The Environmental Watchdog MasterThread

OccultHawk · 10-18-2018, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

Trump's comments on climate change on 60 minutes

wow man

the man is so stupid it's unbelievable

I don't even think it's a case of reading the fossil fuel industries script with this guy, he doesn't understand how science works

Even at this point, what he said still startled me a little. The part if the climate fixing itself was especially unnerving. I know we should be immune to it by now but that one was weird enough to make an impact.

OccultHawk · 10-18-2018, 01:10 PM

As I guess you know I live in hurricane country. Even here people don’t understand how hurricanes form and how they’re fueled. I’m sure more than half think god just stirs them up in heaven and tosses them across the ocean. Well, you know how it is.

The Batlord · 10-18-2018, 03:08 PM

Wait what did Trump say now?

OccultHawk · 10-18-2018, 03:10 PM

He said bring back my thread!

OccultHawk · 10-25-2018, 06:33 AM

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Super Typhoon Yutu crossed over the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands early Thursday as the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest storm to hit any part of the U.S. this year, the National Weather Service said.

That’s 3 cat 5’s in two weeks

This ain’t business as usual

OccultHawk · 11-14-2018, 04:54 AM

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science...why-ncna935261

Climate change may be dissolving the ocean floor. Here's why we should be worried.

Dislike the click bait alarmist headline tbh

Lisnaholic · 11-18-2018, 07:20 AM

^ That's a worrying piece of news, and follows an alarmingly common pattern in environmental science these days: the discovery of new things we have screwed up.

Here's more bad news for an overheating planet, although this time, at least, we are blameless:-

South Pole Hotspot Causes Ice Sheet To Sag:- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46202255

How often do we think about what is under the Antarctic Ice Sheet? Probably not often in the course of a normal day, but if you have that kind of curiosity, you might enjoy a documentary on Antarctica's sub glacial lakes. There's one on Youtube, I think.

Lisnaholic · 11-18-2018, 08:39 AM

Are wildfires getting worse and more frequent? Here are two at-a-glance answers:-

i) This is what you can learn from America's official EPA website, which reports on nothing after 2015 as if a three-year delay before announcing statistics is normal. Of all things that are monitored, (from temperature, through economic indicators, to album of the year), who else but the EPA keeps monitoring but doesn't release the information?

Spoiler for EPA graph:

ii) In comparison, The World Resources Institute focuses on Europe but are somehow capable of showing stats that go right up to June 2018. How very modern of them!

Five Graphs Show Just How Unusual This Year's Wildfires Are:- https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/08/5-g...-wildfires-are

OccultHawk · 11-18-2018, 03:12 PM

Same as Mexico Beach one good thing about Camp Fire is a lot of exurbs where people shouldn’t live anyway is being destroyed.

Lisnaholic · 11-23-2018, 06:55 PM

The new US government report, The Fourth National Climate Assessment is full of bad news, I'm afraid. The bottom line seems to be that we are already suffering from the effects of global warming and it'll be getting worse. This is how CNN and the BBC are assessing the report:-

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/23/h...-bn/index.html and https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46325168

The White House's obvious hope of burying the report by releasing it over a national holiday weekend turns out to be more ironic than they imagined: a Black Friday indeed.

10-18-2018, 01:10 PM	#232 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	As I guess you know I live in hurricane country. Even here people don’t understand how hurricanes form and how they’re fueled. I’m sure more than half think god just stirs them up in heaven and tosses them across the ocean. Well, you know how it is. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

10-18-2018, 03:10 PM	#234 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	He said bring back my thread! __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

11-14-2018, 04:54 AM	#236 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science...why-ncna935261 Climate change may be dissolving the ocean floor. Here's why we should be worried. Dislike the click bait alarmist headline tbh __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

11-18-2018, 07:20 AM	#237 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	^ That's a worrying piece of news, and follows an alarmingly common pattern in environmental science these days: the discovery of new things we have screwed up. Here's more bad news for an overheating planet, although this time, at least, we are blameless:- South Pole Hotspot Causes Ice Sheet To Sag:- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46202255 How often do we think about what is under the Antarctic Ice Sheet? Probably not often in the course of a normal day, but if you have that kind of curiosity, you might enjoy a documentary on Antarctica's sub glacial lakes. There's one on Youtube, I think. __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

11-18-2018, 08:39 AM	#238 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	Are wildfires getting worse and more frequent? Here are two at-a-glance answers:- i) This is what you can learn from America's official EPA website, which reports on nothing after 2015 as if a three-year delay before announcing statistics is normal. Of all things that are monitored, (from temperature, through economic indicators, to album of the year), who else but the EPA keeps monitoring but doesn't release the information? Spoiler for EPA graph: Climate Change Indicators: Wildfires This figure shows the total number of wildfires per year from 1983 to 2015. These totals include all reported wildfires, which can be as small as just a few acres. The two lines represent two different reporting systems; though the Forest Service stopped collecting statistics (orange line) in 1997 and will not update them, those statistics are shown here for comparison. Data source: NIFC, 2016;13 USDA Forest Service, 201414 Web update: April 2016 < Yeah, because why bother about informing the public? ii) In comparison, The World Resources Institute focuses on Europe but are somehow capable of showing stats that go right up to June 2018. How very modern of them! Five Graphs Show Just How Unusual This Year's Wildfires Are:- https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/08/5-g...-wildfires-are __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953 Last edited by Lisnaholic; 11-18-2018 at 08:53 AM.

11-18-2018, 03:12 PM	#239 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	Same as Mexico Beach one good thing about Camp Fire is a lot of exurbs where people shouldn’t live anyway is being destroyed. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

11-23-2018, 06:55 PM	#240 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	The new US government report, The Fourth National Climate Assessment is full of bad news, I'm afraid. The bottom line seems to be that we are already suffering from the effects of global warming and it'll be getting worse. This is how CNN and the BBC are assessing the report:- https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/23/h...-bn/index.html and https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46325168 The White House's obvious hope of burying the report by releasing it over a national holiday weekend turns out to be more ironic than they imagined: a Black Friday indeed. __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953