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1 hour ago, HelenaExMachina said:

At least auto pilots arent going to be drink drivers

Are you sure you're not giving our future AI overlords too much credit?

What care do they have if they get inebriated and destroy their current hardware running into a few blood bags? They can always download themselves into a new body.

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8 hours ago, A True Kaniggit said:

Are you sure you're not giving our future AI overlords too much credit?

What care do they have if they get inebriated and destroy their current hardware running into a few blood bags? They can always download themselves into a new body.

Whose knows what the effect a little too much trickle charging might have on an AI.

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next step - get rid of all that ice atop said resources...

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-has-asked-aides-about-possibility-of-us-acquiring-greenland-report/ar-AAFRjTC?ocid=msnclassic

 

Two advisers told the Journal that Trump asked them and other advisers at dinners and in passing conversations whether such a move would be possible, listening intently when they talked about its resources and geopolitical importance.

He also reportedly asked his White House counsel to look into the idea.

Some of his advisers were supportive of the move, the two sources told the Journal, saying it could be a good economic play. Others dismissed it as just a fascination.

As the Journal noted, it is unclear how the U.S. would go about purchasing Greenland, the largest island in the world.

 

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Another article worth reading. It argues that as well as working to reduce their own emissions and deploy existing renewable energy technologies at scale, advanced economies should be putting much more funding into renewable energy R&D. As is often pointed out, if a country such as the UK (or Germany, or Japan, or wherever) cut all carbon emissions tomorrow, it would make a tiny dent in the global total (although they should still definitely pursue reduction anyway). But for a fraction of the cost of doing that, they could unilaterally massively increase the total spent on R&D, and then share the results with the world, for a much higher global impact.

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Scientists work to alter plants to fight climate crisis

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2019/08/16/gec-salk-institute-plants-carbon-joanne-chory-pkg.cnn

 

Also.....This video is just mind boggling. According to one interviewee "there's enough ice in Greenland that if it all melted it would raise ocean levels 25 feet!"

And it's melting right now at a supercharged pace.

 

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On the one hand, it is an acknowledgment of human caused climate change from the right.  On the other....well, their 'solution' leaves much to be desired.  

 

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/06/christian-activist-mary-colbert-sin-not-climate-change-causes-extreme-weather/?fbclid=IwAR3_OtqaP73SyelJWPzrHhJFIvwx_k9iae8z-RYIhfJIaJzKfU7SHyrHexU

Faith-based science: Christian activist and author Mary Colbert claims it is sin, and not climate change, that is causing extreme weather and natural disasters.

Appearing on “The Jim Bakker Show” earlier this week, Colbert claimed that extreme weather and natural disasters have nothing to do with climate change but instead they are the result of sin. In addition, Colbert blamed Satan for using the issue of climate change to distract from the fact that the End Times are rapidly approaching.

 

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For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

but:

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They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

nevertheless:

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And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

 

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You'd think the media was doing a decent job at informing people about climate change...
But apparently not.
 

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https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/media-creates-false-balance-climate-science-study-shows

The American media lends too much weight to people who dismiss climate change, giving them legitimacy they haven’t earned, posing serious danger to efforts aimed at raising public awareness and motivating rapid action, a new study shows.

While it is not uncommon for media outlets to interview climate change scientists and climate change deniers in the same interviews, the effort to offer a 360-degree view is creating a false balance between trained climate scientists and those who lack scientific training, such as politicians.

“It’s not just false balance; the numbers show that the media are ‘balancing’ experts — who represent the overwhelming majority of reputable scientists — with the views of a relative handful of non-experts,” UC Merced professor LeRoy Westerling said. “Most of the contrarians are not scientists, and the ones who are have very thin credentials. They are not in the same league with top scientists. They aren’t even in the league of the average career climate scientist.”

 

If anyone wants to read the original study published in Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09959-4

 

 

 

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19 minutes ago, Rippounet said:

He's assuming a lot of mis-identifications...

I think he's mostly pointing out the difference between some scientists' public stance (say, Curry, Pielke) and their research.

Oh, and Denning, who is clearly wrongly placed. But that's more of an innocent error.

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