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On 8/9/2021 at 11:39 AM, jsdarkstar said:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-takeaways-u-n-climate-080000988.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink

 

 

Aug 9 (Reuters) - The U.N. climate panel has released its most comprehensive assessment https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1 of climate change yet. 

  Here are some of the report's main conclusions: 

  HUMANS ARE TO BLAME - FULL STOP 

  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) used its strongest terms yet to assert that humans are causing climate change, with the first line of its report summary reading: "It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land." 

  The stark language marked a shift from previous IPCC reports, which had said it was "extremely likely" that industrial activity was to blame. 

  "There is no uncertainty language in this sentence, because there is no uncertainty that global warming is caused by human activity and the burning of fossil fuels," said IPCC co-author Friederike Otto, a climatologist at University of Oxford. 

  TEMPERATURES WILL KEEP RISING 

  The report describes possible futures depending on how dramatically the world cuts emissions. 

  But even the severest of cuts are unlikely to prevent global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures. Without immediate steep emissions cuts, though, average temperatures could cruise past 2C by the end of the century. 

  The scientists also looked at events considered less likely but still possible, and they could not rule out big impacts from so-called tipping points, such as the loss of Arctic ice loss or the dieback of forests. 

  WEATHER IS GETTING EXTREME 

  Weather extremes once considered rare or unprecedented are becoming more common — a trend that will continue even if the world limits global warming to 1.5C. 

  Severe heat waves that happened only once every 50 years are now happening roughly once a decade. Tropical cyclones are getting stronger. Most land areas are seeing more rain or snow fall in a year. Severe droughts are happening 1.7 times as often. And fire seasons are getting longer and more intense. 

ARCTIC SUMMERS COULD SOON BE FREE OF ICE 

  Summertime sea ice atop the Arctic Ocean will vanish entirely at least once by 2050, under the IPCC's most optimistic scenario. The region is the fastest-warming area of the globe - warming at least twice as fast as the global average. 

  While Arctic sea ice levels vary throughout the year, the average lows during summer have been decreasing since the 1970s and are now at their lowest levels in a thousand years. This melting creates a feedback loop, with reflective ice giving way to darker water that absorbs solar radiation, causing even more warming. 

  SEAS WILL RISE NO MATTER WHAT 

  Sea levels are sure to keep rising for hundreds or thousands of years. Even if global warming were halted at 1.5C, the average sea level would still rise about 2 to 3 meters (6 to 10 feet), and maybe more. 

  Sea level rise has picked up speed, as polar ice sheets melt and warming ocean water expands. Already, associated flooding has nearly doubled in many coastal areas since the 1960s, with once-in-a-century coastal surges set to occur once a year by 2100. 

  Scientists could not rule out extreme rises of more than 15 meters by 2300, if tipping points trigger runaway warming. "The more we push the climate system ... the greater the odds we cross thresholds that we can only poorly project," said IPCC co-author Bob Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University. 

  RUNNING OUT OF TIME 

  Meeting the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5C will require sticking to a "carbon budget," a term describing how much additional carbon can be pumped into the atmosphere before that goal is likely out of reach. 

  The world is now on track to use up that budget in about a decade. 

  With 2.4 trillion tons of climate-warming CO2 added to the atmosphere since the mid-1800s, the average global temperature has risen by 1.1C. That leaves 400 billion tons more that can be added before the carbon budget is blown. Global emissions currently total a little more than 40 billion tons a year. 

 

The number one thing everybody should glean from this is it's dangerous to live near the coast.  Some practical steps you don't hear anybody saying is not to buy near the ocean, get away from coastal, high flooding areas.  Because if all of this is going to happen, and history shows that climate does change and will continue to change, there will be hundred and thousand year storms - and that's regardless of any efforts to mitigate warming.  So GTFO of unsafe coastal areas.

Drone footage of Nessie?

 

Around the 4 minute mark

 

 

17 minutes ago, Toty said:

that's just my schmekel

You might want to have that looked at. Not just post drone video.

4 minutes ago, Toty said:

Thanks but I'm beyond medical help

(FYI... that really is weird at 4:00. Clever editing? school of fish?)

As with all such videos, the only think unmistakable is you have no idea what you are looking at.

