A little bit of Column A...

Vitruvius — 10/2/2020 9:47:46 AM (archived)

Climate change is definitely responsible for starting the whole mess off. As for keeping it going, the heat and dryness of the fires also helps.

One interesting tidbit I read a while back talked about the reflective properties of jet exhaust (read: instant clouds), and how they were actually cooling the planet to an extent by reflecting solar energy back into space. To drive the point home (with an axe), the nationwide grounding of air traffic after the Tw1n Towers was used as an example - once this occurred, the average temperature nationwide spiked a whole degree.

For those of you unaware, this level of temperature rise is also what gives climatologists nightmares about a "climate apocalypse"

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/dc/earth_temperature_timeline.png

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Hot Earth - johannes - 9/27/2020 4:25:27 AM
- A little bit of Column A... - Vitruvius - 10/2/2020 9:47:46 AM
  - Thank you Vitruvius. - johannes - 10/8/2020 11:13:36 PM
    - I'm gonna have to stop you there... - Vitruvius - 10/16/2020 2:43:44 AM
      - One more thing - johannes - 10/25/2020 4:49:10 AM
        
        Dimensional analysis is your friend... - RL - 10/25/2020 1:43:38 PM
      - We have done the numbers repeatedly for Johannes... - RL - 10/16/2020 4:32:05 AM
        
        To RL - johannes - 10/25/2020 4:55:32 AM
        
        Point to one place where I ever claimed you could - RL - 10/25/2020 7:52:29 AM
        
        pointing to one place - johannes - 10/25/2020 8:15:23 PM
        
        Two decades and you still have not managed to learn that much... - RL - 10/25/2020 9:37:30 PM
        
        Two decades - johannes - 10/26/2020 7:17:58 PM
        
        When you assert that energy has units of velocity squared then you are not conveying information... - RL - 10/26/2020 10:22:45 PM
        
        And I thought that you understood mathematics.!!! - johannes - 10/28/2020 1:14:05 AM
        
        Dear Johannes - ER - 10/28/2020 1:00:47 PM
        
        Thank you ER. Teachers like you are very valuable. - johannes - 10/29/2020 2:46:38 AM
        
        I know very little Relativity, Special or General. - ER - 10/29/2020 3:48:40 AM
        
        E=mc^2 is actually only for the rest mass energy - RL - 10/29/2020 5:10:47 AM
        
        Quantum and Relativity were lumped in "Modern Physics" in my day. - ER - 10/29/2020 1:16:17 PM
        
        /0 - podrock - 10/28/2020 4:52:50 AM
        
        At least that would be something... - RL - 10/28/2020 7:01:12 AM
        
        Johannes, your 'equations' are gibberish - RL - 10/28/2020 1:25:10 AM
        
        If you were a bird what would you do every day? - johannes - 10/29/2020 3:03:48 AM
  - Not bad enough . . . - DanS - 10/2/2020 5:04:46 PM
    - We don't HAVE a few generations to get it right - RL - 10/2/2020 6:29:47 PM
      - Maybe you should just go and pull the covers over your head. - DanS - 10/8/2020 3:52:24 PM
        
        Nope, I am not a Republican... - RL - 10/8/2020 6:37:29 PM
        
        I didn't write the article, all I did was post it . . . - DanS - 10/8/2020 10:53:50 PM
- Antarctica Could Melt 'Irreversibly' Due to Climate Change, Study Warns . . . - DanS - 10/1/2020 5:53:53 PM
  - Look on the bright side, Dan. - ER - 10/1/2020 7:20:52 PM
    - Earth is self-healing, true . . . - DanS - 10/2/2020 5:22:07 PM
    - It will also get bigger - podrock - 10/2/2020 12:04:12 AM
- Yet again... it is a matter of scale - RL - 9/28/2020 2:03:45 AM
  - Again yes - johannes - 10/1/2020 12:53:27 AM
    - "I have my answers I’m waiting for yours." - RL - 10/1/2020 1:16:18 AM
      - Again yes - johannes - 10/2/2020 3:54:36 AM
        
        *Sigh* Good-bye Johannes - RL - 10/2/2020 4:09:52 AM
- Welcome back, Johannes. - ER - 9/27/2020 11:59:11 AM
  - Hi! ER. - johannes - 9/27/2020 5:49:16 PM
    - Hi! ER. - johannes - 9/27/2020 5:51:27 PM
      - A Pierson's Puppeteer - ER - 9/27/2020 6:42:04 PM
        
        Thanks for the explanation: I’m not familiar with Larry Niven’s work; sounds interesting. - johannes - 9/28/2020 12:56:39 AM
        
        Ringworld! - DanS - 10/2/2020 5:24:28 PM
        
        If you like Ringworld ... - Vitruvius - 10/3/2020 9:43:21 PM

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