On MMO-C we learn that Anti-Fascism is locking arms with corporations, the State Department and agreeing with the CIA, But opposing the CIA and corporate America, and thinking Jews have a right to buy land and can expect tenants to pay rent THAT is ultra-Fash Nazism. Bellingcat is an MI6/CIA cut out. Clyburn Truther.
Low carbon energy is inevitable in the extreme long-term, sure. We're still 30 or 40 years out from a broad based grid that can use renewables as baseload power. Battery prototypes aren't able to hold enough charge for enough cycles at a cost necessary to entail rollout, though I expect the generation of devices after this upcoming one will be viable for a grid-wide rollout. That said, that sort of long-term thinking doesn't characterize corporations, especially in the energy sector.
"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
Which is exactly why he did it. Makes him look smart to the dumb people and dumb to the smart people. He got a rise out of people who were in support of such a weak agreement by not agreeing to it in the first place. Makes him look like a genius to all the climate change deniers.
"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
Why?On the other hand, the EU is the one that subsidizes Russia's economy. They might want to change that.
Why do people keep insisting that Russia is the enemy?
The cold war is over, you know.
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and they all stink. And yes, smart ass I have, but keep up that garbage you are doing it would be long for you and germany. and No American is scared of north korea. Want to talk about retards for leaders, how about that flip-flop Merkel... Talk about morons.
Why are people upset? Thousands of men have pulled out of Paris before...
Not to troll, but doesn't Climate change happen regardless of human interaction with the environment? How much worse are we making it?
I won't repeat the same links, but to give you an idea, during an ice age (we're in one; there are ice caps), there are glacial periods, where glaciers expand (what's incorrectly called an "ice age" in popular media), and interglacials, like the one we're again in.
The difference in global temperatures from the coldest point of the glacial period to the warmest of the interglacial is about 10 degrees Celsius. Here's the last four interglacials;
Now, I want to be clear about a few things; these are four different timelines, not concurrent events. They're overlaid here so you can see that they follow similar warming patterns, and more importantly, warming rates. The most critical for our purposes is the red line, the most recent interglacial. The "normal" line is based on warming since about 1900 (to eliminate yearly variance, it's actually an average of 1881-1910), before anthropogenic warming kicked off. So that's "0C", in that baseline. We'll come back to that.
Now, we can see that the last glacial period bottomed out at about -10C below that point, and spiked up quickly to about -1C, before warming slowly to the modern era (some variance, but generally warming up to 0C). Overall, that took about 6,000 years. This is geologically rapid, and far exceeds the cooling-off of glacial periods, which typically take 60,000-100,000 years to fall back down.
So that's about 9C of warming in 6,000 years. Or about 1 degree every 650 years, give or take.
Now, since 1900, about 120 years, the Earth has warming about 0.8 degrees. That's about 4.3C per 650 years, by comparison. Four times as fast as the most rapid warming due to natural influences.
And the anthropogenic warming is accelerating. Most of that warming was actually since 1950, not 1900. The Paris Accords are an attempt to keep warming by 2100 below the 2C mark. That would be 2 degrees since 1900, or one degree every century, so 6.5 times faster than natural cycles could manage, and that's something we hope to slow the warming down to. Because left alone, it's gonna be faster than that.
It also bears noting that this warming is also at the peak of an interglacial's warm point, and this could easily pull us out of the Quaternary Ice Age completely, which we've been in for millions of years, with massive global climate consequences. Which the natural cycles, by dint of being cycles, don't.
I dont know why people are so mad about this, if the country sigh and do nothing about it what happens? NOTHING.
For exemple Brazil sigh the accord and last week the senete removed a big part of a legal reserve so it can be explored by agriculture, and what the accord will do to brazil? NOTHING. If anyone cares check out the size of the legal reserve.
studies show the paris accord would reduce U.S. GDP by over $2.5 trillion and eliminate 400,000 jobs, it would have increased the electricity costs of an American family of four by between 13 percent and 20 percent annually and The regulations necessary to implement it would have cost the U.S. industrial sector 1 million jobs. Trump asked if it could be renegotiated, and several European countries said no, if it was really about saving the Earth why wouldn't they renegotiate?
Not "studies". A bit of garbage that seems to have been invented wholesale by Scott Pruit, known climate change denier.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...o_nothing.html