The Environment

teachercd said:
I know the enviro-bros will lose it but maybe building that close the the water is a bad idea.

I mean, I get wanting to be "on the water" but come on now.
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Not only close to the water, but literally on naturally shifting barrier islands and expecting them not to shift or cause issues.   :)  
 

Could you imagine what the enviro bros outside of the Pompeii area were saying back in the day when Mt. Vesuvius erupted??   “We gotta stop the man made climate change causing this volcano to erupt and destroying the cities we build right next to it.”  

 
Dr. Strangelove said:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/06/miami-climate-change-floods/678718/

This is pretty funny. One thing we need to agree with is that Florida and it's residents need to not be bailed or again. The rest of the country is subsidizing their homeowners insurance. They need to pay proper risk for moving to cities that were built on top of drained swamps and limestone.
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It is like the people that build homes on stilts by the water and then BAM, a flood happens.  Do you really need to live THAT close to the water???

 
While Arctic ice is melting at unprecedented levels -- more than 40% loss of coverage since 1978 -- most scientists don't expect it to be ice free for another 15 - 20 years.

Stupid John Kerry! His stupid and wrong prediction just proves we have nothing to worry about!

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/05/01/the-decline-of-arctic-sea-ice?utm_medium=cpc.adword.pd&utm_source=google&ppccampaignID=17210591673&ppcadID=&utm_campaign=a.22brand_pmax&utm_content=conversion.direct-response.anonymous&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw-O6zBhASEiwAOHeGxWyF4bEk0QAyk45LSnJu_f-E2_nP3DDvnkAfzWPPqSdaf-HlYxaAghoCHS4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-has-arctic-ice-declined-and-how-does-compare-past-periods-earths-history

https://nsidc.org/learn/ask-scientist/what-do-scientists-mean-ice-free-arctic

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
While Arctic ice is melting at unprecedented levels -- more than 40% loss of coverage since 1978 -- most scientists don't expect it to be ice free for another 15 - 20 years.

Stupid John Kerry! His stupid and wrong prediction just proves we have nothing to worry about!

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/05/01/the-decline-of-arctic-sea-ice?utm_medium=cpc.adword.pd&utm_source=google&ppccampaignID=17210591673&ppcadID=&utm_campaign=a.22brand_pmax&utm_content=conversion.direct-response.anonymous&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw-O6zBhASEiwAOHeGxWyF4bEk0QAyk45LSnJu_f-E2_nP3DDvnkAfzWPPqSdaf-HlYxaAghoCHS4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-has-arctic-ice-declined-and-how-does-compare-past-periods-earths-history

https://nsidc.org/learn/ask-scientist/what-do-scientists-mean-ice-free-arctic
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Wow, way to go all science-y on us nerd.

In unrelated news, the Homeowners Insurance industry had collectively lost hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few years. And if other states weren't subsidizing their risk, Florida would be virtually uninsurable as a state with cities built on top of drained swamps.

Can't believe those enviro-nerds thing that 4 consecutive years of 1-in-200 year rainfall events are unique LOL. 

 
teachercd said:
https://www.space.com/14732-sun-burns-star-death.html#:~:text="This reveals the star's core,be long gone by then.

We HAVE to stop this!
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Just to be clear, you are making a potentially humorous comparison between the sun burning out and the loss of arctic ice. Right?

I don't expect much of you, science-wise, but as a practitioner of humor it would have been funnier to say John Kerry predicted the Sun would burn out in only 4 billion years.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Just to be clear, you are making a potentially humorous comparison between the sun burning out and the loss of arctic ice. Right?

I don't expect much of you, science-wise, but as a practitioner of humor it would have been funnier to say John Kerry predicted the Sun would burn out in only 4 billion years.
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Dang it!  Did he say that????

You are right!  



 
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Guy Chamberlin said:
While Arctic ice is melting at unprecedented levels -- more than 40% loss of coverage since 1978 -- most scientists don't expect it to be ice free for another 15 - 20 years.

Stupid John Kerry! His stupid and wrong prediction just proves we have nothing to worry about!

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/05/01/the-decline-of-arctic-sea-ice?utm_medium=cpc.adword.pd&utm_source=google&ppccampaignID=17210591673&ppcadID=&utm_campaign=a.22brand_pmax&utm_content=conversion.direct-response.anonymous&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw-O6zBhASEiwAOHeGxWyF4bEk0QAyk45LSnJu_f-E2_nP3DDvnkAfzWPPqSdaf-HlYxaAghoCHS4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-has-arctic-ice-declined-and-how-does-compare-past-periods-earths-history

https://nsidc.org/learn/ask-scientist/what-do-scientists-mean-ice-free-arctic
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Beach house prices in the Midwest are gonna skyrocket!

 
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