HexMachina Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 11 hours ago, maarsen said: Not asking much of autopilots are we? At least auto pilots arent going to be drink drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leofric Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 Look how fast this thing ignites after a collision- https://www.instagram.com/p/B0_izPjnfYV/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThinkerX Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 12 hours ago, ThinkerX said: 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 If only we all agreed on what it means to get rid of ICE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 i suppose he'd deport the greenlanders as unlawful aliens in order to make room for casinos and golf courses and other trashy frivolities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liffguard Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 A useful resource for sorting supported claims from unsupported claims in climate reporting. Helpful for debunking deniers, but also useful in criticising people who are unhelpfully inaccurate in their claims about the changes that are happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liffguard Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThinkerX Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Those Christians that claim "Gaawd makes da waves!! " Can really jump through some amazing hoops to explain tsunamis wiping out whole coasts. Smh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Quote 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: Quote They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. nevertheless: Quote 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueMetis Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 The ends times have been "rapidly approaching" since a decade after Jesus supposedly died. I hate that we give idiots like this any sort of platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all swedes are racist Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 wanna stop climate change? laughter is the best medicine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rippounet Posted August 23, 2019 Author Share Posted August 23, 2019 You'd think the media was doing a decent job at informing people about climate change... But apparently not. Quote 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all swedes are racist Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 wow that’s crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorshach Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 4 hours ago, Rippounet said: You'd think the media was doing a decent job at informing people about climate change... But apparently not. If anyone wants to read the original study published in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09959-4 Reaction here from one scientist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rippounet Posted August 23, 2019 Author Share Posted August 23, 2019 20 minutes ago, Rorshach said: Reaction here from one scientist. He's assuming a lot of mis-identifications... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorshach Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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