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Ice-age analysis suggests worst-case global warming is less likely Climate change-driven insurance crisis threatens new US states The Cooling Dilemma Amid Climate Change Dhaka launches first-ever Climate Action Plan Opinion: Carbon Neutral by 2050! You sure that was in this thread? I don't...

Migration from climate change Opinion: Interesting study of a microcosm. Not to unexpected, people won't move...until they have to. New to me was the length of time it takes for a community to relocate. There's been a few weather related disasters with deaths in the news and people are angry...

Nope. Look into the data and come to your own conclusions. The science says the climate crisis is real. Your statement about appeal to authority" doesn't even make sense to me, but if you have a reference/link to your data I'd look at it. Can government's or parties be embarrassed regardless...

You can read more about that here: https://skepticalscience.com/cern-cloud-proves-cosmic-rays-causing-global-warming.htm Like rain, too much or too little of anything is bad. Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Will Help and Hurt Crops - NASA Mine is the best car I've ever owned! It also hasn't...

Thread Recap This thread has been a journey. I started off as a skeptic/denier, but bad science is usually debunked after a decade and the whole topic of climate change had been around far too long not to give it a second look with an open mind. So I open Bill Gate’s book How to Avoid a Climate...

No worries ; -) If I had a nickle for every time I did that it would pay for my morning coffee. That idea is based on some pretty solid science whereas none of the other possibilities global warming make sense. Not sure why some are so quick to dismiss it. Not seeing that. Well, two...

So, not really seeing any facts as to why climate change is false or more importantly news on climate change which is what the thread is about. Nonsense, at 80% efficiency in heat extraction that would be 76.8 kWh. But, you could use a heat pump with a COP of 5, so 76.8 kWh of heat would take...

No, I don't believe the government is implementing climate change under any guise. Yes, I believe that history shows starvation, disease, and lack of resources will cause migration and civil unrest. Your ancestors almost died then too (ref). The planet just is, it doesn't adapt. The...

Fossil fuels have a great density! But a math question! Sure! Being forewarned of my disclaimer below let's see... 5 gallons of propane burned in a generator varies depending on load but at best is about 30 kWh. If you burned it in a fuel cell you could get a lot more, but most of that...

World's oceans suffer from record-breaking year of heat Vermont passes bill to charge fossil fuel companies for climate change damage World experienced hottest April on record Green home codes? Mexico Water Problems World's top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C Opinion...

I agree we should not be giving away our way of life. As to "force something that will happen anyway"? That I disagree with. Had the government taken action earlier we could have held the line at 1.5C. To late for that now. But at least we're off the over 3C trajectory. But by not...

In another thread @Bob B posted a video on Tesla's layoffs (thanks Bob! Great video!), at 8:15 Sandy makes the point that newspapers have the slogan if bleeds it leads and how they love to post apocalyptic crap, all just to make money. It's a point I've made numerous times, all the crap...

Observations show that the temperature is increasing more rapidly than ever before in our planet's history. What accounts for this change? Changes in CO2 concentration have been modeled to show a precise fit (more). As you can see from the graph to the right, it's not an increase in solar...

Except those aren't so much pitches as they are explanations as to why believers think the climate is warming. We certainly don't know everything, and certainly scientists are aware of that. So much so they can give a range to the accuracy of the predictions (although that cone gets pretty...