Anthropogenic Planetary Climate Crisis: the existential collective action challenge to the survival of humanity -formerly- Climate Change: deny this?
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Borg Refinery
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Nah, sear is extremely intelligent, your post is rather rude and not in keeping with the spirit of this place and its cordial atmosphere (so far).
Kind of disappointed to see this to be honest. One of the reasons I like this forum is because it's fight-free.
Same for cowardly and snide remarks on here.. but as they say, Winning the Internet Is Important. It only reflects on the maker(s) of such remarks.
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Borg Refinery
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It's not about panic, it's about the lives of millions of Pakistanis and others who are in grave peril when they reach 40c+ temps at 100% humidity and the body can no longer cool itself.
Would you tell those guys not to panic? What about Sudanese or Libyans in some of the hottest climes on the planet? Telling people who are in those situations not to panic could be problematic.
As one who believes in the saying "all for one and one for all" we have a responsibility and duty to them - to some of the poorest on earth - not to contribute to the climate, lest we end up causing irreparable harm to millions of people around the world. We are not doing enough and it is simply not good enough as things are.
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Necessity is the mother of invention:
There's a lot of innovative stuff going on in Venezuela, despite their awful economic situation and frankly evil government trying to inhibit progress at every point.
There's a lot of innovative stuff going on in Venezuela, despite their awful economic situation and frankly evil government trying to inhibit progress at every point.
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O #22
You're a gem of a guy to try to snuff out the wildfire while it's still on the match. My most sincere appreciation.
"When the picture doesn't make any sense, a piece of the puzzle is missing." Joy Brown PhD
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to ones self-esteem." "Pride and vanity can thus be greater obstacle to learning than stupidity." Thomas Szasz MD
I'd like to believe I'm entitled to your characterization of my intelligence. The fact is such thing tends to lay on a spectrum, thus it's relative. Compared to what.
Whatever my acumen mm long ago left me in his dust. BUT !!
Because of the wise if biting lesson Szasz offers above, I'm sincerely grateful to mm for his patience & generosity in trying to drag me up to speed, a thankless task.
I'd hoped my "geranium in the cranium" self-diagnosis would be the tip-off, it's all good-natured here.
But I must also add, at some sites, policing civility is left to Mods. & Admins.
As you already know (as you've demonstrated) when the entire cyber-community rallys to the effort, it can help maintain a tranquil refuge on the infotainment superhighway. My sincere thanks to you all.
Time for some comic relief about it?
This graphic is of front & back of some business cards I printed up to help promote this site. So far, not much help.
You may notice the squiggly red lines. They're spell-check highlights. When I drew up the card design the software spell-checker flagged those character strings.
I somehow hoped / believed / assumed the printer would understand that, and tidy it up before printing.
- nope -
I still get a chuckle about it.
Anyway, what happens is, spend a half hour discussing what @CV.us has to offer, and it establishes a rapport not always present in cyber-friendships.
What surely must have looked like a sharp elbow to my ribs, was more a gentle tease.
BUT !!
I sincerely appreciate your direct intervention contributing to the cordial atmosphere I'm hoping to nurture & flourish here.
Have a rootin' tootin' Columbus Day, a celebration big enough to span an ocean or two.
O #22
You're a gem of a guy to try to snuff out the wildfire while it's still on the match. My most sincere appreciation.
"When the picture doesn't make any sense, a piece of the puzzle is missing." Joy Brown PhD
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to ones self-esteem." "Pride and vanity can thus be greater obstacle to learning than stupidity." Thomas Szasz MD
I'd like to believe I'm entitled to your characterization of my intelligence. The fact is such thing tends to lay on a spectrum, thus it's relative. Compared to what.
Whatever my acumen mm long ago left me in his dust. BUT !!
Because of the wise if biting lesson Szasz offers above, I'm sincerely grateful to mm for his patience & generosity in trying to drag me up to speed, a thankless task.
I'd hoped my "geranium in the cranium" self-diagnosis would be the tip-off, it's all good-natured here.
But I must also add, at some sites, policing civility is left to Mods. & Admins.
As you already know (as you've demonstrated) when the entire cyber-community rallys to the effort, it can help maintain a tranquil refuge on the infotainment superhighway. My sincere thanks to you all.
Time for some comic relief about it?
