I'm a broken record, but September 2015 is the warmest in history

[bshole]

Second who gives a flying fuck if there was more biodiversity in the past?

Case in point:

Um people with intellectual and scientific curiousity? People who want to understand WHY?

People are programmed to spot patterns. You want to ignore a 500 million year fossil record that PROFOUNDLY demonstrates biodiversity rising with temperature and CO2. You simply do not care. That is like a creationist saying who gives a fuck about the location of fossils in the earth's crust. It is ignoring EVIDENCE to fit a world view or meme rather than using scientific reasoning.

We know AS SCIENTIFICALLY MEASURED FACT why life forms are going extinct today. It is the DESTRUCTION of habitat and hunting to extinction by humans. Making windmills and solar panels will have NO impact on that except negatively when they kill animals (and it does happen). Good gawd man, there is no evidence tying extinction events to the rising global temperature.

 

[PokerGuy]

Case in point:

Yep, you are indeed a "case in point". Anyone who doesn't immediately fall in line with "the sky is falling, do something, do anything no matter how stupid, do it now, now now!!!!! " is a denier, crazy, sprints from the "truth" and so forth. This is a good example of how this simply isn't a scientific issue anymore, it's long gone into political stupidity and the "team sport" mentality.

 

[MongGrel]

I've answered this for you in other threads.

First off we're in the middle of another mass extinction, but I guess this biodiversity will explode any day now.

Second who gives a flying fuck if there was more biodiversity in the past? The point is how it affects us. Do we want to spend or shift some money, time, and resources now to address the problem or an order of magnitude more later? You "skeptics" SPRINT from this inconvenient truth every time it comes up.

Case in point:

Personally, I'll back Paratus up probably almost 100% of the time, as far as science issues.

Is just one of those things.

 

[Spungo]

Huh? It's hard to see why that would be relevant.

Human society is adapted to the world as it is now. If we change that dramatically it's going to be very costly. That's the beginning and end of it.

One thing to consider is that we completely rebuild everything every few decades anyway, so needing to adapt to a different climate isn't as big a change as people think. Look at your own city. How old is the oldest office building? In Spokane, you won't find many buildings older than 1970. There are a few brick buildings from the early 1900s, but that's about it. Houses get knocked down all the time, schools are knocked down all the time. Roads move, rails move, power lines move, artificial lakes move. Busy roads are completely torn up and replaced every few years.

 

[fskimospy]

One thing to consider is that we completely rebuild everything every few decades anyway, so needing to adapt to a different climate isn't as big a change as people think. Look at your own city. How old is the oldest office building? In Spokane, you won't find many buildings older than 1970. There are a few brick buildings from the early 1900s, but that's about it. Houses get knocked down all the time, schools are knocked down all the time. Roads move, rails move, power lines move, artificial lakes move. Busy roads are completely torn up and replaced every few years.

In my city the oldest office building is probably about 150-200 years old or more, so that might not be the best example. Most buildings here I would say are at least about 70-80 years old, with plenty much older than that.

If sea level rises enough, NYC might no longer really be a place that can be cost efficiently inhabited. That's quite a chance.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

...and the next thing you know...this!

 

[PokerGuy]

...and the next thing you know...this!

Absolutely! You know it, if we don't just all hand our money to al gore to fix it for us right now immediately by whatever means necessary, that's going to happen next week. Now stop being such a denier and hand over your wallet already.

 

[BoberFett]

In my city the oldest office building is probably about 150-200 years old or more, so that might not be the best example. Most buildings here I would say are at least about 70-80 years old, with plenty much older than that.

If sea level rises enough, NYC might no longer really be a place that can be cost efficiently inhabited. That's quite a chance.

So Wall St is underwater? Sounds like a progressive dream come true.



:whiste:

 

[shira]

Here you are trying to equate a local one day variation of 50 degrees with an average global annual temperature. Eye roll indeed.

This must be the motto of some here.

Facts in, garbage out.

Read the posts leading up to the one you've quoted. I'm not wasting my time explaining the context to idiots.