Recent content by eclipsenow

OK, so getting back to Instability. I'm going to have to read this 32 page PDF sometime soon. This is the "Threat Multiplier" paper. “Threat multiplier” has become a widely used term by scholars and practitioners to describe climate change implications for security in both the policy realm and...

Ha ha - yes everything's Fermi paradox this week having just binged "3 Body Problem." But other world's would have had to have the same kind of fossil fuel build up, the same crazy exponential growth in the use of fossil fuels, etc. Given life and the apparently long periods of time evolution...

You don't find out they are aliens until the second episode - and the liars thing is over half way through the series.

As others have said - yes - and the paleoclimate proxies show our CO2 is much faster and greater than natural emissions for the past 10's of millions of years. There was a period about 55 million years ago where nature beat even what we've done today through increased volcanism releasing more...

Climate is not weather - but can impact weather. Climate is the earth’s average temperature over a 20 year period. Analysis: What the new IPCC report says about when world may pass 1.5C and 2C - Carbon Brief Weather is what happens in your location on a daily basis. The climate scientists that...

It's a good thing I finished the series or I would have been a bit irritated by the massive spoilers in the OP. You don't find out what it is all about for a while! Did you want to just recommend the vibe of the thing instead of including those major plot lines? You might wreck the experience of...

Here's Kurzgesagt on nuclear winter. It really weirds-me-out that there are serious papers analysing this stuff and no body talks about it.

I hope not. Some climatologists say they just don't know what is causing this super-spike and it is not predicted on the normal models. Temperatures could and should go down once the natural variability shakes out of the system. Climate is measured in 20 year intervals - so even though last year...

CO2 in fact DID cause some warming in past events due to excess volcanism. But rather than go through the various epochs of climate change - like Snowball Earth when the earth nearly froze to death - but excessive volcanism and a very high build up of CO2 in the atmosphere actually helped save...

Except the 13 billion years before humanity evolved ... You're twisting B theory to say things it doesn't really say - like if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it - does it really makes a sound?

We're getting way off the subject - and this is way over my social sciences background - but it's a theory I've heard of before. I don't like it or agree with it philosophically - and think temporal becoming is self evident - but here's the link. Meet the B theory of time. (It gives me a...

Absolutely. And when one considers that Christians are meant to be leading the charge in loving their neighbours as themselves - it's pretty hypocritical and not a good look at all to turn around and say "Oh, I trust in God instead." There are both New Testament verses that condemn that sort of...

It's just getting so much worse! El Nino's are arriving more frequently, are hotter, and are longer. Coral bleaching events are the same. Bleaching used to last maybe 2 weeks - now it's multiple months. Individual corals can take 5 years to recover to their full health and ability to reproduce...

It wasn't just this thread but the last climate thread where were discussing forests and whether regrowing them would impact the climate, or just help local environmental restoration. That suddenly escalated beyond reason as well. So I'm getting a certain impression. If I knew this person in the...

Hi all, I edited the OP to include this short video summary of the Xia et al paper. It's brutal. It's also NOT the whole point of this thread - because I'd still like to discuss the 'smaller' stuff like economic and lifestyle and political impacts of climate change. But as one of the very...