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#15008359
jimjam wrote:It is interesting to see that a clean environment has become the dominion of "liberals" and environmentalists are equated to terrorists by Fox Fake News and other plutocratic propaganda outlets.

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"Liberal" trademark ^

While pollution, filth, lies and extinction of species has become the dominion of "conservatives" and any thought of ranking the preservation of planet earth over and above the making of as much money as fast as possible is considered a sinister deep state plot to enslave humanity (ie. Billionaires/plutocrats).


It's funny that you post that photo.

It's from the website of Cameco Fuel Corporation, whose President and CEO, Tim Gitzel, enjoys an annual salary of $6,258,420.

https://wallmine.com/nyse/ccj/officer/933339/timothy-gitzel

But I'm sure he's not doing it for the money...
#15008605
A few years ago, Kami Rita Sherpa, a veteran climber and guide, met with a gruesome sight at Mount Everest Base Camp. Human bones poked from the ground, smooth and ice-crusted.

It was not a fluke. Subsequent seasons yielded more remains — a skull, fingers, parts of legs. Guides increasingly believe that their findings fit into a broader development on the world’s highest mountain: A hotter climate has been unearthing climbers who never made it home.

“Snow is melting and bodies are surfacing,” said Mr. Sherpa, who has summited Everest 24 times, a world record. “Finding bones has become the new normal for us.”

The emerging bodies are part of a bigger change on the mountain. In the last decade, climate change has quickly reshaped the whole Himalayan region. The snow line on Everest is higher than it was just a few years ago. Areas once coated in dense ice are now exposed. Climbers are trading ice axes for rock pitons, spikes that are hammered into cracks on the mountain wall.

Not to worry though. This is, obviously, fake news posted by neo liberal eco terrorists intent on enslaving the human race :eek: . I saw a youtube somewhere that proved this fact beyond all doubt.
#15009026
jimjam wrote:Not to worry though. This is, obviously, fake news posted by neo liberal eco terrorists intent on enslaving the human race :eek: . I saw a youtube somewhere that proved this fact beyond all doubt.

I might have seen that video too. Perhaps that is why I don't buy into this global warming crap.
HalleluYah
#15010095
The average person eats at least 50,000 particles of microplastic a year and breathes in a similar quantity, according to the first study to estimate human ingestion of plastic pollution.

The true number is likely to be many times higher, as only a small number of foods and drinks have been analysed for plastic contamination. The scientists reported that drinking a lot of bottled water drastically increased the particles consumed.

Microplastic pollution is mostly created by the disintegration of plastic litter and appears to be ubiquitous across the planet. Researchers find microplastics everywhere they look; in the air, soil, rivers and the deepest oceans around the world.

They have been detected in tap and bottled water, seafood and beer. They were also found in human stool samples for the first time in October, confirming that people ingest the particles.

The new research, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, took the data from 26 previous studies that measure the amounts of microplastic particles in fish, shellfish, sugar, salt, beer and water, as well as in the air in cities.

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Tiny fragments and filaments of plastic in table salt crystals.
#15010886
jimjam wrote:The average person eats at least 50,000 particles of microplastic a year and breathes in a similar quantity, according to the first study to estimate human ingestion of plastic pollution.

The true number is likely to be many times higher, as only a small number of foods and drinks have been analysed for plastic contamination. The scientists reported that drinking a lot of bottled water drastically increased the particles consumed.

Microplastic pollution is mostly created by the disintegration of plastic litter and appears to be ubiquitous across the planet. Researchers find microplastics everywhere they look; in the air, soil, rivers and the deepest oceans around the world.

They have been detected in tap and bottled water, seafood and beer. They were also found in human stool samples for the first time in October, confirming that people ingest the particles.

The new research, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, took the data from 26 previous studies that measure the amounts of microplastic particles in fish, shellfish, sugar, salt, beer and water, as well as in the air in cities.

Obviously, this is a greater threat than climate change. Cleaning up the plastic and recycling is something that can be done.
#15011622
Rostin Behnam, who sits on the federal government’s five-member Commodities Futures Trading Commission, a powerful agency overseeing major financial markets including grain futures, oil trading and complex derivatives, said in an interview on Monday that the financial risks from climate change were comparable to those posed by the mortgage meltdown that triggered the 2008 financial crisis.

“If climate change causes more volatile frequent and extreme weather events, you’re going to have a scenario where these large providers of financial products — mortgages, home insurance, pensions — cannot shift risk away from their portfolios,” he said. “It’s abundantly clear that climate change poses financial risk to the stability of the financial system.”

In January, the California electricity provider Pacific Gas and Electric declared bankruptcy while facing billions of dollars in liability costs related to damages from two years of wildfires. Experts said that could be an early indicator of a wider economic toll from climate change, which is making wildfires more frequent and destructive. The same month, the Bank of England said it intended to include climate change in its “doomsday scenario” stress tests, which the bank runs to ensure it has enough capital to withstand major financial shocks.

