The Global Warming Thread

And how did Ronnie try to fix this? By deleting all mentions of "climate change" from Florida law.

Nothing about improving infrastructure to better prevent or mitigate destruction. No higher building standards. No green house improvement. No going after polluters.

But if you're a gay teacher and have a picture of your spouse on your desk, not only will you lose your license to teach but be personally sued for tens of thousands for brainwashing children.

 

I heard RonDeathSantis is trying to get himself one of those Jewish weather control machines.

 

There are some improvements in the Florida Building Code that lead to storm resistant buildings, and we could make some adjustments in the way public works are built, but in general you are correct: We could make the state livable for an additional decade and you could mitigate some of the potential damage caused by hurricanes and flood, but overall it would neither prevent storms or its destruction if the world is undergoing a noticeable warming.

 

A few things about this chart, is good that we are going in the right direction, we are still higher than most other developed countries not called Australia.

And there is disagreement in the comments on how well the chart is accounting for our outsourcing of carbon intensive manufacturing to other countries (China)

How many people are aware that US per-capita CO₂ emissions have fallen below WWI levels pic.twitter.com/B1LomfnP5s

— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) October 15, 2024

 

Yeah, but we are 330 million, triple the population in the 1920s.

 

This NPR article is about energy production from drilling closed-loop geothermal wells to turn steam turbines out West. The power is available 24/7, and can be ramped up and down as needed, like a dam or gas power plant.

Advancements in petroleum drilling (new manufactures diamond drill bits) is making this much more economical and quick. And because the pacific plate is pretty thin in the West as it is being pushed up (Rockies), there’s a lot of possibilities out this way.

The plant being discussed, Fervo

 

But good news our birth rates are falling.

 

But the population is still going up. 370 million by the end of the century.

 

Are they made out of bricks lol? In holland, are skyscrapers just really tall houses?

 

He says socialism, but really it’s just Oppositional Defiance Disorder.

Now that I think about it, understanding ODD goes a long way to understanding DeSantis, Vance, MTG…not Trump, but his acolytes.

 

There's been a geothermal plant (or I should say a cluster of plants) running in California for a long time. It's located at a geyser site, so the didn't have to dig deep to get at hot ground. The thing is, this seems to cause lots of small earthquakes. I'm not sure what that means for the deeper ones this seems to be talking about.

 

When you say it 'causes earthquakes', how do we know it's that that's causing them? Has there been research linking them directly?

 

It's a suspicion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Pohang_earthquake?wprov=sfla1

"Water injection in the ground by the geothermal plant in Pohang might have also triggered the earthquake".

 

We might also be hard pressed to directly link fracking to any particular earthquake, but if you asked the residents of certain Oklahoma towns whose tap water could be lit on fire (dissolved gas in aquifer after fracking boom), I don’t think they would need a scientifically rigorous proof that all the tremors they felt (when there hadn’t been much tectonic) activity for decades were linked.

 

I've heard of that but, isn't gas that's being released as part of the fracking process finding it's way into the water course, a rather different thing to earthquakes?

 

The UK has associated 58 earthquakes to fracking.

The max was a 2.8 on the Richter scale but it's a country that doesn't have any noticeable faults.

 

Link?

 

Top response on Google.

Correction to above. The 58 is just Lancashire.

https://earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/research/BlackpoolEarthquakes.html

 

Well, the weather and the food are very noticeable.

 

Not surprising that per capita CO2 emissions are down. At the time of WWI, people were heating their homes with coal.

 

Yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geysers

 

But ...but... @Naughtius Maximus lives there!

 

Why d'yer think he says we have faults....