All Things Environment

[PizzaSnake]

We’ve been so very, very industrious for quite some time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate- ... -our-feet/


“In a middle-of-the-road scenario, where humans would have regularly grown crops on peatlands, the study finds that some 70 billion tons of carbon (over 250 billion tons when converted to carbon dioxide) would have been lost from the soil.”

[DocBarrister]

The last time the atmosphere held similar amounts of carbon dioxide was during the Pliocene period, NOAA said, about 4.1 to 4.5 million years ago. At that time, sea levels were 78 feet higher. The planet was an average of 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer, and large forests might have grown in what is today's Arctic tundra.

Homo erectus, an early human ancestor, emerged about two million years ago on a much cooler planet. At the time, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels averaged about 230 parts per million — a bit over half of today's levels.

Since 1958, scientists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and later, NOAA, have regularly measured the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere at a weather station atop Mauna Loa. Each year, concentrations of carbon dioxide increase enough to set a new record.

"We still have a long way to go to halt the rise, as each year more CO2 piles up in the atmosphere," said Scripps geochemist Ralph Keeling. "We ultimately need cuts that are much larger and sustained longer than the COVID-related shutdowns of 2020."

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/07/10040976 ... -year-high

Our species has never seen CO2 levels this high.

The idiot deniers of human-caused climate change need to step aside so the rest of us can get to work on saving our children’s future.

DocBarrister

[jhu72]

Fun.

What if space is really like our vascular system where everything is inner-connected...as if earth(milky way) is the heart or even each galaxy is yet another heart. Maybe those black holes are really a veins that will return back to where they started?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswith ... 9f573e30a5

Yep. Just imagine, if we are really just the microscopic inner workings of The living God.

Not positive, but I suspect humanity is pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

... pimple on the ass of the cosmos, and its a big ass.

[DocBarrister]

Complete defeat of the Keystone XL pipeline and a major environmentalist victory.

(CNN)The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline announced Wednesday it is pulling the plug on the controversial project after the Biden administration revoked its permit in January.

TC Energy, the Canadian company behind the project, said it decided to terminate the project after a comprehensive review of its options and consulting with the government of Alberta, Canada. The company said it would coordinate with regulators, stakeholders and Indigenous groups to ensure a safe exit from the project.

The cancellation ends more than a decade of controversy over the pipeline and marks a big win for environmentalists who argued the project threatened the environment and would only worsen the climate crisis.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/09/energy/k ... index.html

DocBarrister

[DocBarrister]

This stupid:

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, suggested at a congressional hearing that climate change could be combatted by altering the orbit of the moon and asked a U.S. Forest Service official whether there was any way the agency could do it.

Gohmert made the comments Tuesday during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on four bills as he was questioning Jennifer Eberlien, an associate deputy chief of the Forest Service.

"I understand, from what's been testified to the Forest Service and the BLM, you want very much to work on the issue of climate change," Gohmert said, referring to the Bureau of Land Management.

"I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA that they've found that the moon's orbit is changing slightly and so is the Earth's orbit around the sun. We know there's been significant solar flare activity," he said. "And so, is there anything that the National Forest Service or BLM can do to change the course of the moon's orbit or the Earth's orbit around the sun? Obviously, that would have profound effects on our climate."

Eberlien responded, smiling, "I would have to follow up with you on that one, Mr. Gohmert."

"If you figure out there's a way in the Forest Service you could make that change, I'd like to know," Gohmert said.

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., offered his own solution to Gohmert on Twitter on Wednesday, suggesting that Marvel Comics' character Captain Marvel could handle the job.

"She can alter planetary orbits with her superpowers. I'm going to work on a bipartisan resolution asking for her help," Lieu tweeted.

As for the "immediate past director of NASA" Gohmert referred to in his remarks, that would probably be Jim Bridenstine, a former member of Congress from Oklahoma who had been a climate change skeptic, who argued years ago that humans aren't responsible for global warming.

… A spokesperson for NASA did not return a call for comment. The agency has long pointed to human-made carbon dioxide emissions as the cause of current global warming.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... s-n1270219

DocBarrister

[jhu72]

Photos of an Antarctic ice shelf breaking up.

[Peter Brown]

Climate change is yet one more Democratic Marxist hoax.

[jhu72]

Climate change is yet one more Democratic Marxist hoax.

