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We Had All Better Hope These Scientists Are Wrong About the Planet's Future (washingtonpost.com)
Less than 24 hours since we read this dire climate study, an anonymous reader writes from a Washington Post report about several more concerning things: James Hansen, a former NASA scientist, says his new study suggests the impact of global warming will be quicker and more catastrophic than generally envisioned. The research invokes collapsing ice sheets, violent megastorms and even the hurling of boulders by giant waves in its quest to suggest that even 2 degrees Celsius of global warming above pre-industrial levels would be far too much. Hansen has called it the most important work he has ever done. "I think almost everybody who is really familiar with both paleo and modern is now very concerned that we are approaching, if we have not passed, the points at which we have locked in really big changes for young people and future generations," Hansen said.
Fuck, I thought the ice caps were permanently melted last year already. Why do they still feel the need to scare us when global warming has already killed us according to these same predictions they made 10 years ago?
Oh, and bonus points for the next time that some bot who slobbers all over this story as proof that we are all doomed DOOMED I SAY turns right back around and says that this "report" never happened in 5 years after the world hasn't ended.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Just when I thought slashdot couldn't get any stupider, the climate denialists are here in force. Of all freakin' places.
The sky is always falling for the doom-and-gloom crowd.
"If we leave these caves we're all going to die! Lions will eat us all!"
"Fire is dangerous! It'll kill us all!"
"Cooking meat releases chemicals that will kill us!"
"Growing plants ourselves? That's certain death!"
"If we stay in one place we'll all die!"
"Towns are evil and will destroy civilization as we know it!"
I mean, can't these people just kill themselves already instead of trying to make us all miserable?
... Hell, even better: Those kook whackjob Christians who predict the end of the world on a precise date at least admit they were wrong when it doesn't happen!...
In a sense they hedged their bets by shifting from "global warming" to "climate change". Now any and all weather that isn't average can and will be used as evidence for climate change. As noted below, average isn't as common as one might think: https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
All worthless distinctions, bestowed on him by the ideologically insular, hopelessly corrupt and diseased leftist universities
"Dominating the discussion" is codeword for "someone said something I don't agree with".
When Hansen and some democrats purposely schedule a hearing to introduce global warming on the historically hottest day of the year and turn off the AC in the capitol building for "effect", you can safely take anything he says with a grain of salt.