9292 pts · February 15, 2012
Another problem is that most people are born into environments built by humans (cities) so are inherently disconnected from nature.
No... and professional climate scientists aren't using a few pictures as their evidence anyway. This is just a good way of communicating it.
Oh, a couple of glaciers buck the trend that thousands of others are following! Must be wrong then.
Yes, but the sudden mass retreat of virtually all glaciers globally is a much, much rarer event and indicative of something catastrophic.
Which is obviously still awful (and this rate is likely to increase in the future).
The number of wild animals has halved although it's important to mention that the number of species has dropped by much, much less.
Yes... and what's happening at the moment is completely breaking that cycle. There is absolutely nothing natural about contemporary CC.
Well, it's a very visual and tangible representation. One glacier melting is meaningless - the important thing is that practically all are.
As far as I'm aware, the mass of ice is decreasing, what's increasing is the area of sea ice.
They just care about money. Because you totally go into academia to get filthy rich.
Anthropogenic climate change is a genuine change, it's not just speeding up glacial-interglacial cycles.
Well, not completely. The climate has been oscillating relatively regularly for the last 5 million years and we've probably halted that.
And what we're basically doing now is destabilising these favourable conditions, hence screwing ourselves over monumentally. (4/4)
The reason why civilization arose when it did was because we're currently going through an unusually calm interglacial period (3/X)
but civilization was able to appear precisely because the climate has been relatively mild for the past few thousand years (2/X)
Very well said. In actual fact, even extreme climate change (faster than the change we're seeing at the moment) can occur naturally (1/X)
Climate change occurs naturally, but the change we're experiencing at the moment is predominantly man-made.
I have an Origin account but only because they were giving away Sims 2 for free. Does that count?
Whenever cyclists are killed in London, it's generally because they're in the blind-zones of lorry drivers. Silly, but not breaking any laws
I watched it when I was 14 and loved Light. I tried to rewatch it a few weeks ago and just got fed up because he's such an asshole.
Barely ever see this, to be honest. At least in London, the cyclists I see cycle pretty safely..
I was too thick for that. My theory was that he had worked out the answer somehow and that he intentionally left.
*spoiler* A big problem was that it was pretty obvious the quiet guy would come back. He left too easily.
Sounds like some kind of marketing ploy. "Tumblr. Fuelled by idiots. For you."
As someone who takes an hour to get to sleep, this is not very helpful ):
Shame that they had to privatise it.
If we assume a 90% packing efficiency, you should be able to fit £22500 worth of £2 coins in that container.
Oxford doesn't!
The ending was just dramatic for the sake of being dramatic. It made absolutely zero sense.
I thought he discontinued it?
Another problem is that most people are born into environments built by humans (cities) so are inherently disconnected from nature.
No... and professional climate scientists aren't using a few pictures as their evidence anyway. This is just a good way of communicating it.
Oh, a couple of glaciers buck the trend that thousands of others are following! Must be wrong then.
Yes, but the sudden mass retreat of virtually all glaciers globally is a much, much rarer event and indicative of something catastrophic.
Which is obviously still awful (and this rate is likely to increase in the future).
The number of wild animals has halved although it's important to mention that the number of species has dropped by much, much less.
Yes... and what's happening at the moment is completely breaking that cycle. There is absolutely nothing natural about contemporary CC.
Well, it's a very visual and tangible representation. One glacier melting is meaningless - the important thing is that practically all are.
As far as I'm aware, the mass of ice is decreasing, what's increasing is the area of sea ice.
They just care about money. Because you totally go into academia to get filthy rich.
Anthropogenic climate change is a genuine change, it's not just speeding up glacial-interglacial cycles.
Well, not completely. The climate has been oscillating relatively regularly for the last 5 million years and we've probably halted that.
And what we're basically doing now is destabilising these favourable conditions, hence screwing ourselves over monumentally. (4/4)
The reason why civilization arose when it did was because we're currently going through an unusually calm interglacial period (3/X)
but civilization was able to appear precisely because the climate has been relatively mild for the past few thousand years (2/X)
Very well said. In actual fact, even extreme climate change (faster than the change we're seeing at the moment) can occur naturally (1/X)
Climate change occurs naturally, but the change we're experiencing at the moment is predominantly man-made.
I have an Origin account but only because they were giving away Sims 2 for free. Does that count?
Whenever cyclists are killed in London, it's generally because they're in the blind-zones of lorry drivers. Silly, but not breaking any laws
I watched it when I was 14 and loved Light. I tried to rewatch it a few weeks ago and just got fed up because he's such an asshole.
Barely ever see this, to be honest. At least in London, the cyclists I see cycle pretty safely..
I was too thick for that. My theory was that he had worked out the answer somehow and that he intentionally left.
*spoiler* A big problem was that it was pretty obvious the quiet guy would come back. He left too easily.
Sounds like some kind of marketing ploy. "Tumblr. Fuelled by idiots. For you."
As someone who takes an hour to get to sleep, this is not very helpful ):
Shame that they had to privatise it.
If we assume a 90% packing efficiency, you should be able to fit £22500 worth of £2 coins in that container.
Oxford doesn't!
The ending was just dramatic for the sake of being dramatic. It made absolutely zero sense.
I thought he discontinued it?