... yup, just like coronavirus.

[cradleandshoot]

All the environmental jackwagons have to figure out is how to refreeze those glaciers in Antarctica. There has to be mucho bling bling for the environmental freak circus to extort from the US taxpayer to solve that problem. That has to be worth at least a trillion dollars all by itself.

[Peter Brown]

All the environmental jackwagons have to figure out is how to refreeze those glaciers in Antarctica. There has to be mucho bling bling for the environmental freak circus to extort from the US taxpayer to solve that problem. That has to be worth at least a trillion dollars all by itself.

Like I have for 40 straight years, I’ll be carving turns in Colorado powder yet again next spring.

Climate change is a hoax.

[cradleandshoot]

All the environmental jackwagons have to figure out is how to refreeze those glaciers in Antarctica. There has to be mucho bling bling for the environmental freak circus to extort from the US taxpayer to solve that problem. That has to be worth at least a trillion dollars all by itself.

Like I have for 40 straight years, I’ll be carving turns in Colorado powder yet again next spring.

Climate change is a hoax.

I have said this a hundred times on this forum at least. Planet earth will do what it wants, when it wants, where it wants and how it wants. That does not excuse us from being good stewards of our planet. It means we have zero ability to change what planet earth will do. No matter how many trillions we spend, electric cars we build, solar panels and wind turbines and don't forget vegan burgers we chow down. That cold hard reality ticks the freak circus off to no end. Why? Because they know it is true. Fat Al would call it an "inconvenient truth"

[Typical Lax Dad]

https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/nature/climatechange.htm

[cradleandshoot]

https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/nature/climatechange.htm

So what is the mechanism for reversing this? Can it even be reversed? Nobody on this forum ever ever explains the how it's done. We hear all about the why

[Typical Lax Dad]

https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/nature/climatechange.htm

So what is the mechanism for reversing this? Can it even be reversed? Nobody on this forum ever ever explains the how it's done. We hear all about the why

Al Gore didn’t make any money.

[jhu72]

Latest info on Chinese Nuclear power usage.

[cradleandshoot]

https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/nature/climatechange.htm

So what is the mechanism for reversing this? Can it even be reversed? Nobody on this forum ever ever explains the how it's done. We hear all about the why

Al Gore didn’t make any money.

sure he didn't. Fat Al didn't make a single penny selling his carbon credit nonsense. For some funny reason the enlightened environmental elites on this forum will NEVER say anything derogatory about Fat Al.

[Typical Lax Dad]

https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/nature/climatechange.htm

So what is the mechanism for reversing this? Can it even be reversed? Nobody on this forum ever ever explains the how it's done. We hear all about the why

Al Gore didn’t make any money.

sure he didn't. Fat Al didn't make a single penny selling his carbon credit nonsense. For some funny reason the enlightened environmental elites on this forum will NEVER say anything derogatory about Fat Al.

Hey hey hey!

[cradleandshoot]

https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/nature/climatechange.htm

So what is the mechanism for reversing this? Can it even be reversed? Nobody on this forum ever ever explains the how it's done. We hear all about the why

Al Gore didn’t make any money.

sure he didn't. Fat Al didn't make a single penny selling his carbon credit nonsense. For some funny reason the enlightened environmental elites on this forum will NEVER say anything derogatory about Fat Al.

Hey hey hey!

Love to play tackle...

[Typical Lax Dad]

https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/nature/climatechange.htm

So what is the mechanism for reversing this? Can it even be reversed? Nobody on this forum ever ever explains the how it's done. We hear all about the why

Al Gore didn’t make any money.

sure he didn't. Fat Al didn't make a single penny selling his carbon credit nonsense. For some funny reason the enlightened environmental elites on this forum will NEVER say anything derogatory about Fat Al.

Hey hey hey!

Love to play tackle...

[cradleandshoot]

https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/nature/climatechange.htm

So what is the mechanism for reversing this? Can it even be reversed? Nobody on this forum ever ever explains the how it's done. We hear all about the why

Al Gore didn’t make any money.

sure he didn't. Fat Al didn't make a single penny selling his carbon credit nonsense. For some funny reason the enlightened environmental elites on this forum will NEVER say anything derogatory about Fat Al.

Hey hey hey!

Love to play tackle...

I thought I was the only person on this forum that remembers the fat Albert cartoons on Saturday.