Climate Change

[Doodoo]

Road Tax being used

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-21/ ... /100920658

[rick]

Record world average temperatures.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66120297

Swiss glaciers fast disappearing

https://theconversation.com/glaciers-in ... yet-189197

[pipoz4444]

Something more important to many Australians

A typical 24-carton of full-strength beer at 4.9 per cent alcohol will set you back $47.99. Of that, $16.49 is excise, then add $4.36 in GST. Yep, $20.85 is tax. At almost half of the retail price the most expensive ingredient in beer, is tax.

pipoz4444

[Doodoo]

But I get my beer at 610 THB for 12

I aint in Australia

[pipoz4444]

Ah, but the Roads are.

Taxes are rarely raised for the purpose they were intended. They might start off in one direction, but eventually they (taxes) will end up being used for another spending spree or be redirected into an bottomless pool.

pipoz4444

[tamada]

Several European countries getting the super-heated treatment this weekend.

https://www.euronews.com/embed/2320970

[Whistler]

Several European countries getting the super-heated treatment this weekend.

https://www.euronews.com/embed/2320970

not just Europe

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/26123 ... e-and-asia

[noosard]

Cold front to sweep across Australia, bring rain and cold winds

Seems Australia is having the reverse temps now
Oh it is winter there

[pipoz4444]

There is one group that aren't to worried and not going Electric any time soon

pipoz4444

[Whistler]

Those look like nitrogen bottles on the back, possibly mixed with 15% methane. Quite environmentally good, at least from a fuel emission point of view. Let's forget about the burning rubber, OK?

[Doodoo]

"Those look like nitrogen bottles on the back, possibly mixed with 15% methane. Quite environmentally good, at least from a fuel emission point of view. Let's forget about the burning rubber, OK?"

What would the purpose of a cylinder with N2 and CH4 be? I am assuming that it is this mixture

[Whistler]

I hard heard of nitro powered drag racing machines, so looked it up, this mixture gives a lot of power and runs cool

[tamada]

A view on the free world's oppressive clamour to be seen to be thoroughly invested in carbon capture and storage (CCS) at whatever cost.

What's so bad about CO2?

https://badlands.substack.com/p/the-fra ... al-warming

[jackspratt]

Interesting read from the totally unqualified Mr Ehret - just another run-of-the-mill, far right Canadian conspiracy theorist.

If anyone is interested in more of his musings, you could start here:

https://canadianpatriotreview.substack. ... d-a-global

https://rumble.com/v6ua379-breaking-his ... src_v1_ucp

[tamada]

In my (slightly more qualified) opinion, oil companies, especially national oil companies, are falling over themselves to have CCS somewhere in their resume. All sorts of inappropriate regional geologies are being touted as being suitable for carbon dioxide sequestration, which they aren't. I admit that it has been a bit of a bonus to the oil and gas explorers, who have swiftly 'adapted' the same technology they use for finding fossil fuels to finding these all-important subterranean 'gas storage bottles'. The science isn't quite there yet: one early Japanese CCS play has shown that the CO2 they have been pumping underground for over a decade doesn't appear to be there. Pipelines that carried oil and gas at certain pressures in one direction aren't universally or safely capable of carrying CO2 at a different pressure in the opposite direction. There's more to reverse engineering than just the word 'reverse'.

Now, if some "run-of-the-mill, far right Canadian conspiracy theorist" opines that the fundamental premise that CO2 will kill mankind is flawed, or at worst false, who am I not to argue that the world may have gone barking mad on touting a sustainable alternative future that either isn't anywhere sustainable or maybe isn't even required?

[Potamoi]

Good conversation here on this subject:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ihn2a ... 31645348e0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt32chvO_iY

[rick]

The joe Rogan interview was interesting to watch. and i do not doubt they are highly intelligent physicists - but - although they made some interesting points - totally failed to see climate change as a global problem, or something which needed action. Some of there statements were actually partially incorrect - e.g. that fossil fuels were cheaper than renewables; onshore wind is a cheaper source of electricity than fossil fuels; gas is usually more expensive. Hydro power is also pretty cheap, but can only be built where geography and water allow.

Yes, climate is regional, which is why Global climate has to be used as a baseline. Some regions get cooler, some hotter - but overall the average is up, up, up. We have record marine heatwaves, melting glaciers, melting permafrost releasing methane and CO2, severity of droughts, floods and wildfires is increasing. Just a few examples.

2025 is currently on track to be the second warmest year on record, even though La Nina conditions exist (2024 was the warmest). Average global temperatures over the past 3 decades have increased by about 0.2 degrees Centigrade per decade. If this rate continues, but not increase, global temperature by 2100 will have increased by about 3 degrees Centigrade since the 19th Century. Crop yields could fall by up to 30% and hundreds of millions of climate refugees would try to migrate.

We are already seeing some agricultural impacts. Coffee and cocoa prices have tripled in the last 5 years, partially due to lower yields due to climatic factors.

The one thing i did agree with is that politicians and money distort realities - both about climate change and the level of denial.