Climate Change in Australia (Part 1)

[Bomber1408]

https://astronomynow.com/2015/07/17/diminishing-solar-activity-may-bring-new-ice-age-by-2030/

[FromOutside50]

Supposed to? It is getting hotter.

[Bacchusfox]

■■■■■■ cold here this winter. We have lost many plants due to severe frosts. Bring on this warmer weather,

[Gnik]

Maybe the diminishing solar activity will offset AGW and we will all live happily ever after.

[Essendon12]

64 acres of rainforest are being destroyed per minute… 2.8 million acres per month.

Rainforests cover only 2% of the Earth’s surface, yet house 2/3 of all living species on the planet.

70% of the 3000 plants identified as active against cancer cells by the US National Cancer Institute are found in the rain forest. Nearly half the medicine compounds we use every day come from plants endemic to the tropical rainforest.

More rainforest facts…

… Rainforests are critical in maintaining the Earth’s limited supply of drinking and fresh water.

… Almost half of the world’s original 4 billion acres of rainforest are now gone. The area lost equals the combined size of Washington, Idaho, California, Nevada and Arizona.

So based on that we will have no rainforests in 10 months.

Hard to believe anything in that articles given author has obviously failed to do any due diligence or fact checking at all.

[Essendon12]

Actually - just saw that the article was written seven years ago.

Do these people just make things up?

[Preliminary_Point2]

So based on that we will have no rainforests in 10 months

Not sure on your maths.

The article says half of 4 billion forest is gone. So 2 billion left.

A usage rate of 2.8 million a month gives 28 million in 10 months??

[Gnik]

64 acres of rainforest are being destroyed per minute… 2.8 million acres per month.

Rainforests cover only 2% of the Earth’s surface, yet house 2/3 of all living species on the planet.

70% of the 3000 plants identified as active against cancer cells by the US National Cancer Institute are found in the rain forest. Nearly half the medicine compounds we use every day come from plants endemic to the tropical rainforest.

More rainforest facts…

… Rainforests are critical in maintaining the Earth’s limited supply of drinking and fresh water.

… Almost half of the world’s original 4 billion acres of rainforest are now gone. The area lost equals the combined size of Washington, Idaho, California, Nevada and Arizona.

So based on that we will have no rainforests in 10 months.

Hard to believe anything in that articles given author has obviously failed to do any due diligence or fact checking at all.

I have no idea if the figures in the article are correct, but -

2% of earth’s surface works out to 736,077,509 acres.
10 months destruction is 28,000,000 acres.

[Essendon12]

Not sure on your maths.
The article says half of 4 billion forest is gone. So 2 billion left.
A usage rate of 2.8 million a month gives 28 million in 10 months??

Ahh yes. You are right of course. Even I make mistakes sometimes.

[sorfed]

Lucky for them they don’t live in Orange or Dubbo

[machina]

Technically an ice age is a period with substantial​ land ice. We’ve been in one for a few million years. Ice ages have glacial periods where that ice expands. What gets commonly called the ice age is strictly speaking the last glacial period. We’re currently in an interglacial period.

[IceTemple]

Didn’t know where else to put this. Big issue if we are just stockpiling and dumping our recyclables.

Recycling being stockpiled and dumped in landfill as glass market crashes

[sorfed]

You know that money you pay to tyre retailers for disposal and recycling.

Internet marketing company in Panama owns a dump of 9 million tyres in Victoria

[handypoint]

Can’t wait for one of those self driving electric cars that go super fast.

Right thread?

[Jezz]

There’s a Tesla thread somewhere. Also a car thread.

[HowManyGoal]

They do go super fast.

[sorfed]

Global Warming, Anthropogenic Global Warming, Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming, Climate Change and now

USDA office told to use ‘weather extremes’ instead of 'climate change'

Time for a name change.
What’s next? Global Cooling.

[bigallan]

There is supposed to be a trial of driverless cars on the Tulla freeway. Won’t be going too fast with the traffic jams there atm

[benfti]

You do realise that climate and weather are different yeah?

[Clark_Griswold]

There is supposed to be a trial of driverless cars on the Tulla freeway. Won’t be going too fast with the traffic jams there atm

Transurban trying to demonstrate their capabilities ahead of any future shift to autonomous cars. They want to make sure the government keeps turning to them to fund road infrastructure.