• Global carbon dioxide levels break 400ppm milestone.
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[QUOTE=Ragekipz;47677549]I blame China.[/QUOTE] Their country WAS spewing purple for almost the whole video. Noticed that a couple times from the east coast here, too. [editline]7th May 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Savant231A;47677427]Christ, in that video you can actually see the Amazonian rainforests breathing[/QUOTE] I was amazed when I saw that. The Earth lives and breathes and we're killing it :(
Unless China stops spewing shit into the atmosphere at a phenomenal rate we don't have a chance. Then Brazil and India will take its place...
Come to think of it this kind of reminds me of this [video=youtube;KAbD119ACuA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAbD119ACuA&t=16s[/video]
[QUOTE=Superwafflez;47677723]Unless China stops spewing shit into the atmosphere at a phenomenal rate we don't have a chance. Then Brazil and India will take its place...[/QUOTE] Nope, Brazil don't use Coal for power. We have nuclear power plants, hydroelectric plants and we use ethanol based on every single vegetable you can imagine. The most popular cars in the country are flex, which can use both ethanol and common gas. On top of that we also use natural gas on cars and other stuff. Most of our problems are retarded farmers burning the woods so the cattle can eat.
[QUOTE=Ragekipz;47677777]Nope, Brazil don't use Coal for power. We have nuclear power plants, hydroelectric plants and we use ethanol based on every single vegetable you can imagine. The most popular cars in the country are flex, which can use both ethanol and common gas. On top of that we also use natural gas on cars and other stuff. Most of our problems are retarded farmers burning the woods so the cattle can eat.[/QUOTE] All that ethanol requires land for corn, which if i'm not mistake is a cause of the deforestation, among other things.
I don't want to live in a world with my future family that we'll be slowly losing our oxygen. It's gonna take a TON of motivation to get countries like China and the US to step up even further in environmental preservation and awareness. Problem is that the industry is so used to the same old routine that's ironically killing us that the thought of changing everything would go past their minds. "Ah it's just a bit of CO2 in the air it's not gonna kill you." Only a economical crisis or another protest in the vain of The Occupy movement could ever change their minds.
Nuke China and Europe. It's the only way to stop the madness killing our planet. We were here first you selfish pricks.
[QUOTE=Yahnich;47677901]wh-what...[/QUOTE] Poe's Law (I hope)
[QUOTE=Propane Addict;47677816]Nuke China and Europe. It's the only way to stop the madness killing our planet. We were here first you selfish pricks.[/QUOTE] What do you even mean first? First in what?
[QUOTE=Deng;47677930]What do you even mean first? First in what?[/QUOTE] FIRST IN FREEDOM
[QUOTE=OvB;47677813]All that ethanol requires land for corn, which if i'm not mistake is a cause of the deforestation, among other things.[/QUOTE] Nope we can make ethanol from lots of stuff, but we mostly suggarcane. Suggarcane does cause deforestation and deforestation increase on carbon emissions, which is why we're doing research to make ethanol from different plants.
[QUOTE=Ragekipz;47678190]Nope we can make ethanol from lots of stuff, but we mostly suggarcane.[/QUOTE] Sugarcane still requires land though. What I'm saying is ethanol = deforestation.
[QUOTE=OvB;47678229]Sugarcane still requires land though. What I'm saying is ethanol = deforestation.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I've edited my OP, thanks.
Im glad my state almost entirely uses renewable energy sources. something like 85 percent of our power is hydroelectric.
[QUOTE=OvB;47678229]Sugarcane still requires land though. What I'm saying is ethanol = deforestation.[/QUOTE] On top of that the land will need to be irrigated, which will no doubt lead to salinisation.
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I wonder if the impending death is enough to make us hurry the fuck up with a solution or were just gonna be like "lol I'll probably be dead of natural causes by the time this happens!
The problem isnt only just industries refusing to help out, its that people actually believe that global warming isnt man made. The other day, a third of my class believed that global warming wasnt man made, that the entire thing about climate change is sponsored by "alarmists" Science denial bothers me to no end. The complete ignorance of so many people makes it difficult to push for any change.
