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       #Post#: 263--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Climate Doom
       By: K-Dog Date: May 10, 2021, 6:05 pm
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       [quote author=BuddyJ link=topic=14.msg260#msg260
       date=1620683141]
       [quote author=K-Dog link=topic=14.msg255#msg255 date=1620675616]
       Wild speculation is appropriate for stories and for exploring
       possibilities.  But panic will solve nothing.
       [/quote]
       But might create the right mode in the opposite sex for a little
       bit of "grief counseling"?  ;)
       More results generating than being an old single guy in a bar
       trying to ply anything of the opposite sex with liquor perhaps?
       [/quote]
       Not the kind of one trick pony I want to be.  But good point.
       #Post#: 265--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Climate Doom
       By: Eddie Date: May 11, 2021, 8:12 am
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       It might have been reasonable a decade ago to believe that the
       worst climate models were far too optimistic and that tipping
       points were right around the corner, and that they  :-[might
       result in huge immediate changes...That the “methane gun” might
       go off any day.
       I was willing to believe Guy McP back then, because AR 9 was
       thought to be a likely path. It turns out AR4 is far closer to
       the observed data so far.We have way more data, and it’s
       instructive.
       The science is pointing to a slower process now. Nobody knows
       where the tipping points are, or even if they’ve already been
       passed. The long term outlook is still pretty grim, but the
       headline scare stories are pure bullshit. Everybody is pretty
       much a campaigner in the world of climate, even people who are
       supposed to be objective.
       No real data I’ve ever seen suggests global cooling. That’s
       crap. But we could maybe engineer some cooling trying to
       bioengineer the planet back to a more stable state.  And we
       could get it wrong, as we often do. Overshoot it maybe.
       And models are a map, not the territory. If we start having a
       bunch of volcanoes go off, the models would be wrong, because
       they don’t map that. or a   war that gave us a nuclear winter
       might change things dramatically.
       The climate models have some flaws, and rational criticism of
       the IPCC should be tolerated, although it really isn’t these
       days. I still read Judith Curry for some counterpoint. She’s a
       smart cookie with no axe to grind.
       We’ll all be dead long before the 6th extinction (assuming
       climate is the number one threat) , if there is one, which I
       still agree is quite likely. In the meantime, things will
       deteriorate, just not on a Guy McP schedule. People still need
       to get up and go to work if they want to eat and have a roof
       over their head. Grieving for a dead planet is a bit premature,
       in my view.
       On the #metoo stuff about Guy......I think it’s probably crap.
       He got played by a woman with an agenda. Sign of the times.
       #Post#: 273--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Climate Doom
       By: Phil Potts Date: May 11, 2021, 2:58 pm
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       [quote author=BuddyJ link=topic=14.msg272#msg272
       date=1620756117]
       [quote author=Eddie link=topic=14.msg265#msg265 date=1620738735]
       On the #metoo stuff about Guy......I think it’s probably crap.
       He got played by a woman with an agenda. Sign of the times.
       [/quote]
       So some woman/women baited him into a conversation where he
       revealed through his language his thinking on the topic of
       male/female relationships? And that is the woman's fault? Or his
       language related to gender relationships is quite common in your
       experience with other men?
       [/quote]
       Moving largely to cybersex and sexting is a sterile outlet and
       good for population reduction. Guy may be lecherous, but was
       also no idiot in getting his way. Consider that from those
       shudderingly cringeworthy messages he has not once, but twice
       expressed his anticipating intercourse. If you reject the notion
       that the messages began suggestively but a more tame than that
       and believe Serena simply discussed climate change and climate
       terror with him when he suddenly revealed Mr Hyde, then we have
       to wonder why she didn't cut contact and he got to send a second
       one. It seems also that after the second one, she still met up
       with him and had sex, prompting the third message when he was
       done with her.
       #Post#: 278--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Climate Doom
       By: Eddie Date: May 11, 2021, 4:05 pm
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       [quote author=BuddyJ link=topic=14.msg272#msg272
       date=1620756117]
       [quote author=Eddie link=topic=14.msg265#msg265 date=1620738735]
       On the #metoo stuff about Guy......I think it’s probably crap.
       He got played by a woman with an agenda. Sign of the times.
       [/quote]
       So some woman/women baited him into a conversation where he
       revealed through his language his thinking on the topic of
       male/female relationships? And that is the woman's fault? Or his
       language related to gender relationships is quite common in your
       experience with other men?
       [/quote]
       My view is that she probably did more than just bait him into a
       conversation. I don’t have any real knowledge about what
       happened, but it looks to me like she lured him into a sexting
       scandal trap that she then sprung on him, costing him a lot of
       credibility and maybe some of his livelihood.