This graphic is of front & back of some business cards I printed up to help promote this site. So far, not much help.
You may notice the squiggly red lines. They're spell-check highlights. When I drew up the card design the software spell-checker flagged those character strings.
I somehow hoped / believed / assumed the printer would understand that, and tidy it up before printing.
- nope -
I still get a chuckle about it.
Anyway, what happens is, spend a half hour discussing what @CV.us has to offer, and it establishes a rapport not always present in cyber-friendships.
What surely must have looked like a sharp elbow to my ribs, was more a gentle tease.
BUT !!
I sincerely appreciate your direct intervention contributing to the cordial atmosphere I'm hoping to nurture & flourish here.
Have a rootin' tootin' Columbus Day, a celebration big enough to span an ocean or two.
Ghost in the machine? Rogue communication devices found in Chinese inverters
By Sarah Mcfarlane / May 14, 202512:28 AM GMT-5LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said.
Power inverters, which are predominantly produced in China, are used throughout the world to connect solar panels and wind turbines to electricity grids. They are also found in batteries, heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers.
While inverters are built to allow remote access for updates and maintenance, the utility companies that use them typically install firewalls to prevent direct communication back to China.
However, rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said.
Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.
So anthropogenic climate change is an issue we'll be contending with.
Even if the Chickens Little are in panic over a non-emergency, this low-Carbon / zero-Carbon infrastructure proliferates. "Knock on wood 2.0" *
"Knock on wood", spoken to avoid bad luck, originating from the notion of evil / misfortune may be in hiding behind a tree, thus knock to scare it away, and avoid its malice.
Shiftless2
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US East Coast faces rising seas as crucial Atlantic current slows
The weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is boosting the sea level along the New England coast on top of sea level rise from melting ice, adding to floodingBy James Dinneen
The slowdown of a major current in the Atlantic Ocean is boosting the sea level and associated flooding in the Northeast US, on top of the already-rising sea level due to climate change. A total collapse of this Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) as the planet warms could raise the sea level even further.
“If the AMOC collapsed, this would dramatically increase the flood frequency along the US coast, even in the absence of strong storms,” says Liping Zhang at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in New Jersey. “Even partial weakening [of the current] can already have ....
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To oversimplify, we're divided into:
- climate change observers, &
- climate change deniers.
Even if the deniers secretly know they're wrong, but persist because their agenda trumps truth, should the scientifically corroborated among us bow to the humanity-jeopardizing denier conspiracy?
What decades ago was dismissed by some as exaggerated panic now appears to be scientific consensus. Not only that,
but some of the dire predictions made back then may have been understated, rather than exaggerated.
So what are we to do?
Shiftless2
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Up to $7bn May storm losses reinforce SCS reclassification need: Gallagher Re
Kane Wells -With a preliminary insured loss estimate ranging from $4 billion to $7 billion for the severe weather events across the U.S. between May 14 and 20, Gallagher Re’s Chief Science Officer and Meteorologist, Steve Bowen, has argued that it’s well beyond time to abandon the semantic classification of severe convective storms (SCS) as a “secondary peril” within the U.S. insurance market.
In a newly released report analysing two deadly severe weather outbreaks spanning May 14–17 and May 18–20 across the central and eastern United States, Gallagher Re estimates that primary insurance carriers could face gross losses in the $4 billion to $7 billion range. This figure remains preliminary and subject to revision.
The reinsurer has indicated that the total economic impact is expected to rise further.
However, due to ....
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Shiftless2
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Alabama study reveals hurricane resilience programs are paying off for homeowners and insurers
A new Alabama study of hurricane-affected homes sends a clear message to insurers and homeowners nationwide: climate-resilient construction methods can protect homes, and save a lot of money.
The first-of-its-kind analysis, released this week, reviews thousands of insurance claims linked to Hurricane Sally, which struck Alabama’s coast in 2020 with wind speeds up to 105 miles per hour. Homes retrofitted or built to Fortified standards, a voluntary construction code created by the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) for wind and rain mitigation saw significantly fewer and less costly claims.
If every impacted house in Mobile and Baldwin counties had met Fortified standards, insurance companies could have spent 75% less in payouts, saving up to $112 million, and policyholders could have paid up to 65% less in deductibles, saving almost ...