausible-idea/ar-AAIEy0r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber CaaC (John)+ Posted October 13, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted October 13, 2019 How climate change primed California’s power shutdown © Photograph by Noah Berger/AP Embers fly above a firefighter working to control the Delta Fire, in California's Shasta-Trinity National Forest, in 2018. The blaze had tripled in size overnight. Update, October 11: Fires have broken out in Southern California, forcing thousands of households to evacuate. In Northern California, the fire risk is still active, but PG&E has restored power to about half of the roughly 700,000 households affected by the planned electricity outages. California’s largest utility has turned off the power for 500,000 accounts, with 250,000 more scheduled, in an attempt to avoid setting off another catastrophic burn like 2018’s Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and displaced thousands more. About 2.5 million people in the state are likely to be affected by the power outages. Many of California’s most devastating burns over the past few years, from the Camp Fire to 2017’s Thomas Fire, were started by sparks from power lines. PG&E, the utility that provides electricity to some 16 million people across the state, is preemptively shutting down transmission through power lines that crisscross parts of central and northern California, hoping to reduce the chances that an errant spark will start another inferno. FULL REPORT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God is Haaland Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Racist media and Greta disciples exposed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Gonzo Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 On 03/10/2019 at 07:08, 6666 said: What are people's opinions on Extinction Rebellion? Are they just a bunch of cunts? I can understand impeding traffic as a form of protest... because it irritates a lot of people but it forces the message out. I think the issue is... for a fucking climate protest do you really want to be forcing cars to be idling for hours? Isn't delaying all these people from where they're going while they're driving just going to mean people are burning more fossil fuels than they otherwise would have on any other day. Seems counter productive tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 2 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said: I can understand impeding traffic as a form of protest... because it irritates a lot of people but it forces the message out. I think the issue is... for a fucking climate protest do you really want to be forcing cars to be idling for hours? Isn't delaying all these people from where they're going while they're driving just going to mean people are burning more fossil fuels than they otherwise would have on any other day. Seems counter productive tbh. I suppose it's about the greater good. Those fossil fuels on their own won't make a difference but if the message gets across it will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subscriber nudge+ Posted October 16, 2019 Subscriber Share Posted October 16, 2019 3 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said: I can understand impeding traffic as a form of protest... because it irritates a lot of people but it forces the message out. I think the issue is... for a fucking climate protest do you really want to be forcing cars to be idling for hours? Isn't delaying all these people from where they're going while they're driving just going to mean people are burning more fossil fuels than they otherwise would have on any other day. Seems counter productive tbh. Not to mention how counter productive blocking and disrupting public transportation is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Protestors will be protestors right? They've always been annoying and polarising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6666 Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Protesting against people that make and push policies for the good of the world is fine and I'm all for it but disrupting the general public that are just trying to go about their day won't encourage support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6666 Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Not gonna lie, this video is quite satisfying. It's great that they want to save the planet but maybe they should be smarter about how they protest. Pissing people off that aren't even against you won't help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6666 Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Extinction Rebellion compared standing on trains to stop public transport to Rosa Parks refusing to abide by segregation laws. They quickly deleted the tweet. These lot are shit at protesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Stan Posted October 17, 2019 Administrator Share Posted October 17, 2019 5 hours ago, 6666 said: Not gonna lie, this video is quite satisfying. It's great that they want to save the planet but maybe they should be smarter about how they protest. Pissing people off that aren't even against you won't help. 36 minutes ago, 6666 said: Extinction Rebellion compared standing on trains to stop public transport to Rosa Parks refusing to abide by segregation laws. They quickly deleted the tweet. These lot are shit at protesting. Apparently the 'spokesperson' for ER said it was an 'own goal' with how that protest went this morning Firstly, never get in the way of a commuter in London at rush-hour on the tube/DLR. People want to get to work. Do not piss them off. Secondly, protesting on a public transport? Really? The public transport you'd want people to use instead of cars which produce a lot of CO2. Are they fucking dumb? Thirdly, I'm pretty sure the DLR is electric (or mostly so?) and is one of the most economical ways to get around certain parts of London? And you protest on the fucking DLR to stop people using it. ARE THEY FUCKING DUMB? Fourthly, there was a lot of hate for the violence that ensued when the protester got pulled down from the train. Fair. Maybe not kick and beat him to a pulp but that relates to point 1. What people don't seem to see, or at least ignore, is the fact that said protester booted the guy trying to get him down right in the head. Violence, anyone? I get the message that ER are trying to put across - look after our planet, be more savvy when it comes to CO2 emissions etc etc. Go about it in the right way though and don't show yourselves up to be utter imbeciles in the process. Thankfully I've not been affected directly by an ER protest up to now, but the inconvenience caused in some places has been OTT (yes, I know it's the message they want to get across and it's a win for them causing all the disruption). But what about when they go on planes or trains? What if they need to get to hospital but there's some fucking bellends doing some weird shitty dance in the middle of the road to stop their ambulance getting through? Then what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Gonzo Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 17 hours ago, Gunnersauraus said: I suppose it's about the greater good. Those fossil fuels on their own won't make a difference but if the message gets across it will. Nah it’s a stupid plan - if their argument is that the climate situation is so dire it’ll kill us all in 50 years or less. Fossil fuels are the biggest contributor of it then several weeks of protesting, creating more cars idling in numerous big cities around the world means several weeks of the Extinction Rebellion being the direct cause of more emissions that’ll hurt the planet. I just can’t reconcile the logic that the situation is so dire, but these extra emissions are worth it because it gets the message out. If the situation is so dire, any uptick in big city emissions over a period of weeks is a bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6666 Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Also, if the planet is totally fucked in 50 years then shouldn't the priority be the biggest offenders on the planet who don't even seem to care at all about climate change? China, USA, etc. Even if they were doing a good job with their protests in the UK, isn't it a waste of time seeing as the UK isn't the highest priority...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Gonzo Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 1 hour ago, 6666 said: Also, if the planet is totally fucked in 50 years then shouldn't the priority be the biggest offenders on the planet who don't even seem to care at all about climate change? China, USA, etc. Even if they were doing a good job with their protests in the UK, isn't it a waste of time seeing as the UK isn't the highest priority...? I think the protests are worldwide tbh (although they’re probably not taking to the streets in Beijing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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