       In my experience most men will say just about anything that a
       woman professes to want him to say, if the woman is remotely
       attractive and the pay-off is sex. He thought he was playing a
       sex game, but she was playing a power game. imho.
       #Post#: 280--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Climate Doom
       By: K-Dog Date: May 11, 2021, 5:28 pm
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       #Post#: 281--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Climate Doom
       By: Digwe Must Date: May 11, 2021, 6:32 pm
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       Guy M , at this point, is a distraction.  Personal failings
       often lead to a person's work being generally trashed.  Your
       enemies will always exploit your vulnerabilities. He obviously,
       for whatever reason, set-up or not, let the little head do the
       thinking for the big head.  His egotistical and dismissive
       approach didn't do him any favors either.  If you disagreed with
       him you weren't very bright or you were an academic/corporate
       tool.  There were few to defend him when things went bad.
       I am not at all dismissive of Ice Age Farmer.  His stats are
       real. The industry and academic papers are real.  Sometimes his
       interpretation moves through speculation to the border of
       conspiratorial conjecture.  Another bright man with an agenda to
       sell.
       Eddie made some very good points as did you all.  Given the
       current trends and accelerating consequences it seems very
       unlikely that a new ice age is at hand.  I do think it pays to
       consider a few possibilities that make it -though unlikely - not
       impossible.   I certainly see the effects of anthropogenic
       climate change all around me every day.  I spend much of my time
       trying to mitigate.  But, I was not being facetious when I asked
       JOW if both Guy M and Ice Age Farmer could be right.
       Eddie mentioned volcanoes. It is a fact that the planet's
       magnetic field is weakening. It is a fact that the magnetic
       poles are moving and that the pace of that movement is
       accelerating.  The geologic record apparently shows a strong
       correlation between magnetic disruption and increasing volcanic
       activity in the planet's past.  Also, the weakening field does
       not block out bursts of solar radiation nearly as effectively.
       (This means a weaker CME could cripple the grid by the way)
       We all know that the gulf stream and the circulation in the
       Atlantic is slowing due to the increase in cold fresh meltwater
       in the Arctic.   We know that the Beaufort Gyre is growing and
       overdue to let go.  If the Atlantic sees a sudden new massive
       influx of fresh water Europe's climate could very well cool just
       as the south heats up.
       The IPCC is starting to come around on considering some new data
       on albedo from the increased cloud cover resulting from
       evaporation due to warming at certain latitudes. I think they
       were shamed into this by a Princeton paper.  Also they are going
       to consider the effects of other types of solar radiation on the
       climate.  Or, at least they are going to start.  From what I
       read while the light emitted by the sun during minimums
       diminishes somewhat, x-rays and other solar radiation increases
       and the historic record of these times shows cooling and climate
       disruption.
       Look, either way food production is in real trouble.
       Phil Potts mentioned that climate change did not concern him
       that much.  Folks shouldn't live everywhere.  I get that.  I
       don't disagree.  But the prospect of the associated human misery
       with that transition makes me shudder.  I'm old and have had a
       pretty good run.  But we have young family and friends.
       I strongly suspect that climate extremes are going to continue
       to accelerate in frequency and worsen in intensity.  Remember
       those mammoths in Siberia they found frozen in the ice about 50
       - 60 years ago.  They had grass in their mouths.  It can happen
       fast.
       I suspect you are right about war.  It's in the air.
       “All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned,
       and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real
       conditions of life, and his relations with his kind”  Karl Marx,
       Communist Manifesto (1848)
       #Post#: 282--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Climate Doom
       By: Eddie Date: May 11, 2021, 7:19 pm
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       [quote author=BuddyJ link=topic=14.msg279#msg279
       date=1620771215]
       [quote author=Eddie link=topic=14.msg278#msg278 date=1620767123]
       [quote author=BuddyJ link=topic=14.msg272#msg272
       date=1620756117]
       So some woman/women baited him into a conversation where he
       revealed through his language his thinking on the topic of
       male/female relationships? And that is the woman's fault? Or his
       language related to gender relationships is quite common in your
       experience with other men?
       [/quote]
       My view is that she probably did more than just bait him into a
       conversation. I don’t have any real knowledge about what
       happened, but it looks to me like she lured him into a sexting
       scandal trap that she then sprung on him, costing him a lot of
       credibility and maybe some of his livelihood.[/quote]
       Any hints, evidence, reference or claim of this anywhere? Or is
       this more a suspicion?
