Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Well let's get off to a good start then and kill Grind!
climate change about face
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Well let's get off to a good start then and kill Grind!
No, he can live because he is so devoted to the internet and trying to kill himself on the roads, there is little chance of a new generation of Grindettes.
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
I have a cousin who is a director for a major defense company who lives a significant amount of time in the north London Suburbs and he loves it there, love the people, culture, etc, but he does admit that the maritime climate can get deppressing.....Good thing he has a home in Orlando too.
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
No way. He'll find a Grindette and breed like cock roaches. I say play it safe and kill him now!
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Yet previously to that, until April there had been two winters of very little rainfall, so much so that there were hosepipe bans in the South East.
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The Almighty
Could that be because it is not a concern? The fertility rate in over 40% of the countries on the planet is below the replacement rate. The countries with the highest fertility rates also tend to have the lower life expectancies. World population will likely peak within 30 years, then decline.
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Meanwhile there is nothing on Earth that will stop it topping 9 billion.
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The Almighty
yes, the expectation is that it will peak between 8.8 and 10.1 Billion... and then according to projections it will peak around 2055-2060 and then decline back towards 8.4B by the end of the century.
this is assuming of course that there isn't a massive war/plague of some sort.
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The Almighty
an interesting piece on the issue... by no means conclusive, but a good read.
http://www.spiegel.de/international...-global-population-will-plateau-a-795479.html
there will be wars for resources before then
the developing nations will be raped for their resources, as china is already doing but much more so
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There are destined to be endless resource wars way before then, water for one, unless we can work out a way to tow a few icebergs to the Middle East.
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The Almighty
water, perhaps... but that is about it...
We have more than enough oil and nat gas available to us, we have the ability to build more nuclear plants, we have an abundance of technology to continue improving our consumption efficiency, we continue to invest in R&D in cleaner alternatives.
That said, if there are endless resource wars, then we will not likely hit the 9 Billion level. Because fertility rates are dropping rapidly around the world as it is. An increase in death due to war would simply expedite the population peak timeline and its subsequent decline.
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I wonder who will replace all the rain forest that will chopped down for timber and land?
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Dr. John Christy, Alabama’s State Climatologist, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville testified before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing on global warming and stated:
“During the heat wave of late June and early July, high temperature extremes became newsworthy. Claims that there were thousands of records broken each day and that “this is what global warming looks like” got a lot of attention.
However, these headlines were not based on climate science. As shown in Figure 1.3 of my testimony it is scientifically more accurate to say that this is what Mother Nature looks like, since events even worse than these have happened in the past before greenhouse gases were increasing like they are today. Now, it gives some people great comfort to offer a quick and easy answer when the weather strays from the average rather than to struggle with the real truth, which is, we don’t know enough about the climate to even predict events like this.
A climatologist looking at this heat wave would not be alarmed because the number of daily high temperature records set in the most recent decade was only about half the number set in the 1930s as shown in my written testimony. I suppose most people have forgotten that Oklahoma set a new record low temperature just last year of 31 below. And in the past two years, towns from Alaska to my home state of California established records for snowfall. The recent anomalous weather can’t be blamed on carbon dioxide.
See also his written testimony here
“During the heat wave of late June and early July, high temperature extremes became newsworthy. Claims that there were thousands of records broken each day and that “this is what global warming looks like” got a lot of attention.
However, these headlines were not based on climate science. As shown in Figure 1.3 of my testimony it is scientifically more accurate to say that this is what Mother Nature looks like, since events even worse than these have happened in the past before greenhouse gases were increasing like they are today. Now, it gives some people great comfort to offer a quick and easy answer when the weather strays from the average rather than to struggle with the real truth, which is, we don’t know enough about the climate to even predict events like this.
A climatologist looking at this heat wave would not be alarmed because the number of daily high temperature records set in the most recent decade was only about half the number set in the 1930s as shown in my written testimony. I suppose most people have forgotten that Oklahoma set a new record low temperature just last year of 31 below. And in the past two years, towns from Alaska to my home state of California established records for snowfall. The recent anomalous weather can’t be blamed on carbon dioxide.
See also his written testimony here
