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The CO2 has to go somewhere, and it was difficult to predict how efficiently the oceans could absorb new CO2. However, the oceans absorbing CO2 is not...
July 27, 2022 at 20:50
Climate change is easy to understand: change the composition of the atmosphere to trap more heat ... and more heat is trapped. You are confusing basic...
July 27, 2022 at 20:44
The earth system is not stable, there are no negative-feedback mechanisms that return it to the same state. The earth-system has a lot of buffers that...
July 27, 2022 at 20:39
To remind you of your position in the thread: Which you have yet to contradict, so are still defending? Or then some cowardly non-defence but ... also...
July 27, 2022 at 20:20
And to respond ahead of time to your bullshit. How do you know we've been in an ice-age as you say? Did you drill those core samples yourself? Or are ...
July 27, 2022 at 19:42
Maybe you should get up to speed on what's already been discussed on this very thread. Is a comment from 12 months ago, posting a video for those who ...
July 27, 2022 at 19:29
It's so frighteningly simple.
July 25, 2022 at 18:08
No worries at all. Completely agreed. The parties that seemed, maybe still seem, to really want war, the longer the better, are the US, UK and the for...
July 24, 2022 at 20:59
Honestly not sure how far back this pattern goes, as there's a selection bias of small victories and momentum in order to support the myth of progress...
July 24, 2022 at 20:23
Ah ok, thanks for clarifying. It did cross my mind as a possibility, but then it seemed fruitful anyways to contemplate this criticism as I have a dee...
July 24, 2022 at 17:53
Responding to a post in no way means taking every possible opposing position. As @"Isaac" has himself clarified, regardless of your interpretation of ...
July 24, 2022 at 17:27
That's what I understood from your statement, a general point about pragmatism and compromise. We're in agreement there. I have no serious peace propo...
July 24, 2022 at 17:24
Sure, but responding to a post does not somehow imply you take the opposite position to everything in said post. @"Isaac"'s fundamental position (same...
July 24, 2022 at 16:25
"As the partial pressure of CO2 in the atmosphere increases, the amount of dissolved CO2 in the oceans will increase" means that both are increasing r...
July 24, 2022 at 16:03
Well, that seems of the two options you thought of, the wrong one. As you point out yourself it could also mean no additional members, which makes far...
July 24, 2022 at 15:55
Again, the basic issue: Eastern European countries do not necessarily have the option to "feel threatened by Russia and therefore join NATO". Some do ...
July 24, 2022 at 15:47
You want me to explain it again: You make false statements that you yourself agree are false: You say: And then contradict that statement with: Your o...
July 24, 2022 at 15:21
No where does @"Isaac" claim: You were responding to: Which has nothing at all to do about anyone's feelings. @"Isaac"'s satement here is in no way co...
July 24, 2022 at 15:11
You are literally repeating what I stated: a balance is reached. Your statement was that oceans will eventually absorb all the CO2 ... literally stati...
July 24, 2022 at 15:02
Also, last week I pointed out that the escalation in weapons systems is calibrated to ensure Ukraine loses (and so Russia has no reason to use nuclear...
July 24, 2022 at 14:52
That's not the issue you're even discussing. Obviously the people joining likely felt safer to join and that's why they therefore joined (the alternat...
July 24, 2022 at 14:48
Untrue statement. Ocean concentration reaches a balance with CO2 atmospheric concentrations, that it is absorbing and releasing the same amount. Ocean...
July 24, 2022 at 14:32
You did not state life has "self correcting features". There's plenty of self correcting features, from DNA repair to tectonics plats "correcting" mou...
July 24, 2022 at 11:53
First, it's simply a false understanding to say the biosphere is self-correcting. Ecosystem stability is measured in the variability of biodiversity, ...
July 24, 2022 at 10:10
This video provides really great context to one of the big global issues that has been discussed during this war (especially in non-Western countries ...
