The Global Warming Thread

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by NickyViola, Nov 30, 2009.

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  1. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
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    You mean on the Nevada side? I love where you see a giant billboard for a whorehouse right next to a church.
     
  2. YankHibee

    YankHibee Member+

    Mar 28, 2005
    indianapolis
    The ghost towns. I did accidentally pull into the parking lot of a brothel while looking for a restaurant. My 13yo thought I was dad of the year.
     
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  3. Scissorkick Collins

    Dec 30, 2009
    Uranus
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    I stopped in Tombstone a few years ago while on a long roadtrip. I was pretty excited to see it. In addition to Tombstone being one of my favorite movies, I also really liked the “historical fiction” novel Doc by Mary Doria Russell, which is based on the history of Doc and his relationships with the Earps and others - the fiction part is mostly the dialogue between the characters she made up, which is done really well IMO.

    Anyway, the town was kind of a let down. Even though the original buildings are good to see, it mostly felt like a section of Disneyland - mostly cheap souvenir shops and overpriced junk food.

    Lincoln, NM, (site of the Lincoln County Wars of Billy the Kid fame) was actually much more interesting to me. An actual living town with real businesses and lots of historical info. However, it was about 25 degrees the day I was there which curtailed my visit, but I think it’s worth at least a few hours if you’re in the area and into that stuff.
     
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  4. bigredfutbol

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    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
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    Population in the 1880 census was 3,423--for census purposes, that counts as an urban area.
     
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  5. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
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    Nr Kingston NY
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    Even so, they had a city council it was the county seat. I think the population went up to about 14,000 by mid-decade.
     
  6. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
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    I've been to Tombstone. Concur.
     
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  7. bigredfutbol

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    Sep 5, 2000
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    Even so? I was saying it WAS a city by definition.
     
  8. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Thoughts?


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  9. American Brummie

    Jun 19, 2009
    There Be Dragons Here
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    Be some great memes
     
  10. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

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    Nr Kingston NY
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    Nuclear power is pretty damn safe.
     
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  11. ChrisSSBB

    ChrisSSBB Member+

    Jun 22, 2005
    DE
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    AI gets what it wants.
     
  12. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    So, do you think that this is a staging phase before they start the human battery farms?
     
  13. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Nuclear is back baby!

    Well, not yet but this helps.

    A little more detail.


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  14. ElNaranja

    ElNaranja Member+

    Houston Dynamo
    United States
    Jul 16, 2017
    So not using the plant to help the grid and lower the cost of electricity for people. But allow a mega corporation to fuel their tech?

    Sigh...
     
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  15. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
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    Hey now, corporations are people too! :cautious:
     
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  16. Pønch

    Pønch Saprissista

    Aug 23, 2006
    Donde siempre
    The silver lining being that Microsoft would otherwise likely get this power by burning fossil fuels, no?
     
  17. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
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    Millonarios Bogota
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  18. raza_rebel

    raza_rebel Member+

    Dec 11, 2000
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    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/helene-dumps-rain-millions-us-205413731.html

    Climate change is supercharging the frequency and sometimes the intensity of some of these extremes that lead to billion dollar disasters. There are some hotspots around the nation that have really changed because of these extremes in the past decade. Florida, Louisiana, parts of Texas have been bombarded with with impactful hurricanes, with hundreds of millions of dollars of damage each for some of these events. California and other places out west with wildfires.

    So what that does is it increases the cost, (premiums for homeowners insurance, business insurance, auto insurance, etc. etc.). Not only that, but we're having these compound extremes with cascading impacts, meaning they're happening in closer intervals. So it's bad for the bottom line dollar for insurance, but also bad for quality of life. And rebuilding -- it takes longer to rebuild. It's more costly. And insurance is really looking twice at these places and using data to determine if it is worth being in that market.

    Their is irony that NCEI - https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/ houses climate data in Asheville, NC. I have a lot of co-workers in Asheville, and everyone is accounted for
     
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  19. YankHibee

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    Mar 28, 2005
    indianapolis
    I lived in and around Asheville for a long time, and at least half of the people I'm in regular contact with are in Western NC. It's been gut wrenching. I'm less concerned about Asheville than I am about the other mountain towns.
     
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  20. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
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    Bayern München
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    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
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    Why would liberals weather controllers do this?
     
  21. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
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    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If we all decided climate change I'm sure it would go away.
     
  22. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
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    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    An interesting move although I can see the argument it simply extends the use of fossil fuels...

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4301n3771o

    The only thing is we ARE still using fossil fuels. It's not like we're just going to stop.

    Of course, this is presented as being a large investment as £22Bn but that's over 25 years although, tbf, that's essentially 'seed money' from the government, meant to attract inward investment from other sources.
     
  23. Mike03

    Mike03 Member

    Jun 7, 2006
    Seattle
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    Seattle Sounders
    Carbon capture is the next infuriating link in a chain of obfuscation by the FF industry. It's gonna be hilarious when all of that excess carbon starts leaking back into the atmosphere.
     
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  24. JamesA

    JamesA Member+

    Dec 7, 2004
    Victoria
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    I've been saying for years, the insurance industry will become the first, most urgent and most pressing crises as fallout from climate change.

    Without a functioning insurance industry, modern economies will simply break as we know them.
     
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  25. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    I saw a Lincoln project ad the other day that said a future president trump would remove all federal funding from disaster victims from climate change. But it occurred to me, if people in the US south east insist on voting for people who refuse to stop subsidising the fossil fuel industry, why should the rest of us keep bailing them out when the consequences of their actions occur?

    I get this is similar to how health insurance, (of any model), means that fat bastards like me expect to receive healthcare despite that extra slice of cheesecake I eat the other day but then, let's be honest... they're also quite quick to criticise that as well,

    So whether it's abortion healthcare, prison for minor drug use or any number of other things for which they think people should suffer the consequences of their actions, why is the result of climate change the only one they don't think is fair?
     

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