A coalition of 39 central banks, representing about half the global economy and including the central banks of England, China, Canada Japan and the European Union (but not the United States), has convened a working group to study to study the effects of climate change on financial markets.

What IS wrong with these people. I could show them a cool utube video that proves beyond all doubt that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by eco terrorists to control our lives :lol: .
#15011809
jimjam wrote:Rostin Behnam, who sits on the federal government’s five-member Commodities Futures Trading Commission, a powerful agency overseeing major financial markets including grain futures, oil trading and complex derivatives, said in an interview on Monday that the financial risks from climate change were comparable to those posed by the mortgage meltdown that triggered the 2008 financial crisis.

“If climate change causes more volatile frequent and extreme weather events, you’re going to have a scenario where these large providers of financial products — mortgages, home insurance, pensions — cannot shift risk away from their portfolios,” he said. “It’s abundantly clear that climate change poses financial risk to the stability of the financial system.”

In January, the California electricity provider Pacific Gas and Electric declared bankruptcy while facing billions of dollars in liability costs related to damages from two years of wildfires. Experts said that could be an early indicator of a wider economic toll from climate change, which is making wildfires more frequent and destructive. The same month, the Bank of England said it intended to include climate change in its “doomsday scenario” stress tests, which the bank runs to ensure it has enough capital to withstand major financial shocks.

A coalition of 39 central banks, representing about half the global economy and including the central banks of England, China, Canada Japan and the European Union (but not the United States), has convened a working group to study to study the effects of climate change on financial markets.

What IS wrong with these people. I could show them a cool utube video that proves beyond all doubt that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by eco terrorists to control our lives :lol: .

It is all about the money.
#15012136
Pants-of-dog wrote:Brulle never claims that the 900 million are all for climate change, despite what the Forbes editorial claims.


:knife: The article you posted claimed that.


And the comparison to Greenpeace is hilarious, since Greenpeace is a non-profit


All of the skeptic think tanks are non-profits.

does not attempt to obfuscate science,


Greenpeace has an ideological agenda just like every other NGO on the planet, it "obfuscates" with the best of them. Greenpeace is an outfit of militant eco-fanatics that's completely out of step with mainstream science.

Unfortunately, Greenpeace is also engaging in some anti-science actions. The most important ones are the dissemination of propaganda against nuclear power based on recycled, thoroughly discredited studies,[12] and while campaigns for strengthening GM labelling laws may garner a "meh" reaction,[13] its nearly dogmatic opposition to all forms of genetically modified food is much more sinister.[14][15]

The latter includes publicly funded or humanitarian uses, such as the Golden Rice Project, an attempt to cure chronic vitamin A deficiency in the developing countries using a genetically modified variety of rice that contains a high level of β-carotene.[16] The organization has sabotaged fields and deliveries of GM crops.[17][18] In at least one instance, Greenpeace was legally forced to retract an anti-nuclear advertisement that was found to contain misinformation.[19] In another incident, Greenpeace accidentally distributed unfinished leaflets that demonstrate their approach to informing the public:

“”In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE][20]
#15012138
A new meteorology study – carried out by scientists at the Met Office in collaboration with researchers at the Institute of Climate and Atmospheric Science at Leeds University – reports on the likely impact on Africa of temperature rises and indicates that western and central areas will suffer the worst impacts of weather disruptions. Many countries in these regions – including Niger, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo – are expected to experience substantial growth in population over that time and will be particularly vulnerable to severe floods.

“Essentially we have found that both ends of Africa’s weather extremes will get more severe,” said Elizabeth Kendon of the Met Office’s Hadley Centre in Exeter. “The wet extreme will get worse, but also the appearance of dry spells during the growing season will also get more severe. We have been able to model – in much finer detail than was previously possible – the manner in which rainfall patterns will change over Africa,” said Kendon. In the past it was thought intense rainfalls would occur in a region every 30 years. The new study, funded by UK foreign aid, indicates this is more likely to happen every three or four years. “Our research suggests that extreme bouts of rainfall are likely to be seven or eight times more frequent than they are today,” said Kendon.

Last month levels of carbon dioxide reached 415 parts per million, their highest level since Homo sapiens first appeared on Earth – and scientists warn that they are likely to continue on this upward curve for several decades. Global temperatures will be raised dangerously as a result.

Some of POFO's more enlightened members have it on good currency from utube videos that all of the above is a result of alarmist eco terror groups intent on taking over the world and controlling the human race :eek: ……. :lol: .
#15012143
Sivad wrote:The article you posted claimed that.


Who cares? That is not part of my argument, or Brulle’s.

All of the skeptic think tanks are non-profits.


I doubt this. And you are ignoring the fact that the donors to these supposed non-profits are companies that directly benefit from climate denialsim.