[QUOTE=Deng;47677396]Well no. While rising CO2 emissions is bad, it's not going to make the air literally unbreathable. Most of the effects involve things such as increased ocean acidity (which will damage coral reefs for instance) or adding to the greenhouse effect, which will make it warmer. There have been multiple times in earths history where the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere was much much higher than it is today, and the amount of oxygen in the air was comparable to today's. Also most of the effects of climate change are longer term. Most of the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are going to be around in a century (albeit hemorrhaging ice at a rapid rate), and probably for a few more centuries afterwards. As for the air however, we aren't at any risk of actually choking to death (unless you live in heavily polluted places such as certain Chinese cities).[/QUOTE] most dangerous to us, sea level rise aside, is the effect that it'll have on agriculture when the climate changes and the seasonal cycles shift and suddenly food grows most optimally at a different time than before, it poses major challenges to farmers in way of adaptation, and agrarian societies, whose entire economies are based on the seasonal cycle, are thrown for a loop, no doubt resulting in at least short-term food shortages. this is also nothing to say of how temperature changes might make typical crops ungrowable in certain areas. from the third and fourth assessment reports from the IPCC [QUOTE]In Africa and Latin America many rainfed crops are near their maximum temperature tolerance, so that yields are likely to fall sharply for even small climate changes, with falls in agricultural productivity of up to 30% over the 21st century. Estimates indicate that between 75 million and 250 million people in Africa will be affected by water shortages caused by climate change. As in any situation of economic imbalance, the poor will be the most affected – losing livelihood opportunities and access to food and water.[/QUOTE]
i am pretty sure china has cut its carbon emission levels alot recently
But we use only 3-6% of "land" in the World to produce all the ethanol that we use.
[QUOTE=4NGRY MUFF1N;47742879]But we use only 3-6% of "land" in the World to produce all the ethanol that we use.[/QUOTE] to replace fossil fuels you would obviously have to use even more land not only do you then have food crops competing with fuel crops for space (an increasingly dark prospect considering GCC reducing crop yields and population growth increasing demand for both), but the processes of farming sugar cane and burning ethanol still release carbon dioxide our best bet for energy security is a combination of all energy solutions, based flexibly on where certain sources can be best put to use. solar, wind, geothermal, and nuclear energy (specifically thorium) should all play a role in our energy future. meanwhile, better efficiency and energy standards for technologies both industrial and commercial are necessary.
[QUOTE=mecaguy03;47679197]Im glad my state almost entirely uses renewable energy sources. something like 85 percent of our power is hydroelectric.[/QUOTE] Hydroelectric dams submerge large areas of land upstream from them, emits quite a bit of methane, and people being displaced. Also the risk of one failing(banqiao dam). Quite a shitty renewable power source, better than coal/oil, but still not good.
[QUOTE]or another protest in the vain of The Occupy movement could ever change their minds.[/QUOTE] Occupy didn't accomplish squat. Want change? Here what you really do. You create your own cult. Gain a bunch of followers. Then gain a bunch of money. Have said followers infest the government and said corporations (in the same vain as Scientology did) Lobby policy makers to give you bailouts and contracts to replace said angencies in form of privatization. Use money gained from scheme and divide the wealth amongst the citizens Use new found wealth to sue the hell out any one who gets in your way When the tangencies are infested enough, use new found power to harass and squash the opposition. Drain the government and corporation dry (I believe this is the mutalistic approach) and replace it with your own. This is the only way.... Tldr In short you have to conspire like some skull and daggers movie like shit and take over from the shadows and create a bloodless take over.
[QUOTE=TheRealRudy;47677208]yep that's the sign, time to leave this shithole of a planet and colonise the stars[/QUOTE] I'm sure a colony on a star will be much better.
[QUOTE=OvB;47677813]All that ethanol requires land for corn, which if i'm not mistake is a cause of the deforestation, among other things.[/QUOTE] Yep, one of the main reasons Brasilia is cutting down rainforests is too grow corn crops
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;47677059]No wonder it's going to be 80 fucking degrees today while I'm at work. Thanks humanity.[/QUOTE] weather and climate are two very different things
[QUOTE=Lolkork;47744242]I honestly think we are completely fucked. Most people and companies wont do shit to reduce their co2 emissions if they have to sacrifice something, even if they completely understand the threat of global warming.[/QUOTE]If they won't do it willingly we must force it through law. It will end really bad otherwise.
I thought we were planting more trees and building weird CO2 converting billboards?
[QUOTE=Lolkork;47744310]I don't think politicians would do that, something like a high co2 tax would make stuff like meat, plane tickets and gas considerably more expensive. that would never happen because it would be extremely unpopular.[/QUOTE] That can also be solved
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