July 24, 2022 at 09:49
You do realise that it's these records that have the scientists that collect and study this data so alarmed? "Crisis resolving itself" at CO2 levels n...
July 24, 2022 at 09:24
You beg to differ with a direct citation of the Tao while attempting to claim its cachée and mystique for yourself?
July 24, 2022 at 08:56
This is not what Taoism teaches. Taoism teaches:
July 24, 2022 at 08:54
By coincidence, George Monbiot spoke of this issue a couple days ago, I think worth viewing: https://youtu.be/b9tnD_2m5Mk The no "alarmism", meek spea...
July 24, 2022 at 08:22
Natural gas being needed to "transition" to keep the grid stable (basically only hydro and gas can react to variations from renewable energy, and hydr...
July 21, 2022 at 17:25
This is the disagreement. The reality is whatever it is and understanding it as best we can is essential (accounting for different perspectives, limit...
July 21, 2022 at 16:59
This is not my message. You completely ignore the part where I explain my view that doing whatever we can, as effectively as we can, is a moral impera...
July 21, 2022 at 16:07
Obviously not. I develop the possibility to simply underline that the proposed moral imperatives to defend Ukrainian sovereignty, Ukraines's "right to...
July 21, 2022 at 13:17
Recognising the damage already done and also baked in, is not a "I can't do anything". I repeat several times that it remains a moral imperative to do...
July 20, 2022 at 16:10
I'll explain it again (I don't expect for your benefit, but perhaps others). Consider these positions: 1. Ukraine has a right to join NATO and NATO wa...
July 20, 2022 at 08:05
And the bodies are already starting to pile up, even if we consider only humans and ignore the 85% loss in wild animal biomass. Perhaps the most succi...
July 20, 2022 at 07:23
I agree with these statements. I'm not sure if and I are saying exactly the same thing, but I believe so. Our point of view here is considering humani...
July 20, 2022 at 07:10
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... private equity laundering money off the shoulder of Angola ... I watched I-beams glitter in the dark n...
July 19, 2022 at 20:13
Nukes in Ukraine is the start of an escalation pathway to WWIII, also just makes the world generally more unstable and WWIII more likely people seeing...
July 19, 2022 at 20:08
Yes, question is how much damage. The window of political feasible solutions closes before, potentially a lot before, the window of strictly physicall...
July 19, 2022 at 18:11
Exactly, why destroying Europe as a relevant political actor on the world stage is ... wait, pretty great from fossil fuel exporters who deny the real...
July 19, 2022 at 15:52
I just explained exactly how it had to do with Nukes. I can explain it again if you want. Already the threat of nuclear war precluded NATO boots on th...
July 19, 2022 at 15:25
It's not speculation, the policy of not escalating "too much" is official NATO policy. Even Biden just came out one day and shut down talk of a no-fly...
July 18, 2022 at 11:16
I did make this claim. I claimed you can use tactical nukes to win battles, bust bunkers, the sort of things tactical nukes are designed to do. @"ssu"...
July 18, 2022 at 09:26
Pretty much. NATO could have sent in planes and sent in troops and do what logically follows from the moral imperative to protect Ukrainian sovereignt...
July 17, 2022 at 21:48
The short answer is that it can go arbitrarily close the speed of light without ever reaching the speed of light. With more fuel magically available i...
July 17, 2022 at 20:37
Russia using nuclear weapons is completely realistic. Without that being realistic (if Nukes didn't exist or Russia didn't have them) we'd already be ...
July 17, 2022 at 20:13
For those interested, the reason the problem of renewables and backup capacity isn't talked about much is, to make a long story short, the media is du...
July 17, 2022 at 19:58
What's even the proposed connection between "faltering" wind power and a heat wave? Or do they have problems with their "freedom" grid again?
July 17, 2022 at 19:57
Put aside the hypocrisy of European leaders all of a sudden wanting actual clean energy to "save Ukraine" and "show Putin" ... yet somehow the entire ...
July 17, 2022 at 18:05