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excerpted from an internal S Oil doc from 1989
1989 Oct Confidential S Group Planning Scenarios 1989-2010 Challenge and response - discusses climate refugees and shift to non-fossil fuels - Do entCloud
excerpted from an internal S Oil doc from 1989
1989 Oct Confidential S Group Planning Scenarios 1989-2010 Challenge and response - discusses climate refugees and shift to non-fossil fuels - Do entCloud
Antarctica is ‘greening’ at dramatic rate as climate heats | Antarctica | The GuardianPlant cover across the Antarctic peninsula has soared more than tenfold over the last few decades, as the climate crisis heats up the icy continent.
Analysis of satellite data found there was less than one sq kilometre of vegetation in 1986 but there was almost 12km2 of green cover by 2021. The spread of the plants, mostly mosses, has accelerated since 2016, the researchers found.
Normally have the pool shut down by late September. We're gonna swim today.
S and Exxon knew in the 1970s, then lied their asses off to protect their ROI.
Exxon scientists predicted global warming with 'shocking skill and accuracy,' Harvard researchers say — Harvard GazetteHarvard’s scientists used established Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) statistical techniques to test the performance of Exxon’s models. They found that, depending on the metric used, 63-83 percent of the global warming projections reported by Exxon scientists were consistent with actual temperatures over time. Moreover, the corporation’s own projections had an average “skill score” of 72 percent, plus or minus 6 percent, with the highest scoring 99 percent. A skill score relates to how well a forecast compares to what happens in real life. For comparison, NASA scientist James Hansen’s global warming predictions presented to the U.S. Congress in 1988 had scores from 38 to 66 percent.
Summary of all global warming projections reported by ExxonMobil scientists in internal do ents between 1977 and 2003 (gray lines), superimposed on historically observed temperature change (red). Solid gray lines indicate global warming projections modeled by ExxonMobil scientists themselves; dashed gray lines indicate projections internally reproduced by ExxonMobil scientists from third-party sources. Shades of gray scale with model start dates, from earliest (1977: lightest) to latest (2003: darkest).The researchers report that Exxon scientists correctly dismissed the possibility of a coming ice age, accurately predicted that human-caused global warming would first be detectable in the year 2000, plus or minus five years, and reasonably estimated how much CO2 would lead to dangerous warming.
Even with the weather changing and it not being as hot... it's still hot af and not worth doing anything outside unless a heat stroke is what you're after.
barring megavolcano eruptions, giant meteor strikes and AGW, the rate of change shouldn't be noticeable in historical time
diminishing albedo and sea ice cooling will tend to accelerate the feedback loop
Really miss those days, tbh.
98 at 3PM. Wonder if Hitler Day will become our first 100 degree day ever recorded in October.
99 at 4PM
sounds about right to me.
at this point -- at best -- we're mitigating the rate of catastrophe, not escaping it.
https://x.com/amywestervelt/status/1847307823182471221
What was the easy moderate change 40 years ago?
I've already asked you what you're willing to do to save the planet in this thread. The answer was nothing, somebody else needs to magically fix it.
Last edited by SnakeBoy; 10-18-2024 at 04:44 PM.
the ol' "you better kill yoself or you're not serious" gambit.
there are no individual solutions to systemic problems, silly
that said, talking to others about the problem is without any doubt part of creating the political will to *do something* about it
There's no system solution that doesn't involve you changing how you live
What was easy moderate change 40 years ago?
That's Amy Westervelt, not me. I'd just be guessing.
In retrospect all missed opportunities seem clearer; more nuclear power was probably one.
My emphasis was more on Westervelt's observation about the present. If radical changes aren't made to the technical base, radical environmental changes will cook the planet and wreck civilization. It's already happening, tbh.
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