The Environmental Watchdog MasterThread

~~jwb~~ · 07-17-2021, 05:29 AM

Yeah but instead of throwing it in the trash you're just walking past it every now and then going "clocks still broken."

The Batlord · 07-17-2021, 05:49 AM

If the clock won't get off the wall then I'll console myself by wagging my penis at it.

Anteater · 07-17-2021, 07:15 AM

Lol Bat is so mad. Did I dickslap him too hard in a previous debate? He's babbling nonsense.

~~jwb~~ · 07-17-2021, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

If the clock won't get off the wall then I'll console myself by wagging my penis at it.

tfw when you notice the 12 is missing like in Scarface and the feds now have surveillance of your micropenis

The Batlord · 07-17-2021, 08:54 AM

One two many guillotine remarks I guess.

Anteater · 07-17-2021, 09:16 AM

Environmentalists are gonna love this one.

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Lisnaholic · 08-06-2021, 04:33 PM

Without the support of OH's outrage about global pollution, the Watchdog that this thread purports to be has been sleeping on the job lately, but even I have been jerked alert by this headline from today's CNN webpage; it's about the possibility of the disruption of the Gulf Stream:-

A Potentially Dire Development For Life On Earth: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/06/w...ntl/index.html

If you have any tendency to worry about the environment, then the state of the world's oceans are of particular concern. To mind my there are three reasons for this:-

i) as others have said, we are more familiar with the surface of the moon than we are with the bottoms of the oceans; the ocean is "mysterious and dark", according to Mr. R. Zimmerman, and news of what happens down there is slow to reach us.
ii) the oceans hold a massive, ungovernable momentum. It's one thing to build a sea wall to stop a local tide at the surface. No one can change what water in unimaginable volumes chooses to do below the surface.
iii) how water holds heat. Anyone who has boiled an egg may have noticed that water takes quite a time to boil. Without going into science that I don't understand, it's because:-

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Water is able to absorb a high amount of heat before increasing in temperature. Water has the highest heat capacity of all liquids.

Put the other way, just a small rise in water temp implies a lot of stored heat energy, and that is what we have in our oceans today:-

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Rising amounts of greenhouse gases are preventing heat radiated from Earth’s surface from escaping into space as freely as it used to. Most of the excess atmospheric heat is passed back to the ocean. As a result, upper ocean heat content has increased significantly over the past few decades.

More than 90 percent of the warming that happened on Earth between 1971-2010 occurred in the ocean.

Heat already stored in the ocean will eventually be released, committing Earth to additional surface warming in the future.

The quotes above are from NOAA: https://www.climate.gov/news-feature...n-heat-content

This graph is from the EPA:-

Average global sea surface temperature 1880-2020

The graph is for surface temp so things should be less extreme in the currents down below, but that is still a huge quantity of heat that the oceans have already absorbed. Read more here if you feel inclined, and be aware that news reports of forest fires and record land temps are taking, ahem, a very superficial look at climate change.

The EPA graph explained: https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicato...ce-temperature

DianneW · 08-07-2021, 05:28 AM

Needed to read that my friend,
Just an odd thing came up on a quiz show last night, as going by the set up of the programme ..no separation of the contestants it had to be maybe a couple of years old..None the less..Question was since 2016 until the present time what is the percentage of lost Wildlife....6%..29% or 58%

the percentage was a whopping 58% of our Wildlife..guessing they are talking UK wildlife creatures....

That was a real shocker to us....

Lisnaholic · 08-07-2021, 07:02 AM

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Needed to read that my friend,

Thanks, Dianne! That was a kind thing to say

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the percentage was a whopping 58% of our Wildlife..guessing they are talking UK wildlife creatures....

That was a real shocker to us....

Yeah, we are probably right now in the midst of a mass extinction event, of the kind that went so badly for the dinosaurs. That's partly why I don't post in this thread that often. Like a magnet needle pointing North, there is only one conclusion to a conversation here: doom and depression.

The Batlord · 08-07-2021, 09:11 AM

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Thanks, Dianne! That was a kind thing to say

Yeah, we are probably right now in the midst of a mass extinction event, of the kind that went so badly for the dinosaurs. That's partly why I don't post in this thread that often. Like a magnet needle pointing North, there is only one conclusion to a conversation here: doom and depression.

Be honest. Would you condemn ecoterrorists at this point?

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~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	Yeah but instead of throwing it in the trash you're just walking past it every now and then going "clocks still broken."

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DianneW Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2021 Posts: 1,161	Needed to read that my friend, Just an odd thing came up on a quiz show last night, as going by the set up of the programme ..no separation of the contestants it had to be maybe a couple of years old..None the less..Question was since 2016 until the present time what is the percentage of lost Wildlife....6%..29% or 58% the percentage was a whopping 58% of our Wildlife..guessing they are talking UK wildlife creatures.... That was a real shocker to us....