Greenpeace has an ideological agenda just like every other NGO on the planet, it "obfuscates" with the best of them. Greenpeace is an outfit of militant eco-fanatics that's completely out of step with mainstream science.


No, Greenpeace does not attempt to obfuscate science, despite your ad hominems.

Unfortunately, Greenpeace is also engaging in some anti-science actions. The most important ones are the dissemination of propaganda against nuclear power based on recycled, thoroughly discredited studies,[12] and while campaigns for strengthening GM labelling laws may garner a "meh" reaction,[13] its nearly dogmatic opposition to all forms of genetically modified food is much more sinister.[14][15]

The latter includes publicly funded or humanitarian uses, such as the Golden Rice Project, an attempt to cure chronic vitamin A deficiency in the developing countries using a genetically modified variety of rice that contains a high level of β-carotene.[16] The organization has sabotaged fields and deliveries of GM crops.[17][18] In at least one instance, Greenpeace was legally forced to retract an anti-nuclear advertisement that was found to contain misinformation.[19] In another incident, Greenpeace accidentally distributed unfinished leaflets that demonstrate their approach to informing the public:

“”In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE][20]


Oh, now you are uncritically copying and pasting other people’s arguments.

Have a good one.
#15012145
jimjam wrote:
Some of POFO's more enlightened members have it on good currency from utube videos


No, we have it from highly credentialed senior scientists who chair departments in some of the most prestigious research universities in the world. People like Curry, Salby, and Lindzen literally wrote the book in their respective fields.
#15012147
Sivad wrote:No, we have it from highly credentialed senior scientists who chair departments in some of the most prestigious research universities in the world. People like Curry, Salby, and Lindzen literally wrote the book in their respective fields.


Yes, you do like your arguments from authority.

How about finding a single verifiable claim from one of these people and defending that?
#15012182
Sivad wrote:a trace gas has increased from .025% to .04% over the last century...

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Sivad wrote:we have it from highly credentialed senior scientists who chair departments in some of the most prestigious research universities in the world


I see.

Pants-of-dog wrote:How about finding a single verifiable claim from one of these people and defending that?


:hmm: ……. I guess not.
#15012247
Greenpeace is known for its direct actions and has been described as the most visible environmental organization in the world.[11][12] Greenpeace has raised environmental issues to public knowledge,[13][14][15] and influenced both the private and the public sector.[16][17] Greenpeace has also been a source of controversy;[18] its motives and methods (some of the latter being illegal) have received criticism,[19][20] including an open letter from more than 100 Nobel laureates urging Greenpeace to end its campaign against genetically modified organisms (GMOs).[21] The organization's direct actions have sparked legal actions against Greenpeace activists,[22][23] such as fines and suspended sentences for destroying a test plot of genetically modified wheat[24][25][26] and damaging the Nazca Lines, a UN World Heritage site in Peru.[27]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace
#15012511
jimjam wrote:America alone generates 34.5m tons of plastic waste each year, enough to fill Houston’s Astrodome stadium 1,000 times.

With the largest population, China produced the largest quantity of plastic, at nearly 60 million tonnes.

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution

Asia’s plastic problem is choking the world’s oceans. Here’s how to fix it

ASEAN member states are among the world’s biggest sources of plastic pollution. More than half of the plastic waste in the ocean comes from just five Asian countries: China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, according to a 2017 report by the Ocean Conservancy and the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment.

Much of the pollution comes from rivers which carry mismanaged plastic waste to the ocean. A study by scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research found that 90% of ocean plastic originated from only 10 rivers, eight of which are in Asia.

The region’s key waterways all support large populations living nearby who rely on poor – and sometimes nonexistent – waste management systems. Uncollected waste is discarded into rivers which then carry it to the sea.

Governments across Asia are waking up to the devastating ecological and financial costs of polluted rivers and oceans. China, the biggest producer of plastic waste, has begun to tackle the problem. In addition to banning waste imports, it has pledged to reach a 35% recycling rate across 46 cities by 2020.

India wants to eliminate all single-use plastic in the country by 2022, and has introduced an immediate ban in Delhi.

Increasing recycling rates and reducing the amount of plastic in everyday use are positive first steps, but government policy could go much further. For example, through raising public awareness of the problem and providing alternatives to dumping waste in rivers by creating workable waste collection and management systems.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/ ... to-fix-it/
#15012725
Permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted, an expedition has discovered, in the latest sign that the global climate crisis is accelerating even faster than scientists had feared.

A team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks said they were astounded by how quickly a succession of unusually hot summers had destabilised the upper layers of giant subterranean ice blocks that had been frozen solid for millennia.

“What we saw was amazing,” Vladimir Romanovsky (a suspected eco terrorist bent upon controlling the human race :lol: ), a professor of geophysics at the university, told Reuters. “It’s an indication that the climate is now warmer than at any time in the last 5,000 or more years.“
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