ozimoron
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The [Australian] Bureau of Meteorology is on alert for yet another La Niña season. There's a 70 per cent chance that Australia's east coast will have to contend with the climate driver for a third year in a row. This is very unusual, and other countries have already declared La Niña. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-31/what-is-a-la-nina-season-bom-forecast-explained/101385452
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Disinformation, the decision to ban fertiliser had nothing to do with climate change. It was an issue of chemical pollution. And it was imports, not production. Part of the rationale was foreign reserves were being depleted. The big clue as to whether a post is disinformation is lack of a link. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/sri-lanka-fertiliser-ban-president-rajapaksa-farmers-harvests-collapse
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That's a fairly old article and certain discoveries made recently like enormous caverns under antarctic glaciers and more rapidly melting glaciers in greenland and the arctic have likely changed those estimates now. Furthermore, the article says this Between 1900 and 1990 studies show that sea level rose between 1.2 millimeters and 1.7 millimeters per year on average. By 2000, that rate had increased to about 3.2 millimeters per year and the rate in 2016 is estimated at 3.4 millimeters per year. Sea level is expected to rise even more quickly by the end of the century. so, you are quoting an estimate which is 22 years old and which the article itself says would be wrong after 2016. Cherry picking much?
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disclaimer: article is 2 years old. On Friday, Steven Biss, the attorney of California Republican Representative Devin Nunes, said that he and his client are "at a dead end" after a judge threw out their subpoena to discover the identity of a Twitter user who publishes unflattering media about Nunes under the guise of "Devin Nunes' Cow." In March 2019, Nunes filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against two parody Twitter accounts: one claiming to be written by his mother and another claiming to be written by a cow from his family's dairy farm. Nunes said the "cow" conspired to damage his re-election chances. https://www.newsweek.com/devin-nunes-attorney-says-he-cannot-find-out-identity-twitter-cow-1510608
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Do you think climate change science lives and dies on the models? There's empirical evidence as well and that evidence is showing us catastrophic weather outcomes which are far from normal and which are obviously getting worse every year. Models are by definition, not accurate. It is not a valid criticism of them, it's a feature, not a bug. Their function is to identify a trend and attempt to quantify that trend within a range. Models are not all joined at the hip.
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I cited the NOAA and NASA websites. If I had read nothing else, that would easily be enough more me. As it happens, I have read plenty but I have never read any credible research which contradicts what they say. If you look back at forecasts you can see that models are not accurate which is bigly different from saying they are wrong. You would have been one of those hanging Copernicus a thousand years ago.
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Trump asks for a 'special master' to review Mar-a-Lago evidence
ozimoron replied to Scott's topic in World News
I think he's got another Time magazine cover lying around somewhere as well. Or maybe the other one isn't really a Time magazine cover. -
Climate change deniers are ignoring the numbers. There are no numbers which deny climate change or even significantly change the forecasts. There is no natural phenomenon going on now which could even conceivably warm the planet. Climate deniers are politically and religiously driven, not scientists (in the main).
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It means nothing at all. I'm not directing my comments at individual board members, just everybody on the planet who spins the same disinformation. They are, as I said, nothing more than useful idiots of the fossil fuel industry. Climate change deniers are fringe group of right wing, uninformed and uneducated. Maybe 30 years ago they could have been given some slack. Not now. We may as well debate whether Hansel and Gretel were real people.