       [quote author=Eddie"]
       In my experience most men will say just about anything that a
       woman professes to want him to say, if the woman is remotely
       attractive and the pay-off is sex. He thought he was playing a
       sex game, but she was playing a power game. imho.
       [/quote]
       And I have no familiarity with men acting this way, regardless
       of circumstance. Perhaps a side effect of having been happily
       married for a long time, but the whole thing is still alien to
       me.
       [/quote]
       No, it is merely suspicion.
       Unless you count that it worked to completely ruin his
       reputation among the people who seem to have trusted
       him.....meaning that if it was a trap, it worked rather well.
       And that it fits perfectly into what I'd call the typical #metoo
       modus operandi.
       Happily married is such a blessing. But...you might be surprised
       at what turns some women on...and what some women might do out
       of sheer spite. Hell hath no fury, etc.
       I'm married forty years in July myself.
       Just reading those texts made me embarrassed for Guy. You'd
       think a PhD could write better porn. It was strictly amateur
       stuff. Not much imagination if you ask me.
       #Post#: 285--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Climate Doom
       By: K-Dog Date: May 11, 2021, 8:47 pm
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       Regardless of him being smeared or if he is a real bad boy, I
       found this brilliant  description of Guy on Reddit.
       [quote]Guy absolutely can't stand anyone who disagrees with him.
       You must have 100% faith that he is the Word of God on the
       subject of climate change. His following already is a cult, just
       they are not all together in one location like Jonestown or
       Waco.
       His narrative has numerous negative aspects to it. First off it
       encourages inaction even if he says it doesn't. Second it's
       outrageously depressing without enough evidence for the
       conclusions. Full on extinction by 2030? That's 14 years to all
       dead people! It's ludicrous. Then because of both of those
       things, he undermines folks who are making more realistic
       assessments of the timelines involved here.
       The more often he is exposed as a charlatan, the better.[/quote]
       I could not have said it better myself.  I emphasized the bold.
       Some guy named Reverse Engineer posted this 4 years ago.
       Ten years to go.
       #Post#: 287--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Climate Doom
       By: John of Wallan Date: May 11, 2021, 10:41 pm
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       [quote author=K-Dog link=topic=14.msg285#msg285 date=1620784051]
       Regardless of him being smeared or if he is a real bad boy, I
       found this brilliant  description of Guy on Reddit.
       [quote]Guy absolutely can't stand anyone who disagrees with him.
       You must have 100% faith that he is the Word of God on the
       subject of climate change. His following already is a cult, just
       they are not all together in one location like Jonestown or
       Waco.
       His narrative has numerous negative aspects to it. First off it
       encourages inaction even if he says it doesn't. Second it's
       outrageously depressing without enough evidence for the
       conclusions. Full on extinction by 2030? That's 14 years to all
       dead people! It's ludicrous. Then because of both of those
       things, he undermines folks who are making more realistic
       assessments of the timelines involved here.
       The more often he is exposed as a charlatan, the better.[/quote]
       I could not have said it better myself.  I emphasized the bold.
       Some guy named Reverse Engineer posted this 4 years ago.
       Ten years to go.
       [/quote]
       Yes, last time I mentioned Guy M. RE was less than flattering...
       Could not understand 100% why. SOme people just rub each other
       up the wrong way. I know plenty I would like to see 6 foot
       under...
       I listen to the message and check the references. The numbers
       actually seem to add up unfortunately. I absolutely hope he is
       wrong. I really dont want to die any time soon, but I think we
       are heading into a shitstorm in the next 10 years for a number
       of reasons already mentioned, and I would suggest his timeframe
       is a lot closer to reality than the crap being thrown around by
       denialists... 2100 seems to be the timeframe of choice in the
       mainstream media to allow business as usual until all current
       generations are dead and no longer can be held to account.
       I also disagree with the assertion he is telling everyone to
       give up. I  think it is just an excuse people use to allow
       inaction. His message has actually spurred me on to action, not
       the opposite.
       I really have no idea if the man is a monster or is being
       defamed as he claims.... There seems to be a lot of dirty
       laundry and mud being slung about. If criminal activity is
       involved police should be called, and charges laid. In the
       internet age it seems to be easy to destroy reputations.
       Anyway, its got very little to do with the notion I think we are
       falling off the cliff, and soon. Based on the response I am
       sorry I mentioned him. Its a big distraction from rational
       debate and reviewing the science.
       RE can be wrong. I doubt he likes people disagreeing with him
       either....
       JOW
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       Re: Climate Doom
       By: John of Wallan Date: May 12, 2021, 3:24 am
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  HTML https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/
       Interesting article on expected climate refugees in North
       America.....
       JOW
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