Global Warming - Page 9

Xringer · 09-28-13, 10:58 PM

Well, if things start going south in a hurry, that might make people sit up and pay attention.

As things stand now, people are more worried about things that could adversely effect them in the very near future.

AC_Hacker · 09-29-13, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Xringer

Well, if things start going south in a hurry, that might make people sit up and pay attention... As things stand now, people are more worried about things that could adversely effect them in the very near future.

This is the major shortcoming of the biological and behavioral systems that evolution has bequeathed to us. We are fight or flight creatures trapped inside of a slow motion catastrophe.

Science goes outside of our short attention span, and limited sensory apparatus to give us information about climate change. The information we receive from science is abstract, compared to threats we face in an immediate time frame.

This is really the test of humans, to see if we will survive. No other animal has the ability to throw nature so far out of balance as we do.

But we may not have the wherewithal to respond to this slow moving situation in time to save our kind.

Estimates are that people of your grand children's generation will begin to feel the full force of the results of generations of stupidity.

-AC

Xringer · 09-29-13, 03:50 PM

Maybe this is why SETI radio telescopes are not hearing millions of intelligent signals on the hydrogen line..
Life on planets is short-lived.?.

The universe is filled with the wreckage of long dead civilizations.?.

NeilBlanchard · 09-30-13, 07:35 AM

It may well be that once a civilization hits a threshold of technology, that they ruin their planet, and die off.

We need to look in the mirror, because this is the situation we face with climate change.

stevehull · 09-30-13, 07:47 AM

This thread is fascinating! Read it from the beginning and have an open mind.

Steve

Xringer · 10-04-13, 10:11 AM

Richard Lindzen is in the news again..
Huum, I wonder if MIT is going to be getting any goverment 'climate change' money next year.?.

NeilBlanchard · 10-04-13, 12:18 PM

Richard Lindzen is an outlier. And what does this have to do with climate change science?

Xringer · 10-04-13, 01:45 PM

He might get people in the government mad at him.
And since he works at MIT, their funding might be effected...
MIT - people directory

AC_Hacker · 10-04-13, 07:09 PM

This thread is the most useless waste of time on the whole forum... I really wonder why it continues.

It would be more appropriately named "Energy Sink".

Xringer · 10-04-13, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by AC_Hacker

This thread is the most useless waste of time on the whole forum... I really wonder why it continues.

It would be more appropriately named "Energy Sink".

Yeah, why do we even have "The Billiards Room" ??
I'm gonna quit reading this part of the site, right now!
A nice cold beer sounds good.. Later!!

09-28-13, 10:58 PM	#81
Xringer Lex Parsimoniae Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Woburn, MA Posts: 4,918 Thanks: 114 Thanked 250 Times in 230 Posts	Well, if things start going south in a hurry, that might make people sit up and pay attention. As things stand now, people are more worried about things that could adversely effect them in the very near future. __________________ My hobby is installing & trying to repair mini-splits EPA 608 Type 1 Technician Certification ~ 5 lbs or less..

09-29-13, 03:50 PM	#83
Xringer Lex Parsimoniae Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Woburn, MA Posts: 4,918 Thanks: 114 Thanked 250 Times in 230 Posts	Maybe this is why SETI radio telescopes are not hearing millions of intelligent signals on the hydrogen line.. Life on planets is short-lived.?. The universe is filled with the wreckage of long dead civilizations.?. __________________ My hobby is installing & trying to repair mini-splits EPA 608 Type 1 Technician Certification ~ 5 lbs or less..

09-30-13, 07:47 AM	#85
stevehull Steve Hull Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: hilly, tree covered Arcadia, OK USA Posts: 826 Thanks: 241 Thanked 165 Times in 123 Posts	This thread is fascinating! Read it from the beginning and have an open mind. Steve __________________ consulting on geothermal heating/cooling & rational energy use since 1990

10-04-13, 10:11 AM	#86
Xringer Lex Parsimoniae Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Woburn, MA Posts: 4,918 Thanks: 114 Thanked 250 Times in 230 Posts	Richard Lindzen is in the news again.. Huum, I wonder if MIT is going to be getting any goverment 'climate change' money next year.?. __________________ My hobby is installing & trying to repair mini-splits EPA 608 Type 1 Technician Certification ~ 5 lbs or less..

10-04-13, 01:45 PM	#88
Xringer Lex Parsimoniae Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Woburn, MA Posts: 4,918 Thanks: 114 Thanked 250 Times in 230 Posts	He might get people in the government mad at him. And since he works at MIT, their funding might be effected... MIT - people directory __________________ My hobby is installing & trying to repair mini-splits EPA 608 Type 1 Technician Certification ~ 5 lbs or less..

09-30-13, 07:35 AM	#84
NeilBlanchard Journeyman EcoRenovator Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Maynard, MA Eaarth Posts: 383 Thanks: 78 Thanked 39 Times in 32 Posts	It may well be that once a civilization hits a threshold of technology, that they ruin their planet, and die off. We need to look in the mirror, because this is the situation we face with climate change.

10-04-13, 12:18 PM	#87
NeilBlanchard Journeyman EcoRenovator Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Maynard, MA Eaarth Posts: 383 Thanks: 78 Thanked 39 Times in 32 Posts	Richard Lindzen is an outlier. And what does this have to do with climate change science?

10-04-13, 07:09 PM	#89
AC_Hacker Supreme EcoRenovator Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 4,004 Thanks: 303 Thanked 724 Times in 534 Posts	Energy Sink... This thread is the most useless waste of time on the whole forum... I really wonder why it continues. It would be more appropriately named "Energy Sink". __________________ I'm not an HVAC technician. In fact, I'm barely even a hacker...