Jupiter's winds of change show increased storm speeds in Great Red Spot

https://www.space.com/jupiter-great-red-spot-wind-speeds-increase

This 23-second looped animation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, created with data from the Hubble Space Telescope, represents approximately 10 Earth hours (or one Jovian day) of activity.

 

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A typical outer ring wind speed today easily exceeds 100 meters per second (223 mph or 360 kph), while a decade ago the range often went into the low 90s of meters per second (roughly 200 mph or 324 kph.) 

The storm is larger than planet Earth, and astronomers have been observing it regularly for more than 150 years — with occasional other observations as early as the 1600s — providing evidence of change over a relatively long time. The storm speeds are incredible compared to what we see on Earth, but at Jupiter the typical increase was less than 1.6 mph (2.6 kph) per Earth year, the researchers said in a statement.

"When I initially saw the results, I asked 'Does this make sense?' No one has ever seen this before,'" lead author Michael Wong, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, said in the statement. 

There is a storm on Jupiter believed to have been going since we have had the ability to see it - about 400 years.

 

A storm large enough to drop the earth into - even if it were flat, which like all the other planets we can observe, clearly is not.

So Jupiter's storm is becoming more energetic. Is it due to a warming of the atmosphere where an increase in thermal energy becomes an increase in kinetic energy? If so, why would Jupiter be going through a period of climate change without any humans there? Could it be that big ball of fusing hydrogen in the sky? Is this happening on other solar system planets with atmospheres? Could that thing be driving temps up here  as well? Oh noez........What can we do to STOP the Sun from warming???

Convert EVERYTHING so when anyone asks we can all say:

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35 minutes ago, PoconoDon said:

So Jupiter's storm is becoming more energetic. Is it due to a warming of the atmosphere where an increase in thermal energy becomes an increase in kinetic energy? If so, why would Jupiter be going through a period of climate change without any humans there? Could it be that big ball of fusing hydrogen in the sky? Is this happening on other solar system planets with atmospheres? Could that thing be driving temps up here  as well? Oh noez........What can we do to STOP the Sun from warming???

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Thanks for bringing the level of conversation down to stupid.

Just now, Toastrel said:

Thanks for bringing the level of conversation down to stupid.

Oh, stop. You're allowed to laugh every now and then.

 

Killing a queen.

Nature is brutal.

19 hours ago, Toty said:

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If you do, Shatner will have sex with you. FYI

Strange Radio Signals From the Heart of the Milky Way Tantalize Scientists

https://scitechdaily.com/strange-radio-signals-from-the-heart-of-the-milky-way-tantalize-scientists/

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Astronomers have discovered unusual signals coming from the direction of the Milky Way’s center. The radio waves fit no currently understood pattern of variable radio source and could suggest a new class of stellar object.

"The strangest property of this new signal is that it is has a very high polarisation. This means its light oscillates in only one direction, but that direction rotates with time,” said Ziteng Wang, lead author of the new study and a PhD student in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.

"The brightness of the object also varies dramatically, by a factor of 100, and the signal switches on and off apparently at random. We’ve never seen anything like it.”

Ziteng Wang

Lead author Ziteng Wang, a PhD student at the University of Sydney. Credit: University of Sydney

This is the EMB, the fact that his name is Wang seemed important to mention.

 

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48 minutes ago, Toty said:

is it nougat?

If it was nuts, then definitely not, but I'm not sure.

 

 

William Shatner left our gravity well for a bit today.

He apparently enjoyed the experience.

The video of Shatner trying to explain to Bezos how it felt, while Bezos more or less ignores him in favor of champagne, is hard to watch.

  • 4 weeks later...

 

45 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

 

Its a shame what he said about the Republicans abolishing its Office of Technology Assessment, huh? They probably could have used that these past few years.

50 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

 

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -Isaac Asimov

1 minute ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -Isaac Asimov

When he said this, I had no idea what it would lead to - it is staggering.

Looking forward to the launch of the James Webb Telescope. 

8 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -Isaac Asimov

Asimov saw the future and realized idiots would one day, rule the world. 

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On 5/16/2020 at 1:41 PM, Mlodj said:

 

Sure would be nice to have one of these doohickies on the Moon proving our spinning sphere, unfortunately we don't because they can't get to the Moon, there is no "been there, done that".

Wake up people, there are no rovers and helicopters on Mars.

 

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