Message from @randomNPCno3
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They can handle it well
Pratchett liked the term "lies to children"
Things that are correct enough to give the right idea
But not necessarily true
Like I think therefore I am?
Yeah
"the earth is a sphere"
Or things like "the rain comes from clouds" true, but not the full story
the real answer is it's kinda sphere shaped, but not quite.
funny thing that, a while back it dawned on me that the idea that global warming would lead to drought is kinda silly.
if the oceans are warmer then more water will evaporate from them, and become clouds, and then rain.
also, the clouds make the area much cooler most of the time, so that system on it's own kinda becomes a global thermostat.
The earth tends to self regulate on an average on 2-4° variance. We're currently right in the middle of that swing. And Everytime the earth experienced a spike in warmth humanity has experienced a massive leap in the complexity of our societies
Actual global warming is good
so one might even say that the earth being warmer is better for us?
who would have thought! /s
Geologist and archeologists mostly
that was one of the other things that had dawned on me a while back, if the earth were to warm up so the arctic circle was growable land wouldn't that be good for the world because that is a lot of growable land now.
I want to say something like a 3rd of our land or so is just frozen and nearly useless to us.
We had that not too long ago geologically speaking, the medieval warm period
Nah, you're making that up. Green... land, it's only in the name.
Why would they call a land green, that's green.
could have been medieval marketing?
Idk, Iceland was green back then too, still called it Iceland
what are they gonna say once they get there and it's an ice sheet?
someone got the name cards mixed up?
During warm periods, the ice sheets disappear over the course of like a week. It's actually a very fast process. They've been able to determine this from the ice cores
The historical climate timeline is no longer measured in millions of years
But days
interesting, not surprising though.
Great episode
Up there with the grahm Hancock ones
its not even about if global warming is good or bad
its that the left refusal to analyze it ik a logical manner
theres an optimal amount of carbon vs money spent vs heat, but because they are acting in supposed panic they do inefectual things
you know how much money does for example california spend in stupid inefectual policies like electric school buses?
that money would be better spent in gas plants in china
The environmentalists in Australia are partially responsible for the intensity of the fires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxw4UucqNCc
Because "muh wild life" therefore "fuck human lives"