Probably not, but there might be a possibility of a runaway system if it gets far enough from it's current equilibrium.
But certainly, it is an existential threat to our way of life. The US DoD and spy agencies have both identified climate change as the greatest threat to the USA in this century.
And I suspect that when the north one does disappear in a summer not so far in the future, that will be an inflection point in denialism. The lack of a north point is hard to deny. Even to oneself.
If evidence had any influence, there wouldn't be any denialism now.
Manhattan Project scientists may have foretold the arms race, but could they have foreseen that the advent of nuclear weapons would produce the longest period of peace between industrialized nations in the past several centuries?
Uhm... there haven't been any industrialized nations for "several centuries".
It is not science if your hypothesis is not falsifiable.
I'm guessing that in your reality geologists, biologists, and astronomers aren't scientists, since they work with theories about things that can't be reproduced in their laboratories.
The meme changes. It was Global Warming and when it stopped warming it became Climate Change
Except for the minor detail that it hasn't stopped warming. The ten hottest years on record have been since 1998, and every year for the last 36 years has been hotter than the long-term average.
Climate scientists have more in common with priests than the sort of people who try to disprove their own hypothesis with experiments. If you had based your whole career on a particular hypothesis how anxious would you be to disprove it? Climate scientists are anything but unbiased observers. Any climate scientist who maintained the sort of dispassionate skepticism which is the hallmark of a real scientist would never be able to graduate in their chosen major. They would not be able to pass even a single class in climate science if they answered exam questions honestly.
Funny, that's *exactly* what creationists say about biologists. "It's all a big conspiracy", "they're brainwashed by their education".
Also note that until we figured global warming out, global cooling was a reasonable prediction, since we appear to be in an interglacial that can be expected to go back toward cold at some point.
In fact, the last I read on the topic (several years ago) said we're experiencing forcing toward warmth due to greenhouse gasses and forcing toward coolth due to the interglacial cycle, and it happens that the forcing toward warmth is stronger, so we're warming up rather than cooling down.
All those FDA approved food additives are are fine.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but in case you didn't know, lots of the fraudulent stuff you buy to imbibe, inhale, or apply in the USA is on the market precisely because the FDA *doesn't* have jurisdiction over them.
You know that Kenya and Nigeria are not the same, right?
I spent a couple of years working on 419 style scams. The origin was always, without fail, coastal west African nations. I don't recall even once seeing Kenya crop up. Don't paint all of sub-saharan Africa with the same brush.
Yeah, my bad. If you need an excuse:
I'm an American; I can't be expected to know anything about world geography.
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but was ignominiously rejected.
By the zoo, or by the rhino?
If it was good enough for the pharaohs, it's good enough for the rhinos.
I dont understand why the ice age theory does not get more attention. Aren't we due for one according to the 100k year cycle?
The plot at the "interglacial" link above certainly seems to indicate that we're at or near a periodic minimum in ice volume.
Every winter a cold snap brings out a big crowd of people claiming that it disproves global warming.
Where are they during the current heat wave? Apparently the 'logic' only applies when it supports their position.
Climate change is not an existential threat.
Probably not, but there might be a possibility of a runaway system if it gets far enough from it's current equilibrium.
But certainly, it is an existential threat to our way of life. The US DoD and spy agencies have both identified climate change as the greatest threat to the USA in this century.
The polar ice caps are still here.
And I suspect that when the north one does disappear in a summer not so far in the future, that will be an inflection point in denialism. The lack of a north point is hard to deny. Even to oneself.
If evidence had any influence, there wouldn't be any denialism now.
Manhattan Project scientists may have foretold the arms race, but could they have foreseen that the advent of nuclear weapons would produce the longest period of peace between industrialized nations in the past several centuries?
Uhm... there haven't been any industrialized nations for "several centuries".
It is not science if your hypothesis is not falsifiable.
I'm guessing that in your reality geologists, biologists, and astronomers aren't scientists, since they work with theories about things that can't be reproduced in their laboratories.
The meme changes. It was Global Warming and when it stopped warming it became Climate Change
Except for the minor detail that it hasn't stopped warming. The ten hottest years on record have been since 1998, and every year for the last 36 years has been hotter than the long-term average.
Climate scientists have more in common with priests than the sort of people who try to disprove their own hypothesis with experiments. If you had based your whole career on a particular hypothesis how anxious would you be to disprove it? Climate scientists are anything but unbiased observers. Any climate scientist who maintained the sort of dispassionate skepticism which is the hallmark of a real scientist would never be able to graduate in their chosen major. They would not be able to pass even a single class in climate science if they answered exam questions honestly.
Funny, that's *exactly* what creationists say about biologists. "It's all a big conspiracy", "they're brainwashed by their education".
Now you know what intellectual company you keep.
Actually, if you 3D-print a gun it can potentially emit a harmful normal-sized particle.
Not so. Read the Newsweek article, Time, etc. the contemporaneous press shows the coming ice age was quite the thing on the 70s.
The media isn't a good guide to what scientists actually think.
Meanwhile, back in reality, cooling never was the dominant opinion in scientific publications.
Also note that until we figured global warming out, global cooling was a reasonable prediction, since we appear to be in an interglacial that can be expected to go back toward cold at some point.
In fact, the last I read on the topic (several years ago) said we're experiencing forcing toward warmth due to greenhouse gasses and forcing toward coolth due to the interglacial cycle, and it happens that the forcing toward warmth is stronger, so we're warming up rather than cooling down.
Carbon's increasing. We're still here. The polar ice caps are still here.
But getting smaller. The one to the north looks like it is going to be winter-only before too long.
Uhm... lots of them do still call it global warming.
Hard to draw a good conclusion from flawed premises...
She could just get a job with the NSA, and find out what people are really saying about her book.
"Researchers in France have discovered a the worlds largest virus and given it a terrifying name: Pandoravirus.
We can't even have the first sentence of a submission checked now?
Maybe there's more than one "the worlds largest virus".
What's with the redundancy in the headline?
He probably turned to it because she was using/withholding sex as a behavior modifier (or is grossly overweight).
Probably? What's the basis for that assessment?
what you get when you telegraph while drunk?
I read anoxia as anorexia.
At least you didn't read it as dyslexia.
All those FDA approved food additives are are fine.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but in case you didn't know, lots of the fraudulent stuff you buy to imbibe, inhale, or apply in the USA is on the market precisely because the FDA *doesn't* have jurisdiction over them.
"Use the Force, Luke!"
Have you ever watched an interview with Ballmer and after thought to yourself "Did he actually answer any questions?"
He should have gone into politics.
(Maybe this is him buffing up his portfolio.)
his handlers never watched the first Iron Man movie.
You know that Kenya and Nigeria are not the same, right?
I spent a couple of years working on 419 style scams. The origin was always, without fail, coastal west African nations. I don't recall even once seeing Kenya crop up. Don't paint all of sub-saharan Africa with the same brush.
Yeah, my bad. If you need an excuse:
I'm an American; I can't be expected to know anything about world geography.