Posts by Mysterion

Burn all the coal, oil – No danger of sea level rise this century from Antarctic ice melt

Quote from Dr. Caldeira:

"We took a model and emitted all of the carbon dioxide available in fossil fuel resources, and that model — which has a very low climate sensitivity, and what I would consider a hyperactive land biosphere — produced 9-degree Centigrade warming globally and 20 degrees around East Antarctica.

Now that’s 16 degrees Fahrenheit globally, and something like 36 degrees around Antarctica, which could be enough to threaten the ice sheet."

I think that means it will get hot. And the polar caps would melt. That's enough of a problem for me.

Scientific consensus that 2014 was record hottest year? No

Why is the Reg so into this?

What the hell does air and water quality have to do with IT? Secondly, Lots of things are damaging and we try to protect ourselves from them. So, whether global weirding is caused by humans or aardvarks, we might want to do something about it.

Pollution=bad. Crap in my air=bad. Crap in my plants=bad. Tornadoes=bad. Letting a few million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico=bad.

I think the Reg is off the rails and should work on something else. It's tedious and irritating that the Reg spends so much time on something they know nothing about.

Show me your climatology degree and I'll maybe listen. Otherwise, how about changing your focus. Mmm, computers? Maybe?

Last, if we try not to screw the planet up, a few obscenely rich people might have to put off that new 800 foot yacht for another month or two. Not a single soul that reads this rag will be put out more than a dollar or two. But, if the hacks that the Reg digs up are wrong, we could suffer mightily.

I simply do not get the Reg's purpose for this subject.